The Language Of The New Music

The Language Of The New Music

This is a film about Ludwig Wittgenstein and Arnold Schoenberg; two men whose lives and ideas run parallel in the development of Viennese...

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Pinchas Zukerman: Here to Make Music

Pinchas Zukerman: Here to Make Music

Born with the gift from nature, polished by years of painstaking work, Pinchas Zukerman was between the ages of 7 and 17 the best teaching that...

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Zubin Mehta: A World full of Music

Zubin Mehta: A World full of Music

The world famous conductor reminisces about his life in a wide ranging discussion about his varied and successful career.

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The Greatest Love and the Greatest Sorrow

The Greatest Love and the Greatest Sorrow

The Greatest Love and the Greatest Sorrow is a film which sets out to bring the viewer closer, not to the details of Schubert's life, but to the...

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Itzhak Perlman: Virtuoso Violinist

Itzhak Perlman: Virtuoso Violinist

Documentary on the life and career of violinist Itzhak Perlman, including interviews, archival footage, and concert performances.

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The Trout

The Trout

Christopher Nupen's record of the concert given by five young musicians in the new Queen Elizabeth Hall at London's South Bank, in 1969. The Trout...

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We Want the Light

We Want the Light

The struggles of the world’s Jewish people over the course of several centuries are expressed and explored through the music they inspired in this...

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The Ghost

The Ghost

This is almost certainly the finest performance ever filmed of this great work - Beethoven’s Piano Trio Opus 70 No. 1, known as The Ghost. The work...

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Evgeny Kissin Plays Schubert, Brahms, Bach, Liszt, and Gluck

Evgeny Kissin Plays Schubert, Brahms, Bach, Liszt, and Gluck

Russian pianist Evgeny Kissin delivers a virtuoso performance of remarkable depth and artistry in this 1990 concert recorded live in Munich at...

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Jacqueline du Pre In Portrait

Jacqueline du Pre In Portrait

Jacqueline du Pré and the Elgar Cello Concerto, a documentary by award-winning film maker Christopher Nupen, explores the artistic personality of...

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Evgeny Kissin: The Gift of Music

Evgeny Kissin: The Gift of Music

Evgeny Igorevich Kissin was born in Moscow on the 10th of October 1971. He started to play the piano at the age of two, as soon as he was tall...

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Ashkenazy Observed

Ashkenazy Observed

Documentary about Soviet-born pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy.

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Nathan Milstein: In Portrait

Nathan Milstein: In Portrait

A documentary portrait of famed Ukrainian-American violinist Nathan Milstein (1903–92), covering his life and career through conversations with the...

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Alice Sommer - Everything is a Present

Alice Sommer - Everything is a Present

Documentary about pianist and Holocaust survivor Alice Sommer Herz. In the concentration camps she played more than 100 concerts, and credits music...

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Jacqueline du Pré: A Gift Beyond Words

Jacqueline du Pré: A Gift Beyond Words

A tribute to Jacqueline du Pré to mark the thirtieth anniversary of her death thirty years ago, on 19 October 1987. The film contains archive...

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Vladimir Ashkenazy: The Vital Juices Are Russian

Vladimir Ashkenazy: The Vital Juices Are Russian

This film is a portrait film of Vladimir Ashkenazy directed by Christopher Nupen. It includes sequences with Itzhak Perlman, Daniel Barenboim, Edo...

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Segovia at Los Olivos

Segovia at Los Olivos

Tchaikovsky's Women and Fate

Tchaikovsky's Women and Fate

Two Christopher Nupen films about the music and the artistic intentions of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, one of the greats and a composer who appeals...

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Andrés Segovia - The Song of the Guitar

Andrés Segovia - The Song of the Guitar

In this stunning film by Christopher Nupen, Segovia returns to the Granada of his youth, site of his personal and musical formation. The...

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