I just watched a really nice film on SBS Television (Australia foreign language channel) called Le Concert.
See[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Concert /url]
A former world-famous conductor of the Bolshoi Theatre orchestra, known as "The Maestro," Andrey Simonovich Filipov, had had his career publicly broken by Leonid Brezhnev for defending Jewish musicians and is reduced to working as a mere janitor in the theatre where he once conducted, becoming an alcoholic in the process.
While cleaning his boss's office, he intercepts an official invitation from the prestigious Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris to replace a concert of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra that was canceled at the last minute. Filipov comes up with a plan to reunite his old orchestra, composed of old Jewish and Gypsy musicians - who also have been reduced to making a living as movers or taxi drivers - to perform in Paris and complete a performance of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, which was interrupted 30 years earlier by former KGB Agent Ivan Gavrilov, who is enrolled by Filipov in his scheme as the orchestra's manager and is actively and efficiently supporting Filipov's plan, much to the dismay of Aleksandr 'Sasha' Abramovich Grossman (the orchestra's main cellist), because he suspects that Gavrilov has his own agenda for the Paris trip.
Having watched the film two or three times, I always end up bursting into tears at the end, because even though its a comedy, its also really heart warming.
Anyway having watched the film so many times, I went on line to Apple iTunes and downloaded Anne Marie Mutter playing the Tchaikovsky's Concerto for Violin & Orchestra. I have just listened to out on my Big Bose speakers. Its just wonderful and even listening just to the music brings that all over tingly feeling
