The Trout, Music Film of 1969 with Du Pré, Perlman, Barenboim, Mehta & Zukerman

Subscribe to the channel for more content: Buy the DVD here: Filmmaker Christopher Nupen about the film: “In 1969 five young musicians, all of them still relatively unknown to the general public - but destined to become international artists of the highest rank - came together to play Schubert’s Trout Quintet in the new Queen Elizabeth Hall, on the south bank of the Thames, in London. Their names: Daniel Barenboim, ltzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman, Jacqueline du Pré and Zubin Mehta. The concert took place on August 30th and I guessed that it would pass into legend in time. And so the obvious thing to do was to make a film about it because film remembers our artists and their artistic personalities in a way that not one of the other media is quite able to match. The idea was not only to film the concert but to film the preparations during the whole of the preceding week and, in so doing, to present many more facets of ea