Song Without End DVD

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Stunningly filmed in Technicolor & featuring one of the finest musical scores Hollywood has ever produced Charles Vidor&s Song Without End
- the 1960 biopic of the virtuoso pianist & composer Franz Liszt won both Oscar (1961) & Golden Globe awards (1961) Dirk Bogarde stars as Franz Liszt The finest virtuoso pianist of his day Liszt is the toast of Europe filling concert halls from Paris to Vienna & playing command performances for the crowned heads of Europe His interpretations of the works of the great composers are unsurpassed
- but he dreams that one day his own compositions will enthrall his adoring crowds As his fame grows his personal life falls apart Already involved in a scandalous affair with a French Countess (Genevieve Page) now he dreams of seducing & marrying a Russian Princess (Capucine) whose love is absolutely forbidden A musical masterpiece Song Without End features almost forty beautiful pieces by some of the world&s greatest composers including Chopin Beethoven Wagner Bach Verdi & Schumann as well as works by Liszt himself Solo piano pieces are performed by the maestro Jorge Bolet with accompaniment from the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra & the Roger Wagner Chorale Song Without End was to be the final film by Charles Vidor who died before production was complete with his place taken by George Cukor