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The art of the piano, L'art du piano = El arte del piano = Āto ofu piano, a film written by Christian Labrande & Donald Sturrock

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The art of the piano

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a film written by Christian Labrande & Donald Sturrock

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L'art du piano = El arte del piano = Āto ofu piano

Explores the worlds of the piano's greatest exponents through performance footage taken from film and television archives; includes commentary by Piotr Anderszewski, Daniel Barenboim, Schuyler Chapin, Colin Davis, Gary Graffman, Evgeny Kissin, Zoltan Kocsis, Stephen Kovacevich, Paul Myers, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, György Sandor & Tamás Vásáry

Opening sequence. Liszt. Prelude to the Transcendental etudes / performed by Julian Jacobson. Beethoven. Sonata no. 23, op. 57 / performed by Solomon, Arrau, Hess, Richter, Rubinstein -- Ignaz Jan Paderewski. Liszt. Hungarian rhapsody no. 2 -- Josef Hofmann. Rachmaninoff. Prelude in C sharp minor, op. 3 -- Sergei Rachmaninoff. Rachmaninoff. Piano concerto no. 3 -- Benno Moiseiwitsch. Rachmaninoff. Piano concerto no. 2. Rachmaninoff. Prelude in B minor, no. 10, op. 32 -- Vladimir Horowitz. Chopin. Etude no. 10 in B minor, op. 25. Scriabin. Etude no. 12, op. 8. Bizet ; arr. Horowitz. Variations on a theme from Carmen -- György Cziffra. Liszt. Grand galop chromatique -- Myra Hess. Mozart. Piano concerto no. 17. Beethoven. Sonata no. 23, op. 57, Appassionata -- Artur Rubinstein. Chopin. Polonaise in A flat, op. 53, Heroic. Chopin. Etude no. 5, op. 25. Beethoven. Piano concerto no. 4, op. 58 -- Francis Planté. Chopin. Etude no. 7 in C, op. 10 -- Alfred Cortot. Chopin. Waltz no. 1, op. 69. Chopin. Etude no. 1, op. 10. Schumann. Der Dichter spricht, from Kinderszenen -- Wilhelm Backhaus. Chopin. Etude no. 9, op. 25. Beethoven. Piano concerto no. 4 -- Edwin Fischer. Bach. Prelude no. 2, BWV 847. Bach. Prelude no. 1, BWV 846. Bach Clavier concerto. Beethoven Concerto no. 4 -- Emil Gilels. Rachmaninoff. Prelude no. 5 in G minor, op. 23. Tchaikovsky. Piano concerto no. 1 -- Sviatoslav Richter. Tchaikovsky. Piano concerto no. 1. Chopin. Etude no. 12, op. 10 -- Arturo Benedetto Michelangeli. Scarlatti. Sonata in B minor -- Glenn Gould. Bach. Partita no. 2, BWV 826. Ravel ; arr. Gould. La valse. Bach. Piano concerto no. 1 -- Claudio Arrau. Brahms. Piano concerto no. 2. Beethoven. Sonata in C minor, op. 111 -- Annie Fischer. Chopin. Waltz no. 1, op. 64

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Art of piano, great pianists of the 20th century = les plus grands pianistes du 20ème siecle = grandes pianistas del siglo XXArt du pianoArte del pianoĀto ofu pianoL'art du pianoEl arte del piano