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Release Date: Sunday 16 October 2016
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Suitable for General AudiencesThe blind up-and-coming Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii - an astonishing virtuoso on his instrument - performs with the Russian conductor Valery Gergiev at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg. In 2009 he hit the Top Ten of the Japanese Charts with his first album "début". He also won the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2009.
At the White Nights Festival he played works by the Russian composers Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and Shostakovich. Here he plays Tchaikovsky's famous Piano Concerto No. 1.
As a bonus Nobuyuki Tsujii performs his own Elegy for the Victims of the Tsunami of March 2011, a stirring and moving piece dedicated to his home country Japan.
This performance also includes Shostakovich Symphony No. 14.
Live recording from the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg, 8 July 2012.
Picture format Blu-ray: 1080i Full HD 16:9
Sound format Blu-ray: Dolby Digital 5.1, PCM Stereo
Region code: All
"The camera lingers revealingly on close-ups of his neat hands, showing how flat the fingers are, and how relaxed their action, and underscoring the fact that through his finely-judged rubato he exercises total authority over tempo. The cadenza has lovely delicacy...But the principal memory one comes away with is his engagingly child-like presence." (BBC Music)
Shostakovich:
Symphony No. 14 in G minor, Op. 135
Tchaikovsky:
Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23
Tsujii:
Elegy for the Victims of the Earthquake and the Tsunami of March 11, 2011