Menahem Pressler: The Pianist (recorded live 2011-2014)
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Menahem Pressler: The Pianist (recorded live 2011-2014)
Menahem Pressler (piano) / Orchestre de Paris, Berlin Philharmonic, Quatuor Ebene
[ Euroarts DVD / 4 DVD Box Set ]
Release Date: Saturday 24 September 2016
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There have been quite a few child prodigies in the history of music. Yet, an equally exceptional phenomenon is that of a musician who has devoted over eighty years of his life to music and finds himself in a mental and physical state which still allows him to keep performing in front of a vast audience. For these chosen artists, one could forge a new concept, that of the 'venerable prodigy', a category to which Menahem Pressler belongs without any doubts.
At 91 years old, Menahem Pressler is currently the oldest active concert pianist. He is also a founding member and pianist of the Beaux Arts Trio and has established himself among the world's most distinguished and honored musicians, with a career that spans almost six decades. When the Beaux Arts Trio separated in 2008, Pressler resumed his solo career and still continues to dazzle audiences throughout the world, both as piano soloist and collaborating chamber musician. This 4-DVD edition contains concert performances with Berliner Philharmoniker, Orchestre de Paris and Quatuor Ébène. It also includes the award-winning portrait "Menahem Pressler - The Life I Love" (winner of the Grand Prix at the Golden Prague Festival 2015).
4x DVD9
3 Polyboxes with slipcase
16:9 - NTSC
PCM Stereo, DD 5.0, DTS 5.0
Region code: 0 (worldwide)
Running time: DVD 1: 135 mins,
DVD 2: 95 mins, DVD3: 88 mins,
DVD 4: 90 mins
Total time: 408 mins
"..he doesn't attempt to decorate Mozart's sometimes skeletal melodic line... the playing is eloquent in its simplicity, and the final reprise of the melody, with the piano doubled by the first violins on their own, is infinitely touching. Pressler is sympathetically accompanied throughout by Paavo Järvi" (classical-music.com on the Mozart concertos)
Tracks:
Beethoven:
Piano Sonata No. 31 in A flat major, Op. 110
Chopin:
Nocturne No. 7 in C sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 1
Mazurka No. 5 in B flat major, Op. 7 No. 1
Mazurka No. 7 in F minor, Op. 7 No. 3
Mazurka No. 13 in A minor, Op. 17 No. 4
Nocturne No. 20 in C sharp minor, Op. post.
Nocturne No. 20 in C sharp minor, Op. post.
Mozart:
Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K488 (2 performances)
Piano Concerto No. 27 in B flat major, K595
Rondo in A minor, K511
Debussy:
Clair de Lune (from Suite Bergamasque)
Estampes (3) (Complete)
String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10
Schubert:
Piano Sonata No. 21 in B flat major, D960
Winterreise D911 (excerpts)
Die Forelle, D550
Piano Quintet in A major, D667 'The Trout'
Dvorak:
Piano Quintet in A major, Op. 5
Slavonic Dance No. 2 in E minor, Op. 46 No. 2
Slavonic Dance No. 15 in C major, Op. 72 No. 7
Khachaturian:
Gayane Suite No. 1: Lozginka
Rameau:
Les Indes galantes: Suite
Kodály:
Háry János Suite
Brahms:
Hungarian Dance No. 1 in G minor
