Odyssey Festival Orchestra: Modest Mussorgsky - A Hopeless Case

Odyssey Festival Orchestra’s band of talented musicians, aged 18–30, continues to refresh the concert-going experience with a programme that explores the career of composer Modest Mussorgsky.

Mussorgsky was the tortured genius of 19th-century Russian music. A visionary and iconoclast, he was also a nervous outsider, awkward and misunderstood. Haunted by death, he died impoverished, aged only 42.

Using his own words and those of his Russian contemporaries, the programme will explore what made Mussorgsky so brilliantly original and why composers like Rimsky-Korsakov, Shostakovich and Ravel felt drawn into re-arranging his compositions.

The concert features performances of three of his most famous works, conducted by Odyssey’s Artistic Director, Peter Ash.