Christopher Nupen

Christopher Nupen (* in South Africa) is a living in England film producer and director.

Nupen came at the age of 19 years to England, where he soon developed into a specialist for documentaries on musicians and composers. After working for the BBC in 1968, he founded Allegro Films, which was the most important British producer for music movies for television, later also for video and DVD.

Nupens known television production was The Trout with musicians Daniel Barenboim, Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman, Jacqueline du Pré and Zubin Mehta. He turned portraits of composers such as Franz Schubert, Georges Bizet, Modest Mussorgsky, Peter Tchaikovsky, Jean Sibelius, Johannes Brahms and Schoenberg and performers such as Jacqueline du Pré, Andrés Segovia, Vladimir Ashkenazy and Astor Piazzolla. He also documented for ZDF a concert by the British progressive rock band Gentle Giant (1974).

At the International Film Festival in Cannes three of his films have received a DVD of the year in the documentary category: Jacqueline du Pré in Portrait ( 2005), We Want the Light (2006) and Jacqueline du Pré: A Celebration (2008).

Filmography

  • Andrés Segovia: The Song of the Guitar
  • Mozart by Zukerman
  • Vladimir Ashkenazy, Recital no. 1 Beethoven
  • Vladimir Ashkenazy, Recital no. 2 Chopin
  • The Ghost
  • Johannes Brahms 1833 - 1897 ( three parts)
  • Rachmaninov 's Corelli Variations
  • Who was Jacqueline du Pré?
  • Remembering Jacqueline du Pré
  • Homage to Astor Piazzolla
  • Elegies for the Deaths of Three Spanish Poets
  • We Want the Light
  • The Trout
  • Kreutzer Sonata
  • Itzhak Perlman & Pinchas Zukerman: Grand Duo. Parts 1 and 2
  • Alice Sommer Herz: Everything is a Present
  • The Gift of Music
  • The Greatest Love and the Greatest Sorrow
  • Jacqueline du Pré and the Elgar Cello Concerto
  • Jean Sibelius: The Early Years
  • Jean Sibelius: Maturity and Silence
  • Tchaikovsky 's Women
  • Fate
  • The Vital Juices are Russian

Weblink

  • Allegro Films

Swell

  • Christopher Nupen at the Internet Movie Database (English)
  • Sky Arts - Christopher Nupen films
  • Answers.com - Christopher Nupen
  • Director
  • Film producer
  • Born in the 20th century
  • Man
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