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Guide to the Pianist's Repertoire continues to be the go-to source for piano performers, teachers, and students. Newly updated and expanded with more than 250 new composers, this incomparable resource expertly guides readers to solo piano literature and provides answers to common questions: What did a given composer write? What interesting work have I never heard of? How difficult is it? What are its special musical features? How can I reach the publisher?...
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[2008]
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1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr., 14 min., 2 sec.)) : sound, color
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For the last concert of the Pianoscope Festival in 2008, Brigitte Engerer and his friends pianists have concocted a program of piano works for several hands full of surprises ... Created by Brigitte Engerer, the Pianoscope Festival (Beauvais, France) is still inhabited by the soul of its outstanding founder. An unclassifiable festival, Pianoscope devotes considerable attention to young performers, programs less-known composers and makes the public...
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[2011]
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1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr., 17 min.)) : sound, color
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As a celebration of Liszt's 200th birthday, the pianist Jean-Philippe Collard offers a series of 21 recitals that are based around Liszt's Symphony in B Minor. On April 22, 2011 he plays works by two prolix composers and pianists of the Romantic era: the two close friends Franz Liszt and Frederic Chopin. The event takes place in the mythical Salle Colonne. This venue, famous for its extraordinary acoustic qualities, was completely redone during the...
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2008.
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1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr., 35 min., 8 sec.)) : sound, color
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The collection Van Cliburn in Moscow takes us back to a series of concerts the pianist gave in the 1960s, just a few years after his victory at the prestigious Tchaikovsky Competition. The enthusiasm he garnered was unprecedented. Here he performs Rachmaninov alongside the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Kirill Kondrashin. Van Cliburn - Harvey Lavan Cliburn (1934-2013) - was the historic winner of the first edition of the Tchaikovsky...
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1982.
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1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr., 35 sec.)) : sound, color
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A live concert featuring two of the greatest pianists, friends, and musical collaborators of our time ... in 1982, fellow South American pianists Nelson Freire and Martha Argerich shared a stage for a program of 19th- and 20th-century pianistic jewels. Freire opens the program with Debussy's Estampes, Chopin's Trois nouvelles études and Scherzo in B-flat Minor. The Argentinian lioness then joins him for Ravel's two piano arrangement of his La Valse...
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[1995]
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1 online resource (1 video file (41 min., 21 sec.)) : sound, color
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Carnegie Hall concert of the legendary Armenian pianist. In the spring of 1985, the gifted yound Armenian pianist Artur Papazian made his Carnegie Hall debut with a recital described in the New York Times as "one of the season's most exciting concerts." The following year he appeared on short notice in a Town Hall programme and again the Times was on hand to describe Maestro Papazian and his playing as "splendid." After several years of international...
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[2011]
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1 online resource (1 video file (57 min., 11 sec.)) : sound, color
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At the International Piano Festival of la Roque d'Anthéron, Nicholas Angelich performs the first part of Liszt's Years of Pilgrimage, the "€First year: Switzerland€". In 2011, the bicentenary of Liszt's birth was celebrated. The American virtuoso pianist Nicholas Angelich dedicated him a great tribute, performing for one evening all of his Years of Pilgrimage in a row, one of Liszt's most wonderful works, that is also a stirring musical journey...
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[2002]
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1 online resource (1 video file (57 min., 34 sec.)) : sound, color
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The curriculum vitae of a keyboard ace with extreme sensitivity. Liszt's Douze Etudes d'exécution transcendante and pianist Boris Berezovsky were made for one another. Performing the extremely difficult and acrobatic tour de force of the Etudes Transcendantes, this musician gives a romantic rendition of the poetry that Liszt wrote in these pieces. And behind the virtuosity and fantastic digital agility of the pianist, there is a performer of extreme...
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[1995]
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1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr., 3 min., 8 sec.)) : sound, color
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The Carnegie Hall Chopin recital of the legendary Armenian pianist Artur Papazian. In the spring of 1985, the gifted yound Armenian pianist Artur Papazian made his Carnegie Hall debut with a recital described in the New York Times as "one of the season's most exciting concerts." The following year he appeared on short notice in a Town Hall programme and again the Times was on hand to describe Maestro Papazian and his playing as "splendid." After several...
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2013.
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1 online resource (1 video file (approximately 89 min.)) : sound, color
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Framed by the tranquil beauty of a forest near Berlin, Khatia Buniatishvili gives a recital of pianistic masterpieces dappled by the shade of verdant ferns and leafy canopies. As a special treat, her older sister Gvantsa joins her for four-handed works by Dvořák, Brahms, and Piazzolla. Described as a "force of nature", Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili takes her art into the wilderness with this concert. On a wooden stage, she sits in an earthy...
