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Summary: Out of Synch!
Review: For pianists hoping to watch Arrau's hands in this concerto, be warned, because the sound is out of synch with the video by about a second, rendering this DVD useless in my opinion.
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Summary: I love Arrau~
Review: give me the chance to own it!!
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Summary: A facinating DVD. Highly recommended.
Review: I just saw this DVD recently and my copy was fine. I didn't notice the sound being out of synch with the picture. Maybe the early batches were faulty. I find the picture and sound quality very acceptable. In addition to the performance a full length documentary is generously included (i.e. snippets of him giving a master class to young students) on Arrau's career and his return to Chile for the performance his trademark piece. The videography is dyamic. There are various shots and angles of the Arrau as well as the orchestra and conductor.
Not a slick Deutsche Grammophon style production, but certainly more honest and interesting.
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Summary: A facinating DVD. Highly recommended.
Review: I just saw this DVD recently and my copy was fine. I didn't notice the sound being out of synch with the picture. Maybe the early batches were faulty. I find the picture and sound quality very acceptable. In addition to the performance a full length documentary is generously included (i.e. snippets of him giving a master class to young students) on Arrau's career and his return to Chile for the performance his trademark piece. The videography is dyamic. There are various shots and angles of the Arrau as well as the orchestra and conductor.
Not a slick Deutsche Grammophon style production, but certainly more honest and interesting.
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Summary: Great pianist, poor presentation
Review: What you have on this disc is a transcendant musician playing a transcendant piece of music by a transcendant composer. Arrau's depth and superb technique were peculiarly suited to Beethoven's work, and Arrau had no equal in the second half of the 20th century when it came to playing Beethoven's greatest works for piano (please, don't tell me about Brendel's brilliant but cold ruminations -- this music requires spiritual as well as intellectual depth). In this recorded performance, Arrau, who never played without intense concentration and commitment, transmits the added inspiration of playing before his fellow countrymen for the first time after a decades-long absence from his native Chile.
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Summary: Sublimity on Disc
Review: What you have on this disc is a transcendant musician playing a transcendant piece of music by a transcendant composer. Arrau's depth and superb technique were peculiarly suited to Beethoven's work, and Arrau had no equal in the second half of the 20th century when it came to playing Beethoven's greatest works for piano (please, don't tell me about Brendel's brilliant but cold ruminations -- this music requires spiritual as well as intellectual depth). In this recorded performance, Arrau, who never played without intense concentration and commitment, transmits the added inspiration of playing before his fellow countrymen for the first time after a decades-long absence from his native Chile.
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Summary: Great pianist, poor presentation
Review: While it is a pleasure to have another Arrau performance of Beethoven's 5th piano concerto, the presentation is disappointing. First of all there are about 40 minutes introduction, with a montage of interviews, rehearsals and so on, with a devastating commentary. Afterwards you get a hum-drum performance with a rather mediocre orchestra, tiny sound and not much of a concept. But what is really annoying about this disc? Well, there's a gap between sound and image, a gap of less than a second, to be sure, but enough for a distraction from the presentation. Finally I chose to switch off my tv and preferred to listen only.
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