Schillernd – Simone Young & Ravel

Maurice Ravel's Piano Concerto begins with a crack of the whip. It conjures up a provocative and colorful music in the hall. The French-Canadian Louis Lortie ignites the necessary keyboard fireworks, while Simone Young conducts the WDR Sinfonieorchester for the first time. She began her career at the Oper Köln. Today, the Australian is one of the world's most distinguished conductors and was the first woman to conduct the Bayreuth »Ring«. With Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Symphony in F-sharp, she offers the opulent late work of an Austrian who, after fleeing the Nazis, rose to global fame in Hollywood's dream factory.