Licensing
Photo copyright by bce films & more GmbH
A TRAIL ON THE WATER
Abbado * Nono * Pollini
60 Minutes, Digibeta, 16:9
Year of production: 2001
Directed by: Bettina Ehrhardt, Wolfgang Schreiber
Produced by: bce film
Versions: English, French, German
“A Trail on the Water” is a film about the links between three leading musicians: the composer Luigi Nono, the pianist Maurizio Pollini and the conductor Claudio Abbado.
Interviews, quotations, rehearsal excerpts and, time and again, wonderful
shots of Nono’s home city of Venice paint a fascinating and moving portrait of
the friendship that has had a unique impact on the world of music today.
The film also has wonderful passages in which Nuria Schoenberg Nono, the
composer’s devoted wife talks of her husband and his ideas. Their relationship
was highly creative. They met at the premiere of her father’s opera, Moses und
Aron. While Nono’s own style was distinctive, the Schoenberg connection was also
integral to Nono’s development.
This is a film to be recommended to anyone who wants to explore Nono’s music,
or understand the processes that create a composer. It is sensitively filmed by
people who understand music and musical intelligence, so can be enjoyed even if
purchased mainly for the Pollini performance.
For licensing and more information please contact:
Björn Jensen
email: jensen(at)gingerfoot.de
© by bce film, 2001
