Maria João Pires plays Mozart, Harding conducts Also sprach Zarathustra

Maria João Pires in Mozart

'Her Mozart is legendary. Perfect in phrasing, technique and tone. She combines the seemingly mundane with her poetic vision.' Journalists run out of superlatives to describe Maria João Pires' Mozart, and all the talents mentioned are fully appreciated in the Piano Concerto No. 21 . In the opening bars, Rossini comes into play, and in the famous middle movement, Mozart takes a look into the future: romance is not far away.

Daniel Harding conducts Also sprach Zarathustra

Richard Strauss's fascination with Nietzsche culminated in Also sprach Zarathustra, based on the philosopher's magnum opus. From the famous beginning, known from films and TV commercials, to the indecisive conclusion, this composition is permeated by Nietzsche's thinking: grand and hesitant at the same time. It is up to the British Daniel Harding and his Swedish Radio Orchestra to find the perfect balance between feeling and reason.