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ACCENTUS Music UG, Germany ARTE France, France ZDF / ARTE Arthaus Musik GmbH, Germany BBC Classical Music Television, UK BBC Wales, UK Bel Air Media, France Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images, Austria C Major Entertainment, Germany Camera Lucida Productions, France Clasart Classic, Germany Classic Arts Showcase, USA CLC Productions, France Croatian Television, Croatia Cultural Media Collaborative, USA Czech Television, Czech Republic Electric Sky, UK ERR – Estonian Television, Estonia EuroArts Music International GmbH, Germany film+co. Classics GmbH, Austria France Télévisions, France François Roussillon et Associés, France Hazel Wright Media, UK Idéale Audience, France LGM, France LOFT music, Germany MODemay Entertainment, Canada NHK Japan Broadcasting Corporation, Japan NIGHTFROG GmbH, Germany NordicStories, Norway NRK Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, Norway Opus Arte, UK ORF, Austria Pan Dream, Italy Peter Rosen Productions, USA Poorhouse International, UK RAI Trade, Italy RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera, Switzerland RTV Slovenija, Slovenia San Francisco Symphony, USA Servus TV, Austria Sombrero & Co., France SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, Switzerland SVT Sveriges Television, Sweden Telmondis, France THIRTEEN for WNET.org, USA TVP Kultura, Poland Unitel GmbH & Co. KG, Germany VRT Vlaamse Radio en Televisieomroep, Belgium ZDF, Germany ZDF/3sat, Germany ZDFkultur, Germany

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BBC Classical Music Television

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BBC Wales

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Bel Air Media Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images

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C Major Entertainment Camera Lucida Productions Clasart Classic

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NHK Japan Broadcasting Corporation NIGHTFROG GmbH NordicStories NRK Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation

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Opus Arte ORF

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Pan Dream

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Peter Rosen Productions

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Poorhouse International

Classic Arts Showcase CLC Productions

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Croatian Television

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Cultural Media Collaborative

RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera

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Hazel Wright Media

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Idéale Audience

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LGM

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San Francisco Symphony Servus TV Sombrero & Co. SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen

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SVT Sveriges Television

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Syquali Multimedia AG

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Unitel GmbH & Co. KG

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AVANT PREMIÈRE SCREENINGS 2012 SATURDAY, 28 January

SUNDAY, 29 January

Peter Rosen Productions, Inc. • A Surprise in Texas • Gordon Getty, Composer • Nobuyuki Tsujii Live Debut from Carnegie Hall

TVP Kultura • Henryk Mikołaj Górecki – Symphony No. 3 • Krzysztof Penderecki – St. Luke Passion • L.Stadt • The 14th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition • Wierba & Schmidt Quintet

Classic Arts Showcase • Classic Arts Showcase SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen • Andreas Vollenweider: The Gentle Resistance • George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band • Happy Birthday, David Zinman • Patricia Kopatchinskaja: Living the Music THIRTEEN for WNET.org • Andrea Bocelli Live in Central Park • Carnegie Hall 120th Anniversary Concert • Hugh Laurie: Let Them Talk – A Celebration of New Orleans Blues • Miami City Ballet Dances Balanchine and Tharp • The Thomashefskys Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images • Behind the Scenes of ‚The Little Mermaid‘ • LA Phil Live with Gustavo Dudamel • Rhapsody in Blue. 2011/12 LA Phil Opening Gala • Schumann at PIER 2 • Stravinsky in Hollywood • The Little Mermaid • The Makropulos Affair • Thielemann Conducts Strauss Opus Arte • Alice‘s Adventures in Wonderland • Lohengrin • The Flying Dutchman • The Ice Skaters • Tosca film+co. Classics GmbH • The Giacomo Variations NordicStories • Cry Out and Shout

VRT Vlaamse Radio en Televisieomroep • Capilla Flamenca • Choir of the Year • Liebrecht Vanbeckevoort performs Liszt • Luc Brewaeys. Straight • Mozart Requiem • Per Flauto • The Night of the Queen • War Requiem NIGHTFROG GmbH • Herbert Blomstedt – Teaching Music (WT) • Hilary, what‘s next? – An Encore (WT) • Sir James Galway – A portrait (WT) • Sound of Hope – Arabella Steinbacher in Japan Servus TV • Christian Thielemann – Behind the Scenes of the Salzburg Festival • Darf ich bitten? Behind the Scenes of a Vienna Dancing School • Falco – Do I have to die in order to live • Hauskonzerte at Palais Neustein • Hubert von Goisern in Concert • Hubert von Goisern’s Wirtshaustour • “The Sound of Music” – A Musical comes home Hazel Wright Media • Death in Venice – a film to mark the Britten centenary in 2013 • Delius – a Poem of Life and Love • Hubert Parry: The Prince and the Composer • London Children‘s Ballet Rumpelstiltskin • Matthew Bourne Celebration – 25 Years of Dance Production • Matthew Bourne‘s Swan Lake in 3D • Rostropovich – the Genius of the Cello LGM • • • • • • •

Cello Concerto - Antonín Dvořák/ Symphony No. 3 with Organ Camille Saint-Saëns Gabriel Fauré - Pavane, Elégie- Psalm, Super flumina Babylonis, Jean Racine‘s Hymn, Requiem Piano Concerto No. 2 - Johannes Brahms/ Symphony No. 7 Antonín Dvořák Piano Concerto No. 2 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Ruslan and Lyudmila, Overture - Mikhail Glinka/ Piano Concerto Aram Khachaturian The Enchanted Lake - Anatoly Lyadov/ Violin Concerto No. 2 Sergei Prokofiev/ Petrushka - Igor Stravinsky Violin concerto - Benjamin Britten/ Harold in Italy - Hector Berlioz/ Daphnis and Chloé - Maurice Ravel

Pan Dream • Bellini Opera Gala • Nabucco • Requiem Mass • Vivaldi Festival!

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Idéale Audience Caligula Bloody daughter Cendrillon Crazy Horse John Nelson St. Matthew Passion – The Journey Kathleen Ferrier La Forza del Destino La Spira Machinations Menahem Pressler plays Beethoven and Schubert St. Matthew Passion The Spira Mirabilis‘s Spring Verbier Festival 2011

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NHK - Japan Broadcasting Corporation • Ballet ‘Don Quixote’ – American Ballet Theatre Japan Tour 2011 • Kojiki • Seiji Ozawa conducts ‘Bluebeard’s Castle’ at Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto 2011 • Steve Reich‘s WTC 9/11‘ The World Premiere Performed by Kronos Quartet RTV Slovenija • AVE Chamber Choir • Elliot Carter at the Slowind Festival 2011 • Gustav Mahler in Ljubljana 1881-1882 • Gypsy Music and Big Band: Imer Traja Brizani, Amala and the Big Band RTV Slovenia • Imago Sloveniae/ Podoba Slovenije 2011 - The concert of the best Slovene musicians • Mahler in Ljubljana • OH, HARMONICA! – The 12th International Festival of Harmonica • Our House, When the Walls Start Talking (WT) • Secrets of Music • The grand opening of the Ljubljana Festival 2011 CLC Productions • 45th Festival de La Chaise-Dieu – Handel The Messiah • 45th Festival de La Chaise-Dieu – Bach & Zelenka • Aida at The Chorégies d‘Orange • Aldo Ciccolini and Michiyoshi Inoue at La Roque d‘Anthéron • Budapest Festival Orchestra at Pleyel • Farinelli, Il Castrato – Handel and Porpora Arias • Francesca Da Rimini • Grandissimo Verdi! • International Piano Festival at La Roque d’Antheron - Closing Concert - Part one • International Piano Festival at La Roque d’Antheron - Closing Concert - Part two • Jazz Night Piano – Tigran Hamasyan • Juditha Triumphans Oratorio in 2 parts • La Didone • London Symphony Orchestra at Pleyel – Valery Gergiev • Monteverdi, The Complete Madrigals (Book 1) • Monteverdi, The Complete Madrigals (Book 2) • Nikolaï Lugansky plays Liszt and Rachmaninoff at La Roque d‘Anthéron • Orchestre de Paris - James Conlon - Gil Shaham - Choir Orchestre de Paris • Orchestre de Paris, Paavo Järvi, Dang Thai Son • Orchestre de Paris, Salle Pleyel – Pierre Boulez

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Piano Night – Liszt The Complete Years of Pilgrimage Tord Gustavsen Ensemble at la Roque d‘Anthéron Yaron Herman Trio at La Roque d‘Anthéron

NRK Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation • Dimmu Borgir and Kork • Eurovision Young Dancers 2011 • Leif Ove Andsnes at the Grieg Hall • Oslo Jazzfestival – opening night • Queen Sonja International Music Competition • Small Instruments – Great Art • Truls Mørk; Dvořák cello-concerto • Vasily Petrenko and Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra Camera Lucida Productions • Antoine‘s Four Seasons • Orlanda Furioso by Antonio Vivaldi • Salonen Antimaestro RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera • A Story of Rebirth – The Swiss Radio-Television Chorus 75 Years from its Foundation • Hubert Soudant and the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana • Juraj Valcuha and the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana • Music Inside – Paolo Fresu‘s Jazz Experience • St. Matthew Passion • W Verdi, Giuseppe Bel Air Media • Bolshoi Theatre: Opening Gala 2011 • Bolshoi, a Renaissance • Igor Moisseiev Ballet • Jordi Savall: Jean-Philippe Rameau in Versailles • Medea • Ruslan and Lyudmila • The Clemency of Titus • The Sleeping Beauty • Wozzeck Rai Radiotelevisione Italiana • A Masked Ball • Anna Bolena • Don Giovanni • L‘altra metà del cielo • New Year‘s Concert from La Fenice 2012 • Peter Grimes • Raymonda • Siegfried (The Ring of the Nibelung) • Teatro alla Scala Orchestra and Chorus – December, 22nd 2011 • The Roads to Friendship 2011 • Turandot Electric Sky • Anna Nicole • Macbeth • Peter & The Wolf EuroArts Music International GmbH • Franz Liszt – The Pilgrimage Years • Berliner Philharmoniker & Yutaka Sado • Claudio Abbado conducts the Berliner Philharmoniker: Tribute to Gustav Mahler

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COMING HOME 75 years Israel Philharmonic Orchestra Europa Konzert 2011 from Madrid Footwork & Fugues – The Flying Bach Documentary Gala from Berlin 2011 Gozaran – Time Passing Israel Philharmonic Orchestra: The 75th Anniversary Mariinsky: Guiseppe Verdi: Attila Mariinsky: Jewels Mariinsky: Richard Strauss: The Woman without a Shadow Mariinsky: Rodion Shchedrin: Dead Souls Mariinsky: Sergei Prokofiev: The Gambler Nutcracker in 3D Waldbühne 2011

MODemay Entertainment • Dancing at the Frontier • Rain • She dances – A portrait of Shantala Shivalingappa • The Baton Czech Television • 66th International Music Festival Prague Spring 2011 • All the Prodigies… The Second Encounter • Baroque Jewels by Magdalena Kožena • Bravo! • CT LIVE – The Beatles Night • Radiorock • The Ways of Libor Pešek – Impressionism Syquali Multimedia AG Winterthur City is composing an opera!

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ZDF/3sat & ZDFkultur • A feast of the senses – Monteverdi at the Comic Opera of Berlin • Alonzo King Lines Ballet in San Francisco • Francesco Tristano – My Cage • Igor Levit – My Liszt • John Cage – the sky‘s the limit • Speak low, when you speak love – Kurt Weill reloaded • Berlin Live • Festivals – Wacken 2011 • Radetzkymarch • Tonträger 2011 • zdf@bauhaus Poorhouse International • Colin Davis – The Man and His Music • Eugene Onegin • Eugene Onegin – Happiness that might have been • Les Vêpres Siciliennes • Music in the Air • Playing against Time • Set the Piano Stool on Fire • Seun Kuti – Quick Hits • Tchaikovsky on the Road • The Mystery of Coppélia ACCENTUS Music • A Concert for New York – New York Philharmonic & Alan Gilbert to Mark the 10th Anniversary of 9/11 • Adagio from Mahler 10 – Claudio Abbado, Lucerne Festival Orchestra • Berliner Philharmoniker – “Moving to Modern Times” • Bruckner 5 – Claudio Abbado and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra • Daniel Barenboim & Pierre Boulez – The Liszt Piano Concertos • Daniel Barenboim on Music and Politics • ISANG YUN – Composer between North and South Korea • John Cage – The Sound Traveller • Mahler 2 – Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly • Mahler 8 – Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly • Martha Argerich, Mischa Maisky – The World Premiere of Rodion Shchedrin’s “Romantic Offering” • Mozart Concert Arias & Haffner Symphony – Claudio Abbado, Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Christine Schäfer • Riccardo Chailly – A Portrait • The Philharmonics – Waltzes by Johann Strauss’ arranged by Schoenberg, Berg and Webern • The St. Thomas Boys Choir

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Telmondis Coppelia Cosi fan tutte The Abduction from the Seraglio The Cid

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Unitel GmbH & Co. KG • Acción! The Story of La Fura dels Baus • Andrea Chénier • Andris Nelsons at the Lucerne Festival • Buchbinder‘s Beethoven • The Beethoven Piano Concertos • Christian Thielemann and Maurizio Pollini in Dresden (WT) • Eugene Onegin • Le Grand Macabre • Moses in Egypt • Orpheus and Eurydice • Rossini, Stabat Mater • The Woman without a Shadow • La Traviata • World Orchestra for Peace at the Abu Dhabi Festival • Tutto Pergolesi: L‘Olimpiade • Tutto Pergolesi: La Salustia • Tutto Pergolesi: La serva padrona/ The Servant Turned Mistress • Tutto Pergolesi: Lo frate ‚nnamorato/ The Brother in Love • Tutto Verdi: Attila • Tutto Verdi: Falstaff • Tutto Verdi: I due Foscari/ The Two Foscari • Tutto Verdi: I Lombardi alla prima crociata/ The Lombards on the First Crusade • Tutto Verdi: I vespri siciliani • Tutto Verdi: Il Corsaro/ The Corsair • Tutto Verdi: Il Trovatore/ The Troubadour • Tutto Verdi: La forza del destino • Tutto Verdi: Messa da Requiem • Tutto Verdi: Nabucco • Tutto Verdi: Simon Boccanegra • Tutto Verdi: Un ballo in maschera/ A Masked Ball • Tutto Verdi: Un giorno di regno ZDF • • • • •

Echo Award Festive Advent Concert from Dresden Lang Lang – The Life of a 21st - Century Virtuoso New Year‘s Eve Concert from the Semperoper Summer Night‘s Music 2011

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Carmen Chic feat. Nile Rodgers play Avo Session Danish National Symphony Orchestra: 4 Symphonies Earth, Wind & Fire Experience Feat. Al McKay play Avo Session Joan of Arc Keb‘ Mo‘ plays Avo Session Liza Minnelli plays Avo Session Lizz Wright plays Avo Session Paul Anka plays Avo Session Pink Martini play Avo Session Salzburg Festival 2011: Opening Concert The Flute Concert of Sanssouci The Postman Thielemann conducts Faust Vadim Repin – a Magician of Sound Yefim Bronfman, Andris Nelsons and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra at Lucerne Festival

SVT Sveriges Television • Bach to the future • Benny Andersson Orchestra! • Choir of Choirs • Eroica • Robyn • The Jussi Björling Saga • Wagner at the Wermland Opera • Wozzeck • Young Jazz Cultural Media Collaborative • Dionysos – An Opera Fantasy by Wolfgang Rihm • Of Love, Death and Beyond – Exploring Mahler‘s World Clasart Classic • Don Pasquale • James Levine – America‘s Maestro • Le Comte Ory • Mariss Jansons conducts Beethoven‘s Piano Concerto No. 3 • Mariss Jansons conducts Mahler‘s Symphony No. 2 • Mariss Jansons conducts Strauss‘ “Ein Heldenleben” • Simon Boccanegra • The History of an Opera • Dove è amore è gelosia

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Anna Bolena Austria is Singing Elisabeth Schwarzkopf - Her Master‘s Voice Faust Songs Hollywood in Vienna Jedermann Remixed Mariss Jansons Midsummernights Gala Grafenegg 2011 Summernight Concert Schönbrunn 2011 The Art of House Music Waltzing Vienna

Sombrero & Co. • Lise de la Salle Liszt – Schumann Recital at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord • Nicholas Angelich plays Bach‘s Goldberg Variations • Prima Donna Nathalie Stutzmann Orfeo 55 C Major Entertainment • Aaron Neville plays Avo Session • Adelaide of Burgundy

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TUESDAY, 31 January ARTE France • Arte Live Web, this week (WT) • Billie Holiday: Tribute to Lady Day • La Traviata • Merce Cunningham, the legacy • Modest Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition • Nabucco • Octopus • Paris 1945-1968, the cabaret‘s time • Raising Etoiles • San Ignacio • Sandrine Piau and Detlef Roth sing Mozart – The Whims of Love • The Four Seasons, Vivaldi ZDF/ARTE • Gardenia • Live from the Bayreuth Festspielhaus: Lohengrin • Masterpieces: „Carmina Burana“ • Musical approaches – with Daniel Barenboim • Pierre-Laurent Aimard plays Franz Liszt – 2011 Ruhr Piano Festival • Salut Salon • Stars of Tomorrow: Rolando Villazón Presents Young Musicians • The Art of a Virtuoso: Lang Lang live in Concert • Vollmond by Pina Bausch France Télévisions • Cello of the Trenches • Cuba, the Miracle of the Dance • Fayçal Karoui • Hope Japan • Intolleranza 1960 • Jordy Savall, The Concert of Nations • La Traviata • Terrible Children • The African Night • The Great Battle • The Mass of Striggio • The Robbers LOFT music • Jacques Loussier Solo Piano • Television Profile Mischa Maisky • The Beauty of the Voice ERR – Estonian Television • A Boy on a Bicycle Listening to Music • European Jazz Orchestra in Tallinn 2011 • St. John‘s Church in St. Peter‘s Town BBC Wales • Anyone for Demis? When the world invaded the Charts • BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2011 • Dance! The Most Incredible Thing about Modern Dance • Europa Concert 2011 • Frankenstein‘s Wedding…Live in Leeds • Human Planet Prom • Janet Jackson – Taking Control • Lionel – Dancing on the Ceiling • Prince – A Purple Reign • Public Enemy – Prophets of Rage • The Manics – Back to Blackwood • The Most Incredible Thing • When Rock goes Acoustic

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François Roussillon et Associés • Akhmatova • Atys • Children of Paradise • Faust • Julius Caesar • Régine Crespin‘s Gala • Rinaldo • The Bat • The Mastersingers of Nuremberg • The Spring • The Turn of the Screw San Francisco Symphony • Keeping Score: Mahler: Origins and Legacy • SFS at 100 Gala Concert • SFS at 100: A Documentary Croatian Television • Five Soloistis in Salon Gvozdanović Mahler: Symphony of a Thousand • • Renata Pokupić in Dubrovnik/ Max Emanuel Cenčić in Dubrovnik • Seletković/ Müller: AIR • Tamara Obrovac and Transhistria Ensemble/ Epoque Quartet Arthaus Musik • 100 Years of Deutsche Oper Berlin • Alonzo King – Poet of Dance • Giuseppe Verdi: La Traviata • Richard Strauss: The Love of Danae • Richard Strauss: Salome • Richard Wagner – A Family Constellation BBC Classical Music Television • A Musical Nativity with John Rutter • Being Alice – Adventures in Wonderland • Symphony: EP1: Genesis and Genius EP 2: Beethoven and Beyond EP 3: New Nations and New Worlds EP 4: Revolution and Rebirth • God‘s Composer • Goldie‘s Band: By Royal Appointment • Light Fantastic • Opera‘s Fallen Women • Terry Gilliam‘s Faust • Verdi‘s Othello • Verdi: The Director‘s Cut

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Claudio Abbado

Concert for New York – New York 001 APhilharmonic & Alan Gilbert to Mark the 10th Anniversary of 9 / 11

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Claudio Abbado and his exquisite Lucerne Festival Orchestra have taken Mahler’s most complex and compelling symphonies to a new level in audiovisual recording. Following the acclaimed production of Mahler’s 9th in 2010, Claudio Abbado has now continued the cycle with the Adagio from the 10th, Mahler’s final composition. In 2012 he will be bringing the highly acclaimed cycle to a close then presenting Mahler’s “opus magnum”, his Symphony No. 8.

The New York Philharmonic gave “A Concert for New York” to mark the tenth anniversary of the events of 9 / 11. What work could be better suited to the occasion than Mahler’s “Resurrection” symphony with “its profound sense of hope”, as the Philharmonic’s Music Director Alan Gilbert put it? The live recording of this memorable event does present an extraordinary performance of America’s preeminent symphony orchestra, featuring Michelle DeYoung, Dorothea Röschmann and the New York Choral Artists. The program also captures the atmosphere of the evening, reflecting the emotions of the audience.

Sir Simon Rattle, Ian Bostridge

“Night” was the motto of Lucerne Summer Festival 2011. Accordingly, the Berliner Philharmoniker under Sir Simon Rattle explored in their Lucerne series “Moving to Modern Times” the phenomenon of the night by pairing up in an outstanding concert the late romantic Anton Bruckner with England’s greatest modern composer, Benjamin Britten. While Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony involves an inner journey, Britten’s “Nocturne” extends into a trance-like meditation on dreaming, the latter presented by acclaimed tenor Ian Bostridge, whose “particular gift for lighting texts from within, and projecting so immediately their images, comes into its own arrestingly in the ‚Nocturne‘”, stated the “Gramophone Magazine”.

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Claudio Abbado, Lucerne Festival Orchestra

A very special highlight of the Liszt year 2011 and a rare gathering indeed: both piano concertos by Franz Liszt combined with works by Richard Wagner – Daniel Barenboim on the piano, the Staatskapelle Berlin and the orchestra’s Honorary Conductor Pierre Boulez in a unique concert recording from the Philharmonie Essen taped in June 2011. For both, Barenboim and Boulez, Liszt was one of the most important pioneers of modern music – as a composer and as a conductor – nurturing such revolutionary composers as Schuman, Berlioz or Wagner.

The Lucerne Festival Orchestra “occupies a unique position: one of the finest ensembles in the world yet, less than a decade old and remarkably free of that patina of controversy and tradition which adds allure to other top orchestras,” wrote “The Guardian” after Claudio Abbado’s performances of Bruckner’s 5th symphony in summer 2011 which have created a sensation. “The composer himself, one suspects, might have leapt to embrace him as an ideal interpreter”. And “The Telegraph” continued: “He’s a benign presence, who listens intently, bringing out with mild gestures the innate musicality in his players rather than imposing a vision from above”.

Daniel Barenboim & Pierre Boulez The Liszt Piano Concertos

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In a discussion with Daniel Barenboim, Edward Said once said: “It has become quite rare to project one‘s self outward, to have a broader perspective”. Daniel Barenboim, constantly attempting to discover what music can achieve and how it can inspire mankind, is certainly able to do just that. This documentary gives an insight into the social meaning of music. It features UN Messenger of Peace Daniel Barenboim leading a spectacular concert in Gaza in May 2011, working with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra and discussing music and politics with former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt.

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Isang Yun

This documentary, filmed in North and South Korea, explores whether music can overcome the boundaries of a divided country. Korean composer Isang Yun is one figure of both Koreas, whose outstanding biography in itself forms a bridge between both worlds and one of the very few people celebrated on both sides. The film traces the course of a life that has been interpreted in many ways, examining the worlds of North and South Korean music and in this way taking the viewer on an exciting journey through two political systems that Isang Yun has spent his life trying to reconcile.

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John Cage

Was he a Zen master or an expert on chance? A specialist in mushrooms or a performance artist? The inventor of new sounds or a cook? An author or an anarchist? John Cage was all of these things. On the occasion of his centenary in autumn 2012, Allan Miller’s documentary pays tribute to one of the most extraordinary protagonists of 20th century music, worshiped by his followers, hated by his opponents. Along with rare archival footage and concert excerpts it presents a set of short stories, featuring associates of Cage and contemporary artists, thus delineating playfully different aspects of John Cage.

Riccardo Chailly, Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig

YUN – Composer between 007 ISANG North and South Korea

The Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig and Music Director Riccardo Chailly have acquired legendary status, with acclaimed concert tours and glorious reviews testifying to their continuing success. In May 2011 they opened Leipzig’s prestigious International Mahler Festival, performing his monumental 2nd Symphony in the Gewandhaus – together with soloists Christina Oelze and Sarah Connolly and choral forces quite beyond compare. “Chailly’s conducting has a concentration, attention to detail, expressive range and architectural strength that combine to make this one of the most memorable Mahler performances of the 2011 anniversary year”, stated the “International Record Review“.

8 – Gewandhaus Orchestra 010 Mahler Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly Genre Relay of: Orchestral / choral concert, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company ACCENTUS Music (Germany) | CoProduction Company MDR (Germany) | Ass. Production Company ARTE (Germany / France) | Producer Paul Smaczny, Günter Atteln | TV Director Michael Beyer | Camera Nyika Jancsó | Editor Steffen Herrmann | Duration 92‘ 19“ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Gewandhaus zu Leipzig (Germany), 26.05.2011 | Musical style Classical music | Piece Symphony No. 8 in E flat major | Composer Gustav Mahler | Conductor Riccardo Chailly | Orchestra Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig (Germany) | Choir MDR Rundfunkchor, Chor der Oper Leipzig, GewandhausChor, Thomanerchor Leipzig, GewandhausKinderchor (Germany) | Soloist Erika Sunnegardh, Ricarda Merbeth, Christiane Oelze, Lioba Braun, Gerhild Romberger, Stephen Gould, Dietrich Henschel, Georg Zeppenfeld | Source video / audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV C Major Entertainment (Germany) | DVD distribution ACCENTUS Music (Germany)

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Riccardo Chailly

Mahler’s Eighth Symphony is arguably the grandest and most ambitious piece of symphonic music ever written. The composer himself regarded it as his opus summum. At Leipzig’s International Mahler Festival, Riccardo Chailly conducted almost 500 musicians. The “International Record Review” highlighted this Mahler 8 recording with the accolade “IRR OUTSTANDING“ logo in their November 2011 edition: “There’s an exultant musical flow to this Leipzig performance of the Eighth Symphony that leads me to say that this is not only the best-played live performance of the work but it’s among the most musically satisfying ever recorded.“

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Martha Argerich, Mischa Maisky – The World Premiere of Rodion Shchedrin’s “Romantic Offering”

Mischa Maisky, Martha Argerich

At one of her rare appearances with an orchestra, Martha Argerich, the grande dame of the piano, joined forces with cellist Mischa Maisky and the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra under Neeme Järvi for the world premiere of Rodion Shchedrin’s “Romantic Offering”, a double concerto for piano, cello and orchestra dedicated to its very first soloists. “I’ve attempted to depict and highlight the most distinctive qualities of these two musicians… . ‚Romantic Offering‘ should inspire new thoughts and experiences. It should move your soul and touch your heart.” The programme was rounded off by late-Romantic masterpieces such as Franck’s Sonate for violoncello and piano in A major.

Mozart Concert Arias & Haffner Symphony – Claudio Abbado, Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Christine Schäfer

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For many music lovers, Christine Schäfer’s Mozart interpretations are a revelation. Her artistry is as powerful as ever, as this program featuring “Concert Arias“ by Mozart, with Claudio Abbado conducting his handpicked Lucerne Festival Orchestra, documents. It is a symbiotic artistic encounter between two great musicians and their exceptional interpretations of Mozart. It’s with grace, charm, and easygoing lightness that Claudio Abbado and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra are performing the “Haffner Symphony”, the first symphony that Mozart produced in Vienna – an interpretation showing yet again why Abbado is one of the most distinguished figures on the podium today.

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Riccardo Chailly | A Portrait

Riccardo Chailly

ACCENTUS Music UG | ARTE France | Riccardo Chailly, born in Milan in 1953, is one of the most exciting musicians of our time. This first portrait shows him working with the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig and other leading orchestras, and accompanies him on tour and with his family in Italy. The film’s motto is a quotation by Chailly himself: “There’s nothing I hate more than routine. Music must retain its spirit and its soul, but it must also maintain its ability to surprise and entertain us. It must provide us with a subject for discussion and never involve mere sterile repetition.”

Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Robert Schumann | Conductor Georg Christoph Biller | Orchestra Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig (Germany) | Choir St. Thomas Boys Choir (Germany) | Source video / audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV C Major Entertainment (Germany) | Theatrical distribution NFP (for Germany) (Germany) | DVD distribution ACCENTUS Music (Germany) | Additional Information Theatrical Release in February 2012

The Philharmonics – Waltzes by Johann Strauss’ arranged by Schoenberg, Berg and Webern

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St. Thomas Boys Choir

In 2012 the St. Thomas Boys Choir Leipzig celebrates its 800th anniversary. It is an almost unbelievable period of time, if one considers that the choir outlasted all ups and downs of European history, maintaining its unbroken traditions over the centuries and holding onto established principles such as the inclusion of the elder boys in the education of the younger ones. The film accompanies the choir over a period of one year, immersing the viewer into a unique world between motet, boarding school and football pitch, into a life that is distinguished by success and pressure to perform, doubts and pride, homesickness and genuine friendship.

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The Philharmonics

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The St. Thomas Boys Choir

The Philharmonics, an ensemble of young members of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, fill authentic Café Sperl with some of the most genuine Viennese sounds imaginable – the “Strauss Waltzes“ that Schoenberg, Berg and Webern arranged and performed in May 1921 to raise funds for their “Society for Private Musical Performances”. This is music the players have in their blood; stage presence, engagement and charisma are a matter of course. They maintain the atmosphere with Godowsky’s “Alt-Wien” and a clutch of Kreisler gems, rounding the programme off with a new piece by leader Tibor Kovác, based on traditional Jewish melodies and Mahler themes, “Yiddishe Mame”.

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A short weekly window on ARTE to promote and connect together the rich offerings in performing arts available on ARTE Live Web. ARTE Live Web (ALW) is a free concert platform of the Franco-German TV network ARTE. The music platform has transmitted more than 1000 programmes (concerts) both live and with a time delay on the Internet since it was launched in May 2009. Whether Pop, Rock, Indie, Electro, Classic, Jazz & Blues or World Music, ARTE Live Web produces all over Germany and France, with PJ Harvey, The Dø, Anna Calvi, Jamie Cullum, Youssou N‘Dour and others.

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Billie Holiday Tribute to Lady Day

Listen to her voice – again. Hear her words – again. Fifty years after Billie’s passing, we can find some traces of her laughter in her granddaughters’ voices: Patricia Barber, Sandra N’kake, Leena Conquest, Rokia Traore, Mina Agossi... .

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La Traviata

Merce Cunningham Dance Company

In the history of dance there is a before Merce Cunningham and an after. The film will recount a founding chapter not only in contemporary dance but also in the history of modern art, at a prolific period driven by key creators such as John Cage, Gavin Bryans, Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, all of whom have worked with Cunningham. We will follow his company on the last days of its last tour: in accordance with his last wishes, the company is to disband at the end of 2011, two and a half years after his death in July 2009.

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Natalie Dessay / Violetta

The last of the three great operas of Giuseppe Verdi‘s middle period, “La Traviata” is now one of his most popular works. Written for the Teatro la Fenice in Venice, it was first heard on 6 March 1853. The libretto, by Francesco Maria Piave, details the ill-fated love affair between a young gentleman named Alfredo Germont and a terminally ill courtesan named Violetta. It is based on the play “La dame aux camellias” by Alexander Dumas, Jr., which premiered the previous year. French soprano Natalie Dessay is one the stars of today’s operatic world, thrilling audiences as both a singer and an actress.

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Modest Mussorgsky

Modest Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition“ is one of the most played among the musical masterpieces for piano. Mussorgsky, however, was first an opera composer (Boris Godounov, The Kovantchina, etc.). Mussorgsky composed his “Pictures” as a tribute to his friend, the painter Viktor Hartman, who had died some months before. Thirty years later, Kandinsky painted a beautiful suite inspired by Mussorgsky’s music. With the participation of the pianist Mikhaïl Rudy, the film tells the story of this magnificent correspondence between arts.

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Nabucco

To celebrate the 150th anniversary of Italian unification, Riccardo Muti initiated a new production of “Nabucco“. Verdi‘s emblematic opera was presented at the Rome Opera House in March 2011. Alongside the famous maestro, the performance features an outstanding cast lead by baritone Leo Nucci and staged by Jean-Paul Scarpitta.

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Jacques Dufilho, Juliette Greco et Serge Gainsbourg

Between 1945 and 1968, more than two hundred cabarets opened in Paris. The talents born during this time in the prosceniums on the bank of the Seine have been with us now for more than half a century; this film invites you to rediscover the Rive Gauche spirit through the songs and artists that make up our common memory.

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Duo Mery / Sean

With this show, Decouflé creates a moving piece – an homage to beauty. The artist, ever the illusionist, plays here with his favourite motifs and opens himself to a new creative perspective. From solo to choral choreography, this variety of scenes shows the way to joy.

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The most famous dance school in the world, where the greatest “étoiles“, or principal dancers, are trained. Over the course of one year there, what will live, breathe, change and emerge among the future chosen few, who are still just teenagers? This series will span a school year of dayto-day living and performances, and will plunge us into the busy inner workings of a very special training course, leading to the promised land – the Palais Garnier in Paris.

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Recorded November 1st 2011 in the missionary church of Yaguaron, in the South of Paraguay, this extraordinary concert is an invitation to discover “San Ignacio” (a lost opera from the Jesuit’s missions) under the direction of the Argentine conductor Gabriel Garrido, considered one of the greatest specialists in baroque music of our times. The musicians come from all over South America and France.

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Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons“ is probably one of the best known musical pieces of the baroque repertoire. However, many mysteries remain around this piece, even after centuries of musicological research. How is it possible that the “Four Seasons”, which has met such success with a huge audience today, had been absolutely forgotten for over two centuries? The film will investigate this beloved classical hit.

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Detlef Roth & Sandrine Piau

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Soprano Sandrine Piau and baritone Detlef Roth with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France offer us a musical journey through Mozart‘s greatest lover arias. It is an opportunity to experience a kaleidoscope of situations, from the lovers of “The Marriage of Figaro“, to “The Magic Flute“ and “Don Giovanni“, amongst others! It is always of love, both thwarted and passionate, that Mozart‘s characters sing, comprising some of Mozart‘s greatest themes. The concert was recorded on 17 September at the Cité de la Musique with Sandrine Piau, Detlef Roth and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France conducted by Bernard Labadie.

028 Gardenia Genre Documentary: Other | Status in progress | Production Company ZDF / ARTE (Germany) | Co-Production Company Les Ballets C. de la B. (Belgium) | Editor Wolfgang Bergmann, Dieter Schneider | Duration 52‘ | Production Year 2011 | Choreography Alain Platel | Source video / audio HD / Stereo The documentary tells the story of nine people, about their reality and their experiences in the twilight zone between the sexes, living simultaneously in the glamour of the past and deep melancholy. Some of them have lived as men and have endured an operation to become a woman. The bittersweet film is mostly a heart-moving record of the process of aging in a world longing for eternal youth. But the pact with Mephisto evidently did not work out, neither for them nor for any of us, leaving behind a sensation of deep melancholy with a trace of irony.

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Live from the Bayreuth Festspielhaus: Lohengrin

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ARTE / ZDF | As one of the highlights of last year‘s festival season, ARTE presented the very first live-TV-transmission from the Bayreuth Festival. Directed by Hans Neuenfels, Richard Wagner‘s “Lohengrin“ offered an impressive TV experience: mildly provocative, full of irony and humour and yet conveying a clear political and artistic message. The brilliantly sumptuous stage design by Reinhard von der Thannen matched the enthralling musical performance of an outstanding cast of singers – the superb Bayreuth Festival Choir and Orchestra under the baton of a rising star among conductors, the young Latvian Andris Nelsons.

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Like almost no other musician of our time the conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim conveys music in its various facets - enthusiastically and with unique precision. How does Barenboim bring an orchestral score to life? How is he able to create a musical sound that touches the audience and orchestral musicians equally? On stage of the Berliner Philharmoniker the journalist Axel Brüggemann gets to the bottom of things: Barenboim demonstrates at a grand piano how music can be interpreted richly and subtly. Music and its sound is a secret; the viewers get an intimate insight into Barenboim’s musical approaches.

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Carl Orff (Andreas Nickl) & Michel Hofmann (Oliver Walser)

Liszt’s “Piano Sonata in B minor“ (completed in 1853) is considered one of the most important compositions for solo piano. It is notable for being constructed from five motivic elements that are woven into an enormous musical architecture. The interpreter at the 2011 Ruhr Piano Festival was Pierre-Laurent Aimard. As realized by BBC Radio 3 (October 2011), his Liszt project must be one of the most stimulating reassessments of Liszt’s music in his 200th birthday year.

Carlo Orff‘s “Carmina Burana“ is one of the most spectacular works of classical music worldwide. This “scenic cantata“ has guaranteed sold out concert halls and open-air-venues since its premiere in 1937. Orff’s melodies and rhythms are among the best known classical music pieces and have been used in Hollywood films, commercials and rock music adaptations; “Carmina Burana“ surpasses all limits. Dominik Wessely tells the fascinating story behind the “Carmina“. Combining re-enactment, interviews, concert clips and an abundance of archive material, some of it yet unpublished, he creates an enthralling film.

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Musical approaches with Daniel Barenboim

Lady Power

Four young ladies from Hamburg play chamber music in an unexpected way. They perform Mozart, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Mussorgski and Piazzolla in a show which will leave the audience astounded.

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Stars of Tomorrow: Rolando Villazón Presents Young Musicians

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The Art of a Virtuoso: Lang Lang live in Concert

Lang Lang live in Concert

In a live recording from the sensational iTunes Festival in London’s “Roundhouse“, Lang Lang, undoubtedly one of today’s leading classical music stars, proves his outstanding musicianship and virtuosity. As the first classical musician to take part in the iTunes Festival he chose to present the music of his great idol Franz Liszt in a 21st-century way: with spectacular video projections and stage effects designed by Thomas Grube, the award-winning director of the film, adding new visual and emotional impact to the music of Franz Liszt.

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Vollmond by Pina Bausch

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Vollmond

“Vollmond“ shows the art of Pina Bausch in full bloom. Overwhelming music defines the piece as does the magnificent stage design of Peter Pabst. A huge rock and a watery moat dominate the scenery. Twelve dancers perform in the silvery setting, and are at the mercy of the rain and wind of a hurricane that blusters over the stage, just as men and women are at the mercy of each other while they frantically search for love. “Vollmond” starts playfully and turns wild and rampant towards the end when the twelve dancers expend themselves.

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100 Years of Deutsche Oper Berlin

Rolando Villazón represents a completely new type of classical music star: likeable, emotional and sociable. It is these qualities that make him the ideal host of a show presenting young artists to a wide audience. In the relaxed workshop atmosphere of Berlin‘s “Kulturbrauerei“ (“Culture Brewery“), his four guests prove – as soloists or playing with the orchestra – that they are on the verge of a successful career. With his typical laid-back approach Rolando Villazón prepares ground for the young musicians‘ great TV appearance.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau as Don Giovanni, 1961

Rolando Villazón & Patrick Lange conducting Junge Sinfonie Berlin

In 2012 the “Deutsche Oper Berlin” celebrates its 100th birthday. The current building opened in 1961 but by 1912 the “Deutsches Opernhaus“ was inaugurated on Bismarckstraße by Charlottenburg citizens who wanted to establish an alternative to the “Hofoper”. The film provides vivid insight into the different epochs of this Berlin institution, by people whose life stories are intertwined with the “Deutsche Oper”. Singers, conductors and directors of the past encounter present protagonists and artists, as well as people behind the scenes. Rare archive footage completes this fascinating documentary.

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Laurel Keen and Alonzo King

Giuseppe Verdi’s “La Traviata“ is known as one of his most popular operas and still holds a mirror up to morally dishonest society. Stage Director Peter Konwitschny and his ensemble were committed to creating a focused, intelligent and musical interpretation, which received an enthusiastic ovation from the audience at the Graz Opera. Konwitschny has staged many operas by Verdi, although never this one, almost as if the two had been waiting for this evening. Marlis Petersen gives a mesmerising performance as Violetta, her singing – perfect, her acting – outstanding.

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Alonzo King has been called a visionary choreographer, an innovator of ballet and by world-famous William Forsythe, “one of the few, true Ballet Masters of our times.“ By following King’s artistic vision with his dancers the film portrays this exceptional artist in all his diversity. To illustrate his choreography, three of King’s best-known works will be featured. His specific approach to dance will be shown and the spectator will see that being taught by a “poet of dance“ is a unique experience for any dancer.

Manuela Uhl as Danae

Violetta (Marlis Petersen) and Alfredo (Giuseppe Varano)

Artistic Director Kirsten Harms gave her farewell performance at the Deutsche Oper Berlin with Richard Strauss’ late work “Die Liebe der Danae“. The mythological drama in Harm’s interpretation takes place in a bald gallery made of cement. The distorted middle-class society is symbolized by a grand piano hanging upside-down from the stage ceiling. Matthias Klink’s nimble acting and supple tenor bring emotional radiance to the role of Midas. Mark Delavan’s Jupiter delivers the required baritone penetration. The vocally agile Manuela Uhl excels in the title role.

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Richard Strauss: Salome

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Angela Denoke as Salome

Richard Strauss’ “Salome“ is acclaimed to be a work of major importance of the 20th century. Nikolaus Lehnhoff‘s staging at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden impresses with psychological precision. He can rely on a fabulous company, first and foremost with Angela Denoke who works magnificently with her voice and literally seems to fuse with her part. Stefan Soltesz accentuates the asperity of the musical score at the stand of the Deutsche Symphonie Orchester Berlin with his enormous aplomb and courage to create dramatic moments.

