"On this DVD, Rubinstein is presented in an all-Chopin recital in an intimate home setting, where he shares his perspectives on Chopin and his music. Also included are his two appearances on the all-star "Festival of Music" NBC specials"--Container.

Acclaimed director Phil Grabsky will bring to the cinema around the world the life and music of Fryderyk Chopin - one of the greatest composers of all time. His grave in Paris remains a place of pilgrimage and his music continues to sell out concert halls worldwide - but who exactly was this man who was terrified of public performance, who fled his Polish homeland for Paris never to return, took up with the most notorious transvestite in France, rarely...

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Dr. Greenberg examines eighteenth and nineteenth century music through the examples of works by Mozart, Beethoven, Antonín Dvorák, Richard Strauss, Brahms, Felix Mendelssohn, and Franz Liszt.

Along with Cziffra, Benno Moiseiwitsch and Jorge Bolet are featured. Program includes works by J.S. Bach; D. Scarlatti; Liszt; Chopin; Albéniz; R. Schumann; and Rachmaninoff.