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Landowska / produced by Barbara Attie ; directed by Barbara Attie and Diane Pontius.
Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center Music DVD 196
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- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Landowska, Wanda.
- Harpsichordists--Interviews.
- Harpsichordists.
- Harpsichord music.
- Documentary films.
- Musical films.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Musical films.
- Interviews.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (57 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
- Other Title:
- Title on menu screen: Wanda Landowska, uncommon visionary
- Uncommon visionary
- Place of Publication:
- Pleasantville, NY : Video Artists International, [2003, c1997]
- System Details:
- DVD; format, 4:3.
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- Documentary of the life and times of harpsichordist Wanda Landowska and how she revived the harpsichord after a century of oblivion. Included are reminiscences by musicians and musicologists. Segments from her only filmed appearance (a 1953 television interview) display the virtuosity of her music-making as well as her public persona, a savvy mix of humility and self-awareness. In the documentary, Landowska reflects on her life as a woman and a musician, and discusses her love of music, of her audiences, and of life itself. The documentary resonates with
- Landowska's music - vintage recordings of Bach, Scarlatti, Couperin, and others. We see and hear Landowska giving aggressive, dazzling performances of the music she adored, demonstrating why no one ever listened to a harpsichord in quite the same way after hearing her play.
- Contents:
- Complete extant concert footage. Concerto for harpsichord no. 3 in D major, BWV 1054. 3rd mvt. (excerpt, solo harpsichord) / J.S. Bach (2:26)
- Branle simple / Antoine Francisque (:55)
- Concerto in D major. 2nd mvmt. / Antonio Vivaldi ; transcribed for solo harpsichord by J.S. Bach (BWV 972) (:58)
- Italian concerto : BWV 971. 1st mvt. (abridged) / J.S. Bach (1:59).
- Other music performed in the course of the documentary (excerpts): The well-tempered clavier. Books 1 & 2 ; Fantasia BWV 906 in C minor ; Fantasia BWV 919 in C minor ; Chromatic fantasy and fugue / J.S. Bach
- Sonatas. No. 4 in E flat, K. 282 ; No. 5 in G, K. 283 ; No. 9 in D, K. 311 ; No. 13 in B flat, K. 333 / Mozart
- Piano concerto in E flat, K. 482 / Mozart (Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra ; Artur Rodzinski, conductor)
- Andante and variations in F minor ; Sonata no. 35 in C ; Sonata no. 37 in D / Haydn
- Sonata in D major, Kk 490 / Domenico Scarlatti
- Ground in C minor / Henry Purcell
- Suite in G minor / Jean-Philippe Rameau
- Concert champetre / Francis Poulenc (Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra ; Leopold Stokowski, conductor)
- Bransle de Montirande / Antoine Francisque
- Concerto in D major / Antonio Vivaldi ; transcribed by J.S. Bach
- Missa, Hodie Christus natus est / Palestrina (King's College Choir, Cambridge ; Philip Ledger, conductor)
- Counterpoint exercise / W.A. Mozart (Richard Troeger, harpsichord)
- Participant:
- Wanda Landowska, harpsichord ; Allison Green, Alan Pratt, Julian Rodescu, narrators
- Credits:
- Peter Brownscombe, camera and sound; Kathleen Soulliere, editor; Leslie Valdes, music and story advisor; Richard Troeger, music consultant; co-produced by Jane Goldwater and Diane Pontius.
- Notes:
- Additional title on container: Uncommon visionary : a documentary on the life and art of Wanda Landowska.
- Originally issued in 1997 as videocassette.
- Special features: all known extant footage of Wanda Landowska playing the harpsichord, recorded in 1953 at Landowska's home in Lakeville, Conn.; performance of J.S. Bach's Goldberg variations, BWV 988 (audio only), recorded Nov. 1933 in Paris.
- Stereo./mono.
- Contains:
- Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750. Concertos, harpsichord, string orchestra, BWV 1054, D major. Selections; arranged.
- Francisque, Antoine, approximately 1575-1605. Trésor d'Orphée. Selections; arranged.
- Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750. Concertos, harpsichord, BWV 972, D major. Selections.
- Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750. Italienisches Konzert. Selections
- Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750. Goldberg-Variationen.
- OCLC:
- 54887545
- Publisher Number:
- VAI DVD 4246 Video Artists International
- 4246 Video Artists International
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