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Richard Wagner

The film “Richard Wagner – a family constellation“ is a psychological portrait of the composer on the occasion of his 200th Birthday 2013. The film approaches the inner life of Wagner as interpreted by this system of psychotherapy. Based on a staged constellation according to the method of Bert Hellinger, Wagner himself is the client or seeker and figures from his life and his operas are portrayed by representatives. These staged scenes of the family constellation are supplemented by interviews and opera scenes.

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Lauren Cuthbertson as Alice in Alice‘s Adventures in Wonderland

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Elin Manahan Thomas, John Rutter

This documentary follows the creation of the Royal Ballet’s first fulllength ballet in 15 years, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland“ choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon. Following the Royal Ballet’s principal dancer Lauren Cuthbertson, for whom the ballet was created, this film explores the making of the piece through her / Alice‘s eyes. Utilising flyon-the-wall-filming, we gain insight into the intimate process of creating a major and complex work of dance. We see Lauren‘s experiences from the earliest steps through rehearsals, to taking the piece out of the studio and getting it onto the stage. Costumes, Scenery and Lighting are her adventures, as well as the Music, from creation to realisation.

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Sir Mark Elder, Simon Russell Beale and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

The Christmas story told through music. The hugely popular British composer, John Rutter, provides insight into the most cherished Christmas music and curates this musical nativity. The repertoire includes his own music alongside famous carols such as, “Hark the Herald“, “The Three Kings“ and “I Saw Three Ships“. In addition there is a first-time broadcast of a newly composed carol by Rutter, “Colours of Christmas“.

A new series tracing the story of the symphony, the way in which it has shaped us and our modern world. Simon Russell Beale unveils the symphony’s emergence from an environment of aristocratic privilege to become a symbol of freedom and a tool of totalitarianism. Exploring greats – from Mozart to Mahler, Brahms to Bruckner and Sibelius to Shostakovich – Simon‘s travels take him to the musical capitals of Europe and the United States. Sir Mark Elder conducts and analyses the music for the series with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Hallé and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

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Harry Christophers and The Sixteen in San Antonio de los Alemanes

To commemorate the 400th Anniversary of the death of Tomas Luis de Victoria, Simon Russell Beale introduces the life and music of the great Spanish genius of the Golden Age. From a turbulent time of heroism, Catholic mysticism, conquistadors and Inquisition, the church music of Victoria stands as a spiritual beacon that shines down the centuries. Harry Christophers and his world-class choir “The Sixteen“ go to the stunning church of San Antonio de los Alemanes in Madrid to perform masterpieces from the pen of the great Renaissance master.

Genre Relay of: Ensemble / band appearance, on location | Status completed | Production Company BBC Classical Music Television (UK) | Executive Producer Oliver Mafarlane | TV Director Jonathan Haswell | Camera David Gopsill | Editor Steve Eveleigh | Light Design Bernie Davis | Duration 100‘ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Royal Festival Hall, London (UK), 25.06.2011 | Musical style British Light Music | Piece British Light Music | Conductor John Wilson | Orchestra BBC Symphony Orchestra (UK) | Source video / audio HD / Stereo | Distribution TV BBC (UK) Light music expert and evangelist John Wilson conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a concert from the Royal Festival Hall featuring some the great names from the “golden age“ of British light music, including Coates, German and Farnon. The concert was recorded at the Southbank in June 2011 as part of the celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of the Festival of Britain.

Goldie‘s Band

Goldie, the drum ‚n‘ bass DJ, stars in a UK wide search for young and talented musicians. “Goldie‘s Band: By Royal Appointment“ follows Goldie as he explores the transformative power of music in young lives today. Goldie is on a mission to discover young people whose musical talents can help them to transcend challenging circumstances in their personal lives. The young musicians receive training and undergo intense master classes under Goldie’s watchful eye along with expert assistance provided by some of the best names in the business. Goldie’s group of musicians aged 16 to 24 receive a special invitation to perform at an iconic London venue – The Ballroom of Buckingham Palace.

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Antonio Pappano

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Bizet‘s Carmen, Puccini‘s Madame Butterfly, Verdi‘s Violetta – some of the most famous and powerful roles in opera and they are all, in different ways, fallen women. And now there‘s a newcomer to their ranks – Anna Nicole. The Royal Opera‘s new smash hit is an operatic version of the life of former Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith. Antonio Pappano, Music Director of the Royal Opera House and conductor of “Anna Nicole“, delves into the world of opera‘s fallen women and discovers how for centuries composers and librettists have used female characters in opera to explore and challenge society‘s attitudes and prejudices.

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Terry Gilliam‘s Faust

Former Paython and feature film director Terry Gilliam had a smash hit last year at the English National Opera, with his first opera production, “The Damnation of Faust“. This television version is introduced by Gilliam himself. This spectacular show takes as its theme the art and politics of Germany from the 19th to the mid 20th century. Faust begins as a romantic seeker after truth, but his pact with Mephistopheles propels him on a rollercoaster ride through history. He experiences the carnage of the First World War, the turmoil of the Weimar Republic and becomes embroiled in the rise of Hitler. His beloved Marguerite turns out to be a Jewess disguised as an Aryan. This love affair leads Faust to damnation and Marguerite to the gas chamber.

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Damnation of Faust

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This documentary, with its unique access to rehearsal rooms and backstage areas, follows Graham Vick, one of the most celebrated and sought after opera directors of our times, through six months of his busy life – during which he and his creative team stage two very different productions of operas by Giuseppe Verdi: “Aida“ for the Bregenzer Festspiele and “Othello“ for Birmingham Opera Company.

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Verdi‘s Othello

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Anyone for Demis? When the world invaded the Charts

Genre Documentary: Music | Status completed | Production Company BBC Cymru Wales (UK) | Producer Steve Freer | Executive Producer Paul Bullock | TV Director Gethin Scourfield | Duration 58‘ 24“ | Production Year 2011 | Musical style Contemporary music | Source video / audio DigiBeta / Stereo So now when music is truly global, and international stars like Shakira stride the music world, has the foreign pop song had its day? Will there ever been another foreign pop sensation like the Singing Nun or the panpipe; is there anyone for Demis? Featuring interviews with Nana Mouskouri, Sylvia, Ladysmith Black Mambazo and the Gipsy Kings. Narrated by Liza Tarbuck.

Graham Vick‘s Othello

054 Graham Vick’s radical production of Verdi’s “Othello“ for Birmingham Opera Company has been hailed as a triumph. It’s set in a former industrial plant and the action unfolds in and around the audience. Ronald Samm plays Othello – the first time a black tenor has sung the title role in a professional staging of the opera in the UK. Two hundred and fifty people from Birmingham perform as chorus, dancers and actors alongside the professional principals and orchestra in a production which deals head-on with issues of identity, race and fear.

Verdi: The Director‘s Cut

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BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2011

Cardiff Singer of The World Winner 2011

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The Final of BBC Cardiff Singer of the World brings a week of thrilling performances to a climactic end as the five best singers take the stage at St. David‘s Hall in a bid to win the internationally recognised title for 2011. Petroc Trelawny presents full coverage of the evening from a packed auditorium with expert commentary and analysis from the 2005 winner, soprano Nicole Cabell, the celebrated American mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato and Director of the South Bank’s Voicelab, Mary King. Widely regarded as one of the most prestigious competitions in the singing world, the 2011 Final is set to launch another exciting young opera talent onto the world stage.

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Clemency Burton-Hill presents this year‘s Europa Concert by the Berliner Philharmoniker under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle from the grand surroundings of the Teatro Real in Madrid. This world-revered orchestra perform a programme with a distinctive Spanish flavour: “Emanuel Chabrier‘s Españia“, the Concierto de Aranjuez by the Spanish composer Rodrigo featuring the celebrated flamenco guitarist Cañizares. The programme concludes with one of the great Russian Romantic masterpieces – Rachmaninoff‘s second symphony. Clemency Burton-Hill speaks with Sir Simon Rattle regarding the foundation of the Europa Concert together with the concert repertoire.

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Dance! The Most Incredible Thing about Modern Dance

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Europa Concert 2011

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Frankenstein‘s Wedding…Live in Leeds

Lacey Turner, David Harewood and Andrew Gower star in a spectacular live drama and music event – a contemporary interpretation of Mary Shelley‘s gothic horror story. Victor Frankenstein is marrying his childhood sweetheart Elizabeth Lavenza, all the while knowing that the creature he created and rejected has vowed to return on his wedding night. 12,000 people will gather at Kirkstall Abbey to share the big day and join the couple in a unique mass flash mob dance.

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Human Planet Prom

Human Planet Prom

To many, contemporary dance can be mystifying – it can involve dancers hurling themselves across the stage – but it can also be powerfully moving. With the help of some of contemporary dance‘s big names, such as choreographers Richard Alston and Lea Anderson, conductor Charles Hazlewood examines further for a greater understanding of this dance genre.

Frankenstein‘s Wedding… Live in Leeds

BBC WALES | Highlights of the Human Planet Prom featuring Nitin Sawhney‘s evocative music for the acclaimed television series interspersed with performances by artists and ensembles from around the world. Charles Hazlewood conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra in a specially commissioned new arrangement of the Human Planet score, with accompanying visuals from the series. With behind the scenes documentary content and interviews with the artists, the concert is hosted by explorer and TV presenter Paul Rose. Artists include: Ayarkhaan (Sakha Republic), Bibilang Shark-Calling Group (Papua New Guinea), Khusugtun (Mongolia), Rasmus Lyberth (Greenland), and Enock Mbongwe (Zambia).

After 15 years of soaring success with The Commodores, Lionel left the group to go solo, in what many considered to be a risky move. His first solo album, “Lionel Richie“, grabbed the world‘s attention, whilst the follow-up, “Can’t Slow Down“, turned him into a global superstar. But could he maintain sustained popularity without the group he’d known as brothers behind him? The programme considers how Lionel achieved his dream of becoming “as big as the Beatles“ and how much of what he learnt from his years with The Commodores prepared him for that success.

Janet Jackson / Taking Control

Prince revolutionised the perception of black music in the 1980s with worldwide hits such as “1999“ and “Kiss“. He became a global sensation with the Oscar-winning movie “Purple Rain“ in 1984, embarking on an incredible journey of musical self-discovery. He tested the boundaries of taste and decency with explicit sexual lyrics and stage shows and in the 1990s fought for ownership of his name and control of his music. Still in demand as one of the most flamboyant live performers around, Prince remains a controversial and elusive creative force. Contributors include: Revolution guitarist Dez Dickerson, Paisley Park label president Alan Leeds and hip hop legend Chuck D.

The film examines Janet’s phenomenal career, from her early success as a teenage actress in “Different Strokes“, to becoming an award-winning pop star rivaling her brother‘s success with worldwide album sales of over 65 million. The struggle to control both her creative and personal life is central to Janet’s development as an artist and key to understanding her story – from escaping the clutches of her overbearing father to her groundbreaking collaborations with producers Jam and Lewis. Dubbed the “Queen of Radio“ in America, she always seemed capable of maintaining her broad appeal – until the infamous 2004 American Super bowl appearance....

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Lionel / Dancing on the Ceiling

Public Enemy

In the late 1980s Public Enemy were the biggest rap group on the planet. With a rebellious but passionate attitude to match their militant image they sold millions of records preaching pro-black politics to fans of all races, all done through a groundbreaking wall of noise that changed the sound of hip-hop. This highly insightful documentary charts the band from their origins in NYC as Spectrum City in the early 1980s to their present day incarnation. The group continue to tour the world, making them the Rolling Stones of hip-hop, and remain a huge influence on today’s musical superstars.

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The Manics Back to Blackwood

Johnny Marr

Legendary Welsh band The Manic Street Preachers return to their home town of Blackwood for an intimate performance at the Miners‘ Institute. Featuring exhilarating live versions of hits that span their 20 year career, along with songs from their latest album “Postcards From A Young Man“, this performance film is contextualised with exclusive behind-thescenes content and insightful interviews with the band members.

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The Most Incredible Thing

Theatre: 066 Bolshoi Opening Gala 2011 Genre Relay of: Dance, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Bel Air Media (France) | Co-Production Company ARTE (France), Bolshoi Theatre (Russia) | Director Andrey Boltenko, Andy Sommer | Producer François Duplat | Duration 132‘ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow (Russia), 28.10.2011 | Musical style Classical music | Piece The Maid of Orleans, The Queen of Spade, Oh, never sing to me again, a.o. | Composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergei Prokofiev, Aram Khachaturian, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Alexander Borodin, Dmitri Shostakovich, Mikhail Glinka | Conductor Vassily Sinaisky | Orchestra & Choir State Academic Bolshoi Theatre (Russia) | Soloist Natalie Dessay, Angela Gheorghiu, Violeta Urmana, Dmitri Hvorostovski, Ivan Vasiliev, Natalia Osipova, Denis Savin | Dance Cinderella, Spartacus, Flames of Paris, The Golden Age, Don Quixote, Swan Lake | Dance style Classical ballet | Choreography Iouri Grigorovitch, Alexei Ratmansky | Dance company Ballet of the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre (Russia) | Costumes Elena Zaitseva | Stage Director Dmitri Tcherniakov | Source video / audio HD / Stereo | Distribution TV Telmondis Distribution (France)

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Javier de Frutos choreographs and directs a three-act contemporary dance piece based on a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, featuring a score by Pet Shop Boys. Former Royal Ballet principal dancer Ivan Putrov heads the cast, which also includes Aaron Sillis and Clemmie Sveaas.

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When Rock goes Acoustic

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The Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow (Russia)

Manic Street Preachers

“When Rock Goes Acoustic“ takes an insightful and occasionally irreverent look at the love affair between rock and the humble acoustic guitar. Exploring a much less celebrated, yet crucial part of the rock musician‘s arsenal, contributors – including Johnny Marr, Keith Richards, Ray Davies, James Dean Bradfield, Biffy Clyro, Joan Armatrading, Donovan and Roger McGuinn – discuss why an instrument favoured by medieval minstrels and singing nuns is as important to rock n‘ roll as the drums, bass and its noisy sister, the electric guitar.

This Gala programme tells the story of the Bolshoi Theatre building and its crew throughout history, featuring some of its greatest artists in Opera and Ballet. It is extracted from the Bolshoi Theatre repertoire, staged by Dmitri Tcherniakov, with the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra and Solists & Corps de ballet of the Bolshoi Ballet.

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The Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow (Russia)

In this exceptional documentary, Denis Sneguirev invites us to witness the rescue and revival of a legendary theatre. By combining 3D images, animation, film footage and interviews, Sneguirev relives the history of the Bolshoi from its origins to the present day. Images from Russian and Soviet archives take viewers back to a time when stars like Vishnevskaya, Grigorovich, Vassiliev, Maximova and Plissetskaya graced the Bolshoi, when classical ballet and opera productions shared the stage with a giant propaganda machine that urged the valiant communist workers ever onward... .

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State Academic Folk Dance Ensemble / Russia

Official ambassadors of Russian culture, Ballet Igor Moiseyev and the State Academic Ensemble of folk dances, are back in Paris to celebrate their 75th birthday. One hundred artists, dancers and musicians take us on a journey across this vast country and reveal an unsuspected wealth of folklore: Moldova, Belarus, Ukraine, Nanai, Kalmyk, Tatar, Adjara, Caucasian. After 50 years touring the world, this visit to Paris is the perfect opportunity to reveal the spirit Russia.

Jordi Savall

These orchestra suites composed by Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764) include: Naïs 1748, Les Indes Galantes 1735, Zoroastre 1749 and Les Boréades 1764. Recorded live at the Versailles Royal Opera (France) in 2011.

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Nadja Michael as Médée

Three years after the creation of “Medea“, Krzysztof Warlikowski and Christophe Rousset are together again at La Monnaie for the revival of this memorable production whose staging reinforces the violence, tension and cruelty of this tragedy. Whilst this work by Cherubini is considered part of the “opéra-comique“ genre, it is only due to the presence of spoken dialogue, which has been modernised here in the Polish stage director’s interpretation. Written in 1797, Cherubini’s faithful version of Euripides’ ancient tragedy is one of the most savage and powerful works of the opera repertoire, relating the cruel vengeance of a wounded woman.

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Rouslan et Lyudmila

Genre Relay of: Opera, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Bel Air Media (France) | Co-Production Company ARTE (France) | Producer François Duplat | Director Andy Sommer | Duration 195‘ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow (Russia), 13.11.2011 | Musical style Classical music | Piece Ruslan and Lyudmila | Composer Mikhail Glinka | Conductor Vladimir Jurowski | Orchestra Orchestra of the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre (Russia) | Libretto Mikhail Glinka | Original Text Alexandre Pouchkine | Stage Director Dmitri Tcherniakov | Source video / audio HD / Stereo | Distribution TV Telmondis Distribution (France) “Ruslan and Lyudmila“ will be the first première to take place on the refurbished, historic Bolshoi Theatre Main Stage. This outstanding opera with its truly epic scale is ideally suited to the opening of the Theatre. Its Bolshoi Theatre debut was 165 years ago and today the legend is continued by Bolshoi guest conductor in residence Vladimir Yurovsky and director and scenographer Dmitri Tcherniakov.

Tchaikovsky’s enduring ballet, adapted from the classic fairy tale, is the story of the princess who pricks her finger on a spindle and sleeps for one hundred years, until she is awakened by her prince. Featuring Yuri Grigorovich’s notable 1973 choreography, “The Sleeping Beauty“ is considered Tchaikovsky’s finest score and is one of his most successful ballets.

Titus, Emperor of Rome, has turned down Berenice the foreign princess. He decides to marry Servilia and thereby arouses great anger in the ambitious Vitellia. Sextus would do anything for Vitellia’s love, even foment a coup against his closest friend, the Emperor. Revisiting the great Metastasio’s libretto, Mozart transformed the conventions of opera seria by rethinking its traditional form with a music that is filled with restrained feelings and veiled with melancholy. It was his last opera, a masterpiece that portrays the torment of the human condition as a man of power gains mastery over his impulses.

The Sleeping Beauty

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Wozzeck, staged by Dmitri Tcherniakov

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Berg‘s opera is based on the play of the same name by Georg Buchner (1836). The play which survived in draft form and has come down to us in several different versions, with two different spellings of the hero‘s surname, is based on a true story. The real Wozzeck – Johann Christian Woyzeck – was beheaded in Leipzig for murdering his wife out of jealousy. The psychiatrist‘s report on the incident was published in a specialized journal where it was read by the future author of the play.

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Behind the Scenes of The Little Mermaid

John Neumeier and Yuan Yuan Tan rehearsing The Little Mermaid

Gustavo Dudamel and the Capuçon Brothers in interview with actor John Lithgow

LA Phil Live is featuring full concert performances with the Los Angeles Philharmonic led by its dynamic music director Gustavo Dudamel, broadcast live from Walt Disney Concert Hall. In-theater audiences experience up-close and dramatic views of Dudamel and the orchestra in action, captured with multiple HD cameras and in 5.1 surround sound. Each broadcast transports audiences behind the music for an exclusive “backstage pass” look at the LA Phil – including interviews with Dudamel, world-renowned guest soloists and the orchestra‘s musicians. BFMI executes the live transmissions of selected LA Phil performances to more than 450 HD equipped movie theatres across the USA and Canada.

in Blue. 077 Rhapsody 2011 / 12 LA Phil Opening Gala Genre Relay of: Orchestral / choral concert, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images (Austria) | Co-Production Company WDR, ARTE (Germany), THIRTEEN for WNET (USA) | Ass. Production Company Los Angeles Philharmonic (USA) | Producer Bernhard Fleischer, John Walker, Lothar Mattner | Executive Producer David Horn | Associated Producer Chris Ayzoukian | TV Director Enrique Sanchez Lansch | Camera Henning Brümmer | Editor Janine Dauterich | Duration 75‘ | Duration2 43‘ 13“ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles (USA), 27.09.2011 | Musical style Jazz | Piece Cuban Overture, An American in Paris, Embraceable You, Someone to Watch Over Me, Rhapsody in Blue | Composer George Gershwin | Conductor Gustavo Dudamel | Orchestra Los Angeles Philharmonic (USA) | Soloist Herbie Hancock | Source video / audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV C Major Entertainment (Germany) | Theatrical distribution NCM Fathom (USA)

“The Little Mermaid“ was originally created to honor the 200th Anniversary of Hans Christian Andersen’s birth. Brought to stage again at the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House in 2011, the principle dancers talk about the story line and explore their approach to the roles. One of life’s greatest tragedies, the narrative of unrequited love is the pinnacle of the work. Lera Auerbach’s rich score underlines the story and she gives insight into her way of composing. John Neumeier describes the creative process, e.g. how to find a movement vocabulary to express a life under the sea in dance steps.

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Gustavo Dudamel & Herbie Hancock

The Opening Night Gala on 27 September features keyboard legend Herbie Hancock who joins Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic for a high-spirited celebration of quintessential American composer George Gershwin. Gershwin is the Jazz Age personified and the LA Phil was his hometown orchestra. The all-Gershwin concert featured some of the composer’s best-loved orchestral pieces: “Cuban Overture“, “American in Paris“, followed by Herbie Hancock’s improvisation of “Embraceable You“ and “Someone to Watch Over Me“. The concert closed with “Rhapsody in Blue“, which brought the audience to their feet for a rousing standing ovation.

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Schumann at PIER 2

This documentary offers a fresh approach to the symphonies of Robert Schumann with its protagonists the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and their conductor Paavo Järvi, who perform the Schumann Symphony Cycle at the former shipyard “PIER 2“ in Bremen. Järvi‘s exceptional ability to describe complex musical elements in a comprehensible and exciting manner make a significant contribution to a better understanding of the symphonies, transforming the rehearsal process of a presumably well-known musical repertoire into an exciting expedition.

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Yuan Yuan Tan and Lloyd Riggins in ‚The Little Mermaid‘

In “The Little Mermaid“, Hamburg Ballet Director and Chief Choreographer John Neumeier blends dance, dramatic storytelling and spectacle into a stunning interpretation of Hans Christian Andersen’s fable. It demands the heights of artistry from the dancers, who must venture into deeply emotional terrain in order to convey the ballet’s full message. Neumeier elevates a fantasy into a sophisticated portrayal of psychological transformation and the resilience of the spirit, human or otherwise. Featuring an evocative score by Lera Auerbach, this heart-wrenching story of sacrifice and unrequited love comes to life against dazzling scenic, costume and lighting designs.

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Igor Stravinsky lived in the heart of Hollywood from 1939 until shortly before his death in 1971. He came expecting to find lucrative work composing for the movies. Although initially attracted to the cultural imprimatur of Stravinsky’s reputation, the Hollywood Studios soon discovered that what they couldn’t control, they couldn’t use. And as quickly as they sucked him in, they spat him out. “Stravinsky in Hollywood“ explores the short-lived film career of this legendary composer; it is the story of his trials and tribulations with the Hollywood Studios, the story of an “old school” European artist knocking heads with the brash New World.

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The Makropulos Affair

Angela Denoke as Emilia Marty in ‚The Makropulos Affair‘

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With the grandiose Angela Denoke in the lead role, this production was one of the highlights of the 2011 Salzburg Festival. This emotionally powerful opera was given a superior treatment at the hands of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra under Esa-Pekka Salonen and in an ingenious staging by Christoph Marthaler. And yet it’s not Marthaler who rolls up this spectacular case anew, who reads out the judgments on life and death of those present. Instead, Karel Čapek and Leoš Janáček are the ones whose musical tale asks the question whether the prospect of eternal life is really as appealing as is generally assumed.

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Thielemann Conducts Strauss

Genre Relay of: Orchestral / choral concert, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Unitel Classica (Germany) | Co-Production Company Salzburg Festival (Austria), Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (Austria) | Ass. Production Company Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images (Austria) | Producer Magdalena Herbst | Executive Producer Bernhard Fleischer | TV Director Michael Beyer | Camera Günther Euringer | Editor Antje Lüdtke-Schönmann, Stefan Kobe | Duration 95‘ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Salzburg Festival, Großes Festspielhaus (Austria), 07.08.2011 | Musical style Classical music | Piece Befreit, Winterliebe, Traum durch die Dämmerung, Gesang der Apollopriesterin, Scene from Arabella, a.o. | Composer Richard Strauss | Conductor Christian Thielemann | Orchestra Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (Austria) | Soloist Renée Fleming | Source video / audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV C Major Entertainment (Germany)

A magical evening at the Salzburg Festival: soprano Renée Fleming, conductor Christian Thielemann and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra perform works by Richard Strauss. In her interpretation of four songs for voice and orchestra, along with a scene from “Arabella”, Fleming wanders along the summits of vocal artistry as a diva who dares to project the innermost emotions of the music she sings. Without a trace of bombast or heaviness, Thielemann and the Philharmoniker elaborate, as “Der Standard“ writes, “a new vision of the ‚Alpine Symphony‘“ that is characterized by a “chamber-music-like transparency”.

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083 Aaron Neville plays Avo Session Genre Relay of: Ensemble / band appearance, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Avo Session Basel (Switzerland) | Co-Production Company SRF (Switzerland), C Major Entertainment (Germany) | Producer Chris Egger | TV Director Roli Bärlocher | Duration 60‘ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Basel (Switzerland), 06.11.2011 | Source video / audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV, Multimedia distribution C Major Entertainment (Germany)

Rossini Festival Pesaro / Adelaide di Borgogna

The Rossini Festival has always nurtured its vocal talents, and many a famed coloratura singer of our day has spent his or her summer in Pesaro testing the waters of bravura parts in the more than 30 years of the festival’s existence. “Adelaide” stars internationally acclaimed and sought-after mezzo Daniela Barcellona as Ottone, and, in the role of Adelaide, a young Australian soprano, Jessica Pratt, who seems to possess a natural-born bel-canto voice. Director Pier’ Alli has devised a modern, stylish look for his production, which interweaves medieval aspects with ironically used elements from the time of the opera’s genesis, such as a stylized battle with umbrellas.

085 Carmen Genre Relay of: Opera, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Gran Teatre del Liceu (Spain), Unitel GmbH & Co. KG (Germany) | Co-Production Company Classica (Germany) | TV Director Pietro D’Agostino | Duration 156‘ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona (Spain) | Musical style Classical music | Piece Carmen | Composer Georges Bizet | Conductor Marc Piollet | Orchestra Symphony Orchestra of Gran Teatre del Liceu (Spain) | Soloist Béatrice Uria-Monzon, Roberto Alagna, Erwin Schrott, Marina Poplavskaya, Eliana Bayón, Itxaro Mentxaka | Costumes Mercè Paloma | Libretto Henri Meilhac, Ludovic Halévy | Original Text Prosper Mérimée | Stage Director Calixto Bieito | Piece Carmen | Source video / audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV, Theatrical distribution, Homevideo distribution, DVD distribution, Multimedia distribution C Major Entertainment (Germany)

Aaron Neville plays Avo Session

084 Adelaide of Burgundy Genre Relay of: Opera, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Unitel GmbH & Co. KG (Germany), Rossini Opera Festival Pesaro (Italy) | Co-Production Company Classica (Germany) | TV Director Tiziano Mancini | Duration 140‘ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Pesaro (Italy) | Musical style Classical music | Piece Adelaide of Burgundy | Composer Gioachino Rossini | Conductor Dmitri Jurowski | Orchestra Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna (Italy) | Choir Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna (Italy) | Soloist Daniela Barcellona, Jessica Pratt, Nicola Ulivieri, Bogdan Mihai, Jeannette Fischer, Francesca Pierpaoli, Clemente Antonio Daliotti | Libretto Giovanni Schmidt | Stage Director Pier‘ Alli | Source video / audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV, Theatrical distribution, Multimedia distribution C Major Entertainment (Germany)

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Roberto Alagna and Béatrice Uria-Monzon in Carmen

In America’s Deep South, where “Ol’ Man River“ Mississippi flows into the sea, music sounds different. It is darker, sometimes rougher around the edges and the people are closer to the higher powers. God and the Devil seem to be a more tangible part of life. Spiritual gospel and profane blues are side by side. Aaron Neville grew up in the Crescent City of New Orleans. A bear of a man, his high voice with its remarkable vibrato contrasts greatly with his appearance. The sounds of the South flow through his music, along with Cajun and Creole music, soul, gospel and even jazz, it forms the basis of his art, which is always carried by deep emotion.

Stage director Calixto Bieito, who has acquired a reputation for raw and evocative stagings, sees in Carmen the embodiment of the mythical gypsy and touches upon some sensitive issues such as racism, xenophobia and right-wing politics – issues that form part of the social fabric of many nations. Bieito conjures up a sensual, realistic atmosphere with powerfully symbolic props: a telephone booth, a Spanish flag, old Mercedes and the unofficial symbol of Spain, the “Osborne Bull”, which is dismantled before our eyes. Sets, costumes and lighting all blend in perfect harmony, and the musicians, both on stage and in the pit, respond with heightened attention and compelling presence, affording viewers the invigorating experience of superb acting and singing.

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feat. Nile Rodgers 086 Chic play Avo Session Genre Relay of: Ensemble / band appearance, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Avo Session Basel (Switzerland) | Co-Production Company SRF (Switzerland), C Major Entertainment (Germany) | Producer Chris Egger | TV Director Roli Bärlocher | Duration 60‘ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Basel (Switzerland) | Source video / audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV, Multimedia distribution C Major Entertainment (Germany)

The opening of Copenhagen’s new concert hall, the spectacular Koncerthuset, was celebrated with a very special project. To present their new home to a broad public the Danish National Symphony Orchestra and its chief conductor Thomas Dausgaard performed four popular works within the classical symphonic tradition, Nielsen’s Symphony No. 3, Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9, Brahms’ Symphony No. 1 and Sibelius’ Symphony No. 5. Additionally, the performances were filmed to a high standard with an extensive setup of cameras.

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Chic feat. Nile Rodgers play Avo Session

With his highly precise, reduced guitar style, Nile Rodgers revolutionized dance music and formed the basis for the disco craze with the immortal hit “Le Freak“ in the mid-70s. The legendary bass line of now deceased Chic co-founder Bernard Edwards in the hit “Good Times“ is probably the most common sample used in hip hop and dance music. It is incredible that this music still sounds just as fresh and cool now as when it first came out. It’s because Nile Rodgers has always managed to add new talent to his band and he has constantly tried new experiments. He learned this from one of his musical godfathers and partners: Miles Davis.

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Danish National Symphony Orchestra: 4 Symphonies

Earth, Wind & Fire Experience feat. Al McKay play Avo Session

Thomas Dausgaard conducts the Danish National Symphony Orchestra

Genre Relay of: Orchestral / choral concert, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company DR (Denmark) | Co-Production Company Unitel GmbH & Co. KG (Germany) | Ass. Production Company Classica (Germany) | TV Director Arne Rasmussen, Uffe Borgwardt | Duration 168‘ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Koncerthuset Copenagen (Denmark) | Musical style Classical music | Composer Carl Nielsen, Antonín Dvořák, Johannes Brahms, Jean Sibelius | Conductor Thomas Dausgaard | Orchestra Danish National Symphony Orchestra (Denmark) | Source video / audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV, Theatrical distribution, Homevideo distribution, DVD distribution, Multimedia distribution C Major Entertainment (Germany)

When front man Maurice White shakes his booty, it’s just as hip as it was back at the beginning of his career in 1969. His secret is the sound that he produces with the band he founded: Earth, Wind & Fire. It’s so hot, that you can’t sit still when they play eternal hits like “September“, “Let’s Groove“ or “Fantasy“. Funky beats, razor-sharp horns, grooving bass and a driving rhythm guitar are the elements, combined with a dazzling stage show and sensational choreography, that the band have brought to sheer perfection for more than 40 years. Often unfairly labelled a vile disco band by music purists, upon closer inspection, the band’s high musical quality and precision, which is exemplary in the genre, is unmistakeable.

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Tutto Verdi / Giovanna d‘Arco

Verdi‘s bombastic 1848 opera “Il Corsaro“ is very much of a rarity in modern times, even though the world of pirates has always been of interest and has provided great material for action and adventure stories. Verdi knew of Byron‘s poem “The Corsaire“ as early as 1844, but it was several years before he got around to composing the opera. “Il Corsaro“ was first performed at the Teatro Grande in Trieste in 1848.

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Keb‘ Mo‘ plays Avo Session

Liza Minnelli plays Avo Session

Everyone in Hollywood anxiously awaited the birth of the child of superstar Judy Garland and director Vincente Minnelli. When, at the age of 3, she debuted in her father’s film “An American in Paris“, nothing could stop her from having a dream career. When Liza won an Oscar for her portrayal of the nightclub singer Sally Bowles in the musical film “Cabaret“, it was a worldwide success on television and the world’s most famous stages. At Avo Session, she performs songs from her latest album “Confessions“ as well as Broadway hits such as “New York, New York“ and more.

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During the quest to find his own kind of music, blues singer Keb‘ Mo‘ discovered archaic blues pioneer Robert Johnson, who became one of his most important sources of inspiration. The refined simplicity of his guitar playing, his freedom in form and the stories that Johnson told his listeners influenced Keb’ Mo’ deeply. The difference is that Robert Johnson, who would have celebrated his 100th birthday in May 2011, was paid in food and whiskey back in his days. These days, Keb‘ Mo‘ is rewarded with Grammys for his work. At Avo Session, Keb’ Mo’ plays his best known hits as well as songs from his new album “The Reflection“.

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Like many other African American girls, Lizz Wright grew up as the daughter of a preacher, singing in the church choir, taking piano lessons and realizing that there was more to music than gospel. At the age of 22, she was discovered in a contest and now almost ten years later and with four albums and countless concerts behind her, she is completely at home with herself, singing simple songs, trusting in her voice alone, calmly delivering her message – a message always filled with a deep sense of humanity. At Avo Session, Lizz Wright performs songs from her new album “Fellowship“.

093 Paul Anka plays Avo Session Genre Relay of: Ensemble / band appearance, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Avo Session Basel (Switzerland) | Co-Production Company SRF (Switzerland), C Major Entertainment (Germany) | Producer Chris Egger | TV Director Roli Bärlocher | Duration 60‘ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Basel (Switzerland), 05.11.2011 | Source video / audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV, Multimedia distribution C Major Entertainment (Germany)

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Mahler: Das klagende Lied | Conductor Pierre Boulez | Orchestra Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (Austria) | Choir Vienna State Opera (Austria) | Source video / audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV, Theatrical distribution, Homevideo distribution, DVD distribution, Multimedia distribution C Major Entertainment (Germany)

Paul Anka’s debut hit single “Diana“ catapulted him immediately into the Hall of Fame in 1957 at the tender age of 16, making him the youngest millionaire in the history of music. The hits that followed – “Lonely Boy“ and “Put Your Head On My Shoulder“ – made the Canadian singer the most successful entertainer since Elvis. Ever since he started composing for other musicians, Anka has been one of the most successful musicians of all time. He has released over 120 albums and sold over 100 million records. Joined by his Big Band he presents his programme “Rock Swings“, including famous rock classics, in swing versions at Avo Session Basel.

094 Pink Martini play Avo Session Genre Relay of: Ensemble / band appearance, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Avo Session Basel (Switzerland) | Co-Production Company SRF (Switzerland), C Major Entertainment (Germany) | Producer Chris Egger | TV Director Roli Bärlocher | Duration 60‘ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Basel (Switzerland), 22.10.2011 | Source video / audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV, Multimedia distribution C Major Entertainment (Germany)

Paul Anka plays Avo Session

Salzburg Festival: Opening Concert 2011

In the Mahler anniversary year 2011 Pierre Boulez, the “grandseigneur of subtle minimalism and exquisitely beguiling sounds” (Der Standard), was given the honor of conducting this year’s traditional opening concert of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra at the Salzburg Festival. As a tribute to the composer, the concert centers around Mahler’s “Das klagende Lied” and begins with two works by his pupil and admirer Alban Berg. The first, the “Lulu Suite” of 1934, is compiled from Berg’s unfinished opera of the same name and contains music for the tragic temptress. She is sung here by “dazzling” (Der Standard) and “sensational” (Die Presse) young British-Austrian soprano Anna Prohaska, while Dorothea Röschmann delivers a “masterful interpretation” (Die Presse) of Berg’s concert aria “Der Wein”.

096 The Flute Concert of Sanssouci Genre Relay of: Instrumental recital, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Salve TV, ZDF / ARTE (Germany) | Co-Production Company Unitel GmbH & Co. KG (Germany) | TV Director Beatrix Conrad | Duration 80‘ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Sanssouci, Potsdam (Germany) | Musical style Classical music | Piece Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Solo Flute Sonata; Frederick the Great: Flute Concert | Composer Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Frederick the Great, Johann Joachim Quantz, Franz Benda | Orchestra Kammerakademie Potsdam (Germany) | Soloist Emmanuel Pahud, Trevor Pinnock | Source video / audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV, Theatrical distribution, Multimedia distribution C Major Entertainment (Germany)

You can bundle seemingly conflicting elements and then mix them up to form a brand new unit – and we don’t mean sampling – but you have to know how to get the right mix. Thomas Lauderdale is someone who gets it. He manages to combine songs from Japanese films, Russian folklore, old-fashioned French pop songs, Cuban rhythms, American bar jazz and Egyptian belly dancing music to create something entirely new. His recipe involves a band of eleven musicians with an equally high number of cultural backgrounds and languages. Since 1994, this eclectic troupe has been called Pink Martini. It has released five albums to date and is known as America’s “Frenchest“ band, a somewhat simplistic definition.

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Salzburg Festival 2011: Opening Concert

Emmanuel Pahud plays music by Frederick the Great

Pink Martini play Avo Session

With this programme, Emmanuel Pahud, doubtless one of the best flute players in the world, honours the 300th anniversary of a great philosopher, musician and composer: the Prussian King Frederick II, also called “The Great“. Together with the Kammerakademie Potsdam the famous French flutist and member of the Berliner Philharmoniker will perform – in one of the palaces built by the King – musical works of Frederick the Great himself, of Johann Joachim Quantz (teacher of Frederick the Great), of Franz Benda and of Carl Friedrich Emanuel Bach, who was the royal harpsichordist.

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099 Vadim Repin – a Magician of Sound

Placído Domingo as Pablo Neruda in Il Postino

Vadim Repin

Based on the popular 1994 Italian film, “Il Postino“ by Daniel Catán stars Plácido Domingo as the poet Pablo Neruda for this exciting world premiere. In a tiny Italian fishing village, a shy young postman finds the inspiration to live out his dreams during his daily deliveries to his only customer, a famous poet.

098 Thielemann conducts Faust

Under the musical direction of Christian Thielemann, the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden performed a special Franz Liszt memorial concert at the Semperoper in Dresden. “Fired by inspiration, the Dresden musicians and their leader offer a grandiose demonstration of their ability, their precision and their feeling for color and temperament.... A top orchestra and a top conductor have found one another” (Die Welt).

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Born in Siberia in 1971, Vadim Repin started to play violin at the age of five. At only eleven he won the gold medal in all age categories in the Wienawski Competition and gave his recital debuts in Moscow and St. Petersburg. He was the youngest ever winner of the most prestigious and demanding violin competition in the world, the Reine Elisabeth Concours. From the vastness of Siberia to world fame, the violin virtuoso Vadim Repin returns to where his career began, for a Brahms tour, far away from the cultural centre of Moscow. From Irkutsk at Lake Baikal to Novosibirsk, we follow the magnificent artist to the West, where Yehudi Menuhin once called him the “most perfect violinist in the world“.

m Bronfman, Andris Nelsons and 100 Yefi the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra at Lucerne Festival

Genre Relay of: Orchestral / choral concert, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Unitel GmbH & Co. KG (Germany) | Ass. Production Company Sächsiche Staatsoper Dresden (Germany) | Associated Producer Germany Classica | TV Director Tilo Krause | Duration 90‘ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Semperoper, Dresden, (Germany) | Musical style Classical music | Piece Richard Wagner: A Faust Overture (1855 Version); Franz Liszt: A Faust Symphony (1857 Version) | Conductor Christian Thielemann | Orchestra Staatskapelle Dresden (Germany) | Choir Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden (Germany) | Soloist Endrik Wottrich | Source video / audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV, Theatrical distribution, Homevideo distribution, DVD distribution, Multimedia distribution C Major Entertainment (Germany)

Thielemann conducts Faust

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Genre Relay of: Orchestral / choral concert, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Unitel GmbH & Co. KG (Germany) | Co-Production Company Lucerne Festival (Switzerland), Classica (Germany) | TV Director Ute Feudel | Duration 118‘ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Lucerne Festival (Swizerland) | Musical style Classical music | Piece Ouverture to “The Ruins of Athens“, Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 73, Scheherazade, Op. 35 | Composer Ludwig van Beethoven, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov | Conductor Andris Nelsons | Orchestra Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (Netherlands) | Soloist Yefim Bronfman | Source video / audio HD / Stereo | Distribution TV, Theatrical distribution, Homevideo distribution, DVD distribution, Multimedia distribution C Major Entertainment (Germany)

Yefim Bronfman, Andris Nelsons and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra at Lucerne Festival

For his tone poem, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov chose four episodes from the famous collection tales to set, using glowing instrumental colors and exotically tinged ornaments. Andris Nelsons, the young and charismatic star conductor from Latvia, will be sure to inspire a veritable sonic intoxication with the wonderful Concertgebouw Orchestra. In contrast, the first part of the concert will strike a heroic note when Yefim Bronfman, whose virtuosity knows no limits, plays Beethoven’s Fifth Piano Concerto.

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Antoine‘s Four Seasons

Salonen Antimaestro

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Antoine is a little redheaded boy just like Antonio Vivaldi. For his 10th birthday, his grandfather offers him a book. But not just any book...on its cover appears Antoine‘s name. Its magical: it plays the “Four Seasons“ music as he draws on it!

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Orlanda Furioso by Antonio Vivaldi

Orlando Furioso – Antonio Vivaldi

Enjoy the “Orlando Furioso“ opera with the exact cast that reintroduced the general public to Vivaldi‘s magnificient piece. Philippe Jarousski, Marie-Nocile Lemieux, Veronica Cangemin and Pierre Audi‘s direction return this opera to its past glory.

Esa-Pekka Salonen is not only one of the world‘s most important conductors, but also a major composer. Where does he find the time and energy to both compose and conduct? Esa-Pekka Salonen is running, in every sense of the word, after a musical ideal and achieves it thanks to an extraordinay personal discipline.

