When Mitsuko Uchida performs a Mozart Piano Concerto, she prefers to conduct while playing the piano, the same way Mozart would have done it in the 18th century. Uchida has been in close collaboration with the players of the Cleveland Orchestra for several years, playing all of the Mozart concertos. On Tuesday's Performance Today, she'll play and conduct his 23rd Piano Concerto from Severance Hall in Cleveland.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Sonata in C, KV 545, I. Allegro
Mitsuko Uchida, piano
Mozart Piano Sonatas
Philips 422 725-2
Johann Friedrich Fasch: Trumpet Concerto in D Major
David Washburn, trumpet; Allen Vogel, Oboe; Robert Ingliss, Oboe; Yu Jin, viola; Mark Brandfonbrenner, cello; Marji Danilow, bass; Kathleen Mcintosh, harpsichord
Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, St. Francis Auditorium, NM; Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata in b minor, K. 27
Sara Daneshpour, piano
Frederic Chopin Society of Minnesota, Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN
Hugo Wolf: Italian Serenade in G Major (1887)
Escher String Quartet: Adam Barnett-Hart, Wu Jie, violins; Pierre Lapointe, viola; Andrew Janss, cello
Music @ Menlo, St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Palo Alto, CA
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major, K. 488
The Cleveland Orchestra; Mitsuko Uchida, piano and conductor
Severance Hall, Cleveland, OH
Mitsuko Uchida and Cleveland Orchestra: Mozart
Decca 001327602
Hour 2
Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet Op. 18, No. 4, IV. Allegro
Miro String Quartet
Op. 18
Vanguard 1655
Michael Gandolfi: Winter Light (2011), 2. Opal
San Francisco Choral Artists; Magen Solomon, artistic director; The Alexander String Quartet
With Strings Attached
Foghorn 2006
Franz Liszt: Transcendental Etude No. 5: Feux Follets
Zhang Zuo, piano
Van Cliburn Competition 2009, Bass Performance Hall, Fort Worth, TX
Donald Grant: Lament for Mulroy
Elias String Quartet: Sara Bitloch, Donald Grant, violins; Martin Saving, viola; Marie Bitloch, cello
Wigmore Hall Live, Elias String Quartet
Wigmore Hall 51
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 19
Martha Argerich, piano; Orchestra della Svizzera italiana; Gabriel Chmura, conductor
Palazzo dei Congressi, Lugano, Switzerland
Martha Argerich - Lugano Concertos
DG 477 9884
Robert Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54
Martha Argerich, piano
Martha Argerich - Lugano Concertos
DG 477 9884
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