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[2012]
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1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr., 40 min.)) : sound, color
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The "Siberian Bear" in a piano recital dedicated to Schumann and Rachmaninov, recorded at the 2012 Verbier Festival! Denis Matsuev made his debut at the Verbier Festival in 2011 -- and medici.tv had been a privileged witness of his performances, which were physically impressive due to their degree of virtuosity, as well as the power and musical inspiration they displayed. On the stage of the Salle des Combins in Verbier, Denis Matsuev astonished his...
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[2011]
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1 online resource (1 video file (54 min., 20 sec.)) : sound, color
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Nicholas Angelich performs the third and last part of Liszt's Years of Pilgrimage at the International Piano Festival of la Roque d'Anthéron. Liszt, the man and Liszt, the musician unveil in these Years of Pilgrimage, a real musical remembrance of the composer's life and impressions. To perform this masterpiece marked by literary and impressionist colours, the virtuoso pianist Nicholas Angelich dedicates a whole evening to the three parts of this...
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[1980]
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1 online resource (1 video file (40 min., 25 sec.)) : sound, color
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Vladimir Ashkenazy in a series of legendary recitals, filmed by Christopher Nupen's camera. A few days before the 75th birthday of one of our century's greatest pianists, medici.tv gathers those exceptional archives in which, at the beginning of the 1980s, Vladimir Ashkenazy performs the Beethoven last five sonatas as well as milestones from the Chopin repertoire. Beethoven and especially Chopin are two composers which Ashkenazy never stopped performing...
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[2011]
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1 online resource (1 video file (56 min., 10 sec.)) : sound, color
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This concert was filmed in 2011, when the bicentenary of Franz Liszt's birth was being celebrated all over the world. To honor Franz Liszt, it is one of the most famous American pianists of his generation, Nicholas Angelich, who performed the "Second Year: Italy" of the Years of Pilgrimage at the International Piano Festival of la Roque d'Anthéron. A genuine summation of Liszt's musical art, the Years of Pilgrimage is a masterwork whose title refers...
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[1966]
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1 online resource (1 video file (50 min.)) : sound, color
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With his powerful style, Emil Gilels comes to grips with Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto before an enthralled Parisian audience. A titan. That is the first word that comes to mind when thinking of the pianist Emil Gilels. Not only because of his imposing physical presence, but also for the very special way his hands take possession of the keyboard and draw from it, like from a bow, powerful full-bodied sounds. Born in 1916 in Odessa, like David...
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[2013]
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1 online resource (1 video file (55 min., 28 sec.)) : sound, color
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A true star of the Russian piano, Evgeny Kissin is a regular guest of the Verbier Festival, where he has performed many times since the very first edition in 1994! Following his extraordinary debuts as a pianist, while he was still a child (everyone can picture the 12 year-old boy playing Chopin with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Dimitri Kitaenko), Evgeny Kissin is considered one of the greatest pianists of our time. His perfect virtuosity,...
17) Grigory Sokolov plays Beethoven, Komitas, Prokofiev: recital at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées
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[2002]
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1 online resource (1 video file (2 hr., 4 min.)) : sound, color
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In 2002, the Russian pianist Grigory Sokolov agreed to be film during his recital at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris: a rare event that could only be recorded by Bruno Monsaingeon, and that would not happen again for the next 10 years ... Still completely unknown in Western Europe in the eighties, the pianist Grigory Sokolov was then a rising star from Russia. Born in Petrograd (St. Petersburg's name in the years of the Soviet Union)...
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2019.
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1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr., 21 min., 6 sec.)) : sound, color.
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In June 2019, aged just 22, the astonishingly gifted Alexandre Kantorow became the first French pianist to take home the coveted Grand Prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition. A few months off his win heard round the world, he came to Paris's Fondation Louis Vuitton to perform a recital that amply demonstrated why he deserved one of the most prestigious accolades in classical music. Kantorow is a pianist of great profundity, masterfully...
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[2003]
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1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr., 20 min.)) : sound, color
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An ace at the keyboard in an astoundingly pyrotechnical programme. We owe this film to a discovery in 2000 by filmmaker Bruno Monsaingeon who heard for the first time the Italian pianist, who was born in 1968, play in a festival for young talent in Miami. He felt he was in the presence "of one of the most remarkable virtuoso prodigies of all time." Francesco Libetta chose for this film a kaleidoscope of pieces demonstrating his vertiginous pyrotechnics:...
20) Grigory Sokolov plays Schubert, Beethoven, Rameau and Brahms: recital at the Berliner Philharmonie
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[2014]
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1 online resource (1 video file (2 hr., 23 min., 33 sec.)) : sound, color
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Legendary pianist Grigory Sokolov filmed for the first time in ten years, exclusively on medici.tv! It is so rare that it deserves a special mention: in June 2013 Grigory Sokolov, a piano superstar, gave his approval for his recital at the Berliner Philharmonie to be filmed. The last time his performance was filmed live was in November 2002, more than ten years ago, at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris. Just like in 2002, Bruno Monsaingeon...