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Esa-Pekka Salonen

Antoine‘s Four Seasons

Anna Netrebko as Norina

Anna Netrebko revives her acclaimed portrayal of Norina, the irresistible and clever romantic heroine in this sophisticated bel canto comedy, opposite Matthew Polenzani as the lovelorn Ernesto, Mariusz Kwiecien as the clever Dr. Malatesta and John Del Carlo in the buffoonish title role. Music Director James Levine conducts in his first-ever performances of this opera. Renowned Austrian director Otto Schenk returns to direct the first revival of his Met production, which the New York Times praised as “wonderful“ and “insightful“ when it was premiered in 2006.

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James Levine

Entering his fifth decade at the Metropolitan Opera, James Levine has developed a relationship with the company that is unparalleled in its history and unique in the musical world today. Under his leadership, the Metropolitan Opera entered a golden age. He has developed the orchestra and chorus to an outstanding level of achievement, excellence and public recognition. This enlightening documentary looks back on James Levine’s first steps in the musical world as pianist and conductor and accompanies his career up to his becoming the Met’s Music Director and one of America’s major maestros.

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Le Comte Ory

Juan Diego Flórez as Comte Ory

Rossini’s vocally dazzling comedy stars bel canto sensation Juan Diego Flórez in the title role of this Met premiere production. He vies with mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, in the trouser role of Isolier, for the love of the lonely Countess Adèle, sung by soprano Diana Damrau. Bartlett Sher, director of the Met’s hit productions of “The Barber of Seville“ and “The Tales of Hoffmann“, describes the world of the opera as, “a place where love is dangerous. People get hurt. That can be very funny and very painful. Rossini captures both – with the most beautiful love music Rossini ever wrote.”

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Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto marks the high point in the composer’s virtuoso career. The soloist appears here as a heroic individual in a concertizing dialogue with the independent orchestra. In this performance with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under the direction of its principal conductor Mariss Jansons, one can also hear the Japanese star pianist Mitsuko Uchida, who is admired all over the world for her deeply felt interpretations.

Jansons conducts Mahler‘s 108 Mariss Symphony No. 2 Genre Relay of: Orchestral / choral concert, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Bayerischer Rundfunk (Germany) | Co-Production Company Clasart Classic (Germany) | TV Director Brian Large | Duration 82‘ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Philharmonie im Gasteig, Munich (Germany) | Musical style Classical music | Piece Symphony No. 2 C minor | Composer Gustav Mahler | Conductor Mariss Jansons | Orchestra Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (Germany) | Choir Bavarian Radio Choir (Germany) | Soloist Anja Harteros, Bernarda Fink | Source video / audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV, Theatrical distribution, Homevideo distribution Clasart, DVD distribution, Multimedia distribution Clasart Classic (Germany)

Mariss Jansons conducts Beethoven‘s Piano Concerto No. 3

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Mariss Jansons

With his “Resurrection Symphony“, Gustav Mahler captures in music what remains to mankind after life on earth, with its happy moments, despair and lack of orientation. The exceptionally large musical forces render performances difficult and are responsible for the work being heard so rarely. Yet the Second Symphony is a central work in Mahler’s oeuvre, a

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Mariss Jansons conducts Strauss‘ “Ein Heldenleben”

Mariss Jansons

Genre Relay of: Orchestral / choral concert, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Bayerischer Rundfunk (Germany), Clasart Classic (Germany) | TV Director Brian Large | Duration 50‘ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Philharmonie im Gasteig, Munich (Germany) | Musical style Classical music | Piece Ein Heldenleben, Symphonic Poem Op. 40 | Composer Richard Strauss | Conductor Mariss Jansons | Orchestra Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (Germany) | Source video / audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV, Theatrical distribution, Homevideo distribution Clasart, DVD distribution, Multimedia distribution Clasart Classic (Germany)

The tone poem “Ein Heldenleben” was written in 1899, shortly before Strauss left Munich for the Berlin Court Opera, where he was appointed house conductor. In the imaginary hero whose eventful life is described in the work, the young Strauss apparently envisioned the freelance artist of his time, who was exposed to considerable hostility during the Wilhelminian era, just as Strauss himself in his early Munich period. The public’s attitude toward Strauss’ always slightly megalomaniacal music has changed radically since then, as can be seen in the acclaimed performance with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Mariss Jansons.

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Simon Boccanegra

Plácido Domingo as Simon Boccanegra

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The History of an Opera

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“It has been my dream for years”, the charismatic tenor Plácido Domingo said of singing Boccanegra – the first baritone role of his legendary career on the Met stage. With this production of Verdi’s “Boccanegra“, the story of the rise and fall of the charismatic Doge of Genoa, whose political triumphs have accompanied a life of personal heartache, Mr. Domingo’s dream comes true. The tastefully grand production by Giancarlo del Monaco is not completely unknown to Mr. Domingo: at an earlier stage in his career he sang the tenor role of Gabriele Adorno in it.

Krumlov machinery

At the castle complex of the UNESCO world heritage site Český Krumlov, stands a unique Baroque theater with completely preserved machinery, costumes and props. In its archives, the scores of the opera “Dove è amore è gelosia” were found. The documentary on the making of this historical opera performance not only presents the Schwarzenberg family and examines its impact on music and theater life in the 18th century, but also gives intriguing insights into the magical world of Baroque theater with its illusionary decorations, opulent costumes, historical technology and candlelit scenery.

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Dove è amore è gelosia

Genre Relay of: Opera, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company BVA International Ltd. (Czech Republic), Clasart Classic (Germany), NHK (Japan), Czech Television (Czech Republic) | Producer Jiří Hubač, Herbert G. Kloiber | TV Director Ondřej Havelka | Duration 90‘ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Český Krumlov (Czech Republic) | Musical style Classical music | Composer Giuseppe Scarlatti | Conductor Vojtěch Spurný | Orchestra Schwarzenberg Court Orchestra (Czech Republic) | Soloist Helena Kazárová, Lenka Máčiková, Aleš Briscein, Kateřina Kněžíková, Jaroslav Březina | Stage Director Ondřej Havelka | Source video / audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV Clasart Classic (Germany)

work that brought him the long hoped-for recognition as composer at the Munich performance in 1900. In this performance with a top-quality cast, Mariss Jansons, the “Conductor of the Year 2011” (Opernwelt) and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus are joined by two acknowledged Mahler experts, Anja Harteros and Bernarda Fink.

Lenka Máčiková as Marquise Clarice

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Classic Arts Showcase

Collegium & Collegium Vocale 1704

In 1740 Handel turned to oratorio, a genre that he himself reinvented and that rapidly guaranteed him continued universal success. “The Messiah“, with its majestic, triumphant vision of Christ, is here interpreted by a remarkable Czech orchestration that consistently met with enthusiastic applause at each performance. The concert was recorded at the Saint-Robert Abbey Church on 21 August 2011 as part of the 45th annual Festival de la Chaise-Dieu.

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At the castle complex of the UNESCO world heritage site Český Krumlov, stands a unique Baroque theater with completely preserved machinery, costumes and props. Additionally, the theatre boasts a rich archive where the scores of the opera “Dove è amore è gelosia” were found. For the celebration of the wedding of his son, Prince Joseph Adam of Schwarzenberg, the Duke of Krumlov, commissioned Giuseppe Scarlatti in 1768 to compose this opera buffa. The performance at the Baroque theatre was conducted by Scarlatti himself. Thanks to the surviving historical documents and theatre stocks, it was possible to reconstruct this unique event.

45th Festival de La Chaise - Dieu Bach & Zelenka

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45th Festival de La Chaise - Dieu Handel The Messiah

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Collegium Vocale 1704

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A Festival regular, the young Czech Collegium & Collegium Vocale 1704 ensemble continues on in their rediscovery of the works of Zelenka. His “Te Deum“ combines grandeur, sincere piety, spiritual intoxication and a sense of splendor. The first part begins with a Bach cycle, with Suite No. 3 and its sublime air, and is followed by a festive, bright secular cantata that calls upon many voices, including woodwinds, trumpets, kettledrums and the choir.

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Aida at The Chorégies d‘Orange

“Aïda“ is one of Verdi’s pivotal works. In its intimate, well-timed scenes he developed a new form of dramatic expression – one of great intensity that presages end of the century verism. “Aïda“ – transposed to the Cairo of Khedive Ismail Pasha’s era – imposes itself with the highly aesthetic quality of Charles Roubaud’s (a loyal supporter of the Chorégies d’Orange) direction and the finely chiseled interpretation by the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse under the direction of Tugan Sokhiev.

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Aldo Ciccolini and Michiyoshi Inoue at La Roque d‘Anthéron

Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa – Michioshi Inoue

Budapest Festival Orchestra at Pleyel

Budapest Festival Orchestra – Iván Fischer

Aida – Chorégies d‘Orange

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Genre Relay of: Opera, Live recording | Status in progress | Production Company CLC Productions (France) | Co-Production Company Chorégies d‘Orange, Majorie Productions (France) | Producer Jean François Boyer, Sabrina Azoulay | Executive Producer Pierre Moitron | TV Director Richard Valverde | Duration 160‘ 01“ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Chorégies d‘Orange (France), 12.07.2011 | Musical style Classical music | Piece Aida | Composer Giuseppe Verdi | Conductor Tugan Sokhiev | Orchestra Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse (France) | Choir Chœurs de l’Opéra-Théâtre d’Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse, Chœurs d’Angers-Nantes Opéra, Chœurs de l’Opéra de Nice, Chœurs de l’Opéra de Tours, (France) | Soloist Indra Thomas, Ekaterina Gubanova, Ludivine Gomber, Carlo Ventre, Andrzej Dobber, Giacomo Prestia, Mikhail Kolelishvili, Julien Dran | Choreography Jean-Charles Gil | Costumes Katia Duflot | Libretto Antonio Ghislanzoni | Original Text Camille Du Locle | Stage Director Charles Roubaud | Source video / audio HD / Stereo

The appeareance of Aldo Ciccolini, one of the most fervent defenders of French music, at La Roque d’Anthéron last year marked this grand pianist’s 85th year. Let us recall that we owe to him the first complete works of Satie as well as numerous recordings of Ravel, Debussy and Massenet. For his return this year he is accompanied by Michiyoshi Inoue, whose impressive career alongside the Kanazawa Ensemble Orchestra, the premier international chamber orchestra of Japan, began in 2007.

The Budapest Festival Orchestra conducted with elegance and sensibility by Iván Fischer performs selected works of Richard Wagner with the renowned soprano Petra Lang.

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Farinelli, Il Castrato Handel and Porpora Arias

Genre Relay of: Vocal recital, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company CLC Productions (France) | Co-Production Company Association Guillaume Duffay (France), Mezzo (France), Voo tv (France) | Producer Jean François Boyer, Sabrina Azoulay | TV Director Olivier Simonnet | Duration 104‘ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded International Festival of Baroque Opera Beaune 2011 (France), 17.07.2011 | Musical style Early music | Piece Arias | Composer Riccardo Broschi, Johann Christian Bach, Nicolas Porpora, Germiniano Giacomelli, Johann-Adolf Hasse, George Frideric Handel, Leonardo Leo | Conductor Christophe Rousset | Orchestra Les Talens Lyriques (France) | Soloist Ann Hallenberg | Source video / audio HD / Stereo

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Ann Hallenberg – Les Talens Lyriques

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The splendid Swedish mezzo-soprano Ann Hallenberg, with her extraordinary range, and the Talens Lyriques, directed by Christophe Rousset, invite us to relive all the excitement and exhilaration the castrati inspired by performing some of the magnificent airs that helped in the making of the legend — the castrato Farinelli from Naples.

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Francesca Da Rimini

Genre Relay of: Opera, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company CLC Productions (France) | Co-Production Company Opéra National de Paris, Mezzo (France) | Producer Jean François Boyer, Sabrina Azoulay | TV Director Denis Caïozzi | Duration 130‘ 01“ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Opéra National de Paris (France), 12.02.2011 | Musical style Classical music | Piece Francesca Da Rimini | Composer Riccardo Zandonai | Conductor Daniel Oren | Orchestra & Choir Opéra National de Paris (France) | Soloists Svetla Vassilieva, Louise Callinan, George Gagnidze, Roberto Alagna, William Joyner, Maria Virginia Savastano, Manuela Bisceglie, Isabelle Druet, Carol Garcia, Cornelia Oncioiu, Alexandre Kravets, Yuri Kissin, Alexandre Duhamel | Costumes Maria Filippi | Libretto Tito Ricordi | Original Text Gabriele D’Annunzio | Stage Director Giancarlo Del Monaco | Source video / audio HD / Stereo

Svelta Vassilieva (Francesca) / Roberto Alagna (Paolo Il Bello)

Daniele Gatti naturally has a strong link with the music of Verdi. The Italian unification is 150 years old, and Italy wouldn’t be what it is if there had been no Verdi, with his hymns to the oppressed homeland and his choral works that sing of faith and freedom. Daniele Gatti offers us an anthology of these vibrant pages.

International Piano Festival at La Roque d’Anthéron Closing concert - Part one

Genre Relay of: Orchestral / choral concert, Live recording | Status in progress | Production Company CLC Productions (France) | CoProduction Company Festival International de Piano de La Roque d’Anthéron, Mirare, ARTE France, France Télévisions (France) | Producer Jean François Boyer, Sabrina Azoulay | Executive Producer Pierre Moitron | TV Director François René Martin | Duration 84‘ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Festival International de Piano de La Roque d’Anthéron (France), 21.08.2011 | Musical style Classical music | Piece Concerto in C minor, BWV 1060, for two harpsichords and orchestra | Composer Johann Sebastian Bach | Conductor Faycal Karoui | Orchestra Orchestre de Pau - Pays de Béarn (France) | Soloist Francesco Tristano, Rami Khalifé | Musical style Classical music | Piece Concerto No. 21 in C major, K. 467, for piano and orchestra, Andante | Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Soloist Rami Khalifé | Musical style Classical music | Piece Rhapsody in Blue | Composer George Gershwin | Soloist Franck Braley | Musical style Classical music | Piece Hexameron: Six Variations on Bellini’s “The March of the Puritains” by Liszt | Composer Francesco Bellini | Soloist Sandra Bizjak, Marie-Josèphe Jude, Emmanuel Strosser, Guillaume Vincent, Yaron Herman, Claire Marie Leguay | Source video / audio HD / Stereo

Unfairly neglected in France, “Francesca da Rimini“, with its sensual and passionate lyrical music, is one of the great masterpieces of the beginning of the 20th century. Alongside Svetla Vassilieva, Roberto Alagna makes his opera comeback.

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Grandissimo Verdi!

Franck Braleu / Orchestre de Pau Pays de Béarn

Orchestre national de France – Daniel Gatti

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International Piano Festival at La Roque d’Anthéron Closing concert – Part two

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In this last night at La Roque d‘Anthéron the artists play Rachmaninoff, Mozart, Beethoven and Saint Saëns....

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Jazz Night Piano Tigran Hamasyan

Tigran Hamasyan

Ann Hallenberg / Orchestre Modo Antiquo

Here again we meet conductor Frederico Maria Sardelli, this time in “Juditha Triumphans“ – the only oratorio Vivaldi left to us. “Judith Triumphans“ is marked by the monumental style of its choir and orchestra, the originality of its modulations and the boldness of its chromatic harmonies. Its colorful orchestration wonderfully accompanies the protagonists’ arias, which are among Vivaldi’s greatest works.

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La Didone

Genre Relay of: Opera, Live recording | Status in progress | Production Company CLC Productions (France) | Co-Production Company Théâtre Caen, Les Arts Florissants, France Télévisions, Mezzo, (France) | Producer Jean François Boyer, Sabrina Azoulay | Executive Producer Pierre Moitron | TV Director Olivier Simonnet | Duration 170‘ 01“ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Théâtre de Caen (France), 14.10.2011 | Musical style Early music | Piece La Didone | Composer Pier Francesco Cavalli | Conductor William Chrisite | Orchestra Les Arts Florissants (France) | Soloist Anna Bonitatibus, Kresimir Spicer, Claire Debono, Tehila Nini Golstein, Xavier Sabata, Katerine Watson, Terry Wey, Mariana Rewerski, Valerio Contaldo, Joseph Cornwell | Costumes Caroline De Vivaise | Stage Director Clément Hervieu Léger | Source video / audio HD / Stereo

Genre Relay of: Instrumental recital, Live recording | Status in progress | Production Company CLC Productions (France) | Co-Production Company Festival International de Piano de La Roque d’Anthéron, Mirare, ARTE France, France Télévisions (France) | Producer Jean François Boyer, Sabrina Azoulay | Executive Producer Pierre Moitron | TV Director Corentin Leconte | Duration 60‘ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Festival International de Piano de La Roque d’Anthéron (France), 28.07.2011 | Source video / audio HD / Stereo

Conductor Federico Maria Sardelli | Orchestra Orchestre Modo Antiquo (Italy) | Choir Cœur de chambre de Namur (Belgique) | Soloist Ann Hallenberg, Delphine Galou, Nick Kennedy, Loriana Castellano, Rosa Bove | Libretto Giacomo Cassetti | Original Text 4th book of Apocryphes Quatrième Livre des Apocryphes | Source video / audio HD / Stereo

Juditha Triumphans Oratorio in 2 parts

This year, in the wake of his first solo album, “A Fable“, released earlier in the year by Verve, young Armenian pianist Tigran Hamasyan joins us at La Roque d’Anthéron. A milestone in a precocious career that has been going full throttle since age 11: transnational, from Armenia to the U.S., eclectic, and sponsored by the likes of Chick Correa, Avishai Cohen and Herbie Hancock. For this tour, Tigran Hamasyan is alone behind his piano. Nonetheless, we still detect the varied influences we heard in his many fusion performances of years past. We even get to hear him sing.

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MJ. Jude, E. Strosser, G. Vincent, F. Braley

style Classical music | Piece Variations on Beethoven’s 9 symphonies - Transcription for 8 hands Composer Ludwig van Beethoven | Soloist Marie-Josèphe Jude, Claire Marie Leguay, Emmanuel Strosser, Guillaume Vincent | Musical style Classical music | Piece Suite No. 1, Op. 5, for two pianos | Composer Sergei Rachmaninoff | Soloist Nikolaï Lugansky, Vadim Rudenko | Musical style Classical music | Piece Symphony No. 3 “Organ Symphony” - Transcription for 4 pianos | Composer Camille Saint Saëns | Soloist Franck Braley, Marie Agnès Jude, Emmanuel Strosser, Guillaume Vincent | Source video / audio HD / Stereo

La Didone

Once again, Les Arts Florissants breathe life into a seldom performed Baroque piece - “La Didone“, an opera in three acts, written by Francesco Cavalli, performed for the first time 1 March 1641 in Venice. Under the direction of William Christie, Anna Bonitatibus and Kresimir Spicer play Didon and Enée, alongside the Arts Florissants in their first Cavalli work. For Clément Hervieu-Léger, actor and resident member of the Comédie Francaise, “La Didone“ is his first operatic production after most notably having collaborated with Patrice Chéreau at the Aix-en-Provence Festival.

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London Symphony Orchestra at Pleyel Valery Gergiev

London Symphony Orchestra / Valery Gergiev

For the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Mahler‘s death and within the framework of his complete work dedicated to the composer, Valery Gergiev directs the Symphony No.10 (Adagio) and No.9 with The London Symphony Orchestra.

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This group of madrigals singers, brought together by Paul Agnew, tenor and one-time director of the Les Arts Florissants Baroque ensemble, proposes a wonderful vocal journey from the end of the Renaissance madrigal – born of the Franco-Flemish art – to the court ballets (Ballo dell’Ingrate) and operatic scenes (Le Combat de Tancréde et Clorinde). A half-century of Monteverdi - experimentation, discoveries and masterpieces (Zefiro Torna and Lamento della ninfa). Recorded October 9, 2011 at the Cité de la Musique.

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Les Arts Florissants

This group of madrigals singers, brought together by Paul Agnew, tenor and one-time director of the Les Arts Florissants Baroque ensemble, proposes a wonderful vocal journey from the end of the Renaissance madrigal – born of the Franco-Flemish art – to the court ballets (Ballo dell’Ingrate) and operatic scenes (Le Combat de Tancréde et Clorinde). A half-century of Monteverdi – experimentation, discoveries and masterpieces (Zefiro Torna and Lamento della ninfa).

Genre Relay of: Orchestral / choral concert, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company CLC Productions (France) | CoProduction Company Festival International de Piano de La Roque d’Anthéron, Mezzo, Mirare, ARTE France, France Télévisions, (France) | Producer Jean François Boyer, Sabrina Azoulay | Executive Producer Pierre Moitron | TV Director François René Martin | Duration 82‘ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Festival International de Piano de La Roque d’Anthéron (France), 25.07.2011 | Musical style Classical music | Piece Concerto No. 2 in C minor for piano and orchestra, Op. 18, Prelude No.12 Op. 32, Prelude No. 5 Op. 32, Tasso, Lamento e Trionfo | Composer Sergei Rachmaninoff | Conductor Anton Wit | Orchestra Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra (Poland) | Piece The Preludes | Composer Franz Liszt | Source video / audio HD / Stereo

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Monteverdi The Complete Madrigals (Book 1)

Paul Agnew / Les Arts Florissants

Monteverdi The Complete Madrigals (Book 2)

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Anton Wit

Russian pianist Nikolaï Lugansky is best known for his interpretation of the works of his favorite composer – Rachmaninoff. In fact, today he is recognized as the foremost specialist of the Russian composer. At the beginning of the new millennium he spent several years recording

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Rachmaninoff’s concertos. For this concert at La Roque d’Anthéron he returns to Concert No.2, which was composed at the turn of the century and is typically considered an allegory for Rachmaninoff’s nervous breakdown and subsequent recovery. We hear the piece in “Shine“, the film inspired by the life of pianist Davis Helfgott.

Orchestre de Paris James Conlon – Gil Shaham – Choir Orchestre de Paris

Orchestre de Paris – Paavo Järvi

Written in 1930, “Les Offrandes Oubliées“ is Olivier Messiaen’s first symphonic work. In a flash, we are transported back in time exactly one century and are listening to the “Symphonie Fantastique“ — a chance to eat one’s fill of this inexhaustible work, at times dizzying for the orchestra. Schumann’s Piano Concert, composed 15 years after the “Symphonie Fantastique“ and performed by Vietnamese soloist Dang Thai Son, is also on the menu for the evening. Its sweeping symphonic dimensions, thematic richness and intimate character place it in the long tradition of Beethoven’s piano concertos—and explain its overwhelming success.

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Gil Shaham

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Orchestre de Paris Salle Pleyel Pierre Boulez

We are modern at every epoch. That’s kind of the message of this concert. At the turn of the 20th century, Debussy artfully gave the slip to traditional harmony and created a world of subtle orchestral impressions. Samuel Barber, a contemporary of Leonard Bernstein, too little known despite the centennial celebration in 2010, composed his magnificent “Violin Concerto“ in 1939. But the high point of the evening is Francis Poulenc’s “Gloria“. A work of happy fervor, this grand choral symphony, composed 50 years ago and teeming with stark contrast, conveys an aesthetic that is far ahead of its time.

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Schoenberg and Bartók were innovators: one went beyond conventional harmony to open new spaces of sound, the other brought a surplus of energy to music, with rhythms revived by popular traditions. Pierre Boulez has been a regular guest with the Orchestre de Paris for 35 years now. His repertoire is 20th century modernism...this program reflects that.

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Piano Night – Liszt-The Complete Years of Pilgrimage

Genre Relay of: Instrumental recital, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company CLC Productions (France) | Co-Production Company Festival International de Piano de La Roque d’Anthéron, Mirare, Mezzo, ARTE France, France Télévisions, (France) | Producer Jean François Boyer, Sabrina Azoulay | Executive Producer Pierre Moitron | TV Director François René Martin | Duration 183‘ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Festival International d‘Opéra Baroque de Beaune (France), 07.08.2011 | Musical style Classical music | Piece The complete Years of Pilgrimage First year: Switzerland, The complete Years of Pilgrimage - Second year: Italia, The complete Years of Pilgrimage - Third year: Italia | Composer Franz Liszt | Soloist Nicholas Angelich | Source video / audio HD / Stereo

Yaron Herman Trio at La Roque d‘Anthéron

Genre Relay of: Ensemble / band appearance, Live recording | Status in progress | Production Company CLC Productions (France) | CoProduction Company Festival International de Piano de La Roque d’Anthéron, Mirare, ARTE France, France Télévisions, (France) | Producer Jean-François Boyer | Executive Producer Pierre Moitron | Associated Producer Sabrina Azoulay | TV Director Corentin Leconte | Duration 83‘ 01“ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Festival International de Piano de La Roque d’Anthéron, 28.07.2011 | Source video / audio HD / Stereo

Yaron Herman

Nicholas Angelich

The complete “Years of Pilgrimage“ of Franz Liszt in a single concert – nearly three hours of music – seems a bit like madness. And yet this was the bet wagered (and won) by Nicholas Angelich at La Roque d’Anthéron.

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Tord Gustavsen Ensemble at la Roque d‘Anthéron

In ECM, the world-renown label for dreamers that is home to little gems from elsewhere (mostly jazz, but some more experimental work as well), we find Tord Gustavsen, the Norwegian pianist with the mind-blowing touch. A longtime member of a trio with extremely sober tendencies (with Jarle Vespestad on drums and Harald Johnsen on bass), his recent album, “Restored, Returned“, takes more liberty. The trio got together and enlisted the services of a singer whose voice is very...Scandinavian — bluesy, with a slightly folky finish. Welcome to the ether.

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Yaron Herman no longer needs an introduction, though he is by no means old. This came about last summer when our man, whose stellar reputation and famous recordings already preceded him, floored audiences in Montreux, Marciac and La Roque d’Anthéron with his piano solos. Moreover he ventures, like his contemporary Brad Mehldau, into the uncharted waters of the genre that he saw born, hitting right where the Mehldau privileged Radiohead, Bjork, Britney Spears, The Police and Leonard Cohen. See him here with his trusty trio for an evening that leans toward jazz, but not exclusively.

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Five Soloists in Salon Gvozdanović

Monika Leskovar in Salon Gvozdanović

The only Zagreb palace whose interior has remained intact since the 19th century is now a museum. The charming drawing rooms in their conserved state provide an elegant space for the former hostess, pianist Anka Gvozdanović, to receive the general public. Leading Croatian musicians with outstanding international careers – countertenor Max Emuel Cenčić, pianist Martina Filjak, mezzo-soprano Renata Pokupić, cellist Monika Leskovar and guitarist Petrit Çeku – took the initiative and held five recitals whose proceedings have gone toward the palace restoration. Superlative chamber music in a salon atmosphere of a town house that still has a resident: a curator who both lives in the museum and takes care of it!

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Seletković / Müller: AIR

To some, air is what they breathe, to others a melody they listen to, but “Air“ is a new ballet by Croatian composer Krešimir Seletković and Swiss choreographer Martin Müller. An abstract dance story about the element without which no life is possible, set to music that originated from the same source as Bach‘s; this modern and visually powerful, yet poetic production premiered at the 2011 Zagreb Musical Biennale.

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Tamara Obrovac and Transhistria Ensemble / Epoque Quartet

Over a thousand musicians participated in Mahler‘s “Symphony of a Thousand“. Choirs from Slovenia and Croatia, members of the Zagreb and Ljubljana Philharmonics and soloists from the Mariinsky Theatre joined forces to perform a unique symphonic masterpiece in Zagreb and Ljubljana. The unforgettable spectacle was directed by the maestro Valery Gergiev to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Slovenian and Croatian independence and centenary of Gustav Mahler‘s death.

Max Emanuel Cenčić in Dubrovnik

The 2011 Dubrovnik Summer Festival concluded gloriously with two outstanding singers. For her performance in the Rector‘s Palace mezzosoprano Renata Pokupić stepped out of her coloratura repertoire and opted for solo songs by Tomášek, Smetana, Dvořák and Weill, a program similar her Wigmore Hall appearance where she was also accompanied by Roger Vignoles. For his open-air concert with the Symphony Orchestra of Croatian Radio-Television under the direction of Ivan Repušić, countertenor Max Emanuel Cenčić chose a program similar to the one he recorded on the multiple-award winning Rossini album. Arias of male protagonists from Rossini‘s, Verdi‘s and Donizetti‘s operas are usually performed by female artists of a deeper register, but here they were impeccably rendered in a virtuoso male bel canto.

Mahler: Symphony of a Thousand

Seletković / Müller: AIR

Tamara Obrovac

A special musical story about Tamara Obrovac and her Transhistria ensemble in co-operation with the Czech string quartet Époque. On her last album “Madirosa“ this singer, flutist, composer and lyricist nimbly and organically blended classical music and contemporary jazz with the elements of Istrian and Mediterranean music to channel her personal vision of the Mediterranean. Inventive improvisations, spontaneity, freedom, humor and powerful communication is what makes Tamara unique on the global music scene.

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CULTURAL MEDIA COLLABORATIVE Dionysos An Opera Fantasy by Wolfgang Rihm

Funeral procession in Mahler‘s world

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Reviled by the critics after its first performance, the “Resurrection” Symphony of Gustav Mahler has recently become one of the most celebrated icons of its epoch. To reveal the biographical dramas and life-and-death mysteries behind this prophetic and exhilarating work, award winning director Jason Starr presents a 90-minute documentary narrated by Thomas Hampson. Shot in Europe and the United States, the film includes historical reenactments and interviews with many of the world‘s most respected Mahler scholars, woven together by a critically acclaimed performance, featuring members of the New York Philharmonic and Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by maestro Neeme Järvi.

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Friedrich Nietzsche’s late cycle of poems “Dionysus-Dithyrambs“ is the inspiration and point of departure for Wolfgang Rihm’s latest music theatre work, which had its world premiere at the Salzburg Festival. Director Pierre Audi, who has ample experience working with visual artists, shows how the god of inebriation finds his way into the texts of the philosopher and how his erotic, traumatized, platonic and pathological relationships with the most important women in his life can be revealed through music, motion and images. Audi collaborated with the visual inspiration of Jonathan Meese, who has repeatedly dealt with the subject of Nietzsche before.

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Of Love, Death and Beyond Exploring Mahler‘s

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Opening Concert of Prague Spring 2011

Scene from Dionysos

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The Prague Conservatory celebrates its 200th anniversary in 2011. In honor of this occasion, the Symphony Orchestra was asked to perform the opening concert of this year´s International Music Festival Prague with B. Smetana‘s traditional “My Country“.

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All the Prodigies… The Second Encounter

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All the Prodigies

In 2005 we met 8 central European young talents at the International Piano Contest Amadeus for young pianists between 5 to 11 years in Brno. The documentary “All the Prodigies...” revealed their extraordinary abilities and future plans. 6 years later we reentered their lives again in “All the Prodigies...The Second Encounter”, facing their teenage spirits, following their severe and extensive journey to make their dreams – not necessarily pianistic or musical – to come true. As they celebrate their first serious successes they continuously strengthen their originality and endurance. Czech Television intends to continue this socio-musical project in the future....

Pavel Haas Quartet

A special chamber concert series (7 programmes) featuring the best of a young generation of Czech and Slovak classical interpretations. In the visually attractive environment of the Benedictine Monastery in Rajhrad, a great scope of music has been captured ranging from early Baroque to contemporary repertoire including J. de Sainte-Colombe, J. J. Quantz, J. P. Rameau, F. Schubert, L. Janáček, S. Prokofiev, B. Britten, J. Druckman, S. Gubaidulina and A. Schnittke. Unique sound and cinematography brings to the attention of a broader public Pavel Haas Quartet (Gramophone Awards 2011), Jiří Bárta (cello), MiIan Paľa (violin), Peter Wagner (gamba), Barbara Maria Willi (harpsichord), Jana Semerádová (flute) and Martin Opršál (marimba).

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CT LIVE The Beatles Night

The concert programme of world-renowned mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená contains arias from operas of Baroque composers Antonio Vivaldi (“Griselda“, “Farnace“) and Georg Frederic Handel (“Theodora“, “Joshua“, “Hercules“, “Ariodante“), as well as their instrumental compositions. The concert at the new modern Czech venue in Zlin is completed by Vivaldi´s instrumental compositions, performed by the finest Czech Baroque orchestra, Collegium 1704, under Italian Andrea Marcon and with phenomenal soloist Anna Fusek on sopranino flute.

Magdalena Kožená

The Beatles Night

A concert of the best known songs from the legendary group The Beatles in symphonic orchestra arrangements from Mike Townsend and Chris Egan.

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Radiorock

“Radiorock“ is a new rock and pop music programme based on a meeting between a rock group and a real music producer in a vintage Czech Radio recording studio. A TV crew follows the process of composing, arranging and sound mixing songs that are the final product of the TV show during a single day recording session, including struggles and disputes between members of the group and the producer.

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Libor Pešek

Conductor Libor Pešek explains his feelings about impressionism in music through Debussy´s “Prelude L‘après-midi d‘un faune“. At the end of the documentary he conducts the entire piece.

Verdi’s “Macbeth“ is always a popular opera, with instantly appealing music and a familiar story taken from Shakespeare’s play. The treacherous and scheming couple at its centre make for wonderful operatic villains – the type of strongly drawn characters that Verdi portrays in his music so well. With Simon Keenlyside making his Royal Opera debut in the title role, and with Antonio Pappano, Music Director of the Royal Opera, conducting the opera, this is a revival with an extra thrill.

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Peter & The Wolf

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Peter & the Wolf

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A young Playboy model, an octogenarian billionaire husband, intrusive media fascination and a tragically early death. This roller-coaster of a real contemporary life provides the basis for a blockbuster contemporary opera by the acclaimed opera composer Mark-Anthony Turnage (“Greek“ and “The Silver Tassie“) and librettist Richard Thomas (“Jerry Springer: the Opera“).

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Matthew Hart’s wonderfully inventive version of “Peter and the Wolf“, choreographed for The Royal Ballet School, has an energy all its own as it portrays the scenes of young Peter and his naively valiant attempts at hunting. Peter’s Grandfather, a cat, a duck – even the forest trees and greenery – act out the events that leave Peter triumphant and the wolf his captive.

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A Boy on a Bicycle Listening to Music

Arvo Pärt and A Young Boy on a Bicycle Listening to Music

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Composer Arvo Pärt used every moment of his childhood to listen to music. In order to spare his parents his passion, he would listen to music under a marketplace’s loudspeaker. Since the boy dreaded he would be considered an oddity if he were to stand next to the post for hours, he found, quite similarly to the driving force behind his later creation, the simplest of solutions – he would circle with his bike around the post. The story would become the inspiration for a sculpture erected in his hometown Rakvere for his 75th anniversary and for a bicycle ballet performed there at the opening on 11 September 2010.

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European Jazz Orchestra in Tallinn 2011

The intellectual elite of the nascent country of Estonia primarily evolved and gained its education in 19th century St. Petersburg. Jaani (St. John’s) Church, built in 1860, with its schoolhouse and public convent became a unifying centre of Estonian community. The congregation, restored after the collapse of communism, repossessed the building, deformed beyond recognition. No one imagined restoring the centre of a once thriving cultural life in neighbouring Russia would be such a painstaking process. The protagonist of the documentary is a music manager who wants to breathe life back into the church, destroyed by the Stalinist regime that once had been the cradle of Estonian music. The history behind the restoration of the building resonates even today.

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Franz Liszt The Pilgrimage Years

The last destinations of the European Jazz Orchestra 2011 concert tour were the European Capitals of Culture Tallinn and Turku. The biggest international jazz big band project since 1998 has taken 226 young musicians to 33 countries all over the world. Every year the orchestra has a new conductor. This year the conductor is Fin Jere Laukkanen, a specialist of African and Cuban rhythms, who has also written pieces for the famous Finnish UMO Jazz Orchestra. The other composer is Raul Sööt, saxophone player and jazz music teacher at the Estonian Academy of Music.

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Franz Liszt at Lake Como

St. John‘s Church in St. Petersburg

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Genre Documentary: Portrait | Status completed | Production Company Fataka International (Italy) | Co-Production Company RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana, RAI Educational (Italy) | Producer Angelo Bozzolini, Roberto Prosseda, Luigi Melecchi | TV Director Angelo Bozzolini | Camera Lorenzo Scurati | Editor Paolo Buzzetti | Author Roberto Prosseda, Angelo Bozzolini | Duration 62‘ | Production Year 2011 | Musical style Classical music | Source video / audio HD / Stereo | Distribution TV, Homevideo distribution, DVD distribution EuroArts Music International GmbH (Germany) | Additional Information Also available: “Fryderyk Chopin“ and “Mendelssohn Unknown“ produced by Fataka International

This documentary, featuring many leading Liszt experts (including Charles Rosen, Leslie Howard, Antonio Pappano and Evgeny Kissin), concentrates on the earlier years of the extraordinary composer Franz Liszt when he was travelling across Europe almost non-stop, fueling the phenomenon described by Heine as “Lisztomania“. It was also the time of his elopement with Marie, Comtesse d’Agoult, in a move that scandalised polite society as much for its unorthodox nature as for its moral dubiety. These were the years of artistic journeying to which Liszt would one day return in the evocative musical colours of his “Années de pèlerinage“.

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Berliner Philharmoniker & Yutaka Sado

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The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra – a cultural icon of Israel and one of the greatest classical ensembles in the world – celebrates its 75th Birthday on 26 December 2011. The film by János Darvas portrays the orchestra and tells of its moving history, which reflects both the history of Israel and the fate of the Jews in the 20th Century.

Claudio Abbado conducts the Berliner Philharmoniker: Tribute to Gustav Mahler

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Europa Konzert 2011 from Madrid

Claudio Abbado conducts the Berliner Philharmoniker: Tribute to Gustav Mahler

COMING HOME 75 Years Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

With this concert Yutaka Sado makes his Philharmonic debut and will be the first Japanese to conduct the renowned orchestra since Seiji Ozawa several years ago. Critics have unanimously hailed Yutaka Sado as one of the most enthralling and charismatic conductors of the new generation. Experience the outstanding conductor as a connective element between western and eastern music.

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Almost 10 years after Maestro Abbado left the Berliner Philharmoniker he returns to honor one of the greatest composers of the 19th century: Gustav Mahler. Claudio Abbado caused a sensation with his Mahler interpretations during his time as musical director of the Berliner Philharmoniker and is counted today among the best Mahler interpreters. Together with the well-known Mahler singer Anne Sofie von Otter and renowned tenor Jonas Kaufmann they commemorate the 100th anniversary of Gustav Mahler’s death on 18 May.

Berliner Philharmoniker & Yutaka Sado Charity Concert For Japan

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Europa Konzert 2011 from Madrid

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For 20 years the Berliner Philharmoniker have marked their founding in 1882 with a concert at a venue of cultural importance in a different European city. In 2011 the Europa Konzert took place at the beautiful Teatro Real Madrid in Spain. The Berliner Philharmoniker and their musical director Sir Simon Rattle welcome famous flamenco guitarist Cañizares. His virtuosity, his technique, harmony, strength and sensitivity have distinguished Cañizares as a unique artist, considered one of the great flamenco musicians of the turn of the century. Above all, however, Cañizares praises the simplicity and purity of sound, transmitting a message with a high emotional impact.

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Gala from Berlin 2011

Classical Music meets Breakdance – High Culture meets Urban Art. The Flying Steps, four time World Champions in breakdance, are one of the most successful urban dance crews in the world. The documentary shows the development and success of the Flying Bach project, from its beginnings to the sold out European tour 2 years after its premiere. It includes interviews with the dancers, behind-the-scenes materials and rehearsal footage.

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Gozaran Time Passing

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Under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle the Berliner Philharmoniker play a solemn musical program to close the year. Evgeny Kissin as soloist performs the piano concerto from Grieg, and the orchestra plays pieces from Ravel, Strauss, Dvořák and Brahms.

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The new film by Frank Scheffer highlights the hard and disillusioning reality of Iranian cultural policy, which suppresses all personal musical expression. The film follows the Iranian conductor Nader Mashayekhi and his quest to have an orchestra of young musicians in Tehran playing great classical and modern compositions.

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Israel Philharmonic Orchestra: The 75th Anniversary

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Israel Philharmonic Orchestra: The 75th Anniversary

for Piano / Orchester | Composer Gabriel Fauré, Igor Stravinsky, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Conductor Tughan Sokhiev | Orchestra Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre (Russia) | Soloist Ulyana Lopatkina, Igor Zelensky, Irina Golub, Andrian Fadeyev, Zhanna Ayupova | Dance style Modern dance | Choreography George Balanchine | Dance company Mariinsky Ballet Company (Russia) | Source video / audio HD / Stereo | Distribution TV EuroArts Music International GmbH (Germany)

Jewels - Scene from Performance

On the occasion of its 75th anniversary the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra is celebrating on 24 December 2011 together with three outstanding soloists of the younger generation: Evgeny Kissin, Vadim Repin and Julian Rachlin. Under the baton of Zubin Mehta, the orchestra introduces a new venue – the spectacular Hangar 11 in Tel Aviv and the temporary home of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.

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Mariinsky: Giuseppe Verdi: Attila

Attila - Ildar Abdrazakov

The Mariinsky Ballet with its astonishing heritage is one of the world’s greatest ballet companies. Before emigrating to the West, George Balanchine studied in St. Petersburg and was a member of the Mariinsky. However, “Jewels“ dates from late in his career, and was premiered in New York. Although it did not receive its first performance at the Mariinsky until 1999, it has since become a core part of the company’s repertoire. This performance was filmed at the Mariinsky Theatre and features many of the most well-known dancers including Ulyana Lopatkina, Igor Zelensky and Andrian Fadeyev alongside conductor Tugan Sokhiev.

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Mariinsky: Richard Strauss: The Woman without a Shadow

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Mariinsky: Jewels

Based on Friedrich Werner’s “Attila, King of the Huns“ this powerful and atmospheric opera puts the spotlight on celebrated Russian bass Ildar Abdrazakov in the title role. Set in the mid-5th century, Attila focuses on the collapse of the Roman Empire and is a dramatic reflection on freedom, courage and hope.

