DVD + Blu-Ray:
Lucas Debargue – To Music

A documentary by Martin Mirabel about a year-long journey through the French pianist Lucas Debargue’s encounters, discoveries and quest for music.

A performer of fierce integrity and dazzling communicative power, young French pianist Lucas Debargue became the most talked-about artist of the fifteenth International Tchaikovsky Competition, he was awarded the coveted Moscow Music Critic’s Prize as a player whose “incredible gift, artistic vision, and creative freedom have impressed the critics as well as the audience”.
This film offers unique insights into Debargue’s life as a musician at the beginning of a remarkable career, with rehearsals and concerts from Moscow to Chicago via Weimar and Salerno, revealing talents as a composer and jazz improvisor and his first-time entry into a world of recording studios, touring and fame, in a crucial year of discoveries.

LUCAS DEBARGUE
To music

With
RENA SHERESHEVSKAYA
DAVID CASTRO-BALBI, Violin
ALEXANDRE CASTRO-BALBI, Cello

A film written and directed by
MARTIN MIRABEL

Pictures ALEXANDRE SWITON and STEFANO FORLINI
Sound VICTOR LOEILLET
Editing LAURENCE MILLER

Producers FRANÇOIS DUPLAT and AMAURY LAFARGE
Filmed on location in Beauvais, Berlin, Chicago, Compiègne, Moscow, Salerno and Weimar from October 2015 to January 2017.

BONUS
· Improvisation on Duke Ellington’s Caravan
· Nikolay Medtner Piano Sonata in F minor, Op. 5 (excerpt)

[2.110639 / NBD0101V]
Total playing time: 111 min · Language: French · Subtitles: FR, EN, DE, JP, KR
DVD: NTSC 16:9 · PCM stereo · DVD 9 · Region: 0 (Worldwide)
BD: HD 16:9 · PCM stereo · BD 50 · Region: A, B, C
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