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Tribute to Jacqueline du Pré
directed by Christopher Nupen, fl. 1967; produced by Allegro Films, London, England; performed by Itzhak Perlman, 1945-, Jacqueline du Pré, 1945-1987 and Daniel Barenboim, 1942-, in Tribute to Jacqueline du Pré (Guildford, England: Allegro Films, London, England, 2005), 29 mins
The story of Jacqueline du Pré is one of the saddest in music. She was one of the finest performing musicians that England has ever produced and she touched people as few have ever done but she stopped playing in 1973 at the age of 28 and died in 1987 at the age of 42. She should have celebrated her sixtieth birt...
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directed by Christopher Nupen, fl. 1967; produced by Allegro Films, London, England; performed by Itzhak Perlman, 1945-, Jacqueline du Pré, 1945-1987 and Daniel Barenboim, 1942-, in Tribute to Jacqueline du Pré (Guildford, England: Allegro Films, London, England, 2005), 29 mins
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The story of Jacqueline du Pré is one of the saddest in music. She was one of the finest performing musicians that England has ever produced and she touched people as few have ever done but she stopped playing in 1973 at the age of 28 and died in 1987 at the age of 42. She should have celebrated her sixtieth birthday on the 26th of January 2005 and this television film was made to mark that event. It consists largely of previously unseen materia...
The story of Jacqueline du Pré is one of the saddest in music. She was one of the finest performing musicians that England has ever produced and she touched people as few have ever done but she stopped playing in 1973 at the age of 28 and died in 1987 at the age of 42. She should have celebrated her sixtieth birthday on the 26th of January 2005 and this television film was made to mark that event. It consists largely of previously unseen material from our archives but also includes the unforgettable last five minutes of the Elgar cello concerto in what has become the best remembered performance of the work ever given.
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Field of Study
Classical Music
Content Type
Documentary
Performer / Ensemble
Itzhak Perlman, 1945-, Jacqueline du Pré, 1945-1987, Daniel Barenboim, 1942-
Contributor
Allegro Films, London, England
Author / Creator
Christopher Nupen, fl. 1967, Itzhak Perlman, 1945-, Jacqueline du Pré, 1945-1987, Daniel Barenboim, 1942-
Date Published / Released
2005
Publisher
Allegro Films, London, England
Person Discussed
Jacqueline du Pré, 1945-1987
Topic / Theme
Biographies, Performances, Death, Performing arts life, Cello
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2005 by Allegro Films
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The Trout
directed by Christopher Nupen, fl. 1967; composed by Franz Peter Schubert, 1797-1828; produced by Allegro Films, London, England; performed by Zubin Mehta, 1936-, Jacqueline du Pré, 1945-1987, Pinchas Zukerman, 1948-, Itzhak Perlman, 1945- and Daniel Barenboim, 1942-, in The Trout (Guildford, England: Allegro Films, London, England, 1969), 55 mins
On August 30th 1969, five young musicians, all of whom were about to become established as international artists of the highest rank, came together to play Schubert's Trout Quintet in the new Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. Their names: Daniel Barenboim, Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman, Jacqueline du Pré and Zub...
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directed by Christopher Nupen, fl. 1967; composed by Franz Peter Schubert, 1797-1828; produced by Allegro Films, London, England; performed by Zubin Mehta, 1936-, Jacqueline du Pré, 1945-1987, Pinchas Zukerman, 1948-, Itzhak Perlman, 1945- and Daniel Barenboim, 1942-, in The Trout (Guildford, England: Allegro Films, London, England, 1969), 55 mins
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On August 30th 1969, five young musicians, all of whom were about to become established as international artists of the highest rank, came together to play Schubert's Trout Quintet in the new Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. Their names: Daniel Barenboim, Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman, Jacqueline du Pré and Zubin Mehta.
"It was clear to us that the concert might well become legendary in time and so we decided to make a film about it. The inte...
On August 30th 1969, five young musicians, all of whom were about to become established as international artists of the highest rank, came together to play Schubert's Trout Quintet in the new Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. Their names: Daniel Barenboim, Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman, Jacqueline du Pré and Zubin Mehta.
"It was clear to us that the concert might well become legendary in time and so we decided to make a film about it. The intention was two-fold: to film the concert itself live on stage, exactly as it happened, with five of the newly invented, silent 16mm film cameras and to make an introduction to it during the preceding week, documenting the preparations and, in particular, the spirit behind the event.
The artists had all been intimate friends for many years, but, more importantly, they had a great deal in common musically and, in addition, they shared an exuberance in their talents which was as appealing as it was filmable.
The introduction takes the television viewer into areas of music-making that are not normally accessible even to the committed concert-going public and the first part of the film ends with the final seven minutes of back-stage preparation before the concert. They are minutes which contain scenes that have passed into musical and television history.
The film then continues with the complete performance shot during the concert, just as it happened, with not a note re-taken."
