Description
About the Author
Christopher Nupen began his broadcasting career in the Features department of BBC Radio when he wrote and presented High Festival in Siena in 1962 for the BBC Third Programme: a radio documentary of an unusual kind about the extraordinary summer music school of the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, where Nupen studied with Andres Segovia and Alirio Diaz. Nupen left the BBC and with David Findlay (lighting cameraman) and Peter Heelas (film editor) formed Allegro Films, the first entirely independent television production partnership in the United Kingdom. Since 1968, they have made over 80 televisions productions on subjects as diverse as Respighi, Mussorgsky, Brahms, Sibelius, Schubert, Paganini, Schoenberg, Piazzolla, Tchaikovsky and including The Trout, one of the most frequently broadcast films on classical music.
Reviews
'Nupen turns out to be as captivating a writer as he is a film-maker. The openness and honesty that mark out his professional work can be sensed throughout this extraordinarily candid memoir.' - Julian Haylock, The Strad; 'Nupen's deep affinity for classical music and his genuine friendship and love for the subjects of his films burns ever bright throughout this extraordinary book....' - Andrew Eales, www.pianodao.com; 'Christopher is a man of great professional expertise, great passion and wonderful humour. This book reflects these qualities in a most captivating way.' - Vladimir Ashkenazy;
Book Information
ISBN 9780995757424
Author Christopher Nupen
Page Count 256
Imprint Kahn & Averill
Publisher Kahn & Averill
Dimensions(mm) 240mm * 162mm * 30mm