The Neubrandenburg Philharmonic Orchestra plays works by Ernest Chausson and Modest Mussorgsky.
Soloists: Julia Okruashvili, piano / Elsa Claveria, violin
Conductor: GMD Daniel Geiss
Ernest Chausson: Concerto for piano, violin and string quartet op. 21 (version for chamber orchestra)
Modest Mussorgsky: "Pictures at an Exhibition" (orchestral version by Maurice Ravel)
The Concerto for Violin, String Quartet and Piano op. 21 is undoubtedly Ernest Chausson's most important piece of chamber music. It was written at the suggestion of violinist Eugène Ysaye, who also played the violin part at the premiere in Brussels in 1892. Chausson happily wrote in his diary that he had never had such success: "I feel a giddiness and a joy that I have not experienced for a long time." Inspired by a memorial exhibition for his painter friend Viktor Hartmann, who had died a year earlier, Modest Mussorgsky composed the piano cycle "Pictures at an Exhibition" in 1874. Individual movements of the work had already been arranged for orchestra by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and his pupil Mikhail Tushalov. However, it was Maurice Ravel's colorful orchestration from 1922 that helped "Pictures at an Exhibition" achieve world fame in the concert hall.
