Christopher Nupen Movies

  • 1978
    Itzhak Perlman: Virtuoso Violinist

    Itzhak Perlman: Virtuoso Violinist

    Itzhak Perlman: Virtuoso Violinist

    01978HD

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

    Itzhak Perlman: Virtuoso Violinist
  • 2004
    We Want the Light

    We Want the Light

    We Want the Light

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

    We Want the Light
  • 1999
    Evgeny Kissin: The Gift of Music

    Evgeny Kissin: The Gift of Music

    Evgeny Kissin: The Gift of Music

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    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...

    Evgeny Kissin: The Gift of Music
  • 1970
    The Trout

    The Trout

    The Trout

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    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...

    The Trout
  • 2004
    Jacqueline du Pre In Portrait

    Jacqueline du Pre In Portrait

    Jacqueline du Pre In Portrait

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

    Jacqueline du Pre In Portrait
  • 1975
    Pinchas Zukerman: Here to Make Music

    Pinchas Zukerman: Here to Make Music

    Pinchas Zukerman: Here to Make Music

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    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...

    Pinchas Zukerman: Here to Make Music
  • 1987
    Ashkenazy Observed

    Ashkenazy Observed

    Ashkenazy Observed

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    Documentary about Soviet-born pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy.

    Ashkenazy Observed
  • 1994
    The Greatest Love and the Greatest Sorrow

    The Greatest Love and the Greatest Sorrow

    The Greatest Love and the Greatest Sorrow

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    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...

    The Greatest Love and the Greatest Sorrow
  • 1991
    Evgeny Kissin Plays Schubert, Brahms, Bach, Liszt, and Gluck

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

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

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

    Evgeny Kissin Plays Schubert, Brahms, Bach, Liszt, and Gluck
  • 1998
    Zubin Mehta: A World full of Music

    Zubin Mehta: A World full of Music

    Zubin Mehta: A World full of Music

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

    Zubin Mehta: A World full of Music
  • 1970
    The Ghost

    The Ghost

    The Ghost

    01970HD

    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...

    The Ghost
  • 1985
    The Language Of The New Music

    The Language Of The New Music

    The Language Of The New Music

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

    The Language Of The New Music
  • 2021
    Listening through the Lens: The Christopher Nupen Films

    Listening through the Lens: The Christopher Nupen Films

    Listening through the Lens: The Christopher Nupen Films

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

    Listening through the Lens: The Christopher Nupen Films
  • 2009
    Alice Sommer - Everything is a Present

    Alice Sommer - Everything is a Present

    Alice Sommer - Everything is a Present

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

    Alice Sommer - Everything is a Present
  • 1970
    Jacqueline du Pré: A Gift Beyond Words

    Jacqueline du Pré: A Gift Beyond Words

    Jacqueline du Pré: A Gift Beyond Words

    01970HD

    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...

    Jacqueline du Pré: A Gift Beyond Words
  • 1970
    Vladimir Ashkenazy: The Vital Juices Are Russian

    Vladimir Ashkenazy: The Vital Juices Are Russian

    Vladimir Ashkenazy: The Vital Juices Are Russian

    01970HD

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

    Vladimir Ashkenazy: The Vital Juices Are Russian
  • 1976
    Segovia at Los Olivos

    Segovia at Los Olivos

    Segovia at Los Olivos

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    Segovia at Los Olivos
  • 1992
    Nathan Milstein: In Portrait

    Nathan Milstein: In Portrait

    Nathan Milstein: In Portrait

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

    Nathan Milstein: In Portrait
  • 1988
    Tchaikovsky's Women and Fate

    Tchaikovsky's Women and Fate

    Tchaikovsky's Women and Fate

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    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...

    Tchaikovsky's Women and Fate
  • 1977
    Andrés Segovia - The Song of the Guitar

    Andrés Segovia - The Song of the Guitar

    Andrés Segovia - The Song of the Guitar

    01977HD

    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...

    Andrés Segovia - The Song of the Guitar