A Song to Remember

[2247mariamaria]

WHATS THE NAME OF THIS FILM?

[keyboardmagic]

@2247mariamaria The name of this film is "A Song to Remember" c.1945.

[Leomusicalheart]

magnificent master! =)

[CarMarkids]

I fell in love with Chopin (and with Cornel Wilde!) when I saw this movie at age 11. I was frightened by the blood falling on the keyboard and delighted by the handshake scene. I watch the DVD often and never tire of it. Glad to see there are others who love it too. Let's not forget it was the great Jose Iturbi who played the piano for this movie.. ....

[ss501meng]

what's this song's name?!!please tell me!! thanks a lot~!!^^

[columnsx]

@ss501meng Chopin's heroic polonaise

[brichi2006]

@ss501meng

to be more specific this is :Chopin: Polonaise #6 In A Flat, Op. 53, "Héroïque".

[arcopizzicato]

what are they playing?

[1Thompsonmusic]

This is my favourite Chopin interpreter, and I don't even know who he is.

[sytarb]

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[sytarb]

En esta parte Chopin cree que le estan robando su musica y es solo Lizt que se maravilla de la composicion y mas tarde ayuda a un desconocido Chopin a ingresar al dificil mundo de la elite europea por pura admiracion y generosidad entre artistas. Bella pelicula!

[dsyglym]

hahahha he can't act like a pianist... he moves so fake with his arms... :/

[knowsnotu2]

True Grieg did infact bring his music to Liszt. Liszt sight read the whole piece.

Sorry folks I just dont think you can find this movie anywhere, just not popular enough, but I have the movie, got lucky. there is a triology . Song with love (Schumann) Song to Remeber (Chopin) and Song without End (Liszt) All fantastic if you are a music lover.

[retrogamerdave]

their pianist acting SUCKS

so lame

[norb1937]

Bravo

[landersadit]

Can they really play piano? i mean the actors

[ilikehaku1100]

This is actually one of the best renditions ever of this Polonaise!

[boardnjiu]

you spelled Frédéric wrong. . . .

[artkkw]

@boardnjiu

Thanks!

[marcjusz]

@boardnjiu original : F r y d e r y k

[nech1935]

we want the whole film

[Bickaa8012]

Here's something interesting: Cornel Wilde died on October 16, 1989 at age 74, just one day shy of Chopin 140th death date. I find it very much a coincidence.

[latriaca]

me parece que no es tan importante la rigurosidad con que se compara lo histórico con lo que la fantasía del cine nos propone, la idea es exaltar lo emotivo de la situación del encuentro entre un consagrado con otro que habría de serlo.

[pdogone1]

love this scene first time i saw it in the 1950's

[maxi937]

Chopin did not have black hair! I used to think he did, until I read that he had 'light awburn'

[sjmh280491]

Maybe the director or the producer or someone, looked at all the pictures of him.

[CD122344]

The title is A Song to Remember. Iturbi played the piano background. The real playing hands were Nyiregyhazi's not Iturbi's. The Studio said I's hand too stubby for Wild's body! Young Chopin is playing the famous Mozart Sonata in C major 1st mov. and is playing the 2nd mov. when he starts pounding the piano. He plays the middle section of the "minute" waltz for his teacher which Chopin may have written as a young boy. At the trill he grows up. And yes most of the movie is fiction a la Hollywood!

[Ratondequesos]

Y pensar que en castellano se llamó "Melodia Inolvidable", gracias a esta pelicula conocí la musica selecta siendo Frederic Chopin mi idolo en musica de piano. I saw this movie in my childhood, I would like yo see it other time, it was the best version, the polish version is ....., no best,...only better,... no more.....cuac.

[ophelieramboud]

Can anyone tell me what song is played by Chopin when he's just a child in this movie?

[Platinumpiano]

Sorry, I couldn't believe that was the title:-*

Thank you:-))

[Platinumpiano]

This is too fantastic!!!I need to know the title for adding this movie in my collection!Can you write it for me please?

Bravo for adding it!!!!!

[trooper2k]

A song to remember !!!!

[virtualstrangers60]

I really like this movie, and Cornel is so adorable. Great post. Nice to see it again.

[ShawDAMAN]

looks like a nice, if inaccurate film

[chopinandliszt]

I like Chopin and Liszt, but I must admit this kind of meeting never happened. What's the point of making fictional stories look true? I mean, they were friends, but the polonaise was composed more than 10 years after they became friends. I like it when biopic movies stay as faithful as possible to true facts. Furthermore, Chopin didn't teach at the Warsaw Conservatory, didn't compose Fantasy Impromptu, Etude Op.25 No.1 before leaving Poland. Gives me the impression that this movie's heromaking.

[WasabiJinn]

it is obviously, its a great film, there not gonna make it perfect...........

