This concert is part of the following series:
Autumn-Winter 2008/09
Click here to book online at the Southbank Centre website, or call the Ticket Office on 0871 663 2515.
Mussorgsky’s ten vivid miniatures, a musical ‘exhibition’ written in tribute to his late friend the painter Victor Hartmann, were so compellingly pictorial in their original piano solo version that many composers have taken up the challenge of orchestrating them. Ravel’s is the most frequently performed orchestration, and although its feel is perhaps more French than Russian, it has become one of the most popular orchestral works in the repertoire. This evening it is conducted by one of Russia’s most fiery conductors, Alexander Lazarev, who is joined for Grieg’s Piano Concerto by the extraordinary young pianist Benjamin Grosvenor, who became the youngest ever winner of the Keyboard Final of the BBC Young Musician of Year Competition in 2004 at the age of just 11.
Read Alexander Lazarev's biography.
Read Benjamin Grosvenor's biography.
Tickets: £45 £38 £29 £23 £18 £14 £11 £8
RECOMMENDED RECORDINGS
Tchaikovsky Fantasy Overture, Romeo and Juliet
Orchestra dell’ Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia/Antonio Pappano
(includes 1812 & Francesca da Rimini overtures)
EMI 3 70065 2
Russian National Orchestra/Mikhail Pletnev
(a collection of Tchaikovsky’s tone poems, overtures, and Manfred Symphony)
DG 477 053-2
Philharmonia Orchestra/Riccardo Muti
(with Dvořák Symphony No. 9, From the New World)
EMI 5 74961 2
Grieg Piano Concerto
Leif Ove Andsnes/Berlin Philharmonic/Mariss Jansons
(with Schumann Piano Concerto)
EMI 5 57562 2
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli/New Philharmonia Orchestra/Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos
(with Debussy Préludes, Book I)
BBC Legends BBCL 4043-2
Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition
Orch. Ravel: Philadelphia Orchestra/Riccardo Muti
(with Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring)
EMI 5 74581 2
Orch. Ravel: Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra/Zubin Mehta;
Piano original: Vladimir Ashkenazy
Australian Decca Eloquence 467 127-2
Orch. Ravel: Philharmonia Orchestra/Carlo Maria Giulini
(with Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6, Pathétique)
BBC Legends BBCL 4023-2
Arr. Lawrence Leonard for piano and orchestra: Tamas Ungár/Philharmonia Orchestra/Geoffrey Simon
(Mussorgsky collection)
Cala CACD 1030
Arr. (by the performers) for two accordions: Geir Draugsvoll and James Crabb
(with Stravinsky Petrushka)
EMI 5 69705 2
Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker – Suite; Capriccio Italien; Eugene Onegin – Waltz & Polonaise
Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra/Alexander Lazarev
Apex 2564 60822 2
Mussorgsky Boris Godunov (complete opera)
Robert Lloyd, Olga Borodina, Alexei Steblianko, Sergei Leiferkus, Alexander Morosov/Bolshoi Opera Chorus & Orchestra/Alexander Lazarev
Warner Classics Warner Vision 5101118512 (DVD)
Click here to book online at the Southbank Centre website, or call the Ticket Office on 0871 663 2515.
Mussorgsky’s ten vivid miniatures, a musical ‘exhibition’ written in tribute to his late friend the painter Victor Hartmann, were so compellingly pictorial in their original piano solo version that many composers have taken up the challenge of orchestrating them. Ravel’s is the most frequently performed orchestration, and although its feel is perhaps more French than Russian, it has become one of the most popular orchestral works in the repertoire. This evening it is conducted by one of Russia’s most fiery conductors, Alexander Lazarev, who is joined for Grieg’s Piano Concerto by the extraordinary young pianist Benjamin Grosvenor, who became the youngest ever winner of the Keyboard Final of the BBC Young Musician of Year Competition in 2004 at the age of just 11.
Read Alexander Lazarev's biography.
Read Benjamin Grosvenor's biography.
Tickets: £45 £38 £29 £23 £18 £14 £11 £8
RECOMMENDED RECORDINGS
Tchaikovsky Fantasy Overture, Romeo and Juliet
Orchestra dell’ Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia/Antonio Pappano
(includes 1812 & Francesca da Rimini overtures)
EMI 3 70065 2
Russian National Orchestra/Mikhail Pletnev
(a collection of Tchaikovsky’s tone poems, overtures, and Manfred Symphony)
DG 477 053-2
Philharmonia Orchestra/Riccardo Muti
(with Dvořák Symphony No. 9, From the New World)
EMI 5 74961 2
Grieg Piano Concerto
Leif Ove Andsnes/Berlin Philharmonic/Mariss Jansons
(with Schumann Piano Concerto)
EMI 5 57562 2
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli/New Philharmonia Orchestra/Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos
(with Debussy Préludes, Book I)
BBC Legends BBCL 4043-2
Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition
Orch. Ravel: Philadelphia Orchestra/Riccardo Muti
(with Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring)
EMI 5 74581 2
Orch. Ravel: Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra/Zubin Mehta;
Piano original: Vladimir Ashkenazy
Australian Decca Eloquence 467 127-2
Orch. Ravel: Philharmonia Orchestra/Carlo Maria Giulini
(with Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6, Pathétique)
BBC Legends BBCL 4023-2
Arr. Lawrence Leonard for piano and orchestra: Tamas Ungár/Philharmonia Orchestra/Geoffrey Simon
(Mussorgsky collection)
Cala CACD 1030
Arr. (by the performers) for two accordions: Geir Draugsvoll and James Crabb
(with Stravinsky Petrushka)
EMI 5 69705 2
Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker – Suite; Capriccio Italien; Eugene Onegin – Waltz & Polonaise
Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra/Alexander Lazarev
Apex 2564 60822 2
Mussorgsky Boris Godunov (complete opera)
Robert Lloyd, Olga Borodina, Alexei Steblianko, Sergei Leiferkus, Alexander Morosov/Bolshoi Opera Chorus & Orchestra/Alexander Lazarev
Warner Classics Warner Vision 5101118512 (DVD)
