Christopher Nupen Films
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Jean Sibelius
These two prize-winning Christopher Nupen films about Sibelius appear on a new label, The Christopher Nupen Films
Nupen's quietly and seriously narrated survey takes a conservative path, chronologically, through the symphonies. Sensitively edited extracts from the symphonies, played by the Swedish Radio... — More…
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Paganini’s Daemon
A Most Enduring Legend
with Gidon Kremer & John Williams
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana & Coro della Radiotelevisione della Svizzera Italiana, Lawrence Foster
This 1995 film is really a radio talk illustrated with an impressive selection of pictures. Christopher Nupen provides in his usual trademark literate, elegant script a straightforward chronological... — More…
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It's reassuring to watch the first film, about the youngish Ashkenazy in 1968, and to realise that not much has changed… The playing is compelling in a Beethoven Bagatelle in concert and a... — More…
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Tchaikovsky’s Women & Fate
Vladimir Ashkenazy, Cynthia Harvey, Mark Silver, Helen Field & Clarry Bartha
The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
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Schubert: The Trout & The Greatest Love and The Greatest Sorrow
with Daniel Barenboim (piano), Itzhak Perlman (violin), Pinchas Zukerman (violin), Jacqueline Du Pré (cello), Zubin Mehta (double bass), Andreas Schmidt (piano) & Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
