SCMS’s Pianist Jeremy Denk and KUOW Dave Beck provide in-depth commentary and musical conversation circling around the Johannes Brahms’ Variations on a theme by Paganini, Op. 35, and Béla Bartók’s Mikrokosmos for Two Pianos, Sz. 108 – performed during the 2012 Summer Festival, July 2-29 at Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall in Benaroya Hall, Seattle – and Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 32, Op. 111 and György Ligeti’s Etudes for piano (1985-2001) – all musical examples are performed by Jeremy Denk.