The Woman without a Shadow

Requiring huge forces, “Die Frau ohne Schatten“ boasts perhaps Strauss‘s most sumptuous score, poignantly illuminating the magic, mystery and earthy warmth of Hugo von Hofmannsthal‘s characters. Led by Valery Gergiev, this epic production from St. Peterburg‘s famed Mariinsky Opera is a collaboration between two British artists, director Jonathan Kent and designer Paul Brown. “Die Frau ohne Schatten“ is a spectacular and opulent dramatic tour de force, radiantly evoking the contrasts between the spirit world and human existence.

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St. Petersburg‘s Mariinsky Theatre has staged the opera “Dead Souls“ to music by Rodion Shchedrin, who turns 80 in 2012. One of the indisputable operatic masterpieces of the 20th century once again appears in a brand new, bright and expressive staged version, more than 30 years later, at the Mariinsky Theatre. The premiere of the production took place on March 18. It is the first Russian production since its 1977 premiere at the Bolshoi Theatre.

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Prokofiev flows in the veins of the Mariinsky Theatre’s musicians, and moreover has done so for many years. The fact that under Gergiev’s baton, the orchestra and the opera company have performed all of Sergei Prokofiev’s symphonies, all of his concerti and all of his operas more than once is here of fundamental significance. All the senses and emotions are presented here by the orchestra in an immense yet refined palette of sounds, with a complete understanding of both the text and subtext of the events, in the lively action and with Gergiev’s inherent magic.

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Nutcracker in 3D

The Nutcracker, Tchaikovsky‘s eternal classic, with choreography by Wassili Vainonen, is a colorful and sensuous dance production – dance in the highest perfection and mastery of modern technology. This successful production is recorded exclusively for EuroArts as a 3D spectacle. The film creates spectacular images of this great ballet production using innovative 3D technology, allowing an entirely new perspective; every moviegoer can experience the ballet from the front row – yes, directly on the stage. Under the direction of Andreas Morell, this historically unique Nutcracker promises to be a breathtaking experience.

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Under the baton of Riccardo Chailly the Berliner Philharmoniker perform works by Shostakovich, Rota and Respighi. Chailly is famous for having one of the broadest repertoires in the business, ranging from the orchestral highways of Beethoven, Brahms and Bruckner to the 20th century byway via Bach, the core operatic repertoire and almost anything else – he is an omnivore, with the brilliance to match.

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Cello of the Trenches

Genre Documentary: Music | Status completed | Production Company Cinétévé (France) | Duration 51‘ 15“ | Production Year 2011 | Musical style Classical music | Source video / audio Beta SP This film highlights the presence of music on the fronts of World War I through the analysis of historians, archival photographs and letters of cellist Maurice Marechal, who was sent to the front as a young man and survived through the music he made with his substitute instrument and his fellow musicians in the trenches. In a concert spectacle with music played by Emmanuelle Bertrand, student of Jean Deplace who was in turn a student of Maurice Maréchal, Didier Sandre reads the letters and war diaries of Maurice Marechal and pays tribute to the musician and his unique instrument “le poilu“ (“the Bear“).

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The Giacomo Variations

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Cuba, the Miracle of the Dance

Genre Documentary: Dance | Status completed | Production Company Les films figures libres (France) | Duration 57‘ 09“ | Production Year 2010 | Source video / audio Beta SP Here, “Carmina Burana“ and “Mambo 3XXI“ marked the final collaboration between dancers and composers Carl Orff and Perez Prado. Taking place throughout Havana, the film follows an intimate process where step by step, layer by layer, the total commitment of the artists to “the ballet of Cuba“ creates a stunning performance.

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Fayçal Karoui

Genre Documentary: Music | Status completed | Production Company PMP Penelope Morgan (France) | Duration 52‘ | Production Year 2010 | Musical style Classical music | Source video / audio HD Fayçal Karoui, French conductor, won first prize in piano at the conservatory of Saint Maur, first prize of conducting at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Paris and won the International Young Conductors in Besançon. Since 2001, he has conducted the Orchestra of Pau, striving to popularise classical music beyond its traditional auditorium. In 2006 he was selected to become the fifth music director of the New York City Ballet. On 12 November 2009 Karoui was made an honorary member of the Academy of Béarn.

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Mozart’s Da Ponte operas, as with Casanova’s memoirs, are penetrated with the spirit of a deep knowledge of human nature and enlightened human kindness. They reflect plainly on emotions, and comment artfully on the entanglements of human relationships. The variety of Giacomo‘s erotic passions are found reflected and condensed in scenes and arias from “Figaro“, “Don Giovanni“ and “Cosi“, which, removed from the context of those operas’ storylines, allow the characters of Don Giovanni, the Count and Leporello to become a “Giacomo II“. Language and music merge into a form of music theatre which has as its model the Singspiel and melodrama of Mozart’s time.

Hope Japan

Genre Relay of: Vocal recital, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Telmondis (France) | Duration 102‘ 08“ | Production Year 2011 | Source video / audio Beta SP / Stereo A charity event organised for Japan and broadcast on NHK features stars of dance, song and music. With Sylvie Guillem, Martha Argerich, Renaud and Gautier Capuçon, Natalie Dessay, Guillaume Gallienne, Natasha Parry, Lambert Wilson and more....

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Intolleranza 1960

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Terrible Children

Genre | Status in progress | Production Company Oxymore Production (France) | Duration 90‘ | Production Year 2011 | Musical style Classical music | Source video / audio HD From the novel by Jean Cocteau, Philip Glass composed an exciting and intimate chamber opera supported by the captivating presence of three pianos. Hallucinatory character are accentuated by the virtual setting designed by Stéphane Truth. Depicting the close relationship of two teenagers who contaminate everything on their march to final destruction, the “Les enfants terribles“ evokes the difficult transition to adulthood.

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The African Night

The “African Night“ is a family show that celebrates African culture by bringing together all of the rhythms and colours of French-speaking Africa. This event is colourful, festive and musically unprecedented.

This new production of “Intolleranza“, 50 years after the original, was entrusted to designers and artists of Venice, including Luca Ronconi, Franco Ripa di Maena, Claudio Alberto Coloretti and Alberto Nonnato. Tenor Stefan Vinke (“The Emigrant“) is one of the most convincing interpreters of a role he has previously mastered in Saarbrücken in 2004 and Munich in 2007. At the head of the Orchestra of the Teatro La Fenice, Lothar Zagrosek conducted the score with precision and boldness and the choir of the Fenice gave an exceptional performance under the direction of Claudio Marino Moretti.

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Jordy Savall The Concert of Nations

See programme no. 69.

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La Traviata

Genre Relay of: Opera, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Oxymore production (France) | Co-Production Company France Télévisions, Mezzo (France) | Producer Jean-Romain Salles | TV Director Fabrice Levillain | Duration 100‘ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Theatro La Fenice de Venice | Musical style Classical music | Composer Giuseppe Verdi | Choreography Philippe Giraudeau | Stage Director Robert Carsen | Source video / audio HD In 2011, the Teatro La Fenice in Venice presented two emblematic pieces celebrating the 150th anniversary of the “Risorgimento“ – the unification of Italy: “Intolleranza 1960“ by Luigi Nono and “La Traviata“ by Giuseppe Verdi. Sumptuously staged by Robert Carsen, the tragic role of the courtesan Violetta is played by Patrizia Ciofi, who has become in a short time the most promising soprano of her generation – by turns sublime, moving, touching and overwhelming. Another prominent figure in this production, the tenor Roberto de Biasio, brilliantly handles the challenges of “Sento avvampar nell‘anima“.

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The Great Battle

Genre Studio production | Status in progress | Production Company Step by Step (France) | Duration 120‘ | Production Year 2011 | Musical style Classical music | Source video / audio Beta SP An interactive, innovative, and transgenerational musical programme. Just 10 finalists selected by a jury of professionals and by a vote of Internet users will find themselves challenging The Centuries Symphony Orchestra.

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The Mass of Striggio

Genre Relay of: Musical, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Step by step (France) | Duration 75‘ | Production Year 2011 | Source video / audio HD Filmed in August 2011 this is the “Missa sopra ecco si beato Giomo“ of Alessandro Striggio. It was originally composed at the court of Florence for the Medici dynasty and played in the major courts of Europe during the Renaissance. While famous in its time, the composition mysteriously disappeared for over four centuries in the archives of the National Library of France. Never presented in concert since 1566, this rare work‘s renaissance was conducted in the City of Architecture and Heritage by Hervé Nickel and performed among others by Dominique Visse.

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The Robbers

Genre Relay of: Opera, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Wahoo production (France) | Duration 150‘ | Production Year 2011 | Musical style Classical music | Source video / audio Beta SP A comic opera in three acts by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Haléry, “The Robbers“ conveys a cheerfully amoral land where banditry is law. The opera follows a band of brigands, led by Falsacapa, planning to kidnap the Princess of Granada who is to marry the Duke of Mantua.

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Bernard Richter (Atys) - Emmanuelle de Negri (Sangaride)

In 1987 the performances of “Atys” at the Salle Favart initiated a new era in the history of the French musical repertoire. The magic of the production, staged by Jean-Marie Villégier with William Christie at the head of Les Arts Florissants, was instrumental in showing to the general public “the King‘s opera”, so greatly did Louis XIV appreciate it. “Atys” is the first opera to focus its plot on love and the first French tragedy in which the hero dies on stage. Combining dance and expressive song, Quinault and Lully introduce the poetry of sentiment into the theatre of convention. In 2011 the revival of this legendary production has been a tremendous success.

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Janina Baechle (Akhmatova)

A world creation inspired by the tragic fate of Anna Akhmatova (18891966), one of the most important poets of the 20th century. In the early 20th Century, she became famous in Russia where she joined the Acmeist movement, which broke with symbolism in favour of simplicity and concision in language. However, after the 1917 Revolution, everything changed. Her work was deemed bourgeois by the Communist authorities and she was blacklisted. Her son Lev was arrested and was sentenced to 15 years of forced labour. Refusing to leave because she felt that she would be betraying her language and her culture, she survived as best she could. It was only after the death of Stalin in 1953 that she slowly began to be rehabilitated.

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Children of Paradise

Genre Relay of: Dance, Live recording | Status in progress | Production Company François Roussillon et Associés (France) | Co-Production Company Opéra national de Paris (France) | Ass. Production Company France Télévisions (France) | Executive Producer Toni Hajal | TV Director François Roussillon | Duration 125‘ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Palais Garnier (France), 09.07.2011 | Musical style Contemporary music | Piece Les Enfants du Paradis | Composer Marc-Olivier Dupin | Conductor Jean-François Verdier | Orchestra Opéra national de Paris (France) | Soloist Isabelle Ciaravola, Mathieu Ganio | Dance style Contemporary dance | Choreography José Martinez | Dance company Ballet de l‘Opéra de Paris (France) | Source video / audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV François Roussillon et Associés (France) “Les Enfants du paradis”, drawing on Jacques Prévert‘s scenario for the French classic movie by Marcel Carné, is dancer Étoile José Martinez‘s first major ballet for the Paris Opera Ballet. In a disused cinema studio, the actor who played the mime Baptiste in the film “Les Enfants du paradis”, recalls his memories. The choreography brings back to life the Paris of the first half of the nineteenth century, its performers, its theatres and its cabarets. To an original score by Marc-Olivier Dupin, the choreography alternates large ensembles with the intimacy of the lovers‘ pas de deux.

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For almost seventy years, the Long-Thibaud Competition has chosen young pianists and young violinists and helped them to be heard. In 2011, Long-Thibaud Foundation chose to add a third test to its programme: singing. The first edition of the Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition took place in Paris, the aim of which was to select and then crown the greatest voices of the future. Régine Crespin’s name (1927-2007) came almost naturally to the mind of the directors of the Long-Thibaud Foundation, for this famous opera singer embodies elegance and colors of French singing. After elimination rounds all over the world, the finale of the contest was filmed at the Theatre du Châtelet.

Lawrence Zazzo (Guilio Cesare), Christophe Dumaux (Tolomeo)

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Rinaldo

In the early years of the 17th century, Shakespeare had been unable to resist bringing to the stage the character of Cleopatra, the bewitching and impetuous queen of Egypt. A century later Handel also succumbed to her charms, conceiving one of his most brilliant and ambitious operas around her. Never had the composer‘s sense of theatre been more acute, irresistibly mixing styles. Never had his melodic genius been more effulgent: the score contains some of his most precious jewels. And never had his orchestration been richer or more expressive. Shakespeare is definitely not far off.... Emmanuelle Haïm conducts and Laurent Pelly stages this new production of “Giulio Cesare”, in which Natalie Dessay sings her first Cleopatra.

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Régine Crespin‘s Gala

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“Faust - that emblem of French opera, one of its greatest successes and at the same time, in a way, its memory. Gounod recalled having the book by Goethe by his side throughout his youth, even in the gardens of the Villa Medici where he was a boarder. From his creation in 1859, the work became celebrated throughout the world and few works have been so loved and respected as this “Faust“. Indeed the work, more faithful than we might imagine to Goethe, inspired in Gounod a youthful, turbulent lyricism, pleasures and unforgettable trepidation. Roberto Alagna and Inva Mula embody Faust and Marguerite in this new production, staged by a master, Jean-Louis Martinoty.

“Rinaldo” is the work with which Handel made his sensational London debut in 1711 – and the first Italian opera specifically created for the British stage. Loosely based on Torquato Tasso’s “Gerusalemme liberate”, the opera draws on a love story between the knight Rinaldo and the beauty Almirena. Separated from Almirena by powerful spirits, Rinaldo goes into battle to claim back his love and conquer the city.... This new production of Handel’s spectacular tale of love, honour and righteousness is directed by Robert Carsen who transforms Rinaldo into a Harry Potter figure. The richly enticing score is conducted by Ottavio Dantone.

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The Bat

Genre Relay of: Operetta, Live recording | Status in progress | Production Company François Roussillon et Associés (France) | Co-Production Company Vienna State Opera (Austria), ARTE (France) | Executive Producer Toni Hajal | TV Director François Roussillon | Duration 185‘ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Vienna State Opera (Austria), 31.12.2011 | Musical style Classical music | Piece Die Fledermaus | Composer Johann Strauss II | Conductor Franz Welser-Möst | Orchestra & Choir Vienna State Opera (Austria) | Soloist Kurt Streit, Michaela Kaune | Stage Director Otto Schenk | Source video / audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV François Roussillon et Associés (France) Composed non-stop in forty-two “nights of veritable rapture“ this is the younger Strauss‘s most celebrated and popular operetta – intoxicatingly melodious and exuberant. Mistaken identities, flirtations at a masked ball, elegant frivolities and confusions of all kinds provide a hilarious vehicle for a captivating music. The Overture is one of the most popular ever written, with five of the best tunes woven into a framework of the great “Fledermaus Waltz“. The Vienna State Opera reprises the legendary production created in 1972 by actor, theater and opera director Otto Schenk. Sets and costumes have been specially recreated.

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Gerald Finley (Hans Sachs)

A festive hymn to the transformative power of young love and natural talent, Wagner‘s warm-hearted Midsummer‘s Day comedy is a glorious celebration of art and the shared joy of song. It is a tale of a young knight who wins the hand of a goldsmith‘s daughter with the help of the canny cobbler-poet Hans Sachs. Gerald Finley makes his role debut as Hans Sachs in the first ever production at Glyndebourne, conducted by the Festival‘s Music Director, Vladimir Jurowski. This production staged by David McVicar moves the action from Wagner’s fantastical recreation of a 16th Century Nuremberg to the world of the early 19th century into which he was born and formed his earliest experiences as an artist.

The Spring

Genre Relay of: Dance, Live recording | Status in progress | Production Company François Roussillon et Associés (France) | Co-Production Company Opéra national de Paris (France) | Ass. Production Company France Télévisions (France) | Executive Producer Toni Hajal | TV Director François Roussillon | Duration 120‘ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Palais Garnier (France), 04.11.2011 | Musical style Classical music | Composer Léo Delibes, Ludwig Minkus | Conductor Koen Kessels | Orchestra Opéra national de Paris (France) | Soloist Ludmila Pagliero, Karl Paquette | Dance La Source | Dance style Classical ballet | Choreography Jean-Guillaume Bart | Dance company Ballet de l‘Opéra de Paris (France) | Source video / audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV François Roussillon et Associés (France) The Persia of legend and fantasy provides the backdrop for the thwarted loves of the hunter Djemil, the beautiful Nouredda and the spirit of the spring, Naila. For his first creation for the Paris Opera Ballet, Etoile Dancer Jean-Guillaume Bart comes to grips with this libretto and breathes new life into a long-neglected work from the repertoire. The light and colourful score was a joint effort from Ludwig Minkus and Léo Delibes in what was their first ballet composition. The libretto draws on Wagnerian romanticism, orientalism and Shakespearean influences and contrasts the real world with the realms of elves, nymphs and ethereal beings. This wonderfully poetic dance tale of astounding virtuosity is further enhanced by Christian Lacroix’s flamboyant costumes.

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The Turn of the Screw

Miah Persson (The Governess) Thomas Parfitt (Miles)

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It is indeed “a curious story”, as the Prologue says. Set in a remote English country house, with an old and faithful housekeeper, two young orphan children and an eager new governess sent down from London to look after them. But all is not quite as it seems in the sheltered world of Bly. Spirits from the past increasingly encroach upon the realm of the living. And one question keeps worming its way into the governess’s mind: what exactly did happen between the children, their former governess and the deceased manservant, Peter Quint? Britten’s brilliantly scored, insidiously compelling adaptation of Henry James’s novella takes its themes of childish innocence and adult corruption, then twists and turns them to disturbing and ultimately devastating effect.

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Death in Venice a film to mark the Britten centenary in 2013

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Hubert Parry: The Prince and the Composer

HRH Prince of Wales discusses Parry with James O‘Donnell

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This film is about the Visconti film, the Britten opera, the Thomas Mann book and the original true story that lies behind them all. It aims to explore the moral / social and historical backdrop to each work of art, assess the impace of the personal circumstances of each creative artist on all three works and explore the subtleties and complexities of the way the story is told in each art form.

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Delius a Poem of Life and Love

The Young Frederick Delius

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Delius is renowned throughout the world for two orchestral miniatures – “On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring“ and “Walk to the Paradise Garden“. This documentary aims to get at the truth of Delius‘s life by telling the extraordinary story of Delius as a young man and how he came to fame. The life story runs in tandem with his very unusual music which is noted for its sensual harmony, its pictorial quality and its avoidance of conventional musical structure. His art matched his life – he enjoyed the pleasure of the moment!

Virtually everyone has sung his music, yet very few people know his name. Hubert Parry, the composer of “Jerusalem“ and the tune for the hymn “Dear Lord and Father of Mankind“, was the driving force behind the revival of English music in the early 20th century; he himself wrote five symphonies. One of his most ardent champions is the Prince of Wales, who here embarks on a journey to discover more about the man and his music.

Rumplestiltskin and the Princess

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London Children‘s Ballet was founded in 1994 to give talented young dancers aged 9-15 a unique and challenging opportunity to perform as part of a professional ballet production. This new production – the first to be shot in HD – combines new choreography and music, live musicians in the pit and an excited group of young dancers many of whose lives are changed forever after this experience. The choreographer had been a young dancer in the Company when she was 11 and has gone on to work as a professional choreographer.

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Swan Lake in 3D

When it premiered 15 years ago Matthew Bourne‘s triumphant modern re-interpretation of Swan Lake turned tradition upside down and took the dance world by storm. With its controversial stage design and all male swan ensemble, Bourne‘s production swept the globe winning a host of industry accolades. Now Leopard Films brings this iconic blend of dance, humour and extravagance to television and the big screen, captured in 3D to create a powerful cinematic experience – this is truly a Swan Lake for our times.

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For 25 years Matthew Bourne has been setting theatres and audiences around the world alight with his funny, sexy and moving adaptations of some of the world‘s best known and loved ballets and operas. To celebrate his work, Channel 4 has commissioned an original dance film that highlights nine of Bourne‘s landmark productions specially shot for this programme in HD. The original soundtrack is by Matthew‘s longtime musical collaborator Terry Davies, weaving the orchestra sounds of Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Chopin, Elgar, Randy Newman and Davies.

Rostropovich the Genius of the Cello

Mstislav Rostropovich

Some call him the greatest cellist ever. During a career spanning more than 60 years, Mstislav Rostropovich revolutionised the way the cello was played and transformed its repertoire. Thanks to his complex relationship with the authorities in the Soviet Union, he propelled the cello from concert platform to the world stage and changed its status for good. This warm tribute to one of the foremost artists of our time captures the essence of his serious approach to music, making it at least the equal of the piano or the violin.

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Cendrillon. Didonato as Cendrillon

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Stéphanie Argerich

34 year old apprentice film maker Stéphanie Argerich, the daughter of pianists Martha Argerich and Stephen Kovacevich, has decided to make a film about her parents. This intimate portrait of two musical giants, filmed from the inside of a larger-than-life family, where gaiety and madness rub shoulders with the omnipresent music, will comprise 30 or so carefully-developed scenes.

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Pandolfe, a country gentleman, has married Madame de la Haltière, an imperious countess. She and her daughters Noémie and Dorothée bully Pandolfe’s daughter from his first marriage, Lucette (know as Cendrillon). Pandolfe loves Cendrillon but is too frightened of his wife to help her. Thanks to her fairy godmother, Cendrillon goes to the ball and meets the prince who falls in love with her...but at midnight....

Genre Documentary: Music, on location | Status in progress | Production Company Idéale Audience (France) | Co-Production Company Intermezzo Films (Switzerland), ARTE France (France), TSR (Switzerland) | Ass. Production Company Mezzo, France Télévisions, (France), SF (Switzerland), SVT (Sweden), SBS (Australia), YLE (Finland), TVP (Poland), RTS (Slovenia), ERR (Estonia) | Producer Pierre-Olivier Bardet, Luc Peter | TV Director, Author Stéphanie Argerich | Camera Luc Peter | Editor Vincent Pluss | Duration 90‘ / 58‘ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Switzerland, Poland, Japan, Italy, France, Argentina, Belgium, Great Britain | Musical style Classical music | Source video / audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV, DVD distribution EuroArts Music International GmbH (Germany)

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Crazy Horse

The Parisian cabaret Crazy Horse asked French choreographer Philippe Decouflé to create a new erotic review. Philippe Decouflé and the Crazy Horse accepted the presence of Frederick Wiseman and his team throughout this process: rehearsals, integration of new shows and public representations punctuate the everyday life of the famous cabaret captured by the camera of Wiseman. The Crazy Horse is the third French “institution“ after the Comédie Française and the Paris Opera Ballet to have accepted to be filmed by the American filmmaker.

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In July 2011, the Festival of Saint-Denis presented the great oratorio “St. Matthew Passion“ by Bach and conducted by John Nelson. Louise Narboni’s cameras captured the concert in the Basilica of Saint-Denis and as well as Nelson’s work sessions for the concert with the singers. The emotional intensity of the singers which emerges from these sessions together with the involvement of John Nelson make this “making of“ an excellent introduction to the work.

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St. Matthew Passion | Composer Johann Sebastian Bach | Conductor John Nelson | Choir Schola Cantorum of Oxford (UK) | Soloist Werner Güra, Stephen Morscheck, Lucy Crowe, Christine Rice, Nicholas Phan, Matthew Brook, Christophe Coin | Source video / audio HD / Stereo | Distribution TV EuroArts Music International GmbH (Germany)

La Forza del Destino

Its philosophical title sets “La forza del destino” apart among Verdi‘s works. It is an abstract, even vague title which would seemingly suit “Rigoletto“ or “Il trovatore“ just as well. As in those works, the coincidences are so striking that a higher power must be at work. In “La Forza“, the chance encounters and chains of events are impossible, but they provide us with characters that embody the deepest truths of the soul. Carried by Verdi‘s sublimely lyrical, sweeping music, they work themselves up into a heroic fatalism, which casts them into the hands of the enemy, and gives their life the violence of tragedy.

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La Spira

“Kathleen Ferrier“ is about the distinctive English contralto, Kathleen Ferrier (1912-1953), and, in particular, her enduring musical legacy today. Intertwined with evocations of her greatest performances, the film will leave no doubt as to her specialness as a person and her being one of the truly great singers of the past century.

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Spira Mirabilis

Spira Mirabilis is an extraordinary new project drawing together some of Europe‘s finest young players. It offers a radical new approach to the classical music concert. Mostly in their 20s, practising and performing without a conductor (and without any fee!), these highly-skilled players break down the traditional barriers between performer and audience.

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Machinations

Machinations

Menahem Pressler, born in Magdeburg, Germany in 1923, is the last representative of a pianistic tradition directly connected with the great German and French piano schools; he studied with several pupils of the illustrious Ferruccio Busoni but also received valuable advice from Robert Casadesus and Paul Loyonnet who opened the world of Ravel and Debussy to him. For 53 years, Pressler was a driving force in the legendary Beaux-Arts trio, giving 6000 concerts until the trio stopped touring in 2008. During this recital filmed at Paris’s cite de la musique, Menahem Pressler plays two of the most imposing works in the piano repertoire: Beethoven’s penultimate sonata and Schubert’s last sonata.

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St. Matthew Passion

Four women, four voices, four manipulative beings facing the public. Above them, four video screens. The womens‘ voices bring life to phonemes, ancestors to human speech, that slowly come together to become snippets of conversation. At the same time, they project images on the screens above them, images of objects that have always been a part of mankind. Machinations, first performed in 2000, is pure Aperghis and is the liveliest and most moving piece he has ever written. Music, text, video and performers enter into an alchemical combination.

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Menahem Pressler plays Beethoven and Schubert

St. Matthew Passion

At the time of composing “St. Matthew Passion” (1727 revised in 1736), J.S. Bach was at the height of his creative powers. This work recounts the story of the capture and crucifixion of Christ, using the words of the Holy Scriptures, often interrupted by the poetic interjections of the chorus – dramatic, lyrical and contemplative. The emotional variety and intensity are correspondingly greater. Because of the magnitude of work which contains no fewer than 68 musical numbers and requires almost five hours to perform, Bach‘s “St. Matthew Passion” is a unique depiction of the suffering and death of Christ.

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The Spira Mirabilis‘s Spring

Genre Relay of: Orchestral / choral concert, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Idéale Audience (France) | CoProduction Company Videomonte (Italy), Main d‘or création, ARTE France (France) | Ass. Production Company SF (Switzerland), SVT (Sweden), RSI (Switzerland), France Télévisions (France) | Producer Pierre-Olivier Bardet | TV Director Gérald Caillat, Pierre-Martin Juban | Camera Etienne Carton de Grammont | Editor Julie Pelat | Duration 42‘ 45“ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Teatro Luciano Pavarotti - Modena Formigine (Italy), 09.03.2011 | Musical style Classical music | Piece Symphony n°1 in B major op 38 (1841) | Composer Robert Schumann | Orchestra Spira Mirabilis (Italy) | Source video / audio HD / Stereo | Distribution TV, DVD distribution EuroArts Music International GmbH (Germany)

Spira Mirabilis

Spira Mirabilis was created in Cremona, one night in June 2007. Four young musicians gathered in one of their hotel rooms after a concert. All four were gifted young professionals playing in prestigious chamber orchestras but they were all dissatisfied with what classical music life had become. This was not their idea of a life in music. Over the next four years, the Spiras established themselves among the best of chamber orchestras. Their trademark is to work without a conductor. Watching them perform is a totally unique experience, generating a feeling that no concert, no matter how inspiring, can rival.

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The best moments of the 18th edition of the Verbier Festival 2011 feature many newcomers, with rising star Khatia Buniatishvili performing Rachmaninoff’s Piano concerto No.3 and a piano recital featuring Liszt, Prokofiev and Stravinsky; Martin Helmchen gives an authoritative performance of Beethoven’s monumental “Hammerklavier” piano sonata, and violinist Sayaka Shoji plays a captivating Brahms’s third Sonata. Evgeny Kissin’s homage to Liszt took the form of a riveting recital while Yuri Temirkanov’s charmed the orchestra in an all-russian program. Martha Argerich paired with Ivry Gitlis, Renaud and Gautier Capuçon and Nelson Goerner in a celebration of works by Kreisler, Beethoven, Schumann and Ravel.

Verbier Festival 2011

Genre Relay of: Orchestral / choral concert, Live recording | Status in progress | Production Company Idéale Audience (France) | Producer Pierre-Olivier Bardet, Pierre-Martin Juban | TV Director Anaïs Spiro, Isabelle Soulard, Sébastien Glas, Pierre-Martin Juban | Light Design Martial Barrault | Duration 660‘ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Verbier Festival / Switzerland | Musical style Classical music | Composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, Franz Liszt, Frédéric Chopin | Conductor Neeme Järvi | Orchestra Verbier Festival Orchestra (Switzerland) | Soloist Khatia Buniatishivili | Musical style Classical music | Piece Franz Liszt, Frédéric Chopin, Sergei Prokofiev, Igor Stravinsky | Soloist Khatia Buniatishvili | Musical style Classical music | Composer Ludwig van Beethoven, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Fritz Kreisler, Robert Schumann | Soloist Martha Argerich, Renaud Capuçon, Ivry Gitlis, Gautier Capuçon, Khatia Buniatishvili, Yuja Wang, Nelson Goerner | Musical style Classical music | Composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Eugène Ysaye, Vittorio Monti, Johannes Brahms, Witold Lutosławski | Soloist Leonidas Kavakos, Gautier Capuçon, Yuja Wang, Joshua Bell, Julian Rachlin, Roby Lakatos, Denis Matsuev, Vadim Repin, Yuri Bashmet, Mischa Maisky, Evgeny Kissin, Martha Argerich | Musical style Classical music | Composer Anatoli Liadov, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Conductor Yuri Temirkanov | Orchestra Verbier Festival Orchestra (Switzerland) | Soloist Yuja Wang | Musical style Classical music | Piece Liszt Recital | Composer Franz Liszt | Soloist Evgeny Kissin | Musical style Classical music | Piece Piano Recital | Composer Johann Sebastian Bach, Franz Liszt, Ludwig van Beethoven | Soloist Martin Helmchen | Musical style Classical music | Piece Piano Recital | Composer Leoš Janáček, Franz Schubert, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms | Soloist Lars Vogt | Musical style Classical music | Piece Brahms in Verbier | Composer Johannes Brahms, Robert Schumann, Jan Jiri Benda | Soloist Yuri Bashmet, Evgeny Kissin | Source video / audio HD / Stereo | Distribution TV, DVD distribution EuroArts Music International GmbH (Germany)

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Cello Concerto - Antonín Dvořák Symphony No. 3 with Organ Camille Saint-Saëns

A complete Fauré programme including one of his main masterpieces, “The Requiem“, two youth pieces as well as “Elegie“ for cello. Highlighting this programme are widely known artists such as Matthias Goerne, Paavo Järvi and the musicians of the Orchestre de Paris.

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Piano Concerto No. 2 Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 7 Antonín Dvořák

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An original symphonic programme built around the organ with an contemporary rendition of the most famous symphony for this instrument, the “Symphony of Saint-Saëns“. Completing this programme is a major piece for cello, the “Concerto of Dvorak“ performed by Gautier Capuçon.

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Gabriel Fauré - Pavane, ElégiePsalm, Super flumina Babylonis, Jean Racine‘s Hymn, Requiem

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Leif Ove Andsnes

An invitation to rediscover Leif Ove Andsnes as he performs Concerto no. 2 of Brahms mirrored with the Symphony no. 7 of Dvořak.

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Piano Concerto No. 2 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

In this programme we discover a rarely played Tchaikovsky piano concerto performed by Russian giant Denis Matsuev.

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Piano Concerto - Aram Khachaturian

Jean-Yves Thibaudet

Gil Shaham

Petrushka is the first piece Stravinsky composed outside of Russia, and the Orchestre de Paris chose to perform it in its original 1911 version, thereby celebrating a century since its creation. The Concerto No. 2 of Prokofiev dates from 1935. With this concerto, Gil Shaham initiated a project with the Orchestre of Paris for three seasons around concertos for violin composed in the 1930s.

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Violin concerto - Benjamin Britten Harold in Italy - Hector Berlioz Daphnis and Chloé - Maurice Ravel

We rediscover the Orchestre de Paris in an oriental programme through the repertory of the Great Russia. The concerto of Khachaturian is performed by one of most important French pianists, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, and the programme concludes with the opening of Glinka‘s “Ruslan and Lyudmila“.

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Janine Jansen

A violin served by Janine Jansen responds to the viola of Antoine Tamestit, like a discussion between Berlioz and Britten. “Daphnis and Chloé“, a ballet by Ravel, concludes the programme.

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Jacques Loussier Solo Piano

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The Beauty of the Voice

Jacques Loussier

Pianist Jacques Loussier is famous for the immensely popular jazz versions of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach he performs with his trio. Three recordings of Loussier playing solo interpretations of music by Bach, Vivaldi and Schumann were recorded in the intimate surroundings of the Subway jazz club in Cologne. “Play Bach” presents the Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 and excerpts from “The Well-Tempered Clavier“. “Play Vivaldi” contains a solo interpretation of the “Spring“ and “Summer“ concerti from Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons“. “Play Schumann” delights with excerpts from Schumann’s “Kindeszenen“.

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Mischa Maisky

On 10 January 2013 Mischa Maisky, the only cellist in the world to have studied with both Mstislav Rostropovich and Gregor Piatigorsky, will celebrate his 65th anniversary – a good reason to present a new television profile of this great musician. It includes an extensive interview with Mischa Maisky talking about his life with music and his personal circumstances, especially after his emigration from the Soviet Union to the West. Also included is footage from a concert with his daughter Lily Maisky at Schloss Elmau, which was exclusively dedicated to Spanish composers like de Falla, Ganados, Albéniz and Sarasate.

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Francisco Araiza and Shinya Kitajima

The Zurich Opera operates an international opera studio that each year allows twenty young singers from all over the world to fine-tune their skills and become qualified performers. This is a pool of young talents for the Zurich Opera as well as many other opera houses. The artistic coach is the Mexican tenor Francisco Araiza. For 15 years he has been one of the leading tenors on the world’s opera stages. His enormous experience coupled with his highly sensitive and motivating practice makes Francisco Araiza an ideal mentor to the young high flyers in the IOS Zurich.

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Anna in the Rain

With “Rain“, Cirque Éloize signed the second part of Swiss director Daniele Finzi Pasca’s trilogy, along with “Nomade“ and “Nebbia“. This creation about childhood memories made up of moments snatched from time and frozen forever combines acrobatic feats with sensuality and pure poetry. Adapted for television, the filming of the circus show has a cinematographic approach. Since its creation in 2004, RAIN have been presented more than 900 times, in 19 countries, 175 cities, in front of 600 000 people in the United-States, Canada and Europe (France, Germany, Russia, Netherlands, Belgium, UK).

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Gamaka / Namasya

“Dancing at the Frontier“ shows how a new generation of Montreal choreographers are shaking up contemporary dance and, with their new creations, pushing boundaries, both theirs and ours. For Dave St. Pierre, Frederick Gravel and Virginie Brunelle, the violence of gesture leads to a poetic climax whose primary theme seems to be impossible love. In keeping with the work of these choreographers, the documentary will use them as its raw material to create a moving human mosaic.

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Madras, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Montreal, New York and Milan, the documentary offers an intimate look into the world of French Indian dancer Shantala Shivalingappa. A well known figure in the world of dance, she has danced for the most prestigious choreographers: Maurice Béjart, Pina Bausch, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Peter Brook and Ushio Amagatsu. But Shantala is primarily an artist of Kuchipudi, the sacred ancient Indian art of dance, which she learned from a very young age from her gurus. Incorporating the sacred into modernity, Shantala presents herself with the freedom of an accomplished artist on her solo tour.

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The Baton

Does the world really need conductors? What the hell are they doing? The animated figure of a Baton-Designer follows 12 young conductors from all over the world, gathered for 10 days in Bamberg (Germany) to win the world’s most honoured conducting battle: The Gustav-MahlerConducting-Competition. The Baton-Designer is frustrated that some of these conductors seem to ignore his importance in their show. Accordingly he comments on the competition. “The Baton“ is a subtle and humorous Film about the art of conducting and its mysteries. The film was winner of the “Special Mention” – Golden Prague 2011, winner of the “Audience Award” – International Student Film Festival, Postdam 2011 and many other awards.

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Toshiro Mayuzumi

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The opera “Kojiki“ was composed by Toshiro Mayuzumi at the request of Landestheater Linz (Austria) in his later years. Mayuzumi is known for his compositions “The Kabuki“ and “M“ and the innovative ballet productions of Maurice Bejart, based on “KOJIKI“, Japan’s oldest history book written 1300 years ago. This challenging piece dynamically depicts the stories of ancient Gods transporting you to the legendary past in Japan with mysterious sound. This is one of the best Japanese style operas.

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Ballet ‘Don Quixote’ – American Ballet Theatre Japan Tour 2011

Seiji Ozawa conducts ‘Bluebeard’s Castle’ at Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto 2011

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This is a highly valuable film featuring Daniil Simkin, the new star attracting worldwide attention on the ballet scene, who performs the full version of this ballet with his astonishing technique. The film records spectacular classical ballet performed by the star dancers of American Ballet Theater, and staged by Kevin Mackenzie for a comical and brisk performance.

Bluebeard‘s Castle

This is the latest recording of Seiji Ozawa conducting the opera “Bluebeard’s Castle“ at the Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto 2011 featuring Bartok pieces. Both the opera and ballet productions were directed and choreographed by Jo Kanamori, Japan’s leading modern dance choreographer who developed a strong background under Maurice Bejart and Jiri Kylian.

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Performed by Kronos Quartet

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“Plane just crashed into the World Trade!” “Mayday! Mayday! Liberty and West, I’m trapped....” The real recordings of correspondence with NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defense Command and FDNY, The New York City Fire Department as well as interviews with residents of lower Manhattan were incorporated into music. It has been 10 years since the September 11 attacks. The Pulitzer Prize winning American composer, Steve Reich, composed “WTC 9 / 11“ to express his hope for peace. This memorable world premiere performed by Kronos Quartet appeals to the audience at times emotionally, and sometimes like spiritual prayer.

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Herbert Blomstedt

“For me, music is a symbol of life itself – and this is my way of doing something for the future.” With this conviction, Swedish-American conductor Herbert Blomstedt teaches a master class to the next generation of highly-gifted conductors. Aided by Mozart and Bruckner, he not only passes on the knowledge and experience won during his long musical career but also inspires the young musicians with his understanding of music and its meaning in life. And then it’s time – under Herbert Blomsted’s watchful eyes and ears the young conductors must show the radio symphony orchestra what they’ve learned from the master.

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Hilary Hahn

Hilary Hahn loves Halloween and so she takes to YouTube, hair tousled, spooky candle in hand, to call the upon the world’s composers to compete for the 27th encore of her project “In 27 Pieces”. Only 30 and already one of the world’s supreme violinists, she still finds ways to surprise. “The Next Steps“ is the encore to 2004’s “Hillary Hahn – A Portrait”. The normally reserved virtuoso grants us rare glimpses into her world: a Vatican concert for Pope Benedict’s birthday, quiet moments on tour in Germany and a jam-session with bluegrass musician Josh Ritter in the Bronx.

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Hilary, what‘s next? An Encore (WT)

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Sir James Galway

It’s a melody everyone recognizes: the hobbit theme from “The Lord of the Rings”, performed by Sir James Galway with his characteristic, one-of-a-kind flute sound. He’s idolized by thousands of aspiring flutists around the world, having achieved something even more unique – making the leap from the orchestra pit to the spotlight on stage as an internationally celebrated soloist and then onward to the conductor’s pulpit. At 70, the “Knight Bachelor” looks back on a fulfilling career, and with typical Irish humor and a twinkle in the eye, the man with the golden flute invites us into his still bustling life.

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On top of the world, 70 degrees north, in a small town called Berlevåg, at the coast of Norway, in sparkling midnight sun, we are invited to an outdoor choir concert with 8 famous choirs from all corners of the world. Among them are Die Wiener Sängerknaben from Austria and the Norwegian Radio Orchestra conducted by maestro Marc Soustrot. Also present are guests Barytonstar Thomas Hampson from USA and world music star Mari Boine from Norway.

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Arabella Steinbacher

A documentary about the world-renowned German-Japanese violinist, Arabella Steinbacher, and her quest to bring courage and hope to the areas of Japan devastated by the earthquake and tsunami with a spontaneous, privately-organized concert tour. Arabella Steinbacher is an extraordinary young violinist. In the words of one critic, “the slim virtuoso plays so beautifully that the graces and gods must surely have stood watch over her cradle“. But she wants to use her gifts to do more than just enchant and amaze. A cinematic cadenza thrusting us from the ivory tower of classical music into a country shaken by crisis. Dimmu Borgir

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What happens when trained orchestra musicians meets one of the worlds most famous black metal bands on stage? NRK documented the process of more than 100 musicians preparing for a concert in Oslo Spektrum where fans from all over the world had come to experience Dimmu Borgir‘s Symphonic Black Metal.

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Eurovision Young Dancers 2011

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A new format was created for the EBU Young Dancers final at Dansens Hus in Oslo, Norway this June. Ten young dancers from all over Europe came together for one week, performing their own solo, but the new element in the competition was a brand new choreography by Ed Wubbe. All participants had to take part and learn this five minute piece in only four days of rehearsal. A new, young and entertaining format for dance on television.

The Oslo Jazz Festival celebrated its 25th anniversary at the new Opera and Ballet House in Oslo. Together with the popular Norwegian Radio Orchestra, four top international Norwegian jazz soloists showed that this excellent new opera house also has brilliant acoustics for jazz.

