Francesco Piemontesi Performs Rachmaninoff

The Times praised the 'easy grace and limpid flow' of Francesco Piemontesi's playing. The Swiss pianist brings these gifts to Rachmaninoff's luxuriously scaled, technically daunting, and hyper-Romantic Piano Concerto No. 3. Each movement of Hindemith's colorful Mathis der Maler is inspired by Renaissance painter Matthias Grunewald's religious art, while Ravel's hypnotic La Valse vividly depicts a frenzied waltz. Joana Mallwitz conducts.