Pinchas Zukerman

Pinchas Zukerman

Movies for Pinchas Zukerman...

Orchestra of Exiles
Title: Orchestra of Exiles
Character: Self
Released: October 26, 2012
Type: Movie
The suspenseful chronicle of how the prodigious Polish violinist Bronislaw Huberman helped save Europe’s premiere Jewish musicians from obliteration by the Nazis during World War II. In three years, he transformed from a world renowned violinist to a humanitarian racing against time.
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Israel Philharmonic Orchestra 70th Anniversary Concert
Title: Israel Philharmonic Orchestra 70th Anniversary Concert
Character: Self
Released: May 1, 2007
Type: Movie
Recorded live at the Frederic R. Mann Auditorium, Tel Aviv, 26 December 2006
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We Want the Light
Title: We Want the Light
Character: Self
Released: October 22, 2004
Type: Movie
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. Interviews with: Alice Sommer Herz, Jacques Stroumsa, Evgeny Kissin, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Zubin Mehta, Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman, Toby Perlman, Michael Haas, Elyakim Ha’etzni, Norman Lebrecht, Margaret Brearley, Paul Lawrence Rose, Daniel Barenboim, Yirmiyahu Yovel, Uri Toeplitz & Anita Lasker-Wallfisch. Featuring: Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Cologne Cathedral Children’s Choir & Cologne Opera Chorus.
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The Greatest Love and the Greatest Sorrow
Title: The Greatest Love and the Greatest Sorrow
Character: Self
Released: November 7, 1994
Type: Movie
The Greatest Love and the Greatest Sorrow is a film which sets out to bring the viewer closer, not to the details of Schubert's life, but to the spirit of what he was trying to express with what he called his creative gift and with which he tried "to brighten the world". The film begins with the funeral of Beethoven, at which Schubert was a torch-bearer, His story is told almost entirely in music written in the twenty months that remained to him after that date, together with quotations from Schubert's letters, diaries and the words that he chose to set in some of his songs. Includes personal introductions by Christopher Nupen and Jacqueline du Pré and features the legendary 1969 performance of The Trout with Daniel Barenboim, Itzhak Perlman, Jacqueline du Pré, Pinchas Zukerman and Zubin Mehta.
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Nathan Milstein: In Portrait
Title: Nathan Milstein: In Portrait
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
A documentary portrait of famed Ukrainian-American violinist Nathan Milstein (1903–92), covering his life and career through conversations with the artist and with some of his notable students, interspersed with brief performances and followed by two concert performances.
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Itzhak Perlman: Virtuoso Violinist
Title: Itzhak Perlman: Virtuoso Violinist
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
Documentary on the life and career of violinist Itzhak Perlman, including interviews, archival footage, and concert performances.
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Title: Previn and the Pittsburgh
Character: Self
Released: February 27, 1977
Type: TV
Renowned composer, conductor, and pianist Andre Previn welcomes one or more musical guests for conversation and performance, either accompanied by Mr. Previn on piano or in concert with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Produced by WQED and syndicated nationally on PBS, the series was notable among musical performance programs for its deft camera work and editing. The episode The Music That Made the Movies was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Music Direction.
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End of the Game
Title: End of the Game
Character: Violinist (uncredited)
Released: September 21, 1975
Type: Movie
Hans Baerlach is a Swiss police detective who has dedicated much of his career to pursuing powerful and allegedly murderous businessman Richard Gastmann. Though Baerlach's partner meets his demise while investigating Gastmann, his replacement, Walter Tschanz, is undaunted. Meanwhile, the lovely Anna Crawley becomes involved in the case, which proceeds to take many twists and turns.
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Pinchas Zukerman: Here to Make Music
Title: Pinchas Zukerman: Here to Make Music
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Born with the gift from nature, polished by years of painstaking work, Pinchas Zukerman was between the ages of 7 and 17 the best teaching that could possibly be found. His well-spent youth established him with an international career before he was 21. The close friendship between the artist and the director, Christopher Nupen, provides not only an interesting documentary but also a touching immersion in the intimacy of one of the greatest violinists the world has ever known.
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The Trout
Title: The Trout
Character: Violist
Released: November 8, 1970
Type: Movie
Christopher Nupen's record of the concert given by five young musicians in the new Queen Elizabeth Hall at London's South Bank, in 1969. The Trout is an exuberant explosion of youthful enjoyment in music: first from Schubert himself, who wrote his famous Trout quintet when he was 22 years old, and then from five young artists of the highest rank. They pick up the spirit of Schubert's music magnificently, both in preparation and rehearsal, and in their 1969 performance of the work, which has become one of the most remembered ever given. Includes personal introductions by Christopher Nupen and Jacqueline du Pré and features the legendary 1969 performance of The Trout with Daniel Barenboim, Itzhak Perlman, Jacqueline du Pré, Pinchas Zukerman and Zubin Mehta.
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The Ghost
Title: The Ghost
Character: Violinist
Released: May 12, 1970
Type: Movie
This is almost certainly the finest performance ever filmed of this great work - Beethoven’s Piano Trio Opus 70 No. 1, known as The Ghost. The work is a masterpiece, the performance spellbinding and the filming, in the words of the French film and opera director Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, the most successful translation of musical performance onto the screen that he had ever seen.