Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Pictures at an Exhibition
- When
- 9–12 Dec
- Where
- Perth, Edinburgh & Glasgow
The programme
Approx. 1h 50m · 20m interval
Bacewicz
Overture (6’)
Chopin
Piano Concerto No1 (39’)
- Interval
Thea Musgrave
Loch Ness – A Postcard from Scotland (9’)
Mussorgsky arr Ravel
Pictures at an Exhibition (29’)
The evening
All music paints pictures, but Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition takes them to the next level. Dancing chickens, glowing skulls, witches, gnomes and the sound of a thousand bells –they’re all here, large as life, and to see them you only have to listen. But that’s just one highlight of an evening that opens in Poland with a love letter from Chopin played by the amazing Rafał Blechacz and features a real surprise from Scotland’s own Thea Musgrave. A guaranteed sighting of Nessie? Hearing is believing!
On stage
Anna Sułkowska-Migoń
Conductor
Rafał Blechacz
Piano