PROGRAM: Gioachino Rossini: Overture from Der Barbier von Sevilla // Gaetano Donizetti: “O luce di quest’anima” from Linda di Chamounix (Soloist: Regula Mühlemann) // Robert Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor – Allegro vivace (Soloist: Sophie Pacini) // Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6 (Soloist: Sophie Pacini) // Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: “Deh, per questo istante solo” from La clemenza di Tito (Soloist: Valer Barna-Sabadus) // Léo Delibes: Les filles de Cadix (Soloist: Tine Thing Helseth) // Edvard Grieg: Elsk (Love) from Haugtussa (The Mountain Maid) (Soloists: Tine Thing Helseth & Sophie Pacini) // Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Auf Flügeln des Gesanges (Soloists: Regula Mühlemann & Sophie Pacini) // Edvard Grieg : In the Hall of the Mountain King from Peer Gynt Suite // Giuseppe Verdi: “Addio, addio, speranza ed anima” from Rigoletto (Soloists: Regula Mühlemann & Rolando Villazón)
Magic Moments of Music – Horowitz in Moscow
This series is dedicated to stellar musical events that gripped the whole world and remained unforgettable until today – with touching interviews of today’s artists, celebrities and eyewitnesses. Horowitz in Moscow – after 60 years absence from Russia, the pianist returned to his home country for the first time. Interviews with Peter Gelb, Martha Argerich, Daniil Trifonov and Sophie Pacini.
Magic Moments of Music – Hélène Grimaud 9/11 in London
On 11 September 2001, the world paused. This concert at the Royal Albert Hall shows how grief and horror can be transformed into a musical moment of glory, and how music can be a means of consolation in these tragic moments. Hélène Grimaud makes her Proms debut with the Orchestre de Paris under the baton of Christoph Eschenbach. The musicians enter the stage visibly affected and discharge their anger and sadness in their playing. Hélène Grimaud succeeds in a deeply emotional interpretation of Beethoven’s 4th Piano Concerto. Her playing alternates between intensity and clarity. The wordless communication with the maestro is moving, not least after the first movement: the moved audience partially breaks into applause – Grimaud and Eschenbach cast emotional and assuring glances at each other. They know at that moment: This evening gets under your skin and will not soon be forgotten.
Magic Moments of Music – Martha Argerich in Warsaw
Martha Argerich’s appearance at the 1965 Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw marks the beginning of an incomparable career. With her flowing hair and impetuous and mysterious demeanour, the 24-year-old Argentinian conquers the hearts of everyone present. For much of the competition, however, her victory is far from certain. Her closest competitor is Arthur Moreira Lima from Brazil. It comes down to the final performance of Chopin’s First Piano Concerto, and a legend is born. The film includes excerpts from the dramatic musical duel between Martha Argerich and Arthur Moreira Lima, and from Martha Argerich’s interpretation of Chopin’s First Piano Concerto in Warsaw forty-five years later. We also hear from close friends of Martha Argerich, including the conductor Daniel Barenboim, pianists Gabriela Montero and Sophie Pacini, violinist Gidon Kremer, her competitor Arthur Moreira Lima, the Polish star pianist Rafal Blechacz, who won first prize in the Chopin Competition in 2005, and other people present at the competition in 1965.