Yehudi Menuhin: Concert Magic
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Actor: Adolph Baller, Antal Dorati, Eula BealDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Classical, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 75 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-09-20
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Euroarts
Movie Reviews of Yehudi Menuhin: Concert Magic
Movie Review: Yehudi Menuhin scrambles to restart his American career, and it's on film!
Summary: 4 Stars
In recent years Yehudi Menuhin has come to be known first as Sir Yehudi, and finally Lord Menuhin. This film is not about that guy. This is an almost voyeuristic look into the desperate life of a young has-been, trying to recreate something that he may have never quite understood in the first place. During the years before the making of this film, something very profound had happened to Menuhin. For a reason never revealed to his closest contacts, his playing let him down, down, and further down. It seems the harder he tried the worse it got. Living off of a name that he established as possibly the greatest wunderkind off all time, he played for wounded troops during WWII, and waited for the war to end so he could return to the German concert stage that had established him as a great artist when his age was still in single digits. During one of these trips he even went so far as to visit a liberated Nazi death camp for a photo op. In 1947 he put together with a rag-tag film company, this outrageously pretentious attempt to bring the average American (peasant) into the concert hall and introduce him/her to great musical artistry.
With his name to head the bill, backing came. Virtual unknowns to the general public were used to fill in the missing parts. After all, the film industry in Hollywood was filled with fine artists making a living without glorious names. Jakob Gimpel was the brother of concert violinist
Branislaw Gimpel, and as I grew up in Los Angeles accompanying his concerto performances with many local orchestras, I have always been partial to his playing. He is not a show stopper, but a very accurate and tasteful pianist. The soprano Eula Beale steals the movie for me. I find her to be a delicious artist, with class, taste, and a wonderfully musical style. She is well schooled, and never over sings.
But, getting back to the star of this under screened flop, Menuhin has some magnificent moments. Of course, they are all pre-records, and Menuhin never did master the art of sync playing. So the playing and the sounds don't always match. Still, the visual images reveal a unique style of playing and a mastery that was one in the world. If his unique technical style was his downfall, it is still worth seeing. His sound is as unique as his look, and it is a beautiful sound. I remember hearing it as a child and then as a young man, long after his technical mastery had become hit-and-miss. The sound, that silvery sound was the last thing to go, and when it finally did leave by the mid to late 70s, there was truly nothing left. Despite all of it's flaws and mistakes, I would recommend this film to any lover of great music or violinist. It is one of a kind,
as he was. The music will take you to a different time; a time when sheer beauty was the aesthetic goal, and the music was treated with greatest respect by the performers and audiences alike.
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