PRAGUE, CZECHIA – CZECH PHILHARMONIC – ADAMS, BRUCH, MUSSORGSKY

Karen Gomyo, violin
Czech Philharmonic
Semyon Bychkov, conductor

PROGRAMME:
John Adams: Frenzy: a short symphony (2023) (Czech premiere)
Max Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (arr. by Maurice Ravel): Pictures at an Exhibition

VENUE NOTE
To begin the evening, Frenzy by the contemporary American composer John Adams will take us into the depths of madness caused by information overload, then at the concert’s end we turn our attention to Pictures at an Exhibition. In between, we will hear the violinist Karen Gomyo, who likes to think about aspects of music the composer has expressed not in the notation, but between the lines.