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) Opus 2 - Variations in B-flat major on Là ci darem la mano Adalbert Dankowski - Symphony in E-flat major (1788) Polonaise in G minor (1817) Opus 1 – Rondo in C minor (1825) Wolfgang Mozart - Sonata in A minor (1778) Polonaise in G-sharp minor (1822) Opus 72 no.1 – Nocturne in E minor (1827) Opus 2 - Variations in B-flat major on Là ci darem la mano Opus 14 - Rondo à la Krakowiak in F major (1828) Ludwig van Beethoven - The Grosse Fuge (1825) Opus 21 - Piano Concerto in F minor (1829-30) Nocturne no.20 in C-sharp minor (1830) Opus 11 - Piano Concerto no.1 in E minor (1830) Opus 22 - Andante spianato and grande polonaise Opus 20 - Scherzo no.1 in B minor (1831-32) Opus 9 no.2 - Nocturne in E-flat major (1830-32) Franz Liszt – Rákóczy March |
Opus 70 no.1 - Waltz in G-flat major (1832-33) Opus 7 no.2 - Mazurka in A minor (1830-32) Opus 53 - Polonaise in A-flat major (1842) Opus 30 no.4 – Mazurka in C-sharp minor (1836-37) Opus 23 - Ballade no.1 in G minor (1831-35) Opus 23 - Ballade no.1 in G minor (1831-35) Opus 27 no.2 - Nocturne in D-flat major (1835-36) Opus 28 no.15 - Prelude in D-flat major (1838-39) Opus 33 no.3 – Mazurka in C major (1838) Opus 33 no.4 – Mazurka in B minor (1838) Opus 35 - Piano Sonata no.2 in B-flat minor (1837-39) Opus 47 - Ballade no.3 in A-flat major (1840-41) Opus 52 - Ballade no.4 in F minor (1842-43) Opus 48 no.1 - Nocturne in C minor (1841) Opus 70 no.2 – Waltz in F minor (1842) Opus 57 – Berceuse in D-flat major (1843-44) Opus 62 no.1 – Nocturne in B major (1846) Opus 64 no.2 - Waltz in C-sharp minor (1847) Opus Post. 67 no.2 - Mazurka in G minor (1846) Opus 68 no.4 - Mazurka in F minor (1849) Wolfgang Mozart - Requiem (1791) Opus 25 no.12 - Étude in C minor (1836) |
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