André Previn is one of the most multi-talented and prominent musicians of our time, a composer of music of all genres, a conductor, arranger, pianist and jazz musician.
He won, among countless Awards, four Oscars for his movie scores, had 13 Oscar nominations and he received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010
This intimate portrait features Anne-Sophie Mutter, Mia Farrow, Oscar Peterson, Renée Fleming, Lukas Previn
Bonus: Two Mozart Piano Quartets (featuring members of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, filmed in 2000)
Running Time Total: 107 minutes
Documentary: 52 minutes
Mozart Quartets: 55 minutes
Picture 16:9, color
Sound PCM Stereo
Subtitles German, English, French, Spanish
March 2011
“Engaging, offbeat and ultimately rather slight, this idiosyncratic Anglo-Germanic documentary will delight admirers of a man who bestrides so many worlds that it is difficult to know which two the directors Lillian Birnbaum and Peter Stephan Jungk had in mind.”
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