LISZT: The Pilgrimage Years – A film by Angelo Bozzolini Duration: 62 mins.
The most extraordinary virtuoso in musical history must surely be Franz Liszt. This documentary, featuring many leading Liszt experts (including Charles Rosen, Leslie Howard, Antonio Pappano and Evgeny Kissin), concentrates on his earlier years when he was travelling across Europe almost non-stop, fuelling the phenomenon described by Heine as ‘Lisztomonia’. It was also the time of his elopement with Marie, Comtesse d’Agoult, in a move that scandalized polite society as much for its unorthodox nature as for its moral dubiety. These were the years of artistic journeying to which Liszt would one day return in the evocative musical colours of his Années de pèlerinage.
Beethoven: Triple Concerto for violin, cello and piano, Op. 56 and Beethoven: Choral Fantasy for piano, chorus and orchestra, Op. 80 – Filmed in 1995 at Berlin Philharmonie Duration : 59 mins.
Itzhak Perlman, violin; Yo Yo Ma, cello and Daniel Barenboim, piano With the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Daniel Barenboim and Chorus of Deutschen Staatsoper, Carola Höhn and Katharina Kammerloher, sopranos, Andrea Bönig, mezzo soprano, Endrik Wottrich and Pär Linkskog, tenor and René Pape, baritone
