Description
Virtuosity - The Fourteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition / Director: Christopher Wilkinson / Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra / Conductor: Leonard Slatkin / Brentano String Quartet / DVD
Format: NTSC
Run time: 130 Minutes
UPC: 880242612885
- Aspect Ratio : 1.78:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : Yes
- MPAA rating : Unrated (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 0.59 x 5.31 x 7.56 inches; 3.88 Ounces
- Director : Christopher Wilkinson
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, Color, NTSC, Classical
- Run time : 1 hour and 30 minutes
- Release date : July 31, 2015
- Actors : __
- Subtitles: : English, German, French
- Studio : EuroArts
- Number of discs : 1
Virtuosity searches for the musical souls of the most gifted young pianists as they try to make a name for themselves at the 2013 Van Cliburn International Piano Competiton. The film focusses on this group of young musicians as they articulate their personalities through their music: brilliant, eccentric, tender, touching, dazzling, deadly serious, wildly entertaining. At the heart of this film is the courage it takes for a 20-year-old to go onstage alone before 2,000 people, and hundreds of thousands more online, and play a unique interpretation of one of the most difficult pieces ever written for the piano. The Competition requires not only a transcendent musical ability, but a mental toughness that must sustain the soloist through three straight weeks of performance. The Cliburn becomes as much a test of character as a musical proving ground. All of the onstage brilliance and backstage drama takes place in the year in which the inspiration and namesake of the competition, Van Cliburn, passed away - this film is a tribute to his memory, and to his particular genius.
