Schubert: Impromptu in E flat major, D899 No. 2 - DVD video

A new release of the EuroArts' sub-label "Recorded Excellence - Historical Value" and series of Metropolitan Munich programs.

For generations, the bitter-sweet Schubert piano works presented here have delighted music lovers with their irresistible mix of regretful tenderness and euphoric innocence. András Schiff’s exquisitely nuanced performances of the much loved Impromptus and Moments musicaux demonstrate to perfection why he is universally regarded as one of today’s finest interpreters of Schubert.

Also available: András Schiff plays Schubert I (DVD Cat. No. 2066798) released in June 2012 features Schubert's, Piano Trio op.99, Piano Trio op. 100, Arpeggione Sonata D.821 in A minor, recorded in 1991.

Picture format DVD: NTSC 16:9

Sound format DVD: PCM Stereo

Region code: 0

Booklet notes: English, German, French

Runnning time: 97 mins

Magaloff provides three lessons: one focusses on the young Philip Cassard, more disciple than student. Everything is said with charm, simplicity and above all tact + Patricia Pagny, Hiroko Sakagami

Krystian Zimerman - the youngest ever winner of the prestigious Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw at the age of eighteen – giving his Homage to Chopin and Schubert

As a brilliant musician, a renown specialist in Romantic music Krystian Zimerman combines all the prerequisites for an authorative interpretation of Chopin´s works.

Krystian Zimerman’s peerless artistry, filmed in 1987 by director Humphrey Burton.

In 5.1 DTS Surround Sound

DVD: NTSC 4:3,

PCM Stereo, DD 5.1, DTS 5.1,

Region code: 0,

Original language: German,

Subtitles: Eng, Ger, Fr, Spanish

Alfred Brendel was the most outstanding exponent of Schubert's piano music until his retirement last year: a man capable of bringing it to vibrant life but also serving its poetic intensity and intellectual depth.The series, shot in 1976/1977, has never been shown since and therefore each volume embodies a document of historical importance. Each piece is introduced by Alfred Brendel himself, throwing light on its compositional substance and revealing his own relationship with these masterpieces, and complete performances under studio conditions.

"If I belong to a tradition it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what he should do and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed." Alfred Brendel

The renowned Hungarian-born pianist Lili Kraus (1903-1983) is presented in television performances from the archives of Radio-Canada, Montréal (1960-1961). The bonus material on this DVD presents the televised studio performance of the American premiere of Schubert’s previously lost “Grazer Fantasy” and a discussion of the work with Lili Kraus and music critic and author Michael Steinberg . 50 minutes, black & white/color.