Christopher Nupen

Christopher Nupen

Christopher Nupen (1934-2023) was a South African-born filmmaker based in the United Kingdom specialising in biographical documentaries of musicians.

  • Title: Christopher Nupen
  • Popularity: 0.0979
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1934-09-30
  • Place of Birth: South Africa
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Christopher Nupen Movies

  • 2021
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    Listening through the Lens: The Christopher Nupen Films

    Listening through the Lens: The Christopher Nupen Films

    1 2021 HD

    Documentary about Christopher Nupen, a pioneering film director who championed classical music on television, seizing upon his unique access to a...

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  • 2009
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    Alice Sommer: Everything Is a Present

    Alice Sommer: Everything Is a Present

    1 2009 HD

    Documentary about pianist and Holocaust survivor Alice Sommer Herz. In the concentration camps she played more than 100 concerts, and credits music...

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  • 2009
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    Alice Sommer: Everything Is a Present

    Alice Sommer: Everything Is a Present

    1 2009 HD

    Documentary about pianist and Holocaust survivor Alice Sommer Herz. In the concentration camps she played more than 100 concerts, and credits music...

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  • 1976
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    Segovia at Los Olivos

    Segovia at Los Olivos

    1 1976 HD

    From his home in Granada, pioneering guitarist Andres Segovia looks back on his 60-year music career and his contribution to Western music.

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  • 1988
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    Tchaikovsky: Women & Fate

    Tchaikovsky: Women & Fate

    1 1988 HD

    Two Christopher Nupen films about the music and the artistic intentions of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, one of the greats and a composer who appeals to...

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  • 2004
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    Jacqueline du Pré in Portrait

    Jacqueline du Pré in Portrait

    1 2004 HD

    A re-release of two of Christopher Nupen's most cherished Jacqueline du Pré films. The first is a portrait film which was epoch-making when it...

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  • 1975
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    Pinchas Zukerman: Here to Make Music

    Pinchas Zukerman: Here to Make Music

    1 1975 HD

    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...

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  • 1970
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    The Trout

    The Trout

    1 1970 HD

    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...

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  • 2004
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    We Want the Light

    We Want the Light

    1 2004 HD

    The struggles of the world’s Jewish people over the course of several centuries are expressed and explored through the music they inspired in...

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  • 1994
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    The Greatest Love and the Greatest Sorrow

    The Greatest Love and the Greatest Sorrow

    1 1994 HD

    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...

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  • 1970
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    Vladimir Ashkenazy: The Vital Juices Are Russian

    Vladimir Ashkenazy: The Vital Juices Are Russian

    1 1970 HD

    This film is a portrait film of Vladimir Ashkenazy directed by Christopher Nupen. It includes sequences with Itzhak Perlman, Daniel Barenboim, Edo de...

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  • 1998
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    Zubin Mehta: A World full of Music

    Zubin Mehta: A World full of Music

    1 1998 HD

    The world famous conductor reminisces about his life in a wide ranging discussion about his varied and successful career.

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  • 1970
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    The Ghost

    The Ghost

    1 1970 HD

    This performance in May 1970, at St. John’s Smith Square, was filmed before the onset of Jacqueline du Pré’s illness in the early...

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  • 1985
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    The Language Of The New Music

    The Language Of The New Music

    1 1985 HD

    This is a film about Ludwig Wittgenstein and Arnold Schoenberg; two men whose lives and ideas run parallel in the development of Viennese radicalism....

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  • 1992
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    Nathan Milstein: In Portrait

    Nathan Milstein: In Portrait

    1 1992 HD

    A documentary portrait of famed Ukrainian-American violinist Nathan Milstein (1903–92), covering his life and career through conversations with...

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  • 1992
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    Nathan Milstein: In Portrait

    Nathan Milstein: In Portrait

    1 1992 HD

    A documentary portrait of famed Ukrainian-American violinist Nathan Milstein (1903–92), covering his life and career through conversations with...

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  • 1978
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    Itzhak Perlman: Virtuoso Violinist

    Itzhak Perlman: Virtuoso Violinist

    1 1978 HD

    Documentary on the life and career of violinist Itzhak Perlman, including interviews, archival footage, and concert performances.

