Pianist Mitsuko Uchida joins PT host Fred Child to talk about Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 24. She says "It is very dark, incredibly tragic," but the lilt in her voice conveys the beauty of that darkness. We'll hear her, in concert with the Cleveland Orchestra. Plus, concert performances by pianists Lang Lang and Yefim Bronfman in Vienna.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Robert Schumann (arr. Mahler): Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 97 "Rhenish" III. Nicht Schnell
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly, conductor
Ysaye Barnwell: No Mirrors in My Nana's House
Sweet Honey in the Rock
Ordway Center, St. Paul
Aaron Copland: Simple Gifts from American Songs
Virginia Symphony Orchestra and Chorus; Joann Falletta, conductor; Robert Shoup, chorusmaster
Ferguson Center for the Arts, Christopher Newport University, Newport News, Virginia
Giovanni Battista Sammartini: Symphony in D Major, JC 14
Milano Classica, Marcello Scandelli, director and first cello
First Baptist Church, Savannah, Georgia
Max Bruch: Romance in F Major for Viola and Orchestra, Op. 85
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor; Janine Jansen, viola
Max Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor; Janine Jansen, violin
Hour 2
Claude Debussy: 12 Etudes for Piano, Etude No. 5, "Pour les Octaves", Etude No. 6, "Pour huit doigts"
Mitsuko Uchida, piano
Frederic Chopin: Etude No. 13 in A-flat Major, Op. 25, No. 1, "Harp Study"
Lang Lang, piano
Musikverein, Vienna, Austria
Franz Liszt: Etude No. 2 in E Major, from Grandes Etudes de Paganini, S. 141
Yefim Bronfman, piano
Summer Night Concert, Schonbrunn Palace, Vienna, Austria
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 24 in c minor, K. 491
Mitsuko Uchida, piano and conductor, Cleveland Orchestra
Severance Hall, Cleveland, Ohio
Salamone Rossi: Sonata No. 4 sopra l'aria dei Ruggiero
Arnaud Sussmann, Erin Keefe, violins, Laurence Lesser, cello, Kenneth Cooper, harpsichord
Music@Menlo, St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Palo Alto, California
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