Mussorgsky / Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition & Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances

The London Symphony Orchestra is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading orchestras. The LSO has an enviable family of artists, including LSO Principal Conductor Valery Gergiev, Music Director Designate Sir Simon Rattle, Conductor Laureate Michael Tilson Thomas, Principal Guest Conductors Daniel Harding and Gianandrea Noseda, and long-standing relationships with some of the leading musicians in the world – Leonidas Kavakos, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Mitsuko Uchida and Maria João Pires amongst others. The LSO is Resident Orchestra at the Barbican, where it performs around 70 concerts a year. It also enjoys successful residencies in New York, Paris and Tokyo. Regular tour destinations include the Far East, North America and all the major European cities. The LSO is a world-leader in recording music for CD, film and events. This album is the LSO’s second album under the baton of Predrag Gosta, recorded by the Grammy Award-winning team at one of the most prestigious studios in the world – Abbey Road Studios in London. About the conductor: Predrag Gosta is considered among one of the most multifaceted conductors of his generation. He has appeared at concerts and festivals in the USA and Mexico, England, Germany, Russia, Sweden, Finland, Poland, Bulgaria, Serbia and Croatia, among others, and has conducted renowned orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra, the Russian National Orchestra in Moscow, the St. Petersburg State Capella “Glinka,” the National Philharmonic in Washington DC, and many more. He also appeared at opera houses in Europe and the USA. Gosta has been the founder and the Artistic Director of acclaimed period instrument ensemble New Trinity Baroque, the New Belgrade Opera, the Makris Symphony Orchestra, and the Orchestra of the Gwinnett Ballet Theatre in Atlanta. He has over a dozen CD recordings to his credit, including the premiere release of the orchestral works by a Greek-American composer Andreas Makris, also with the London Symphony Orchestra.