Metz, France – Orchestre National de Metz

Jeneba Kanneh-Mason, piano
Orchestre National de Metz
Adrian Prabava, conductor

Programme:
Felix Mendelssohn: Overture “The Hebrides” (Fingal’s Cave)
Florence Price: One-Movement Piano Concerto
Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (orchestration by Maurice Ravel)

VENUE NOTE:

Let him translate the waves that iridescent and strike the Scottish island of Staffa or Mussorgsky’s colourful paintings, in the sumptuous symphonic dress offered to them by Ravel, the orchestra here is the proof of his power to suggestion. But he carries us away also in frenzied rhythms of ragtime with Florence Price, contemporary of George Gershwin which was ignored during his lifetime because black and female. Fifth an incredible sibling of musicians, Jeneba Kanneh-Mason made her the workhorse of this Concerto which earned him a triumphant debut at the BBC Proms in London.