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| ACTORS: | James Conlon |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 01 January, 2001 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Harmonia Mundi (Fra) |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Color |
| TYPE: | Music Videos - Classical |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 713746259617 |
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Customer Reviews of The Cliburn - Playing on the Edge
Piano enthusiast Although this DVD is nice and reveals the efforts put forth behind the scenes, Tchaikovsky's piano concerto has been performed better than that seen on this video. Stanislav Ioudenitch (performer) smeared several notes throughout the concerto. You don't need to be a seasoned pianist or have a trained ear to pick up on several sloppy key strikes. He doesn't really stay with the tempo of the orchestra at times, prefering speed over accuracy. I don't know if he was nervous or had too much adrenalin running through him, but, his hands tremble (noticeably) in sections of the 1st movement. Having said this, I'm unable to play this piano concerto just yet, and he did great for a composition of this magnitude.
Concerto performances 5 stars, documentary not as great
The PBS broadcast of the 1997 Van Cliburn Competition was a superior documentary than the one found on the current DVD. The 1997 had more in-depth and more intriguing interviews with competitors than the 2001 one. Not all the 2001 interviews are bad, but a couple of the competitors come off with rather uninteresting personalities and too much time is spent on them, while not enough screen time is given to some of the pianists that really interested me. Also, the musical excerpts in the documentary are far too few; brevity of the excerpts is understandable, but what worked quite well in the 1997 documentary was a montage of musical excerpts.
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> As for the Ioudenitch and Kern concerto performances, these alone were worth the price of the DVD. It's true that both pianists make a lot of facial gestures that could be distracting to the listener watching them, but their performances are worthy of the gold medals they received. These concertos played by these two performers are not available except on DVD (at the time of writing). And Kern delivers a far more interesting Rachmaninov 3rd than Jon Nakamatsu did in 1997.
EXTRAORDINARY PERFORMANCES AND DOCUMENTARY
THIS DVD IS GREAT. IT GIVES A GOOD LOOK INTO THE LIVES OF THE CONTESTANTS DURING THE VAN CLIBURN PIANO COMPETITION. THE BONUS FEATURE PERFORMANCES ARE EXQUISITE. OLGA KERN IS MAGNIFICENT WITH RACHMANINOFF'S 3RD PIANO CONCERTO AND STANISLAV IOUDENICH IS GREAT WITH TCHAIKOVSKY'S 1ST PIANO CONCERTO.