Bruno Monsaingeon

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Bruno Monsaingeon (born December 5, 1943 in Paris ) is a French violinist, film director and writer, who became known for his award-winning films about important classical artists. In particular, his film documentaries about the pianists Glenn Gould (Glenn Gould - L'Alchimiste) and Swjatoslaw Richter (Richter - L'Insoumis) are considered to be unique historical testimonies, as both artists turned little to the public and had no interviews or insights into their lives beforehand had allowed.

Life

Movies

In 1996, Monsaingeon made the documentary Death and the Maiden together with the Alban Berg Quartet and the Artemis Quartet . In addition to the chamber music rehearsals for Schubert's String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D 810 , Dietrich Fischer-Diskau can be heard at the piano and Julia Varady performing the Schubert song in D minor, D 531. Monsaingeon continued the collaboration with the Artemis Quartet and in 2001 the release of Strings Attached and the 56-minute concert film The Artemis Quartet interprets Beethoven, Verdi and Webern followed . Stings Attached shows the string quartet working on Beethoven's Great Fugue op. 133 in B flat major and on concert tours. The film received an award at the UNESCO Festival of Art and Pedagogical Films (FIFAP) in 2002. In 2001 the two-part documentary The Art of Violin was made for the Warner Music Group . On the basis of archive recordings and interviews with and from important violin virtuosos and up-and-coming artists, Monsaingeon provides insights into the violin world of the 20th century "as usual, taught and touching. In 2000 Monsaingeon recognized the pianist Francesco Libetta as one of the “most remarkable virtuoso child prodigies of all time” and in 2003 published his recital from the International Piano Festival of La Roque d'Antherono 2002. Also in 2001, Monsaingeon portrayed the Polish pianist Piotr Anderszewski in Piotr Anderszewski plays Beethoven Diabelli Variations for the first time, in 2008 the documentary Piotr Anderszewski followed: Unquiet Traveler and in 2010 for Polish television Piotr Anderszewski plays Schumann . At the International Festival for Audiovisual Programs Fipa (Fipa - Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels) in Biarritz, France, Piotr Anderszewski: Unquiet Traveler was awarded the Fipa d'Or in the Performing Arts category.

In 2003 Monsaingeon met the Ukrainian violinist Valeri Sokolow and dedicated a 93-minute portrait to him. The focus of the film is a concert recording from September 2004 in Toulouse with works by Beethoven, Saint-Saëns and Dvorák, supplemented by archive recordings and interviews. A film portrait about the Hungarian-German opera and concert singer Julia Varady , in which “concert recordings and interview scenes alternate with the lessons”, followed in 2007. Monsaingeon accompanied the French pianist and conductor David Fray to his rehearsals with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen in 2008 The first record, the two-hour documentary about the conducting pianist, was broadcast on Arte in June 2011.

music

Monsaingeon transcribed the clarinet parts of Mozart's Concerto in A major KV 622 for piano. The work was premiered in 2004 in Yekaterinburg with the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra and Boris Berezovsky as soloists.

Monsaingeon lives in Paris.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1974: Glenn Gould the Alchemist (documentary)
  • 1980: Double portrait of Zoltán Kocsis and Dezső Ránki
  • 1994: Yehudi Menuhin - The Violinist of the Century (documentary)
  • 1995: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - The Voice of the Soul (Documentary)
  • 1996: Death and the Maiden (documentary about the Alban Berg Quartet )
  • 1998: Richter - The Unyielding (Documentary)
  • 1998: David Oistrach - Artist of the People? (Documentary)
  • 2001: The Art of Violin (documentary about violin virtuosos of the 20th century)
  • 2001: Strings Attached (documentary about the Alban Berg Quartet and the Artemis Quartet )
  • 2001: The Artemis Quartet interprets Beethoven, Verdi and Webern (concert film)
  • 2001: Piotr Anderszewski plays Beethoven Diabelli Variations (documentary)
  • 2003: Francesco Libetta performs works by Strauss, Liszt and Saint-Saëns (concert film)
  • 2004: Forbidden Notes - Musical Life in the Soviet Union (documentary)
  • 2004: Valeriy Sokolov - Natural Born Fiddler (documentary)
  • 2006: Glenn Gould - Hereafter (documentary)
  • 2006: Glenn Gould plays Bach (trilogy, consisting of the documentaries The Question of Instruments , An Art of the Fugue and the concert film The Goldberg Variations )
  • 2007: Julia Varady . Song of Passion - a documentary
  • 2008: Notes Interdites. (The Red Baton and Gennadi Rozhdestvensky : Conductor or Conjuror?)
  • 2008: Swing, sing & think - David Fray records Bach (documentary)
  • 2008: Piotr Anderszewski: Unquiet Traveler (documentary)
  • 2009: Grigory Sokolov - Live in Paris (concert film)
  • 2010: Piotr Anderszewski plays Schumann (documentary)
  • 2013: The Bruno Monsaingeon Edition Vol. 1: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
  • 2014: The Bruno Monsaingeon Edition Vol. 2: Yehudi Menuhin
  • 2014: Maurizio Pollini - De main de maitre (documentary)
  • 2016: The Bruno Monsaingeon Edition Vol. 3: Richter / Rozhdestvensky
  • 2017: Mstislav Rostropovich : The Untamed Bow (Documentary)

