Maria Joao Pires - expecting another Mozart concerto during a lunchconcert in Amsterdam

[Rytah01]

Woow, amazingly done!

[emilyhutjes]

Ahh brilliantly done lady!

[Beltran208]

This conductor is absolutely wonderful! He just encouraged her with this unbelievable firm voice of his. I love him!

[Falsodeus]

That guy should submit his face for a pictoric reference on every dictionary to the word "asshole". Great job MJP!

[zozas1961]

Como se pode fazer isto a alguém????

este gajo é doido..



[zozas1961]

Como se pode fazer isto a alguém????



[mezzodiva54]

OMIGOD -- what a jerk! "You played it last season" -- WTF???? MJP, my new all-time concert heroine!

[flutist218]

Stubborn conductor!! He didn't allow any communication with the soloist beforehand! Took a couple years off her life but she was the better person.

[justmemusic]

Maria Joao Pires - lunch concert with the Amsterdam Concertgebouworkest conducted by Riccardo Chailly - expecting another Mozart concerto /

followed by a short film by Frank Scheffers: Voyage to Cythera

[bw2082]

I'm not sure if it's really all that impressive. SHe's probably been playing all of the mozart concerti for the last 40 + years so it's like riding a bike.

[duarteinacan]

@bw2082 You have clearly never played classical music in your life. The complexity of movements and harmonies and melodies are just incredible, not many people could have done this... It's rather incredible and impressive... And it's not like riding a bike, when you're a pianist you prepare for one thing at a time, and leave other things in the back burner until you're done with the project you're on at the moment.

[duarteinacan]

@bw2082 Plus there are 30 Mozart piano concertos. Not to mention all the other stuff she plays. It's the exact same thing as a dramatic actor entering the stage thinking he's playing Duncan in Macbeth, and when the play starts he realizes he's playing Romeo in Romeo and Juliet. It's not like riding a bike, and only incredible memory could achieve such a thing.

[XPKpianist]

@duarteinacan 27 piano concertos.....

[duarteinacan]

@XPKpianist You're right, my mistake. Everything I said still stands though.

[Sviolinist]

@bw2082 It's not like riding a bike at all. I doubt very much that you are a musician with any skill if you are comparing a complex thing like playing a Mozart concerto to moving your legs back and forth to make a couple wheels scoot down the road. That is NOT a comparison to playing piano.

[PianoGod1990]

This is awesome indeed, but where is that a "lunchconcert".

[braingurutaylor]

I am always fascinated how a human brain, in real time, can switch gears and proceed with not only competence but inspiration! One does not have to like either the individual or the music to recognize this type of giftedness. Not every brain could pull this type of challenge off with any type of credibility.

[geigenmarie]

She is just great! And it is nice to see how she reacts to such a nightmare! She is so human and natural...

[bazzatt1]

modern music started with mahler???????,.,.what an idiot

Wagner was their father,.,..,Period

[Jarajofife]

@bazzatt1

Sure you could have taught a lot of music to Luciano Berio (qué huevazos tienen algunos para contradecir, sin tener ni p*ta idea, a los mayores expertos en una materia...), but he has said "spiritually", "emotionally", he's talking about aestethics, and aestethically Wagner is a romantic, not a modernist. Mahler was in that transitional area between post Romanticism and Modernist, after him Schönberg would come.

You need to study more, Kamerad.

[rlameiro]

@bazzatt1 I think the father is Lizt not Wagner... Look at music history books and analisys of Lizt works. Wagner learned a lot from Lizt and also "borrowed" a lot of ideas from him

[chocotastic]

@rlameiro But what about Wagner actually being Mahler's teacher? Mahler said himself how much he admired and looked in awe of his works.

[thesterlingtaste]

Pires is not versatile. She can't play Rachmaninnoff, Scriabin, etc.

[crybanshee]

@thesterlingtaste true, but that's probably because her hand can barely reach an octave. Otherwise she would do a fantastic Rachmaninoff, I am sure.

[fpereira77]

@thesterlingtaste LOL a pianist like Pires can surely play any piece you can imagine.

[Bramborail]

I like her :)

[huismanq]

Most likely, this was a public rehearsal at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw.

[mikejr41387]

omg i feel so bad for her! she handled it well, needless to say....

[Dinkyisland123]

I'm sure you'll do that! XD

[divine604]

that wasnt a rehearsel.

[gustruj]

wow, wow, wow

and, probably again

wow, wow, wow!

I always heard this anecdote, now I have seen it for real!

By the way, If I have it right, this was not really a rehearsal as such: it's a lunch concert at the Concertgebouw -wednesdays at midday-, hence the public. So, this happened in front of some 1.000 people.

Again, wow, wow, wow!

[dmcII]

@gustruj That would make sense. I was wondering about the people in the background. Too many for it to be just a rehearsal.

[hearttune98]

Why is she upset?

[dmcII]

Because she was expecting to perform a different concerto than what the orchestra is performing. She didn't realize the problem until they started playing.

[Piarchsage]

Simplesmente extraordinário...Uma verdadeira pianista

[dmcII]

Wow !  A true professional.

[Arielpolycarpo]

dat was geweldig... Zij is een goed performer....

[menezessimone]

she is absolutly great

[UGTownsend]

it's like turning up for a school exam, having revised the wrong topic... and panicking oh ****...

and then still pulling it off. ^_^ Bravo MJP

[popinabag]

She's my absolute hero. What a great artist.

[UGTownsend]

what a nightmare... MJP looks rather upset...lol

[Xargxes]

@UGTownsend MJP =.=

[rseref]

oh my......

[jpedrocp]

uau!.... :~O