Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 | Menahem Pressler, Gulbenkian Orchestra & Leo Hussain
Menahem Pressler (Hebrew: מנחם פרסלר; born 16 December 1923) is a German-born Israeli-American pianist.
“Concerts make me feel alive” – the motto of veteran star pianist Menahem Pressler. As part of the “Pianomania!” concert series, Pressler plays Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major together with the Gulbenkian Orchestra under the baton of Leo Hussain. The performance took place in 2018 in the Grand Auditorium at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in the Portuguese capital Lisbon.
00:00 Ovations 00:44 I. Allegro 13:15 II. Adagio 20:06 III. Allegro assai
Menahem Pressler was born as Max Pressler in the German city of Magdeburg in 1923. His family is Jewish. He and his parents fled Nazi rule in 1939; going first to Palestine, and then emigrating to the US in 1940. The rest of his family were murdered by the Nazis.
In the year 1946, the young Pressler won the Debussy International Piano Competition in San Francisco, studying thereafter in California. In 1955, he founded the world-famous “Beaux Arts Trio” and remained a member throughout its existence. The ensemble played some 100 concerts between 1955 and 2008 and released more than 50 recordings with different constellations of musicians, before performing its final concert in 2008. Menahem Pressler still gives solo performances to this day.
British national Leo Hussain, born in 1978, is a regular guest at Europe’s major opera houses and concert halls. He’s seen as a leading interpreter of Mozart and is especially fond of works produced during the composer’s years in Vienna. In this concert, he conducts the Portuguese Gulbenkian Symphony Orchestra.
메나헴 프레슬러피아노연주가Menahem Pressler 출생 1923년 12월 16일, 독일 나이 100세 (만 98세)
메나헴 프레슬러 (מנחם פרסלר) (1923년 12월 16일 마그데부르크 출생) 독일 태생의 이스라엘계 미국인 피아니스트이다.
수정의 밤에 프레슬러와 그의 직계 가족은 1939년에 나치 독일을 떠나 처음에는 이탈리아로, 그 다음에는 팔레스타인으로 도피했다. 그의 조부모, 삼촌, 숙모 및 사촌들은 모두 강제 수용소에서 사망했다. 그의 경력은 1946년 샌프란시스코 드뷔시 국제 피아노 콩쿠르에서 1위를 차지한 후 시작되었다