Christopher Nupen Trailers
Listening through the Lens: The Christopher Nupen Films Trailer
Christopher Nupen (1934-2023) was a South African-born filmmaker based in the United Kingdom specialising in biographical documentaries of musicians.
Most Popular Christopher Nupen Trailers
Total trailers found: 23
The Greatest Love and the Greatest Sorrow Trailer (1994)
07 November 1994
The Greatest Love and the Greatest Sorrow is a film which sets out to bring the viewer closer, not to the details of Schubert's life, but to the spirit of what he was trying to express with what he called his creative gift and with which he tried "to brighten the world".
The Trout Trailer (1970)
08 November 1970
Christopher Nupen's record of the concert given by five young musicians in the new Queen Elizabeth Hall at London's South Bank, in 1969.
Jacqueline du Pré: Genius and Tragedy Trailer (2025)
25 March 2025
Yo-Yo Ma narrates a documentary about the remarkable cellist Jacqueline du Pré, whose life and career were cut short by multiple sclerosis.
Vladimir Ashkenazy: The Vital Juices Are Russian Trailer (1970)
22 January 1970
This film is a portrait film of Vladimir Ashkenazy directed by Christopher Nupen. It includes sequences with Itzhak Perlman, Daniel Barenboim, Edo de Waart and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra.
Ashkenazy Observed Trailer (1987)
01 January 1987
Documentary about Soviet-born pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy.
Pinchas Zukerman: Here to Make Music Trailer (1975)
01 January 1975
Born with the gift from nature, polished by years of painstaking work, Pinchas Zukerman was between the ages of 7 and 17 the best teaching that could possibly be found.
Evgeny Kissin: The Gift of Music Trailer (1999)
31 December 1999
Evgeny Igorevich Kissin was born in Moscow on the 10th of October 1971. He started to play the piano at the age of two, as soon as he was tall enough to reach the keyboard and he has not looked back from that day to this.
Andrés Segovia: The Song of the Guitar Trailer (1977)
31 December 1977
In this stunning film by Christopher Nupen, Segovia returns to the Granada of his youth, site of his personal and musical formation.
Beethoven, Mozart & Brahms Piano Concertos Trailer (1979)
01 January 1979
Pollini plays flawlessly, with the greatest finesse and sensitivity, very much in tune with each composer's personal style.
We Want the Light Trailer (2004)
22 October 2004
The struggles of the world’s Jewish people over the course of several centuries are expressed and explored through the music they inspired in this documentary from the BBC and Opus Arte.
Vivaldi Le Quattro Stagioni Trailer (2008)
12 November 2008
In April 1981 violinist Gidon Kremer performed Vivaldi's Four Seasons leading the English Chamber Orchestra recorded in the baroque library of the monastery in Polling, near Munich.
Segovia at Los Olivos Trailer (1976)
10 January 1976
From his home in Granada, pioneering guitarist Andres Segovia looks back on his 60-year music career and his contribution to Western music.
Itzhak Perlman: Virtuoso Violinist Trailer (1978)
01 January 1978
Documentary on the life and career of violinist Itzhak Perlman, including interviews, archival footage, and concert performances.
Jacqueline du Pré in Portrait Trailer (2004)
21 September 2004
A re-release of two of Christopher Nupen's most cherished Jacqueline du Pré films. The first is a portrait film which was epoch-making when it premiered; the second is a performance film which was described by the French opera and film director Jean-Pierre Ponelle as the most successful translation of musical performance onto the screen that he had ever seen.
Listening through the Lens: The Christopher Nupen Films Trailer (2021)
03 October 2021
Documentary about Christopher Nupen, a pioneering film director who championed classical music on tes
The Ghost Trailer (1970)
12 May 1970
This performance in May 1970, at St. John’s Smith Square, was filmed before the onset of Jacqueline du Pré’s illness in the early days of the Barenboim/du Pré/Zukerman Trio, which promised to become one of the great Piano Trios of all time.
Jacqueline du Pré: A Gift Beyond Words Trailer (2017)
22 October 2017
A tribute to Jacqueline du Pré to mark the thirtieth anniversary of her death thirty years ago, on 19 October 1987.
Alice Sommer: Everything Is a Present Trailer (2009)
03 April 2009
Documentary about pianist and Holocaust survivor Alice Sommer Herz. In the concentration camps she played more than 100 concerts, and credits music for saving her life.
Tchaikovsky: Women & Fate Trailer (1988)
17 July 1988
Two Christopher Nupen films about the music and the artistic intentions of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, one of the greats and a composer who appeals to millions of people.
Zubin Mehta: A World full of Music Trailer (1998)
09 July 1998
The world famous conductor reminisces about his life in a wide ranging discussion about his varied and successful career.
Nathan Milstein: In Portrait Trailer (1992)
01 January 1992
A documentary portrait of famed Ukrainian-American violinist Nathan Milstein (1903–92), covering his life and career through conversations with the artist and with some of his notable students, interspersed with brief performances and followed by two concert performances.
The Language Of The New Music Trailer (1985)
01 January 1985
This is a film about Ludwig Wittgenstein and Arnold Schoenberg; two men whose lives and ideas run parallel in the development of Viennese radicalism.
Double Concerto Trailer (1966)
04 April 1966
Documentary film about Vladimir Ashkenazy's and Daniel Barenboim's 1966 performance of Mozart's Concerto for 2 Pianos in E-flat major with the English Chamber Orchestra, featuring the full performance as well as biographical information and a look at the rehearsal process.
