Maria João Pires in 1999, when she had learned the wrong piano concerto. Picture: Allegri Film “ She was shocked because she was expecting us to play another concerto,” Chailly recounted afterwards.

Pianist Maria Joao Pires offered raw, dynamic, and profoundly insightful Beethoven, while her younger colleague, pianist Julien Brocal, dazzled with the lightest of virtuoso fingers in works by Ravel.

Chopin, Frédéric Nocturne No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 9: I. Larghetto [05'36] Maria João Pires (piano) Nocturnes, Deutsche Grammophon 447 096-2 10:24pm ...

For Music, 80-year-old singer Maria João Pires has won for her career-long devotion to engaging community and education into her practice. Alongside acclaimed international recitals, João Pires ...

This is the moment classical pianist Maria João Pires realises the orchestra is playing the WRONG song - but still manages to play along flawlessly. The Portuguese piano player jumped "like she'd ...

Maria João Pires plays Chopin’s Second Piano Concerto with the LPO at the Festival Hall, London SE1 (0844 847 9911), on Oct 26.

Palm Beach Symphony presents two masterworks that deliver all the passion, poetry and drama of classical music as acclaimed pianist Maria João Pires makes a rare American appearance with Music ...

My first exposure to Mozart's music was the 1993 recording of Maria João Pires with the Vienna Philharmonic playing the Piano Concerto in E-flat Major, K. 449, and the Piano Concerto in D Major ...

Pianist Maria João Pires signs to Onyx Classics James Jolly Monday, December 16, 2013 ...

Pianist Maria João Pires. (Supplied: Felix Broede.) “We have a responsibility to lead our life in the best possible way, to help others and to share this planet with compassion.

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