Art of Piano - Great Pianists of the 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.uk more

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3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Oct-30-2008; Very Informative Without the boringness; 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...; read full review | report as inappropriate

4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Oct-12-2008; Interesting Video of Great Players; 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...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Mar-02-2008; Providing very useful information to its watchers; 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...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Aug-23-2007; great pianists dvd; 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...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Oct-12-2008; Interesting Video of Great Players; 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...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Oct-30-2008; Very Informative Without the boringness; 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...; read full review | report as inappropriate

1/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-22-2003; incomplete!; i don't think this is something to be considered, its totally not objective and not well-done ... where is wilhelm kempff how about walter gieseking there are some pianists there that aren't great enough, cziffra for example... a true...; read full review | report as inappropriate