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  • Alchemy of the Piano

  • Format: DVD
  • Release Date: 09/05/2025
Alchemy of the Piano

Alchemy of the Piano

  • Format: DVD
  • Release Date: 09/05/2025
    • Starring: Alfred Brendel
    • Genre: Classical Artists
    • UPC: 747313577859
    • DVD Region 0
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    Price: USD $31.49
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    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.