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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Barenboim plays Beethoven Piano Sonatas Vol. 5Live recording from Palais Rasumowsky Vienna, 1983-84
Director: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle New Release on Euroarts's sub-label: Recorded Excellence – Historical Value. The aim of the new series is to make accessible to music lovers and collectors top-quality recordings documenting extra-special concert performances that were hitherto unreleased or were no longer available, either for the first time or as re-releases on DVD and Blu-ray Disc. The main focus is on artists and repertoire. The new series will showcase defining concert moments of music history. Digitally remastered and restored from 35mm film. Including intensive and high-quality audio and visual restoration. In the last part of five DVDs, seven-time GRAMMY® Award-winning pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim performs Sonatas 29 to 32 of the so-called 'New Testament' of music, Ludwig van Beethoven's thirty-two piano sonatas. Composed over twenty-five years and embodying the shift of musical taste from the Classic to the Romantic, their performance requires a musician of extraordinary versatility. Daniel Barenboim is one such pianist – his recordings run the gamut from Bach and Mozart to Bruckner and Bartók. Infollowing in the footsteps of such masters as Artur Schnabel, Barenboim truly shows himself to be among the greatest living musicians. Picture format DVD: NTSC 16:9 Sound format DVD: PCM Stereo Region code: 0 Booklet notes: English, German, French Running time: 125 mins | 
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| |  | Chopin: 24 Preludes, Op. 28
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| |  | Gervase de Peyer plays Brahms & Beethoven
The internationally celebrated cellist Jacqueline du Pré died a tragically early death. Among her best chamber music recordings is this reading of Beethoven's Clarinet Trio made together with Daniel Barenboim and clarinettist Gervase de Peyer, who also presents great Romantic repertoire in the shape of the two clarinet sonatas by Brahms. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | The Very Best of Daniel Barenboim
Bartók: | Piano Concerto No. 1, BB 91, Sz. 83 | Beethoven: | Fantasia for Piano, Chorus and Orchestra in C minor, Op. 80 | Bizet: | Jeux d'enfants (Petite Suite), Op. 22 | Brahms: | Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 83, 2nd movement | Bruckner: | Te Deum in C major, WAB 45 | Chopin: | Prelude Op. 28 No. 4 in E minor | Fauré: | Pavane, Op. 50 | Mozart: | Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K488 Piano Trio No. 6 in G major K564 Variations (10) in G major on Gluck's 'Unser dummer Pöbel meint', K455 Don Giovanni: excerpts Act 1 Scene 4 Symphony No. 41 in C major, K551 'Jupiter' - Finale |
Daniel Barenboim was born in Buenos Aires in 1942 and received his first piano lessons at age five from his mother. Later, he studied under his father, who would remain his only piano teacher. He gave his first public concert when he was seven and in 1952, he moved with his parents to Israel. At the age of ten, Barenboim gave his international debut performance as a solo pianist in Vienna and Rome, followed by Paris (1955), London (1956) and New York (1957). He began his recording career in 1954 as a pianist. He signed exclusively to EMI in 1966 and in the space of a few years he recorded the Beethoven Piano Sonatas, the Beethoven Piano Concertos (with Otto Klemperer), the Brahms Piano Concertos (with Sir John Barbirolli), and all the Mozart piano concertos with the English Chamber Orchestra, directing from the keyboard. Ever since his conducting debut in 1967 in London with the New Philharmonia Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim has been in great demand with leading orchestras around the world. He made his debut as an opera conductor at the Edinburgh Festival in 1973 with Mozart’s Don Giovanni and in 1981 he conducted for the first time in Bayreuth, where he would conduct every summer until 1999. His career continues to flourish with even-increasing success and he is now one of the most respected and admired musicians in the world. The first CD is devoted to Barenboim performing music by Mozart, beginning with the Piano Concerto No.23 in A (K488) with the English Chamber Orchestra directed from the keyboard by the young Barenboim soon after he began recording for EMI. Then we hear Barenboim in chamber music, in Mozart’s Piano Trio in G