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26 Jul 2017, Royal Albert Hall
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Proms 2017 Prom 16: Mussorgsky – Pictures at an Exhibition

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Prom 16: Mussorgsky – Pictures at an Exhibition
19:30 Wed 26 Jul 2017 Royal Albert Hall
Drama is at the heart of a Prom that moves from the psychological drama of Liszt’s Hamlet to the vivid portraits of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. Plus Steven Osborne joins Ilan Volkov and the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ SSO for a Julian Anderson world premiere.
Drama is at the heart of a Prom that moves from the psychological drama of Liszt’s Hamlet to the vivid portraits of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. Plus Steven Osborne joins Ilan Volkov and the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ SSO for a Julian Anderson world premiere.

Programme

      • Hamlet(10 mins)
      • The Imaginary Museum(25 mins)³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ co-commission with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Sydney Symphony Orchestra: world premiere
        • interval
        • From the Cradle to the Grave(14 mins)
        • Pictures at an Exhibition (orch Maurice Ravel)(34 mins)

    About This Event

    In his 13 symphonic poems Liszt transformed the concert overture into something urgently new. The ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Scottish Symphony Orchestra and its Principal Guest Conductor Ilan Volkov here perform two of the last in the series – the mercurial Hamlet, a study of Shakespeare’s tragic hero, and From the Cradle to the Grave, one of Liszt’s most experimental works.

    They sit alongside Mussorgsky’s much-loved Pictures at an Exhibition and the world premiere of a new piano concerto by Julian Anderson, which offers a tour around ‘an imaginary museum’ of contrasting worlds and sensations.

    Image: Ilan Volkov