
Alchemy of the Piano
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- Naxos AudioVisual
- May 9, 2025
Francesco Piemontesi, a BBC Music Magazine award-winning pianist and lauded as a 'wonderful Mozartian', has an intense curiosity about his fellow artists - their pianos, the sonorities they cultivate, the secret elements that animate their playing, and what drives them. In this documentary by Jan Schmidt-Garre, filmed over one year, Piemontesi talks with some of the world's leading performers, including his mentor Alfred Brendel, Maria Joao Pires, Stephen Kovacevich and Antonio Pappano, in a series of revealing encounters that illuminate their individual approaches to the instrument, it's colour and form. The film is complemented by a bonus 60-minute recital by Yulianna Avdeeva, Zlata Chochieva and Francesco Piemontesi, played on Rachmaninoff's Steinway piano at Villa Senar, his home in Switzerland during the 1930s.
Product Description:
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Release Date: May 09, 2025
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UPC: 747313577859
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Catalog Number: 2110778
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Label: Naxos AudioVisual
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Number of Discs: 1
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Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff
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Performer: Alfred Brendel, Antonio Pappano, Ermonela Jaho, Francesco Piemontesi, Jan Schmidt-Garre, Jean-Rodolo