Label: harmonia mundi Catalog: 9909040 Format: DVD
Philippe Cassard, Patricia Pagny, Hiroko Sakagami
Ballade n°2 op. 38 / Vom Mitleiden Maria D. 632 / mpromptu n°2 D. 899 / Fantasiestücke op. 12 (Traumes Wirren) / Tango / Barcarolle op. 60
A movie proposed by François Manceaux & Olivier Bernager, directed by Thierry Bénizeau. Private music lessons: twelve hugely influential programmes broadcast by French television between 1987 and 1991. This film is a particularly precious document because Nikita Magaloff was a champion of live music-making in concert and therefore made relatively few recordings. The classic interpretation of Schubert's Impromptu in E flat captured here testifies to the musicality and the immense stature of a pianist who frequented Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff in his early years, and whose future was foretold by Ravel himself: "in Magaloff, an extraordinary musician is born."
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