Englishman Trevor Pinnock is a pioneer of a scholarly approach to the early music repertoire. Portuguese pianist Maria-João Pires, meanwhile, is one of today’s most exciting and charismatic musicians, with an unparalleled softness of touch. Now we have the rare opportunity to admire them together in a performance of one of Mozart’s masterpieces, his Piano Concerto K 488, together with the neoclassical freshness of Ravel’s Tombeau and a symphony by Gounod that at times is Beethovian in its heroic spirit.
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