Rise and Shine

< Soundtrack >    1. "With a Girl Like You" (Reg Presley) - The Troggs  2. "Why do They Doubt Our Love" written & perf by Johnny O'Keefe  3. Polonaise in A flat major, Op. 53 (Frederic Chopin) - Ricky Edwards  4. "Fast zu Ernst" - Scenes from Childhood, Op. 15 (Robert Schumann) - Wilhelm Kempff  5. La Campanella (Franz Liszt) - David Helfgott  6. Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C sharp minor (Liszt) - David Helfgott  7. "The Flight of the Bumble Bee" (Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov) - David Helfgott  8. Gloria, RV 589 (Antonio Vivaldi)  9. "Un sospiro" (Liszt) - David Helfgott 10. "Nulla in mundo pax sincera" Vivaldi - Jane Edwards (vocals), Geoffrey Lancaster (harpsichord), Gerald Keuneman (cello) 11. "Daisy Bell" (Harry Dacre) - Ricky Edwards 12. "Funiculi, Funicula" (Luigi Denza) 13. Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30 (Sergei Rachmaninoff) - David Helfgott 14. Prelude in C sharp minor, Op. 3, No. 2 (Rachmaninoff) - David Helfgott 15. Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 (Ludwig van Beethoven) 16. Sonata No. 23 in F minor, "Appassionata", Op. 57 (Beethoven) - Ricky Edwards 17. Prelude in D flat major, "Raindrop", Op. 28, No. 15 (Chopin)

With hot summer sun, flowers and bumblebees showing up, let’s enjoy an inspirational clip from the Oscar award-winning film “Shine“. Arguably, this scene shines the brightest of them all.     Australian pianist David Helfgott was the subject of the 1996 Oscar-awarded film Shine, which dealt with the pianist’s formative years and struggle with mental illness. He became known as a child prodigy after his father started teaching him the piano when he was five. At the age of nineteen, Helfgott won a scholarship to study at the Royal College of Music in London, where he studied under the pianist Cyril Smith for three years. The awards he won at the RCM included the Dannreuther Prize for Best Concerto Performance for his performance of Rachmaninov’s 3rd Piano Concerto, and the Marmaduke Barton Prize.