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Featured soloist Maria João Pires plays Mozart's "Piano Concerto No. 20."
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The evening's program from Lisbon's Hieronymus Monastery was recorded on May 1, 2003.

"Piano Concerto in D Minor" (K. 466)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

   1. Allegro

   2. Romance

   3. Rondo: Allegro assai

Maria João Pires, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

"Concerto for Orchestra"
Béla Bartók

   1. Introduction: Andante non troppo -- Allegro vivace

   2. Game of pairs: Allegretto scherzando

   3. Elegy: Andante non troppo

   4. Intermezzo interrotto: Allegretto

   5. Finale: Presto

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

"Fêtes" (Festivals) from "Trois Nocturnes"
Claude Debussy
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Top banner photos: Lisbon's Mosteiro dos Jerónimos (Hieronymus Monastery), and Pierre Boulez leading the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.

Harpist

Harpist with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.

Conductor Pierre Boulez

Pierre Boulez first conducted the Berlin in 1961.

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