Listen to the London Philharmonic Orchestra's epic concert featuring jazz pianist Julian Joseph and organ sensation Anna Lapwood. 

There’s no mistaking how Saint-Saëns’s 'Organ’ Symphony got its nickname. Now add the playing of organist Anna Lapwood, the unbounded creativity of Julian Joseph (described by The Stage as ‘the most significant jazz musician this country has produced'), and Joseph’s improvisatory version of Rhapsody in Blue (played the way Gershwin himself would have played it). Under the charismatic direction of Jader Bignamini, making his LPO debut, the result is a concert that makes favorite classics sound new all over again.

Program: 
Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue
Saint-Saëns - Symphony No. 3 (Organ)

This concert was filmed on 22 November 2023 at the Royal Festival Hall

London Philharmonic Orchestra's concert featuring jazz pianist Julian Joseph playing Gershwin's famed Rhapsody in Blue followed by Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony featuring organ sensation Anna Lapwood.

Julian Joseph plays Gershwin

LSO Associate Artist André J Thomas delivers an all-American programme of music never-before-heard in the UK, including Wynton Marsalis’ dramatic new Tuba Concerto and two rising-star composers in the US.

A narrator and an orchestra lead a meditation – based on the words of James Baldwin, one of the most influential social critics of the last century – asking us to see the world as it is, and to imagine how it could be. The lowest instrument of the orchestra becomes a star in its own concerto, performed by LSO Principal Tuba Ben Thomson. And one woman is at the centre of a musical story of injustice, courage and strength, tracing the experience of Black people in the US across the centuries. 

André J Thomas is one of the most inspiring forces in modern American music, and he has handpicked some of the biggest and most vital names in the US right now, from jazz icon Wynton Marsalis to young composers who use music to respond powerfully to conversations on race and justice.

LSO Associate Artist André J Thomas delivers an all-American programme including Wynton Marsalis’ dramatic new Tuba Concerto.

Andre Thomas conducts Marsalis and Carlos Simon

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