Pictures at an Exhibition - Cristian Măcelaru

Being at a concert to better travel: what could be more miraculous? Here, the three works brought together offer a supplement of elsewhere through the power of the images they summon: Bizet and the drama of Daudet's L'Arlésienne ; Mussorgsky wandering through an exhibition of paintings that Ravel revisits differently; finally, the orientalizing delirium of Saint-Saëns with his Egyptian scales in La Foi : "the extremes touch, the ancient and the ...