Sonja International 244 Queen Music Competition Genre Live recording | Status completed | Production Company NRK (Norway) | TV Director Erik Conders | Camera Pål Andresen | Editor Lars Feiring Andersen | Light Design Vidar Røis Jensen | Duration 77‘ 59“ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Oslo Opera and Ballet, (Norway) 26.08.2011 | Musical style Classical music | Conductor Eivind Gulberg Jensen | Orchestra Norwegian Opera Orchestra (Norway) | Source video / audio HD / Stereo | Distribution TV NRK (Norway) Every second year the Queen Sonja International Music Competition for singers takes place in Oslo. More than 200 singers from all over the world apply, but only six reach the final concert in the new Opera and Ballet House in Oslo. The winner of this years competition was the Korean baritone Donghwan Lee.

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Thor Henning Isachen and Halfdan Bleken

Ketil Hvoslef is one of Norway‘s most distinguished composers. His Piano Concerto is written for Leif Ove Andsnes – a piece which he has played several times with great pleasure. Both Hvoslef and Andsnes are living in Bergen in West Norway, so this is a concert which we could call “The Best from Bergen“, with composer, soloist and orchestra all comming from Bergen.

Early music expert Halfdan Bleken invites organist Thor Henning Isachsen and historian Einar Pettersen to join him on a tour to Venice. Here they visit several churches with unique historic organs and beautiful original paintings, and Bleken takes his two friends to the church where Antonio Vivaldi was baptised.

Live Roggen; Come Shine

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Truls Mørk

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It was a magical moment when the Norwegian cellist Truls Mørk walked onto the stage in Oslo Concert House in January last year, after almost two years of serious illness. His performance of Dvořák Cello concerto became the highlight of the concert season in Oslo. Before the concert Arild Erikstad interviewed Truls Mørk about his difficult two years of insecurity and doubts about his future.

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Vasily Petrenko

Vasily Petrenko will take over the position as chief conductor for Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra from 2013, but until then he will work with the orchestra regulary. In this program we followed the orchestra on tour to Berlin, Vienna and Paris with Joshua Bell as violin soloist, and recorded a concert in Oslo Concert House.

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Austrian director Martin Kušej‘s pioneering vision brings a challenging and provoking insight to Wagner’s opera of love and redemption, with his singular ability to connect characters and their actions to the score. Martin Zehetsgruber’s spacious, multi-layered sets define the settings through which Dalland (Robert Lloyd), Senta (Catherine Naglestad), The Dutchman (Juha Uusitalo) and the chorus move to great effect fulfilling the fine conducting of Hartmut Haenchen, who elicits from the orchestra an unmatchable performance of detail and clarity.

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The Ice Skaters

Lewis Carroll’s ever-popular story provides the basis for Christopher Wheeldon’s spectacular new work, starring Royal Ballet Principal Lauren Cuthbertson. Captivating designs by Bob Crowley, an engaging and passionate score by Joby Talbot, and Wheeldon’s breathtaking choreography combine to produce in the words of The Times “spectacular family entertainment brought to life with enormous theatrical verve.“

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The Ice Skaters

Alice‘s Adventures in Wonderland

Astonishingly popular from its first appearance, “Les Patineurs“ interprets the effortless actions of skaters as they glide, turn – and even fall over! The spectacular spinning Blue Skater provides just one of its memorable moments.

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Tosca: Angela Gheorghiu

Austria is Singing

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In a unique initiative in May 2011 the ORF formed the largest choir in Austria, which exceeded its expectations not only in number but also in quality. The aim was to bring together thousands of amateur singers who with professional coaching would then be able to interpret a world masterpiece: Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”. Thousands of people gathered at the Vienna City Hall square to sing the amazing hymn to promote friendship among the nations. Via TV this major event was linked to several Austrian capitals and thousand of singers in Tyrol, Carinthia and Lower Austria were connected: the choir was all of Austria!

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Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Her Master‘s Voice

Powerful music, a gripping story and a tragic end: Puccini’s ever–popular “Tosca“ is performed at the Royal Opera House with a fabulous cast. Among the star singers in this revival are Angela Gheorghiu, Jonas Kaufmann and Bryn Terfel. The Royal Opera Chorus and The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House are under the baton of Antonio Pappano, Music Director of the Royal Opera for a score that includes such great set pieces as the Act I “Te Deum“ and the arias “Vissi d’arte“ and “E lucevan le stelle“.

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Anna Bolena

“Anna Bolena“ has been the musical highlight during the first opera season of the new Vienna State Opera director, Dominique Meyer. Although Donizetti‘s music has always been favoured by the Viennese opera audiences, “Anna Bolena“ was never performed in the house on the Ring. Within a firework of melodic richness Netrebko and Garanca were at their best.

Her contemporaries called her the Marlene Dietrich of grand opera. The most significant soprano was glib, proud and arrogant. Apart from Callas, no operatic diva polarized people as much as Schwarzkopf. Her life, set against the tensions between her husband, EMI tycoon Walter Legge and star conductor Herbert von Karajan was a field day for the press. Both of them gave orders – she obeyed. The private Legge / Schwarzkopf archives, unpublished to this day, reveal new answers to some delicate questions. Wunderlich Medien had exclusive access to this huge treasure trove of unique documents, which eliminate a number of prejudices and half truths. The film comes closer to the ambivalent personality of Elisabeth Schwarzkopf than ever before.

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Faust Songs

“Auf eigene Faust“

As complementary programs to this year‘s staging of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe‘s “Faust“ dramas I+II, the Salzburg Festival 2011 offered different modern interpretations of the old myths described in the plays. Eva Jantschitsch, also known as Gustav, wrote 12 new “Faust“ songs, perfectly interpreted by German star actor Ben Becker.

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Hollywood in Vienna

There is no other piece which represents the Salzburg Festival better than Hugo von Hofmannsthal‘s “Jedermann“. 90 years after the first performance of this play, ORF and Salzburg Festival created a complete “Jedermann“ version consisting only of archive material. This puzzle became a stunning piece of theatrical history, naming actors from Alexander Moissi, to Curd Juergens and current interpreter of the title role, Nicholas Ofzareck. With specially created music and soundtrack by Hans Theessink.

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“Hollywood in Vienna“ is an annual concert gala in the Vienna Konzerthaus with the most appreciated film music since the times of Viennese composer Max Steiner, who wrote such successful music for movies like “Gone with the Wind“, “King Kong“ and “Casablanca“. This year, film music composer Alan Silvestri participated in the show and was honoured by the City of Vienna with an Achievement Award. Many film excerpts from “Harry Potter“, “E.T.“, “Peter Pan“, etc. completed an exciting event, for the first time recorded by ORF.

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For the second time, Mariss Jansons will conduct the famous New Years Day Concert in 2012. He calls it the “Final of the conductors World Championship“. The film accompanies the charismatic conductor during rehearsing and preparing for concerts in Amsterdam, Riga, St. Petersburg, Vienna and Salzburg. For the first time, Jansons gives insights into his childhood in Riga, where he was born and raised in secret by his jewish mother.

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“Pictures at an Exhibition“ was also interpreted by dancers of the Vienna States Ballet. More than 100,000 Viennese enjoyed the nightly garden concert on location.

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Midsummernights Gala Grafenegg 2011

The Art of House Music

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Austria could still be considered a country where music has an enormous impact on every day life. By tradition, many families enjoy performing music together even though they are not professionals. Perfection is not the aim, and sometimes the amateurish efforts are hard to stand for the audience. In his typical ironic manner, filmmaker Werner Boote has tried to determine why Austrian parents today make their children perform music at home.

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“Virtuoso pictures” was the motto of the open-air Summer Night Concert 2011 from the baroque Gardens of Schönbrunn, Vienna. To mark the bicentenary of Liszt’s birth, the concert paid tribute to the composer with his symphonic poem “Les Préludes“. The Austrian virtuoso Benjamin Schmid played the opening movement of Paganini’s Violin Concerto no. 1, and Sibelius’s “Scene with Cranes” was performed in memory of the victims of the natural and environmental disaster in Japan. Mussorgsky’s

Waltzing Vienna

For five years an appealing annual summer festival has taken place in the fantastic Gardens of Schloss Grafenegg, one of the beautiful properties of the princes of Sandor-Metternich. This time the opening concert was marked by variety of music pieces by Mozart, Liszt, Offenbach and Milhaud as well as Elgar and Alban Berg. Soloists were Sabine Meyer, Sol Gabetta and Genia Kühmeier, introduced by the charming moderator Barbara Rett.

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Waltzing Vienna

Vienna is famous for its ballroom waltzing. Each season hundreds of big and small ball events take place, some of them well known and acknowledged even by international audiences, such as the Opera Ball or the Ball of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. The documentary film follows a group of young french students who prepare for a waltzing trip to Vienna, from their first uncertain dancing steps to their happy participation at the “Zuckerbäckerball“ in the ball rooms of the former Austrian Imperial Family.

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264 Bellini Opera Gala Genre Relay of: Opera, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company PAN DREAM (Italy) | Co-Production Company Bellini Opera Festival (Italy) | TV Director Enrico Castiglione | Duration 120‘ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Teatro Bellini, Catania & Greek Theatre, Taormina (Italy), 12.09.2011 | Composer Vincenzo Bellini | Conductor Eve Queler | Orchestra & Choir Teatro Massimo Bellini di Catania (Italy) | Soloist Gregory Kunde | Source video / audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV, Theatrical distribution, Homevideo distribution, DVD distribution, Multimedia distribution PAN DREAM (Italy)

Festival Euro Mediterraneo

A new spectacular production of Giuseppe Verdi‘s “Nabucco“, recorded in HD at the extraordinary Greek Theatre of Taormina under the theatrical and video direction of Enrico Castiglione and new costumes by Sonia Cammarata. A production that combines tradition and new technology, through which Enrico Castiglione transforms the Ancient Theatre of Taormina into spectacular scenes of Ancient Babilonia and Jerusalem and directs with great dramatic power.

266 Requiem Mass Genre Relay of: Orchestral / choral concert, Studio production | Status completed | Production Company PAN DREAM (Italy) | Co-Production Company Festival di Pasqua (Italy) | TV Director Enrico Castiglione | Duration 90‘ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Chiesa di Sant‘Ignazio Rome (Italy), 19.04.2011 | Musical style Classical music | Piece Messa da Requiem | Composer Giuseppe Verdi | Conductor Paolo Ponziano Ciardi | Orchestra Orchestra Sinfonica Luigi Cherubini (Italy) | Choir Coro Lirico Luigi Cherubini (Italy) | Source video / audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV, Theatrical distribution, Homevideo distribution, DVD distribution, Multimedia distribution PAN DREAM (Italy)

Bellini Opera Festival

An official Opera Gala for Vincenzo Bellini produced at the Bellini Opera Festival: two hours of great “belcanto“ music with Chiara Taigi, Gregory Kunde, Francesco Ellero D‘Artegna and Cristin Knorren. This is the first programme of a new series of opera masterpieces by Vincenzo Bellini filmed in HD under the direction of Enrico Castiglione: arias, symphonies and great scenes from the most popular operas.

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The sacred and classical music of Giuseppe Verdi recorded in high definition in the wonderful Chiesa di Sant‘Ignazio in Rome; the concert presents a special collection of sacred music recorderd in churches of Rome and the Vatican.

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The first concert of a new series of Antonio Vivaldi‘s music recorded in Venice for the Vivaldi Festival. A great performance with ancient and original instruments filmed in HD under the spectacular direction of Enrico Castiglione, from “The Four Seasons“ to “Magnificat“ and “Gloria“. A new HD collection of the masterpieces of Antonio Vivaldi in Venice!

Gordon Getty at Bolshoi

Deaths, suicides, overdoses, kidnapping, extreme wealth...Gordon Getty, son of the oil magnate J. Paul Getty, has seen the lot. How did it affect his music? Although he thinks that he would have become a composer no matter what, Getty credits his wealth for giving him the unrestricted liberty to compose. Yet he also credits his passion for music for lifting the curse of his family‘s inherited wealth and for letting him avoid all the trappings of money. “I have ideals. And if you have ideals, and the ideal is something bigger than you - music is something bigger than me - it’s a mountain I’m trying to climb. Then you might escape the curse.”

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Genre Documentary: Other, on location | Status completed | Production Company Peter Rosen Productions, Inc. (USA) | Co-Production Company EuroArts Music International GmbH (Germany) | Ass. Production Company NHK (Japan), Avex Entertainment, Inc. (Japan), Van Cliburn Foundation (USA) | Producer, TV Director Peter Rosen | Executive Producer Bernd Hellthaler, Alann Sampson | Editor Peter Rosen, Brian Williams, Bob Jorrison | Duration 90‘ | Production Year 2010 | Recorded Fort Worth, Texas (USA), 18.05.2009 | Musical style Classical music | Piece Various piano works | Composer Various | Conductor James Conlon | Orchestra Fort Worth Symphony (USA) | Source video / audio DV / Stereo | Distribution TV, Homevideo distribution, DVD distribution EuroArts Music International GmbH (Germany)

Directed by Peter Rosen, “A Surprise in Texas“ is a documentary focusing its camera lens on the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort Worth Texas, where 29 young contestants come from all over the world to compete for the most prestigious prize in the music world. The film highlights the story of one of them, a 20 year old from Tokyo, Nobuyuki Tsujii, blind from birth. **Winner ECHO Award Best DVD of 2011**

Tsujii Live Debut 270 Nobuyuki from Carnegie Hall Genre Relay of: Instrumental recital, on location | Status completed | Production Company Peter Rosen Productions, Inc. (USA) | CoProduction Company WDR, ARTE (Germany), Avex Entertainment, Inc. (Japan) | Producer, TV Director, Editor Peter Rosen | Camera Manny Gutierez, David Smith, Julie Brenkle | Duration 90‘ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Carnegie Hall, New York, (USA) 11.10.2011 | Musical style Classical music | Piece Beethoven, Liszt, Mussorgsky | Soloist Nobuyuki Tsujii | Source video / audio HD / Stereo | Distribution TV Peter Rosen Productions, Inc. (USA), Avex Entertainment, Inc. (Japan)

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Winners of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition

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Nobuyuki Tsujii

Blind from birth, 20 year old pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii’s handicap, if a drawback at all, never affected his ability to play the piano. Set against the backdrop of the music of Liszt, Beethoven, Mussorgsky and other inspiring piano masterpieces, this film will be an inspiration to all people who face disabilities, hurdles or obstacles in life. “Nobu“ will be seen live at his Carnegie Hall debut, November 10, 2011.

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Colin Davis The Man and His Music

Colin Davis

This documentary tries to reveal the man behind the musician, a human being who after decades of music making has achieved a serenity and Zen-like approach which shows in everything he undertakes, in his own words: “When everyone in the orchestra feels responsible for the piece of music, that´s when life begins“. The profile will include clips from a Masterclass for young conductors, Missa Solemnis at this year´s Proms, “La Clemenza di Tito“, recorded in Aix-en-Provence and significant pieces of music from his long career. Interviews with Davis, friends and colleagues will complete the picture of an exceptional personality.

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Eugene Onegin

Happiness that might have been. With these words Tatiana and Onegin resume the situation at the end of the third act of Tchaikovsky´s “Eugene Onegin“. For stage director Stefan Herheim the third act is the key to the entire opera. Mariss Jansons talks about how to interpret Tchaikovski‘s emotion-powered music, and Bo Skovhus, the eponymous hero of the opera, gives valuable insights into the role of Onegin. Interviews with Krassimira Stoyanova (Tatiana) and Andrej Dunaev (Lensky) and backstage material rounds off this documentary, which will undoubtedly throw a new light on one of the best loved pieces of the opera repertoire.

Les Vêpres Siciliennes

Eugene Onegin

When an extraordinary conductor and Europe‘s most sought after stage director team up to produce their version of “Eugene Onegin“, you are in for a memorable event. After the dress rehearsal it already became clear that nobody is more able to reproduce Tchaikovsky‘s emotion powered music better than Mariss Jansons and his Concertgebouw Orchestra.

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Andrej Dunaev as Lensky and Bo Skovhus as Onegin

Stage Director Christof Loy and the DNO chose the original French version of this lesser known Verdi opera about the historical massacre of 1282 during the French occupation of Sicily. Loy‘s exciting staging will hopefully return this interesting opera and ballet to the mainstream repertoire.

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Set the Piano Stool on Fire

Herbert von Karajan

A documentary to celebrate 50 years of IMZ. TV has been instrumental in popularizing music, preserving precious moments of music making and helping to provide music and performances which would not exist without it. We shall dive into the treasure troves of the various archives to demonstrate what television has done for the dissemination of music. What would we know about Glenn Gould and Celibidache without the moving image? We will follow Herbert von Karajan’s ascent to the star of the medium, and discover which genuine forms of television developed with the Vienna New Year’s Concert or The Last Night of the Proms.

Alfred Brendel and Kit Armstrong

Alfred Brendel recently retired from public performance and now devotes more time to teaching. His only pupil is the young prodigy Kit Armstrong, an 18 year old Chinese American. He is not only a technical wizard but has a clear sense of musicianship and has also been composing since the age of six. The film features some exceptional playing and moments of emotion and humour. This is not just a film about two men, one facing old age and the other on the threshold of life but a film about music and what it means to all of us.

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Seun Kuti Quick Hits

“Playing against Time” is a moving and powerful exploration of Parkinson’s Disease, featuring the virtuoso UK jazz saxophonist / composer Barbara Thompson (first diagnosed in 1997) and her husband, the brilliant jazz-rock drummer Jon Hiseman. Interweaving musical and medical sequences and directed by the award-winning arts documentary film maker Mike Dibb, the film follows five years of Barbara’s inspiring struggle with Parkinson’s and her search for available treatments which allow her still to play with her own band “Paraphernalia” and Jon’s rock band “Colosseum”...but for how long? And both she and Jon talk eloquently about the importance of music and creativity to the way they’re able to cope with this (so far) incurable degenerative disease.

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Seun Kuti, From Africa with Fury – Rise

When Fela Kuti died in 1997, Seun assumed leadership of his father´s band, Egypt 80. He was 14 at the time and carried his inheritance with modesty and style. He continued Fela´s musical and political legacy while reigniting Afrobeat with a jolt of energy and precision. This Quick Hit was filmed during Seun´s recent US tour. Seun recalls playing Fela´s saxophone, comments on the Arab Spring protests and bemoans the political nepotism and corruption that have frustrated the aspirations of African youth. We also hear “Rise“ from his new album “From Africa with Fury - Rise“.

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Valery Gergiev

When Valery Gergiev decides to take all six symphonies by Tchaikovsky on tour music lovers are in for a treat. Bertrand Normand went with the orchestra and filmed rehearsals, background material, public reaction and most importantly, Gergiev´s views on Tchaikovsky´s symphonic output and the orchestra´s opinion of their famous chief conductor. By following individual musicians in their spare time and focusing on them in rehearsals and performances Bertrand Normand creates a rare sort of complicity between viewers and musicians, highlights the technical difficulties of the music and makes us aware of the wealth of colour, melody and rhythm in Tchaikovsky´s music.

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Coppélia – Opéra National de Paris

With more than 1000 performances since its première at the Paris Opera, “Coppélia“ is probably one of the most popular full length ballets ever conceived. When a seasoned dancer and choreographer like Patrice Bart rethinks the old version of the ballet and comes up with something darker and closer to E.T.A. Hoffmann´s “Sandman“, which provided the plot, this calls for some explanation. With the help of Brigitte Lefèvre, director of the Paris Opera Ballet, Patrice Bart and the key dancers Dorothée Gilbert, Matthias Heymann and José Martinez we gain new insights into the original story and characters and begin to understand Patrice Bart´s brilliant new staging.

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“Anna Bolena“ will be performed in March 2012 at the Arena di Verona and Teatro Verdi di Trieste.

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A Masked Ball

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Un ballo in maschera

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A music drama in three acts will take place on June 2012. With staging by Teatro Regio in co-production with Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and Teatro Massimo Bellini of Catania.

Daniel Barenboim conducts a stellar cast that includes Peter Mattei (Don Giovanni), Anna Netrebko (Donna Anna), Giuseppe Filianoti (Don Ottavio), Barbara Frittoli (Donna Elvira), Bryn Terfel (Leporello) and Ildebrando D’Arcangelo (alternating in the roles of Don Giovanni and Leporello).

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The new La Scala production for Season 2011 / 2012 caters to a younger audience, receptive to a less conventional fusion of styles. Drawing on his passion for dance and his sensitive outlook on the female world, Italian singer-songwriter Vasco Rossi’s tale pictures women, from adolescence to adulthood, in the guise of three characters encompassing every nuance of the female universe featured in his songs over the course of his long career. To the backing of a new interpretation of his songs, rewritten and arranged for orchestra, the Ballet Company will dance under the guidance of Martha Clarke, award-winning and multidisciplinary director and choreographer, noted for her ironic and unconventional approach and her receptivity to the fusion of artistic languages. Olesia Novikova

The last great work from the glorious era of the Imperial ballets has never been performed by the La Scala ballet before. Its La Scala premiere marks the most faithful version of “Raymonda“ yet, which met with triumphant success in St. Petersburg in 1898. Based on a medieval legend, with ladies, knights, crusaders and Saracens, cathedrals and castles, the libretto had all the ingredients needed to spark the imagination of the young Alexander Glazunov in his first ballet score, and the infinite wisdom of Petipa.

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Diego Matheuz

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Genre Relay of: Opera, Live recording | Status in progress | Production Company Rai Radiotelevisione Italiana (Italy) | TV Director Richard Jones | Duration 175‘ | Production Year 2012 | Recorded Teatro alla Scala (Italy) | Musical style Classical music | Composer Benjamin Britten | Conductor Robin Ticciati | Soloist John Mark Ainsley, Susan Gritton, Christopher Purves, Felicity Palmer, Malin Christensson | Costumes Stewart Laing | Source video / audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 Building on the success of “Death in Venice“ last season, Benjamin Britten’s most popular opera comes to La Scala for the 2011 / 2012 season. The opera will be presented for the first time in a new production by English director Richard Jones, who the public will remember for his extraordinary interpretation of Shostakovich’s “Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District“. John Mark Ainsley stars as impetuous fisherman Peter Grimes in this mysterious tale set in a small fishing village on England’s east coast in the first half of the nineteenth century. The supporting cast includes John Graham-Hall, whose portrayal of Gustav von Aschenbach met with great acclaim in “Death in Venice“.

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The New Year‘s Concert will be presented at Teatro La Fenice, Venezia on 1 January 2012.

As the saying goes, “Never change a winning team“. And so continues the collaborative effort between Daniel Barenboim and Guy Cassiers on “Der Ring des Nibelungen“, the first time in La Scala’s history that the four-part epic has been performed in its original language and with the same director. This production of Siegfried, which sees the twilight of the Gods and the dawning of the era of the Heroes, features some of the finest Wagnerian voices of today, including Lance Ryan in the role of Siegfried, Anna Larsson as Erda, and Nina Stemme, recipient of the Italian National Association of Music Critics award for her Brünnhilde in “Die Walküre“.

alla Scala Orchestra and Choir 289 Teatro December, 22nd 2011 Genre Relay of: Orchestral / choral concert, Live recording | Status in progress | Production Company Rai Radiotelevisione Italiana (Italy) | Duration 75‘ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Teatro alla Scala (Italy), 22.12.2011 | Musical style Classical music | Piece Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 2 in C minor “Resurrection” | Conductor Gustavo Dudamel | Orchestra Teatro alla Scala (Italy) | Soloist Anja Harteros, Anna Larsson | Source video / audio DigiBeta / Stereo

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Gustavo Dudamel

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A Christmas Concert to be performed by the Teatro alla Scala Orchestra and Chorus on 22 December 2011. The programme includes Gustav Mahler‘s Symphony No. 2 in C minor and “Resurrection” for soprano, contralto, chorus and orchestra.

SVIZZERA of Rebirth 292 ATheStory Swiss Radio-Television Chorus 75 Years from its Foundation

Genre Relay of: Orchestral / choral concert, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Rai Radiotelevisione Italiana (Italy) | Duration 100‘ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Ravenna - Palazzo Mauro de André (Italy), 07.07.2011 | Musical style Classical music | Conductor Riccardo Muti | Orchestra Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini, Orchestra Giovanile Italiana, La Stagione Armonica (Italy) | Choir Choir of Teatro Municipale di Piacenza (Italy), Koinonia Children Team (Africa) | Soloist Anna Kasyan, Anna Malavasi, Piero Pretti, Alessandro Luongo, Luca Dall’Amico | Source video / audio DigiBeta / Stereo

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Choir of RSI

One of Switzerland’s most important musical groups, the Swiss RadioTelevision Chorus, is now celebrating its 75th anniversary. Ever since 1940-50 it has distinguished itself as a pioneer in the rediscovery of the great Italian Renaissance and Baroque repertoire, collecting an impressive number of “Grand Prix du Disque“ awards. After a period of lethargy, the chorus is now once again a part of Europe’s most important ancient music scene and is publishing for the best known record companies thanks to the dynamism of Diego Fasolis. The documentary reviews the history of the chorus and reveals the reason for its present day international success.

The Roads to Friendship 2011

The adventure of the “Roads of Friendship“, a project promoting brotherhood through art and culture, began in Sarajevo in 1997. The programme includes symphonies, arias and duets from the well-known Italian opera repertoire (Giuseppe Verdi and Vincenzo Bellini), and closes with the famous “Va pensiero” chorus sung by La Stagione Armonica of the Teatro Municipale in Piacenza and by more than 200 young students from the Nairobi Italian missionary schools.

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Soudant and the Orchestra 293 Hubert della Svizzera Italiana Genre Relay of: Orchestral / choral concert, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company RSI - Radiotelevisione Svizzera (Switzerland) | Producer Giovanni Conti | TV Director Roberta Pedrini | Editor Marzio Bertoli | Duration 82‘ | Production Year 2010 | Recorded Palazzo dei Congressi Lugano (Italy), 04.11.2010 | Musical style Classical music | Composer Benjamin Britten, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Zoltán Kodály | Conductor Hubert Soudant | Orchestra Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana (Switzerland) | Soloist Francesco Piemontesi | Source video / audio HD / Stereo | Distribution TV RSI - Radiotelevisione Svizzera (Switzerland)

This new staging of “Turandot“ in coproduction with Grand Theatre National Opera of Varsavia will take place in January 2012.

Hubert Soudant and Francesco Piemontesi

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Soudant and Piemontesi – a perfect match. After opening with the creative freshness of Britten’s “Simple Symphony“, the concert focused on a piece by Mozart, truly underscoring how in the 18th century the piano was becoming the solo instrument par excellence; Piemontesi with his magnificent interpretation gives great credit to this idea. The extremely intense and emotional “24 Variations“ constituting Rachmaninoff’s “Rhapsody“ on a theme by Paganini led the way to the concert’s last piece, the very pleasant and charming “Dances of Galanta“, one of Zoltán Kodály‘s most performed works.

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Juraj Valcuha, rising star of a new generation of orchestra conductors, dominates the podium of the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana with a multi-faceted program. The concert opens with the nuances and colours offered by the suite “A Summer Day“, which Prokofiev wrote in 1941. Giovanni Bottesini’s sparkling Double Bass Concerto No. 2 in B minor follows suite with Enrico Fagone at the double bass, who proves to be a brilliant performer incredibly at one with the orchestra. Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21 closes the recording, a monumental piece characterized by a brilliant and extroverted touch.

Inside 295 Music Paolo Fresu‘s Jazz Experience

Paolo Fresu

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Enrico Fagone and Juraj Valcuha

“Music is your very experience, your knowledge, your thoughts. If you don’t experience it, it will never emerge from your instrument”. These are Charlie Parker’s words and may be perfectly applied to Paolo Fresu’s musical jazz experience. “Music Inside“ doesn’t simply want to be a documentary rotating around a man or an artist but a journey around the world, inside the musical experience. The story recounts how a musical piece is created, how a sound is invented and which are the life experiences, the personalities, the places, the emotions the memories...that go into its making.

St. Matthew Passion

Swiss rigor combined with Latin breadth and musicality. These are some of the qualities that for years have been the hallmark of the Swiss RadioTelevision Chorus, of I Barocchisti and of the conductor Diego Fasolis, especially when applied to the monumentality of the “St. Matthew Passion“ by J. S. Bach. The interpretation exalts the symmetry of its sixty-eight components, the harmonious ductility of the recitatives and arias, the expressionistic vehemence of the lapidary interventions of the crowd, the recovery of the technique known as “cori spezzati”, with the result of re-launching the motetus style at a sublime level of counterpoint elaboration.

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The Slowind Brass Quintet is a group of five professional musicians and contemporary music fans, who successfully broaden the musical horizons of Slovene audiences by performing contemporary chamber music. They organise a chamber cycle “Festival Slowind“, which has gradually developed into an international movement. The festival now hosts top world music bands and musicians, who present the latest compositions by contemporary composers. This year‘s festival was closely connected with the legendary American composer Elliot Carter. The participants presented the diverse selection of his chamber compositions as well as the world premiere of Carter‘s new composition, dedicated to the festival.

This is not a didactical film but almost a “show” offering much food for thought. This documentary, although “light”, is always scientifically accurate and touches upon the various events that led to Italy’s unification. However, it does so through a series of anecdotes, parodies or teasingly ironic references to the clichés on the Risorgimento as well as the Italian political figures of these last decades. The common thread is the staging of Giuseppe Verdi’s “I Vespri Siciliani”, the opera that officially inaugurated the celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the Unity of Italy at the Regio Theater in Turin.

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Only a few cities in the world can boast of being the place where Gustav Mahler worked; Ljubljana is one of them. Mahler came to Ljubljana in 1881 at the age of 21, at the beginning of his conducting and compositional career. During his stay in the Slovene capital, he conducted the Regional Theatre‘s iron opera repertoire. The programme uncovers in a visually interesting and attractive manner the role Mahler played in the history of music and in Ljubljana. The creators of the programme also presented Mahler as a person, not only as a conductor and composer.

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The Ave Chamber Choir was established in 1984. Under the artistic leadership of its founder Andraž Hauptman, the group soon became known outside their home parish and convinced domestic and international audiences with their recreation of a diverse choral music repertoire. It won first prizes at no less than 13 choral competitions. In this programme, the choir presents works by Charles Villers Stanford, Gustav Mahler and Lojze Lebič.

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Imer Traja Brizani

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At the International Roma (Gypsy) Day, an interesting amalgam of two musical cultures and genres, that of gypsy and jazz music, was presented at Ljubljana Mons Hotel. The music group Amala under the leadership of the Romany musician, composer and musicologist, Imer Traja Brizani, revives traditional gypsy music.

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“Mahler in Ljubljana“ is a 12-month musical cycle on the anniversary of Gustav Mahler‘s stay and working period in Ljubljana.

HARMONICA! – The 12th Inter304 OH, national Festival of Harmonica Genre Live recording | Status completed | Production Company TV Slovenija (Slovenia) | Producer Zarja Zavodnik | Executive Producer Danica Dolinar | TV Director Svetlana Dramlić | Duration 40‘ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Cultural Center Emil Adamič, Mokronog (Slovenia) | Source video / audio DigiBeta / Stereo The title of this international harmonica festival, “Oh, harmonica!“, simultaneously expresses both the enthusiasm for this instrument as well as its marginalisation within the musical profession. The closing concert of the festival presented the best harmonica soloists and confirmed that interest for this musical instrument is still alive and vibrant in Slovenia. Miro Božič is one of the few younger harmonica players, who independently and professionally plays the instrument and uses its sound for performing classical music as well as other genres and with other musicians.

Composer Nejc Kuhar

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Our House, When the Walls Start Talking (working title)

The guitarist and composer Nejc Kuhar (1987) is considered one of the most prominent young Slovene composers. He has won several competitions in composition. In June 2011, he completed his guitar studies under Prof. Alvar Pierri at the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts. He is completing his masters degree in composition under Prof. Christian Minkowitsch at Konservatorium Wien, Privatuniversität. Nejc Kuhar created a special concert where his music was performed by the top young Slovene musicians: Mak Grgič (guitar), Domen Lorenz (violin), Karmen Pečar (violoncello), Irena Rovtar (flute), Nejc Kuhar (guitar) and the Calisto String Quartet.

Mahler in Ljubljana

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In the autumn of 2007, construction work started on the existing building of the Slovene National Opera and Ballet House in Ljubljana (built in 1892), in order to give the building a new look. Our team recorded the renovation until the autumn of 2011, by which time almost all construction work had been completed. The opera and ballet ensembles as well as all fans of these two forms of art can now look forward to the reopening of this venue.

Tartini String Quartet

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Secrets of Music

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The series of five episodes unravels those secrets of music which remain hidden to our ears and eyes. Music is an integral part of the global economy and the chemistry of love. The powerful art of music expresses all our feelings. Music can be perceived as garments or perfume. It is connected with the creation of our own lifestyles. We choose the music we are going to listen to, just as we choose the clothes we are going to wear or the food we are going to eat.... But the music, the right one...which is the right one? How and why does it work? How is it recreated and how is it designed? How does music influence the human body and our emotions?

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The grand opening of the Ljubljana Festival 2011

Ljubljana, Congress Square

Genre Relay of: Orchestral / choral concert, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company TV Slovenija (Slovenia) | Producer Daniel Celarec | Executive Producer Danica Dolinar | TV Director Klemen Dvornik | Duration 99‘ 17“ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Ljubljana, Congress Square (Slovenia), 03.07.2011 | Piece Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major | Composer Gustav Mahler | Conductor Valery Gergiev | Orchestra Slovene and Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestras, (Slovene, Croatia) | Choir Slovene and Croatian choral association (Slovenia, Croatia) | Soloist Sabina Cvilak, Jože Vidic, Anastazija Kalagina, Martina Gojčeta Silić, Vladimir Feljauer, Zlatomira Nikolova, Sergej Semiškur | Source video / audio DigiBeta / Stereo

At the renovated Congress Square (Kongresni trg) in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, a unique concert took place. More than 1,000 musicians under the baton of the Russian composer Valery Gergiev performed Gustav Mahler‘s monumental Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major, or “Symphony of a Thousand“. The concert marked the 20th anniversary of Slovenia and Croatia‘s independence and the 100th anniversary of Gustav Mahler‘s death (1860-1911). In the years of 1881 and 1882, Mahler was the resident conductor at the Regional Theatre in Ljubljana.

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20“ | Production Year 2011 | Musical style Classical music | Piece Billy the Kid, Violin Concerto in E minor, Young Person‘s Guide to the Orchestra | Composer Aaron Copland, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Benjamin Britten, John Adams | Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas | Orchestra San Francisco Symphony (USA) | Soloist Itzhak Perlman | Source video / audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | DVD distribution Harmonia Mundi (USA), Avie Records (UK)

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SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY Michael Tilson Thomas, Itzhak Perlman and the San Francisco Symphony

Michael Tilson Thomas in the Budapest Opera House where Mahler was Music Director

“Keeping Score: Mahler Origins and Legacy“, a two-hour feature examining the complicated and dynamic life and works of Gustav Mahler, is hosted by San Francisco Symphony Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas. Shot on location in the Czech Republic, Austria and New York and with material not included in the original 1 hour versions, this documentary also features breathtaking performances of Mahler’s work by the San Francisco Symphony. Beginning with Mahler’s early life surrounding the composition of his Symphony No. 1 to his creative flowering in the 1890s to his untimely death in 1911, “Origins and Legacy“ is an unprecedented journey through the life, music and influence of this emotionally charged composer.

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The San Francisco Symphony’s Centennial Opening Night Gala on 7 September 2011 was filmed in partnership with Thirteen’s Great Performances. The concert featured Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas leading the orchestra in a stirring program that included Copland’s “Billy the Kid“ ballet suite, Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor with violinist Itzhak Perlman and Britten’s “The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra“.

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SFS at 100: A Documentary

The San Francisco Symphony conducted by Alfred Hertz plays to a crowd of 10,000 in Civic Auditorium

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“San Francisco Symphony at 100“ is an engaging documentary that tells the story of the San Francisco Symphony’s first century. In eight themed vignettes, this programme outlines the Symphony’s relationship with the city by the bay and its contributions to pioneer media, touring and the artists it has nurtured over the years. Narrated by author Amy Tan, the documentary includes rare archival footage and images, interviews and excerpts from its vast recording archives.

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Falco Do I have to die in order to live

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This documentary portrays the outstanding conductor Christian Thielemann during the Salzburg Festival 2011. Known as an eminent Straussinterpreter, Thielemann accepted the challenge to stage the demanding opera “Die Frau ohne Schatten” for the Salzburg Festival.

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Darf ich bitten? Behind the Scenes of a Vienna Dancing School

Darf ich bitten? Behind the Scenes of a Vienna Dancing School

On the occasion of the 25 year anniversary of Falco’s number 1 single “Rock Me Amadeus” on the US Billboard Charts from the album “Falco 3”, internationally acclaimed director / producer Rudi Dolezal went back to the historic locations of “Falco 3”. Portraying Austria’s most famous international pop star in a brand new way, the documentary includes the world premier of a new 7 minute version of the “Rock Me Amadeus” video and newly produced interviews with Rob and Ferdi Bolland (producers of “Falco 3”), Horst Bork (long-term manager of Falco) as well as a never before seen interview with Falco from 1986.

The same procedure as every year: in autumn hundreds of young people and enthusiastic visitors “invade” Vienna dance schools to learn the famous Viennese Waltz. This documentary is an amusing look behind the scenes of one famous Vienna dance school. Teachers and pupils are working together very hard to be prepared for the highlights of the Vienna Ball season.

Christian Thielemann

Hauskonzerte at Palais Neustein

Classical music in an intimate setting: the “Hauskonzerte at Palais Neustein“ series enables viewers to enjoy the music of well known artists in the cozy and intimate setting of the old city palace “Neustein“ in Salzburg. The first three parts present concert recordings of the violinist Benjamin Schmid, the Austrian pianist Paul Badura-Skoda and the UkrainianAmerican pianist Valentina Lisitsa.

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After his opulently instrumented Danube tour, Austrian singer-songwriter Hubert von Goisern is now addressing the basic connections of life in new songs bared to their bones. At the “TFF Rudolstadt” in Germany, the world’s biggest folk, roots and world music festival, he presented his newly formed, compellingly animated and tenderly melancholic sound. Included is the chart-topping single “Brenna tuats guat” as well as old favorites.

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Hubert von Goisern’s Wirtshaustour

Being used to playing big gigs and elating an audience of thousands of listeners, Austrian world musician Hubert von Goisern returns to his roots. Supported by a small band consisting of bass, guitar and drums he toured small taverns on the outskirts of Austria, with a mission of “breathing life into these mostly underused concert venues“. A thrilling and entertaining experiment!

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Lise de la Salle Liszt-Schumann Recital at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord

This documentary-serial looks behind the scenes of the Salzburger Landestheater during the production of the musical “The Sound of Music” – from the very first casting to the premier. The musical “The Sound of Music” has spread the word about Salzburg and its culture throughout the world like no other but most Austrian people are puzzled by the phenomenon. The theatre of Salzburg audaciously takes the risk: in 2011 “The Sound of Music” will be played for the first time on the stage of the Salzburger Landestheater. The crew is highly motivated to face this challenge.

Pianist Lise de la Salle plays Liszt and Schumann

Hubert von Goisern in Concert

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“The Sound of Music” A Musical comes home

Sombrero and co | SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen | Superbly filmed in the prestigious Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris, the pianist Lise de la Salle impresses here by exhibiting a rare musicality, depth and mastery. She presents us a masterly and totally romantic Liszt and Schumann recital – two composers at the same time close and different. On the one hand de la Salle explores a deep, dark, mystic and finally little played Liszt (“Burial“, “Grey Clouds“, “Dante Sonata“). On the other hand, she revels in the completeness of Schumann‘s posthumous “Symphonic Studies“. She is so extraordinary that we forget her age: just 23. This young artist is truly carried by the grace!

Nicholas Angelich plays Bach‘s Goldberg Variations

At the age of 40, Nicholas Angelich is one of the brightest pianists of his generation. He proposes here for the first time his interpretation of the Goldberg Variations of J.S. Bach. The French-American pianist gives viewers a true “cathedral of sound and light“; he “colourizes“ this work with an incomparable emotion! For the filming of this programme he wanted to transport us to a secret place of work and focus in the Bavarian mountains.

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Nicholas Angelich plays Bach‘s Goldberg Variations

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Considered one of the greatest voices and one of the most influential musical figures of our time, the French contralto Nathalie Stutzmann sings and directs the period instrument ensemble Orfeo 55 for a concert dedicated to the Vivaldi‘s greatest opera arias. This concert is a wonderful firework! In an era when the public acclaimed castrati, Vivaldi the nonconformist preferred the fascinating timbre of female contralto. Nathalie Stutzmann conducts Orfeo 55 with the musical rigour, expressive freedom and emotional intensity that are hallmarks of her reputation as a singer.

Andreas Vollenweider

He is known worldwide as the musician with the harp and for his unique sound. But who is this Swiss musician, who won a Grammy in 1987? This documentary showcases the thirty years of his career as a musician and gives intimate insights into Andreas Vollenweider as a private individual, his visions and dreams. It is the portrait of a musician who has touched millions of people. His music played an important role in the struggle against the Apartheid regime in South Africa in the late eighties. The documentary includes his most important live appearances, such as the Montreux Jazz Festival and Rockpalast.

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George Gruntz

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“Europe’s Godfather of Jazz Orchestras” can look back upon a long career; George Gruntz has played with jazz legends such as Chet Baker, Dexter Gordon and Quincy Jones. This concert documentary follows the opening stages of his latest tour with his big band, interwoven with documentary sections which retrace the most important stages of his career. Gruntz himself provides the commentary. On this tour, the band features musicians such as Howard Johnson (tuba), Danny Gottlieb (drums), Luciano Biondini (accordion) and Larry Schneider (sax). 2012 will see George Gruntz celebrate his 80th birthday.

Happy Birthday, David Zinman

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In July 2011, the Zurich Tonhalle celebrated the 75th birthday of its Chief Conductor, David Zinman, with a varied programme of music. Of course, the American maestro couldn’t resist taking up the conductor’s baton himself. A number of soloists, such as the violinist Julia Fischer and the pianist Christian Zacharias, had travelled to Zurich especially for the event. This emotionally-charged recording was rounded out by testimonials from David Zinman’s contemporaries and friends, who had gathered from far and wide. The Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, founded in 1868, is the oldest symphony orchestra in Switzerland. The Tonhalle, its home since 1895, is considered one of the finest concert halls in the world.

