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
| Genres | Documentary |
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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 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 |
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| 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 |
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.
good, informative...worth seeing for the video clips of the performers...very nicely done
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