Valery Gergiev conducts Ravel, Mussorgsky, and Rachmaninov — With Yuja Wang

The earth-shaking Valery Gergiev / Yuja Wang duo is back on medici.tv for an exceptional live concert from Paris's Fondation Louis Vuitton!

Under maestro Valery Gergiev's impeccable direction, the world-renowned Mariinsky Orchestra perform two beloved orchestral transcriptions by Ravel get things started: first, his own Pavane pour une infante défunte (Pavane for a Dead Princess), lilting and lyrical—though not, despite its title, written for any actual historical figure, unlike the work that follows: Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. This supremely evocative suite, composed to honor the memory of Mussorgsky's friend, painter Viktor Hartmann, consists of ten pieces (with a recurrent Promenade) inspired by ten of Hartmann's paintings. One of the best-known examples of program music, it is likely even more widely heard today in Ravel's orchestration than in the original solo piano version.