Icon in B Minor

Icon in B Minor: a musical odyssey is the tale of two creative souls from different centuries with the same belief in spiritual transformation through art. World-renowned New Zealand concert pianist Michael Houstoun is filmed on his pilgrimage to Germany, where composer Franz Liszt spent his last years. Houstoun is preparing for his performance of Liszt's monumental work, Sonata in B Minor. Produced and directed by Tainui Stephens, Icon in B Minor screened as part of the Work of Art series. Composer Michelle Scullion provides a detailed backgrounder on the documentary and the artistic parallels of the two musicians. 

I play the music, it resonates inside me. It wakes things up in me, and I think it does that because those things in me are the same as the things that were in Liszt.

– Michael Houstoun on his connection to Liszt in part one

Key Cast & Crew

Tainui Stephens

Producer, Director

Peter McCauley

As: Franz Liszt

Melanie Lawson

Sound Assistant

Leanne Rate

Sound Assistant

Richard Mekalick

Camera Operator

Peter Williams (producer)

Technical Producer