K564, recorded almost 40 years later, with the outstanding Danish violinist Nikolaj Znaider and the young Belarusian cellist Kyril Zlotnikov, whom Barenboim admires so much that he has loaned him the Peresson cello that had belonged to Barenboim’s wife, the late Jacqueline du Pré. Next comes Mozart’s set of Variations on ‘Les hommes pieusement’ by Gluck, and then Barenboim moves to the role of operatic conductor with the Mask Trio from Don Giovanni, recorded with the cast he conducted at the Edinburgh Festival in 1973. The CD concludes with the finale from Mozart’s famous ‘Jupiter’ Symphony in which Barenboim conducts the Orchestre de Paris, of which he was principal conductor from 1975 to 1989. CD 2 presents Barenboim in a wide range of contrasting repertoire, illustrating his extreme versatility as both pianist and conductor. The programme begins with Beethoven’s ‘Choral Fantasy’ which Barenboim conducts from the keyboard – no mean feat since the work involves a full symphony orchestra, a chorus and six vocal soloists, as well as the piano! The two movements from Bizet’s charming Jeux d’enfants are a further reminder of Barenboim’s time with the Orchestre de Paris, and then the opening movement from Bartók’s powerful First Piano Concerto gives Barenboim the opportunity to demonstrate his keyboard virtuosity in music of the 20th century. Chopin’s Prelude No.4 in E minor is a brief glimpse of Barenboim’s understanding of the music of this Polish genius before we move to the romantic third movement of Brahms’s monumental Second Piano Concerto with Barenboim as an inspired soloist. The last two pieces put Barenboim back in the role of conductor, firstly in Fauré’s hauntingly beautiful Pavane recorded in Paris and then in Bruckner’s magnificent Te Deum with the forces of the New Philharmonia Chorus and Orchestra and four distinguished vocal soloists. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 24
“These early recordings suggest a tendency to exaggeration: their dynamic spectrum is too wide and they lack naturalness. But they are exciting.” BBC Music Magazine, September 2012 *** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Barenboim plays Mozart Piano ConcertosLive recording from the Siemens-Villa, Berlin, 1986 – 1989
The Grammy award-winning pianist Daniel Barenboim, long known for his Mozart interpretations, turns his attention to Mozart's last 8 piano concertos. The music of Mozart has quite literally been an essential driving force of Daniel Barenboim’s entire life. It remains central to his performing career both as a pianist and as a conductor. These illuminating performances of Mozart’s last eight great piano concertos admirably demonstrate Barenboim’s dictum that even when a true musician has already performed a familiar work hundreds of times, he or she ‘never accepts that the next note will be played the same way as it was played before.’ This production was directed by George Moorse, Jean-Pierre Ponnelle and Klaas Rusticus. Digitally remastered from 35mm film. New Release on Euroarts's new sub-label: Recorded Excellence – Historical Value. The aim of the new series is to make accessible to music lovers and collectors top-quality recordings documenting extra-special concert performances that were hitherto unreleased or were no longer available, either for the first time or as re-releases on DVD and Blu-ray Disc. The main focus is on artists and repertoire. The new series will showcase defining concert moments of music history. Directors: George Moorse, Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, Klaas Rusticus Picture format DVD: NTSC 16:9 Sound format DVD: PCM Stereo Region code: 0 Booklet notes: English, German, French Running time: 264 mins “these are impeccably presented and beautifully rendered performances” BBC Music Magazine, October 2012 ***** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Schubert: The Trout & The Greatest Love and The Greatest Sorrow
