DVD:
25 Classic Piano Concertos DVD Box

The 25 most important Piano Concertos in one high valuable DVD box and one informational booklet! Don’t miss out on this very educational collection.

Learn everything about the 25 most important piano pieces ever composed, with this extensive DVD collection!

This set has a highly educational value and is a perfect gift for piano beginners, piano teachers and all classical music aficionados across the globe.

Includes 14 hours of music with legendary recordings such as Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 with Maria João Pires and Pierre Boulez, recorded during the Berliner Philharmoniker’s EUROPAKONZERT 2003 in Lisbon, or Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21 with Daniel Barenboim filmed on 35mm by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle. The box also features world-famous orchestras, like The Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra.

Besides these astonishing live recordings, you’ll get a 260-page booklet, with introductions to each piano concerto written by young Berlin pianist Leonie Rettig. Her views on the pieces give insights on the work of a pianist, learning and performing the concertos.

The box comprises seven DVDs and one CD, and its classy design makes it a great collector’s piece!

Original title 25 Classic Piano Concertos
Genre Orchestral Music, Chamber Music
Recording location Mosteiro dos Jerónimos, Lisbon; Siemens-Villa, Berlin; Estates Theatre, Prague; Salle Pleyel, Paris; Markgräfliches Opernhaus, Bayreuth; Mann Auditorium, Tel-Aviv; Verbier Festival, Switzerland; Concert Hall of the Culture and Convention Centre Lucerne; Staatstheater Meiningen; Warsaw Philharmonic; Leipzig Gewandhaus; Annecy Classic Festival; Herodes Atticus Odeon, Athens; Waldbühne Berlin; Philharmonie Berlin; St. Petersburg Philharmonia, Grand Hall; Stockholm Concert Hall; CONCERT Hall of the KKL Lucerne; Kammermusiksaal Philharmonie Berlin
Production year 1982-2014
Duration 869 min
Video format 16:9 -NTSC /4:3 NTSC
Audio format PCM Stereo
Production Company EuroArts
Director Bob Coles, Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, Sébastien Glas, Corentin Leconte, Klaus Lindemann, Sima Cohen, Philippe Béziat, Michael Beyer, Brian Large, Jean-Pierre Loisil, Henning Kasten, Anaïs Spiro
Composer Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Robert Schumann, Liszt, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Grieg, Ravel, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, Shostakovich
Orchestra / Band The Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Berliner Philharmoniker, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, Verbier Festival Orchestra, Warsaw Philharmonic
Conductor Claudio Abbado, Nikolai Alekseev, Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez, Riccardo Chailly, Paavo Järvi, Zoltán Kocsis, Sir Neville Marriner, Kurt Masur, Zubin Mehta, Itzhak Perlman, Sir Simon Rattle, Gábor Takács-Nagy, Yuri Temirkanov, Antoni Wit
Soloist Martha Argerich, Daniel Barenboim, Alfred Brendel, Yefim Bronfman, Evgeny Kissin, Denis Matsuev, Garrick Ohlsson, Navah Perlman, Maria João Pires, Maurizio Pollini, Menahem Pressler, Eliso Virsaladze, Yuja Wang, Leonie Rettig