Nachtschwärmer­konzert – Zauber-Nacht by Various, Dom 18 Noll 2022, Ó (2022/2022), Seoltóir Marzena Diakun, Kultur- und Kongresszentrum - Liederhalle, Stuttgart, Germany

The Asia that is sung about in Maurice Ravel's cycle “Schéhérazade” is like a fairy tale: the clichés about the region in the east are piling up like fairy tales. Fantasies about beauty, violence and sensuality are mixed in the three poems by Tristan Klingsor (actually Léon Leclère), which the composer friend of his chose to match them with orchestral sound robes. Ravel did this in a completely different way with a series of piano pieces published by the Russian Modest Mussorgsky under the title “Pictures at an Exhibition”. Almost fifty years after its composition, Ravel transformed Mussorgsky's piano music into an orchestral work without changing a note of the original. Similar to Ravel through texts and piano pieces, his colleague Paul Dukas, who was ten years his senior, was inspired by Goethe's ballad "Der Zauberlehrling" to create a scherzo for orchestra that tells the story of the title character almost vividly.