Research Catalog

Title

The art of piano = L'art de piano = El arte del piano.

Publication

[Place of publication not identified] : Warner Music Vision/NVC Arts/IMG Artists, [1999], ©1999.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Pierrakos, Hélène.
• Labrande, Christian.
• Sturrock, Donald.
• Tusa, John.
• NVC Arts (Firm)
• IMG Artists (Firm)
• Warner Music Vision (Firm)

Description

1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color & black and white; 4 3/4 in. +

Summary

"From Ignace Jan Paderewski in 1936 to Claudio Arrau in 1970, the programme illustrates a broad mizture of interpretative styles, as also displayed by Horowitz, Rubenstein, Cortot, Gilels, Richter, Michelangeli and others"--Container.

Alternative Title

• Art de piano
• Arte del piano
• Art of piano : great pianists of the 20th century

Subject

• Pianists > 20th century
• Piano > Performance

Note

• Accompanying booklet contains a listing of the pieces performed and an essay by Helene Pierrakos in French with English and Spanish translations.

Credits (note)

• Written by Christian Labrande and Donald Sturrock.

System Details (note)

• DVD.

Contents

Opening sequence. Liszt. Prelude to the Transcendental etudes / performed by Julian Jacobson. Beethoven. Sonata no. 23 in F minor, op. 57 "Appassionata" / performed by Solomon, Claudio Arrau, Myra Hess, Sviatoslav Richter, Artur Rubinstein -- Ignaz Jan Paderewski. Liszt. Hungarian rhapsody no. 2 in C sharp minor -- Josef Hofmann. Rachmaninoff. Prelude no. 2 in C sharp minor, op. 3 -- Sergei Rachmaninoff. Rachmaninoff. Piano concerto no. 3 in D minor, op. 30 -- Benno Moiseiwitsch. Rachmaninoff. Piano concerto no. 2 in C minor, op. 18. Rachmaninoff. Prelude in B minor, no. 10, op. 32 -- Vladimir Horowitz. Chopin. Etude no. 10 in B minor, op. 25. Scriabin. Etude no. 12 in D sharp minor, op. 8. Bizet ; arr. Horowitz. Variations on a theme from Carmen -- György Cziffra. Liszt. Grand galop chromatique -- Myra Hess. Mozart. Piano concerto no. 17 in G, K. 453. Beethoven. Sonata no. 23 in F minor, op. 57, Appassionata -- Artur Rubinstein. Chopin. Polonaise in A flat, op. 53, Heroic. Chopin. Etude no. 5 in E minor, op. 25. Beethoven. Piano concerto no. 4 in G, op. 58 -- Francis Planté. Chopin. Etude no. 7 in C, op. 10 -- Alfred Cortot. Chopin. Waltz no. 1 in A flat, op. 69. Chopin. Etude no. 1 in F, op. 10. Schumann. Der Dichter spricht, from Kinderszenen, op. 15 -- Wilhelm Backhaus. Chopin. Etude no. 9 in G flat, op. 25. Beethoven. Piano concerto no. 4 in G, op. 58 -- Edwin Fischer. Bach. Prelude no. 2 in C minor, BWV 847. Bach. Prelude no. 1 in C major, BWV 846. Bach Clavier concerto. Beethoven concerto no. 4 in G major, op. 58 -- Emil Gilels. Rachmaninoff. Prelude no. 5 in G minor, op. 23. Tchaikovsky. Piano concerto no. 1 in B flat [minor], op. 23 -- Sviatoslav Richter. Tchaikovsky. Piano concerto no. 1 in F flat minor, op. 23. Chopin. Etude no. 12 in C minor, op. 10 -- Arturo Benedetto Michelangeli. Scarlatti. Sonata in B minor -- Glenn Gould. Bach. Partita no. 2 in C minor, BWV 826. Ravel ; arr. Gould. La valse. Bach. Piano concerto no. 1 in D minor -- Claudio Arrau. Brahms. Piano concerto no. 2 in B flat, op. 83. Beethoven. Sonata in C minor, op. 111 -- Annie Fischer. Chopin. Waltz no. 1 in D flat major, op. 64.

LCCN

639842919920

OCLC

• ocm60642252
• SCSB-9072270

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries