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Clara Haskil: Musical Style and Language
Clara Haskil – Le mystère de l’interprète
Dir.: Pascal Cling, Prune Jaillet, Pierre-Olivier François | 70 minutes

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She is a musician of musicians, for whom listening to her interpretations of classical works is equivalent to a pilgrimage

Lecture by: Dr. Ron Regev

Concert performed by: Ron Regev piano

In the program: BachChorale arrangement by Busoni, ScarlattiSonata in C Major, MozartSonata in C minor, BeethovenSonata in C minor

Switzerland 2017 | 70 minutes | French | Hebrew, English subtitles

Pianist Clara Haskil kept her distance from the media, did no interview, and none of her famous concerts were ever filmed. And yet she gradually succeeded in exerting a unique charisma. What is the secret of this special woman, who continues to fascinate us to this day? And what is that enigma of the interpreter that she embodies so perfectly? This question, which permeates throughout the whole film, allows Clara Haskil to be discovered as a person and an artist and whom Vladimir Horowitz, Pablo Casals, Christian Zacharias and Charlie Chaplin recognized as the “perfect interpreter”.

The film tells the story of the incredible fate of pianist Clara Haskil. She was celebrated very early as a prodigy. At the tender age of five, she was sent by her family from Bucharest to Vienna, and later, under the care of her strict uncle, to Paris to continue her studies. She will suffer from chronic health issues, survive two world wars, anti-Semitism, before having to go into exile in Vevey, Switzerland. That’s where she found the proper support, in the early fifties, to begin the career she deserved for so long, world fame and undeniable recognition.