BERLIOZ / CHOPIN / GLUCK / ROUSSEL / RAVEL
Live at the Royal Albert Hall (recorded in 2010) Nelson Freire (piano) / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Lionel Bringuier [ Bel Air Classiques DVD / DVD - released 20/Mar/2013 ] Leading Chopin interpreter Nelson Freire is the soloist in Chopin's lyrical and brilliant Second Piano Concerto. |
THOMAS ADES / COLON NANCARROW
In Seven Days / Studies Nos 6 & 7 (with bonus DVD) Nicolas Hodges (piano) / London Sinfonietta, Thomas Ades [ Signum CD/DVD / 2 CD/DVD - released 1/Jan/2012 ] "Evocative without being merely descriptive, In Seven Days is a highly cohesive work that understatedly fulfils its intention. The piano-writing is expertly integrated into the ensemble, Nicolas Hodges amply exploiting the judicious range of timbral... |
SHOSTAKOVICH / TCHAIKOVSKY
Nobuyuki Tsujii at White Nights [recorded 2012] Nobuyuki Tsujii (piano) Olga Sergeyeva (soprano) & Yuri Vorobiev (bass) / Mariinksy Theatre Orchestra, Valery Gergiev [ EuroArts / Unitel DVD / DVD - released 10/Apr/2014 ] The blind up-and-coming Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii - an astonishing virtuoso on his instrument - performs with the Russian conductor Valery Gergiev at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg. In 2009 he hit the Top Ten of the Japanese Charts... |
Paquito D'Rivera (saxophones and clarinet) Chano DomÃnguez (piano)
Quatier Latin (Recorded live at the Teatro Real, Madrid, April 2006) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 16/Jul/2007 ] G :- Recorded live at the Teatro Real, Madrid, April 2006 |
The Piano Guys
The Piano Guys 2 (+DVD) [ Sony Classical / 2 CD/DVD - released 10/Aug/2017 ] The Piano Guys are back with their new album, The Piano Guys 2, that continues their unique take on music from Pachelbel to The Turtles to Bruno Mars, featuring songs never before available on CD. The Piano Guys 2 features more of the imaginative... |
Piotr Andeszewski (piano) / A film of Bruno Monsaingeon
Piotr Andeszewski - Unquiet Traveller [ EuroArts / Medici Arts DVD / DVD - released 20/Sep/2008 ] Meet the talented pianist Piotr Anderszewski who offers us his most utter feelings and reflections in this documentary directed by Bruno Monsaingeon, built like a "rail-movie," in the artist's native Poland. Bruno Monsaingeon spent a great part of... |
CHEN GANG / XIAN XING-HI
Violin concerto No. 1 'Butterfly lovers' / Yellow River Piano Concerto [DVD with bonus CD] Takako Nishizaki (violin) Yin Chengzong (piano) / Shanghai Conservatory Symphony Orchestra / Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra [ Marco Polo DVD / 2 DVD/CD - released 1/Dec/2009 ] The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto was written in 1958 by He Zhanhao and Chen Gang, and is here presented on a 24k gold CD. Musically the concerto is a synthesis of Eastern and Western traditions, although the melodies and overall style are... |
W. A. MOZART
Master Classes [The Marriage of Figaro / Don Giovanni] Teresa Beganzi (soprano) with Aline Bartissol (piano) [ Melisande Films DVD / DVD - released 10/Sep/2011 ] In the spring of 2009 and 2010, at the villa Viardot, in France, Teresa Berganza gave 2 singing lessons for the Mariage of Figaro and Don Giovanni. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Virtuosity: Music is like a mirror - The Fourteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition Vadym Kholodenko / Beatrice Rana / Sean Chen / Fei-Fei Dong / Nikita Mndoyants / etc [ EuroArts DVD / DVD - released 20/Aug/2019 ] Virtuosity searches for the musical souls of the most gifted young pianists as they try to make a name for themselves at the 2013 Van Cliburn International Piano Competiton. The film focusses on this group of young musicians as they articulate their... |
MOZART / BEETHOVEN / RACHMANINOV / SCRIABIN / CHOPIN
Live At The Royal Albert Hall Valentina Lisitsa (piano) [ Decca DVD / DVD - released 27/Sep/2012 ] " This recital disc of short piano pops proves Lisitsa's technical skill rather than the potential depth or reach of her musicality. She opens, in reckless mood, with Rachmaninov's Prelude in G Minor, then settles into an elegant Für Elise" Observer |
BERNSTEIN / GERSHWIN / DVORAK / COPLAND / STRAUSS / etc
Schoenbrunn 2019 - Summer Night Concert Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Gustavo Dudamel, with Yuja Wang (piano) [ Sony Classical DVD / DVD - released 1/Aug/2019 ] The world's biggest annual classical open-air concert, The Summer Night Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic, returns to the magical setting of Schönbrunn Palace Baroque park in Vienna. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / NICOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 5 / Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade (recorded in 2011) Yefim Bronfman (piano) / Concertgebouw Orchestra, Andris Nelsons [ C Major DVD / DVD - released 1/Aug/2011 ] Andris Nelsons is one of the most sought-after young conductors on the international scene today and once again served notice of his extraordinary talent in Summer 2011 when he conducted two concerts with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of... |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor K. 491 / Piano Concerto No. 13 in C major K. 415 (with bonus DVD) Martin Helmchen (piano) / Netherlands Chamber Orchestra / Gordan Nikolic [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Oct/2007 ] The pellucid sound quality of the spacious PentaTone recording adds enormously to one's enjoyment of these performances and this outstanding disc can be warmly recommended without reservation." Graham Williams , SA-CD.net |
BRUCH / BRAHMS / RAVEL
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra 70th Anniversary Concert (rec 2006) Pinchas Zukerman (violin) Daniel Barenboim (piano) / Israel Philharmonic Orchestra / Zubin Mehta [ EuroArts DVD / DVD - released 22/Jun/2007 ] G - Recorded live at the Frederic R. Mann Auditorium, Tel Aviv, 26 December 2006 |