Maria Joao Pires Concert pianist

摘要

If you missed the story: in a 1998 film by cinematographer Frank Scheffer we see the Portuguese soloist Maria Joao Pires seated in preparation for a Mozart piano concerto in an informal Amsterdam Concertgebouw concert conducted by Riccardo Chailly. As he starts the orchestral exposition to the D-minor Concerto, K466, we see Pires more and more disconcerted - holding her head in disbelief. 'I cannot do this,' she says. She had prepared for a different work, but Chailly goes blithely on. He says, afterwards, that she managed the whole performance without a single mistake! And somehow this became a viral hit in 2013.