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  • 1987
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    Ashkenazy Observed

    Ashkenazy Observed

    1 1987 HD

    Documentary about Soviet-born pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy.

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  • 1979
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    Beethoven, Mozart & Brahms Piano Concertos

    Beethoven, Mozart & Brahms Piano Concertos

    1 1979 HD

    Pollini plays flawlessly, with the greatest finesse and sensitivity, very much in tune with each composer's personal style. His performances are...

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  • 2008
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    Vivaldi Le Quattro Stagioni

    Vivaldi Le Quattro Stagioni

    1 2008 HD

    In April 1981 violinist Gidon Kremer performed Vivaldi's Four Seasons leading the English Chamber Orchestra recorded in the baroque library of the...

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  • 1999
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    Evgeny Kissin: The Gift of Music

    Evgeny Kissin: The Gift of Music

    8 1999 HD

    Evgeny Igorevich Kissin was born in Moscow on the 10th of October 1971. He started to play the piano at the age of two, as soon as he was tall enough...

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  • 1999
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    Evgeny Kissin: The Gift of Music

    Evgeny Kissin: The Gift of Music

    8 1999 HD

    Evgeny Igorevich Kissin was born in Moscow on the 10th of October 1971. He started to play the piano at the age of two, as soon as he was tall enough...

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  • 1991
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    Evgeny Kissin Plays Schubert, Brahms, Bach, Liszt, and Gluck

    Evgeny Kissin Plays Schubert, Brahms, Bach, Liszt, and Gluck

    1 1991 HD

    Russian pianist Evgeny Kissin delivers a virtuoso performance of remarkable depth and artistry in this 1990 concert recorded live in Munich at...

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  • 1977
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    Andrés Segovia: The Song of the Guitar

    Andrés Segovia: The Song of the Guitar

    1 1977 HD

    In this stunning film by Christopher Nupen, Segovia returns to the Granada of his youth, site of his personal and musical formation. The world-famous...

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  • 1977
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    Andrés Segovia: The Song of the Guitar

    Andrés Segovia: The Song of the Guitar

    1 1977 HD

    In this stunning film by Christopher Nupen, Segovia returns to the Granada of his youth, site of his personal and musical formation. The world-famous...

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  • 2017
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    Jacqueline du Pré: A Gift Beyond Words

    Jacqueline du Pré: A Gift Beyond Words

    1 2017 HD

    A tribute to Jacqueline du Pré to mark the thirtieth anniversary of her death thirty years ago, on 19 October 1987. The film contains archive...

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  • 2017
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    Jacqueline du Pré: A Gift Beyond Words

    Jacqueline du Pré: A Gift Beyond Words

    1 2017 HD

    A tribute to Jacqueline du Pré to mark the thirtieth anniversary of her death thirty years ago, on 19 October 1987. The film contains archive...

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  • 2025
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    Jacqueline du Pré: Genius and Tragedy

    Jacqueline du Pré: Genius and Tragedy

    1 2025 HD

    Yo-Yo Ma narrates a documentary about the remarkable cellist Jacqueline du Pré, whose life and career were cut short by multiple sclerosis.

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  • 1966
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    Double Concerto

    Double Concerto

    1 1966 HD

    Documentary film about Vladimir Ashkenazy's and Daniel Barenboim's 1966 performance of Mozart's Concerto for 2 Pianos in E-flat major with the...

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  • 1966
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    Double Concerto

    Double Concerto

    1 1966 HD

    Documentary film about Vladimir Ashkenazy's and Daniel Barenboim's 1966 performance of Mozart's Concerto for 2 Pianos in E-flat major with the...

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  • 1976
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    Segovia at Los Olivos

    Segovia at Los Olivos

    1 1976 HD

    From his home in Granada, pioneering guitarist Andres Segovia looks back on his 60-year music career and his contribution to Western music.

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  • 1972
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    Le Grand Échiquier

    Le Grand Échiquier

    8 1972 HD

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