Piano Concertos Warsaw 2010 - DVD

Evgeny Kissin and Nikolai Demidenko perform with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Antoni Wit at Warsaw's Philharmonic Hall on Feb. 27,2010.

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Ludwig van Beethoven's piano works occupy a special place in Margarita Höhenrieder's artistic work. In a certain sense, this is almost InchlogicalInch, since she herself is part of a very special Beethoven lineage her teacher Leon Fleisher was a student of Arthur Schnabel, who in turn studied with Theodor Leschetizky, who had learned his piano playing from Carl Czerny. And Czerny was a student of Beethoven!For the recordings of all five of Beethoven's piano concertos, Margarita Höhenrieder has top-class orchestras and conductors at her side, including the Staatskapelle Dresden under Fabio Luisi and the Bamberg Symphony under Martin Haselböck. The recordings are complemented by extensive bonus material a portrait of the pianist and conversations between Höhenrieder and the conductors provide an insight into the life and work of an artist for whom her own concert activities are just as important as the education of the next generation.