本片是一部美国纪录片片，由Donald Sturrock导演，由克劳迪奥·阿劳/Wilhelm Backhaus/Annie Fischer主演。
剧情简介：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
外文名：The Art of Piano
别名：钢琴的艺术 - 二十世纪的钢琴大师们
类型：纪录片 / 音乐
地区：美国
导演：Donald Sturrock
编剧：Christian Labrande / Donald Sturrock
演员：克劳迪奥·阿劳 / Wilhelm Backhaus / Annie Fischer / Edwin Fischer / Emil Gilels / 格伦·古尔德 / Pierre Plante / Sergey Rachmaninov / Dame Myra Hess / Josef Hofmann / Benno Moiseiwitsch / Ignace Jan Paderewski / Vladimir Horowitz / Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli / 阿尔弗雷德·德尼·科尔托 / György Cziffra / 斯维亚托斯拉夫·里赫特 / Arthur Rubinstein
