Anna Rakitina conducts Langer, Mussorgsky, and Rachmaninoff with Inon Barnatan, piano
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Symphony Hall, Boston, MA
BSO Assistant Conductor Anna Rakitina leads pianist Inon Barnatan in Sergei Rachmaninoff’s last piano-and-orchestra work, featuring both astonishing virtuoso passages and Rachmaninoff’s best-known melody. The orchestral suite from composer Elena Langer’s witty and touching opera Figaro Gets a Divorce is by turns mysterious, songful, and jazzy. Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, orchestrated brilliantly by Maurice Ravel, is a magical response to marvelous paintings.
Friday afternoon's performance by Inon Barnatan is supported by the Elfers Fund for Performing Artists.
Inon Barnatan’s performance on Saturday evening is supported by The Helen and Josef Zimbler Fund.
Performance Details
Nov 25, 2022, 1:30pm EST
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Program Notes & Works
Suite from Figaro Gets a Divorce
Elena Langer’s opera Figaro Gets a Divorce is based on Ödön von Horváth’s 1936 play, which draws on characters invented by Pierre Beaumarchais, the playwright behind Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro and Rossini’s The Barber of Seville.
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Like Rachmaninoff’s piano concertos, the Rhapsody traverses highly expressive Russian romanticism and brilliant virtuosity.
Pictures at an Exhibition
Ravel's orchestral imagination melds magically with Mussorgsky’s responses to his friend Victor Hartmann’s images.
