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« A ravishing stage production offering the spectator a thrilling interpretation of Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece through contemporary dance »

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ENTERTAINMENT GMBH

MUSIC IN THE TIME OF THE GREAT WAR A Three-Part Documentary

Arnold Schรถnberg

Maurice Ravel

Anton Webern

The new SeaSon

Alban Berg

sold in more than 80 countries worldwide.

ENTERTAINMENT GMBH

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Avant Première 2014 catalogue is published by IMZ – International Music + Media Centre Stiftgasse 29 1070 Vienna – Austria T +43 (0)1 889 03 15 F +43 (0)1 889 03 15 17 office@imz.at www.imz.at Editor responsible Franz Patay, Secretary General IMZ Editor in chief Marion Vera Forster, Editor Katharina Jeschke, Director IMZ Christian von der Recke, Project Manager Editorial team Linda Esslinger, Project Manager Astrid Hafner, Project Manager Design, Production Team Rothbauer – office@studio02.at The editor reserves the right not to be responsible for the correctness, completeness or quality of the provided contents. Liability claims regarding damage caused by the use of any information provided, including any kind of information which is incomplete or incorrect, will therefore be rejected.

Companies with Screening Day A–Z AVANT PREMIÈRE SCREENINGS 2014 About IMZ

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ACCENTUS Music GmbH & Co. KG, Germany Allegro Films, UK ARTE Deutschland, Germany ARTE France, France Arthaus Musik GmbH, Germany BBC Music Television, UK Bel Air Media, France Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images GmbH, Austria Clasart Classic, Germany Classic Arts Showcase, USA C Major Entertainment GmbH, Germany Czech Philharmonic, Czech Republic Czech Television, Czech Republic DEF Media GmbH, Germany Electric Sky, UK EuroArts Music International GmbH, Germany France Télévisions, France François Roussillon et Associés, France gebrueder beetz filmproduktion, Germany Idéale Audience, France Kobalt Productions GmbH, Germany Leopard Films, UK Les Films Jack Fébus, France LGM Télévision, France London Symphony Orchestra, UK makido film, Austria MODemay Entertainment, Canada NHK – Japan Broadcasting Corporation, Japan NRK – Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, Norway Opéra de Paris Production, France ORF, Austria ORF-Enterprise GmbH & Co KG, Austria Pan Dream SRL, Italy Pars Media, Germany Peter Rosen Productions, Inc., USA Poorhouse International Ltd., UK RAI – Radiotelevisione Italiana SpA, Italy Rhombus Media Inc., Canada Riddle Films Inc., Canada Royal Conservatoire, The Hague, Netherlands RSI – Radiotelevisione svizzera, Switzerland RTV / TV Slovenija, Slovenia SRF – Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, Switzerland Screensart Ltd., Israel ServusTV, Austria Sombrero & Co., France Sounding Images, Germany SVT – Sveriges Television, Sweden Telmondis, France THIRTEEN Productions LLC for WNET, USA Unitel GmbH & Co. KG, Germany VRT – Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep, Belgium YLE – Yleisradio Oy, Finland ZDF/3sat, Germany TVP Kultura | addendum

INDICES Titles Directors Choreographers

Screening Schedule 9h30

Sunday, 9 February

11h30

Monday, 10 February

Tuesday, 11 February

Wednesday, 12 February

SRF – Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen

Pan Dream SRL

Peter Rosen Productions, Inc.

Bel Air Media

MODemay Entertainment

Classic Arts Showcase

Kobalt Productions GmbH

Rhombus Media Inc.

RAI – Radiotelevisione Italiana SpA

Telmondis

Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images GmbH

LGM Télévision

Sombrero & Co.

ServusTV

ZDF/3sat

NHK – Japan Broadcasting Corporation

Les Films Jack Fébus

ARTE France

C Major Entertainment GmbH

ACCENTUS Music GmbH & Co. KG

Clasart Classic

Opéra de Paris Production

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Czech Television Electric Sky

Allegro Films

ZDF/3sat

Unitel GmbH & Co. KG

EuroArts Music International GmbH

Royal Conservatoire, The Hague

London Symphony Orchestra

France Télévisions

Arthaus Musik GmbH

Wiener Staatsoper

ARTE Deutschland

THIRTEEN Productions LLC for WNET

Poorhouse International Ltd.

Riddle Films Inc.

François Roussillon et Associés

RTV / TV Slovenija

BBC MUSIC TELEVISION

Pars Media

ZDF

Screensart Ltd.

Idéale Audience

VRT – Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep

gebrueder beetz filmproduktion

DEF Media GmbH

ORF

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ORF-Enterprise GmbH & Co KG 10 min. Break SVT – Sveriges Television Leopard Films Sounding Images TVP Kultura makido film Czech Philharmonic End approx. 18:30

NRK – Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation

RSI – Radiotelevisione svizzera

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YLE – Yleisradio Oy

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TUE 11 ACCENTUS Music GmbH & Co. KG

TUE 11 Opéra de Paris Production

TUE 11 Allegro Films

SUN 9 ORF

TUE 11 ARTE Deutschland

SUN 9 ORF -Enterprise GmbH & Co KG

WED 12 ARTE France SUN 9 Arthaus Musik GmbH

B TUE 11 BBC MUSIC TELEVISION MON 10 Bel Air Media TUE 11 Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images GmbH

P TUE 11 Pan Dream SRL SUN 9 Pars Media WED 12 Peter Rosen Productions, Inc. MON 10 Poorhouse International Ltd.

R WED 12 RAI – Radiotelevisione Italiana SpA

MON 10 C Major Entertainment GmbH

TUE 11 Rhombus Media Inc.

MON 10 Clasart Classic

TUE 11 Riddle Films Inc.

WED 12 Classic Arts Showcase SUN 9 Czech Philharmonic WED 12 Czech Television

D MON 10 DEF Media GmbH

E WED 12 Electric Sky TUE 11 EuroArts Music International GmbH

F TUE 11 France Télévisions SUN 9 François Roussillon et Associés

G SUN 9 gebrueder beetz filmproduktion

I SUN 9 Idéale Audience

K MON 10 Kobalt Productions GmbH

L SUN 9 Leopard Films TUE 11 Les Films Jack Fébus WED 12 LGM Télévision MON 10 London Symphony Orchestra

M SUN 9 makido film TUE 11 MODemay Entertainment

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WED 12 Royal Conservatoire, The Hague MON 10 RSI – Radiotelevisione svizzera MON 10 RTV / TV Slovenija

S TUE 11 Screensart Ltd. TUE 11 ServusTV MON 10 Sombrero & Co. SUN 9 Sounding Images MON 10 SRF – Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen SUN 9 SVT – Sveriges Television

T MON 10 Telmondis SUN 9 THIRTEEN Productions LLC for WNET SUN 9 TVP Kultura

U MON 10 Unitel GmbH & Co. KG

V MON 10 VRT – Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep

W MON 10 Wiener Staatsoper

Y WED 12 YLE – Yleisradio Oy

Z MON 10 ZDF WED 12 ZDF/3sat

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AVANT PREMIÈRE SCREENINGS 2014 Sunday, 9 February 2014 Arthaus Musik GmbH • Peter Grimes On Aldeburgh Beach • The Art Of Sasha Waltz THIRTEEN Productions LLC for WNET • Afternoon Of A Faun: Tanaquil LeClercq • Barbra Streisand: Back To Brooklyn • Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love • Rejoice! With Itzhak Perlman And Cantor Meir Helfgot (WT) • Steve Martin And Edie Brickell: Love Has Come For You In Concert (WT) • Sting: The Last Ship (WT) François Roussillon et Associés • Ariadne On Naxos • Ciboulette • Don Giovanni • Hippolyte And Aricie • Rigoletto Pars Media • Breath Of The Gods • Country Roads – The Heartbeat Of America Idéale Audience • Absolute Prokofiev • Annecy Classic Festival 2013 • Così Fan Tutte • Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau – Last Words • Don Giovanni • Grigory Sokolov Live At Philharmonie Berlin • Maurizio Pollini At Salle Pleyel • The Magic Flute – Die Zauberflöte • The Perfect American • Verbier Festival 2013 gebrueder beetz filmproduktion • Gardenia – Before The Last Curtain Falls • Midsummer Night's Tango • The Beethoven Files • The Leander Files • The Wagner Files ORF • • • • • • • • • •

