Technical Details: Interactive Menu Sound: DTS + Dolby Digital 5.1 + Stereo Region Code: 0   Picture Format: 4:3  Specials: Interview with Boris Bloch (subtitled in English)   Running Time: ca. 90 min.

Order No: 90017                                              upcoming! Boris Bloch plays Famous Piano Concerts Orchestra: Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor: Mark Gorenstein Programme: Mozart: Piano Concerto No.26 “Coronation” D major KV 537, Liszt/Busoni: Spanish Rhapsody, Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 3 E Flat major op.75/79 Boris Bloch is one of the most brilliant masters of modern school of piano playing. After graduating from the Moscow Conservatory in 1974, he left for the West, where his outstanding and prolific performances earned him significant recognition. During this period, Bloch won numerous international competitions. Bloch is recognized in the USA and Europe as one of the best interpreters of Liszt and Chopin, as well as that of Russian music. Apart from his unparalleled performing style, which is as sophisticated as it is dynamic, Bloch is renowned for his innovative approach to the repertoire, particularly with respect to rarely performed music. Mozart’s Concerto in D major KV 537 was named “Coronation Concerto” after it had been played at the celebrations of the crowning of Leopold II. The concerto, although one of Mozart’s finest, has seldom been played. It was not by accident that Busoni arranged Liszt’s “Spanish Rhapsody”. Liszt was Busoni’s spiritual father, and Busoni became the greatest interpreter of his music. Tchaikovsky’s 3d Piano Concerto is his last work in that genre. He began the concerto, using as a foundation his unfinished symphony in E Flat major. However, he stopped working on it after completion of the first movement. After Tchaikovsky’s death, Sergei Taneyev, using the author’s original sketches, orchestrated the Andante and the Finale and played himself the entire work for the first time in 1896 in St. Petersburg. The recording on the DVD in hand is a unique one, as the whole Concerto until now has never been recorded. The concert documented here took place on December 4th 2002.