ALBUMMaria João Pires: Bach & ChopinMaria João Pires
ALBUMBach: Piano Concertos, BWV 1052, 1055 & 1056Michel Corboz, Orquestra Gulbenkian & Maria João Pires
ALBUMChopin: Piano Concerto No. 1Maria João Pires, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & André Previn
ALBUMBeethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Triple Concerto (Bonus Track Version)London Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink, Maria João Pires, Gordan Nikolitch, Tim Hugh & Lars Vogt
ALBUMBeethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2Bernard Haitink, London Symphony Orchestra & Maria João Pires
ALBUMChopin: Piano Concerto / NocturnesMaria João Pires, Christopher Warren-Green & Sinfonia Varsovia
ALBUMMendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 "Scottish" & The Hebrides Overture - Schumann: Piano ConcertoLondon Symphony Orchestra, John Eliot Gardiner & Maria João Pires
ALBUMBeethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 3 & 4Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding & Maria João Pires
ALBUMChopin: Piano Concertos Nos.1 & 2Maria João Pires, Emmanuel Krivine, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & André Previn
ALBUMSchubertMaria João Pires
ALBUMThe Wigmore Hall RecitalAntónio Meneses & Maria João Pires
ALBUMChopin: Nocturnes - A selectionMaria João Pires
ALBUMChopin: Recitalマリア・ジョアン・ピリス
ALBUMMozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 14, 17 & 21Claudio Abbado & Maria João Pires
ALBUMEuropakonzert from Lisbon 2003 (Live / Visual Album)Maria João Pires, Berlin Philharmonic & Pierre Boulez
ALBUMSchubert: Works for Piano Duet and Piano SoloMaria João Pires & Ricardo Castro
ALBUMBeethoven: Complete Violin SonatasAugustin Dumay & Maria João Pires
ALBUMBeethoven: Piano Sonatas Opp. 27 & 109Maria João Pires
ALBUMSchumann: Piano ConcertoMaria João Pires
ALBUMMozart: LiederBarbara Hendricks, Göran Söllscher, Maria João Pires, Mika Eichenholz & Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne
ALBUMChopin: Piano Concerto No. 1, Fantaisie, Op. 49 & OthersMaria João Pires, The Chamber Orchestra of Europe & Emmanuel Krivine
ALBUMMozart: Piano Concertos 12, 19 & RondoArmin Jordan, Maria João Pires & Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne
ALBUMChopin: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2Armin Jordan, Maria João Pires & Orchestre national de l'Opéra de Monte-Carlo
ALBUMMozart: The Great Concertos for PianoArmin Jordan, Maria João Pires, Orchestre Gulbenkian de Lisbonne, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne & Theodor Guschlbauer
ALBUMBeethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 30, Op. 109 & 31, Op. 110Maria João Pires
ALBUMBeethoven: Piano SonatasMaria João Pires
ALBUMMozart: Piano Concertos Nos 13, 14 & 23Gulbenkian Orchestra, Maria João Pires & Théodor Guschlbauer
Maria João Pires's Popular Music Videos
The Hebrides, Op. 26 "Fingal's Cave" (Bonus Track)
London Symphony Orchestra, John Eliot Gardiner & Maria João Pires
Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor, K. 466: II. Romance (Live from Lisbon / 2003)
Maria João Pires, Berlin Philharmonic & Pierre Boulez
Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor, K. 466: I. Allegro (Live from Lisbon / 2003)
Maria João Pires, Berlin Philharmonic & Pierre Boulez
Schumann: Piano Concerto in A Minor, II. Intermezzo. Andate grazioso (Live from Barbican)
Maria João Pires, London Symphony Orchestra & John Eliot Gardiner
Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor, K. 466: III. Rondo. Allegro assai (Live from Lisbon / 2003)
Maria João Pires, Berlin Philharmonic & Pierre Boulez
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The diminutive Portuguese pianist is a favourite of conductors from Chailly to Gardiner.
About Maria João Pires
Artist Biography
Listen to Maria João Pires' vibrant playing with Claudio Abbado on her 2012 recording of the Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-flat major, K. 595 (1791), or the intensity she finds in the Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466 (1785), and it’s not hard to hear why the Portuguese pianist is considered one of today's finest interpreters of Mozart. One of her most extraordinary performances of the D minor concerto took place with conductor Riccardo Chailly in Amsterdam in 1999, when after realising during the orchestra’s opening bars that she’d prepared the wrong piece, she switched and faultlessly joined in on cue. Such is the virtuosity of a pianist who, born in Lisbon in 1944, began giving public recitals at the age of five. In Romantic repertoire, too, Pires has set the benchmark—her 1996 recording of the Chopin nocturnes is still among the very best, capturing the poetic depths and free-flowing lyricism of these intimate salon works, while her 2014 recording of Beethoven’s Piano Concertos Nos 2 and 3 with Daniel Harding embraces the full range of the composer's dramatic expression. Although rumours of Pires’ retirement have been circulating for some years, she shows no signs of stopping and continues to perform the core repertoire of Beethoven, Mozart and Schubert to enraptured audiences.
Hometown
Lisbon, Portugal
Genre
Classical
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