An Evening With Armin Mueller-Stahl Christmas In Vienna 2013 Don Carlo La Fanciulla Del West Places Of Childhood Summer Gala Concert – Grafenegg 2013 The Magic Flute – Die Zauberflöte The Merchant Of Venice The Other Tchaikovsky War Requiem

ORF-Enterprise GmbH & Co KG • La Cambiale Di Matrimonio • La Straniera • Lucia Di Lammermoor • Orlando • Wall Street Of Voices – The Most Important International Singing Competition

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SVT – Sveriges Television • Housekeeper Wanted • Jenny Wilson • Quartet! • Streaming For The People • The Deadly Sins Leopard Films • Bach: A Passionate Life • Bussell On Ballerinas • Death In Venice • Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty Sounding Images • 66 Women • To Russia With Love – Human Rights Concert • Wild In Art – Six-part Series makido film • Georg Kreisler Doesn't Exist • Liedestoll – Concert In Frankenthal • Liedestoll – Mad About Music • Minds Apart – Richard Strauss And Kurt Weill • Wagner Madness! • Wagner Versus Verdi – Documentary Series Czech Philharmonic • Dvořák Sketches (WT)

Monday, 10 February 2014 SRF – Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen • Christmas Concert With Capella Gabetta • Jazz In Switzerland – A Music Documentary In 3 Parts • World Class On The Lake – The Lucerne Festival Story Bel Air Media • Aida • Beethoven Piano Concertos 1 & 5 • Boris Godunov • Elena • Follies • La Bayadère • Prince Igor • The Tsar's Bride • Yuri Grigorovich, Bolshoi's Golden Age Kobalt Productions GmbH • Kraftwerk Telmondis • Astana Opera – Opening Gala Concert • Cavalleria Rusticana • Cinderella • Claude • Giselle • Johannes Brahms, Symphony No. 4 In E Minor • La Fanciulla Del West • La Traviata • La Traviata • Les Adieux

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Les Enfants Terribles Manon Lescaut Mariinsky II Opening Gala Pagliacci Romeo And Juliet Shalyapin Gala Shostakovich Cycle: Cello Concerto No. 2 Stradella Sunday In The Park With George The Nutcracker

Sombrero & Co. • Alice Sara Ott With Francesco Tristano And Avi Avital • Antoine Tamestit And Cédric Tiberghien • Bring Me Paléo • Franz Ferdinand At Festival Rock En Seine 2013 • Joshua Redman Quartet At Jazz Sous Les Pommiers – Coutances 2013 • Shani Diluka With Quatuor Ébène And Valentin Erben • Sigur Rós At Paléo Festival 2013 NHK – Japan Broadcasting Corporation • Murray Perahia Piano Recital 2013 In Tokyo • New National Theatre Tokyo – Così Fan Tutte • Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto Gig • The Book Of Tears • The Mystery Of Stradivarius • Tokyo String Quartet – The Last Concert In Japan C Major Entertainment GmbH • 125 Years Of The Royal Concertgebouw Amsterdam: Anniversary Gala • 125 Years Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra: Birthday Concert • Aimee Mann Plays Baloise Session • Daniel Hope – The Secrets Of The Violin • Daniel Hope – Vivaldi Four Seasons Recomposed By Max Richter • Eric Clapton Plays Baloise Session • Erwin Schrott – Rojotango • Festive Advent Concert 2013 • Giuseppe Verdi: Otello • Gloria Estefan – The Standards • Gloria Estefan Plays Baloise Session • Paths Through The Labyrinth – The Composer Krzysztof Penderecki • Patricia Kaas Plays Baloise Session • Pavarotti – A Voice For The Ages • Plácido Domingo Live At Loreley • Randy Crawford And Joe Sample Play Baloise Session • Renée Fleming – Vienna At The Turn Of The 20th Century • Rossini Opera Festival Pesaro: L'Italiana In Algeri • Salzburg Festival 2013: Così Fan Tutte • Sammy Davis Jr. – Live In Germany • Soulpower • The Best Of Hurricane 2013 • The Best Of Wacken Open Air 2013 • The Piano Guys Live At Red Butte Garden • Two Cellos – Live At Arena Zagreb Clasart Classic • Maria Stuarda • Mariss Jansons Conducts Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 • Mariss Jansons Conducts Beethoven's Symphonies • Mariss Jansons Conducts Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique • Mariss Jansons Conducts Verdi's Messa Da Requiem • Orfeo Ed Euridice • Parsifal • Rigoletto • Un Ballo In Maschera

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RSI – Radiotelevisione svizzera • 365 • Celebrating Giuseppe Verdi • Dans Les Coulisses: Verdi's Requiem Backstage • In The Name Of Classicism • Sous L'Empire D'Amour • Verdi's Requiem: A Meditation On Eternity Unitel GmbH & Co. KG • Beethoven – The Complete Violin Sonatas • Brahms Cycle – Piano Concerto No. 2, Symphony No. 2 • Brahms Cycle – Violin Concerto, Symphony No. 4 • Capriccio • Charles Dutoit / NHK Symphony Orchestra: Works By Takemitsu & Hosokawa, Berlioz – Symphonie Fantastique • Daniel Barenboim/West-Eastern Divan Orchestra: Works By Wagner & Verdi • Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg • Falstaff • Guillaume Tell • Haydn – The Seasons / Die Jahreszeiten • Jedermann • Joseph Calleja: A Tribute To Mario Lanza • La Sonnambula • Mahler – Symphony No. 8 • Midori, Lorin Maazel / Münchner Philharmoniker – Hindemith: Mathis Der Maler & Brahms: Violin Concerto • Otello • Parsifal • Pelléas Et Mélisande • Red Ribbon Celebration Concert • Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra – Christmas Matinee / Kerstmatinee • Sol Gabetta & Hélène Grimaud In Concert: Works By Schumann, Brahms, Debussy & Shostakovich • The Odeonsplatz Concert – Wagner & Verdi • The Wagner Gala From Semperoper Dresden • Wagner vs. Verdi • Wagner vs. Verdi – The Match London Symphony Orchestra • Brahms Haydn Variations • Szymanowski Stabat Mater • Valery Gergiev's Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique Wiener Staatsoper Poorhouse International Ltd. • A Hooligan Baritone • Ariane And Bluebeard – Ariane Et Barbe Bleue • Cinderella • Dance On Screen • Le Corsaire • Peter Grimes • Roland Petit: The Entertainer • The Cunning Little Vixen • The Dead City – Die Tote Stadt • The Legend Of The Invisible City Of Kitezh And The Maiden Fevroniya RTV / TV Slovenija • A Musical Visualization With Janez Dovc And Bostjan Gombac • Kurt Elling And Laurence Hobgood In Slovenia • Nights In Old Ljubljana Town • Operatic Arias – Soprano Bernarda Bobro • Pedal Piano • The Charitable St Nicholas' Concert

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The Sleeping Beauty Verdi / Wagner

ZDF VRT – Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep • Brossé • Brussels Jazz Orchestra • Final Concert Queen Elisabeth Competition 2013 • It's Magic. Musica Mundi • La Clemenza Di Tito • Mahler Chamber Orchestra • Nikolai Lugansky Plays Rachmaninov • The Making Of Tristan And Isolde DEF Media GmbH • B-Movie – The Wild West Berlin Of The 80s

