27. Nosferatu: film screening with live performance by Neil Brand
16 October 2019, 15:00 - 16:45
Concert
T.S. Eliot Theatre, Merton College
Merton College
Rose Lane OX1 4JD
A rare opportunity to experience F.W. Murnau’s 1922 cinematic masterpiece, Nosferatu, with live piano accompaniment performed by Neil Brand. The ‘doyen of silent film pianists’ (Radio 4), Neil Brand is a Visiting Professor at the Royal Academy of Music, a regular presenter on BBC Radio and TV, and is widely regarded as one of the world’s finest improvising piano accompanists. He introduces this ‘symphony of horror’ before a complete screening and performance.
Watch some highlights of Nosferatu:
Watch Neil Brand accompanying The Phantom Carriage:
Neil Brand
Neil Brand
Silent-film accompanist
Neil Brand has been a silent film accompanist for over 30 years, regularly in London at the Barbican and BFI National Film Theatres, throughout the UK and at film festivals and special events around the world, including Australia, New Zealand (three times), America, Israel, Sweden, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, and, in Italy, the Bologna, Aosta, Bergamo and Pordenone festivals where he has inaugurated the School of Music and Image to teach up- and-coming young pianists about silent film accompaniment. Training originally ... Read Full BiographyHave you also considered...
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Tickets
Call: 01865 591 276
| Tickets | General Admission | £10.00 |
General Admission
Under 35s Ticket |
£5.00 |
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This event is part of a series:
Tales of Beyond - Magic, Myths and Mortals
The 18th Oxford Lieder Festival will explore life, death, and the mysterious areas between and beyond. Sprites and nymphs cause mayhem and mischief, while legends abound from Greco-Roman sagas to the Lorelei and the Erlking. Storytelling with the Crick Crack Club, a ghost tour, a magic show and more all complement the myriad concerts, masterclasses and study events over a packed fortnight....