Frédéric Chopin Year 2010 coincides with the 60th anniversary of Daniel Barenboim’s stage début, and as a pianist he decided to devote this year to the great Romantic master of the keyboard.

Chopin was born on 1 March 1810 in a small village near Warsaw, and on the eve of the 200th anniversary of this date Barenboim gave this wildly acclaimed Warsaw recital as part of an extensive European tour.

The program comprised some of the composer’s best-known works, including the great B flat minor Sonata with its famous Funeral March, which sounded to many “as the composer may well have imagined it”.

Just as Chopin used to advise his piano scholars to take singing lessons, Barenboim, as an experienced conductor of operas, is also most familiar with the human voice. With his brilliant virtuosity, he led the audience through a most colourful program, once again proving his talent for this composer.

“After almost six decades of experience on stage, Daniel Barenboim continues to need and to seek out contact with an audience. […] Musically speaking, those contacts have always been particularly intense when Barenboim has been able to display his ability to play quietly, an ability that continues to amaze, with its feeling for a velvet touch that is neither brittle nor saccharine but always characterized by a serious, substantial beauty.” - www.klassikinfo.de

Live from the Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall.

Picture Format DVD:  NTSC 16:9
Sound Formats DVD:  Dolby Digital 5.1., DTS 5.1, PCM Stereo,
Region Code:   0 (worldwide)
Running Time:   90:45
Disc Format:   DVD 9
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