Mahler Chamber Orchestra; Mitsuko Uchida, piano and director

Mitsuko Uchida and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra return to Berkeley after their March 2022 performance together for another concert highlighting Mozart’s piano concertos. Uchida leads from the keyboard throughout the performance. In both the Concerto No. 17 in G major and No. 22 in E-flat major, gaiety coexists with melancholy, and the profound tangles with the carefree. An international ensemble with flexible membership, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra has earned a reputation for playing even the most substantial repertoire with the intimacy and subtlety of chamber music—and here also performs a chamber orchestra arrangement of Jörg Widmann’s atmospheric String Quartet No. 2.