Live at Festival International d’Echternach (Luxembourg) • 7 July 1979 • A Film by Claude Chabrol

P21 011-N

This DVD presents the breathtaking recital given by Cyprien Katsaris, aged 28, on 7 July 1979 at the Echternach International Festival in Luxembourg. Katsaris was Artistic Director of the Festival from 1977 to 2007. Filmed by the eminent French director Claude Chabrol, Cyprien beguiled his audience with an eclectic programme bringing together works as diverse as Schumann’s Scenes from Childhood, Schubert’s Ave Maria arranged by Liszt, the Funeral Prelude and March of Liszt himself and Messiaen’s Regard de l’Église d’Amour.

Robert Schumann (1810-1856)

Kinderszenen op. 15 • Scenes from Childhood op. 15 • Scènes d’enfants op. 15

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Ave Maria

Arrangement: Franz Liszt

Jacques Arcadelt (1500?-1568)

Ave Maria

Arrangement: Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt (1811-188

Trauer-Vorspiel und Marsch • Funeral Prelude and March • Prélude et Marche Funèbre

Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)

Regard de l’Église d’Amour (n° 20 des Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant Jésus)

This DVD includes a documentary about Echternach and its Festival, in German with English and French subtitles.

Reviews

[The performances] include a truly memorable Kinderszenen and a revelatory Messiaen Regard de l’église d’amour (from Vingts regards). […] captivating performance of Poulenc’s Villageoises.
International Piano (United Kingdom)