Pianomania! With Menahem Pressler | Leo Hussain and the Gulbenkian Orchestra

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Pianomania! 2018 was an amazing concert, with star elder pianist Menahem Pressler playing Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23, and even giving two encores. Pressler was accompanied by the Gulbenkian Orchestra under the baton of Leo Hussain. Pressler’s performance was bookended by two outstanding orchestra pieces, starting with the rarely performed ballet music from Mozart’s opera “Idomeneo” (K. 367), and finishing with a true concert classic - Igor Stravinsky’s orchestra suite “Petrushka”. The concert took place in the glass-walled Grand Auditorium at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, where you can have a view of the large park in Portugal’s capital Lisbon.
Program:
(00:00) Intro
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ballet Music from “Idomeneo”, K. 367
(01:18) Chaconne
(10:33) Pas seul (de Mr Le Grand)
(14:52) Passe-pied (pour Mademoiselle Redwen)
(18:10) Gavotte
(20:20) Passacaille
Gulbenkian Orchestra
Leo Hussain | CONDUCTOR
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K. 488
(27:42) Allegro
(40:15) Adagio
(47:05) Allegro assai
Menahem Pressler | PIANO
Gulbenkian Orchestra
Leo Hussain | CONDUCTOR
Encore 1:
(58:40) Frédéric Chopin, Nocturne in C sharp minor
Menahem Pressler | PIANO
Encore 2:
(1:04:28) Claude Debussy, Rêverie
Menahem Pressler | PIANO
(1:11:04) Igor Stranvinsky, Petrushka
Gulbenkian Orchestra
Leo Hussain | CONDUCTOR
Menahem Pressler was born as Max Pressler in the German city of Magdeburg in 1923. His family is Jewish. He and his parents fled Nazi rule in 1939, going first to Palestine, and then emigrating to the US in 1940. The rest of his family were murdered by the Nazis.
In the year 1946, the young Pressler won the Debussy International Piano Competition in San Francisco, and then studied in California. In 1955, he founded the world-famous "Beaux Arts Trio" and remained a member throughout its existence. The ensemble played some 100 concerts between 1955 and 2008 and released more than 50 recordings with different constellations of musicians, before performing its final concert in 2008. Pressler still gives solo performances to this day.
British national Leo Hussain, born in 1978, is a regular guest at Europe’s major opera houses and concert halls. He is seen as a leading interpreter of Mozart and is especially fond of works produced during the composer’s years in Vienna. In this concert, he conducts the Portuguese Gulbenkian Symphony Orchestra.
A EuroArts Music production
In coproduction with ZDF and RTP
In collaboration with arte concert
© EuroArts 2018
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Пікірлер: 23

@jorgeurzuaurzua4011 Жыл бұрын

Being 82 I know my limits. But music has no limits. Being old or fragile means nothing. Musica cannot be destroyed by age, dsease or sickness. Music is the soul of the uman spirit. Thanks god.

@carmenviveros1239 Жыл бұрын

I agree. Music helps me to deal with every difficult moment accept it and keep going.

@staffanolofsson8201 11 ай бұрын

As also I have grown older, now 77, music has helped me to understand the flow of time, and the way we handle this fact, that time passes. Listening to classical music has helped me a lot, and for example Menahem Pressler, at this 2018 at the age age of 95. May he Rest in Peace! His consert starts at 27:42

@jorgeurzuaurzua4011 11 ай бұрын

@@staffanolofsson8201 The two encores are the most moving part of the concert. One nocturne by Chopin and one Réverie by Debussy, two very difficult pieces, achieve in the hands of the elderly Pressler a wisdom and a beauty that are indeed magical,

@staffanolofsson8201 11 ай бұрын

@@jorgeurzuaurzua4011 Where can I find these encores? They are not in this consert.

@jorgeurzuaurzua4011 11 ай бұрын

@@staffanolofsson8201 I listened to the encores (Chopin nocturne and debussy revelry) between mozart piano concerto 23 and Petrushka) in pianomania, WE youtube.

@Stefan_G. Жыл бұрын

Ein wunderbarer Sonntag, dank' dieser großartigen Einspielung. Das sind wahre Künstler unserer Zeit. Einfach großartig!!!

@skyeemmanuelle Жыл бұрын

OMG, an incredible pianist who was nearly 100 years of age at the time of this performance.

@emmerentiagroenewald3694 Жыл бұрын

An amazing pianist....! The ease with which he performs this concerto is admirable! Pure joy!!🎹🎹🎼🎼🎶🎵🎶🎵❤🌹🙏🙏🙏🙏

@staffanolofsson8201 11 ай бұрын

"In the year 1946, the young Pressler won the Debussy International Piano Competition in San Francisco, and then studied in California." Almost incedible, I am born 1945. Listen to Menahem Pressler playing wonderful Mozart at 27:42. At this 2018 he was 95.