Tuesday, 11 February 2014 Pan Dream SRL • Cavalleria Rusticana • Pagliacci • Rigoletto • Special Concert In Tribute To Domenico Bartolucci MODemay Entertainment • Cirkopolis • Kings Of The World • Chocolat Negro Clown • Unveiling Salome • CocoRosie At The Bouffes Du Nord • The Quatuor Ardeo – With Reto Bieri, David Kadouch And Rosemary Standley • Vincent Peirani With Michel Portal, Serena Fisseau, Michel Benita, Emile Parisien, François Salque And Michael Wollny Rhombus Media Inc. • Music Of The Underground Railroad • When You're A Star: The Worlds Of Leslie Caron Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images GmbH • Fidelio • Hyeonjun Jo Plays Messiaen • Julia & Romeo • Khatia Buniatishvili. Mind In The Wilderness • Lang Lang At The Royal Albert Hall • The Highest Level • Verdi Requiem At The Hollywood Bowl ServusTV • Against Silence – Hubert Von Goisern In Greenland • Austropop Legends – Rainhard Fendrich • Reach Beyond Yourself In Song! – The Musical Initiative Superar • Salzburg's New Jedermann – Behind The Scenes Of The New Production • Simon Rattle Conducts The Venezuelan Children's Orchestra – Salzburg Festival • The Abduction From The Seraglio – From Salzburg's Hangar-7 • The Making Of A TV Opera – The Abduction From The Seraglio • The White Hands Choir – From Venezuela To Salzburg

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Les Films Jack Fébus • The Rhine Gold By Richard Wagner • The Tales Of Hoffmann By Jacques Offenbach • London Symphony Orchestra – Brahms & Szymanowski – 19 December 2012 • London Symphony Orchestra – Brahms & Szymanowski – 30 March 2013 • London Symphony Orchestra – Brahms & Szymanowski – 18 December 2012 • London Symphony Orchestra – Mendelssohn & Schumann • London Symphony Orchestra – Waverley Overture, Summer Nights & Fantastic Symphony By Hector Berlioz • London Symphony Orchestra – Romeo & Juliet By Hector Berlioz • Toulouse Capitole National Orchestra In Moscow – Tugan Sokhiev & Jean-Yves Thibaudet • Toulouse Capitole National Orchestra – Tugan Sokhiev & Nicholas Angelich • Toulouse Capitole National Orchestra – Marc Minkowski & Anne Sofie von Otter • Toulouse Capitole National Orchestra – Tugan Sokhiev Conducts Mahler's Tragic Symphony • Toulouse Capitole National Orchestra In Moscow – Tugan Sokhiev & Renaud Capuçon • Toulouse Capitole National Orchestra – Tugan Sokhiev Conducts Beethoven's Triple Concerto • Toulouse Capitole National Orchestra – Tugan Sokhiev Conducts Brahms And Dvorak • Toulouse Capitole National Orchestra – Tugan Sokhiev & Elisabeth Leonskaja • Matsuev Performs Rachmaninov – Sergei Rachmaninov's 140th Anniversary • Béjart Ballet Lausanne: Light In Chaillot • Yuja Wang & Gautier Capuçon At St Prex Classics Festival 2013 • Sinfonietta, Gautier Capuçon & Young Talents 2012 At St Prex Classics Festival 2013 • Renaud Capuçon, Nicholas Angelich, Edgar Moreau & Modigliani Quatuor – La Grange De Meslay 49th Festival – Fêtes Musicales En Touraine • Laurent Petitgirard Conducts The Moscow State Symphony Orchestra • Orchestra Of The Age Of Enlightenment – The Valetta International Baroque Festival • Fred Hersch Solo At St Emilion Jazz Festival 2013 • Yaron Herman Quartet At St Emilion Jazz Festival 2013 • Baptiste Trotignon At St Emilion Jazz Festival 2013 • Monty Alexander – The Full Monty At St Emilion Jazz Festival 2013 • Rumba Para Bebo At Barcelona Jazz Festival 2013 • Chucho Valdés & The Afro Cuban Messengers At Barcelona Jazz Festival 2013 • Nigel Kennedy & Richard Galliano At St Prex Classics Festival 2013 • Uri Caine & Friends At St Prex Classics Festival 2013 • Cheick Tidiane Seck At Cully Jazz Festival 2013 • Steve Coleman & Five Elements At Cully Jazz Festival 2013 • Groundation – Musiques Métisses Festival • XII International Ballet Festival Dance Open 2013 • Youssoupha Boma Yé – Back In Kinshasa ACCENTUS Music GmbH & Co. KG • Amarcord – Music Of The Renaissance • Bruckner 5 & Eisler: Ernste Gesänge – Thomas Hampson / Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann • Chailly – Mahler 5 • Chailly – Mahler 9 • Claudio Abbado And Lucerne Festival Orchestra / Mihoko Fujimura • In Between: Isang Yun In North And South Korea

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J.S. Bach: Mass In B Minor – Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, St Thomas Boys Choir, Biller Krzysztof Penderecki – An 80th Birthday Gala Concert La Bohème – Riccardo Chailly – Palau De Les Arts, Valencia Lars Vogt Plays Grieg's Piano Concerto Mozart: The Last Three Symphonies – Berliner Philharmoniker, Simon Rattle Music – A Journey For Life: The Conductor Riccardo Chailly Music In The Time Of The Great War Plácido Domingo As Nabucco – Verdi At NCPA Beijing Sounds Of The Sidewalk – Felix Meyer And Band Sounds Of The Sidewalk – Klaus The Violinist Sounds Of The Sidewalk – Light In Babylon Sounds Of The Sidewalk – The Musicians Of The Paris Metro Viva Verdi – A Celebration Gala At NCPA Beijing Wagner's Wesendonck-Lieder & Siegfried-Idyll In Tribschen

Opéra de Paris Production • Aida • Aunis – Tricentenary Of The French School Of Dance • Celebration – Tricentenary Of The French School Of Dance • D'Ores Et Déjà – Tricentenary Of The French School Of Dance • Falstaff • Gustav Mahler 3rd Symphony • Hansel And Gretel • La Gioconda • La Nuit De Walpurgis – Tricentenary Of The French School Of Dance • Péchés De Jeunesse – Tricentenary Of The French School Of Dance • The Puritans – I Puritani • The Sleeping Beauty Allegro Films • Daniil Trifonov And The Magic Of Music (WT) EuroArts Music International GmbH • Chaplin – Ballet By Mario Schröder • Christmas With Johann Sebastian Bach • Delibes: Coppélia • Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: Last Words • Europa Konzert 2013 From Prague • Gala From Berlin 2013 • Poppea // Poppea In 3D • Richard Strauss And His Heroines • San Francisco Opera: Lucrezia Borgia • San Francisco Opera: Moby-Dick • San Francisco Opera: Porgy And Bess • The Magic Flute – Die Zauberflöte • The Mahler Chamber Orchestra In Bruges • The Perfect American • Waldbühne 2013: Freude Schöner Götterfunken France Télévisions • A Masked Ball – Un Ballo In Maschera • All Heart – Tous En Cœur • Evening Party At Versailles • Ibrahim Maalouf At Babylon, Istanbul • La Gioconda • The Abduction From The Seraglio – Die Entführung Aus Dem Serail • The Concert Of Paris • War & Peace At The Time Of European Baroque – Fontfroide Festival

