Pictures at an Exhibition
Aziz Shokhakimov, Pablo Ferrández
Antwerp Symphony Orchestra
Fri 15.02.2019
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20:00
Queen Elisabeth Hall, Antwerpen
Fri 15.02.19
20:00
Although he hated being branded an ‘impressionist’, the fact remains that Maurice Ravel had such great feeling for colours, lines and timbres that you cannot only hear his polychrome orchestrations: you can see them. Which is exactly why his symphonic version of Mussorgsky’s spectacular ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’ is quite rightly more famous than the original for piano. Young talent Aziz Shokhakimov conducts Ravel’s palette of sound, followed by Spanish cellist Pablo Ferrández, winner of the prestigious Tchaikovsky Competition, performing a haunting interpretation of Bloch’s Schelomo.
Programme
Alpaerts James Ensor Suite
Bloch Schelomo (Hebrew rhapsody)
Stravinsky Funeral Song, Op. 5
Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition (orchestrated by Maurice Ravel
