PIANO EXTRAVAGANZA
(100 min; 2004; dvd; English subtitles)

With Leif Ove Andsnes, Nicolas Angelich, Martha Argerich, Emmanuel Ax, Claude Frank, Evgeny Kissin, Lang Lang, James Levine, Mikhail Pletnev, Staffan Scheja.
Birthday Festival Orchestra

Every year, the idyllic village of Verbier in the Swiss Alps plays host to the international music elite. To celebrate the Verbier Festival & Academy’s tenth birthday in 2003, 23 fabulous soloists came together to honour this special spirit of Verbier with this exciting once-in-a-lifetime extravaganza of star pianists and as many as 8 pianos. Featuring music by Mozart, Smetana, Bach, Rossini, Wagner, Arthur Benjamin, Gottschalk, Rimsky-Korsakov and others.

Introduced by Sunit Tandon