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Daniel Barenboim: 50 Years On Stage 2 DVD Set / Daniel Barenboim piano
Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires / Staatskapelle Berlin / Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Berliner Philarmoniker / West-Eastern Divan Orchestra / Bonus: A Film "Multiple Identities" / DVD
- Format: NTSC
- Run time: 230 Minutes
- UPC: 880242504272
- Music genre: Chamber Music
- Length: 120 mins
- Director: Pierre Cavassilas
- Producers: EuroArts, NHK ©EuroArts
- Production year: 2000
- Format: SD
On August 19, 2000, the Teatro Colón was filled to the brim with spectators longing to hear Daniel Barenboim play the piano. Barenboim, who is currently best known as a conductor, started his career half a century ago as a child prodigy, playing his first piano recital at age 7. This concert celebrates the maestro's on-stage career. Only after the maestro had performed for a full three hours, including no less than 13 encores, the audience was willing to let him leave the stage: a special evening if ever there was one! The concert included Ludwig van Beethoven's Sonata No. 23 ‘Apassionata’, Frederic Chopin's Waltz in e minor, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Sonata in C major.
They have not forgotten him, this son of the city, leading conductor and pianist, and indefatigable campaigner for international understanding through the spirit of music. Now, on the night of 19 August 2000, they have flocked in their thousands like pilgrims to the time-honoured Teatro Colón just to hear him. To say the atmosphere in the hall is tensely expectant would be gross understatement, for this is a momentous event. At last their adored idol steps on to the stage - to perform again in his native city half a century after his first public appearance. The multitude rises and sings for him. Three hours and thirteen encores later, he can find no other way of disengaging himself from the ecstatic throng than to point out that the Teatro Colón must close its doors at midnight. One last piece, and then he goes - ending what has surely been one of the most memorable evenings in the Argentinian capital's concert history.
W.A. Mozart: Sonata C Major op. 330; L. v. Beethoven: Sonata “Appassionata“ op. 57; Isaac Albeniz: “Iberia“ - Book 1 & 2; Scarlatti: Sonata in D; Villa Lobos: “Papillon“; Ginastera: “La danza de la moza donosa“; “El Bailecito“; etc.
