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epertoires.
But above all he is the man who, thanks to
his incredible energy, kindles a sacred
flame whose rays transfix not only the
general public but his performers as well.
This film portrait thus attempts to capture
all these facets via interviews, concerts,
and above all rehearsals which lead us
from the Bach Cantatas to Beethoven's
9th Symphony.
Item no. : EW00770349
Format : DVD (Region 1, Color)
Duration : 56 minutes
StdBkNo : 9780769790596
Price : USD 50.00
PROKOFIEV: PROKOFIEV: THE
THE
UNFI UNFINISHED UNFI NISHED DIARY
DIARY
All that is certain about Sergei Prokofiev is
that he was a musical genius and one of
the greatest composers of the 20th
Century.
With the discovery of his personal diaries,
the mystery that was Prokofiev is about to
be revealed. Prokofiev fled Russia shortly
after the Bolshevik Revolution. He spent
the next eighteen years trying to build a
successful career in North America and
Europe. Then, he made a decision which
stunned the world: he returned to Russia
in 1936, at the height of the Stalinist
purges.
Now more than fifty years after his death,
this documentary reveals the largely
untold story about the pivotal eighteen
years (1918-1936) outside Russia, the
years which sealed his fate.
Through the intimate, revealing and often
heartbreaking words of Prokofiev's diaries,
the film investigates Prokofiev's life and art
through his own words and the prism of
some of his most extraordinary musical
creations.
Item no. : WN00770355
Format : DVD (Region 1, Color)
Duration : 52 minutes
StdBkNo : 9780769788579
Price : USD 50.00
RENAISSANCE RENAISSANCE VOICES:
VOICES:
INTERPRETED INTERPRETED BY BY PAUL
PAUL
VAN VAN NEVEL
NEVEL
Paul Van Nevel shares the melancholia
and earthy tastes of the Renaissance and
has been performing the music of the
period for many years.
He combs libraries for forgotten
compositions and insists on reading the
original scores, finding nuances which
guide his interpretations.
But he is also insatiably curious about the
concrete realities of Renaissance life.
He takes us back to a world in which time
moved more slowly, although lives were
shorter, and the dead kept watch over the
living, where dreams held sway and
children saw mountains and marvels
wherever they looked, when the age of
exploration was still dawning and the
'landscape' still taking shape.
When Van Nevel contemplates the
Franco-Flemish landscapes into which all
the great contrapuntists were born, he
sees their compositions reflected.
Through him the hills and valleys suddenly
start to sing Gombert, Manchicourt or
Lassus and we become once more the
dreamers of another age.
Item no. : YR00770356
Format : DVD (Region 1, Color)
Duration : 51 minutes
StdBkNo : 9780769791593
Price : USD 50.00
TRIP TRIP TO TO ASIA: ASIA: THE THE QU QUEST QU EST
FOR FOR HARMONY HARMONY - SIMON
SIMON
RATTLE RATTLE & & THE THE BERLIN
BERLIN
PHILHARMONIC
PHILHARMONIC
Together with a high-calibre film team,
director Thomas Grube accompanied the
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and Sir
Simon Rattle on their concert tour through
Asia – in six pulsing metropolises, with
their tremendous oppositional forces of
thousand-year-old traditions and
breathless hypermodernity.
This clash of Western traditions and Far
Eastern philosophy, of present-day Europe
and Asia, becomes a journey into the
mysterious and tension-ridden inner
workings of one of the world's best
orchestras, and into the emotional
universes of its very different musician
personalities.
Trip To Asia tells of the constant battle
between the ego and the community, of
the ancient and yet always renewed
search for harmony – within oneself and
with others.
A unique artistic and human adventure of
melancholy and enthusiasm, of loneliness
and longing for love.
A universal parable for life that combines
fascinating images of the conflicts
between the individual and the group with
an intoxicating sound quality in one
breathtaking cinematic event.
A moving film on art – the art of harmony,
and the art of living.
Item no. : GL00770386
Format : DVD (Region 1, Color)
Duration : 135 minutes
StdBkNo : 9780769791678
Price : USD 55.00
CLIMATE
CHANGE/GLOBAL
WARMING
FIERCE FIERCE GREEN GREEN FIRE, FIRE, AA:
A :
THE THE THE BATTLE BATTLE FOR FOR A A LIV LIVING LIV ING
PL PLANET PL
ANET
Directed by Mark Kitchell
The documentary of record on the
environmental movement.
A FIERCE GREEN FIRE: The Battle For a
Living Planet is the first big-picture
exploration of the environmental
movement - grassroots and global
activism spanning fifty years from
conservation to climate change. From
halting dams in the Grand Canyon to
battling 20,000 tons of toxic waste at Love
Canal; from Greenpeace saving the
whales to Chico Mendes and the
rubbertappers saving the Amazon; from
climate change to the promise of
transforming our civilization... the film tells
vivid stories about people fighting - and
succeeding - against enormous odds.
The film is divided into five "acts".
Act 1 focuses on the conservation
movement of the `60s, David Brower and
the Sierra Club's battle to halt dams in the
Grand Canyon.
Act 2 looks at the new environmental
movement of the `70s with its emphasis on
pollution, focusing on the battle led by Lois
Gibbs over Love Canal.
Act 3 is about alternative ecology strands
and the main story is Greenpeace's
campaign to save the whales.
Act 4 explores global resource issues and
crises of the `80s, focusing on the struggle
to save the Amazon led by Chico Mendes
and the rubber tappers.
Act 5 concerns climate change.
Reviews
� "The most thorough, expansive, and
inclusive documentary film on the rise
of modern environmentalism." - Paul
Sutter, Associate Professor of History,
University of Colorado
� "The material is vast, and it's an
incredibly dynamic film. It's shaping
up to be the documentary of record on
the environmental movement. I think
it'll be hugely successful." - Cara
Mertes, Director, Sundance Institute
Documentary Film Program
� "The film left me emotionally drained
and profoundly hopeful." - Bruce
Barcott, OnEarth Magazine
Item no. : TE02560823
Format : DVD
Duration : 114 minutes
Copyright : 2012
StdBkNo : 1937772411
Price : USD 295.00
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