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András Schiff Plays Chopin's 24 Preludes

The celebrated Hungarian pianist, András Schiff, plays the Chopin Preludes on an 1860 Pleyel Grand Piano, filmed in the beautiful, meticulously-restored Concert Hall of the Ancien Conservatoire in Paris, where Chopin himself frequently gave concerts.

The 24 Preludes were partly written in Majorca in the monastery of Valldemosa in the winter of 1838 and 1839, where Chopin went with writer George Sand and her children in an attempt to mend his deteriorating health. Chopin’s moods during his stay in Majorca fluctuated wildly from great happiness to profound depression and these moods are reflected in the condensed poetic miniatures of the Preludes, which constantly change colour, chameleon-like, from the simple and joyful to the bleak, tormented and desperate.

Cast: Andras Schiff
Producer(s): Mischa Scorer
Director(s): Mischa Scorer
Format: Colour
Region: 0 (all)
Discs: 1
Classification: Exempt
Running Time: 90 minutes
Studio: Scorer Associates
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