Cologne Opera Chorus & Cologne Cathedral Children’s Choir The Gürzenich Orchestra of Cologne / Vladimir Ashkenazy
The struggles of the world’s Jewish people over the course of several centuries are expressed and explored through the music they inspired in this documentary from the BBC and Opus Arte. We Want the Light brings together harrowing tales from Holocaust survivors with performances of music by such legendary composers as Mahler, Bach, Mendelssohn, and Brahms.
The extended DVD version of Christopher Nupen’s award-winning film about freedom, survival and the extraordinary place of music in the Nazi concentration camps.
With Daniel Barenboim, Evgeny Kissin, Zubin Mehta, Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman, plus three inspiring survivors – Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, Alice Sommer Herz and Jacques Stroumsa and many other contributors.
Includes performances of music by Mahler, Bach, Schoenberg, Bruch, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Wagner, Schubert and Brahms
2 DVD SET
‘An unmissable documentary …’ The Times.
‘Christopher Nupen’s extraordinarily powerful film…offers a rare and authoritative insight into how two centuries of assimilation ended in the almost ineffable horror of the Nazi death camps. … this is profoundly moving and compulsive television.’ The Observer
Running time: 336 mins
Region Code: All regions
Picture format: 16:9
Anamorphic Sound format: Dolby Surround, Dolby Stereo
Menu language: EN
Subtitle languages: EN/FR/DE/ES
PLUS
Visual presentation of the music in the film (26 mins) and Play music only option in Surround Sound.
New personal introduction by the director, Christopher Nupen.
4 hours of additional in-depth interviews.
Evgeny Kissin plays the Andante espressivo from Brahms’s F minor piano sonata, Op. 5.
| PERFORMER | Barenboim/Kissin/Mehta/Perlman/Zukerman |
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