Books

  • Bruno Monsaingeon: Mademoiselle: Entretiens avec Nadia Boulanger . Editions Van de Velde, Paris 1980, ISBN 978-2-858-68068-9 . (French)
  • Bruno Monsaingeon (ed.): Le Dernier puritain. Text by Glenn Gould . Fayard, Paris 1983, ISBN 978-2-213-01352-7 . (French)
  • Bruno Monsaingeon (ed.): Contrepoint à la ligne. Text by Glenn Gould. Fayard, Paris 1985, ISBN 978-2-213-01657-3 . (French)
  • Bruno Monsaingeon (Ed.): Non, je ne suis pas du tout un excentrique. Text by Glenn Gould. Fayard, Paris 1986, ISBN 978-2-213-01815-7 . (French)
  • Bruno Monsaingeon: Richter, Ecrits et Conversations. Publishers Éditions Van de Velde, Paris, Actes Sud, Arles and Arte Editions, Strasbourg 1998, ISBN 978-2-742-71981-5 (French). Translation Anne Feichtner by Ian, Svyatoslaw Richter: My life, my music. Staccato Verlag, Düsseldorf 2015, ISBN 978-3-932-97627-8 .
  • Bruno Monsaingeon: Passion Menuhin: L'album d'une vie. Éditions Textuel, Paris 2000, ISBN 978-2-909-31796-0 . (French)
  • Bruno Monsaingeon (Ed.): Journal d'une crise and Correspondance de concert. Glenn Gould's diary entries and correspondence from 1977-8. Fayard, Paris 2002, ISBN 2-213-61374-5 . (French)

Awards (selection)

Prices

  • 1999: Prix Pelléas, Paris
  • 1998: Royal Philharmonic Society Award in the radio, television, video category for Richter - The Unyielding
  • 2001: Grand price audiovisuel from the Charles Cros Academy for The Art of Violin
  • 2009: FIPA d'Or (Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels in Biarritz ) in the Performing Arts category for Piotr Anderszewski: Unquiet Traveler
  • 2016: Cremona Music Award in the Communication category
  • 2019: Prix du Meilleur Portrait for Mstislaw Rostropowitsch: The untamed bow at the Festival International du Film sur l'Art in Montreal

Honors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Strings attached. EuroArts, accessed on October 28, 2017 .
  2. ↑ BB: The Art of Violin. Billboard , January 19, 2002, accessed on October 28, 2017 (English): "[...] he brings his usual erudite, enlightened touch here & nbsp [...]."
  3. ^ The Art of Violin. In: YouTube . EuroArtsChannel, December 10, 2012, accessed on October 28, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Francesco Libetta performs works by Strauss, Liszt and Saint-Saëns. La Roque d'Anthéron 2002. medici-tv, accessed on October 28, 2017 (English): "[…] one of the most remarkable virtuoso prodigies of all time."
  5. ^ Roque d'Antheron 2002 - Francesco Libetta. EuroArts, accessed on October 28, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Natural born fiddler. medici.tv, accessed on October 28, 2017 (English).
  7. ↑ Valery Sokolov. The violinist of the soul. In: Kulturportal Russland. German-Russian Forum , accessed on October 28, 2017 .
  8. ↑ pt / wa: Julia Varady - master class. Music Today, December 6, 2011, accessed November 24, 2019 .
  9. ^ Raymond Tuttle: Julia Varady, Song of Passion. Classical Net, 2007, accessed November 24, 2019 .
  10. ↑ David Fray: Sing, swing & think. medici-tv, accessed on October 28, 2017 (English).
  11. ↑ Wieland Aschinger: David Fray records Johann Sebastian Bach. Music Today, June 20, 2011, accessed October 28, 2017 .
  12. ^ A meeting with Bruno Monsaingeon. PianoAndCo, accessed January 27, 2018 .
  13. ^ Susan Leckey: The Europa Directory of Literary Awards and Prizes. Routledge (Verlag) | Routledge, London 2002, ISBN 978-1-8574-3146-9 ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  14. ^ Creative Communication: Past Winners. Royal Philharmonic Society , accessed October 27, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Le palmarès de l'Académie Charles Cros. L'Obs , November 26, 2001, accessed November 24, 2019 (French).
  16. ^ Piotr Anderszewski: Unquiet Traveler. International Music and Media Center, accessed on October 27, 2019 .
  17. ^ Cremona Musica Awards. Cremona Musica Award, accessed October 27, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Palmarès. Festival International du Film sur l'Art, accessed on October 27, 2019 (French).
  19. ^ NEC Honorary Doctor of Music Degree. New England Conservatory of Music , accessed October 27, 2019 .
  20. ↑ Bruno Monsaingeon honored with the EBU-IMZ Lifetime Achievement Award 2018. International Music and Media Center , accessed on October 27, 2019 .
  21. ↑ 8è édition - 2018. Festival International du Livre d'Art et du Film. Festival international du livre d'art et du film, accessed on October 27, 2019 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Monsaingeon, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French violinist, film director and writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris