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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...