Summary: Gil Shaham describes Walton’s Violin Concerto as a work that has “some of the most moving, soaring violin music ever written for violin” and one that he wants to go back to “again and again.” Artistic Administrator John Mangum discusses the two Musorgsky works on this program: the Prelude to Khovanshchina, with its evocative proto-impressionist depiction of dawn on a river, and Pictures at an Exhibition, which will be performed in the arrangement by Ravel. Podcast host Elliott Forrest discusses Ravel’s poignant Pavane pour une Infante défunte.
