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THE ART OF VIOLIN dramatically explores the heights to which violin playing has been taken over the 20th century. Acclaimed director Bruno Monsaigeon--who also helmed a series about the legendary Canadian pianist Glenn Gould--brings his exciting visual sense to this program, which uses advanced video technology to restore rare .. Read more

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The Art Of Violin

THE ART OF VIOLIN dramatically explores the heights to which violin playing has been taken over the 20th century. Acclaimed director Bruno Monsaigeon--who also helmed a series about the legendary Canadian pianist Glenn Gould--brings his exciting visual sense to this program, which uses advanced video technology to restore rare film clips of some of the century's great violin players, including David Oistrakh and Fritz Kreisler. Commentary is provided by luminaries like Hilary Hahn and Yehudi Menuhin.

Studio WARNER MUSIC VISION
Run time DVD: 1 hr 50 mins
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Genres Documentary
Language English
Dubbed French, Russian
Subtitles English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
Released DVD: 09 Apr 2001
Production year: 2001
Format DVD

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  • 3 out of 3 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars

    Bowing and Scraping

    I enjoy classical music but know nowt about the fiddle, so this was an opportunity to learn more about the instrument from archive film material and the comments of modern virtuosi.

    Overall, I'd recommend it quite highly. You may find the subtitling option useful, as not all the commentary is in English! Some of it also seems to assume the viewer is a fiddle expert with its use of specialist terms.

      • Matti Lamprhey from Newport, S E Wales
      • Posted 30 Mar 2005 18:25

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  • 3 out of 6 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 3 stars

    A bit bland

    This was less about the art of violin and more about a group of violinists (mostly living) talking about other violinists (mostly dead.) It didn't really seem to have very much focus, but was quite interesting to see footage of Kreisler et al playing - in fact fascinating for about 20 minutes - but really just seemed to drag after that. For some reason it's split into 2 sections, but both seem pretty much the same. It also is really something only fairly experienced violinists or serious music lovers would appreciate (ie it takes quite a bit of background knowledge).

    I can sum this film up as follows:

    1. Playing the violin is very difficult if you don't know how to do it.

    2. There are lots of good dead violinists.

    3. Not all violinists sound the same.

    4. Living violinists speak very fondly about dead ones.

    5. Err...

    6. That's it.

      • Oliver Moor from UK
      • Posted 08 Sep 2004 13:04

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