Call it what you like, the conductor controversy or the soloist squabble or even the Mozart mess. In today's show we'll have the story behind the cadenza kerfuffle, a disagreement between pianist Helene Grimaud and conductor Claudio Abbado that resulted in a scuttled CD project and several cancelled concerts. And we'll hear the Mozart piano concerto that started it all.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Johann Sebastian Bach: Fugue No. 4 in C-sharp Minor, from Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1, BWV 849
Helene Grimaud, piano
Johannes Brahms: Scherzo in C Minor from the F-A-E Sonata
Wu Han, piano, Arnaud Sussmann, violin
Music@Menlo, Atherton, California
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 in A, K. 488
Helene Grimaud, piano, the Chamber Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio
Prince Regent Theatre, Munich, Germany
Jacques Arcadelt and Diego Ortiz: O Felici Occhi Miei
Capriccio Stravagante
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and F. Rognoni Taeggio: Vestiva i Colli
Capriccio Stravagante
Hour 2
Felix Mendelssohn: Song without Words No. 1 in E-flat, Op. 30
Daniel Barenboim, piano
Johann Strauss, Jr.: Overture from a Night in Venice
The Vienna Philharmonic, Daniel Barenboim, conductor
Musikverein, Vienna, Austria
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Second movement from Piano Trio in E, K. 542
Daniel Barenboim, piano, Nikolaj Znaider, violin, Kyril Zlotnikov, cello
Frederic Chopin: Concerto No. 2 in F Minor for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 21
Daniel Barenboim, piano, Staatskapelle Berlin, Andris Nelsons, conductor
Philharmonie, Essen, Germany
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