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ARTE Deutschland • Anna Netrebko And Dmitri Hvorostovsky – The Red Square Concert • Arvo Pärt – A Journey To Music's Roots (WT) • Cameron Carpenter – Rebirth Of Majesty • Daniil Trifonov In Concert (WT) • Körperlust – Deborah Colker & Der Tanz Am Zuckerhut • Mission Incognito: Rolando Villazón • Music – A Life's Journey. The Conductor Riccardo Chailly • Polina Semionova • Stars Of Tomorrow: Rolando Villazón Presents Young Musicians • The Perfect American • The Tchaikovsky Files (WT) • Vivat Verdi! Silvestergala aus dem Festspielhaus Baden-Baden Riddle Films Inc. • God's Greatest Hits • Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone: The Search For Leon Redbone • The Curse Of Competition • The Jews Who Stole Christmas BBC MUSIC TELEVISION • BBC Cardiff Singer Of The World 2013 – The Final • BBC Proms Chamber Music • Benjamin Britten On Camera • Blues America • Bobby Womack – Across 110th Street • Bollywood Carmen • Born To Be Wild: The Story Of Classic American Rock • Doctor Who At The Proms 2013 • Flamenco: Gypsy Soul • Julian Bream At The BBC • Paul Tortelier At The BBC • Soundtrack To A Changing World: The Story Of Music In Britain In The 18th Century (WT) • Tamara Rojo's Swan Lake (WT) • Tony Pappano's Golden Age Of Singing (WT) • When Britain Fell In Love With Ballet • Yehudi Menuhin At The BBC Screensart Ltd • Glove Story • Private I's

Wednesday, 12 February 2014 Peter Rosen Productions, Inc. • Touching The Sound Classic Arts Showcase • Classic Arts Showcase RAI – Radiotelevisione Italiana SpA • Armida • Così Fan Tutte • Don Quixote • Fidelio • Il Trittico • Il Trovatore

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La Bohème Madame Butterfly Otello Simon Boccanegra The Dream Of A Thing

LGM Télévision • A Midsummer Night's Dream By Michel Kelemenis • Andris Poga Conducts Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 • Bobby McFerrin At Alfa Jazz Fest • Georges Momboye's Rite Of Spring • Herbert Blomstedt And Lars Vogt Perform Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1 • Jean-Claude Gallotta's Yvan Vaffan • Jorge Luis Prats Plays Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 3 • Khatia Buniatishvili Plays Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 2 • Kurtág – Games And Transcriptions • Leonard Slatkin – Works For Organ and Orchestra • Louis Langrée Conducts Brahms, Mendelssohn And Franck • Menahem Pressler – A 90th Birthday Celebration With The Ebène Quartet • Mikko Franck – An Evening With Maurice Ravel • Nils Landgren Funk Unit At Alfa Jazz Fest • Paavo Järvi Conducts Russian Masterpieces • Poulenc: Dialogues Des Carmélites • Trisha Brown's For M.G. – The Movie • Trisha Brown's Newark • Yuri Temirkanov – A Russian Night With Orchestre De Paris • Yutaka Sado Conducts Ibert, Rachmaninov And Verdi ZDF/3sat • 3satfestival • A Midsummer Night's Dream – A Play By William Shakespeare • Arkady Shilkloper On His Way To JazzBaltica • C(H)ŒURS • For My Sisters • Jonas Kaufmann – My Verdi • Richard Wagner – The World Of The Ring • Singing Cowboys • zdf@bauhaus ARTE France • A Season At The Juilliard School • Così Fan Tutte • Costello, The Other Elvis • Elektra • Gala For 300 Years Of The French School Of Dance • Jordi Savall Conducts Sacred Music At The Royal Chapel Of Versailles Palace • Leonidas Kavakos Plays Sibelius With Orchestre De Paris • Lionel Bringuier, Renaud Capuçon And The Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra • Mariinsky II Opening Gala (excerpts) • Nancy Jazz Pulsations: Avishai Cohen • Paris Opéra Comique: The Birth Of An Academy • Placebo Live In Paris 2013 • Rocio Molina Presents Danzaora • Rock En Seine: Paul Kalkbrenner • Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle • The Beautiful Blue Danube – Story Of A Waltz • The Legend Of Swan Lake • The Rite Of Spring's Centenary • Tugan Sokhiev Conducts Beethoven's Triple Concerto • Vanessa Paradis: Private Concert • Vladimir Jurowski Conducts Rachmaninov's Bells

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YLE – Yleisradio Oy • Birth Of A Quartet • Birth Of A Quartet – The Concert • Jean Sibelius Seven Symphonies • Live at YLE M1-Studio Verneri Pohjola Quartet • Rautavaara's All-Night Vigil • RSO Live At Helsinki Music Centre: Verdi's Requiem • Seized By Santtu-Matias Rouvali • Short Films Of Jean Sibelius • Tero Saarinen Company: Hunt NRK – Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation • Celebration Of The Centenary Of Women's Suffrage In Norway • JazzLAB • Queen Sonja International Music Competition • Rite Of Spring • Salute To Girls In Music • The National Anthem • Top Of The World – International Piano Competition In Tromsø • Vilde Frang Czech Television • Antonín Dvořák: Nine Symphonies • Capella Anna • Harmony Of Voices • Prazsky Vyber Electric Sky • Ashton Mixed Programme • Ashton Triple Bill • Don Quixote • Eugene Onegin • Faust • Gloriana • La Bohème • La Donna Del Lago • Nabucco • Rigoletto • Swan Lake • The Nutcracker • Turandot Royal Conservatoire, The Hague • Erasmus Intensive Programme • Musica Antiqua Anno 2014 • NTR Podium Oskar Back Violin Competition • Nuovi Maestri • Reinbert de Leeuw Portrait • Zapp Music Challenge Armin van Buuren vs. Mayte

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About IMZ The IMZ – International Music + Media Centre, founded under the aegis of UNESCO in 1961 and based in Vienna, is a global association dedicated to the worldwide development, dissemination and promotion of music and dance through the audio-visual media. The professional umbrella organisation and networking platform acts as an interface between leading international producers, distributors, broadcasters of cultural programmes, opera houses, educational institutions and record labels focusing on classical, contemporary and world music, on jazz, and on classical and contemporary dance. The IMZ is a one-stop shop for anyone within the value chain from music and dance creation to the buying public. For members it is an advantageous network, a forum for discussion, the platform for showcasing productions and exchanging industry-relevant information, a database and a lobbying group aiming to make a real contribution to the businesses of its members. With the intention to enhance co-operation amongst the various players within the media universe, the IMZ has established an essential network that has grown to more than 150 members from 26 countries around the world. Among its members are the world’s key decision-makers for the creation and distribution of music in the media and brands such as the BBC, the Metropolitan Opera, Japan’s NHK and Universal Music, as well as individual members like composers, choreographers, musicians and directors. www.imz.at www.facebook.com/IMZMedia

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Annual Membership Fee Full membership EUR 2,750 applies to TV organisations, independent production and distribution companies, publishers, opera houses, record companies, etc. Affiliate membership EUR 1,375 applies to smaller production companies whose annual output in music or dance does not exceed two productions. Associate membership EUR 690 applies to cultural, educational and scientific institutions, museums etc. Individual membership EUR 275 applies to individuals

Schedule of IMZ Events 2014 Avant Première 2014 MUSIC + MEDIA MARKET BERLIN 8 – 12 February 2014 | Berlin, Germany IMZ Co-operation With ICMA – International Classical Music Award ICMA Award Gala 2014 12 April 2014 | Warsaw, Poland IMZ At Classical:NEXT 14 – 17 May 2014 | Vienna, Austria IMZ At EVDH Workshop On Video Dance 26 May – 1 June 2014 | Madrid, Spain Film Festival At Wiener Rathausplatz 28 June – 31 August 2014 | Vienna, Austria International Emmy® Awards Semi-Final Judging 2014 2 – 3 July 2014 | Vienna, Austria

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Music Film Festivals Summer 2014 (tbc): Iasi, Rumania Madrid, Spain Sochi, Russia Yekaterinburg, Russia Taipei, Taiwan IMZ At ITF Golden Prague 4 – 8 October 2014 | Prague, Czech Republic IMZ Academy – 2nd edition 5 – 7 October 2014 | Prague, Czech Republic IMZ At WOMEX 14 22 – 26 October 2014 | Santiago de Compostela, Spain IMZ At Viennese Ball Iasi 5 December 2014 | Iasi, Rumania

IMZ Team Franz Patay, Secretary General, patay@imz.at Katharina Jeschke, Director, k.jeschke@imz.at Ruth Pfletschinger, Director, r.pfletschinger@imz.at Linda Esslinger, Project Manager, l.esslinger@imz.at Astrid Hafner-Auinger, Project Manager, a.hafner@imz.at Christian von der Recke, Project Manager, c.recke@imz.at Marion Vera Forster, Editor, m.v.forster@imz.at  Angela Bedekovic, Office Manager, office@imz.at.

