Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition” on tonight’s “Evenign Concert”
plus Mozart's poignant "Symphony No. 40 in G Minor"
Riccardo Muti conducts the CSO in Bruckner’s “7th Symphony” on the “Evening Concert”
You'll also hear Mussorgsky's "Night on Bald Mountain" and Strauss' "Don Juan"
The New York Philharmonic plays music of the “Night” on tonight’s “Evening Concert’
It's been said that "The night-time is the right time", and that's the case tonight, with a "night" themed program.
Masterworks I
An exhibition of virtuosity and some of the greatest storytelling through art and music.
Baroque chamber music, then Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition” tonight
The Baroque music on tonight's program is (almost all) absolute music, that is music for music's sake, while the "Pictures at an Exhibition" is a program work, an attempt to capture in sound a "program', in this case the paintings by Viktor Hartmann.