When did you last listen to an exhibition? Looked at a sound painting? And walked through a sounding picture gallery? In Modest Mussorgsky's ingenious piano cycle "Pictures at an Exhibition", which Maurice Ravel brought to deserved fame in 1922 with his refined orchestral version, this very experiment is performed to perfection. Fairytale-like pictorial motifs develop into sound formations rich in associations. Much like the lounging faun from Stéphane Mallarmé's poem, which takes on a characteristic musical form in Debussy's "Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune". Prokofiev's First Violin Concerto also speaks an equally richly tonal language, from which Julia Fischer will elicit all the fascinating subtleties with the full richness of her expressive possibilities.
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