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IMZ Board Members The IMZ Executive Board for 2014 – 2017 consists of representatives of internationally acclaimed broadcasters, producers, distributors as well as an educational institution and symbolizes the tremendous diversity and high quality of the fields of activities of the IMZ members. President Arild Erikstad NRK – Norwegian Broadcasting Company Norway Vice-Presidents Nicolas Auboyneau France Télévisions France Henk van der Meulen Royal Conservatoire, The Hague The Netherlands Jan Younghusband  BBC MUSIC TELEVISION UK Treasurer Bernd Hellthaler EuroArts Music International GmbH Germany Wolfgang Bergmann ARTE Deutschland TV GmbH Germany Aarno Cronvall Arcron Productions Finland Marie-Odile Demay MODemay Entertainment Canada François Duplat Bel Air Media France Ditte Feuk SVT – Sveriges Television Sweden

Chris Hunt Classical TV Ltd. UK Masumi Kawaguchi  NHK – Japan Broadcasting Corporation Japan Marie Kucerova Czech Television Czech Republic Rita Lombardi RAI – Radiotelevisione Italiana SpA Italy Reiner Moritz Poorhouse International Ltd. UK Ben Pateman Opus Arte UK Katja Raths Clasart Classic Germany Martin Traxl ORF – Austrian Broadcasting Corporation Austria John Walker THIRTEEN Productions LLC for WNET USA Larry Weinstein Rhombus Media Inc. Canada Hazel Wright Hazel Wright Media Ltd. / Opera Uncorked Ltd. UK

Bernhard Fleischer Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images GmbH Austria

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Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez, Alfred Brendel, Adrienne Clarkson, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Mats Ek, Bill T. Jones, Jonas Kaufmann, Lang Lang, Neil Shicoff, Anne Sofie von Otter

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001-056 ACCENTUS Music GmbH & Co. KG Allegro Films ARTE Deutschland ARTE France Arthaus Musik GmbH

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Bruckner 5 & Eisler: Ernste Gesänge – Thomas Hampson / Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann

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Amarcord – Music Of The Renaissance

Christian Thielemann, Staatskapelle Dresden © Matthias Creutziger

Christian Thielemann and Staatskapelle Dresden perform Hanns Eisler’s song cycle “Ernste Gesänge” (“Serious Songs”) with Thomas Hampson as soloist. The song cycle is combined with Bruckner’s 5th Symphony, in which Bruckner confronts the past – from a personal, biographical angle and as a departure from his usual composition technique. Bruckner’s Fifth proved to be the beginning of a new, unconventional strategy in his symphonic composing style. This symphony is acknowledged as his “contrapuntal masterpiece”. Christian Thielemann once again proves himself to be a “magician of the (Bruckner) sound”. (Kurier)

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Chailly – Mahler 5

amarcord © Martin Jehnichen

The a cappella ensemble amarcord presents magnificent compositions from the European Renaissance by Dowland, di Lasso, Gabrieli, Gesualdo, Josquin and many others. Along with Hille Perl at the viola da gamba, the American lutenist Lee Santana and percussionist Michael Metzler, the ensemble met in Veneto in northern Italy. In the splendid Villa Godi, built by Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio, they recorded a great variety of songs. amarcord impresses with extraordinary virtuosity, versatility and homogeneity. Illustrated with poetic images of the Venetian countryside, a magical portrait emerges.

Riccardo Chailly © Gert Mothes

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“The Gewandhausorchester Leipzig has always been a very fine orchestra, but since Riccardo Chailly took over as its music director, it has established itself among the greatest in Europe, alongside the Royal Concertgebouw and the Berlin Philharmonic.” (The Guardian) – For an orchestra so steeped in the Austro-German tradition, playing Mahler has always been part of its raison d’être. This tradition stretches back to the composer himself, who was Kapellmeister at the Leipzig opera and conducted the orchestra many times. With the Leipzig Mahler cycle, Chailly is now re-working this tradition with his own typically Italian qualities of drive, passion and clarity; truly a Mahler of the 21st century.

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Chailly – Mahler 9

Claudio Abbado, Lucerne Festival orchestra © ACCENTUS Music

The renowned Lucerne Festival celebrated its 75th anniversary with a special tribute to the Festival orchestra’s 10th anniversary and its founder Claudio Abbado – who turned 80 in 2013. Every year at Lucerne, he gathers world-famous soloists who are willing to “do the craziest things I ask of them in the interest of the compositions: to fly or to go through the fire”, says Abbado. The maestro spanned a wide range of repertoire, from Beethoven’s “Eroica” and Brahms’ “Tragic overture” to contemporary works including the orchestral interlude and the “Song of the Wood Dove” from Schoenberg’s “Gurrelieder”.

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Riccardo Chailly © Gert Mothes

Accentus Music’s ongoing cycle of Mahler’s symphonies with Riccardo Chailly and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig has already reached legendary status. In 2015, the impressive project will be completed. A highlight of the cycle is the Ninth, the last symphony Mahler was able to complete and one of his most complex compositions. For Riccardo Chailly the Ninth was the key to Mahler’s symphonic universe: “When I decided to try to understand the world of the ten symphonies, strangely enough, I started with the Ninth and the Tenth which disclosed a universe which had no barriers for me anymore.”

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Claudio Abbado And Lucerne Festival Orchestra / Mihoko Fujimura

Genre Relay of: orchestral/choral concert, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company ACCENTUS Music GmbH & Co. KG (Germany) | Co-Production Company NHK (Japan), Schweizer Fernsehen (Switzerland), ZDF (Germany) | Assoc. Prod. Company ARTE Live Web (Germany / France), Lucerne Festival | Executive Producer Paul Smaczny | Director Ute Feudel | Camera Andrej Nicolai | Editor Steffen Herrmann | Audio recorded and mixed by Georg obermayer | Light Design Hendrik Thomas | Sound Engineer Manuel Fischer | Duration 101’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded KKL, Lucerne (Switzerland) 16.08.2013 | Musical Style Classical music | Composer Johannes Brahms, Ludwig van Beethoven, Arnold Schönberg | Piece Tragic overture op. 81, Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major “Eroica” op. 55, Gurrelieder: orchestral Interlude and “Song of the Wood Dove” | Orchestra Lucerne Festival orchestra | Conductor Claudio Abbado | Soloist Mihoko Fujimura | Source video/ audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV C Major Entertainment GmbH (Germany)

In Between: Isang Yun In North And South Korea

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North Korean Border © ACCENTUS Music

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

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J. S. Bach – Mass In B Minor – Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, St. Thomas Boys Choir, Biller

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La Bohème – Riccardo Chailly – Palau De Les Arts, Valencia

La Bohème © ACCENTUS Music

The musical notes of this Puccini masterpiece provide the starting point and foundation for a new, highly successful collaboration between two prestigious Italian artists: conductor Riccardo Chailly and director Davide Livermore. In their opinion, there is “no moment, no movement, that goes against the musical meaning”, expresses Chailly. The result is an energetic and atmospherically strong “La Bohème” with a young and devoted cast of excellent singers. Corriere della Sera praises the production, saying that “every sacred phrase receives its own orchestral colour, its own dynamic and its own expression”. Georg Christoph Biller, FBo © Matthias Knoch

The mass in B minor, Bach’s last completed choral work – composed during his time as cantor at the St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, reveals the overwhelming wealth of his compositional skills. In the history of music it ranks highly, as the “Montblanc of church music” (Franz Liszt). The work was performed at the Leipzig Bach Festival 2013 under the baton of Bach’s successor Georg Christoph Biller. The St. Thomas Boys Choir and an outstanding quintet of soloists perform with the prestigious Freiburg Baroque orchestra, playing on period instruments.

