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Christopher Nupen
We Want The Light

Album UK 1996 on Opus Arte label
Classical (Baroque, Classical, Modern)

In English; with optional subtitles in French, German and Spanish. "Double layered disc: the feature may experience a slight pause upon layer change"--Container. Program notes in English, French, and German (18 p.) inserted in container. Features: Play music only option in surround sound. Credit: Writer, director, Christopher Nupren. G̈ürzenich Orchestra of Cologne, The Cologne Opera Chorus, The Cologne Cathedral Children's Choir ; Evgeny Kissin ; Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor. Award: Jewish Cultural Award for Film and Television, 2004 ; Best Editing, New York Film and Television Festival, 2004. 2 videodiscs (336 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + booklet (18 pages : portraits) DVD (all regions) ; LPCM stereo., Dolby digital surround sound ; anamorphic 16.9. Disc 1: Introduction by Christopher Nupen (7:20). We want the light (60:20). Visual presentation of the music in the film (26:01). Interviews with Evgeniĭ Kisin, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Zubin Mehta, Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman (44:82) Disc 2: Interviews with Toby Perlman, Michael Haas, Elyaḳim Haètsni, Norman Lebrecht, Margaret Brearley, Paul Lawrence Rose, Leon Botstein, Daniel Barenboim, Yirmiahu Yovel, Uri Toeplitz, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, Jacques Stroumsa, Alice Sommer Herz (175:18). Evgeniĭ Kisin plays Andante espressivo from the F minor piano sonata, op. 5 by Johannes Brahms (12:32). an Allegro Film ; written and directed by Christopher Nupen. This 2-DVD set is divided into three parts. Part one is a one hour film, We want the light, the title taken from a poem written by 12-year-old Eva Pickova, interned in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. It is about the complex relationship between Jews and German music, and about survival and the place of music in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany. The second part of the DVD continues with nearly all the music from the film, not as background music as in the film, but in vision, shot in such a way so as to make it a reflection of the themes touched upon in the film, but this time without words. The third section includes interviews with musicians and three Holocaust survivors followed by Evgeniĭ Kisin's rendition of the slow movement of Brahm's F minor piano sonata.

Musicians

	Christopher Nupen , GB album by
	Jacqueline Du Pré vc, 1945-1987 GB cello
	Zubin Mehta , *1936 IN conductor
	Vladimir Ashkenazy p, *1937 IS piano
	Yevgeny Kissin p, *1971 RU piano
	Mile Kosi vl, viola
	Itzhak Perlman vn, *1945 US violin
	Pinchas Zukerman vn, *1948 CA violin
	Daniel Barenboim p, *1942 AR conductor
	Israel Philharmonic Orchestra , orchestra

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