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Classical KUSC Podcast - In Search of Beethoven Review
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KPCC Radio, Los Angeles - In Search of Beethoven Review
“10/10 the best film I've ever seen about a composer”
The Sun Herald
“Beethoven is like the Citizen Kane of the genre”
Slant Magazine
“An exemplary musical biopic”
The Australian
“One of the finest movies about a great musician I’ve ever seen”
The Observer
“A hit, it was so terrific I wept”
Mail on Sunday
“Expertise and passion combined, high-class”
New York Times
“Superb, an ideal introduction to the man and his music”
The Telegraph
“One of the best films I’ve seen about a musician, it gets close to the mystery that is creativity”
Financial Review
“Phil Grabsky has created a splendid work that will be a revelation to the uninitiated and a joy to music lovers”
LA Times
“Gripping”
Wall Street Journal
“Beautifully lensed and intelligently crafted”
Variety
“The music is sublime”
Sight and Sound
“In Search of Beethoven tells the story of its subject in a clear, accessible, and gimmick-free manner while still preserving, or perhaps cultivating, a core sense of wonder at the creative monuments he bequeathed to us all”
Boston Globe
“Sublime, 4 1/2 stars”
At the Movies - ABC TV
“Impressive”
Village Voice
“In Search of Beethoven is fit for a maestro”
Evening Standard
“ I could watch pianist Helene Grimaud talk for hours about Beethoven”
Club Troppo
“ As with In Search of Mozart, the highlights here involve watching and listening to gifted musicians like pianist Helene Grimaud perform Beethoven’s works”
Reel Talk Movie Reviews
“ Pianist Helene Grimaud performs a section from the 5th Piano Concerto of profound sadness and beauty that seemed to speak to me directly of the composer’s transcendence through art of his personal suffering, I have never before experienced music ‘speaking’ to me like that”
The Boomtown Rap
“Emanuel Ax is delightfully disarming as he explains Beethoven’s piano technique”
Classic FM Magazine
“Absorbing and mischievous analysis of Beethoven’s piano writing from Emanuel Ax”
BBC Music Magazine
“Emanuel Ax and Helene Grimaud provide excellent perspectives as pianists”
Evening Standard
“Professional confessionals, particularly the contributions from Ax, are the highlights of this film”
The Arts Desk
“A mesmerising performance of the Kreutzer Sonata with Itamar Golan and Janine Jansen”
Club Troppo
"I was extremely impressed by Ronald Brautigam. He was demonstrating the difficulty in playing Beethoven's early piano concerto in E flat (WoO 4)"
Beethoven Reference Site
"Some of the worlds prestigious and talented performers, historians and musicologists , including Jonathan Biss, Gianandrea Noseda, Claudio Abbado, Fabio Luisi, Ronald Brautigam, Helene Grimaud and Vadim Repin, offer thought-provoking and enthusiastic commentary on this prolific composer"
Spirituality and Practice
“The beating heart of the film is Beethoven’s music , and Grabsky brings on a dizzying parade of performers to rhapsodize about their hero and offer lovely live renditions”
Boston Phoenix
“An endearing human biography, every bit as wonderful a In Search of Mozart”
Chicago Tribune
“Exhilarating, A must see”
The Listener
“Enormously insightful, lots of music exquisitely performed”
Time Out London
“Serious, thoughtful and enlightening”
Classic FM
“Exhilarating”
The Age
“It's impossible to be deaf to the superb soundtrack underscoring Grabsky's presentation”
Empire Australia
“A meticulous work: ambitious, lucid sensitive, visually handsome”
The Weekend Australian
“4 star, Intriguing elegant film”
The Sydney Morning Herald
“Phil Grabsky’s beautifully shot film, hardly hit a wrong note”
The Times
“Like Grabsky’s previous work, In Search of Mozart, this brings his subject to life with considerable verve and a light, human touch”
Daily Mail
“One of the best movie experiences of this year”
Boomtown Rap
“revelatory and interesting”
Film Ink Magazine
“I can't imagine anything more of significance about this composer that could have been added that would have made it more effective”
Cinema Signals
“Fabulous and insightful, Grabsky has sculpted a mesmerising film”
Urban Cinephile
“Fascinating and intelligent documentar, A film which will appeal to music lovers and cinemagoers alike”
The National Business Review
“Aside from being enormously entertaining, I learned a lot from this film (including and understanding and new appreciation of Beethoven’s piano works) and you can’t ask more from a documentary than that”
Sawbones
“Whether you are a classical music expert or just curious about the man and his life, In Search of Beethoven can easily quell any curiosity one may have about the man and his music”
Las Cruces
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