Piano Forum

Piano Street Magazine:
The Quiet Revolutionary of the Piano – Fauré’s Complete Piano Works Now on Piano Street

In the pantheon of French music, Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) often seems a paradox—an innovator cloaked in restraint, a Romantic by birth who shaped the contours of modern French music with quiet insistence. Piano Street now provides sheet music for his complete piano works: a body of music that resists spectacle, even as it brims with invention and brilliance. Read more

Topic: Moiseiwitsch Footage  (Read 1936 times)

Offline theodopolis

  • PS Silver Member
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 111
Moiseiwitsch Footage
on: December 27, 2004, 10:53:42 AM
In the DVD "Art of the Piano" there is some rather spectacular video footage of Benno Moiseiwitsch playing the final movement of Rachmaninoff's Second Concerto. I believe it was from around 1940.

Does anyone know if and where the footage of the entire concerto is available?

Thanks
Theodopolis
Does anyone else here think the opening of Liszt's 'Orage' (AdP - Suisse No.5) sounds like the Gymnopedie from Hell?