Music from the Bauhaus City of Dessau
An exciting combination of two great orchestral works - Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and Feininger's Fractals
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- Thomas Buchholz (*1961)
Feininger-Fraktale für großes Orchester
EINS – Fraktale - ZWEI – Fuga
- DREI – Lento
- VIER – Kontrapunkt
- FÜNF – Presto
- SECHS – Largo
- SIEBEN – Giga
- ACHT – Marsch
- NEUN – Walzer
- ZEHN – Air
- ELF – Scherzo
- ZWÖLF – Choral
- Modest Mussorgski (1839–1881)
Bilder einer Ausstellung
Promenade I - I. Gnomus
- Promenade II
- II. Das alte Schloss
- Promenade III
- III. Tuilerien
- IV. Bydło
- Promenade IV
- V. Ballett der Küchlein in ihren Eierschalen
- VI. Samuel Goldenberg und Schmuyle
- VII. Der Marktplatz von Limoges
- VIII. Katakomben (Sepulcrum Romanum)
- Con mortuis in lingua mortua
- IX. Die Hütte der Baba-Jaga
- X. Das große Tor von Kiew
One of Saxony-Anhalt’s oldest and most tradition-rich orchestras presents a compelling combination of two major orchestral works on GENUIN, marking the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus’s relocation from Weimar to Dessau: the Anhaltische Philharmonie of the Bauhaus city Dessau, under its general music director Markus L. Frank, pairs Mussorgsky’s „Pictures at an Exhibition“ (in Ravel’s orchestration) with „Feininger Fractals“ by Eisenach-born composer Thomas Buchholz (b. 1961) – two orchestral works closely connected to visual art. The finely spun textures of Buchholz, who in this work engages with Bauhaus master Lyonel Feininger, and the endless colors of Mussorgsky/Ravel are in the best hands with this Dessau ensemble. Magnificent but not pompous, virtuosic yet full of meaning, the orchestra plays with intelligence and nuance under its chief conductor.