The Alchemy of the Piano

Name: The Alchemy of the Piano
Director: Jan Schmidt-Garre
Genre: Documentary, Music
Released: 2024-11-14
Duration: 1 h 30 min
Cast: Francesco Piemontesi, Maria João Pires, Antonio Pappano, Stephen Kovacevitch, Ermonela Jaho

2024

1h 30m

Documentary Music

Director: Jan Schmidt-Garre

Writer: Jan Schmidt-Garre

Overview

When the pianist Francesco Piemontesi hears an unreleased recording of the pianist and composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, it comes as a shock to him. This freedom of playing, these colors and nuances, this virtuosity, which is always presented with a smile, overwhelms him. He decides to explore what he believes he is hearing here: the alchemy of the piano.