Christopher Nupen Movies
- 1978
Itzhak Perlman: Virtuoso Violinist
Itzhak Perlman: Virtuoso Violinist01978HD
Documentary on the life and career of violinist Itzhak Perlman, including interviews, archival footage, and concert performances.
- 2004
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...
- 1999
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...
- 1970
The Trout
The Trout01970HD
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...
- 2004
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...
- 1975
Pinchas Zukerman: Here to Make Music
Pinchas Zukerman: Here to Make Music01975HD
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...
- 1987
Ashkenazy Observed
Ashkenazy Observed01987HD
Documentary about Soviet-born pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy.
- 1994
The Greatest Love and the Greatest Sorrow
The Greatest Love and the Greatest Sorrow01994HD
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...
- 1991
Evgeny Kissin Plays Schubert, Brahms, Bach, Liszt, and Gluck
Evgeny Kissin Plays Schubert, Brahms, Bach, Liszt, and Gluck01991HD
Russian pianist Evgeny Kissin delivers a virtuoso performance of remarkable depth and artistry in this 1990 concert recorded live in Munich at...
- 1998
Zubin Mehta: A World full of Music
Zubin Mehta: A World full of Music01998HD
The world famous conductor reminisces about his life in a wide ranging discussion about his varied and successful career.
- 1970
The Ghost
The Ghost01970HD
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...
- 1985
The Language Of The New Music
The Language Of The New Music01985HD
This is a film about Ludwig Wittgenstein and Arnold Schoenberg; two men whose lives and ideas run parallel in the development of Viennese radicalism....
- 2021
Listening through the Lens: The Christopher Nupen Films
Listening through the Lens: The Christopher Nupen Films02021HD
Documentary about Christopher Nupen, a pioneering film director who championed classical music on television, seizing upon his unique access to a...
- 2009
Alice Sommer - Everything is a Present
Alice Sommer - Everything is a Present02009HD
Documentary about pianist and Holocaust survivor Alice Sommer Herz. In the concentration camps she played more than 100 concerts, and credits music...
- 1970
Jacqueline du Pré: A Gift Beyond Words
Jacqueline du Pré: A Gift Beyond Words01970HD
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...
- 1970
Vladimir Ashkenazy: The Vital Juices Are Russian
Vladimir Ashkenazy: The Vital Juices Are Russian01970HD
This film is a portrait film of Vladimir Ashkenazy directed by Christopher Nupen. It includes sequences with Itzhak Perlman, Daniel Barenboim, Edo de...
- 1976
Segovia at Los Olivos
Segovia at Los Olivos01976HD
- 1992
Nathan Milstein: In Portrait
Nathan Milstein: In Portrait01992HD
A documentary portrait of famed Ukrainian-American violinist Nathan Milstein (1903–92), covering his life and career through conversations with...
- 1988
Tchaikovsky's Women and Fate
Tchaikovsky's Women and Fate01988HD
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...
- 1977
Andrés Segovia - The Song of the Guitar
Andrés Segovia - The Song of the Guitar01977HD
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...