Christopher Nupen
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Date Written / Recorded
1969-08-30
Field of Study
Classical Music
Content Type
Performance, Documentary
Performer / Ensemble
Zubin Mehta, 1936-, Jacqueline du Pré, 1945-1987, Pinchas Zukerman, 1948-, Itzhak Perlman, 1945-, Daniel Barenboim, 1942-
Contributor
Allegro Films, London, England
Author / Creator
Franz Peter Schubert, 1797-1828, Christopher Nupen, fl. 1967, Zubin Mehta, 1936-, Jacqueline du Pré, 1945-1987, Pinchas Zukerman, 1948-, Itzhak Perlman, 1945-, Daniel Barenboim, 1942-
Date Published / Released
1969
Publisher
Allegro Films, London, England
Topic / Theme
Performances, Artistic collaboration, Rehearsals, Musical instruments, Musicians
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1969 by Allegro Films
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Vladimir Ashkenazy: The Vital Juices are Russian
directed by Christopher Nupen, fl. 1967; produced by Allegro Films, London, England; performed by Edo de Waart, Daniel Barenboim, 1942-, Itzhak Perlman, 1945- and Vladimir Ashkenazy, 1937-, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, in Vladimir Ashkenazy: The Vital Juices are Russian (Guildford, England: Allegro Films, London, England, 2008), 57 mins
On the 8th of June 1968 Vladimir Ashkenazy, with his Icelandic wife Thorunn and their two children, arrived at their new home in Reykjavik in Iceland. It was a crucial moment in their lives. They had left the Soviet Union, with the help of Nikita Kruschev, in 1963 and for five years had lived in London. Coming to...
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directed by Christopher Nupen, fl. 1967; produced by Allegro Films, London, England; performed by Edo de Waart, Daniel Barenboim, 1942-, Itzhak Perlman, 1945- and Vladimir Ashkenazy, 1937-, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, in Vladimir Ashkenazy: The Vital Juices are Russian (Guildford, England: Allegro Films, London, England, 2008), 57 mins
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On the 8th of June 1968 Vladimir Ashkenazy, with his Icelandic wife Thorunn and their two children, arrived at their new home in Reykjavik in Iceland. It was a crucial moment in their lives. They had left the Soviet Union, with the help of Nikita Kruschev, in 1963 and for five years had lived in London. Coming to terms with living in the West and with the pressures of a high level international concert career had proved difficult however and they...
On the 8th of June 1968 Vladimir Ashkenazy, with his Icelandic wife Thorunn and their two children, arrived at their new home in Reykjavik in Iceland. It was a crucial moment in their lives. They had left the Soviet Union, with the help of Nikita Kruschev, in 1963 and for five years had lived in London. Coming to terms with living in the West and with the pressures of a high level international concert career had proved difficult however and they felt that they needed more space and more time, both for their private and for their professional lives.
In his teens Ashkenazy had won several major prizes including the Chopin International Prize in Brussels in 1956 and the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1962. He nevertheless felt that he had been inadequately prepared by the Russian educational system. He felt strongly that while he was totally at home with Russian music he was not close enough to the great traditions of the West. As subsequent events have proved, those anxieties say more about his earnestness than about his abilities, but the worries were real enough at the time.
It seemed to us an ideal moment to make a film about this Russian-born master pianist, with his very particular personal appeal, adapting to life and music in the Western world and so we went with him to Iceland to film him and his family during their first days there. The title comes from a statement which he makes in the film.
After moving to the West, Ashkenazy's career had taken off at an almost alarming rate. It had been boosted, dramatically, by the international success of our film Double Concerto in which he and Daniel Barenboim had appeared together for the first time. That film, after winning both the Prague and Monte Carlo prizes, was shown in 18 countries within 12 months of its first broadcast and attracted, for both artists, an international public that might otherwise have taken them 20 years or more to build. The success, however, further increased the pressures.
Films of this kind depend heavily on being in the right place at the right time and we felt that we had begun at an auspicious moment. So we followed our couple from Iceland on a tour of Europe, to continue observing them at a time when they were deeply engaged in a process of dramatic change and reflecting daily on their situation and their problems.
The film includes sequences with Itzhak Perlman, Daniel Barenboim, Edo de Waart and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. There is is music by Beethoven, Chopin, César Franck and Stravinsky. It is also a closely observed account of one of the most demanding and rewarding of all professions and was described by Ingmar Bergman on Swedish television in 1972 as the best he had seen about a living musician.
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Field of Study
Classical Music
Content Type
Documentary
Performer / Ensemble
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Edo de Waart, Daniel Barenboim, 1942-, Itzhak Perlman, 1945-, Vladimir Ashkenazy, 1937-
Contributor
Allegro Films, London, England
Author / Creator
Christopher Nupen, fl. 1967, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Edo de Waart, Daniel Barenboim, 1942-, Itzhak Perlman, 1945-, Vladimir Ashkenazy, 1937-
Date Published / Released
2008
Publisher
Allegro Films, London, England
Person Discussed
Vladimir Ashkenazy, 1937-
Topic / Theme
Russian people, Employment opportunities, Immigration and emigration, Music careers, Performing arts occupations, Contests and competitions, Concerts, Piano, Spanish, Italians
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1968 by Allegro Films
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