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Sven-David Sandström and Malena Ernman

Sven-David Sandström is the most prolific and productive of Swedish composers. A film on his ambition to follow in the footsteps of Bach, making himself useful to musicians, singers and the church.

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She plays her instrument with verve and panache, and she does it barefoot. Native Moldavian Patricia Kopatchinskaja has been widely regarded as one of the finest contemporary violinists precisely because of her ability to transcend the commercial compulsion to conform to the strict codes commonly associated with classical music. Her performance mirrors the ways she talks: it is straightforward, exhilaranting and brutally honest. She plays the violin in a style all her own. Vladimir Ashkenazy, Heinrich Schiff or Elsa Pekki Salonen: filming Patricia Kopatchinskajas musical world is a journey full of rich encounters. And last but not least, the film accompanies Patricia back home to Moldova, Europe’s poorest country, yet the place where everything began.

Benny Andersson Orchestra!

Benny Andersson and BAO

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Every summer, Benny Andersson brings his accordion and his folk band out in the countryside to thousands of happy people for dancing and listening. This is summer magic, and has turned out to be a major music and dance attraction now in its 10th year on the road.

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Genre For the camera: Music video clip | Status completed | Production Company Fasad AB (Sweden) | Co-Production Company Sveriges Television (Sweden) | Executive Producer Camilla Lundberg | TV Director Jesper Kurlandsky | Camera Fredrik Wenzel | Duration 51‘ 20“ | Production Year 2011 | Musical style Classical music | Piece Symphony No. 3, Eroica | Composer Ludwig van Beethoven | Conductor Daniel Harding | Orchestra Swedish Radio Symphony (Sweden) | Source video / audio DigiBeta / Stereo The mighty Beethoven symphony features as the soundtrack to a survey of the history of moving images. A lyrical fantasy from Muybridge‘s horses of 1878 to our present day.

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Meet the man Jussi Björling, one of the greatest of singers on his 100th birthday! His children and colleagues tell the gripping story of a poor orphan boy that the world loved – even as he wrestled with his dark forces. Even today, fifty years after his death, many know him as one of the very greatest of tenors.

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Wagner at the Wermland Opera

Genre Documentary: Other, on location | Status completed | Production Company Sveriges Television (Sweden) | Executive Producer Camilla Lundberg | TV Director Johan Forssblad | Duration 58‘ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Wermland Opera, Karlstad (Sweden) | Musical style Classical music | Piece The Ring of the Nibelung | Composer Richard Wagner | Source video / audio Beta SP / Stereo The world‘s biggest opera performed in the world‘s smallest opera house? In Karlstad, Western Sweden, Wagner is a household name. The small provincial opera house has attracted sophisticated artists and audiences with many Wagner operas. This year, a dream came true. The complete Ring cycle was performed in a single week‘s time.

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Wozzeck

A portrait of Swedish pop icon Robyn. For the first time, Robyn talks about her lengthy career – from being a teenage idol in the US until today as the indie queen.

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Violent, oppressed and confused, Wozzeck desperately tries to survive a demanding world. With incomparable orchestral flow and extreme range of voice, Alban Berg paints his personal picture of the modern world. A colourful, sharp interpretation by the internationally acclaimed directingduo Carina Reich & Bogdan Szyber. Television direction by Ditte Feuk.

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Sofia Jernberg of Paavo

Swedish jazz used to be influenced by American music. Young musicians of today now look to world and folk music. A showcase of Swedish jazz in the 21th century.

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Winterthur City is composing an opera!

On behalf of the Musikkollegium Winterthur, Syquali Multimedia AG is producing a documentary of a children’s opera. In collaboration with music schools, schools and the children’s composition class, the opera will be written, composed and performed by 800 Swiss children from the city of Winterthur (canton of Zurich). Over a period of one year (May 2011 through May 2012), the children will develop the opera. The entire process of bringing the opera to stage will be thoroughly shown in the documentary, with a special emphasis on what great efforts it takes to produce an entire opera from the very beginning until it is ready for the public. The premiere takes place at the Theater Winterthur on 12 and 13 May 2012.

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A new interpretation of “Cosi fan tutte“ by Adrian Noble, former director of the Royal Shakespeare Company and stage director of numerous productions in venues all over the world including the Metropolitan Opera and Vienna State Opera.

Coppelia

“Coppélia“ is a sentimental comic ballet. The story concerns a mysterious and faintly diabolical inventor, Doctor Coppélius who has made a life-sized dancing doll. It is so lifelike that Franz, a village swain, is infatuated with it, and sets aside his true heart‘s desire, Swanhilde, who in Act II shows him his folly by dressing as the doll and pretending to come to life. If “Giselle“ is a tragedy set in a peasant village, then “Coppélia“ is a comedy in the same setting.

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The Abduction from the Seraglio Die Entführung aus dem Serail

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Die Entführung aus dem Serail

“Abduction“ is the crazy story of two men rescuing their lovers from a Pasha‘s harem, but the way Mozart blends high comedy with touching tragedy signals his new maturity as an opera composer.

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Le Cid was first performed by a star-studded cast at the Paris Opéra on 30 November 1885. A new production of the Opéra de Marseille and a first performance of this piece by Roberto Alagna makes this production a major contribution to French opera life.

Carnegie Hall 120th Anniversary Concert

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Audra McDonald performs for Carnegie Hall‘s 120th Anniversary

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Carnegie Hall celebrates its 120th anniversary with a gala concert by the New York Philharmonic conducted by Alan Gilbert. The concert repertoire includes Beethoven’s “Triple Concerto“ performed by Gil Shaham (violin), Yo-Yo Ma (cello) and Emanuel Ax (piano), a selection of songs by Duke Ellington performed by the four-time Tony-winning Broadway sensation Audra McDonald and complete performances of Antonin Dvořak’s “Carnival Overture“ and George Gershwin’s “An American in Paris“.

Andrea Bocelli and Ana Maria Martinez

340 Superstar tenor Andrea Bocelli takes on one of the biggest stages of his career for a concert in New York City’s famed Central Park with the New York Philharmonic. Showcasing his soaring vocals, Bocelli performs a variety of classical favourites and many of his most popular signature songs. The inspiring performance, recorded live from Central Park with an audience of over 75,000, features performances by special guests Bryn Terfel, Ana Maria Martinez, Pretty Yende, Andrea Griminelli, Nicola Benedetti, David Foster, Chris Botti, Tony Bennett and Céline Dion.

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Hugh Laurie: Let Them Talk A Celebration of New Orleans Blues

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An American favourite from his role in the hit TV series “House“, the versatile British actor Hugh Laurie showcases his musical side in an atmospheric special filmed on location in New Orleans. Defying simple categorisation, Laurie finds himself greatly inspired by the blues and jazz music that grew out of New Orleans at the turn of the last century. “Let Them Talk“ is his very personal journey into the heart and soul of that music. The programme features his performances with blues legends Dr. John, Allen Toussaint and Irma Thomas, as well as British pop music great, Sir Tom Jones.

Miami City Ballet Dances Balanchine and Tharp

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“The Thomashefskys“ brings to life the words and music of the American Yiddish theatre. The programme follows young Bessie and Boris Thomashefsky, who happened to become the grandparents of San Francisco Symphony music director Michael Tilson Thomas. Inspired by his warm personal memories, Tilson Thomas takes viewers on a colourful musical tour of the lives of his grandparents as they emigrated to the United States from Eastern Europe in the 1880s, following their journey to stardom in New York City’s vibrant Yiddish theatre circuit.

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“Great Performances“ shines a primetime spotlight on one of America’s finest regional companies, Edward Villella’s Miami City Ballet. The programme showcases the company’s critically acclaimed performances of George Balanchine’s “Square Dance” and “Western Symphony”, as well as Twyla Tharp’s “The Golden Section”. From their home base in Miami Beach, Miami City Ballet is now approaching 26 years of accomplished dancing with more than 88 ballets in its repertoire.

Genre Relay of: Orchestral / choral concert, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company TVP Kultura (Poland) | Producer Tomasz Kronenberg | Executive Producer Robert Kamyk | TV Director Tomasz Motyl | Editor Barbara Gola | Light Design Adam Tyszka | Duration 58‘ 27“ | Production Year 2011 | Musical style Contemporary music | Composer Henryk Mikołaj Górecki | Conductor Jacek Kaspszyk | Orchestra Sinfonia Varsovia (Poland) | Soloist Aleksandra Kurzak | Source video / audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 The Symphony No. 3, the “Symphony of Sorrowful Songs“ was composed by Henryk Mikołaj Górecki in Katowice, Poland in 1976. It consists of three movements, in which a solo soprano sings a different Polish text related to Polish history. The piece gained international fame in 1992 after a release of an Elektra-Nonesuch recording. It became one of the most popular symphonic recordings, with a sale exceeding million copies. On 10 April 2011, the piece was performed in the Polish National Opera in Warsaw, to commemorate victims of a Polish plane crash (first anniversary) that killed the Polish president and many senior figures in Smolensk. The solo part was sung by the famous Polish soprano Aleksandra Kurzak.

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Krzysztof Penderecki St. Luke Passion

in cooperation with producer Michael “Count” Eldridge, who also has cooperated with DJ Shadow, Radiohead and No Doubt. In 2010 L. Stadt received the TVP Kultura annual award, “Gwarancje Kultury”. This concert was recorded in April 2011, Warsaw, in the “Forteca” club.

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The 14th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition

Genre Relay of: Instrumental recital, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company TVP Kultura (Poland) | Co-Production Company Polish National Audiovisual Institute, Marshal Office of the Wielkopolska Region, Poznań City Council (Poland) | Ass. Production Company Henryk Wieniawski Music Society in Poznań (Poland) | Producer Katarzyna Janyska-Cyris | Executive Producer Robert Kamyk | TV Director Józef Kowalewski | Editor Barbara Gola, Beata Delida | Light Design Karol Żurawski | Duration 900‘ | Production Year 2011 | Musical style Classical music | Conductor Agnieszka Duczmal, Marek Pijarowski | Orchestra Chamber Orchestra of the Polish Radio Amadeus (Poland), Poznań Philharmonic Orchestra (Poland) | Source video / audio DigiBeta / Stereo

“The St. Luke Passion“ was written by Penderecki in 1966 for the 700th anniversary of the founding of the cathedral of Münster and it was commissioned by West German Radio. The premiere was well received by the audience and by critics. Soon after, the work was performed across Europe and the United States. “The Passion“ was composed with a use of avant-garde techniques and atonality, but it appeals to the audience primarily due to its emotional character and expression. This performance took place during the Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival in Warsaw, and it was conducted by the composer. Soyoung Yoon

The International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competiton is the oldest violin competition in the world. In 2011, young violinists were assessed by renowned jury members, chaired by Maxim Vengerov. TVP Kultura recorded and broadcast LIVE the third and fourth stage of the competition as well as the Laureates Concert, delivering to the channel’s viewers an in-depth look at the event. The performances of the contestants were interspersed with contextual material, comments, backstage views of the competitors and interviews. The winner of the competition was Soyoung Yoon from South Korea.

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L.Stadt is one of the most interesting Polish rock groups around today. The members of the band met in Strasbourg in 2003. The name of the band is an abbreviation of “Litzmannstadt“ – the German name of the Polish city Łódź, used during the Second World War. The artists focus on creating rock music with elements of surf rock, country and psychedelic plots. In 2010 the quartet published a second album titled “EL.P”

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Wierba & Schmidt Quintet

Genre Relay of: Ensemble / band appearance, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company TVP Kultura (Poland) | Producer Mirosław Łękowski | TV Director Waldemar Stroński | Editor Beata Delida | Light Design Adam Tyszka | Duration 33‘ 52“ | Production Year 2011 | Musical style Jazz | Orchestra Wierba & Schmidt Quintet (Poland) | Source video / audio DigiBeta / Stereo Wierba & Schmidt Quintet is now one of the best jazz bands of the younger generation in Poland. The group has two leaders – Piotr Schmidt (trumpeter) and Michał Wierba (pianist). The beginning of the band was in 2005, when musicians started to practice and perform together. They won many prestigious jazz competitions in Poland and abroad. The Quintet published three albums. The third, titled “Black Monolith”, was produced in cooperation with American trombonist Dante Luciani. “Black Monolith” confirmed the group’s reputation as a revelation in the Polish jazz scene, bringing attention to hard-bop. This concert was recorded in the “Forteca“ club, Warsaw, in April 2011.

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Andrea Chénier

Genre Documentary: Portrait, on location | Status in progress | Production Company Ilona Grundmann Filmproduction, Unitel GmbH & Co. KG (Germany) | Co-Production Company ZDFkultur (Germany), TVE (Spain) | TV Director Christoph Goldmann, Leif Karpe | Duration 58‘ / 81‘ | Production Year 2011 | Source video / audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV, Theatrical distribution, Homevideo distribution, DVD distribution, Multimedia distribution C Major Entertainment (Germany)

With his spectacular production of Umberto Giordano’s “Andrea Chenier”, director Keith Warner unites intellectual depth and exciting entertainment for the eyes and ears using every possible resource offered by Bregenz’s floating stage. The colossal set by David Fielding is inspired by Jacques-Louis David’s famous painting “Death of Marat”. The opera is both a moving love story and a historical thriller with a highly emotional score. Ulf Schirmer, the Wiener Symphoniker and the excellent soloists Hector Sandoval, Norma Fantini and Scott Henricks unleash the full power of this Italian verismo work.

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Andris Nelsons at the Lucerne Festival (wt)

Genre Relay of: Orchestral / choral concert, Live recording | Status in progress | Production Company Unitel GmbH & Co. KG (Germany) | Ass. Production Company Lucerne Festival (Switzerland), Classica (Germany) | Executive Producer ACCENTUS Music (Germany) | TV Director Ute Feudel | Duration 95‘ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Culture and Congress Center Lucerne (Swizerland) | Musical style Classical music | Conductor Andris Nelsons | Orchestra Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (Netherlands) | Source video / audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV, Theatrical distribution, Homevideo distribution, DVD distribution, Multimedia distribution C Major Entertainment (Germany)

From city streets to the world’s great stages, from underground to establishment – this is the story of a theatre collective without parallel in the world today, La Fura dels Baus. The film starts with one of their most widely seen productions – the gigantic opening ceremony of the Shanghai Expo 2010 – and relates the story of this visionary ensemble that is now setting new standards in opera production worldwide. Elements such as flying actors, human sculptures, sociopolitical critique and esotericism have helped create the “brand” La Fura dels Baus in the over 30 years of their existence.

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Genre Relay of: Opera, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Unitel GmbH & Co. KG (Germany), ORF (Austria) | Ass. Production Company Bregenz Festival (Austria), Classica (Germany) | TV Director Felix Breisach | Duration 126‘ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Seebühne, Bregenz Festival | Musical style Classical music | Composer Umberto Giordano | Conductor Ulf Schirmer | Orchestra Wiener Symphoniker (Austria) | Choir Bregenz Festival Chorus (Austria), Prague Philharmonic Choir (Czech Republic) | Soloist Héctor Sandoval, Scott Hendricks, Norma Fantini, Tania Kross | Stage Director Keith Warner | Source video / audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV, Theatrical distribution, Homevideo distribution, DVD distribution, Multimedia distribution C Major Entertainment (Germany)

Andris Nelsons / Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

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Dmitri Shostakovich’s Eighth Symphony, which was written in the pivotal months after the Battle of Stalingrad, follows the principle of triumph through adversity – “per aspera ad astra” – not just musically, but also conceptually. “Everything that is dark and shameful will perish; everything that is beautiful will triumph.“ This “triumph”, though, is restrained. The Eighth is a large-scale work that ends in something like a pastoral mood, played pianissimo; poses of jubilation were not in Shostakovich’s nature. The concert opens with the delightful, lively overture to “Rienzi“. And the “Dance of the Seven Veils” from “Salome” shows the fin-de-siècle’s enigmatic penchant for decadence.

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Buchbinder‘s Beethoven

Rudolf Buchbinder, Joachim Kaiser

Genre Documentary: Music, on location | Status completed | Production Company Unitel GmbH & Co. KG (Germany) | TV Director Christoph Engel | Duration 28‘ | Production Year 2011 | Source video / audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV, Theatrical distribution, Homevideo distribution, DVD distribution, Multimedia distribution C Major Entertainment (Germany)

A musical conversation between Rudolf Buchbinder and Joachim Kaiser on Beethoven‘s piano concertos.

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Rudolf Buchbinder

“No other pianist plays Beethoven in such a supremely classic manner”, writes Vienna’s Kurier about Rudolf Buchbinder’s performance of all five Beethoven piano concertos with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Buchbinder, who has given many cyclical performances of these works all over the world, performs here both as soloist and conductor. His widely acclaimed technical perfection is coupled with a knowledge of compositional connections that results from his meticulous study of the original scores of the works he plays. In the words of Die Presse, “the Viennese musician has reached a new high point in his career”.

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Christian Thielemann, Maurizio Pollini

Legendary pianist Maurizio Pollini and star conductor Christian Thielemann team up with the Staatskapelle Dresden for an exceptional concert of late-romantic music. For his first concert with the Staatskapelle in nearly 25 years, Pollini plays Brahms’s mighty “First Piano Concerto“. Thielemann harnesses the orchestra’s dynamic power and melds it with Pollini’s vitality. Also on the program are Brahms’s “Tragic Overture” and Reger’s “Romantic Suite”. Reger’s charming, colorfully orchestrated work, premiered with the Staatskapelle in 1912, is a valuable addition to the romantic repertoire.

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Eugene Onegin

Genre Relay of: Opera, Live recording | Status in progress | Production Company Unitel GmbH & Co. KG (Germany), Palau de les Arts (Spain) | Co-Production Company Classica (Germany) | Executive Producer Metisfilm Classica (Italy) | TV Director Tiziano Mancini | Duration 150‘ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Palau des les Arts (Spain) | Musical style Classical music | Composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Conductor Omer Meir Wellber | Orchestra Orchestra of the Comunitat Valenciana (Spain) | Choir Choir of the Generalitat Valenciana (Spain) | Soloist Kristīne Opolais, Artur Ruciński, Dmitry Korchak, Günther Groissböck | Stage Director Mariusz Treliński | Source video / audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV, Theatrical distribution, Homevideo distribution, DVD distribution, Multimedia distribution C Major Entertainment (Germany)

Genre Relay of: Orchestral / choral concert, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company ORF (Austria), Unitel GmbH & Co. KG (Germany) | Co-Production Company Classica (Germany) | TV Director Karina Fibich | Duration 186‘ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Goldener Saal, Musikverein, Vienna (Austria) | Musical style Classical music | Piece Piano Concertos No. 1-5 | Composer Ludwig van Beethoven | Conductor, Soloist Rudolf Buchbinder | Orchestra Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (Austria) | Source video / audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV, Theatrical distribution, Homevideo distribution, DVD distribution, Multimedia distribution C Major Entertainment (Germany)

Christian Thielemann and Maurizio Pollini in Dresden (wt)

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Young conductor Omer Meir Wellber, Musical Director of Valencia’s Palau de les Arts, scores a triumph with Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin” in Mariusz Trelinski’s timeless production. Polish filmmaker and stage director Trelinski has created a series of dream-like, surrealist tableaux of great suggestive beauty. The clear lines of the production (premiered at Warsaw’s Teatr Wielki) are finely echoed by the slender musical design of Omer Meir Wellber – “A miracle of poetry” (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung). The superb young cast is headed by Artur Ruzinski as Onegin and Kristīne Opolais as Tatyana.

Le Grand Macabre

Genre Relay of: Opera, Live recording | Status in progress | Production Company Unitel GmbH & Co. KG (Germany), Gran Teatre del Liceu (Spain) | Co-Production Company ZDF / 3sat (Germany) | Duration 130‘ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Gran Teatre del Liceu (Spain) | Musical style Classical music | Composer György Ligeti | Conductor Michael Boder | Orchestra, Choir Gran Teatre del Liceu (Spain) | Soloist Chris Merritt, Werner Van Mechelen, Frode Olsen, Barbara Hannigan | Stage Director Àlex Ollé (La Fura dels Baus), Valentina Carrasco | Source video / audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV, Theatrical distribution, Homevideo distribution, DVD distribution, Multimedia distribution C Major Entertainment (Germany)

Moses in Egypt / Rossini Opera Festival

From the prestigious Rossini Festival in Pesaro comes a thought-provoking interpretation of Rossini’s azione tragico-sacra “Mosè in Egitto”. Topping the cast of high-caliber vocalists are Sonia Ganassi and Dmitry Korchak as two lovers drawn into the political turmoil of their time. Director Graham Vick’s interpretation centers on a condemnation of all religious fundamentalism. Designed by Stuart Nunn, the set evokes a bombed-out edifice and provides a chilling setting for Rossini’s haunting melodies.

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Genre Relay of: Opera, Live recording | Status in progress | Production Company Unitel GmbH & Co. KG (Germany) | Co-Production Company Festival de Música Castell Peralada (Spain) | Ass. Production Company Classica (Germany) | Executive Producer Metisfilm Classica (Italy) | TV Director Tiziano Mancini | Duration 110‘ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Festival Castell Peralada (Spain) | Musical style Classical music | Composer Christoph Willibald Gluck | Conductor Gordan Nikolić | Orchestra bandArt (Spain) | Choir Choir of Cambra del Palau de la Música Catalana (Spain) | Soloist Anita Rachvelishvili, Maite Alberola, Auxiliadora Toledano | Stage Director Carlus Padrissa / La Fura dels Baus | Source video / audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV, Theatrical distribution, Homevideo distribution, DVD distribution, Multimedia distribution C Major Entertainment (Germany)

A singular staging for a singular opera! “Le Grand Macabre“ has the carnal body as the thread that runs through this extraordinary tragicomedy, where laughter is the only magical spell to guard against the fear of death. Grotesque, bizarre and extravagant are adjectives frequently applied to this creation – not surprising, given that the presence of the carnal body, as opposed to the idealized, canonical body, is one of its main subjects. La Fura dels Baus and Valentina Carrasco have created a staging based on the great metaphor that is the human body. “Endlessly inventive, this production – a virtuoso piece of stagecraft – faithfully replicates the gestures of both music and text” (Barry Millington, London Evening Standard).

Moses in Egypt

Genre Relay of: Opera, Live recording | Status in progress | Production Company Unitel GmbH & Co. KG (Germany), Rossini Opera Festival (Italy) | Co-Production Company Classica (Germany) | Producer Metisfilm Classica (Italy) | TV Director Tiziano Mancini | Duration 123‘ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Adriatic Arena (Italy) | Musical style Classical music | Composer Gioachino Rossini | Conductor Roberto Abbado | Orchestra, Choir Teatro Comunale di Bologna (Italy) | Soloist Alex Esposito, Olga Senderskaya, Dmitry Korchak, Sonia Ganassi | Stage Director Graham Vick | Source video / audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV, Theatrical distribution, Homevideo distribution, DVD distribution, Multimedia distribution C Major Entertainment (Germany)

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Orpheus and Eurydice

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the ambitious “Festival Internacional de Música Castell de Peralada”, the Catalan theater collective La Fura dels Baus and its director Carlus Padrissa have staged Gluck’s “Orfeo ed Euridice” with three splendid soloists in a production that confirms the Fura’s creativity. The most striking aspect of the production is the participation of the orchestral ensemble in the action. Padrissa also makes abundant stage use of the chorus, who depict souls or demons. With its stunning effects, expert lighting and video projections, the production grabs the viewer from the very start.

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Stabat Mater

Four superb soloists – Anna Netrebko, Marianna Pizzolato, Matthew Polenzani and Ildebrando d’Arcangelo – and the Chorus and Orchestra of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia of Rome transform Rossini’s “Stabat mater” into a feast of “italianità” in their first guest appearance at the Salzburg Festival. Netrebko blends “her voice beautifully into the solo ensemble – one voice among equals in an excellent quartet” (Salzburger Nachrichten). Antonio Pappano, the Accademia’s principal conductor, does full justice to Rossini’s work, a dramatic piece full of sensual choral passages and varied solos and ensemble pieces.

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The Woman without a Shadow / Salzburg Festival

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Genre Relay of: Opera, Live recording | Status in progress | Production Company Unitel GmbH & Co. KG (Germany) | Co-Production Company ORF / 3sat (Austria), NHK (Japan) | Ass. Production Company Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (Austria), Salzburg Festival (Austria), Classica (Germany) | Executive Producer Bernhard Fleischer | TV Director Karina Fibich | Duration 220‘ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Großes Festspielhaus, Salzburg (Austria) | Musical style Classical music | Composer Richard Strauss | Conductor Christian Thielemann | Orchestra Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (Austria) | Choir Vienna State Opera (Austria) | Soloist Stephen Gould, Anne Schwanewilms, Michaela Schuster, Wolfgang Koch, Evelyn Herlitzius | Stage Director Christof Loy | Source video / audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV, Theatrical distribution, Homevideo distribution, DVD distribution, Multimedia distribution C Major Entertainment (Germany)

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Genre Relay of: Opera, Live recording | Status in progress | Production Company Classica, Fondazione Arena di Verona (Italy) | Ass. Production Company Unitel GmbH & Co. KG (Germany) | TV Director Tiziano Mancini | Duration 95‘ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Arena di Verona (Italy) | Musical style Classical music | Composer Giuseppe Verdi | Conductor Julian Kovatchev | Orchestra & Choir Arena di Verona (Italy) | Soloist Ermonela Jaho, Francesco Demuro, Vladimir Stoyanov, Chiara Fracasso | Stage Director Hugo de Ana | Source video / audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV, Theatrical distribution, Homevideo distribution, DVD distribution, Multimedia distribution C Major Entertainment (Germany)

Genre Relay of: Orchestral / choral concert, Live recording | Status in progress | Production Company Unitel GmbH & Co. KG (Germany) | Co-Production Company ZDF / ARTE (Germany), ORF (Austria) | Ass. Production Company Salzburg Festival (Austria), Classica (Germany) | Executive Producer Bernhard Fleischer | TV Director Michael Beyer | Duration 110‘ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Großes Festspielhaus, Salzburg (Austria) | Musical style Classical music | Composer Gioachino Rossini | Conductor Antonio Pappano | Orchestra & Choir Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (Italy) | Soloist Anna Netrebko, Marianna Pizzolato, Matthew Polenzani, Ildebrando D’Arcangelo | Source video / audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV, Theatrical distribution, Homevideo distribution, DVD distribution, Multimedia distribution C Major Entertainment (Germany)

“A shining hour”, trumpeted Vienna’s “Kurier“ after the premiere of Richard Strauss’ “Die Frau ohne Schatten” at the Salzburg Festival, which was also the premiere of Christian Thielemann as opera conductor there. True to the Festival’s tradition, this production features a line-up of great Strauss singers, such as Anne Schwanewilms, Stephen Gould, Wolfgang Koch, Michaela Schuster and Evelyn Herlitzius. Christof Loy’s production is set in the mid-1950s in the Sofiensäle, a celebrated Viennese recording studio at the time. The singers portray singers from the Vienna State Opera recording “Die Frau ohne Schatten”.

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In this staging from the famous Arena di Verona two young talents, Ermonela Jaho and Francesco Demuro, embody the characters of the tragic love story and wow the audiences of this important theatre.

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World Orchestra for Peace at the Abu Dhabi Festival

Genre Relay of: Orchestral / choral concert, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company World Orchestra for Peace Ltd. (UK) | Co-Production Company Unitel GmbH & Co. KG (Germany) | Ass. Production Company Abu Dhabi Music and Arts Foundation (United Arab Emirates), Classica (Germany) | TV Director Matthew Woodward | Duration 83‘ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Emirates Palace, Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates) | Musical style Classical music | Conductor Valery Gergiev | Orchestra World Orchestra for Peace (Great Britain) | Source video / audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV, Theatrical distribution, Homevideo distribution, DVD distribution, Multimedia distribution C Major Entertainment (Germany)

Valery Gergiev / World Orchestra for Peace

Unitel GmbH & Co. KG | For this concert of the World Orchestra for Peace at the Abu Dhabi Festival, conductor Valery Gergiev has put together a program that includes major works by two of his favourite composers, Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky. With the World Orchestra for Peace, Gergiev has at his command an orchestra that is truly remarkable from every point of view. It not only consists of the best musicians from the best orchestras of the world; the orchestra, which was established by Sir Georg Solti in 1995, also pursues a very special goal: to “reaffirm the unique strength of music as an ambassador for peace”.

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music | Composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi | Conductor Corrado Rovaris | Orchestra Accademia Barocca de I Virtuosi Italiani (Italy) | Soloist Serena Malfi, Florin Cezar Ouatu, Vittorio Prato, Maria Hinojosa Montenegro | Stage Director Juliette Deschamps | Source video / audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV, Theatrical distribution, Homevideo distribution, DVD distribution, Multimedia distribution C Major Entertainment (Germany)

Tutto Pergolesi: L‘Olimpiade

Series Tutto Pergolesi | Genre Relay of: Opera, Live recording | Status in progress | Production Company Unitel GmbH & Co. KG (Germany) | Co-Production Company Fondazione Pergolesi Spontini (Italy) | Ass. Production Company Classica (Germany) | Executive Producer Metisfilm Classica (Italy) | TV Director Tiziano Mancini | Duration 170‘ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Teatro V. Moriconi (Italy) | Musical style Classical music | Composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi | Conductor Alessandro De Marchi | Orchestra Academia Montis Regalis (Italy) | Soloist Sofia Soloviy, Jennifer Rivera, Yetzabel Arias Fernandez, Lyubov Petrova | Stage Director Italo Nunziata | Source video / audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV, Theatrical distribution, Homevideo distribution, DVD distribution, Multimedia distribution C Major Entertainment (Germany)

L‘Olimpiade

La Salustia

For the 300th anniversary of the birth of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736), the “Italian Mozart”, whose music is practically unknown today, the Fondazione Pergolesi Spontini came up with a brilliant idea. The Fondazione, which has been devoting itself to the research and performance of Pergolesi‘s music for years now, joined forces with Unitel Classica to record all eight of the master‘s stage works on video in HD and 5.1 Surround Sound. A landmark project that will provide many impulses for the rediscovery of the other epoch-making works by this composer besides his “Stabat mater”. “L‘Olimpiade“ is currently regarded as Pergolesi’s most successful opera seria. The libretto by Metastasio was originally written for Antonio Caldara‘s 1733 opera. Following Caldara‘s success, more than 60 baroque and classical composers used the libretto for their own renditions. Metastasio’s plot draws upon the narrative of “The Trial of the Suitors“ provided from book 6 of Herodotus‘s “The Histories“. The story, set in ancient Greece at the time of the Olympic games, is about amorous rivalry and characters competing to gain the affection of the loved one. The story ends with two marriages being announced.

For the 300th anniversary of the birth of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (17101736), the “Italian Mozart“, whose music is practically unknown today, the Fondazione Pergolesi Spontini came up with a brilliant idea. The Fondazione, which has been devoting itself to the research and performance of Pergolesi‘s music for years now, joined forces with Unitel Classica to record all eight of the master‘s stage works on video in HD and 5.1 Surround Sound. A landmark project that will provide many impulses for the rediscovery of the other epoch-making works by this composer besides his “Stabat mater“. Pergolesi‘s career as a professional composer was launched with the opera “La Salustia“ at the Teatro San Bartolomeo in Naples in 1732. The opera was composed in 1731 when Pergolesi was only 21 years old. According to the musicologist Dale Monson the music of “La Salustia“ clearly reveals the talent of the young and promising composer and the mastery and skill with which he expresses the emotions in the drama. Despite the difficult circumstances of its creation, the work comes to us today bearing witness to the talent of Pergolesi and his position as a beacon illuminating the evolution of European music.

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Tutto Pergolesi: La serva padrona / The Servant Turned Mistress

Series Tutto Pergolesi | Genre Relay of: Opera, Live recording | Status in progress | Production Company Unitel GmbH & Co. KG (Germany) | Co-Production Company Fondazione Pergolesi Spontini (Italy) | Ass. Production Company Classica (Germany) | Executive Producer Metisfilm Classica (Italy) | TV Director Tiziano Mancini | Duration 45‘ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Teatro G. B. Pergolesi (Italy) | Musical style Classical music | Composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi | Conductor Corrado Rovaris | Orchestra Accademia Barocca de I Virtuosi Italiani (Italy) | Soloist Alessandra Marianelli, Carlo Lepore, Jean Méningue | Stage Director Henning Brockhaus | Source video / audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV, Theatrical distribution, Homevideo distribution, DVD distribution, Multimedia distribution C Major Entertainment (Germany)

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Orpheus and Eurydice

Classica to record all eight of the master‘s stage works on video in HD and 5.1 Surround Sound. A landmark project that will provide many impulses for the rediscovery of the other epoch-making works by this composer besides his “Stabat mater”.

For the 300th anniversary of the birth of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736), the “Italian Mozart”, whose music is practically unknown today, the Fondazione Pergolesi Spontini came up with a brilliant idea. The Fondazione, which has been devoting itself to the research and performance of Pergolesi‘s music for years now, joined forces with Unitel Classica to record all eight of the master‘s stage works on video in HD and 5.1 Surround Sound. A landmark project that will provide many impulses for the rediscovery of the other epoch-making works by this composer besides his “Stabat mater”. “La serva padrona“ (“The Servant Turned Mistress“) is only 45 minutes long and was originally performed as an intermezzo between the acts of Pergolesi‘s opera seria, “Il prigionier superbo“. The two operas were premiered on 5 September 1733, the first performance after an earthquake in Naples had caused all theatres to be closed. “La serva padrona“ is often seen as the quintessential piece that bridges the gap from the Baroque to the Classical period. Owing to its importance, over time “La serva padrona“ came to be known as more than just an intermezzo and was performed as a stand-alone work.

“Lo frate ’nnamorato“ (“The Brother in Love“), a three act commedia musicale, was first performed in 1732. The opera, written when the composer was only 22, is his first attempt at comic opera. The first performance was on 27 September 1732, at the Teatro Fiorentini, Naples. A successful run was halted by a severe earthquake, which closed the theatres in Naples until the autumn of 1733. It was reintroduced during the 1734 carnival season.

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Tutto Verdi: Attila

Series Tutto Verdi | Genre Relay of: Opera, Live recording | Status in progress | Production Company Unitel GmbH & Co. KG (Germany) | Co-Production Company Fondazione Teatro Regio di Parma (Italy) | Ass. Production Company Classica (Germany) | Executive Producer Metisfilm Classica (Italy) | TV Director Tiziano Mancini | Duration 110‘ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Teatro Verdi di Busseto, (Italy) | Musical style Classical music | Composer Giuseppe Verdi | Conductor Andrea Battistoni | Orchestra & Choir Teatro Regio di Parma (Italy) | Soloist Giovanni Battista Parodi, Sebastian Catana, Susanna Branchini, Roberto de Biasio | Stage Director Pierfrancesco Maestrini | Source video / audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV, Theatrical distribution, Homevideo distribution, DVD distribution, Multimedia distribution C Major Entertainment (Germany)

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The Brother in Love

Attila

Teatro Regio di Parma is working on an ambitious project: Until his 200th birthday 2013, the theater will have performed the entire work of the Giuseppe Verdi. Unitel Classica has joined this project and will record all opera performances at the highest technical quality in High Definition and surround sound. “Attila“ is based on the play “Attila, König der Hunnen“ (Attila, King of the Huns) by Friedrich Ludwig Zacharias Werner. The opera received its first performance at La Fenice, Venice, on 17 March 1846. Ezio‘s aria of heroic resolution “E gettata la mia sorte“ is a fine example of a characteristic Verdian genre, and achieved fame in its own time with audiences in the context of the adoption of a liberal constitution by Ferdinand II.

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Tutto Verdi: Falstaff

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Battistoni | Orchestra & Choir Teatro Regio di Parma (Italy) | Soloist Ambrogio Maestri, Luca Salsi, Svetla Vassileva, Antonio Gandia | Stage Director Stephen Medcalf | Source video / audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV, Theatrical distribution, Homevideo distribution, DVD distribution, Multimedia distribution C Major Entertainment (Germany)

Falstaff

“I due Foscari“ is based on a historical play, “The Two Foscari“ by Lord Byron. Verdi had considered the Byron play as a subject as early as 1843. But when he proposed such an opera to La Fenice in Venice, it was rejected as unsuitable. The story included criticism of actions of the Republic of Venice, which was offensive to the great families of Venice that had governed the Republic, including the still extant Foscari family. “I due Foscari“ was given its premiere performance at the Teatro Argentina in Rome in 1844.

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Tutto Verdi: I Lombardi alla prima crociata / The Lombards on the First Crusade

Series Tutto Verdi | Genre Relay of: Opera, Live recording | Status in progress | Production Company Unitel GmbH & Co. KG (Germany) | Co-Production Company Fondazione Teatro Regio di Parma (Italy) | Ass. Production Company Classica (Germany) | Executive Producer Metisfilm Classica (Italy) | TV Director Tiziano Mancini | Duration 130‘ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Teatro Regio di Parma (Italy) | Musical style Classical music | Composer Giuseppe Verdi | Conductor Daniele Callegari | Orchestra & Choir Teatro Regio di Parma (Italy) | Soloist Roberto De Biasio, Michele Pertusi, Cristina Giannelli, Dimitra Theodossiou | Stage Director Lamberto Puggelli | Source video / audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV, Theatrical distribution, Homevideo distribution, DVD distribution, Multimedia distribution C Major Entertainment (Germany)

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Verdi’s last opera “Falstaff“ is, as his early opera “Un giorno di regno“, a comic opera (commedia lirica). It was adapted by Arrigo Boito from Shakespeare‘s plays “The Merry Wives of Windsor“ and scenes from “Henry IV“. “Falstaff“ has long been an admired favorite with critics and musicians because of its brilliant orchestration, scintillating libretto and refined melodic invention.

Tutto Verdi: I due Foscari / The Two Foscari

The Two Foscari

Series Tutto Verdi | Genre Relay of: Opera, Live recording | Status in progress | Production Company Unitel GmbH & Co. KG (Germany) | Co-Production Company Fondazione Teatro Regio di Parma (Italy) | Ass. Production Company Classica (Germany) | Executive Producer Metisfilm Classica (Italy) | TV Director Tiziano Mancini | Duration 100‘ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Teatro Regio di Parma (Italy) | Musical style Classical music | Composer Giuseppe Verdi | Conductor Donato Renzetti | Orchestra & Choir Teatro Regio di Parma (Italy) | Soloist Leo Nucci, Roberto De Biasio, Tatiana Serjan, Roberto Tagliavini | Stage Director Joseph Franconi Lee | Source video / audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV, Theatrical distribution, Homevideo distribution, DVD distribution, Multimedia distribution C Major Entertainment (Germany)

The Lombards on the First Crusade

Teatro Regio di Parma is working on an ambitious project: Until his 200th birthday 2013, the theater will have performed the entire work of the Giuseppe Verdi. Unitel Classica has joined this project and will record all opera performances at the highest technical quality in High Definition and surround sound. “I Lombardi alla prima crociata“ (“The Lombards on the First Crusade“) is an operatic dramma lirico in four acts. Its first performance was given at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan in 1843. Verdi dedicated the score to Maria Luigia, the Habsburg Duchess of Parma, who died a few weeks after the premiere. Despite this dedication, the opera contained thinly veiled anti-Austrian sentiment, which whipped crowds into a frenzy when it first debuted. In 1847, the opera was significantly revised to become Verdi‘s first grand opera for performances in French at the Salle Le Peletier of the Paris Opera under the title of “Jérusalem“.

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Tutto Verdi: I vespri siciliani

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I vespri siciliani

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Tutto Verdi: Il Trovatore / The Troubadour

Verdi: 372 Tutto Il Corsaro / The Corsair

Series Tutto Verdi | Genre Relay of: Opera, Live recording | Status in progress | Production Company Unitel GmbH & Co. KG (Germany) | Co-Production Company Fondazione Teatro Regio di Parma (Italy) | Ass. Production Company Classica (Germany) | Executive Producer Metisfilm Classica (Italy) | TV Director Tiziano Mancini | Duration 100‘ | Production Year 2012 | Recorded Teatro Verdi di Busseto (Italy) | Musical style Classical music | Composer Giuseppe Verdi | Conductor Martino Faggiani | Orchestra & Choir Teatro Regio di Parma (Italy) | Soloist Bruno Ribeiro, Irina Lungu, Luca Salsi, Silvia dalla Benetta | Stage Director Lamberto Puggelli | Source video / audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV, Theatrical distribution, Homevideo distribution, DVD distribution, Multimedia distribution C Major Entertainment (Germany)

The Corsair

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The Troubadour

“I vespri siciliani“ is based on a historical event, the Sicilian Vespers of 1282, the successful rebellion on the island of Sicily that broke out on Easter 1282 against the rule of the French / Angevin king Charles I, who had ruled the Kingdom of Sicily since 1266.

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Tutto Verdi: La forza del destino / The Force of Destiny

Series Tutto Verdi | Genre Relay of: Opera, Live recording | Status in progress | Production Company Unitel GmbH & Co. KG (Germany) | Co-Production Company Fondazione Teatro Regio di Parma (Italy) | Ass. Production Company Classica (Germany) | Executive Producer Metisfilm Classica (Italy) | TV Director Tiziano Mancini | Duration 170‘ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Teatro Regio di Parma (Italy) | Musical style Classical music | Composer Giuseppe Verdi | Conductor Gianluigi Gelmetti | Orchestra & Choir Teatro Regio di Parma (Italy) | Soloist Ziyan Atfeh, Dimitra Theodossiou, Vladimir Stoyanov, Aquiles Machando | Stage Director Stefano Poda | Source video / audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV, Theatrical distribution, Homevideo distribution, DVD distribution, Multimedia distribution C Major Entertainment (Germany)

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The Force of Destiny

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Tutto Verdi: Nabucco

Series Tutto Verdi | Genre Relay of: Opera, Live recording | Status in progress | Production Company Unitel GmbH & Co. KG (Germany) | Co-Production Company Fondazione Teatro Regio di Parma (Italy) | Ass. Production Company Classica (Germany) | Executive Producer Metisfilm Classica (Italy) | TV Director Tiziano Mancini | Duration 135‘ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Teatro Regio di Parma, (Italy) | Musical style Classical music | Composer Giuseppe Verdi | Conductor Michele Mariotti | Orchestra & Choir Teatro Regio di Parma (Italy) | Soloist Leo Nucci, Bruno Ribeiro, Riccardo Zanellato, Dimitra Theodossiou | Stage Director Daniele Abbado | Source video / audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV, Theatrical distribution, Homevideo distribution, DVD distribution, Multimedia distribution C Major Entertainment (Germany)

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“La forza del destino“ (“The Force of Destiny“) is based on a Spanish drama, “Don Álvaro o la fuerza del sino“ (1835), by Ángel de Saavedra, Duke of Rivas, with a scene adapted from Friedrich Schiller‘s “Wallensteins Lager“. It was first performed in the Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre of St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1862. Today “La forza del destino“ is one of Verdi’s most beloved operas.

