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If There Is Much In The Window There Should Be More In The Room
An unfamiliar name to most people, but this remarkable
woman defied the Nazis and saved 2,500 Jewish children by smuggling them out of
the Warsaw Ghetto. As a health worker, she sneaked the children out between
1942 and 1943 to safe hiding places and found non-Jewish families to adopt
them…..
Sir Simon Rattle conducts "Gala from Berlin" featuring
Lang Lang and the Berliner Philharmoniker
You don't need a passport to see the Berliner
Philharmoniker, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle and featuring piano superstar
Lang Lang! In this encore HD broadcast from the Philharmoniker's home concert
hall in Berlin - the Philharmonie - the world-renown orchestra presents works
by two Russian composers: Sergei Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto
highlights Lang Lang's virtuosity and the Philharmoniker's supple orchestral
sound. The Nutcracker Suite by Piotr Ilych Tchaikovsky completes the program.
Russian composer, pianist, and conductor
Sergei Wassiljewitsch Rachmaninoff (1. April 1873 – 28. March 1943) completed his
second piano concerto in 1901 after a long period of stagnation and depression,
caused by the failure of his 1. piano concerto. In 1900 he started a hypnosis
therapy with the Russian psychologist Dr. Nikolai Dahl (1860 – 1939) and
Rachmaninoff began to recover his confidence. As it was Dr. Nikolai Dahl, who
persuaded and convinced him to go on with his compositional work, the piano
concerto No.2, which was a big success, is dedicated to Dr. Nikolai Dahl.
In this version, the piano is played by the
young, Chinese shooting star Lang Lang, who got his first piano lessons at the
age of just 3 years. Lang Lang became one of the most renowned and famous
pianists of the 21th century and has been honored with an abundance of awards,
but he is also under fire from all sides. Some critics have given him the
nickname Bang Bang, criticizing that his playing is vulgar and lacks
sensitivity.
Others have described him as immature, though praised his ability
to conquer crowds with youthful bravado. While some of these critics seem to
grudge his enormous popularity and success, others praise the young talent,
like the Chinese conductor Jahja Ling (born 25 October 1951), who remarked,
“Lang Lang is special because of his total mastery of the piano…He has the flair and great
communicative power.”
The Berliner Philharmoniker and pianist Lang Lang perform Sergei Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18