This re-release — an improved version of Christopher Nupen’s Schubert DVD — contains two of his most famous films: The Trout, which is almost certainly the most frequently broadcast classical music film in the history of television and Franz Peter Schubert: The Greatest Love and the Greatest Sorrow which many people think is his best — perhaps because it was 10 years in the making. As with most of Christopher Nupen’s DVDs this one contains two films which are entirely different in style and character from one another. The Trout which was shot in 1969 is an explosion of youthful exuberance that was unlike anything that had ever been seen before. The protagonists were unknown to the general public when the film was shot but have since come to be recognised as being among the most affectionately remembered musicians of our time. Their names: Daniel Barenboim, Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman, Jacqueline du Pré and Zubin Mehta. Franz Peter Schubert: The Greatest Love and the Greatest Sorrow was described by Sir Isaiah Berlin as, “This most poignant of tributes to Schubert.” It is not a film about Schubert’s life. It is a film about his extraordinary achievements in the last 20 months of his life after the death of his god, Beethoven. Schubert himself said, “Who, after Beethoven, may dare to do anything.” The answer was Franz Peter Schubert, who took the language of music forward into new and uncharted territory once he was liberated from his own profound respect for his predecessor. However, unlike Beethoven, he does not sing of the fullness of the earth. Instead, he laments for our mortality and what he has to say, ranks among the greatest achievements in music. The musicians are Vladimir Ashkenazy, Andreas Schmidt, Antje Weithaas and Michael Sanderling. Nominated at Banff and winner of Czech Crystal at Golden Prague. Format: NTSC Region: 0 (all regions) Picture format: 4:3 and 16:9 letterbox Sound: Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo Subtitles: DE/EN/ES/FR/IT Running time: 182 mins | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos 20, 21, 23 & 27 & Rondo K382
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| |  | Barenboim plays Schumann & Tchaikovsky
A new release of the series of Metropolitan Munich programs. Today Daniel Barenboim is internationally recognized and revered as an orchestral and operatic conductor, pianist, and a musical ambassador and also as a humanitarian. Partnering him is the remarkable conductor Sergiu Celibidache. “He was one of the greatest musicians I ever encountered”, says Barenboim. Sergiu Celibidache has been called a musical giant, a magician, a brilliant lion-tamer and an enfant terrible of classical music. He was a legend in his own lifetime, mesmerizing orchestras audiences and critics with his intensity and brilliance. Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No.1 is one of the most popular of his compositions and among the best known of all piano concerti. The Schumann concerto is no less influential with its influence heard in Grieg’s Piano Concerto. Both works show Barenboim at his consummate best. Picture format DVD: NTSC 4:3 Sounds formats DVD: PCM Stereo Region code: 0 Booklet notes: English, German, French Runnning time: 81 mins “These 1991 performances exchange surface excitement for a poetic probing of the music's deeper undercurrents, with spellbinding results. A triumph.” BBC Music Magazine, April 2012 ***** “every bit as compelling as these starry names might suggest. Speeds are generally on the stately side, but the adrenalin count and musical intensity is on such a high setting that I can't imagine anyone even noticing.” International Record Review, June 2012 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Barenboim plays Liszt
Liszt: | Années de pèlerinage, 1ère année, Suisse (9 pieces), S. 160 recorded at the Haus Wahnfried, Bayreuth, 1985 Années de pèlerinage, 2ème année, Italie (7 pieces), S. 161 recorded at the Haus Wahnfried, Bayreuth, 1985 Piano Sonata in B minor, S178 recorded at the Haus Wahnfried, Bayreuth, 1985 |
plus: Transcriptions: Wagner Opera, Verdi Operas recorded at the Markgräfliches Opernhaus, Bayreuth, 1985
Franz Liszt will probably always be thought of as the greatest pianist who has ever lived, and his works for piano are undoubtedly among the most virtuosic to have been written. On this disc Daniel Barenboim explores the vast emotional range of Liszt's piano music, from the most delicate chiaroscuro through to the most ominously dramatic climax. This is a new release of the series of Metropolitan Munich programs. Picture format DVD: NTSC 4:3 Sounds formats DVD: PCM Mono Region code: 0 Booklet notes: English, German, French Running time: 225 mins German FSK: 0 “it is in the B minor Sonata where he really comes into his own with an all-encompassing reading which combines scintillating interpretative flair with an edge-of-the-seat demonic drive...the enhanced sense of grativas he imparts to [Annees de pelerinage] is undeniably gripping.” International Record Review, January 2012 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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