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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0032031115798
Format: Black & White, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: KULTUR VIDEO
Manufacturer: KULTUR VIDEO
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: KULTUR VIDEO
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 27, 2008
Running Time: 166 minutes
Sales Rank: 25581
Studio: KULTUR VIDEO
Theatrical Release Date: 1982
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
This biographical film about the most important and influential composer of the 20th century includes documents, photographs and film never seen publicly before. Stravinsky s three surviving children talk about their father and there are contributions from the late Madame Vera Stravinsky, his musical associate Robert Craft, Marie Rambert, Balanchine, Jean Cocteau, Diaghilev's secretary, Kyra Nijinsky, Nadia Boulanger and many friends and colleagues. Included in the film are important performances: Les Noces, heard here for the first time in its original scoring, and Petroushka, specially recreated for the film by the Bolshoi in its 1911 choreography. Finally, there is priceless film of Stravinsky himself in this unique portrait.
A wholly wonderful film... much of this portrait is like a miraculous image, filled with the sense of Stravinsky as man and musician, above all as Russian and believer.
-Paul Griffiths, The Times
All the virtues of the film seemed to stem from Stravinsky himself and no higher tribute could be paid to the technical virtuosity of Palmer's film, which achieved miracles of compression, lucidity and respect. - The Financial Times
An extraordinary portrait; this superb British documentary provided an excellent, thorough overview of Stravinsky and his music.
-The New York Times
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - A moving autobiographical portrait of Stravinsky
There has never been a time when Stravinsky's music was not important to me. The very first Classical recordings that I can recall purchasing decades ago were an LP set of Stravinsky conducting his epochal first three ballets (purchased along with the seminal DGG recording of Karlheinz Stockhausen's electronic masterpiece, Gesang der Junglinge). My ears were first attracted to vertical orchestral color and the distinctive differences in tone of the various musical instruments. In the history of music ... Read More
Rating: - The Documentary to End All Documentaries
This 150 minute documentary on Stravinsky's life is, by far, the best one I have ever seen done on any composer. Produced in 1980-81, in time for Stravinsky's centennial in 1982, prolific English filmmaker Tony Palmer really, really outdid himself. There is nary a dull moment in the entire thing; apparently Palmer was asked to do this film by Mme. Vera Stravinsky and much material that appears was made available by herself and also Robert Craft.
It seems very fortuitous, in retrospect, ... Read More
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