The Art of Piano - Great Pianists of 20th Century
by Vladimir Horowitz
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Actor: Artur RubinsteinDirector: Vladimir Horowitz
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Mono; French (Original Language), Mono; German (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Mono; German (Dubbed), Mono
Format: Black & White, Classical, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 108 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-08-27
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Nvc Arts
DVD Reviews of The Art of Piano - Great Pianists of 20th Century
DVD Review: Very Informative Without the boringness
Summary: 3 Stars
This is a really nice dvd to own if you're a pianist or plan to become one. My jazz piano teacher told me to buy this dvd and watch certain players and how they play because i wasn't using my arm correctly. Watching their movements really helped me and I'm playing the right way now! So it's worth buying! Also some great music to listen to on your television.DVD Review: Interesting Video of Great Players
Summary: 4 Stars
Great players playing and interesting commentary regarding what makes a great player. Daniel Barenboim provides some particularly cogent commentary. Rudolph Serkin was not profiled, but otherwise a complete survey of the big 20th Century pianists. Worth the time. DVD Review: Providing very useful information to its watchers
Summary: 5 Stars
This DVD contains a lot of wonderful informations about renowned pianists including Rubinstein, Cziffra, Horowitz, and Rachmaninoff. The commenters of the pianists are well-informed and experienced pianists. The focus on each pianists featured is clear. Also the DVD provides valuable old documentaries of each pianists. Although each section does not last long and some performances are cut shortly after the beginning of performances, the DVD is very good and well-made. It worths full 5 stars. Enjoy your DVD!DVD Review: great pianists dvd
Summary: 5 Stars
this is an awesome video with great historical footage of some of the greatest musicians of the 20th century. My only problem with the video is that is was predominantly male. The only woman featured was Myra Hess. I should think that they would have included material on Gina Bachauer and Clara Haskil as well as Guiomar Novaes. DVD Review: Wonderful DVD for pianists and music lovers
Summary: 5 Stars
In the 1840's, a composer and performer named Franz Liszt tried something that was, at the time, entirely new. Sitting at a piano on stage in front of a curious audience, he performed what is believed to have been the first piano recital and while the term "piano recital" may in itself sound rather dull, Liszt had other plans. He turned the act of playing a piano into an all stops out show, with the emphasis being as much on the performer and his unique performance as it was on the music itself. Since then, both the piano and the recital have come a long way. The instrument itself went through substantial change during the 19th century, as compositions by Beethoven demanded more and more from it. And with a huge body of solo and concerto works to feed them, the piano virtuosos of the 20th century pushed the art of playing the instrument further and further, taking both piano and classical music into unexplored and unexpected places. The Art Of Piano illustrates the great piano virtuosos of the 20th century through two methods. Highly respected contemporary pianists, conductors and record producers offer their thoughts on each individual artist, while rarely seen archival footage of those artists at work is presented to give the viewer some idea of what each was capable of, as well as to put each virtuoso's individual technique, approach and philosophy into perspective. Comments are given from Daniel Barenboim and Colin Davis to Zoltan Kocsis and the pianist Evgeny Kissin. There are many other musicians also interviewed. The pianists that are the subject of this documentary, many of whom get fairly decent screen time represent the cream of the crop 20th century pianists, starting with Paderewski and seeing the astonishing talents of Horowitz, Gould, Arrau, Rubenstein, Cziffra, Richter and the remarkable Rachmaninov, who also composed a good deal of the music that his contemporaries and successors play here. The whole thing is drawn together by narration that it provides plenty of information for each artist. I do want to mention that, like the other entries in the Art Of series, this documentary is not a history of the piano itself. Its a collection of performances by some of the greatest and most innovative pianists of the past century, and the art is in their interpretation of the classic works they play, the way in which they physically play them, and in the boundless exploration of what seems to many to be a rather limited musical instrument. The piano is one of the most expressive instruments in all music.
Description of The Art of Piano - Great Pianists of 20th Century
The Art of the Piano is a feature-length, 106-minute documentary that presents in refreshingly straightforward fashion a portrait of 20th-century piano playing. The format is simple: short segments on virtually all of the great pianists who have ever been captured on film, augmented by extracts from interviews, sometimes with the pianists themselves, or with later conductors and musicians of international stature, including specially filmed contributions from Daniel Barenboim, Sir Colin Davis, Evgeny Kissin, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, and Tam?s V?s?ry. The narration by John Tusa offers an overview of piano music through the century, though the heart of the film is the great quantity of rare archive historic footage, with extracts from performances by Gould, Horowitz, Paderwski, Rachmaninoff, Richter, Rubinstein, and many others. The interviews are short, but offer considerable insight, while the film of so many revered pianists brought together is a literal eye-opener, especially for those who have previously only known these masters from LP and CD. This is, like the companion program The Art of Singing, as close to definitive as a single film can get, even going so far as to include footage from the "silent" era with sound from corresponding recordings. --Gary S. Dalkin, Amazon.co.ukGeneral DVDs
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