NEW YORK, USA – NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC – WALKER, BEETHOVEN, MUSSORGSKY

Emanuel Ax, piano
New York Philharmonic
Semyon Bychkov, conductor

PROGRAMME
Walker: Lyric for Strings
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4
Mussorgsky / Orch. Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition

PROGRAMME NOTE
Emanuel Ax plays Beethoven’s lyrical Piano Concerto No. 4, a radiant work whose hushed opening gives way to an ebullient finale. Semyon Bychkov conducts George Walker’s solemn Lyric for Strings to open the program, which concludes with Mussorgsky’s vivid Pictures at an Exhibition.