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Krzysztof Penderecki – An 80th Birthday Gala Concert

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Lars Vogt Plays Grieg's Piano Concerto

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Lars Vogt © Gert Mothes

Edvard Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor is one of the most popular classical works ever written. The composer finished it in 1868, five years after he completed his studies at the conservatory in Leipzig. Grieg was inspired by Schumann’s piano concertos, which he had heard played by Clara Schumann at the Leipzig Gewandhaus when he was a student. Under the baton of Riccardo Chailly, the internationally acclaimed pianist Lars Vogt and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig bring out both the passion in the melodic phrases and the beauty of the modulations and rhythms. An enthusiastic audience paid tribute with standing ovation.

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Mozart – The Last Three Symphonies – Berliner Philharmoniker, Simon Rattle

Music – A Journey For Life: The Conductor Riccardo Chailly

Riccardo Chailly © ACCENTUS Music

Riccardo Chailly is one of the most exciting conductors of today. “I don’t think this profession can be done unless you feel an internal energy”, he says. Indeed it’s difficult to think of another conductor with such physical, mental and emotional power. “Music – A Journey for Life” is the first ever portrait of the maestro. It shows him working with La Scala in Milano, with the Gewandhausorchester in Leipzig and it follows him preparing a new “Bohème” in Valencia. But it also discovers the private Chailly at home with the family: “I could never be a musician without the spiritual strength that is forged within the family.”

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Music In The Time Of The Great War

Simon Rattle, BPo © Priska Ketterer

Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker take on a myth with their complete performance of the last three symphonies by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – to this day we still don’t know for what occasion they were written or whether the composer himself ever heard them. For Rattle the symphonies signify an interpretive challenge of the first order: “They are deeply emotional and passionate, dark and dangerous, yet cheerful like no other music that has ever been written. If you approach it with caution, you really have a problem. Everything in this music is so natural that you have to forget the rules.”

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Battlefield Chateau Wood Ypres 1917 © ACCENTUS Music

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When the First World War broke out in 1914, the musical world did not remain unaffected. Artists inevitably became involved: as soldiers at the front, as composers of patriotic music or musical memorials to a lost world. The three-part documentary “Music in the Time of the Great War” explores known and unknown, obvious and hidden connections between music and war. Beginning with what led to this great human tragedy, each episode addresses different perspectives on the relationship between war and musical phenomena – be it in the realms of classical music, emerging jazz or music hall settings.

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Plácido Domingo As Nabucco – Verdi At NCPA Beijing

Felix Meyer © Carmen Belaschk

For many artists it is a dream; for Felix Meyer it is already a reality. Born in Berlin in 1975, Meyer spent many years travelling across Europe with his guitar until he was discovered busking in a pedestrian area by a wellknown music producer in 2011. What followed were two studio albums and a recording contract. The documentary follows the path of this exceptional artist with a distinctive voice, whose music can be classified somewhere between pop and chanson, and who, despite his growing success and concerts at larger and larger venues, is still drawn to perform in the street.

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Sounds Of The Sidewalk – Klaus The Violinist

Plácido Domingo © ACCENTUS Music

Plácido Domingo as Nabucco in the spectacular National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing. The title role of Verdi’s famous opera marked Domingo’s successful transition to a baritone. Domingo captivated the Beijing audience with an outstanding performance, accompanied by a first-rate cast and the NCPA orchestra and chorus conducted by Eugene Kohn. Commemorating the bicentennial anniversary of Verdi’s birth, ACCENTUS Music presents this breathtaking production that premiered in May 2013 at NCPA.

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Sounds Of The Sidewalk – Felix Meyer And Band

Klaus the violinist © Hartmut Springer

A former nobleman turned society rebel, Klaus the Violinist at 70 still pursues revolution instead of retirement. Armed with his voice and violin, whether sunshine or snow, the political bard has protested throughout Germany at public demonstrations, against Castor transports and in every pedestrian zone. For 40 years it has been him and his fiddle against the Lehman Brothers of this world. The documentary “Klaus the Violinist” is dedicated to a man with a vocation, who transformed from a Hippie and classical musician into one of the most extraordinary buskers of our time.

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Sounds Of The Sidewalk – Light In Babylon

In the Paris Metro – where Keziah Jones’ career once began – we hear today the “homemade” chansons of “Bazar et Bémols“; the mischievous French trio makes music in the world’s most famous subway. Featuring this young group, as well as the Senegalese singer Cherif Mbaw and the Funk band Soly-S, this documentary tells their story and how they became “The Musicians of the Paris Metro”. It shows them competing in the famed metro audition against 2000 applicants, succeeding with 300 other casting graduates and how they make a living “underground”, dreaming to be discovered one day just like Keziah Jones.

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Viva Verdi – A Celebration Gala At NCPA Beijing

The band “Light in Babylon” was founded in 2010 and since then has been performing regularly in the streets of Istanbul. The project fuses different ethnicities and cultures. The singer is Israeli from Iranian origin, the santur player is Turkish and the guitarist is French. Despite the political tensions in Middle East affecting the daily life of the musicians, the band is highly creative. The documentary follows the young musicians through the city of Istanbul, this fascinating metropolis on two continents, providing an incomparable link between occident and orient.

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Sounds Of The Sidewalk – The Musicians Of The Paris Metro

Bazar et Bémols © Boris Ivan

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Verdi Gala © ACCENTUS Music

Celebrating Verdi’s bicentenary, the spectacular National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing hosted a unique Gala Concert, produced by Accentus Music: World-famous singers including Roberto Scandiuzzi, Elisabete Matos, Franco Vassallo and the NCPA orchestra, under the baton of its principal conductor Lu Jia, presented a wide selection of Verdi opera classics. “Viva Verdi” was directed and staged by multi-talented Verdi specialist Hugo de Ana, acclaimed for exquisite scenery sets as well as for his extraordinary lighting design.

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Wagner's Wesendonck-Lieder & Siegfried-Idyll In Tribschen

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This programme explores Wagner’s life in Tribschen, Switzerland. Performances filmed at the composer’s villa are accompanied by documentary elements offering insight into Wagner’s Swiss exile. Soloists of the Lucerne Festival orchestra perform “Siegfried-Idyll” at the very place where it was premiered in 1870 – a birthday present to his wife Cosima. Mezzo-soprano Elisabeth Kulman and pianist Eduard Kutrowatz perform the “Wesendonck-Lieder” in their original version on Wagner’s historic grand piano in the villa’s salon.

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Daniil Trifonov And The Magic Of Music (WT)

Anna Netrebko And Dmitri Hvorostovsky – The Red Square Concert

“A Day at the Salzburg Festival” is a multi-event live transmission from Salzburg Festival 2013. Like in 2012, the programme covers a wide range of performances that take place during the first days of the festival, ranging from concert to ballet and opera. Live performances are complemented with live interviews and with further festival coverage that also gives the audience an insight in rehearsals or other performances. The whole beNetrebko, presented live on location. Dmitriprogramme Hvorostovsky,will Anna Constantine orbelian © Alex Molchanovsky It was a spectacular open air concert in a quite impressive setting, last summer in Moscow: appearing for the first time together on Red Square, two of the biggest names in opera today, Anna Netrebko and Dmitri Hvorostovsky, performed in front of an audience of 7500 people. The exciting programme included arias and duets from some of the most popular operas such as Verdi’s “Il Trovatore” and “Don Carlo” or Puccini’s “Tosca”. The musical highlight of the evening came along with the final scene of Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene onegin”, when Netrebko and Hvorostovsky electrified the audience with an inspiring performance.

