Pictures at an Exhibition
February 9, 2024 @ 7:00 pm
PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION
The Courtyard, Hereford
Friday 9 February 2024 at 7:30pm
Piano Jeneba Kanneh-Mason
Conductor Michael Collins
Tickets: £24, £22
About the Concert
Transcendent Mozart, enchanting Tchaikovsky and Mussorgsky’s extraordinary musical gallery
“Mozart is the highest, the culminating point that beauty has attained in the sphere of music” wrote Tchaikovsky, a sentiment that is hard to disagree with upon hearing Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23. The keyboard concertos are the most personal of his works, often written for himself to perform. Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition was inspired by the paintings of Viktor Hartmann. A close friendship developed between painter and composer after their first meeting in 1868 as well as a mutual devotion to the cause of intrinsically Russian art. Following the unexpected death of Hartmann in 1873 Mussorgsky wrote this bold, enchanting work which depicts the composer himself walking through an exhibition of his friend’s paintings.
| Arensky | Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky, Op. 35a |
| Mozart Piano | Piano Concerto No. 23 |
| Mussorgsky (arr. Pierre-Alain Monot) | Pictures at an Exhibition |
Piano Jeneba Kanneh-Mason
Conductor Michael Collins
Jeneba Kanneh-Mason
Micheal Collins
October 2023
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09 February 2024
FRIDAY 9 FEBRUARY 2024, THE COURTYARD HEREFORD
