July 6, 2011
Three Great Pianists in Concert
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 concert performance with the Cleveland Orchestra. Plus two concerts in Vienna: Lang Lang plays Chopin's "Aeolian Harp" Etude in the sumptuous acoustics of the Golden Hall at the Musikverein, and Yefim Bronfman plays the Paganini Etude No. 2 by Franz Liszt, at the outdoor gardens of Schonbrunn Palace.
Today's Playlist
Performance Today audio is available for seven days following broadcast.
-
William Byrd
Galliard
Glenn Gould, piano
-
Orlando Gibbons
Allemande
Glenn Gould, piano
-
York Bowen
Toccata, Op. 155
Ang Li, piano
Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Fort Worth, Texas
-
William Byrd
Ave Verum Corpus
Chanticleer
Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall, Athens, Georgia
-
Benjamin Britten
Fourth movement from String Quartet No. 1
The Belcea String Quartet
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul
-
Thomas Ades
O Albion, from Arcadiana
The Belcea String Quartet
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul
-
William Walton
Sonata for String Orchestra
The Scottish Ensemble
Wigmore Hall, London, England
-
Claude Debussy
Two Etudes for Piano
Mitsuko Uchida, piano
-
Frederic Chopin
Etude No. 13 in A-flat, Op. 25, No. 1 (Aeolian Harp)
Lang Lang, piano
Musikverein, Vienna, Austria
-
Franz Liszt
Etude No. 2 in E, from Grandes Etudes de Paganini, S. 141
Yefim Bronfman, piano
Schonbrunn Palace, Vienna, Austria
-
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 24 in C Minor, K. 491
Mitsuko Uchida, piano and conductor, the Cleveland Orchestra
Severance Hall, Cleveland
-
Salamone Rossi
Sonata No. 4 Sopra l'aria dei Ruggiero
Arnaud Sussmann and Erin Keefe, violins, Laurence Lesser, cello, Kenneth Cooper, harpsichord
Music@Menlo, Palo Alto, California