Pianomania ( Piano Mania ) ( Pianomania: Auf der Suche nach dem perfekten Klang )

Pianomania (DVD) (*)

~~$37.99~~ $31.97

Original Title: Piano Mania
Alternate Title: Pianomania: Auf der Suche nach dem perfekten Klang
Screened, competed or awarded at:
European Film Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 4 )

Running Time:
93 min + 46 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2009 and produced in:
Austria ( Germany, Central Europe )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Robert Cibis
Lilian Franck

Written By:
Robert Cibis
Lilian Franck

Actors:
Stephan Knüpfer ..... Himself
Pierre-Laurent Aimard ..... Himself
Lang Lang ..... Himself
Till Fellner ..... Himself
Christoph Koller ..... Himself
Alfred Brendel ..... Himself
Julius Drake ..... Himself
Ian Bostridge ..... Himself
Hyung-Ki Joo ..... Himself
Christoph Claßen ..... Himself
Tobias Lehmann ..... Himself
Marita Prohmann ..... Herself
Rudolf Buchbinder ..... Himself
Aleksey Igudesman ..... Himself

Synopsis:

Pianomania follows Stefan Knüpfer, a piano tuner from Steinway and his famous clients Lang Lang, Brendel, Buchbinder and Pierre-Laurent Aimard as they search for the perfect pitch. Truly an unusual and entertaining peak behind the curtain at the worlds great concert halls.

The tone isn't breathing, complains pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, distraught. This is a typical sentence in Steinway & Sons' chief technician and Master Tuner Stefan Knüpfer's normal work day. Each piano has its own personality, each piece demands its own timbre and every interpretation has a particular temperament. Viewers travel along on a humorous journey into the secret world of sounds, and accompanies Stefan Knüpfer at his unusual job with world famous pianists like Lang Lang, Alfred Brendel, Rudolf Buchbinder, Till Fellner and Pierre-Laurent Aimard, among others. To find the right instrument with the necessary qualities, compatible with the vision of the virtuoso, to tune it to perfection and to finally get it on the stage, needs nerves of steel, boundless passion and extraordinary competence in translating words into sounds.

How do you make a piano play with perfect timbre? What does a solo pianist do to prepare for a concert at an unfamiliar venue or on an unfamiliar instrument? These are the questions answered in

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 02 October, 2011.