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The Art of Violin
Movie"The Devils Instrument Transcending The Violin"
A film written and directed by Bruno Monsaingeon Drawing on archival performance footage and interviews The Art of Violin evokes the vast panorama of the world of the violin in the 20th century and its most outstanding performers It is hard to express the explosions of joy occasioned by the discovery of long soughtout but undreamedof archives such as some silent and later resynchronised film footage or the few brief moments of Chaussons Poeme played by Ginette Neveu the silent yet moving in every sense of the wordimages of Kreisler and Ysaye the awe of a young Menuhin the superb single camera shot of David Oistrakh performing the cadenza from Shostakovichs First Concerto Contributions from Ivry Gitlis Ida Haendel Hilary Hahn Laurent Korcia Yehudi Menuhin Itzhak Perlman and Mstislav Rostropovich Produced by PierreOlivier Bardet amp Stephen Wright
DirectorBruno Monsaingeon
