Karina Canellakis / Critiques

"Canellakis burst on to the British orchestral scene last summer when she conducted the BBC Symphony Orchestra for the opening night of the Proms. But her relationship with the London Philharmonic Orchestra began the previous autumn when she made her debut with them at the Royal Festival Hall. The spark was immediate, she says. “We musically fell in love with each other. Our temperaments are perfectly matched,” she says. “The LPO can literally play anything, and they can do it so quickly that the amount of rehearsal time they need to get to the absolute highest level is so small that I was amazed and impressed. “We can create something really special in all the different corners of the repertoire I want to explore together.”