Listen to Alan Chapman's preview on SoundCloud.
The Saturday night performance will broadcast on Classical KUSC on March 3, 2019.
Guest conductor David Danzmayr conducted with pianist Gabriela Martinez.
MUSSORGSKY: Night on Bald Mountain
CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No. 1
PROKOFIEV: Symphony No. 7
KUSC's Alan Chapman interviewed both guests in the pre-concert lecture.
Gabriela started piano at age 5, saying she wanted to play the Beethoven's 2nd piano concerto, and she did so next year. She once performed at a recital at Antlers, Oklahoma (where there were only 3 stores on main street), and the hall's piano were missing the highest octave! Gabriela ended up playing a Liszt piece with a lot of clunking, I presume.
David is an Austrian conductor, and said the most difficult people to work with are Austrians! :)
Because they are very emotional, and that multiplies with them being musicians. He went on describing the traits of orchestras around the world. David also talked about his experience as a student of the Mozarteum University Salzburg. He said you shouldn't judge a person by what school they went to, but by with which teacher they studied from.
You can sample Gabriela's piano on Amazon! :)
