Tugan Sokhiev & Siobhan Stagg

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

Tugan Sokhiev, Conductor

Siobhan Stagg, Soprano

Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

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.