St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra / Yuja Wang / Yuri Temirkanov
Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival
Legend has it that Ravel used to say: »I don’t belong to any trend, I’m an anarchist«. So it’s no surprise that he was particularly fond of the nonconformist, anti-academic dilettante Modest Mussorgsky. In 1913 Ravel worked with Igor Stravinsky on a new arrangement of Mussorgsky’s opera »Khovanshchina«. Then, in 1922, Sergei Koussevitzky commissioned Ravel with an arrangement of »Pictures at an Exhibition«. This was an inspired choice on Koussevitzky’s part: Ravel’s arrangement of Mussorgsky’s work for piano is surely one of the most popular adapted pieces of music of all time.
Interpreters of the composition have to work to reconcile two very different aspects: Mussorgsky’s elemental nature and Russian nationalism, and Ravel’s sensuousness and refined Frenchness. And who better to perform the piece than the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, under chief conductor Yuri Temirkanov.
Performers
St. Petersburger Philharmoniker
Yuja Wang piano
conductor Yuri Temirkanov
Programme
Johannes Brahms
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15
– Interval –
Modest Mussorgsky / Maurice Ravel
Bilder einer Ausstellung
Festival
Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival