Schubert: Greatest Love & Greatest Sorrow
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Actor: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Jacqueline du Pre, Pinchas Zuckerman, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Zubin MehtaBrand: Naxos OF America INC
Writer: Franz Schubert
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); German (Unknown); French (Unknown); Italian (Unknown); Spanish (Unknown); German (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Italian (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: Classical, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 181 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-08-16
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BBC / Opus Arte
DVD Reviews of Schubert: Greatest Love & Greatest Sorrow
DVD Review: Outstanding concert and good documentary.
Summary: 5 Stars
Here we have another release on DVD of Christopher Nupen's films, most of them shot in the 60's and the 70's, showing his very good intuitive view and understanding about those who will be first figures in the decades to come.
I have Jacqueline du Pre's one, that is outstanding, and now I have finally the possibility of watching this remarkable document that I knew it was great because other music lovers written commentaries on the web.
What we have here is a concerto and a documentary, both of them filmed by Nupen, the concert in 1969 and the documentary in 1994.
The concert is really outstanding, my favourite version together with the one played by the Hagen Quartett joining Posch & Schiff (Decca). Recorded in the Queen Elizabeth Hall in the South Bank Summer Festival; the performance it's technically a prodigy and it sounds with the great charm and freshness this players used to have in the late `60s, like we can listen in other chamber pieces played by them, in EMI, for example, in which is audible their great feeling playing together and the very close view on many works they have, like it's this case. Perlman's playing is vivid and perfect, full of life and energy; du Pre's one is so outstanding like most of the recordings she done; Zukerman is really a surprise playing the viola, not because we don't know he is very good, but doing it this way so young is not easy at all, if we think he really is a violin player; Mehta gives his best and that's good enough in a ensemble in which it was supposed he should be the weak piece, because of the many years he didn't play the double bass, anyway he do it really very well, as his partners happiness shows at the end of the concert. But the one who I think leads the ensemble is Daniel Barenboim, because of the way he has of looking the other players, and because of the rhythm and sense he gives to the piece and to the group from the keyboard.
Nupen introduced every musician before the concert, showing them arrival to London and the way the choose even their instruments, like it was Zukerman's case. I know in that time it was not very well seen, many people thought it was not very serious, much more because of the very relaxed attitude of the players, but I found it funny and a good example about making classical music it's serious but not boring at all. Their jokes, their commentaries, their songs... show a group of young people in their best time, with all a great musical life to be developed... what is really sad is knowing today the case of du Pre, that's really the worse, not if their behaviour is serious or not.
The documentary "The Greatest Love And The Greatest Sorrow" is based on Schubert last months of life, from Beethoven burial in Vienna, March 1827, a fact that affected Schubert very much, as Beethoven was a kind of God and musical father for him. I don't find it so good like other Nupen's films, even the own composer says it took a lot of time to be done, because it was complex to develop it the way they wanted, joining together Schubert music, most of them lieder, and texts. The musical base is Ashkenazy playing the piano with Andreas Schmidt singing Schubert Lieder, quite good really. Nupen tries to go into Schubert's mind through his letters, through the music close to that writing and through the editing of a way that shows the pain and joy that lived together on the composer's soul, basically about his family, about music and about his "problems" in love. It's a good work, with great sound and image quality, but is not outstanding.
Even in the backside of the DVD is written that both films are framed on 4:3, that's false, because 4:3 is only the concert; the documentary is shot in 16:9, so you should put it in this format on your TV if you want to watch it correctly. Subtitles are available in English, German, French, Spanish and Italian, and the booklet is very good too. I can not forget mention the very good trailer of other Nupen's films that is in this DVD, like it's on du Pre's one. I hope most of that films can be released on DVD.
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