Repertoire

Maurice Ravel: Alborada del gracioso (1904-1905; orch. 1919) 6′
Robert Gerhard: Violin Concerto (1942-1945) 36′
Hèctor Parra: Deux constellations pour orchestre d’après Joan Miró (2025). World Premiere. Work Commissioned by L’Auditori. 5′
Modest Mussorgsky / Maurice Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition (1874). Orchestration by Maurice Ravel (1922) 36′

ARTISTS

Ludovic Morlot, conductor
Carolin Widmann, violin
Barcelona Symphony Orchestra (OBC)

Programme

The 1919 version for orchestra of Maurice Ravel’s Alborada del gracioso is a chromatically intriguing piece. It evokes the delicate beauty of the dawn, becoming progressively livelier, featuring instruments such as the harp, flute and bassoon, with a rhythmic element emphasised by the percussion.

Carolin Widmann will play the Violin Concerto that Robert Gerhard wrote between 1942 and 1943. His knowledge of the new music owed much to the time he spent studying under Arnold Schönberg in Vienna and Berlin, as a result of which the two became close friends.

The world premiere of Constel·lació de Joan Miró, a work completed this year by internationally-renowned Barcelona-born composer Hèctor Parra, will be followed by Maurice Ravel’s version of Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. A journey through scenes that are not entirely imaginary, set in the borderline realm of consciousness, where mental activity and the dream world merge.

This concert is included in the programme of the Festival Ciutat de Clàssica