Tugan Sokhiev & Siobhan Stagg
Thursday
29
September 2022
8:00 pm
Munich, Munich Residence, Herkulessaal
Subscription B
Friday
30
September 2022
8:00 pm
Munich, Munich Residence, Herkulessaal
Subscription B
Saturday
1
October 2022
8:00 pm
Cologne, Kölner Philharmonie
Guest concert
Programme
Claude Debussy
“Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune”
Maurice Ravel
“Shéhérazade”
Song cycle for soprano and orchestra
Interval
Modest Mussorgsky
“Pictures at an Exhibition”
arr. M. Ravel for orchestra
Performers
Tugan Sokhiev
conductor
Siobhan Stagg
soprano
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Information about the programme
Tugan Sokhiev, who recently stepped down from his post at Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre, will make his BRSO début in a programme of impressionist music ranging from sensual eroticism and exotic landscapes to a kaleidoscope of visual imagery. Debussy, in Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, depicts the fantasies of a faun poised between languid daydreams and lustful desire on a sultry afternoon. Ravel invokes the sensuality of the Orient in his three-piece song cycle Shéhérazade: the tales told by this female storyteller from Arabian Nights are musically brought to life in a strange, beautiful, eerie world full of fascination and terrors in equal measure. Finally, in Pictures at an Exhibition, Mussorgsky produced a work that not only recreates visual impressions in sound, but expands each picture into a unique musical cosmos.
Rehearsal video
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