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The Verbier Festival & Academy 10th Anniversary: Piano Extravaganza

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Calorie Rating: 141
Released: 2004-08-01
Running Time: 100 Minutes
Homepage: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/shows/verbier/index.html


Switzerland's annual Verbier Festival has become one of the premier international musical celebrations, attracting a who's who of world-renowned artists to the Swiss countryside for more than two weeks of classical music performances. In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the festival, the world's greatest pianists gathered to play arrangements of classical favorites for four to 16 hands on one to eight pianos. Pianists Leif Ove Andsnes, Nicholas Angelich, Martha Argerich, Emanuel Ax, Claude Frank, Evgeny Kissin, Lang Lang, James Levine, Mikhail Pletnev, and Staffan Scheja perform works by Mozart, Wagner, Rimsky-Korsakov, Smetana, Sousa, and Gottschalk. Also featured is Bach's "Concerto in A Minor," performed with the Verbier Birthday Festival Orchestra: Renaud Capuçon, Sarah Chang, Ilya Gringolts, Gidon Kremer, Vadim Repin, Dmitri Sitkovetsky, Christian Tetzlaff, Nikolaj Znaider, Yuri Bashmet, Nobuko Imai, Mischa Maisky, Boris Pergamenschikow, and Patrick de Los Santos.

Director / Directors

Andy Sommer
Director


Cast

Leif Ove Andsnes
Character: Self - Piano
Nicholas Angelich
Character: Self - Piano
Martha Argerich
Character: Self - Piano

Emanuel Ax
Character: Self - Piano
Evgeny Kissin
Character: Self - Piano
Lang Lang
Character: Self - Piano

Michail Pletnev
Character: Self - Piano
James Levine
Character: Self - Piano


Production and Crew