《BBC 伟大的作曲家》第一集：巴赫
《BBC 伟大的作曲家》第二集：贝多芬
《BBC 伟大的作曲家》第三集：柴可夫斯基
《BBC 伟大的作曲家》第四集：瓦格纳
《BBC 伟大的作曲家》第五集：普契尼
《BBC 伟大的作曲家》第六集：莫扎特
《BBC 伟大的作曲家》第七集：马勒

With a career that includes a 35-year tenure as composer of the Berlin Philharmonic and record sales topping 200 million, Herbert von Karajan is one of the most legendary figures in 20th-century classical music. Comprised of archival footage, performance highlights and interviews with the likes of Anne-Sophie Mutter, Christa Ludwig and Seiji Ozawa, this retrospective chronicles the life and times of the iconic Austrian maestro.

The Art of the Piano is a feature-length, 106-minute documentary that presents in refreshingly straightforward fashion a portrait of 20th-century piano playing. The format is simple: short segments on virtually all of the great pianists who have ever been captured on film, augmented by extracts from interviews, sometimes with the pianists themselves, or with later conductors and musicians of international stature, including specially filmed contributions from Daniel Barenboim, Sir Colin Davis, Evgeny Kissin, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, and Tamás Vásáry. The narration by John Tusa offers an overview of piano music through the century, though the heart of the film is the great quantity of rare archive historic footage, with extracts from performances by Gould, Horowitz, Paderwski, Rachmaninoff, Richter, Rubinstein, and many others. The interviews are short, but offer considerable insight, while the film of so many revered pianists brought together is a literal eye-opener, especially for those who have previously only known these masters from LP and CD. This is, like the companion program The Art of Singing, as close to definitive as a single film can get, even going so far as to include footage from the "silent" era with sound from corresponding recordings. --Gary S. Dalkin, Amazon.co.uk

钢琴素来享有“乐器之王”的美誉，它的演进随着历史、社会与科技的发展，历经多重转折。钢琴家同样也在时代的洪流里不断的变换样貌，无论是十九世纪的英雄、二十世纪的明星，钢琴家所扮演的角色，多少反映各年代所崇尚的价值。然而真正历久不衰的，是在钢琴的黄金年代里，大师们的风范与精神。美国钢琴 专家大卫·杜巴尔(David Dubal)详尽且专业的解说，将带领观众探究钢琴的传承历史与表现特色。 特别收录霍洛维茨(Vladimir Horowitz)、古尔德(Glenn Gould)、兰多芙丝卡(Wanda Landowska)、鲁宾斯坦(Arthur Rubinstein)、克莱本(Van Cliburn)、科尔托(Alfred Cortot)等多位大师现场演奏李斯特(Franz Liszt)、贝多芬(Ludwig van Beethoven )、巴赫(Johann Sebastian Bach )、门德尔松(Felix Mendelssohn)、舒伯特(Franz Schubert)、柴可夫斯基(Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)、拉赫玛尼诺夫(Sergei Rachmaninoff)之经典乐曲的珍贵片段。为纪念辞世的钢琴大师阿劳(Claudio Arrau)，本片还特别收录1983年由阿劳大师与穆蒂(Riccardo Muti)指挥爱乐管弦乐团(Philharmonia Orchestra)合作的贝多芬第四号钢琴协奏曲。这是一部对钢琴沿革发展实录的珍贵纪录片，值得所有爱乐者欣赏典藏。

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