Notes and Editorial Reviews
With 120 actors, 600 participants, 1300 costumes, 220 sets and after two years of work, this film tells the fascinating story of Moliére, in four hours. How did this young boy, born in 1622 to an upholsterer and a loving mother that he was to lose to soon, become the prodigious actor, and universally acclaimed author so well, and yet so little known? From his childhood to his death, we follow Moliére and his travelling companions, in their joy, misery and glory throughout a savage yet refined XVIIth century France, sharing their first theatrical adventures, their successes and failures, their valiant struggles and moments of cowardice. This familiar and spectacular saga where the devout clash with the libertine, and famished
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peasants with wigged courtesans, is about the life of an honest man who exhausts himself in an unceasing struggle to practice his art in a century filled with repression and violent hypocrisy. Read less
Works on This Recording
1.
King Arthur, or The British Worthy, Z 628: Air by Henry Purcell
Performer:
Maurice Bevan (Baritone)
Conductor:
Alfred Deller
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Deller Consort
Period: Baroque
Written: 1691; England
2.
King Arthur, or The British Worthy, Z 628: Air by Henry Purcell
Performer:
Maurice Bevan (Baritone)
Conductor:
Alfred Deller
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Deller Consort
Period: Baroque
Written: 1691; England
3.
Molière by René Clemencic
Conductor:
René Clemencic
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Clemencic Consort
Period: 20th Century
Written: by 1978
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