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Tchaikovsky - Two Christopher Nupen Films | Christopher Nupen Films A10CND

Tchaikovsky - Two Christopher Nupen Films

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Label: Christopher Nupen Films

Cat No: A10CND

Barcode: 0814446010062

Format: DVD - NTSC

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Documentary

Release Date: 26th October 2009

Contents

Works

Nupen/Tchaikovsky
Tchaikovsky’s Women

Nupen/Tchaikovsky
Fate

Artists

Cynthia Harvey
Mark Silver
Helen Field
Clarry Bartha
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Works

Nupen/Tchaikovsky
Tchaikovsky’s Women

Nupen/Tchaikovsky
Fate

Artists

Cynthia Harvey
Mark Silver
Helen Field
Clarry Bartha
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

About

These two pioneering Tchaikovsky films are unusual in that they do not use actors to represent the composer but are made entirely of Tchaikovsky’s own words and music plus the words of a few of his closest companions. The result gives an exceptionally intimate picture of the inner landscape of Tchaikovsky’s work and artistic preoccupations. They are essential viewing for Tchaikovsky fans.
 
The first film, Tchaikovsky’s Women (70'15"), looks at the women both in his private life and in his early music. Almost all of his best early work was inspired by deep identification with the plight of his suffering young heroines, an identification so complete that it spilled over repeatedly into his personal life with dramatic consequences: on one occasion leading to attempted suicide.

This predeliction began, when Tchaikovsky was 24 years old, with Katerina Kabanova in The Storm. It continued in full flood with Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, Francesca da Rimini, Odette in Swan Lake and, above all, Tatyana in Evgeny Onegin. All of these young women make appearances in the film.

The second film, Fate (85'35"), looks at Tchaikovsky’s strange relationship with Nadezhda von Meck, the most important attachment in his life, after his mother, while also following his increasing concern with the idea of fate as a controlling influence in his own life and as a motivating force in his later symphonies.
 
What he did not know, despite his concern and forebodings, was that fate would overtake him, at the age of 53, more tragically than even Tchaikovsky could have foreseen.

Artists:
- Cynthia Harvey as Katerina, Juliet, Odette
- Mark Silver as Prince Siegfried
- Helen Field as Tatyana
- Clarry Bartha as Donna Anna

Format: NTSC
Region: 0 (all regions)
Picture format: 4:3
Sound: Dolby Digital, 2.0 stereo
Subtitles: DE/ES/FR/IT/日本語
Running time: 2 hours 36 mins

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