《钢琴的艺术》是一部由美国地区于1999年出品的纪录片类电影。该片由Christian Labrande、Donald Sturrock担任编剧，Donald Sturrock亲自指导拍摄。主要演员包括克劳迪奥·阿劳、Wilhelm Backhaus、Annie Fischer、Edwin Fischer、Emil Gilels、格伦·古尔德、Pierre Plante、Sergey Rachmaninov、Dame Myra Hess、Josef Hofmann、Benno Moiseiwitsch、Ignace Jan Paderewski、Vladimir Horowitz、Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli、阿尔弗雷德·德尼·科尔托、György Cziffra、斯维亚托等美国著名影星。
The Art of the Piano is a feature-length, 106-minute documentary that presents in refreshingly straightforward fashion a portrait of 20th-century piano playing. The format is *: short segments on virtually all of the great pianists who have ever been captured on film, augmented by extracts from interviews, sometimes with the pianists themselves, or with later conductors and musicians of international stature, including specially filmed contributions from Daniel Barenboim, Sir Colin Davis, Evgeny Kissin, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, and Tamás Vásáry. The narration by John Tusa offers an overview of piano music through the century, though the heart of the film is the great quantity of rare archive historic footage, with extracts from performances by Gould, Horowitz, Paderwski, Rachmaninoff, Richter, Rubinstein, and many others. The interviews are short, but offer considerable insight, while the film of so many revered pianists brought together is a literal eye-opener, especially for those who have previously only known these masters from LP and CD. This is, like the companion program The Art of Singing, as close to definitive as a single film can get, even going so far as to include footage from the"silent" era with sound from corresponding recordings. --Gary S. Dalkin, Amazon.co.uk