Buddy Bray and Keith Cerny by Bartók, Mozart, Dg. 29 Oct. 2023, De (2023/2023), Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, United States

The FWSO’s resident pianist, Shields-Collins (“Buddy”) Bray, needed a duet partner, and he found one in the ensemble’s President and CEO. Together, Cerny and Bray will tackle Bartók’s fiendish Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion. Next, musicians from the orchestra perform Mozart’s G Minor quintet — a string quartet plus an extra viola — in which three dark, serious movements resolve in one of Mozart’s frothiest finales.