Mitsuko Uchida loves playing Mozart concertos without a conductor; being conductor-less means that the orchestra players have to listen more carefully, and the resulting collaboration is much closer. On Tuesday's Performance Today, we'll hear Uchida collaborating with the Cleveland Orchestra.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
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; Marc Neikrug, artistic director
Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico 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
Escher String Quartet
Music@Menlo, St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Palo Alto, CA
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major, K. 488
Mitsuko Uchida, piano and conductor; The Cleveland Orchestra
Severance Hall, Cleveland, OH
Mitsuko Uchida and Cleveland Orchestra: Mozart
Decca 001327602
Hour 2
Luigi Boccherini: String Quartet Op. 2, No. 6 in C Major
Quartetto di Cremona
San Antonio Chamber Music Society, Temple Beth-El, San Antonio, TX
Leos Janacek: Mladi
Tara Helen O'Connor, flute and piccolo; Liang Wang, oboe; Michael Rusinek, clarinet; Kyle Knox, clarinet; Nancy Goeres, bassoon; Julie Landsman, horn; Marc Neikrug, artistic director
Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
Gustav Holst: The Planets: 1. Mars, The Bringer of War; 4. Neptune, The Mystic; 7. Jupiter, The Bringer of Jollity
The 5 Browns
University of Georgia, Hodgson Concert Hall, Athens, GA
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