Paul Lewis

Pictures at an exhibition

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"La musique ne décrit jamais les choses. La musique ne fait qu'exister", said Leonard Bernstein. Perhaps this is why Schumann decided to remove from his Fantasie the initially planned evocative titles ("Ruins," "Arc de Triomphe," "Constellation"...): music has an autonomous existence without them. But is it not the same for the "Pictures at an Exhibition"? Mussorgsky creates here something more subtle and more ambiguous than the paintings of Hartmann could suggest. Besides the dazzling virtuosity they require, this unexpected pairing proposed by Paul Lewis reveals the purely musical qualities of these two masterpieces of the 19th century.

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