RAVEL Alborada del gracioso from Miroirs RAVEL Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D Major MUSSORGSKY (orch. RAVEL) Pictures at an Exhibition
ENCORE: GINASTERA: Dansa de la moza danosa (Dance of the Beautiful Maiden), from Dansas argentinas (Argentine Dances)
The Mercury Orchestra, national winner of the 2010 American Prize in Orchestral Performance, celebrates the 150th anniversary of Maurice Ravel’s birth. The concert opens with the jaunty and plaintive Alborada del gracioso (Morning Song of the Jester), from Ravel’s Miroirs, a quintet of piano tableaux. The evocative, lyrical Piano Concerto for the Left Hand was commissioned by Paul Wittgenstein, a concert pianist who had lost his right arm in World War I. The performance closes with Ravel's masterful and colorful orchestration of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, originally a set of piano pieces inspired by the paintings of Viktor Hartmann.
The concert will feature Kevin Ahfat, winner of the 2025 Fou Ts’ong International Concerto Competition, sponsored by the Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts.
