Music to my ears

Anaëlle Tourret Harpist

Maria João Pires is a pianist I admire so much – for me, she is the interpreter of Mozart for today. I went to a festival concert last June in Hamburg where she was a guest of fellow pianist Martha Argerich. They played a Mozart sonata for two pianos, but the first half hour was just Pires. She played two pieces by Schubert, and it was incredible. To see those two phenomenal artists playing together is something I will remember for a long time.

I love Mahler, and recently we, the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, got the opportunity to play his First Symphony. We had the great joy of playing it with Manfred