BAFTA-AWARD winning documentary-maker, Christopher Nupen has made more than 80 films on classical music and musicians. Here, he tells the story of his varied and often astonishing life and invites us to share his view of `Listening through the Lens''. The book comes with a 13 minute DVD showcasing a selection of his finest films. His pioneering portrait-films count among their subjects Daniel Barenboim, Jacqueline du Pre, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman, Nathan Milstein, Andres Segovia, Yevgeny Kissin, Karim Said, and Daniil Trifonov, many of whom have become lifelong friends. His 1969 film The Trout is legend. His film We Want the Light has won some of the most prized awards in documentary making, including the Jewish Cultural Award for Film and Television, 2003/2004.
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Format: Mixed media product
Dimensions: 162 x 240mm
Publication Date: 29 Oct 2019
Publisher: Kahn & Averill
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780995757424
About Christopher Nupen
Christopher Nupen began his broadcasting career in the Features department of BBC Radio when he wrote and presented High Festival in Siena in 1962 for the BBC Third Programme: a radio documentary of an unusual kind about the extraordinary summer music school of the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena where Nupen studied with Andres Segovia and Alirio Diaz. Nupen left the BBC and with David Findlay (lighting cameraman) and Peter Heelas (film editor) formed Allegro Films the first entirely independent television production partnership in the United Kingdom. Since 1968 they have made over 80 televisions productions on subjects as diverse as Respighi Mussorgsky Brahms Sibelius Schubert Paganini Schoenberg Piazzolla Tchaikovsky and including The Trout one of the most frequently broadcast films on classical music.