[IQ40000]

it depends on how you look at it, but I don't think it's great. It contains much false information. Clearly, it disguises itself to be "completely based on true events", as it doesn't tell the audience what parts of Chopin life they abridged. It's one of those "shallow hero-making videos". Chopin was one of the greatest pianist-composers in history . I'm not denying that, but there shouldn't be any false misconceptions that distort history and cloud people's views about the great virtuoso.

[JCPUTT]

@IQ40000 Being an absolute perfectionist you can find nothing great.

When the only thing great is IQ40000. Enjoy your greatness and allow us

low life pukes to be entertained. And we will smile, enjoy and applaud

while your holiness frowns. We will sleep better.

[ol123r]

I want to watch this movie again, I saw it on school and I liked it, somebody has a link? I've been looking for it in stores but haven't find it. By the way, I know about P2P programs but that is not an option... =(

Thanks for sharing this part.

[Bufalocarlos]

Im downloading it via Ares..If I get it right I could send it to you...Carlos from Argentina

[dquibs]

Funny. How could Chopin, who said he'd play the melody while Liszt played bass, shake hands with his right hand? No problem with Liszt playing base with his left while shaking with his right hand Chopin's right hand. But Chopin shaking playing melody with his left? Impossible!!

[danofsydney]

Chopin could easily play that Right Hand section of the piece ( at that particular part) with his left hand instead, because he knows the piece so well (he wrote it after all) and then his right hand is free to shake :)

But anyway its a great movie just enjoy it!

[elsnerr]

This magnificent movie was not made as a documentary. Instead a generalized version of his life was used to present some of his finest work, regardless of when it was written. Just watch, listen and enjoy without

concern as to the sequence of events.

[FERENCEFF]

Typical Hollywood trying for mass appeal. Better than nothing. Read a biography for the real thing. Chopin was a melancholy figure aflicted with tuberculosis. Despite this , no one can say he didn't make the most of his life!

[35federal17]

hello world

ur so COOL! :D rN

[chopinandliszt]

Polonaise Op.53 "Heroic" was composed in 1842(when Chopin was 32), more than 10 years after Chopin and Liszt became friends! In the movie, there is also a scene where 20 year-old Chopin plays his Fantasy Impromptu and Aeolian Harp Etude. They were composed when he was 25~26 years old! Considering these facts, I think this movie is historically inaccurate.

[fingerscarr]

just noticed thie gringo post . what a guttersnipe low class twerp you must be . what are you doing on a thread for more refined people

[gringo1414]

i apologies,

[fingerscarr]

accepted , cheers !

[chopinandliszt]

gringo, watch your foul language. I was only telling true facts.

[gringo1414]

i apologies its true, the movie is historically inaccurate , not only in this part

[gringo1414]

can someone tell me whats the song that is playing chopin in the begining,,, his profesor asks chopin to play something of mozart, but he plays a "vals ",,i dont know very well,,,, in the begining when hi was just a boy!!!! someone tell what song is he playing!!!!?

[adrienzo]

Minute Waltz op. 64 no.1, the slow middle section

[jjp009]

Anyone know the name of the actor who played Franz Liszt here? Man, that was one good looking son of a bitch!

[artksy]

Stephen Bekassy?

[jjp009]

Thank you. I went on IMDB and found out that he really was Hungarian, so the accent was his. Very cool.

[maxi937]

This guy looked a lot more like Liszt than Dirk Bogard (in Song without End), plus he has the right hairstyle.

[ursulie]

pienso como habria sido la vida del maravilloso Chopin , lastima que muriò enfermo y abandonado, a su lado un maestro amigo Franz Liszt, maravillosa pelicula que nos demuestra el perfecto clasisismo , exelente gracias por ponerlo!

[paulostroff99]

Glorious! Bravo! A delight for the ages!

[iluvbrownie]

love this part

[CatalinayClaudeJ]

Thank you Art, for this MASTERPIECE! I shall visit this site often! ~ Cata

[olivialeann]

that was great, thanks for downloading this. the handshake was hilarious.

[xlxderderxlx]

what man can sight read a level 9 piece of music? i lovvvved the scene, but wow, at first read?? with conversation annnnd one handed playing?? thats one impressive mothasucka if ive ever seen one

[sexyjosh666]

it's said that liszt sight read the whole of he Grieg piano concerto, he was supposed to of been the best virtuosos ever.

[OrangeSodaKing]

@sexyjosh666 Liszt sight read Grieg's piano concerto, and John Ogdon sight read Brahms' second piano concerto... While rehearsing with the orchestra!

[maxi937]

Liszt performed in public 2 of Chopin's most difficult etudes in public, half an hour after he composed them!!!!

[Marcelo721]

Uno de los clips más simbólicos de la clásica película "A Song to Remember". Se puede apreciar la visión del director en remarcar el espíritu humilde, alegre y genial de Frédéric Chopin. Asimismo, revindica, incorpora y une de la mejor manera, la amistad que existió con el gran virtuoso y genio Franz Liszt.

Una muy buena realización cinematográfica, pues se logra introducir y sentir el concepto del Piano y el romanticismo del siglo XIX.

Un saludo desde Santiago de Chile.