简介：TheArtofthePianoisafeature-length,106-minutedocumentarythatpresentsinrefreshinglystraightforwardfashionaportraitof20th-centurypianoplaying.Theformatissimple:shortsegmentsonvirtuallyallofthegreatpianistswhohaveeverbeencapturedonfilm,augmentedbyextractsfrominterviews,sometimeswiththepianiststhemselves,orwithlaterconductorsandmusiciansofinternationalstature,includingspeciallyfilmedcontributionsfromDanielBarenboim,SirColinDavis,EvgenyKissin,GennadiRozhdestvensky,andTamásVásáry.ThenarrationbyJohnTusaoffersanoverviewofpianomusicthroughthecentury,thoughtheheartofthefilmisthegreatquantityofrarearchivehistoricfootage,withextractsfromperformancesbyGould,Horowitz,Paderwski,Rachmaninoff,Richter,Rubinstein,andmanyothers.Theinterviewsareshort,butofferconsiderableinsight,whilethefilmofsomanyreveredpianistsbroughttogetherisaliteraleye-opener,especiallyforthosewhohavepreviouslyonlyknownthesemastersfromLPandCD.Thisis,likethecompanionprogramTheArtofSinging,asclosetodefinitiveasasinglefilmcanget,evengoingsofarastoincludefootagefromthe"silent"erawithsoundfromcorrespondingrecordings.--GaryS.Dalkin,Amazon.co.uk…