The Verbier Festival & Academy 10th Anniversary: Piano Extravaganza

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tracks

1. Sonata for Piano 4 hands in C major, K 521 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Evgeny Kissin (Piano), Martha Argerich (Piano)
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2. Sonata for 2 Pianos 8 Hands in E minor, B 70/T 47 by Bedrich Smetana
Performer: James Levine (Piano), Emanuel Ax (Piano), Leif Ove Andsnes (Piano),
Evgeny Kissin (Piano)
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3. Happy Birthday Variations (excerpts) by Peter Heidrich
Performer: Birthday Festival Orchestra
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4. Concerto for 4 Harpsichords in A minor, BWV 1065 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Mikhail Pletnev (Piano), Evgeny Kissin (Piano), Martha Argerich (Piano),
James Levine (Piano), Birthday Festival Orchestra
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5. Semiramide: Overture by Gioachino Rossini
Performer: Staffan Scheja (Piano), James Levine (Piano), Evgeny Kissin (Piano),
Nicholas Angelich (Piano), Leif Ove Andsnes (Piano), Emanuel Ax (Piano), Lang Lang (Piano), Mikhail Pletnev (Piano)
Notes: arrangement for 8 pianos by Carl Czerny/Rico Gulda
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6. Die Walküre: Ride of the Valkyries by Richard Wagner
Performer: Staffan Scheja (Piano), James Levine (Piano), Evgeny Kissin (Piano),
Emanuel Ax (Piano), Leif Ove Andsnes (Piano), Claude Frank (Piano),
Lang Lang (Piano), Mikhail Pletnev (Piano)
Notes: arranged for 8 pianos by Richard Blackford
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7. Jamaican Rumba by Arthur Benjamin
Notes: arranged for 8 pianos by Patrick Russ
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8. Stars and Strips Forever Suite by Morton Gould
Notes: arranged for 8 pianos by Michael Rot
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9. L'Union: Paraphrase de concert sur les airs nationaux by Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Notes: arranged for 8 pianos by Samuel Adler/Patrick Russ
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10. Flight of the bumblebee by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Notes: arranged for 8 pianos by First Piano Quartet
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11. Happy Birthday
Performer: Barbara Hendricks (Soprano)
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7-11 Performers: Leif Ove Andsnes (Piano), Nicholas Angelich (Piano), Emanuel Ax (Piano), Evgeny Kissin (Piano), Lang Lang (Piano), Mikhail Pletnev (Piano), James Levine (Piano), Staffan Scheja (Piano)
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Members of Birthday Festival Orchestra:
Violin: Gidon Kremer, Vadim Repin, Renaud Capuçon, Sarah Chang, Ilya Gringolts, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Christian Tetzlaff, Nikolaj Znaider
Viola: Yuri Bashmet, Nobuko Imai
Cellos: Mischa Maisky, Boris Pergamenschikow
Double bass: Patrick de los Santos