It's All About the Music (Documentary & Recital)

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It's All About the Music (Documentary & Recital)
Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano)

[ Hyperion / DVD ]

Release Date: Thursday 7 December 2006

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Rated: G - Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act 1993Suitable for General Audiences

G :-

A documentary film, featuring Marc-André Hamelin, which looks at the music-making of virtuoso composer–pianists from both the present and the 'golden age'. 'An example of human potential at its highest' (Musical Pointers)

G :-

All Regions - Widescreen 16:9 - Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo - Colour - 121 Minutes - NTSC

A documentary film, featuring Marc-André Hamelin, which looks at the music-making of virtuoso composer–pianists from both the present and the 'golden age'. Includes Hamelin in recital playing works by Godowsky, Liszt, Debussy and others, and a concert performance of Busoni's Piano Concerto Op 39 (fourth movement) with the Lahti Symphony Orchestra/Vänskä.

'An example of human potential at its highest' (Musical Pointers)

Tracks:

PART I
It’s all about the music: the art of Marc-André Hamelin [47'48]

PART II
Recital: Hamelin in Charlevoix, Quebec [47'50]
Includes:
The Godowski/Chopin Etudes
Antheil's 'Jazz' Sonata
Including interview with Marc-André Roberge (Professor of Musicology, Laval University)

PART III
Extra features [25'45]
Interview with Jay Reise (composer)
Interview with Harvey Wedeen (Professor of Piano, Temple University)
Robert Rimm (author of The Composer-Pianists: Hamelin and the Eight)
Concert performance of Busoni’s Piano Concerto Op 39, fourth movement, ‘All’ Italiana’ by Marc-André Hamelin, Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä