BBC Symphony Orchestra; BBC Symphony Chorus; London Symphony Orchestra; Gennadi Rozhdestvensky - Berlioz: Romeo et Juliette - Scriabin: Le Poeme de l'extase

Gennady Rozhdestvensky (1931-2018) was one of Russia's greatest conductors along with Yevgeny Mravinsky, Kirill Kondrashin and Yevgeny Svetlanov. Like them, he was a supreme interpreter of his country's leading composers -notably Prokofiev, Shostakovich, and Tchaikovsky - but he was also more versatile and always in search of new challenges far beyond Russian and Soviet repertoire, from Benjamin Britten to Carl Nielsen and much more.