Competition Programmes
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9 – Palestrina - Prince of Music
During the time when Protestant Northern Europe separated from the Catholic Church of Rome and when Rome was no longer the center of power, the young Giovanni Pietro Aloysi, later called Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, was trained as a choir-boy...
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8 – Harlem in Montmartre
Harlem in Montmartre tells the story of the jazz age in Paris between the First and Second World Wars, exploring a fascinating yet often neglected era in African American cultural history. After peace was signed at Versailles, many black Americans...
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7 – The Art of Chopin
With this documentary, we pay tribute to Chopin’s art, to his highly original writing, and show how much of a contribution it made to 20th century music and modern-day piano music. To this end, we combine two approaches: a narrative approach, with...
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5 – CT Vivaldianno Live
A recording of a concert from Prague’s Hybernia Theatre. Joining baroque music with jazz or rock has already been attempted by many musicians, including the Swingle Singers and Jethro Tull, but mostly using compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach....
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3 – Chopin at the Opera
The film shows little known facets of Frédéric Chopin, the passionate opera-fan, the admirer of the great female singers of his time, the advocate of the aesthetics of Bel Canto – the art of beautiful singing at the piano. The opera for Chopin was...
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2 – Everything is a Gift- The Wonder and the Grace of Alice Sommer Herz
A tribute by Christopher Nupen to an artist and a woman of truly exceptional grace and wisdom: Alice Sommer Herz, pianist, concentration camp survivor, sage, saint and institution who still practices the piano for two and a half hours every day at...
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