Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra / Maria João Pires / Daniel Harding by Alfvén, Strauss, Mozart, De (2024/2024), Regente Daniel Harding, Elbphilharmonie, Hamburgo, Alemanha

THE SUN IS RISING Maria João Pires and Daniel Harding have long shared a love of Mozart. For their concert with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Portuguese pianist and the English conductor have chosen Mozart’s brilliant and virtuosic Concerto in C Major. The second main work on the programme is Richard Strauss’s tone poem »Also sprach Zarathustra«, which begins with one of the most famous fanfares in music and cinematic history! And before those two classics of the repertoire, chief conductor Harding and his radio orchestra present a rarely performed work: the folk-inspired 1904 tone poem »Legend of the Skerries« by the Swedish composer Hugo Alfvén. Afterwards, Maria João Pires demonstrates, with her classically clear yet sensitive playing, why her reputation as one of the leading Mozart pianists of our time is more than deserved. After the interval, the sun rises in Strauss’s celebration of nature and the creation – with the fanfare used by Stanley Kubrick in his classic 1968 movie »2001 – A Space Odyssey«.