LUCAS DEBARGUE – To Music

A film by Martin Mirabel

with
Rena Shereshevskaya, piano
David Castro-Balbi, violin
Alexandre Castro-Balbi, cello

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. 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.

Recorded in Beauvais, Berlin, Chicago, Compiègne, Moscow, Salerno and Weimar, October 2015–January 2017

Bonus:
- Improvisation on Duke Ellington’s Caravan
- Nikolay Medtner Piano Sonata in F Minor, Op. 5 (excerpts)

Picture format: NTSC 16:9
Sound format: PCM Stereo
Region code: 0 (worldwide)
Audio language: French
Subtitles: French, English, German, Japanese, Korean
Running time: 84 mins (documentary) + 26 mins (bonus)
No. of DVDs: 1 (DVD 9)