"Actor: Liszt"

• Vladimir Horowitz: The Video Collection | DVD | (05/03/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £61.99

  Vladimir Horowitz's standard-setting virtuosity and boundless imagination resonate throughout a remarkable collection of films gathered together for the first time on DVD. It includes the first London and Vienna recitals Horowitz gave in decades, along with his celebrated historic return to Moscow after more than sixty years' absence. The Last Romantic features Horowitz in his New York home, playing and speaking about Liszt, Chopin, Schumann, Scriabin and Rachmaninoff - all composers with whom he had a lifelong affinity. By contrast, a behind-the-scenes documentary of Horowitz's only Mozart concerto recording conveys the veteran pianist's palpable joy and freshness of approach in rediscovering this composer late in life. Vladimir Horowitz - A Reminiscence interweaves rare footage from concerts, interviews and private archives into a loving, insightful portrait narrated on screen by the pianist's widow, Wanda Toscanini HorowitzDVD 1 Vladimir Horowitz - The Last RomanticA HOME RECITAL and musical discussion with Vladimir Horowitz and Wanda Toscanini Horowitz DVD 2Horowitz in London - THE CONCERT at the Royal Festival Hall in 1982 - Includes an intermission interview with HorowitzDVD 3Horowitz in Moscow - HIS LEGENDARY CONCERT at the Moscow Conservatory in 1986DVD 4Horowitz in Vienna - THE CONCERT at the Musikvereinssaal in 1987DVD 5Horowitz Plays Mozart- HOROWITZ'S FIRST RECORDING EVER of a Mozart concerto: No. 23 in A majorCarlo Maria Giulini Orchestra della ScalaDVD 6Vladimir Horowitz - A Reminiscence - A film with and about Vladimir Horowitz and Wanda Toscanini HorowitzPerformances of SCRIABIN Vers la flamme CHOPIN Scherzo No. 1 in B minor

• Naxos 20th Anniversary Concert - Virtuoso Music Of The 19th Century | DVD | (26/11/2007) from £7.95   |  Saving you £0.04 (0.50%)   |  RRP £7.99

  The 19th century brought astonishing developments in instrumental skill, marking, with Paganini and his innovations in violin technique, the true age of the virtuoso. Earlier periods had seen great performers, but it was now combined with changes in technique and with the development of particular instruments, notably the piano, with which Liszt at first set out to rival Paganini. A distinctive feature of the age was the pre-eminence of performer-composers. Bach, Handel, Mozart and Beethoven had all been players, but now, changing technical demands and possibilities opened a new world of virtuosity, the world of Liszt and his successor Busoni, and of Sarasate, Ernst, Joachim and Ries.

• Moonlight Sonata | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £18.99

  Moonlight Sonata (1937 Feature Film)

• Rachel Cheung - Keyboard Prodigy | DVD | (02/08/2007) from £9.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (130.13%)   |  RRP £22.99