In Search of Beethoven

Juliet Stevenson narrates this cinematographically gorgeous, educational, critically acclaimed, in-depth, 139-minute, 2009 biographical documentary that gives insights into the life, career, and music of legendary German composer Ludwig van Beethoven through photographs, musical snippets from more than 60 live performances, and interviews with violinists Vadim Repin and Janine Jansen, Beethoven scholar and editor Jonathan Del Mar, opera singer Albert Dohmen, pianists (such as Ronald Brautigam, Emanuel Ax, Paul Lewis, Leifove Andsnes, Hélène Grimaud, Kristian Bezudenhaut, Lars Vogt, and Jonathan Biss), composer Bayan Northcott, musicologists Giovanni Bietti and Hebe Jeffrey, historians (such as Ilona Schimul, Barry Cooper, Nicholas Marston, and Cliff Eisen), opera and film director Chris Kraus, cellists David Waterman and Alban Gehardt, Beethoven Haus guide Christini Kondgen, and conductors Luis Langree, Fabio Lulsi, Gianandrea Noseda, Sir Roger Norrington, and Riccardo Chailly.
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