Maurice Ravel’s ecstatic, sonorous Boléro under the night sky of Berlin – the Berliner Philharmoniker and Kirill Petrenko could hardly end the season at the Waldbühne in a more atmospheric way. Before that, star pianist Yuja Wang is the soloist in Rachmaninoff’s sparkling, virtuosic Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini – a work in which the musician can show off her perfect technical skills and her creative power to best advantage. Ravel’s Suite No. 2 from the shimmering and impressionistic ballet Daphnis et Chloé also transports the listener to a pastoral idyll of ancient mythology.
Berliner Philharmoniker
Kirill Petrenko conductor
Yuja Wang piano
Modest Mussorgsky
Night on Bald Mountain (Version by Rimsky-Korsakov)
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Rhapsody on a theme by Paganini, op. 43
Yuja Wang piano
Maurice Ravel
Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2
Maurice Ravel
Boléro