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"The concert took place on August 30th and I guessed that it would pass into legend in time. And so the obvious thing to do was to make a film about it because film remembers our artists and their artistic personalities in a way that not one of the other media is quite able to match. The idea was not only to film the concert but to film the preparations during the whole of the preceding week and, in so doing, to present many more facets of each of these gloriously talented, exuberant young musicians at work and at play, as well as in performance - to capture something of the spirit behind the event, as much as the event itself."
In 1969 five young musicians, all of them still relatively unknown to the general public - but destined to become international artists of the highest rank - came together to play Schubert's Trout Quintet in the new Queen Elizabeth Hall, on the south bank of the Thames, in London. Their names: Daniel Barenboim, ltzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman, Jacqueline du Pré and Zubin Mehta.
Filmmaker Christopher Nupen about the film:
"The concert took place on August 30th and I guessed that it would pass into legend in time. And so the obvious thing to do was to make a film about it because film remembers our artists and their artistic personalities in a way that not one of the other media is quite able to match. The idea was not only to film the concert but to film the preparations during the whole of the preceding week and, in so doing, to present many more facets of each of these gloriously talented, exuberant young musicians at work and at play, as well as in performance - to capture something of the spirit behind the event, as much as the event itself."
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Schubert wrote his popular Trout Quintet when he was just 22. It got its name because the fourth movement is a set of variations on an earlier Schubert song called, funnily enough, The Trout. The song was originally a warning to young women against being 'caught' by 'angling' young men. But Schubert didn’t set the final lines of the poem, preferring to concentrate on evoking the image of the trout in water and the reaction to it being caught by a fisherman.
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