New purchases:
Copying Beethoven (dvd): The young composition student Anna Holtz (Diane Kruger) is asked to help the deaf Ludwig van Beethoven (Ed Harris) by copying his ninth symfonie.
Music is the language of God. We musicians are as close to God as man can be. We hear his voice, we read his lips, we give birth to the children of God, who sing him praise. That’s what musicians are. (Ludwig van Beethoven)
An artist is someone who has learnt to trust in himself. (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Impromptu (dvd): Movie that tells the story of the complicated relationship between the feminist novelist George Sand (Judy Davis) and the briliant pianist/composer Frederic Chopin (Hugh Grant).
I am not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love. That is all. But I love strongly, exclusively and steadfastly. (George Sand)
I know the man. He is not a man, he is a woman. He is all emotion and refinement. He has very few defenses. (Marie D’Agoult)
Mahler (dvd): In a briliant Ken Russel gives us an inside look on the most important moments of Gustav Mahler’s live. We follow Gustav Mahler (Robert Powell) and his wife Alma (Georgina Hale) during a train journey to Vienna. We get to know their history through flashbacks.
I can’t remember, what religion are you?
I am a composer.
