ART OF VIOLIN - DVD-DEVIL'S INSTRUMENT

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• Release Year: 2001
• Genre: Documentary, Music
• Plot: Part 1: The Devil’s Instrument; Part 2: Transcending the Violin; ; Drawing on archival performance footage and interviews, « The Art of Violin » evokes the vast panorama of the world of the violin in the 20th century and its most outstanding performers, …it is hard to express the explosions of joy occasioned by the discovery of long sought-out but undreamed-of archives, such as some silent - and later resynchronized - film footage, or the few brief moments of Chausson’s Poème played by Ginette Neveu, the silent yet moving (in every sens of the word) images of Kreisler and Ysaÿe, the awe of a young Menuhin, the superb single camera shot of David Oistrakh performing the cadenza from Shostakovich’s First Concerto. (Bruno Monsaingeon)
• Cast: Georges Enesco, Ivry Gitlis, Ida Haendel, Hilary Hahn, Jascha Heifetz, Léonide Kogan, Laurent Korcia, Yehudi Menuhin, Anja Søgaard Miechels, David Oistrakh, Itzhak Perlman, Mstislav Rostropovich, Isaac Stern, Bruno Monsaingeon, Dick Mattson
• Director: Bruno Monsaingeon
• Runtime: 1:53
• Company: Idéale Audience, IMG Artists, La Sept-Arte, NVC Arts
• Media Format: Movie