Description

Born in Brno in the Czech Republic in 1943, pianist Josef Bulva was considered a child prodigy from an early age, playing Brahms’ demanding Paganini Variations at the age of 13. The child prodigy later became the “state soloist” of what was then Czechoslovakia and also enjoyed an excellent reputation abroad. After the Prague Spring, he left the country, became a citizen of Luxembourg and made Munich his second home. In 1996, his left hand was supposedly irreparably injured in an accident and his career was considered to be over. But after several operations and years of hard training, Bulva returned to the concert stage in 2009 and released several CDs with works by Chopin, Beethoven and Liszt. On this DVD, recorded in 2015, Josef Bulva plays some of these works on his Steinway number 582 310.

DVD

1. Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata quasi una fantasia, op. 27 in E flat major
2. Fréderic Chopin: Sonata op. 35 in B flat minor
3. Franz Liszt: Études d’exécution transcendante No. 9 (Ricordanza)
4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sonata KV 570 in B flat major
5. Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata op. 57 in F minor (Appassionata)
6. Franz Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No. 1