Tutto Verdi Messa da Requiem

Messa da Requiem

Serie Tutto Verdi | Genre Relay of: Orchestral / choral concert, Live recording | Status in progress | Production Company Unitel GmbH & Co. KG (Germany) | Co-Production Company Fondazione Teatro Regio di Parma (Italy) | Ass. Production Company Classica (Germany) | Executive Producer Metisfilm Classica (Italy) | TV Director Tiziano Mancini | Duration 80‘ | Production Year 2012 | Recorded Teatro Farnese di Parma (Italy) | Musical style Classical music | Composer Giuseppe Verdi | Conductor Yuri Temirkanov | Orchestra & Choir Teatro Regio di Parma (Italy) | Soloist Dimitra Theodossiou, Sonia Ganassi, Francesco Meli, Riccardo Zanellato | Source video / audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV, Theatrical distribution, Homevideo distribution, DVD distribution, Multimedia distribution C Major Entertainment (Germany)

Nabucco

Teatro Regio di Parma is working on an ambitious project: Until his 200th birthday 2013, the theater will have performed the entire work of the Giuseppe Verdi. Unitel Classica has joined this project and will record all opera performances at the highest technical quality in High Definition and surround sound. “Nabucco“ was Verdi‘s first great success on the operatic stage and it contains what is likely Verdi’s most famous composition, the “Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves“, “Va, pensiero, sull‘ali dorate”, which is regularly given an encore when performed today. The opera is based on the Biblical story of the Jews assaulted, conquered and subsequently exiled from their homeland by the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar. It is Verdi’s third opera and the one which is considered to have permanently established his reputation as a composer. Verdi commented that “this is the opera with which my artistic career really begins. And though I had many difficulties to fight against, it is certain that “Nabucco“ was born under a lucky star.“

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Tutto Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

Series Tutto Verdi | Genre Relay of: Opera, Live recording | Status in progress | Production Company Unitel GmbH & Co. KG (Germany) | Co-Production Company Fondazione Teatro Regio di Parma (Italy) | Ass. Production Company Classica (Germany) | Executive Producer Metisfilm Classica (Italy) | TV Director Tiziano Mancini | Duration 155‘ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Teatro Regio di Parma (Italy) | Musical style Classical music | Composer Giuseppe Verdi | Conductor Daniele Callegari | Orchestra & Choir Teatro Regio di Parma (Italy) | Soloist Leo Nucci, Roberto Scandiuzzi, Simone Piazzola, Francesco Meli | Stage Director Giorgio Gallione | Source video / audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV, Theatrical distribution, Homevideo distribution, DVD distribution, Multimedia distribution C Major Entertainment (Germany)

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Tutto Verdi: Un giorno di regno

Series Tutto Verdi | Genre Relay of: Opera, Live recording | Status in progress | Production Company Unitel GmbH & Co. KG (Germany) | Co-Production Company Fondazione Teatro Regio di Parma (Italy) | Ass. Production Company Classica (Germany) | Executive Producer Metisfilm Classica (Italy) | TV Director Tiziano Mancini | Duration 120‘ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Teatro Regio di Parma (Italy) | Musical style Classical music | Composer Giuseppe Verdi | Conductor Donato Renzetti | Orchestra & Choir Teatro Regio di Parma (Italy) | Soloist Guido Loconsolo, Andrea Porta, Anna Caterina Antonacci, Alessandra Marianelli | Stage Director Pier Luigi Pizzi | Source video / audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV, Theatrical distribution, Homevideo distribution, DVD distribution, Multimedia distribution C Major Entertainment (Germany)

Verdi himself once referred to “Simon Boccanegra“ as “too sad and desolate“. It‘s the somber, historical drama named for a real life Doge of Genoa who lived in the 1300s. The story is almost unrelentingly gloomy and has an air of death about it right from the start. But “Simone Boccanegra“ has a tremendously complex and sympathetic title character, and some of the most beautiful music Verdi ever wrote.

Verdi: 378 Tutto Un ballo in maschera /

Un giorno di regno

A Masked Ball

Series Tutto Verdi | Genre Relay of: Opera, Live recording | Status in progress | Production Company Unitel GmbH & Co. KG (Germany) | Co-Production Company Fondazione Teatro Regio di Parma (Italy) | Ass. Production Company Classica (Germany) | Executive Producer Metisfilm Classica (Italy) | TV Director Tiziano Mancini | Duration 135‘ | Production Year 2012 | Recorded Teatro Regio di Parma (Italy) | Musical style Classical music | Composer Giuseppe Verdi | Conductor Gianluigi Gelmetti | Orchestra & Choir Teatro Regio di Parma (Italy) | Soloist Francesco Meli, Vladimir Stoyanov, Kristin Lewis, Elisabetta Fiorillo | Stage Director Massimo Gasparon | Source video / audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV, Theatrical distribution, Homevideo distribution, DVD distribution, Multimedia distribution C Major Entertainment (Germany)

A Masked Ball

“Un ballo in maschera“ (A Masked Ball), is based on an 1833 play, “Gustave III“, by French playwright Eugène Scribe who wrote about the historical assassination of King Gustav III of Sweden. However, in order to become the “Un ballo in maschera“ which we know today, Verdi‘s opera (and his libretto) was forced to undergo a series of transformations, caused by a combination of censorship regulations in both Naples and Rome, as well as the political situation in France in January 1858.

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Teatro Regio di Parma is working on an ambitious project: Until his 200th birthday 2013, the theater will have performed the entire work of the Giuseppe Verdi. Unitel Classica has joined this project and will record all opera performances at the highest technical quality in High Definition and surround sound. “Un giorno di regno“ is an operatic melodramma giocoso in two acts, based on the play “Le faux Stanislas“ by Alexandre Vincent Pineu-Duval. “Un giorno di regno“ was Verdi‘s first attempt at comic opera. Verdi would not attempt another operatic comedy until the end of his career with “Falstaff“. The first performance at Teatro alla Scala, Milan, in 1840 was a failure – presumably due to the composer‘s own personal circumstances, as his two children and then his first wife died during the composition between 1838 and 1840. La Scala cancelled the remaining scheduled performances, and did not revive the work until 2001.

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exciting final day. Conductors and choir members alike talk about their expectations, the rising tension, motivation and what boils down to a pure pleasure of singing.

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Liebrecht Vanbeckevoort performs Liszt

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Capilla Flamenca

The ensemble “Capilla Flamenca“ derives its name from the former chapel of Emperor Charles V. This programme highlights the music at the Flemish court of Margaret of Austria, Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands and aunt of emperor Charles. Composers such as Josuin Desprez, Pierre de la Rue and Alexander Agricola all composed for her. “Capilla Flamenca“ was awarded major international prizes (Prix Choc by “Le Monde de la Musique“, Diapason d‘Or, Repertoire 10). This recording was realized at the medieval beguine church of Sint-Truiden, which belongs to the UNESCO World Heritage.

Liebrecht Vanbeckevoort

To commemorate the 200th birthday of Franz Liszt, Liebrecht Vanbeckevoort, winner of the Queen Elisabeth Competition 2007, performs some famous piano transcriptions and the “Venezia e Napoli“ score by Franz Liszt. The recital opens with three songs arranged by Liszt for piano, including “Widmung’ and “Frühlingsnacht“, named after the songs of Schumann, and “Liebestraum“ No. 3, a song by Liszt himself. “Venezia e Napoli“ is a part of the second collection, “Années the Pèlerinage“. This work has become known for its dazzling virtuoso Tarantella. Recorded at the chamber music hall of the Concertgebouw in Bruges.

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Luc Brewaeys. Straight

Choir of the Year

Series Classical on Canvas | Genre Documentary: Music, on location | Status completed | Production Company VRT (Belgium) | Producer Els T‘Seyen | TV Director Etienne Vervoort | Editor Jochen Verstraete | Light Design Johan De Vogelaere | Duration 74‘ 46“ | Production Year 2011 | Recorded Brussels, Flagey (Belgium), 02.04.2011 | Musical style Classical music | Piece Sleep | Composer Eric Whitacre, Kurt Bikkembergs, Hiroshi Ishimaru | Choir Clari Cantus, Waelrant, Rondinella (Belgium) | Source video / audio DigiBeta / Stereo The Choir of the Year 2011 competition is a must-attend event for amateur choirs in Flanders. During the final, six choirs are joined to perform in front of an international jury. Each choir is introduced by means of a brief portrait, and followed by our cameras behind and on the scenes during an

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Luc Brewaeys

A portrait of composer Luc Brewaeys. He is one of the most fascinating Flemish composers of his generation, enriching classic genres such as the symphony and opera with impressive creativity. He‘s a close friend of composer Jonathan Harvey. His works are commissioned by La Monnaie, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Royal Flemish Philharmonic, the

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meisters at the court of Naples. All three obtained a solid reputation as an opera composer, but they also wrote a number of utterly charming and powerful concerts.

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The Night of the Queen

Hofkapelle & Kammerchor Stuttgart

Presenter Thomas Vanderveken

Concert of the Festival of Flanders (Ghent) by the Hofkapelle Stuttgart and the Kammerchor Stuttgart, conducted by Frieder Bernius. Together, they perform the Requiem KV 626 of W.A. Mozart. The Hofkapelle Stuttgart also performs Schuberts Symphony D759 (“Unfinished“). The Kammerchor Stuttgart sings a capella the “Vater unser“ by Franz Liszt. Recorded at the St. Bavo‘s cathedral in Ghent. A short program version with only the Mozart Requiem is also available.

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Per Flauto

Besides the live broadcast of all performances of the finales of the Queen Elisabeth Competition (Voice, 2011), VRT broadcasted a live late night talk show every night just after the performances (4 evenings). The show was hosted by a young presenter in a modern setting, giving rise to lively discussions with competitors, opera directors, singers and amateurs on all kind of subjects related to singing. The show was received very well and reached a large audience.

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War Requiem

War Requiem - Florian Boesch and Alan Oke Per Flauto

Programme featuring Bart Coen as one of the leading Belgian recorder players, who has achieved an international reputation. With his ensemble “Per Flauto“, he presents a selection of the “Manoscritto di Napoli 1725“, a collection of the best concertos for recorder dating from the Italian Baroque. Bart Coen chose recorder concertos by Alessandro Scarlatti, Francesco Mancini and Domenico Sarri, who were all prestigeous Kapell-

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National Orchestra of Belgium, Champ d‘Action and Ictus Ensemble. Luc Brewaeys is honored and awarded at home and abroad, and has established a teaching career in Rotterdam. But above all he is seen here as a colourful and flamboyant personality, always in conflict with the deadlines of his comissioners.

Benjamin Britten wrote his “War Requiem“ in 1962, as a protest against the madness of war. A direct occasion was the inauguration of the new Coventry Cathedral, after the old cathedral had been completely destroyed during World War II. This score is one of the greatest masterpieces of the 20th century. Britten inserts in the Latin requiem poems by war poet Wilfred Owen, referring to the savage brutality of World War I, which also created utter havoc and devastation in Flanders. At certain moments, footage of World War I provides a backdrop to the performance.

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Frauenkirche Dresden, Germany

Echo Award

They are already considered the new musical dream team: the Staatskapelle Dresden and their designated principal conductor Christian Thielemann. Having performed celebrated concerts in Dresden, Vienna, Lucerne and Berlin at the beginning of the current season, Thielemann conducted for the first time ZDF’s traditional Advent concert from the Frauenkirche in Dresden. The participating soloists were mezzo-soprano Sophie Koch and baritone Thomas Hampson. Christian Thielemann, who is highly renowned for his much acclaimed interpretations of German romantic operas and concerts, for this occasion chose a purely baroque programme, including compositions of Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Vivaldi and Georg Philipp Telemann.

The “ECHO Klassik“ has established itself as one of the most important awards in the world of classical music. In 2011 the prestigious award show was broadcast on ZDF for the 16th time. Among the winning stars that appeared in the grand Konzerthaus Berlin were Rolando Villazón, Yuja Wang, Thomas Hampson, Vittorio Grigolo and Zubin Mehta. Popular presenters like conductor Daniel Barenboim, fashion designer Wolfgang Joop and figure skater Katarina Witt supported Germany‘s most popular host, Thomas Gottschalk. “Echo der Stars“ is one of best rated classical music programmes on German TV.

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Lang Lang

Chinese pianist Lang Lang is one of today‘s greatest classical music stars. As an amazing virtuoso, travelling musician and audience darling he represents something like a 21st century version of the great historical virtuoso and lounge lizard Franz Liszt. Award-winning filmmaker Thomas Grube (“Rhythm Is It“) shares deep insights into a modern virtuoso‘s life and into the mechanisms of how to fascinate millions of music lovers worldwide. Includes concert clips from the London “iTunesFestival“ where Lang Lang was the first classical musician to enter the stage as well as the virtuoso‘s hommage to Franz Liszt on the occasion of his 200th birthday.

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New Year‘s Eve Concert from the Semperoper

Semperoper Dresden

Spectacular cast, festive scenery, famous melodies – that’s the ZDF New Year’s Eve Concert. An ensemble of soloists around Piotr Beczala presented the most beautiful arias and duets of operetta live from the Dresden Semperoper. The Staatskapelle Dresden performed under the baton of its future music director Christian Thielemann the highlights of the “silver era” — from Lehár’s “The Land of the Smiles” to Kálmán’s “The Gipsy Princess”. Dancing in the magnificent foyers and vestibules of the Dresden Semperoper Ballet added to a splendidly merry evening.

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Waldbühne Berlin

Five years after the spectacular concert on the occasion of the Football World Cup 2006, Anna Netrebko was back at Berlin’s stunning open air venue “Waldbühne” for ZDF’s “Summer Night’s Music”. She was also featuring Uruguayan bass-baritone Erwin Schrott and German tenor Jonas Kaufmann. The multifaceted programme of “Summer Night’s Music” 2011 includes arias, duets and scenes from Italian and French opera as well as popular Tango music and famous orchestral pieces. Marco Armiliato conducted the Prague Philharmonia.

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A feast of the senses - Monteverdi at the Comic Opera of Berlin

Barrie Kosky - director Comic Opera Berlin

The beginning of opera history is marked by Monteverdi. Monteverdi‘s music reaches directly into the heart of human life and man‘s soul. For the first time, the three operas by Monteverdi which are complete extant - “Orpheus“, “Odysseus“ and “Poppea“ - will be staged in a row on one day at the Comic Opera Berlin in 2012. In a 12 hour feast of the senses this opera trilogy will be the highlight of an event which delves into the delights of music, the culinary joys of Italian cuisine and the Baroque conviviality around a visit to the opera.

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Alonzo King Lines Ballet is an international famous company today

ZDF / 3sat | Alonzo King Lines Ballet of San Francisco is a celebrated contemporary ballet company that has been guided since 1982 by its uniquely global artistic vision. Collaborating with noted composers, musicians and visual artists, Alonzo King creates works that draw on a diverse set of deeply rooted cultural traditions and imbue classical ballet with new expressive potential. Alonzo King‘s visionary choreography is renowned for its ability to connect audiences to a profound sense of shared humanity and tenderness, but also of furious abandon and exhilarating freedom. 3sat will broadcast the choreographies: “Dust and Light“, “Scherezade“ and “Triangle of the Squinches“.

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24 year old Igor Levit is among the greatest pianists of our time. Following the tracks of Franz Liszt he embarks on a journey to Zurich, Bellagio on Lake Como, Milan and Rome which reveals the passionate and unbridled power behind the virtuosity of Liszt‘s music.

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Young pianist Francesco Tristano

The young John Cage composing

29 year old Francesco Tristano is on his way to international fame. The pianist from Luxembourg combines different epochs and stylistics, or has them collide with each other, ignoring boundaries. From Baroque, to classical, to contemporary music, jazz or electronic – he makes himself heard with courageous and innovative interpretations that attract attention because of Tristano‘s unconventional and virtuoso manner of playing. Furthermore, this extraordinary artistic attitude is expressed through his own compositions. In John Cage, Tristano has found a vital mental initiator. Curiously, Tristano sets out to discover Cage‘s multifarious mind and his multilayered music.

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John Cage – philosopher, painter, mushroom picker and composer: 2012 will see the anniversary of his 100th birthday. This anniversary is the motivation for the film to turn towards the biography of an extraordinary and exciting life. It features a number of international artists who speak about their encounters with John Cage: Yoko Ono, Christian Wolff, Dieter Schnebel and Pierre Boulez. John Cage had to manage crises before becoming a celebrated icon. The film depicts Cage‘s life journey from the beginning to his reputation as the most important signpost for music after 1945. It sheds light as well on his development into an impressive philosopher.

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24 year old Igor Levit

Chuck Cooper

Kurt Weill‘s music fascinates even today. It mirrors the various artistic, moral and political contradictions of his time and generation. In Weill‘s lifetime his work was most associated with the voice of his life Lotte Lenya. His “wild“ relationship to Lotte influenced his life and work. She was the pervasive, propelling energy behind him. In an extraordinary way Lotte (played by Sophie Rois) will guide us on the journey through the life of this unconventional composer: his way as leader of the German avantgarde to his success as an American composer of musical theatre on Broadway.

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Berlin live is a unique television show presenting the spirit of Berlin. From international superstars to promising locals, we invite artists that capture the attitude of the vibrant capital. Three bands perform 20 to 25 minutes each, influenced by one underlying style, period or reference. The very special, industrial looking venue creates a very unique atmosphere. A charismatic host guides the show and connects the artists. Three stages provide the perfect setting for direct contact between the musicians.

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Open-Air festival atmosphere – Festivals 2011 ZDFkultur

ZDFkultur features live music in all its facets. Whether rock, alternative, electronic, indie, pop, hip-hop or heavy metal, this last summer the hottest bands from all these genres and the biggest open air festivals appeared on the scene of ZDFkultur for the first time. Motörhead, Apocalyptica, Airbourne, Avantasia and Blind Guardian played the WackenFestival. Additionally the following open air festivals were part of the ZDFkultur tour: Hurricane, Glastonbury, Roskilde, Splash!, Melt! and Berlin Festival.

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Remake of Radetzkymarch

It is forty years now that ZDF marks the beginning of a new year with the Vienna Philharmonic‘s annual new year‘s concert and their famous encore: the Radetzkymarch. Its military context long forgotten, the march has become an indispensable part of the imperial and royal folklore which consistently denies its initial meaning – the glorification of a battle in 1848. The ZDFkultur remake of Radetzkymarch aims at recovering the initial meaning. The musical succession of different Radetzkymarches is linked with images of military conflicts of the past 40 years. The viewer is thus invited to understand more than mere entertainment.

Singer and rapper Jessie J. in concert - Tonträger 2011

The Blood Arm at Berlin Live

Six bands took part in the Tonträger-Festival 2011, where there were live concerts of popular music over three days. We recorded in a place which is very like a big top. It can accommodate approximately 500 people and they sat in different ranks as in an auditorium. The concerts were presented by Nina Sonnenberg. This year there were concerts with the Canadian singer-songwriter Ron Sexsmith, the British guitar rock power trio The Brew, the Dutch-speaking Caro Emerald, the Norwegian songwriter Maria Mena, the Norwegian girlgroup Katzenjammer and the British singer and rapper Jessie J.

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The world famous “Bauhaus“ in Dessau sets the stage for one of the most unique live music events on German television. The concept of zdf@bauhaus sticks to the Bauhaus credo “form follows function“. Cameras and microphones are always visible on screen. The concerts are given in the cafeteria, which is built in a reductionist manner with the steel-and-stone construction openly visible. Artists (Milow, Gentleman, Patrice, Frida Gold, Aura Dione, MiMi Westernhagen and Revolverheld) are playing on the same level as the audience, making possible those rare moments of “face to face“ musical craftmanship and creativity.

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Stage / Pharao Statue / Masada Mountain

First performed in 2005, Caligula is the first choreography of Étoile Dancer Nicolas Le Riche for the Paris Opera Ballet. Intrigued by the complex and troubling personality of the Roman emperor, the choreographer evokes the torments of a frail man capable of loving the moon and idolizing his horse, a man impassioned by theatre and constantly playing a role himself. Constructed as a tragedy, the choreography follows the inexorable progression of this solitary hero towards death. Accompanied by Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, which illustrates the irremediable passage of time, the dance, in all its depth and energy, translates the poetry and the violence inherent in a life consumed at lightning speed by excess.

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Avant PremiĂ¨re and Midem Classique & Jazz Symposium at Midem Cannes, every January Presentation of approximately 400 brand-new music, arts and dance programmes to the industry

Open Air Film Festivals Worldwide Screenings of operas, classical, world music and jazz concerts as well as classical and contemporary dance

IMZ Workshops and Gala Screenings at ITF Golden Prague Prague, every October IMZ World Music Film Screenings and Conference at WOMEX Varying destinations World Music Films on Tour Non-commercial distribution and screenings of world music films at various festivals

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The IMZ, based in Vienna, is the global association for all those involved in any aspect of audio-visual music and dance.

IMZ President Chris Hunt, Classical TV Limited, UK

Its 170+ members include broadcasters, performing arts companies and venues, programme producers and distributors, record and DVD labels, cinema and new media specialists: all the participants in the creation and dissemination of music in the media. The largest are international brands like the BBC, Metropolitan Opera New York, and Universal Music; the smallest are individual composers, choreographers, musicians or directors.

IMZ Vice-Presidents Arild Erikstad, NRK Norwegian Broadcasting Company, Norway Henk van der Meulen, Royal Conservatoire of The Hague, Netherlands Hazel Wright, Hazel Wright Media Ltd., UK

Since it was founded in 1961 under the aegis of UNESCO the IMZ has dedicated itself to the worldwide development and promotion through audio-visual media of all forms of classical, jazz, world and contemporary music, as well as classical and contemporary dance.

Thomas Beck, University of the Arts Berne, Switzerland Wolfgang Bergmann, ZDF/ ARTE, Germany Paul Bullock, BBC (Cymru Wales), UK Aarno Cronvall, Arcron Productions Ltd., Finland Urban Frye, Filmlocation Lucerne, Switzerland Frank Gerdes, ServusTV, Austria Thomas Hieber, Unitel GmbH and Co. KG, Germany Gunilla Jensen Peyron, SVT, Swedish Television, Sweden John Kelleher, NVC Arts - Warner Classics and Jazz, UK Elmar Kruse, C Major Entertainment, Germany Marie Kucerova, Czech Television, Czech Republic Reiner Moritz, Poorhouse International, UK Ben Pateman, Decca Music Group, UK Katja Raths, Clasart Film-und Fernsehproduktions GmbH, Germany Peter Rosen, Peter Rosen Productions Inc., USA François Roussillon, François Roussillon et Associés, France Martin Traxl, ORF, Austria John Walker, Thirteen for Wnet.org, USA Larry Weinstein, Rhombus Media Inc., Canada

It is the one-stop shop for anyone in any position in the value chain from music and dance creation to the buying public. For an opera house it provides an instant media policy along with every element needed to carry it out. For a broadcaster, it is every stage of the supply chain. For producers and distributors, it is their entire global market. For everyone, it is a valuable network, a forum for discussion, a showcase for productions, a lobbying group, a database, and an information exchange. The IMZ makes a real contribution to the businesses of its members.

IMZ Treasurer Bernd Hellthaler, EuroArts Music International GmbH, Germany

As an IMZ member you will benefit from • Programme presentation and screenings at – Avant Première at MIDEM, the major annual venue to meet with other members and find co-production partners – Music Film Festival in front of the Vienna City Hall where mainly members’ productions can be seen by more than 640.000 visitors yearly. – World Music Film Screenings at WOMEX, International Music and Dance Film Festivals and competitions • A global networking platform including broadcasters, producers, distributors, record companies, opera houses and international tv and film festivals • IMZ directory with detailed contact information to the key players of the industry • Monthly newsletter offering the latest members‘ news, serving as an exchange platform • A platform for co-operation and co-production partners as well as market place for programme acquisition • Professional exchange within workshops, seminars and round tables about business relevant topics • IMZ film database and media archive with more than 30.000 music and dance programmes • Lobbying and initiatives • Annual catalogues, with detailed information on the latest and finest audio-visual productions in the field of music and dance

Honorary Members Laurie Anderson, Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez, Alfred Brendel, Adrienne Clarkson, Mats Ek, Bill T. Jones, Jonas Kaufmann, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Lang Lang, Neil Shicoff, Anne-Sofie von Otter IMZ Team Secretary General: Franz Patay (patay@imz.at) Executive Director: Ruth Pfletschinger (r.pfletschinger@imz.at) Project Manager: Katharina Jeschke (k.jeschke@imz.at) Project Manager: Tatiana Petkova (t.petkova@imz.at) Office Management: Birgit Baresch (office@imz.at)

Annual Membership Fee Full membership EUR 2,750 applies to TV organisations, independent production and distribution companies, publishers, opera houses, record companies, etc. (first time IMZ members pay a reduced annual fee for the first 2 years of their membership: EUR 1,375) Affiliate membership EUR 1,375 applies to smaller production companies whose annual output in music or dance does not exceed two productions (first time IMZ members pay a reduced annual fee for the first 2 years of their membership: EUR 690) Associate membership EUR 690 applies to cultural, educational and scientific institutions, museums etc. Individual membership EUR 275 applies to individuals

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Schedule of IMZ Events Avant Première at MIDEM Cannes, January 28 - 31, 2012 Watch more than 400 brand-new music, arts and dance programmes, meet the most important TV programme buyers, producers and distributors, and discuss the burning topics of the industry! IMZ Music Film Screenings at Classical:NEXT Munich (Germany), May 30 - June 2, 2012 Semi-Final Judging Event for the International Emmy Awards Vienna, June 2012 (tbc) Open Air Film Festival Vienna, July and August 2012 Screenings of operas, classical, world music and jazz concerts as well as classical and contemporary dance

ImPulsTanz, Vienna Lotus Records, Oberndorf ORF, Vienna Preiser Records, Vienna Servus TV Fernsehgesellschaft m.b.H., Wals-Himmelreich Universal Edition AG, Vienna Wien Modern, Vienna Belgium BMC-Group, Schelle Evil Penguin Productions, Mechelen Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition, Brussels R.T.B.F. Radio-Télévision Belge de la Communauté française de Belgique, Brussels Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels VRT Vlaamse Radio en Televisie, Brussels

Music Film Festival in Bucharest Bucharest (Romania), summer 2012 (tbc)

Canada MO Demay Entertainment, Montreal Rhombus International Ltd., Toronto Rhombus Media Inc., Toronto

Vienna Music Film Festival in Yekaterinburg Yekaterinburg (Russia), summer 2012 (tbc)

Croatia HRT Hrvatska Televizija, Zagreb

Vienna Music Film Festival in Tokyo Tokyo (Japan), summer 2012 (tbc)

Czech Republic Ceská Televize, Prague

Vienna Music Film Festival in New York New York (USA), August 2012 (tbc)

Estonia ERR Eesti Rahvusringhääling - Estonian Public Broadcasting, Tallinn

IMZ Workshops and Golden Prague Premières at ITF Golden Prague Prague (Czech Republic), October 13-17, 2012

Finland Arcron Productions Oy, Helsinki Kroma Productions Ltd., Porvoo YLE Finnish Broadcasting Company, Yleisradio

IMZ World Music Film Screenings at WOMEX 2012 Thessaloniki (Greece), October 17-31, 2012 dance screen on tour Non-commercial distribution and screenings of dance screen winners and nominees World Music Films on Tour Non-commercial distribution and screenings of world music films

For detailed information please check the IMZ websites and become a friend on facebook: www.imz.at www.avantpremiere.at www.dancescreen.com www.worldmusicfilms.com www.facebook.at/imzmedia Come and join us at the next IMZ events!

IMZ Member Organisations Australia SBS Special Broadcasting Service, Artarmon Austria Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images, Salzburg Felix Breisach Medienwerkstatt GmbH, Vienna Film+co. produktion GesmbH, Vienna FilmFritz GmbH Österreich, Kitzbühel Haydn Festival Eisenstadt, Eisenstadt

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France Agat Films et Cie, Paris ARTE France, Issy-les-Moulineaux ARTE Strasbourg, Strasbourg Auditorium du Louvre, Paris Bel Air Media, Paris Camera Lucida Productions, Paris CLC Productions, Lyon Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, Paris Europe Images International, Boulogne Billancourt France Télévisions, Paris François Roussillon et Associés, Paris Idéale Audience, Paris LGM, Paris OLÉO Films, Vitry sur Seine Opéra National de Paris, Paris Sombrero & Co, Paris Telmondis, Boulogne-Billancourt Vidéothèque d’Art Lyrique et de Danse - Cité du Livre, Aix-en-Provence Germany 3sat/ZDFkultur, Mainz accentus Music UG, Leipzig ARTE Deutschland TV GmbH, Baden-Baden Arthaus Musik GmbH, Halle (Saale) Berlin Phil Media GmbH, Berlin C Major Entertainment GmbH, Berlin Clasart Film- und Fernsehproduktions GmbH/Tele München Gruppe, Munich Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln, Cologne EuroArts Music International GmbH, Berlin Finkernagel & Lück Medienproduktion, Berlin GATEWAY4M - more fine music & media GmbH, Hamburg

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Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg, Hamburg LOFT music, Gauting Master Class – Medienbeteiligungen Bernd Hellthaler, Berlin moving-angel GmbH, Stuttgart NIGHTFROG GmbH, Munich Pars Media, Berlin Rising Alternative GmbH, Berlin Schott Music GmbH & Co. KG, Mainz Sounding Images GmbH, Berlin Unitel GmbH & Co. KG, Oberhaching Wunderlich Medien Film-, TV- und Musikproduktion GbR, Munich ZDF - Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, Mainz-Lerchenberg India EarthSync, Chennai Italy Dynamic SRL, Genoa Pan Dream/ Fondazione Fem, Rome RAI Trade, Rome Japan NHK Enterprises Inc. (NEP), Tokyo NHK Nippon Hoso Kyokai, Tokyo The Netherlands AVRO Broadcasting Association, Hilversum IdtV Docs BV, Amsterdam NPS Nederlandse Programma Stichting, Hilversum Royal Conservatoire of The Hague, The Hague Norway NordicStories AS, Oslo NRK Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, Oslo Poland Telewizja Polska S.A., Warsaw Russia RTR Russian State TV & Radio Broadcasting Company, Moscow TV Channel Russia - Kultura (Russia K), Moscow Slovenia RTV Slovenija, Ljubljana

Electric Sky, Brighton Hazel Wright Media Ltd., Brentford Dock Intermusica Artists’ Management Ltd., London International Classical Artists, London London Symphony Orchestra, London NVC Arts - Warner Classics and Jazz, London Opus Arte, London Poorhouse International Ltd., London S4C Sianel 4 Cymru, Cardiff Sky Arts – BskyB, Isleworth Universal Music International Ltd, London USA Classic Arts Showcase, Los Angeles Cultural Media Collaborative Inc., New York Emerging Pictures, New York Kultur International Films, Ltd., New Jersey Peter Rosen Productions, Inc., New York San Francisco Ballet, San Francisco San Francisco Opera, San Francisco San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco The Metropolitan Opera Association, New York THIRTEEN for WNET.ORG, New York

IMZ Individual Members Austria Axelle Gall, Vienna C.E.M.A. Central European Music Agency, Lubica Matasova, Salzburg sono artists consulting, Samantha Farber, Vienna Czech Republic BVA International Ltd, Prague C.E.M.A. Central European Music Agency, David Dittrich, Brno France Andy Sommer, Paris Film Addict, Blanca Li, Paris Cécile Clairval-Milhaud, Paris Jusque-là, Pierre Quirin, Paris Windrose, Pauline Mazenod, Paris

Spain Teatro Real, Madrid

Germany bce film, Bettina Ehrhardt, Munich Enrique Sanchez Lansch, Berlin Myriam Hoyer, Wiesbaden

Sweden SVT Sveriges Television, Stockholm

Russia Buta Arts Centre, Moscow

Switzerland Filmlocation Lucerne – Switzerland, Lucerne Hochschule der Künste Bern (HKB), Bern Opernhaus Zürich, Zurich RSI - Radiotelevisione della Svizzera italiana, Lugano Schweizer Fernsehen, Zurich Session Basel AG, Basel Syquali Multimedia AG, Zurich tpc swizerland ag, Zurich

Switzerland Georges Gachot, Zurich

United Kingdom Artial Productions, London BBC Cymru Wales, Cardiff BBC Music Magazine, Bristol BBC Rights & Business Affairs, London BBC Television, London Classical TV Limited, Bristol Decca Music Group Limited, London

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United Kingdom Dennis Marks, London Floating Earth, Steve Long, Perivale P.O.P. 1 Ltd / Tinopolis, Carmarthenshire USA Alley Oop Films, Kate Duhamel, Corte Madera Mulatto Media Productions, Anthony Zawinul, Los Angeles New Classic Films, Webster Young, Santa Fe

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IMZ AVANT PREMIÈRE SCREENINGS AT MIDEM 2011 23 – 26 January 2011 Cannes, France The Avant Première Screenings are an initiative by the IMZ International Music + Media Centre in collaboration with MIDEM, where the world’s leading producers of fine programmes on culture and the arts present their latest productions. It is a market • for programme purchasers in search of high-quality audio-visual programmes on culture, the performing arts, music and dance • for producers with an interesting project for which they need coproduction partners • for programme suppliers/distributors who want to present their latest audio-visual programmes on culture, the performing arts, music or dance to the programme purchasers of international television stations • for film festival programmers looking for an opportunity to get a comprehensive overview of the latest trends in dance and music films • for editors/journalists who want to keep abreast of the trends in the fields of culture, the performing arts, music or dance. For the 27th time the IMZ took part in an eventful MIDEM conference. Once again it was possible for the IMZ to screen, as in the year before, in the new screening location of Auditorium A - a true cinema hall with a massive screen, sophisticated technical equipment and more than 300 seats. Aided by the brilliant technical capabilities of the MIDEM staff, the event was a pleasure to manage. At the IMZ Avant Première Screenings at MIDEM 2011, over a period of four days, no fewer than 54 companies presented their show reels in Auditorium A, including 380 productions of classical music, world music and jazz as well as classical ballet and contemporary dance to a rapt audience. Just as in former years the IMZ exhibition, with its breathtaking sea view of the bay of Cannes and of „La Croisette“, was a centre of attrac-

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tion and a busy venue for many productive meetings. IMZ veterans welcomed new members at the customary IMZ welcome cocktail on Sunday afternoon, 24 January 2011 at 2.30pm. The newly elected IMZ president Chris Hunt was handed over a bunch of 50 roses for IMZ’s 50th anniversary by Cornelia Much of ReedMIDEM and wished the IMZ and its members a successful MIDEM and business year 2011! The IMZ/MIDEM conference „Unveiling new opportunities to monetise classical music“, held on Tuesday, 25 January 2011, 2.30 - 3.45pm, brought together Kevin Arnold, Founder and CEO of IODA (USA), James Brown, Managing Director of Hazard Chase Limited (UK), Jens Neubert, Author and Director/CEO of Syquali Multimedia (Switzerland), Costa Pilavachi, SVP, Classical artists & Repertoire of Universal Music Group International (UK) and Alexander Schönburg, Managing Director of Agency 4E7 (Marketing / Social Media) to discuss current models to improve revenues as well as new strategies of monetising classical music via Web 2.0 such as Facebook and platforms such as YouTube and how to better reach important target groups such as young people. The conference was well-visited and led to a lively discussion with the audience. Thanks to effusive positive feedback the IMZ has received for its organisation of the stand, the board meeting, the 56th General Assembly and the screenings, we look forward to another successful edition of MIDEM 2012....

IMZ JURY PANEL FOR THE BANFF WORLD TELEVISION FESTIVAL April 2011 The 32nd Banff World Television Festival took place 12 – 15 June 2011 at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel in Banff, Canada. International broadcasters, producers, writers, directors, distributors and industry executives from over 25 countries attended the festival. A core feature of the festival is the Banff World Television Awards, also known as the „Rockies”, one of the world’s most prestigious events celebrating outstanding work by international TV creators responsible for the continuing evolution and originality in the industry. This year, pilots are also

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being recognised with the inaugural Banff International Pilots Competition and Awards rewarding talent and creativity in conceptualising and creating online and television pilots. The IMZ presided over one of the jury panels representing over 30 countries around the world that have been designated by the BANFF organisers to select “Rockie” Award nominees in each one of the 29 (23 genre-based and 6 interactive) categories. The preliminary jury for Arts Programmes included: Elisabeth Freismuth (Federal Ministry of Education and Science, Austria), Larry Weinstein (Rhombus Media Inc., Canada), Frank Gerdes (Servus TV, Austria), Henk van der Meulen (Royal Conservatoire of The Hague, The Netherlands) and Katharina Jeschke (IMZ - International Music+Media Centre, Austria). BANFF is pleased to announce the nominees of the 2011 Rockies Programme Competition. After reviewing over nine- hundred entries from around the world, the international juries have singled out the best programmes and projects from the past year: • Jury Grand Prize: Sergio (Category: History & Biography Programs, Produced by: Home Box Office. Based on Pulitzer Prize winner Samantha Power’s biography „Sergio: One Man‘s Fight to Save the World,“ SERGIO is the...) • Best Interactive: Conspiracy For Good (Category: Best Cross-Platform Project Produced by: TKE Imperative. Tim Kring, Nokia and The Company P produced a new form of entertainment called social benefit storytelling, which encouraged...) • Best Documentary: Sergio (Category: History & Biography Programs, Produced by: Home Box Office. Based on Pulitzer Prize winner Samantha Power’s biography „Sergio: One Man‘s Fight to Save the World,“ SERGIO is the...) • Best Kids and Animation: Sid The Science Kid (Category: Animation Programs, Produced by: The Jim Henson Company. Sid enlists his friends and family to help him get to the bottom of new mysteries. He starts each episode with a new question...) • Best Francophone: 19-2 (Category: Continuing Series Programs, Produced by: Société Radio-Canada.) • Best Entertainment: 2010 MTV Video Music Awards (Category: Music and Variety Programs, Produced by: MTV Networks. This year‘s MTV Video Music Awards was a television event that captured the spirit and energy of pop culture in 2010.) • Best Drama: Sherlock: A Study in Pink (Category: Continuing Series Programs, Produced by: BBC. A war hero, invalided home from Afghanistan, meet a strange but charismatic genius who is looking for a flatmate; it is London...) • Best Green Program: Collapsus (Category: Best Cross-Platform Project, Produced by: TKE Imperative. Tim Kring, Nokia and The Company P produced a new form of entertainment called social benefit storytelling, which encouraged...)

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Lifetime Achievement Award winner Menahem Pressler played Mozart, Artist of the Year Esa Pekka Salonen conducted his work Helix and Young Artist of the Year David Kadouch was heard in Mendelssohn‘s Second Piano Concerto. One of the driving forces behind the BIS Sibelius Edition, Folke Gräsbeck, played, together with the strings of the Tampere Philharmonic, Sibelius‘s Piano Quintet in a newly realised transcription by the Tampere Philharmonic‘s composer in residence, Jouni Kaipainen. The distinguished British pianist Philip Edward Fisher represented the Label of the Year, Chandos, playing Prokofiev‘s First Concerto. Hänssler Classics had asked Lena Neudauer, who – together with Deutsche Radio Philharmonie – won in ICMA‘s Concerto category, to play Schumann‘s Violin Fantasy. Richard Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen by C Major won in the category Best DVD Performance. Christopher Nupen’s film “Piotr I. Tchaikosky: Two films (Tchaikovsky‘s Women, Fate)” (Allegro Films) was elected Best DVD Documentary of the Year. The outstanding event, with more than 1,600 people attending, was broadcast live by Finnish National Radio and was included in the programming of Germany‘s MDR Figaro, Saarländischer Rundfunk, Luxembourg‘s Radio 100,7, the Russian Orpheus Radio and many other partners of the European Broadcast Union‘s worldwide network. Until 6 May, the concert was also available on the website of Finnish National Radio: http://areena.yle.fi/audio/1302156800800. During the Award Ceremony in Tampere, ICMA President Remy Franck announced that the next ICMA Award Ceremony and Gala Concert will take place in Nantes, France, on 15 May 2012, with the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire conducted by John Axelrod.

IMZ COOPERATION WITH ICMA International Classical Music Award ICMA GALA CONCERT IN TAMPERE April 2011, Finland Musicians and label representatives from all over the world came on 6 April to Tampere, Finland for the annual Award Ceremony and Gala Concert of the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA), hosted by the Tampere Philharmonic and its Music director Hannu Lintu. The IMZ is part of the international jury for the Award.

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IMZ SEMI-FINAL JUDGING EVENT FOR THE 2011 INTERNATIONAL EMMY® AWARDS

MUSIC FILM FESTIVAL IN BUCHAREST 2011

20 June 2011 Vienna, Austria

24 June – 2 July 2011 Bucharest, Romania

The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is a membership based organisation comprised of leading media and entertainment figures from over 50 countries and 500 companies from all sectors of television including internet, mobile and other technology. The Academy’s yearly schedule of events includes the prestigious International Emmy® Awards Ceremony held in New York, The International Digital Emmy® Awards at MIPTV and a series of industry events such as Academy Day, The International Emmy® World Television Festival with panels on substantive industry topics.

