Virtuoso Voices™ - Jonathan Biss (Quick Change Artist)  0:23
July 2009 CD 


[Use this clip to enhance your introduction to pianist Jonathan Biss playing any Mozart recording, including the 21st and 22nd Piano Concertos. (New...EMI Classics 17270).]


SUGGESTED HOST INTRO

We tend to forget that composing requires advanced skills, in addition to its purely creative inspiration.  That fusion of skill, craft and creativity is present in many composers, and pianist Jonathan Biss loves to cite this example of that perfect fusion of skill, craft and creativity.

CLIP TRANSCRIPT

"When you play Mozart you have to be so alert because you know, one second to next it went from being real comedy to something a lot deeper.  And I think anyone else tried to do it and it would sound like a very badly judged effect.  But with Mozart it just sounds like the way wistfulness works, you know, it sometimes is mixed in with something more joyful and he, he explains how we feel (laughs)."


SUGGESTED HOST OUTRO

Jonathan Biss describing how Mozart effortlessly goes back and forth between moods and emotions in his music.  That Mozart-ian seamlessness is well represented in the two piano concertos on his most recent CD.  Here's Jonathan Biss playing (insert Concerto title) with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.




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