Chopin, Frédéric

Chopin: Desire For Love

Grieg, Chopin & Saint Saens Piano Concertos / Previn, Rubinstein, London Symphony Orchestra

F. Chopin - 24 Etudes for Piano Op.10 , Op 25

For the first time ever the complete set of Chopin's Etudes on Video ! See and listen to the work which is justly considered the ultimate in difficulty - both musically and technically - Chopin's 24 Etudes . Even such piano giants as Pollini and Ashkenazi unfortunately did not leave any video trace of their recording of this piece , let alone modern performers who grew accustomed to literally " cutting and pasting " the pieces together during a recording session - more a marvel of editing than of music-making . It was up to the artist who first came to fame as the one who turned the tide of sterile and over-perfected recordings with her release of unedited studio recordings . Now she is taking it one radical step further allowing You , the listener , to fill like you are sitting right next to the piano This is a first opportunity to be able to watch Chopin Etudes from the unique vantage point of performer herself . Never before were the cameras so close up to the red-hot keyboard , following the hands like the pianist's eyes would do . The magnificent sound comes from 1923 Wigmore Hall Boesendorfer Concert Grand Piano.

A Song to Remember - Chopin - (Import)

High quality DVD manufactured in Hong Kong. Very clear full screen color image. Dialog in original English with opitonal subtitles in Chinese and English which can be turned off. On screen menus are in English and Chinese and are easy to use. Director: Charles Vidor. Cast: Cornel Wilde, Paul Muni, Merle Oberon, Nina Foch. The following review is for the VHS edition: The short life and passionate music of romantic composer Frédéric Chopin provide the foundations for this 1945 drama, which proved influential in its gaudy, undeniably watchable formula of historical exaggeration and shrewdly simplified motives for its principals. In an Oscar-nominated performance, Cornel Wilde presents the Polish native as a passionate nationalist driven by his love of his native country and his hatred of its czarist regime, a thematic focus that can be forgiven in light of the political backdrop at the time of the production. Already a prodigy in his native land, where he's mentored by a shamelessly scenery-chewing Paul Muni as Professor Elsner, Chopin flees to Paris where his flashing eyes, dark nimbus of curls, and florid technique earn him stardom, while his involvement with the writer George Sand (a beautiful Merle Oberon, even when draped in then-provocatively masculine garb) introduces a romantic crescendo. Still, the tortured pianist-composer pines for his homeland, frets about its political fate, and begins to wither under the rigors of his new career as ur-superstar; in a typically over-the-top but riveting image, we see drops of blood spatter across the keyboard as he thunders through a recital, gallantly ignoring his failing health to spread his music and, by extension, awareness of Poland's fate. --Sam Sutherland

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Arthur Rubinstein Plays Chopin and Rachmaninov

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Michelangeli Plays Chopin

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Ivo Pogorelich Plays Chopin, Haydn and Mozart