Philip Hesketh (conductor) Viv Mclean (piano)

The West London Sinfonia, under the baton of their conductor, Philip Hesketh, is an orchestra of quite outstanding calibre. Voskresenije, the Festival's resident Russian chamber choir in 2010, rose to their feet to applaud the orchestra's playing of Borodin and Stravinsky. Philip Hesketh is widely known in many European venues for the musical insight and authority he brings to opera and ballet, as well as orchestral works.

Viv McLean is a fine pianist internationally acclaimed by Le Monde for his "extraordinary originality, superb simplicity". He will play Delius's Piano Concerto which, with its dazzling pianism and vibrant emotion, is a precursor of the concertos of Rachmaninov.

This event is brought to the Ealing Autumn Festival by the West London Sinfonia and is generously supported by the Delius Trust.