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BBC Symphony Orchestra: Pictures at
Exhibitions World premiere
Snape Maltings Concert HallSnape, East of England, IP17 1SP, United Kingdom
DATES/TIMES IN LONDON TIME ZONE
Friday 24 June 2022 19:00
Festival: Aldeburgh Festival
PROGRAMME
Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich (1839-1881) Night on Bare Mountain (arr. Stokowski)
Knussen, Oliver (1952-2018) Horn Concerto, Op.28
Cleveland Pictures (world premiere)
Knussen, Oliver (1952-2018)
Cleveland Pictures (second performance)
Knussen, Oliver (1952-2018)
Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich (1839-1881) Pictures at an Exhibition
PERFORMERS
French horn
Martin Owen
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Ryan Wigglesworth
Three pieces inspired by pictures at art exhibitions - by Mussorgsky, Respighi and, in the form of a first
performance, the late, great Oliver Knussen.
Mussorgsky's brilliant translation of paintings into music in Pictures at an Exhibition have inspired others to take similar
approaches. Respighi's shimmering strings and soaring flutes are a good match to Botticelli's light textures. We are
treated to the posthumous first performance (and a second performance!) of the late Oliver Knussen's piece interpreting
pictures and objects seen at the Cleveland Museum of Art, from Goya and Gaugin to a Fabergé clock.
