The History of the Pianoforte

Now available on DVD, this video gives early music lovers a chance to see and hear remarkable pianoforte performances on instruments ranging from the world's oldest surviving piano to a new Boesendorfer computer grand. �The program describes amazing discoveries, for example, that Bach used the pianoforte in public performance much earlier than previously thought. �Pianists Paul Badura-Skoda, Malcolm Bilson, Joerg Demus, Gerlinde Otto, Hans Kann, Rudolf Scholz, and others play more than 30 instruments, featuring musical works on pianos concurrent with the period. �Simultaneously entertaining, amusing, informative, and artistically gratifying, The History of the Pianoforte is a landmark. �