It’s an absolute joy to see former Royal Academy of Music student Ksenija Sidorova enjoying such a high-flying musical career. She has everything it takes. She is a wonderful technician, a player who plays with passion, accuracy and exquisite good taste and can move an audience to tears, a player who is media-friendly and comes across well on TV and Radio interviews. It’s so exciting to see her back in London working with Marin Alsop in this most exciting programme.

The UK’s Argentine tango dance champions join the Philharmonia Orchestra for the finale of this concert, a journey through the seductive sounds of Latin America.

Your starting point is Havana, where George Gershwin was inspired by the rhythms of the rumba to compose his Cuban Overture.Then it’s on to New York, the setting for Leonard Bernstein’s gangland love story, West Side Story. Bernstein captures the simmering energy and passion of adolescence in memorable numbers including ‘Somewhere’ and ‘Mambo’.

Brazil is next – hold on to your hats as the orchestra flies through Edu Lobo’s irrepressible Pé de Vento.

After the interval, you’ll reach your final destination: Buenos Aires, Argentina, birthplace of tango.

Ksenija Sidorova, undisputed queen of the classical accordion, is the soloist in Astor Piazzolla’s Aconcagua Concerto. Piazzolla’s publisher named the piece after South America’s highest mountain, because it represented ‘the peak of Astor’s oeuvre’.Last but certainly not least, UK, European and Middle East Argentine tango champions Iro Davlanti-Lo and Adrien Bariki-Alaoui join the party for two contrasting tangos – the tender and wistful Tanti anni prima (Many Years Ago), and to send you home humming, the most famous of them all: Libertango.