In his latest theatrical musical film Hershey Felder portrays the flamboyant Liszt, but performs a great deal of Chopin’s music as he spins a story of his complex artistic relationship with the composer, paying homage to an artist he admired and envied.
Antonio Lysy as Franchomme, Boris Giltburg as Chopin, Hershey Felder as Liszt.
Felder, who now lives in Italy, has for the most part stepped away from live performance. But during the past several years he has developed a vast catalog of original, richly theatrical films. They are works that are deeply rooted in both music and theater and delve into the history, romance and complex lives of artists.
Born in 1810 in a small town outside of Warsaw, Poland — the son of a Polish mother and French father — Chopin moved to Paris in 1830. But his soul never quite left his homeland, and his work drew heavily on Polish folk music as exemplified in his renowned mazurkas, nocturnes, polonaises, waltzes and sonatas, and visualized in this film by brief clips of Polish dancers in emblematic costumes.
Liszt was born in Austria in 1811, moved with his family to Paris in 1823, and became a sensation on stages throughout Europe. A brilliant composer in his own right, he was a flamboyant performer despite being in awe of Chopin’s more haunting poetic genius.
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