Pictures at an Exhibition
Mussorgsky's masterwork as you haven't heard it: Ravel's colours returned to one piano, four hands and twenty fingers.
Mussorgsky’s iconic Pictures at an Exhibition, a suite of ten movements bound together by a recurring and ever-changing Promenade, was written for solo piano in 1874. It is best known today through Ravel’s celebrated 1922 orchestration.
Hudson felt that Mussorgsky’s original score already implies a range of colour all but impossible for one pianist’s ten fingers to realise. This new version takes Ravel’s orchestration as its material and draws that colour back to the keyboard, exploring the full range of the instrument across four hands, and twenty fingers.
9 July 2026
St Leonard's, Hythe at the JAM on the Marsh Festival
Thomas Kelly & John Frederick Hudson · piano four hands