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Great Composers: In Search of Chopin


Concert-documentary, 120 min, 2014
in English with Hungarian subtitles

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Director: Phil Grabsky

Narrator: Juliet Stevenson

Praise for the ‘In Search of…’ series:
‘Gripping’ – The Times
‘Outstanding’ – Chicago Sun Times
‘High-class’ – New York Times
‘Terrific’ – Mail on Sunday
‘Ideal’ – BBC Music Magazine
‘Riveting’ – The Observer
‘Beautiful’ – Chicago Tribune

In Spring 2014, acclaimed director Phil Grabsky will bring to the cinema around the world the life and music of Fryderyk Chopin – one of the greatest composers of all time.

His grave in Paris remains a place of pilgrimage and his music continues to sell out concert halls worldwide – but who exactly was this man who was terrified of public performance, who fled his Polish homeland for Paris never to return, took up with the most notorious transvestite in France, rarely gave public performances and, despite a life of ill-health, wrote some of the deepest and most powerful music ever written? How exactly did a young Polish boy rise to such heady heights?

For four years, Phil Grabsky has travelled the globe in his quest to lay bare the life and music of Chopin.

By talking to acclaimed musical historians such as Jeremy Siepmann and bringing to the screen performances by such esteemed musicians as Leif Ove Andsnes, Lars Vogt, Daniel Barenboim, Ronald Brautigam and Kevin Kenner he hopes to answer those questions.

Renowned stage and screen star Juliet Stevenson provides narration. David Dawson brings life to the letters of Chopin himself.

Previous ‘In Search of…’ films have broken box office records in Australia, New Zealand and the USA and been huge critical successes.

“In Search of Beethoven is one of the finest movies on a great musician I’ve ever seen” – The Observer

“A hit… it was so terrific I wept” – The Mail on Sunday on In Search of Beethoven

“In Search of Mozart…conveys the intensity of the musical experience more grippingly than
anything I have seen” – The Times

“In Search of Beethoven…expertise and passion combined…high-class” – New York Times

Music
All the orchestral works by Chopin were filmed at the
National Philharmonic Hall, Warsaw, on the 26th February 2010
in a gala concert organized by the Fryderyk Chopin Institute.
Sound recroded by Gabriela Blicharz and Lech Dudzik

Wolfgang Mozart - Don Giovanni (1787)
Don Giovanni · Martin Bárta
Zerlina · Alžběta Poláĉková,
Orchestra of the National Theatre Opera, Prague
Conductor · Zbyněk Müller
Director · Ladislav Štros

Opus 2 - Variations in B-flat major on Là ci darem la mano
from Mozart's Don Giovanni (1827-28)
Pianist - Nelson Goerner & the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century
conducted by Frans Brüggen

Adalbert Dankowski - Symphony in E-flat major (1788)
From the CD “Polish Symphonies of the Eighteenth Century”
Warsaw Chamber Opera Orchestra

Polonaise in G minor (1817)
Pianist - Ronald Brautigam

Opus 1 – Rondo in C minor (1825)
Pianist - Ronald Brautigam

Wolfgang Mozart - Sonata in A minor (1778)
Pianist - Ronald Brautigam

Polonaise in G-sharp minor (1822)
Pianist - Ronald Brautigam

Opus 72 no.1 – Nocturne in E minor (1827)
Pianist - Ronald Brautigam

Opus 2 - Variations in B-flat major on Là ci darem la mano 
from Mozart's Don Giovanni (1827-28)
Pianist - Nelson Goerner & the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century
conducted by Frans Brüggen

Opus 14 - Rondo à la Krakowiak in F major (1828)
Pianist - Nelson Goerner & the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century
conducted by Frans Brüggen

Ludwig van Beethoven - The Grosse Fuge (1825)
The Endellion String Quartet

Opus 21 - Piano Concerto in F minor (1829-30)
Pianist - Janusz Olejniczak & the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century
conducted by Frans Brüggen

Nocturne no.20 in C-sharp minor (1830)
Pianist – Lars Vogt
Courtesy of The Berliner Philharmoniker

Opus 11 - Piano Concerto no.1 in E minor (1830)
Pianist - Kevin Kenner & the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century
conducted by Frans Brüggen

Opus 22 - Andante spianato and grande polonaise
brillante in E-flat major (1830-34)
Pianist - Nelson Goerner & the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century
conducted by Frans Brüggen

Opus 20 - Scherzo no.1 in B minor (1831-32)
Pianist - Ronald Brautigam

Opus 9 no.2 - Nocturne in E-flat major (1830-32)
Pianist – Ronald Brautigam

Franz Liszt – Rákóczy March
Pianist – Ronald Brautigam

  

Opus 70 no.1 - Waltz in G-flat major (1832-33)
Pianist – Ronald Brautigam

Opus 7 no.2 - Mazurka in A minor (1830-32)
Pianist – Kevin Kenner

Opus 53 - Polonaise in A-flat major (1842)
‘Daniel Barenboim - The Warsaw Recital’
Courtesy of Accentus Music

Opus 30 no.4 – Mazurka in C-sharp minor (1836-37)
Pianist - Janusz Olejniczak

Opus 23 - Ballade no.1 in G minor (1831-35)
Pianist – Ronald Brautigam

Opus 23 - Ballade no.1 in G minor (1831-35)
Pianist – Leif Ove Andsnes
Filmed at Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Aldeburgh

Opus 27 no.2 - Nocturne in D-flat major (1835-36)
Pianist – Ronald Brautigam

Opus 28 no.15 - Prelude in D-flat major (1838-39)
Pianist – Ronald Brautigam

Opus 33 no.3 – Mazurka in C major (1838)
Pianist – Ronald Brautigam

Opus 33 no.4 – Mazurka in B minor (1838)
Pianist – Ronald Brautigam

Opus 35 - Piano Sonata no.2 in B-flat minor (1837-39)
Pianist – Lars Vogt

Opus 47 - Ballade no.3 in A-flat major (1840-41)
Pianist – Leif Ove Andsnes
Filmed at Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Aldeburgh

Opus 52 - Ballade no.4 in F minor (1842-43)
Pianist – Leif Ove Andsnes
Filmed at Wigmore Hall, London

Opus 48 no.1 - Nocturne in C minor (1841)
Pianist – Leif Ove Andsnes
Filmed at Wigmore Hall, London

Opus 70 no.2 – Waltz in F minor (1842)
Pianist – Leif Ove Andsnes
Filmed at Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Aldeburgh

Opus 57 – Berceuse in D-flat major (1843-44)
Pianist – Ronald Brautigam

Opus 62 no.1 – Nocturne in B major (1846)
Pianist – Leif Ove Andsnes
Filmed at Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Aldeburgh

Opus 64 no.2 - Waltz in C-sharp minor (1847)
Pianist – Ronald Brautigam

Opus Post. 67 no.2 - Mazurka in G minor (1846)
Pianist – Ronald Brautigam

Opus 68 no.4 - Mazurka in F minor (1849)
Pianist – Ronald Brautigam

Wolfgang Mozart - Requiem (1791)
The Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century
conducted by Frans Brüggen

Opus 25 no.12 - Étude in C minor (1836)
Pianist - Tatiana Shebanova
From the CD “The Real Chopin”
edited by The Fryderyk Chopin Institute, Warsaw

 

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