Norman Lebrecht
Actor
Movies3
MovieDocumentaryMusicYo-Yo Ma narrates a documentary about the remarkable cellist Jacqueline du Pré, whose life and career were cut short by multiple sclerosis.
MovieDocumentaryThe stories of Jewish cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who survived Auschwitz, and of star conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, who worked with the Nazis, provide insight. The film centers around two people who represent musical culture during the Third Reich - albeit in very different ways. Wilhelm Furtwängler was a star conductor; Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, the cellist of the infamous Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz. Both shared a love for the classical German music.
Klassik unterm Hakenkreuz: Der Maestro und die Cellistin von Auschwitz
Music Under the Swastika - The Maestro and the Cellist of Auschwitz
2022
- MovieMusicDocumentary
Documentary about the state of the conducting world in the 1990s. Broadcast as part of the BBC OMNIBUS strand of documentaries.