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Arvo Pärt – A Journey To Music's Roots (WT)

Daniil Trifonov © Vadim Shultz

“An Allegro-Films-style portrait film, shot wherever the film takes us in our efforts to be in the right places at the right times. Daniil Trifonov is not just another virtuoso pianist. Martha Argerich, who is famously difficult to please, said she had never heard anything like it in her life. He is a musician who sees little difference between performance, composition and improvisation. He represents a high moment in the history of piano playing and we are making both a portrait film and a performance film because we feel it imperative that they should be made. We are looking for partners – on just about any terms that they care to nominate. Those who join will not be sorry.” Christopher Nupen

Arvo Pärt © C. Woesinger

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The composer Arvo Pärt, who in 2015 will celebrate his 80th birthday, has managed to achieve something most of his colleagues have not: he is one of the world’s most popular contemporary composers, and both avant-garde aficionados and pop music fans listen to his music. The film has a special focus on the spirituality in Pärt’s music, exploring it by means of a unique imagery. It is no coincidence that Bach repeatedly appears in all his works as the great and sole role model. What is it about music that it evokes a religious mood like no other art form does?

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Cameron Carpenter – Rebirth Of Majesty

Winning medals at three of the most prestigious competitions in the music world, the Chopin and Rubinstein Competitions in Warsaw and Tel Aviv plus First Prize and Grand Prix at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow: what a start into an international career! Martha Argerich says about Daniil Trifonov: “He has everything and more. What he does with his hands is technically incredible. It’s also his touch – he has tenderness and also the demonic element. I never heard anything like that.” Legendary Music Film maker Christopher Nupen depicts the fascination of the art and personality of a stunning young artist.

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Körperlust – Deborah Colker & Der Tanz Am Zuckerhut

Companhia de Dança Deborah Colker in Tatyana © Beatrice Pötschke

Cameron Carpenter © Thomas Grube

Cameron Carpenter “is a smasher of cultural and classical music taboos. He is technically the most accomplished organist I have ever witnessed – and most important of all, the most musical.” (The Los Angeles Times) Cameron’s approach to the organ as well as his rather unconventional looks and appearance generate a level of acclaim, exposure and controversy unprecedented for an organist. With millions of hits on YouTube he surely is the world’s most visible organist. Award winning film maker Thomas Grube (“Rhythm is it”, “Trip to Asia”) accompanied the extravagant virtuoso on his quest for the perfect instrument.

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Mission Incognito: Rolando Villazón

Daniil Trifonov In Concert (WT)

Daniil Trifonov © Dario Acosta Photography/DG

Deborah Colker is the most famous representative of modern Brazilian dance. She is the first woman who was responsible for a production of the Cirque du Soleil and the first woman who received the Laurence olivier Award. Since 1994, she has her own company in Rio de Janeiro; it started with a huge success and is unstoppable. Her choreographies and dance styles are musical, very physical and athletic. This documentary is an approach to Deborah Colker, to the person, her profession and her life, and to the city of Rio de Janeiro, her inspiration.

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Mission Incognito: Rolando Villazón © Boris Streubel

Theatre stage, concert hall and museum are back numbers – You have to be “Wild in Art”! ARTE makes celebrities go undercover: How do they react when they are slumming and trying to search for people to support a creative campaign in public? Rolando Villazón is on a mission: he takes part in a choir practice in Berlin, undercover and disguised. Will the choir recognize the famous tenor? After some time, he discloses the secret and reveals his assignment: he is supposed to perform a flash mob in a big mall in Berlin and needs support. During the next days, they rehearse and rehearse but it’s not easy… Will they make it? Some days later, the choir and Rolando Villazón spread out over the entire mall. Suddenly the flash mob starts, and the choir begins to sing, bit by bit. An amazing experience for the audience of passers-by...

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Music – A Life's Journey. The Conductor Riccardo Chailly

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The Perfect American

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Polina Semionova

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The Tchaikovsky Files (WT)

Polina Semionova is one of the most extraordinary ballet dancers of our times, and one of the most famous. Born in Moscow, she always wanted to be a dancer. But it’s a long way to her success. At the age of 18 she moves to Berlin to dance for Berlin’s State Ballet – and her dream comes true. After ten years of success and recognition she decides to change her life… Despite the great success of Berlin’s State Ballet she leaves the company, her husband, her brother and her mentor, Vladimir Malakhov. Why does she risk an uncertain new start in New York, on the other side of the world? What are the reasons? What is her goal? This documentary is a very intimate film showing a young woman at a turning point in her life.

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Stars Of Tomorrow: Rolando Villazón Presents Young Musicians

Series Stars of Tomorrow: Rolando Villazón Presents Young Musicians | Status completed | Production Company Salve TV (Germany) | Co-Production Company ZDF (Germany) | Assoc. Prod. Company Unitel Classica (Germany) | Producer Martin Schneider, Jörg Hitzemann, Beatrix Conrad | Executive Producer Beatrix Conrad, Karl-Martin Lötsch | Director Elisabeth Malzer | Camera Tobias Albrecht, Maik Behres | Duration 43’ | Production Year 2013 | Musical Style Classical music | Orchestra / Band Junge Sinfonie Berlin, 10forBrass, Hermès Quartett | Conductor Elias Grandy, Patrick Lange | Soloist Hanna-Elisabeth Müller, Sebastian Wartig, Conrad Tao, Mélissa Petit, Ksenija Sidorova, Alexander Krichel, Alexandra Conunova-Dumortier, Andrei Bondarenko, Céline Moinet, Alec Frank-Gemmill, olena Tokar, Atalla Ayan, Valentin Radutiu, Raphaël Sévère | Source video/audio HD / Stereo

The case of Tchaikovsky's mysterious death is reopened © Falco Seliger

“The Tchaikovsky Files” reopens the case file on the mysterious death of Peter Tchaikovsky, the world-famous Russian composer. Inspired by modern crime drama series, the film is a dynamic fusion of documentary, fictional film and animated cartoon. The scenes are filmed in modern, visually suggestive settings, and layered with Tchaikovsky’s music. Tchaikovsky died unexpectedly at the age of 53. “The Tchaikovsky Files” investigates scandalous yet contradictory scenarios ranging from suicide to murder. Evidence suggests, Tchaikovsky’s work, life, and death, are inextricably linked with his homosexuality. Explosive and politically charged, the film relates the case to societal topics in Russia today.

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Vivat Verdi! Silvestergala Aus Dem Festspielhaus Baden-Baden

Rolando Villazón © Thomas Ernst

With all the qualities that have made him one of the most popular stars of the classical music world, Rolando Villazón has proven, now already in his third year, to be the ideal host for this show, presenting young artists and most promising talents to a wide audience – with emotion and a good sense of humor. In the relaxed workshop atmosphere of Berlin’s “Kulturbrauerei“ (“Culture Brewery“), his guests prove – as soloists or playing with the orchestra – that they are on the verge of a successful career and most apt for a wide TV audience.

Rolando Villazón, olga Peretyatko, Thomas Hampson © Andrea Kremper

olga Peretyatko is the new soprano star since 2012 when she rescued the second performance of “L’elisir d’amore“ at Baden-Baden festival, alongside Rolando Villazón. Together with Thomas Hampson, they are performing in an outstanding compilation of Verdi gems with bits and pieces from “I Vespri Siciliani”, “Un Ballo in Maschera”, “oberto”, “Rigoletto”, “Don Carlo”, “La Traviata”…

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A Season At The Juilliard School

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Costello, The Other Elvis

Costello © Mark Allan

Elvis Costello is a versatile antistar. From postpunk to big bands, from classical music to country and soul, he keeps mutating. A mutation he is used to for forty years now. Juilliard © Rosebud Productions

A captivating discovery, to the rhythm of the school calendar, of the path followed by several students and the philosophy of an institution, where social and community involvement is as much part of the curriculum as the artistic teaching. one of a kind, the Juilliard School is a school of excellence, the most selective in the United States. The long list of its graduates, which includes Pina Bausch, Kevin Spacey and Miles Davis, is both prestigious and eclectic, and other art schools around the globe are pale with envy.

