Nobuyuki Tsujii at White Nights [recorded 2012]

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Nobuyuki Tsujii at White Nights [recorded 2012]
Nobuyuki Tsujii (piano) Olga Sergeyeva (soprano) & Yuri Vorobiev (bass) / Mariinksy Theatre Orchestra, Valery Gergiev

[ EuroArts / Unitel DVD / DVD ]

Release Date: Thursday 10 April 2014

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Rated: G - Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act 1993Suitable for General Audiences

The 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 DVD: NTSC 16:9

Sound format DVD: DD 5.1, DTS 5.1, PCM Stereo

Region code: 0

Booklet notes: English, German, French

Running time: 102 mins

"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)

Tracks:

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