Poster Dame Mitsuko Uchida, pianist and conductor
Dame Mitsuko Uchida, pianist and conductor
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Performance Today®

Mitsuko Uchida

On Friday's Performance Today, pianist Mitsuko Uchida plays a quietly dramatic piano concerto by Mozart in concert with the Cleveland Orchestra.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Claude Debussy: Etude No. 5 "Pour les Octaves" & Etude No. 6 "Pour huit doigts"
Mitsuko Uchida, piano
Debussy 12 Etudes
Philips 422412

Frederic Chopin: Etude No. 13 in A-flat Major, Op. 25, No. 1, "Harp Study"
Lang Lang, piano
Musikverein, Vienna, Austria
Live In Vienna
Sony 771901

Franz Liszt: Etude No. 2 in E Major, from Grandes Etudes de Paganini, S. 141
Yefim Bronfman, piano
Schonbrunn Palace, Vienna, Austria
Summer Night Concert Schonbrunn 2010
Deutsche Grammophon 4763793

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491
Mitsuko Uchida, piano and conductor; Cleveland Orchestra
Severance Hall, Cleveland, OH
Mozart Piano Concertos 23, K488 & 24, K491
Decca 001327602

Salamone Rossi: Sonata No. 4 sopra l'aria dei Ruggiero
Arnaud Sussmann, violin; Erin Keefe, violin; Laurence Lesser, cello; Kenneth Cooper, harpsichord
St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Palo Alto, CA
Music@Menlo Live 5. Unfolding of Music II
Music@Menlo 20085

Hour 2

Gustav Holst: Mercury, the Winged Messenger from The Planets
CSR Symphony Orchestra (Bratislava); Adrian Leaper, conductor
Holst: The Planets / Suite de Ballet, Op. 10
Naxos 8550193

Josef Strauss: Music of the Spheres
Vienna Philharmonic; Daniel Barenboim, conductor
Musikverein, Vienna, Austria
New Year's Concert 2009
London/Decca 1256902

Franz Liszt: Transcendental Etude No. 11, S. 139, "Harmonies du soir"
Roberto Plano, piano
The Frederic Chopin Society, Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN

Karim Al-Zand: Visions from Another World
River Oaks Chamber Orchestra; JoAnn Falletta, conductor
The Church of St. John the Divine, Houston, TX

Traditional Norwegian (Linn Andrea Fuglseth): Eg veit i himmerik ei borg
Trio Mediaeval
Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul, MN

Ludwig van Beethoven: Cavatina from String Quartet No. 13 in B-flat Major, Op. 130
Pacifica Quartet
Music@Menlo, St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Palo Alto, CA

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