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Christopher Nupen

Christopher Nupen

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Jacqueline du Pré: A Gift Beyond Words (2017)

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 footage shot during Jacqueline du Pré's lifetime which captures some glorious and professionally filmed live per ...

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Alice Sommer: Everything Is a Present (2009)

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

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Vivaldi Le Quattro Stagioni (2008)

In April 1981 violinist Gidon Kremer performed Vivaldi's Four Seasons leading the English Chamber Orchestra recorded in the baroque library of the monastery in Polling, near Munich. It is, as one would expect from a master violinist, a superbly insightful ...

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We Want the Light (2004)

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 documentary from the BBC and Opus Arte. We Want the Light brings together harrowing tales from Holocaust surv ...

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Jacqueline du Pré in Portrait (2004)

A re-release of two of Christopher Nupen's most cherished Jacqueline du Pré films. The first is a portrait film which was epoch-making when it premiered; the second is a performance film which was described by the French opera and film director Jean-Pierr ...

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Evgeny Kissin: The Gift of Music (1999)

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 enough to reach the keyboard and he has not looked back from that day to this. His is a very rare story of contin ...

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Zubin Mehta: A World full of Music (1998)

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 (1994)

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 spirit of what he was trying to express with what he called his creative gift and with which he tried "to brigh ...

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Nathan Milstein: In Portrait (1992)

A documentary portrait of famed Ukrainian-American violinist Nathan Milstein (1903–92), covering his life and career through conversations with the artist and with some of his notable students, interspersed with brief performances and followed by two con ...

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Evgeny Kissin Plays Schubert, Brahms, Bach, Liszt, and Gluck (1991)

Russian pianist Evgeny Kissin delivers a virtuoso performance of remarkable depth and artistry in this 1990 concert recorded live in Munich at Bavaria Musikstudios. Selections include Franz Schubert's Fantasy in C Major, D 760 ("Wanderer"), Johannes Brahms ...

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Tchaikovsky: Women & Fate (1988)

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

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Ashkenazy Observed (1987)

Documentary about Soviet-born pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy. ...

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The Language Of The New Music (1985)

This is a film about Ludwig Wittgenstein and Arnold Schoenberg; two men whose lives and ideas run parallel in the development of Viennese radicalism. Both men emerged from the turmoil of the Habsburg Empire in its closing days with the idea of analyzing l ...

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Beethoven, Mozart & Brahms Piano Concertos (1979)

Pollini plays flawlessly, with the greatest finesse and sensitivity, very much in tune with each composer's personal style. His performances are exemplary in every respect. The video and audio are quite acceptable, given their 1970s vintage. Böhm and Abba ...

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Itzhak Perlman: Virtuoso Violinist (1978)

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

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Andrés Segovia: The Song of the Guitar (1977)

In this stunning film by Christopher Nupen, Segovia returns to the Granada of his youth, site of his personal and musical formation. The world-famous Alhambra—empty of tourists, between midnight and 4 AM—plays host to a deeply moving selection of Segov ...

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Segovia at Los Olivos (1976)

From his home in Granada, pioneering guitarist Andres Segovia looks back on his 60-year music career and his contribution to Western music. ...

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Pinchas Zukerman: Here to Make Music (1975)

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 could possibly be found. His well-spent youth established him with an international career before he was 21. Th ...

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The Trout (1970)

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 is an exuberant explosion of youthful enjoyment in music: first from Schubert himself, who wrote his famous ...

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The Ghost (1970)

This performance in May 1970, at St. John's Smith Square, was filmed before the onset of Jacqueline du Pré's illness in the early days of the Barenboim/du Pré/Zukerman Trio, which promised to become one of the great Piano Trios of all time. They play Bee ...

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Vladimir Ashkenazy: The Vital Juices Are Russian (1970)

This film is a portrait film of Vladimir Ashkenazy directed by Christopher Nupen. It includes sequences with Itzhak Perlman, Daniel Barenboim, Edo de Waart and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. There is music by Beethoven, Chopin, César Franck and Str ...

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Listening through the Lens: The Christopher Nupen Films (2021)

Documentary about Christopher Nupen, a pioneering film director who championed classical music on television, seizing upon his unique access to a golden generation of musicians ...

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