  We Want The Light - Christopher Nupen'S Holocaust Film (Dvd)We Want The Light - Christopher Nupen'S Holocaust Film (Dvd)
UPC Number: 032031090996
Actors: Vladimir Ashkenazy, Daniel Barenboim, Evgeny Kissin, Zubin Mehta, Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman
Directors: Christopher Nupen
Format: NTSC, Subtitled
Language: English
Region: All Regions
Number of discs: 2
Studio: KULTUR VIDEO
Release date: February 24, 2009
Run time: 330 minutes
Product Description
Vladimir Ashkenazy, Daniel Barenboim, Evgeny Kissin, Zubin Mehta, Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman, plus three inspiring survivors: Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, Jacques Stroumsa, Alice Sommer Herz and others. This is a DVD about many things. It is about freedom and captivity, about emancipation, acculturation and assimilation; it is about the roles played by Moses and Felix Mendelssohn in the dream of fruitful, unproblematic integration of the Jews into German society after their liberation from the ghettos; it is about Richard Wagner, his essay Das Judenthum in der Musik (The Jews in Music) and his influence on the thinking of the Third Reich but, most of all, it is a DVD about how much music can mean to people, even in the direst of circumstances, or particularly in the direst circumstances.The title, We Want the Light, is taken from a poem by a 12-year-old girl, Eva Pickova, written in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Her words provide both the title and the climax - in a setting for two choruses and orchestra by the American composer Franz Waxman, in his work The Song of Terezin. The DVD also contains music by Mahler, Bach, Schoenberg, Bruch, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Wagner, Schubert, Bloch and Brahms.The G?rzenich Orchestra of CologneThe Cologne Opera ChorusThe Cologne Cathedral Children s Choirconductor Vladimir Ashkenazy
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