Maria Joao Pires just might be the Brett Favre of pianists. She told one newspaper she would stop playing in 2011. Then she said she had no intention to retire at all. Now she's thinking maybe in 2014. Free agent Maria Joao Pires signed on with David Zinman and the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra for a concert at the Super Bowl of summer music festivals, the BBC Proms in London. She'll play Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 27.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Rondo from Violin Concerto No. 2 in D, K. 211
Pamela Frank, violin, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, David Zinman, conductor
Franz Liszt: Nuages Gris, (Grey Clouds), S199/R78
Lise de la Salle, piano
Broadcasting Hall, Bremen, Germany
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-flat, K. 595
Maria Joao Pires, piano, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, David Zinman, conductor
The BBC Proms, London, England
Antonin Dvorak: Finale from Violin Sonatina in G, Op. 100
Christian Tetzlaff, violin, Lars Vogt, piano
The BBC Proms, London, England
Hour 2
Peter Tchaikovsky: Interrupted Dreams, from Twelve Pieces of Average Difficulty, Op. 40
Mikhail Pletnev, Piano
Georg Philipp Telemann: Excerpts from Overture in D, TWV 55:D15
Arte Dei Suonatori, Martin Gester, conductor
Royal Castle, Warsaw, Poland
Peter Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck, conductor
The BBC Proms, London, England
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