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We want the light / written and directed by Christopher Nupen.
Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center Music DVD 337
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- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- French
- German
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--Germany--Music--History and criticism.
- Jews.
- Music--Germany--History and criticism.
- Music.
- Germany.
- Antisemitism--Germany--History.
- Antisemitism.
- History.
- Nazi concentration camps--Songs and music.
- Nazi concentration camps.
- Internment camps--Songs and music.
- Internment camps.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Holocaust survivors--Interviews.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Documentary films.
- Sonatas (Piano)--Excerpts.
- Sonatas (Piano).
- Genre:
- Personal narratives.
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Excerpts.
- Interviews.
- Physical Description:
- 2 videodiscs (330 mins.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- England : Opus Arte : BBC, 2004.
- Language Note:
- In English (except Alice Sommer Herz speaks a few lines in German); with optional subtitles in [English,] French, German and Spanish.
- System Details:
- DVD-9 ; NTSC (all regions, but equipment must be HTSC compatible); sound options: LPCM stereo., Dolby digital surround sound; anamorphic 16.9.
- digital
- optical
- surround
- LPCM
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- all regions
- Summary:
- This 2-DVD set is divided into three parts. Part one is a one hour film, We want the light, the title taken from a poem written by 12-year-old Eva Pickova, interned in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. It is about the complex relationship between Jews and German music, and about survival and the place of music in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany. The second part of the DVD continues with nearly all the music from the film, not as background music as in the film, but in vision, shot in such a way so as to make it a reflection of the themes touched upon in the film, but this time without voice-overs. Most of the music consists of excerpts only. The third section includes interviews with musicians and three Holocaust survivors followed by Evgeniĭ Kisin's rendition of the slow movement of Brahm's F minor piano sonata.
- Contents:
- Disc 1: Introduction by Christopher Nupen (7:20). We want the light (60:20). Visual presentation of the music in the film (26:01). Interviews with Evgeny Kissin, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Zubin Mehta, Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman (44:82)
- Disc 2: Interviews with Toby Perlman, Michael Haas, Elyaḳim Haètsni, Norman Lebrecht, Margaret Brearley, Paul Lawrence Rose, Leon Botstein, Daniel Barenboim, Yirmiahu Yovel, Uri Toeplitz, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, Jacques Stroumsa, Alice Sommer Herz (175:18). Evgeniĭ Kisin plays Andante espressivo from the F minor piano sonata, op. 5 by Johannes Brahms (12:32)
- Participant:
- Tom Wesel, storyteller ; Vladimir Ashkenazy, Alice Sommer Herz, and others, narration.
- Gürzenich Orchestra of Cologne ; The Cologne Opera Chorus ; The Cologne Cathedral Children's Choir ; Evgeny Kissin, piano ; Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor. In the Kol Nedrai / Max Bruch: Jacqueline Du Pré, cello ; Israel Philharmonic Orchestra ; Daniel Barenboim, conductor. In the Märchenbilder : op. 113 / Robert Schumann: Vladimir Ashkenazy, Mile Kosi, piano. In the Impromptu in A flat major, op. 142 / Franz Schubert: Alice Sommer Herz. In Méditation hébraïque / Ernest Bloch ; arr. Hans Kindler: Raphael Sommer, cello, Daniel Adni, piano.
- Credits:
- Lighting cameraman, Ollie Olma; editors, Peter Heelas, Christopher Nupen, Marc Eskenazi; sound, Kees de Visser, Killian Fitzgerald.
- Notes:
- "Double layered disc: the feature may experience a slight pause upon layer change"--Container.
- The extended DVD version of Christopher Nupen's award winning film (originally produced in 1996 by the BBC) about freedom, survival and the extraordinary place of music in the Nazi concentration camps. Interviews with, among others, musicians Vladimir Ashkenazy, Daniel Barenboim, Evgeny Kissin, Zubin Mehta, Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman, and musicians and survivors Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, Jacques Stroumsa, Alice Sommer Herz.
- An Allegro film; with the support of the Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfallen. Co-producers: WDR, BBC, NCRV.
- Program notes by Nupen in English, French, and German (18 p. : ill.) inserted in container.
- Jewish Cultural Award for Film and Television, 2004 ; Best Editing, New York Film and Television Festival, 2004.
- Contains:
- Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897. Sonatas, piano, no. 3, op. 5, F minor. Andante espressivo.
- OCLC:
- 224646089
- Publisher Number:
- OA CN909 D Opus Arte
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