By following the format of the acclaimed Film Festival at Wiener Rathausplatz, the 6th edition of the Music Film Festival in Bucharest, Romania was once again an outstanding success.

Once again the IMZ hosted a Semi-Final Judging Event for the 2011 International Emmy® Awards in the Arts Programming category. The judging event took place on Monday, 20 June 2011 in Vienna in cooperation with the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

The programme, curated by the IMZ, contained operas and concerts such as the „New Year’s Concert 2011“, „The Gustav Mahler Celebration“, „Festkonzert der Wiener Philharmoniker“, „Ein Marschall der Bühne – Weltstars verabschieden Ioan Holender. Von A(nna Netrebko) bis Z(ubin Mehta)“, „Romeo et Juliette“, „Die Münchner Philharmoniker unter Christian Thielemann im Vatikan“, „Three Tenors Concert“, „Gustav Mahler Symphonie No. 4 + 5 at the BBC Proms“ and „Gustav Mahler Symphonie No. 8.“

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Co-organised by ArCub and the City of Bucharest, the festival took place at George Enescu Square, situated in the heart of Bucharest, over five days from 24 June – 2 July. The square was transformed into an oasis of music and dance where approximately 7,000 visitors of all age groups enjoyed classical music in a relaxing environment.

The festival was open air, free of charge and combined with a food and beverage area.

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VIENNA MUSIC FILM FESTIVAL IN YEKATERINBURG 2011

VIENNA MUSIC FILM FESTIVAL IN TOKYO

24 June – 3 July 2011 Yekaterinburg, Russia

12 – 14 August 2011 at Yebisu Garden Palace, Tokyo, Japan

The second edition of the Vienna Music Film Festival in Yekaterinburg was initiated and supervised by the IMZ and the Austrian Cultural Forum in Moscow and very successfully implemented by the Austrian Honorary Consulate in Yekaterinburg in cooperation with various local partners and sponsors.

With great success the second edition of the „Vienna Music Film Festival in Tokyo“ took place at the renowned Yebisu Garden Place. From 12 – 14 August 2011, the concept of the Vienna Rathausplatz Filmfestival was transferred to Tokyo, attracting an audience of approximately 2,000 visitors who enjoyed the free open air screenings of classical concert films reflecting Viennese and Austrian culture in many facets.

Taking place from 24 June to 3 July 2011 in front of the Ural Federal University, the festival was open air, free of charge and combined with a food and beverage area following the concept of the Rathausplatz Filmfestival in Vienna. The programme curated by the IMZ included operas and concerts such as Anna Netrebko & Rolando Villazón in Paris 2007, „Das Traumpaar der Oper“, „Operavox“, „50 Jahre Wiederöffnung der Wiener Staatsoper“, „La Bohéme“, „New Year’s Concert 2011“, „La Traviata im Hauptbahnhof Zürich“, „Lang Lang im Wiener Musikverein 2010“, „Herbert v. Karajan - Gedächtniskonzert mit den Berliner Philharmonikern“, „Jamiroquai plays Avo Session Basel“ and „I Pagliacci“.

From entertaining light music, the “Divertimento No. 17 in D major”, K334 (Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker) to the ardent artistic legacy defined in the sombre soundscape of the “Requiem in d minor”, K626 (Herbert von Karajan, Vienna Philharmonic), Mozart ruled in the programme curated by the IMZ. Further highlights on screen included the “New Year‘s Concert 2011” and the “Concert for Europe at Schloss Schönbrunn 2006”. On two of the three evenings in the spirit of Vienna amid an ambiance of Viennese culture created by vendors offering Austrian food as well as Austrian souvenirs, the film-screenings were preceded by live concerts as a special prelude. The festival was initiated and supervised by the IMZ and organised in cooperation with the Vienna Representative Office in Tokyo, the Austrian Cultural Forum in Tokyo and various local partners. Among the attendees: The Mayor of Shibuya and the Austrian Ambassador in Tokyo, Dr. Jutta Stefan-Bastel.

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FILM FESTIVAL AT WIENER RATHAUSPLATZ 2011 2 July – 4 September 2011 Vienna, Austria More than 520,000 visitors enjoyed the free open air Film Festival in front of Vienna City Hall in Austria. The famous festival was again curated by the IMZ; from 2 July to 4 September 2011 a fine selection of music films, highlights from the fields of classical music, jazz, world music and pop turned a summer hot spot in the City of Vienna into the heart of a vibrant world capital of music.... An important part of the 65 festival evenings with more than 40 different productions paid homage to the art of Gustav Mahler and Franz Liszt. It crowned a splendorous celebration of the traditional and the contemporary, of opera, operetta, classical and modern dance, for regulars, youngsters, lovers, experts, sceptics and novices. The absolute highlights of the festival were the live transmissions of Beethoven’s “Fidelio” from the Bavarian State Opera, Munich (with Jonas Kaufmann as Florestan and Anja Kampe as Leonore) and Verdi’s “Simone Boccanegra” from the Vienna State Opera starring Placido Domingo, whose 70th birthday and 50th anniversary of his stage debut this year provided the perfect occasion for a marvellous Domingo Special featuring several opera film treasures from the archives. His appareance at the Rathausplatz after his performance in the Vienna State Opera and singing “Wien nur Du allein...” topped even the highest expectations of the Viennese Domingo fans.

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VIENNA MUSIC FILM FESTIVAL NEW YORK 29 August 2011 at Tobacco Warehouse, Brooklyn Bridge Park On a beautiful late summer night in the wake of Hurricane Irene, on 29 August 2011, hundreds of classical music and opera fans turned out for the first-ever Vienna Music Film Festival NY in Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Tobacco Warehouse initiated by the IMZ. More than 700 New Yorkers and Austrians – including Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz (and his wife, Jamie), Austrian Deputy Consul Ulrich Frank, IMZ Secretary General Franz Patay, Anja Czekaj-Farber and Monica Yunus, the co-founding director of “Sing for Hope” – enjoyed a live concert by a Julliard string duet, authentic Wiener Schnitzel and a series of film shorts of some of the finest classical music acts in Austria (and throughout Europe). Presented by IMZ and Czekaj Artistic Productions, the free film festival featured performances by Placido Domingo, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Sir Simon Rattle, Franz Welser-Möst, Anna Netrebko, Cecilia Bartoli, Renée Fleming, Diana Damrau, Jonas Kaufmann, Rolando Villazon, Lang Lang and others. The IMZ is looking forward to another successful cooperation for the second edition of the Vienna Music Film Festival NY in 2012!

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IMZ at the 48th ITF Golden Prague

IMZ World Music Films Screenings at WOMEX

15 – 19 October 2011, Žofín Palace, Prague (CZ)

26 – 30 October 2011, Copenhagen

„The World of Music and Dance is Within Your Reach“

For the third and last time in Copenhagen, after five days of good work and tons of amazing music WOMEX successfully completed its 17th edition. With 2250 delegates from 98 countries, 700 companies, 270 stands, 20 conference sessions, 60 acts from 52 countries and 13 movies at the IMZ World Music Film Screenings, WOMEX showed what it takes to be the most important professional market for world music.

At the 48th edition of the ITF Golden Prague the IMZ presented the Golden Prague Premieres and held its first Pitching Session in cooperation with the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). The EBU and the IMZ have once again decided to join forces to promote and strengthen the arts in the audio-visual media! The Golden Prague Premieres (screenings) took place in the Small Hall at Zofin Palace and included the following programmes: „The Vienna State Opera“ (TV Kultura, Russia - the famous opera house as seen through the eyes Russian and other artists) and “The Beauty of the Voice” (Loft, Germany - a documentary about the international opera studio of Mexican tenor Francisco Araiza). The audience received the two Golden Prague Premieres very enthusiastically. On Monday 17 October the EBU and IMZ “Pitching Session“ took place. Following their first jointly organised Pitching Session at Golden Prague, the EBU and the IMZ are looking forward to setting up at least one new original project/event every year, from 2012 to 2014, aimed at prime time international audiences and offered to all members within the EBU and the IMZ. Five projects were pitched to a high profile jury: Bettina Brinkmann (EBU), Marie-Odile Demay (MO Demay Entertainment), Arild Erikstad (NRK), Peter Maniura (BBC), Lothar Mattner (WDR) and Erwin Stürzer (Arthaus Musik GmbH.). As usual the entire festival was open to anyone interested in high quality music and dance programmes and films, with festival participants having the chance to view all competition programmes submitted to the 48th ITF Golden Prague. We look forward to the next Golden Prague festival in October 2012!

The tenth and thus anniversary edition of the IMZ World Music Film Screenings with a collection of 13 thrilling films was not only enthusiastically received but also saw greatly increased attendance figures. On the first screening day, the films took us on moving trips from Andalusia with “Good singing hurts”, over the Gibraltar to hear a “Griot” of Senegal raising his voice and back to Germany with “Global Local – Forays into a new music scene in Cologne” to discover a flourishing new musical landscape. The second day, mainly dedicated to women, introduced rebetiko singer Rosa Eskenazy in “My sweet canary”, followed by the hurricane-like “The Godmother of Rock & Roll Sister Rosetta Tharpe” and another legend, Calypso Rose “The Lioness of the Jungle”. In the afternoon “Mokoomba, from one riverbank to another” provided insight into the life of a young band from Zimbabwe while “Frekuensia Kolombiana” communicated messages of South America’s youth through rap. The last screening day took us to Morocco and the depths of Arab Andalusian music in “Nuba of Gold and Light”. We then flew over to Haiti under the sound of the 62 year old Orchestere Septrional in “When the Drum Is Beating”. Afterwards in “Dharohar (A Legacy)” we saw an enthusiastic musical cooperation bridging cultural and religious divides in India. “Creole Cousins - A portrait of Lindigo in Brazil” revealed a common musical inheritance of two places as far apart as La Reunion and Brazil. Finally “The Baroque Nomade in Ethiopia, on the encounter with the Azmari” took us back to the 17th century in Abyssinia to discover a fusion of European Music and Ethiopian Azmari art. For those who missed it, all is not yet lost! The screening selection as well as a list of all submitted programmes are available on www.worldmusicfilms.com. Finally, many of the movies screened will be part of our non-profit initiative World Music Film on Tour.

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WORLD MUSIC FILMS ON TOUR World Music Films on Tour provides an opportunity to look beyond the familiar. Explore the entire world’s musical traditions, experience the diversity of our fascinating planet and take a journey to exciting destinations. Bringing World Music in film and video to a wider public, in various locations around the world, is the motivation behind this non-commercial distribution project created in 2006 by the IMZ in cooperation with WOMEX. The available programmes: A Devotion With a Dance Step (Italy) A Different Way – Tango with Rodolfo Mederos (Spain/Germany/France) A Long Journey Home (Canada) Africa Live (UK/Senegal) African Underground: Democracy in Dakar (USA) Amadou & Mariam – Dimanche à Bamako (France/Senegal) As Old as My Tongue (UK/Zanzibar) A Song for Copenhagen (Denmark) Beatbox Columbia (Germany) Black and White in Colour (UK) Breaking the Silence – Music in Afghanistan (UK/Afghanistan) Calypso at Dirty Jim's (France/Trinidad & Tobago) Calypso Rose – The Lioness of the Jungle (Trinidad & Tobago) Dharohar (A Legacy) (India) Desert Rebels (France) El Tanbura - Capturing a Vanishing Spirit (Egypt) Fangafrika, Voice of the Voiceless (France) Festival in the Desert: The Tent Sessions (USA/Malia) Footsteps in Africa (USA) From Mambo to Hip Hop: A Bronx Tale (USA)

Improvisation (Palestine) Jalalu’s Dawn (Switzerland) Jazzta Prasta (Bulgaria) Jupiter's Dance (France) La Colombiana (Passing the Torch) (USA) Laya Project (India) Like an Ambassador of His People (Senegal/Germany) Mariem Hassan - The Voice of the Sahara (Spain) Mariza and the Story of Fado (UK/Portugal) Modou the Hang Player (France) Musafir (France) My Sweet Canary (Israel/Grece/Turkey) Parno Graszt – Life with a Hungarian Gypsy Band Princesa de Africa (Spain) Punta Soul (USA/Belize) Ramblers, Roamers, Vagabonds (Hungary) Road to Baleya (Canada) Sevdah: The Bridge That Survived (UK) Shaban (Serbia) Sound of the Soul (USA/Morocco) Sufi Soul – The Mystic Music of Islam (UK) Talam: Bulgaria, Morocco, Sardinia, South-Africa, The North, Vietnam (Switzerland) The Colours of Tea (Spain) The Great Ones of Tlacotalpan (Mexico) The Hand of Fatima (USA) Tomorrow (Italy) Tundé (USA) Voice Over the Bridge (India) Whose Is This Song? (Bulgaria) Wijdan, the Mystery of Gnawa Trance Music (USA)

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dancescreen 2010 – best of screen choreographies (not longer than 15 min.)

DANCE SCREEN ON TOUR Bringing dance films to a wider public and providing exposure beyond the festival circuit for dance in film and video is the motivation for Dance Screen on Tour, a unique, non-profit and entirely non-commercial initiative created in 1999 by the IMZ in association with the SK Culture Foundation, Cologne. Following the successful Dance Screen 1999, 2000, 2002, 2005, 2007 and 2010 at Cinedans, the winning and nominated productions, curated programmes as well as a selection of former dance screen highlights will continue on its global journey. A selection of the available programmes: Admit One (Ireland) Pave Up Paradise (UK) Slip (Canada) Fishpulse – Sorting Hall (Netherlands)

dancescreen 2010 – best of screen documentaries Happy to be so (USA) Passion – Last stop Kinshasa (Germany) Double Take (UK) One Flat Thing Reproduced (France)

dance screen 2010 – best of screen choreographies (not longer than 5 min.) Blue’s not the word (USA) Duo (Mexico) Falling Floral (UK) Fresh – A Spaghetti and Fried Chicken Western (UK) Hannah (UK) Hoop (Canada) Retrograde (Iceland) Shadowed (UK) – Student award winner Slow Dance (Canada) – winner of screen choreography < 5 min Stronger (UK) Tachometer (Germany) Tofu Meets Greens (Canada) Vertiges (Canada)

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Between (Iceland) The wind whispers there is someone behind the tundra (Norway) Chámame (Argentina) – winner of screen choreography < 15 min Flux (Sweden) Horseplay (Netherlands) Looking forward – Man and Woman (Brazil) Pito (New Zealand) Start from Scratch (UK/Greece) Tango de Soledad (UK) There is a Place (UK) Trilogy of Pink (Japan/France/Brazil) Alice (The Netherlands) Body of War (UK) An Ant (Finland) The Neighbour (Norway) Nora (USA) - winner of screen choreography > 15 min NY Export: Opus Jazz (USA) Red Shoes (Canada)

dancescreen 2007 – best of screen choreographies (not longer than 5 min.) Forsaken (Canada), Inearthia (Switzerland), Night Practice (UK) dancescreen 2007 – best of screen choreographies (not longer than 15 min.) Break (New Zealand), Dos Ambientes (Argentina), Film (UK), Insyn (Denmark/Sweden) dancescreen 2007 – best of screen choreographies (more than 15 min.) Horizon of Exile (UK) dancescreen 2007 – best of screen documentaries De ballett en ci en là/Les ballets de ci de là (France) Krishna’s Dancer (Germany)

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Music in the Air

A Documentary to Celebrate 50 Years of IMZ

A journey through the history of classical music on screen

With Herbert von Karajan, Leonard Bernstein, Vladimir Horowitz, Glenn Gould, Sir Colin Davis, Pierre Boulez, Anna Netrebko, Rolando Villazon etc.

A Documentary by Reiner E. Moritz Presented by Poorhouse International Produced by RM CREATIVE

With the Generous Support of Members of the IMZ

Shot in High Definition Running Time 55 minutes

Poorhouse International | 17â&#x20AC;&#x201C;18 Margaret Street London W1W 8RP Tel./Fax O2O 7436 8663 | info@poorhouseintl.co.uk

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Titles 100 Years of Deutsche Oper Berlin..................... 37 45th Festival de La Chaise Dieu Handel The Messiah...........................................114 45th Festival de La Chaise-Dieu Bach & Zelenka................................................... 115 66th International Music Festival Prague Spring 2011............................................. 144 A Boy on a Bicycle Listening to Music...............154 A Concert for New York - New York Philharmonic & Alan Gilbert to mark the 10th Anniversary of 9/11.................................. 1 A feast of the senses Monteverdi at the Comic Opera of Berlin......... 393 A Masked Ball..................................................... 281 A Musical Nativity with John Rutter.................... 43 A Story of Rebirth The Swiss Radio-TelevisionChorus 75 Years from its Foundation............................292 A Surprise in Texas.............................................268 Aaron Neville plays Avo Session......................... 83 Acción! The Story of La Fura dels Baus.............349 Adagio from Mahler 10 - Claudio Abbado, Lucerne Festival Orchestra....................................2 Adelaide of Burgundy...........................................84 Aida at The Chorégies d‘Orange........................116 Akhmatova.......................................................... 186 Aldo Ciccolini and Michiyoshi Inoue at La Roque d‘Anthéron..........................................117 Alice‘s Adventures in Wonderland....................248 All the Prodigies… The Second Encounter.........145 Alonzo King – Poet of Dance............................... 38 Alonzo King Lines Ballet in San Francisco........394 Andrea Bocelli Live in Central Park................... 339 Andrea Chénier................................................... 350 Andreas Vollenweider: The Gentle Resistance....321 Andris Nelsons at the Lucerne Festival (wt)......351 Anna Bolena........................................................253 Anna Bolena.......................................................282 Anna Nicole......................................................... 151 Antoine‘s Four Seasons..................................... 101 Anyone for Demis? When the world invaded the Charts.....................53 Arte Live Web, this week (WT)............................ 16 Atys..................................................................... 187 Austria is Singing............................................... 254 AVE Chamber Choir...........................................298 Bach to the future................................................325 Ballet ‘Don Quixote’ American Ballet Theatre Japan Tour 2011......... 231 Baroque Jewels by Magdalena Kožena............. 146 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2011.................. 54 Behind the Scenes of ‚The Little Mermaid‘......... 75 Being Alice - Adventures in Wonderland............44 Bellini Opera Gala..............................................264 Benny Andersson Orchestra!............................. 326 Berlin Live...........................................................399 Berliner Philharmoniker – “Moving to Modern Times”.................................. 3 Berliner Philharmoniker & Yutaka Sado............158 Billie Holiday: Tribute to Lady Day...................... 17 Bloody daughter................................................ 204 Bolshoi Theatre: Opening Gala 2011...................66 Bolshoi, a Renaissance........................................67 Bravo!.................................................................. 147 Bruckner 5 - Claudio Abbado and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra..............................4 Buchbinder‘s Beethoven.....................................352 Budapest Festival Orchestra at Pleyel................118

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Caligula.............................................................. 404 Capilla Flamenca................................................380 Carmen................................................................. 85 Carnegie Hall 120th Anniversary Concert.........340 Cello Concerto -Antonín Dvořák/ Symphony No. 3 with Organ Camille Saint-Saëns........................................... 216 Cello of the Trenches......................................... 174 Cendrillon...........................................................205 Chic feat. Nile Rodgers play Avo Session...........86 Children of Paradise........................................... 188 Choir of Choirs................................................... 327 Choir of the Year..................................................381 Christian Thielemann Behind the Scenes of the Salzburg Festival....... 311 Christian Thielemann and Maurizio Pollini in Dresden (wt)....................... 354 Classic Arts Showcase......................................... 113 Claudio Abbado conducts the Berliner Philharmoniker: Tribute to Gustav Mahler....... 159 Colin Davis - The Man and His Music.............. 271 COMING HOME 75 Years Israel Philharmonic Orchestra............160 Coppelia...............................................................335 Cosi fan tutte...................................................... 336 Crazy Horse....................................................... 206 Cry Out and Shout............................................. 239 CT LIVE - The Beatles Night.............................. 148 Cuba, the Miracle of the Dance..........................175 Dance! The Most Incredible Thing about Modern Dance............................................55 Dancing at the Frontier......................................226 Daniel Barenboim & Pierre Boulez – The Liszt Piano Concertos..................................... 5 Daniel Barenboim on Music and Politics.............6 Danish National Symphony Orchestra: 4 Symphonies....................................................... 87 Darf ich bitten? Behind the Scenes of a Vienna Dancing School....................................312 Death in Venice - a film to mark the Britten centenary in 2013............................. 197 Delius - a Poem of Life and Love....................... 198 Dimmu Borgir and Kork................................... 240 Dionysos - An Opera Fantasy by Wolfgang Rihm................................................... 142 Don Giovanni..................................................... 283 Don Pasquale.....................................................104 Dove è amore è gelosia.......................................112 Earth, Wind & Fire Experience Feat. Al McKay play Avo Session..................................88 Echo Award......................................................... 388 Elisabeth Schwarzkopf - Her Master‘s Voice.....255 Elliot Carter at the Slowind Festival 2011..........299 Eroica.................................................................. 328 Eugene Onegin................................................... 272 Eugene Onegin....................................................355 Eugene Onegin Happiness that might have been...................... 273 Europa Concert 2011............................................ 56 Europa Konzert 2011 from Madrid.....................161 European Jazz Orchestra in Tallinn 2011........... 155 Eurovision Young Dancers 2011........................ 241 Falco - Do I have to die in order to live..............313 Farinelli, Il Castrato Handel and Porpora Arias..................................119 Faust................................................................... 189 Faust Songs........................................................ 256 Fayçal Karoui...................................................... 176 Festivals - Wacken 2011.................................... 400 Festive Advent Concert from Dresden..............389 Five Soloistis in Salon Gvozdanović..................137

Footwork & Fugues The Flying Bach Documentary........................... 162 Francesca Da Rimini.......................................... 120 Francesco Tristano - My Cage........................... 395 Frankenstein‘s Wedding . . . Live in Leeds.......... 57 Franz Liszt - The Pilgrimage Years.....................157 Gabriel Fauré - Pavane, Elégie- Psalm, Super flumina Babylonis, Jean Racine‘s Hymn, Requiem................................................. 217 Gala from Berlin 2011......................................... 163 Gardenia...............................................................28 George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band.................... 322 Giuseppe Verdi: La Traviata.................................39 God‘s Composer..................................................46 Goldie‘s Band: By Royal Appointment................47 Gordon Getty, Composer..................................269 Gozaran - Time Passing..................................... 164 Grandissimo Verdi !............................................121 Gustav Mahler in Ljubljana 1881-1882...............300 Gypsy Music and Big Band: Imer Traja Brizani, Amala and the Big Band RTV Slovenia....................................... 301 Happy Birthday, David Zinman......................... 323 Hauskonzerte at Palais Neustein...................... 314 Henryk Mikołaj Górecki - Symphony No. 3.......344 Herbert Blomstedt - Teaching Music (WT).......235 Hilary, what‘s next? - An Encore (WT).............. 236 Hollywood in Vienna.......................................... 257 Hope Japan..........................................................177 Hubert Parry: The Prince and the Composer....199 Hubert Soudant and the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana......................................... 293 Hubert von Goisern in Concert..........................315 Hubert von Goisern’s Wirtshaustour................ 316 Hugh Laurie: Let Them Talk A Celebration of New Orleans Blues................. 341 Human Planet Prom............................................ 58 Igor Levit - My Liszt............................................396 Igor Moisseiev Ballet............................................68 Imago Sloveniae/Podoba Slovenije 2011 The concert of the best Slovene musicians......302 International Piano Festival at La Roque d’Antheron - Closing Concert - Part one........... 122 International Piano Festival at La Roque d’Antheron - Closing Concert - Part two............123 Intolleranza 1960............................................... 178 ISANG YUN – Composer between North and South Korea.......................................... 7 Israel Philharmonic Orchestra: The 75th Anniversary.......................................... 165 Jacques Loussier Solo Piano.............................. 223 James Levine - America‘s Maestro.................... 105 Janet Jackson - Taking Control............................. 59 Jazz Night Piano - Tigran Hamasyan................ 124 Jedermann Remixed........................................... 258 Joan of Arc............................................................89 John Cage - the sky‘s the limit........................... 397 John Cage – The Sound Traveller..........................8 John Nelson St. Matthew Passion The Journey.........................................................207 Jordi Savall: Jean-Philippe Rameau in Versailles..........................................................69 Jordy Savall, The Concert of Nations................ 179 Juditha Triumphans Oratorio in 2 parts............125 Julius Caesar.......................................................190 Juraj Valcuha and the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana.........................................294 Kathleen Ferrier..................................................208 Keb‘ Mo‘ plays Avo Session................................ 90 Keeping Score: Mahler: Origins and Legacy.....308 Kojiki................................................................... 232

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Mozart Concert Arias & Haffner Symphony Claudio Abbado, Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Christine Schäfer.................................................. 12 Mozart Requiem................................................. 384 Music in the Air.................................................. 275 Music Inside Paolo Fresu‘s Jazz Experience........................... 295 Musical approaches – with Daniel Barenboim.........................................31 Nabucco................................................................ 21 Nabucco.............................................................. 265 New Year‘s Concert from La Fenice 2012......... 285 New Year‘s Eve Concert from the Semperoper.................................................. 391 Nicholas Angelich plays Bach‘s Goldberg Variations............................................................ 319 Nikolaï Lugansky plays Liszt and Rachmaninoff at La Roque d‘Anthéron............. 130 Nobuyuki Tsujii Live Debut from Carnegie Hall......................................................270 Nutcracker in 3D.................................................171 Octopus................................................................22 Of Love, Death and Beyond Exploring Mahler‘s............................................. 143 OH, HARMONICA! – The 12th International Festival of Harmonica................ 304 Opera‘s Fallen Women....................................... 49 Orchestre de Paris - James Conlon Gil Shaham - Orchestre de Paris Choir.............. 131 Orchestre de Paris, Paavo Järvi, Dang Thai Son.....................................................132 Orchestre de Paris, Salle Pleyel Pierre Boulez.......................................................133 Orlanda Furioso by Antonio Vivaldi.................. 102 Orpheus and Eurydice....................................... 358 Oslo Jazzfestival - opening night....................... 243 Our House, When the Walls Start Talking (wt)............................................... 305 Paris 1945-1968, the cabaret‘s time..................... 23 Patricia Kopatchinskaja: Living the Music........ 324 Paul Anka plays Avo Session...............................93 Per Flauto........................................................... 385 Peter & The Wolf.................................................153 Peter Grimes.......................................................286 Piano Concerto No. 2 Johannes Brahms/ Symphony No. 7 Antonín Dvořák.................................................. 218 Piano Concerto No. 2 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky..................................... 219 Piano Night - Liszt-The Complete Years of Pilgrimage........................................... 134 Pierre-Laurent Aimard plays Franz Liszt - 2011 Ruhr Piano Festival................. 32 Pink Martini play Avo Session.............................94 Playing against Time..........................................276 Prima Donna Nathalie Stutzmann Orfeo 55.....320 Prince - A Purple Reign........................................ 61 Public Enemy - Prophets of Rage........................62 Queen Sonja International Music Competition............................................244 Radetzkymarch...................................................401 Radiorock............................................................ 149 Rain.....................................................................228 Raising Etoiles......................................................24 Raymonda........................................................... 287 Régine Crespin‘s Gala.........................................191 Renata Pokupić in Dubrovnik/ Max Emanuel Cenčić in Dubrovnik................... 139 Requiem Mass....................................................266 Rhapsody in Blue. 2011/12 LA Phil Opening Gala........................................... 77

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The Cid................................................................ 338 The Clemency of Titus......................................... 72 The enchanted lake - Anatoly Lyadov/ Violin Concerto No. 2 - Sergei Prokofiev/ Petrushka - Igor Stravinsky................................ 221 The Flute Concert of Sanssouci...........................96 The Flying Dutchman.........................................250 The Four Seasons, Vivaldi................................... 27 The Giacomo Variations.....................................173 The grand opening of the Ljubljana Festival 2011....................................... 307 The Great Battle..................................................183 The History of an Opera..................................... 111 The Ice Skaters....................................................251 The Jussi Björling Saga...................................... 330 The Little Mermaid...............................................80 The Makropulos Affair......................................... 81 The Manics - Back to Blackwood.........................63 The Mass of Striggio.......................................... 184 The Mastersingers of Nuremberg..................... 194 The Most Incredible Thing..................................64 The Mystery of Coppélia....................................280 The Night of the Queen.....................................386 The Philharmonics Waltzes by Johann Strauss’ arranged by Schoenberg, Berg and Webern............................ 14 The Postman........................................................97 The Roads to Friendship 2011.......................... 290 The Robbers.........................................................185 The Sleeping Beauty............................................. 73 The Sound of Music – A Musical comes home......................................317 The Spira Mirabilis‘s Spring.............................. 214 The Spring.......................................................... 195 The St. Thomas Boys Choir..................................15 The Thomashefskys........................................... 343 The Turn of the Screw........................................196 The Ways of Libor Pešek - Impressionism........ 150 The Woman without a Shadow.........................360 Thielemann conducts Faust................................98 Thielemann conducts Strauss.............................82 Tonträger 2011................................................... 402 Tord Gustavsen Ensemble at la Roque d‘Anthéron...........................................135 Tosca................................................................... 252 Truls Mørk; Dvořák cello-concerto....................246 Turandot............................................................. 291 Tutto Pergolesi: L‘Olimpiade............................. 363 Tutto Pergolesi: La Salustia...............................364 Tutto Pergolesi: La serva padrona/ The Servant Turned Mistress............................ 365 Tutto Pergolesi: Lo frate ‘nnamorato/ The Brother in Love............................................366 Tutto Verdi: Attila............................................... 367 Tutto Verdi: Falstaff............................................368 Tutto Verdi: I due Foscari/ The Two Foscari....369 Tutto Verdi: I Lombardi alla prima crociata/ The Lombards on the First Crusade.................. 370 Tutto Verdi: I vespri siciliani...............................371 Tutto Verdi: Il corsaro/ The Corsair.................. 372 Tutto Verdi: Il trovatore/ The Troubadour.........373 Tutto Verdi: La forza del destino/ The Force of Destiny.......................................... 374 Tutto Verdi: Messa da Requiem.........................375 Tutto Verdi: Nabucco......................................... 376 Tutto Verdi: Simon Boccanegra......................... 377 Tutto Verdi: Un ballo in maschera/ A Masked Ball..................................................... 378 Tutto Verdi: Un giorno di regno........................ 379 Vadim Repin - a Magician of Sound....................99 Vasily Petrenko and Oslo Philharmonic

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Orchestra............................................................247 Verbier Festival 2011...........................................215 Verdi: The Director‘s Cut..................................... 52 Verdi‘s Othello.......................................................51 Violin Concerto - Benjamin Britten/ Harold in Italy - Hector Berlioz/ Daphnis and Chloé - Maurice Ravel..................222 Vivaldi Festival!...................................................267 Vollmond by Pina Bausch....................................36 W Verdi, Giuseppe.............................................297 Wagner at the Wermland Opera........................331 Waldbühne 2011................................................. 172 Waltzing Vienna................................................. 263 War Requiem...................................................... 387 When Rock goes Acoustic................................... 65 Wierba & Schmidt Quintet................................ 348 Winterthur City is composing an opera!........... 334 World Orchestra for Peace at the Abu Dhabi Festival............................................. 362 Wozzeck.............................................................. 332 Wozzeck................................................................74 Yaron Herman Trio at La Roque d‘Anthéron.... 136 Yefim Bronfman, Andris Nelsons and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra at Lucerne Festival..................................................100 Young Jazz...........................................................333 zdf@bauhaus.....................................................403

TV Directors Adamopoulos, Leonid................................ 384, 386 Argerich, Stéphanie........................................... 204 Atteln, Günter........................................................15 Bärlocher, Roli........... 83, 86, 88, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94 Bataillon, Vincent.......................................... 73, 335 Batthyany, Béla................................................... 324 Becker, Oliver.......................................................42 Bergant, Mina.....................................................299 Berger, Christian................................................... 78 Bernardinello, Mando........................................292 Best, Dominic.......................................................44 Beyer, Michael.............1, 3, 4, 10, 11, 12, 29, 76, 82, 95, 158, 159, 359 Béziat, Philippe..................................... 27, 101, 404 Binding, Dorothee............................... 235, 236, 237 Blackhurst, Craig..................................................47 Blondeel, Jan....................................................... 383 Boote, Werner.....................................................262 Borgwardt, Uffe.................................................... 87 Boulotte-Cousineau, Ezra..................................229 Bozzolini, Angelo................................................157 Braekevelt, Ruben....................................... 380, 385 Breisach, Felix.......................................254, 257, 351 Bridcut, John................................197, 198, 199, 203 Broughton, Simon................................................ 45 Brülhart, Stephan........................................322, 323 Bull, Stein-Roger................................................. 239 Caillat, Gérald............................................. 210, 214 Caïozzi, Denis...................................... 120, 337, 338 Capalbo, Marco....................................................79 Caresten, Fredrik.................................................333 Carsen, Robert.................................................... 283 Cassenti, Frank..................................................... 17 Cassiers, Guy......................................................288 Castiglione, Enrico.................... 264, 265, 266, 267 Cellarius, Claudia................................................. 33 Chudoba, Rudolf.................................................145 Cloetens, Johan.................................................. 387 Conders, Erik...................................... 241, 244, 247 Conrad, Beatrix.....................................................96 D’Agostino, Pietro................................................ 85 Darvas, János.............................................. 160, 165 Dauterich, Janine.................................................. 75 Davidson, John Paul........................................... 341 Diamond, Matthew............................................ 342 Dibb, Mike..........................................................276 Dolezal, Rudi.......................................................313 Dolinar, Danica.................................................. 305 Dramlić, Svetlana...............................................304 Dvornik, Klemen.........................................298, 307 Ehrhardt, Bettina................................................ 142 Engel, Christoph..................................................352 Fang, Serene....................................................... 278 Favitski, Alexis de.................................................22 Fenkart, Paul......................................................... 75 Feudel, Ute............................................. 2, 100, 352 Fibich, Karina.......................................261, 353, 360 Forssblad, Johan..................................................331 Franc, Emmanuelle............................................ 103 Frère, Jo............................................................... 382 Froemke, Susan.................................................. 105 Gebauer, Florian..................................................312 Gentot, Laurent.................................................. 170 Gisiger, Sabine................................................... 225 Glas, Sébastien....................................................215 Goberg, Anne Kjersti..........................................242 Goetghebeur, François.......................................118 Goldmann, Christoph........................................349

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Gordon, Gordon................................................. 101 Grimm, Thomas.............................................41, 80 Grist, Alison..........................................................46 Grønlund, Ole Jørgen........................................ 240 Grube, Thomas............................................ 35, 390 Hale, James..........................................................62 Halvorson, Gary......................... 104, 106, 309, 343 Hampton, Trevor..........................................57, 200 Häner, Beat......................................................... 322 Haschek, Heidelinde......................................... 260 Haswell, Jonathan.................... 46, 48, 51, 248, 252 Havelka, Ondřej...................................................112 Hens, Dieter....................................................... 223 Hershey, Joan....................................................... 75 Hof, Frank................................................... 388, 392 Honselaar, Joost.................................................250 Horn, David........................................................ 339 Hoyer, Myriam................................................39, 40 Huw, Rhodri...........................54, 56, 58, 61, 65, 161 Isabelle, Soulard...................................................26 Israel, Robert......................................................284 Janelle, Mario......................................................228 Jeuland, Yves........................................................ 23 Jirásek, Pavel....................................................... 149 Jones, Richard.....................................................286 Juban, Pierre-Martin............................ 212, 214, 215 Karpe, Leif...........................................................349 Karrer, Cristina....................................................321 Kastelic, Bojan.................................................... 305 Kasten, Henning..............................9, 163, 169, 172 Kemp, Francesca................................................. 151 Kendall, Anna-Célia.............................................211 Kennard, David...................................................308 Kent, Don.............................................................. 18 Kidel, Mark.......................................................... 277 King Dabbs, Andy......................................43, 45, 52 Kobayashi, Goro................................................. 233 Kodad, Libor....................................................... 146 Kohno, Takuo..................................................... 234 Kowalewski, Józef........................................345, 347 Krause, Tilo..................................................... 14, 98 Kurlandsky, Jesper.............................................. 328 Large, Brian........... 97, 107, 108, 109, 167, 253, 340 Leblé, Christian.................................................... 131 Leconte, Corentin........................................124, 136 Leutzendorff, Matthias................................166, 173 Levillain, Fabrice................................................. 180 Lloyd, Phyllida......................................................152 Loisil, Jean Pierre.................................................132 Lundberg, Camilla...............................................325 MacGibbon, Ross.................. 64, 153, 201, 202, 251 Malzer, Elisabeth.......................................... 34, 389 Mancini, Tiziano.......84, 89, 355, 357, 358, 361, 363, 364, 365, 367, 368, 369, 370, 371, 372, 373, 374, 375, 376, 377, 378, 379 Maniura, Peter......................................................50 Maravič, Njegoš................................................. 301 Mariani, Lorenzo................................................ 281 Marie, Françoise...................................................24 Marklund Wangler, Petra................................... 329 Martin, François René.......... 117, 121, 122, 123, 130, 133, 134, 135, 216, 220, 221 Martin, Hélène................................................... 218 Massip, Vincent.................................... 114, 115, 336 Metge, Stéphane..................................................70 Méth, Agnes....................................................... 354 Miller, Allan............................................................8 Minini Merot, Roberto....................................... 295 Mirow, Benedict... 171, 235, 236, 238, 393, 394, 396 Moritz, Reiner E........................... 271, 273, 275, 280 Motyl, Tomasz....................................................344

Narboni, Louise...................................207, 213, 218 Necek, Barbara................................................... 263 Neubert, Jens...................................................... 334 Neumüller, Robert.............................................. 259 Normand, Bertrand............................................279 Nuni, Sharon...................................................... 256 Offen, Sven........................................................ 400 Olip, Milena........................................................300 Õun, Ülle............................................................. 155 Paquin, Guillaume..............................................226 Pasternak, Iossif...................................................20 Pedrini, Roberta......................... 293, 294, 296, 297 Perelsztejn, Diane..............................................208 Perrot, Jean-Philippe........................... 318, 319, 320 Phillips, Suzanne............................................ 55, 60 Pradetto, Wilma...................................................317 Prah, Igor............................................................ 303 Rasmussen, Arne................................................. 87 Rebois, Marie-Hélène........................................... 19 Reich, Carina....................................................... 332 Riedl, Lothar....................................................... 314 Robbins, Andy......................................................49 Roos, Theo.......................................................... 393 Roos, Theo..........................................................398 Rosen, Peter....................................... 268, 269, 270 Rossacher, Hannes....................... 81, 258, 391, 399 Roussillon, François........... 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196 Russell, James......................................................63 Saffa, Joan...........................................................308 Sánchez Lansch, Enrique...................... 5, 32, 37, 77 Sardi, Lorena........................................................ 21 Scheffer, Frank.................................................... 164 Schmoll, Jochen.................................................. 162 Schönhofer, Peter.......................................393, 402 Schulz, Eric.......................................................... 311 Scourfield, Gethin..................................................53 Šimerda, Tomáš................................................. 144 Simmonet, Olivier................. 25, 102, 119, 125, 126, 205, 209, 219, 222 Sládek, Jan.......................................................... 150 Smaczny, Paul........................................6, 13, 15, 31 Soma, Kazuhiro...................................................231 Soma, Kazuhiro.................................................. 233 Sommer, Andy................................................69, 74 Soulard, Isabelle....................127, 128, 129, 215, 217 Spiro, Anaïs.........................................................215 Starr, Jason......................................................... 143 Steinaecker, Thomas von................................... 397 Stocker, Marita..................................................... 38 Stodtmeier, Maria.................................................. 7 Stroński, Waldemar.................................... 346, 348 Suchánek, Martin................................................ 111 Šuligoj, Jaka........................................................302 Švigelj, Tomaž.................................................... 303 Sydow, Johan von............................................... 330 Szyber, Bogdan................................................... 332 Teague, Colin........................................................ 57 Tischler, Sebastian............................................. 162 TrelinskiI, Mariusz.............................................. 291 Trostel, Sandra................................................... 395 Truffault, Philippe................................................. 16 Trump, Robin.......................................................47 Utsumi, Masami................................................ 232 Valkna, Helen...................................................... 155 Valverde, Richard................................................116 Vaněk, Stanislav................................................. 148 Veber, Erle.................................................... 154, 156 Vegheim, Torstein...................... 241, 243, 245, 246 Vejslík, Petr......................................................... 147 Vermeiren, Misjel....................................... 272, 274

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Choreographers Ashton, Frederick................................................251 Balanchine, George.................................... 167, 342 Bart, Jean-Guillaume.......................................... 195 Bart, Patrice.........................................................335 Bassil, Vartan...................................................... 162 Bates, Terry John............................................... 209 Bourne, Matthew........................................201, 202 Brunelle, Virginie................................................226 Clarke, Martha....................................................284 Collins, Aletta...................................................... 151 De Frutos, Javier...................................................64 Decouflé, Philippe................................................22 Gil, Jean-Charles..................................................116 Giraudeau, Philippe........................................... 180 Gravel, Frédérick................................................226 Grigorovich, Yuri............................................66, 73 Hart, Matthew.....................................................153 Howell, Ron...........................................................51 Kanamori, Jo....................................................... 233 King, Alonzo................................................. 38, 394 Kivitar, Kati..........................................................154 Martinez, José..................................................... 188 Moisseiev, Igor.....................................................68 Neumeier, John.............................................. 75, 80 Petipa, Marius.............................................231, 287 Platel, Alain...........................................................28 Ratmansky, Alexei................................................66 Reich, Carina....................................................... 332 Roo, Jamie.......................................................... 143 Runacre-Temple, Morgann............................... 200 Scozzi, Laura......................................................205 St-Pierre, Dave....................................................226 Szyber, Bogdan................................................... 332 Tajouiti, Ana....................................................... 334 Wheeldon, Christopher................................44, 248

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