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Così Fan Tutte

Genre Relay of: opera, Live recording | Status completed | Co-Production Company ARTE France, Idéale Audience, EuroArts Music International GmbH, Teatro Real Madrid, La Monnaie / De Munt, Brussels | Director Michael Haneke, Hannes Rossacher | Duration 200’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Teatro Real Madrid (Spain) 28.02.2003 | Musical Style Classical music | Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Conductor Sylvain Cambreling | Stage Director Michael Haneke | Soloist Fuan Francisco Gatell, Andreas Wolf, William Schimell, Anett Fritsch, Paola Gardina, Kerstin Avemo | Source video/audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1

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Elektra

Genre Relay of: opera, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Bel Air Media (France) | Co-Production Company ARTE France | Director Stephane Metge | Duration 100’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Grand Théâtre de Provence, Aix-en-Provence (France) 19.07.2013 | Musical Style Classical music | Composer Richard Strauss | Orchestra orchestre de Paris | Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen | Choir Coro Gulbenkian | Stage Director Patrice Chéreau, Thierry Thieû Niang | Costumes Caroline de Vivaise | Soloist Evelyn Herlitzius, Waltraud Meier, Adrianne Pieczonka, Mikhail Petrenko, Tom Randle, Franz Mazura, Florian Hoffmann, Sir Donald McIntyre, Renate Behle, Bonita Hyman, Andrea Hill, Silvia Hablowetz, Marie-Eve Munger, Roberta Alexander | Source video/ audio HD / Stereo

Elektra © Bel Air Media

Patrice Chéreau was working on Shakespeare’s “As You Like It”, when he disappeared last october 2013. “Elektra” will remain the last staging by the great French artist. Richard Strauss’s opera on Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s libretto had been a triumph at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, with the whole cast and an exceptional orchestre de Paris (conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen) being enthusiastically acclaimed.

038 Mozart: Così fan tutte (Haneke/Teatro Real Madrid) © Javier del Real

With “Così fan tutte”, Austrian filmmaker and oscar winner Michael Haneke signed his second opera-staging, giving a razor-sharp reading of Mozart’s “dramma giocoso”.

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Gala For 300 Years Of The French School Of Dance

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Leonidas Kavakos is probably today’s best interpret of Sibelius’s Violin Concerto. In this concert, the Greek virtuoso plays together with the orchestre de Paris directed by its principal conductor Paavo Järvi, proving that he amply deserved the Prize, named after the Finn composer, he received in 1986 in Helsinki.

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In 2013, the French School of Dance celebrated its 300th anniversary. on this occasion, students, étoiles and corps de ballet danced all together to create a programme including major romantic and classical ballets as well as contemporary creations.

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Jordi Savall Conducts Sacred Music At The Royal Chapel Of Versailles Palace

Genre Relay of: orchestral/choral concert, Live recording | Status completed | Co-Production Company ARTE France, Karl More Productions (France), Château de Versailles Spectacles – CVS (France), Centro Internacional de Musica Antigua – CIMA (Spain) | Director Benjamin Bleton | Duration 105’ / 60’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded The Royal Chapel of the Palace of Versailles (France) 28.06.2013 | Musical Style Classical music | Composer Jean-Baptiste Lully, Georg Friedrich Händel, Antonio Vivaldi, Johann Sebastian Bach | Piece Jubilate Deo (LWV 77/16), Jubilate Deo / o be joyful (HWV 279), Magnificat in G minor (RV 610, version 1), Magnificat in D major (BWV 243) | Source video/audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1

Lionel Bringuier, Renaud Capuçon And The Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra

Genre Relay of: orchestral/choral concert, Live recording | Status completed | Co-Production Company ARTE France, Camera Lucida Productions (France), orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France | Director Christian Leblé | Duration 90’ / 43’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Salle Pleyel, Paris (France) 29.11.2013 | Musical Style Classical music | Composer Paul Dukas, Camille Saint-Saëns, Modest Mussorgsky | Orchestra orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France | Conductor Lionel Bringuier | Soloist Renaud Capuçon | Source video/audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 Lionel Bringuier, aged 26, is already the most sought-after of French conductors and Renaud Capuçon, ten years older, is a generous violin virtuoso held in high esteem internationally. Since 2010, it is almost a tradition with the Radio France Philharmonic orchestra: every year in November, both musicians join the orchestra for an event-concert with a musical programme exclusively conceived by them. In 2013, at the Pleyel concert hall in Paris, they played “l’Apprenti Sorcier” by Dukas, the 3rd Violon Concerto by Saint-Saëns and, in addition, on ARTE Live Web, “Pictures at an Exhibition” by Mussorgsky/Ravel.

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Mariinsky II Opening Gala (excerpts)

Genre Relay of: opera, Live recording | Status completed | Co-Production Company ARTE France, Telmondis | Director Don Kent | Duration 100’ / 60’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Mariinsky II, Saint Petersburg (Russia) 02.05.2013 | Musical Style Classical music | Dance Style Classical ballet | Piece Romeo & Juliet (Prokofiev), Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod), Boris Godunov (Mussorgsky), Iolanta (Tchaikovsky), Faust (Gounod) | Orchestra / Ensemble Mariinsky’s opera, ballet, orchestra, chorus and youth ensembles | Conductor Valery Gergiev | Source video/audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 |

Jordi Savall © Denis Adam de Villiers

At the end of June 2013, Jordi Savall has offered a splendid programme of European sacred music to a delighted audience. Shot in the magnificent set of Versailles Palace’s Royal Chapel, the Catalan musician conducted two “Magnificat”, one by Bach and the other by Vivaldi, plus pieces by the composers Jean-Baptiste Lully and Georg Friedrich Händel.

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Leonidas Kavakos Plays Sibelius With Orchestre De Paris

Mariinsky II © Mariinsky

on 2 May 2013, the city of Saint Petersburg opened the doors of its new concert hall, the Mariinsky II. on this occasion the greatest Russian stars from opera and ballet performed on stage with the best soloists, dancers and musicians of the Mariinsky Theater. The opening Night Gala concert, conducted by Valery Gergiev, featured vocalists and instrumentalists, including Yuri Bashmet, Plácido Domingo, Leonidas Kavakos, Denis Matsuev, Anna Netrebko and René Pape, as well as Mariinsky ballet dancers.

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Nancy Jazz Pulsations: Avishai Cohen

Cohen © Fynjy Sleva

With “Almah”, Avishai Cohen goes back to basics. His last album and tour mix classical jazz, American pop music and Hebraic culture. The Israeli artist shows us one more time that you can make something totally unique and new from well-known ingredients.

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Paris Opéra Comique: The Birth Of An Academy

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Rocio Molina Presents Danzaora

Danzaora © ARTE France

Rocio Molina is more than a flamenco dancer, she is a “danzaora”. This word has been created to express all the energy and creativity she put in her last performance: a show in which danger, charm and modernity merge.

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Rock En Seine: Paul Kalkbrenner

In 2013, the nearly 300-year-old opéra Comique opened a brand new academy. 10 young singers have been selected to benefit from a secular tradition of transmission, particular knowledge and a “troupe lifestyle”. Come along with them to experience the birth of an academy.

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Placebo Live In Paris 2013

Last summer, one of the most emblematic DJs of Berlin set his turn table at the French festival “Rock en Seine”. Paul Kalkbrenner’s minimalist but powerful techno music blew everyone’s mind. Get yourself ready for an ecstatic DJ set.

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Placebo is a rock band created in London in 1994 by Brian Molko and Stefan olsdal, and which Steve Forrest joined in summer 2008. During the winter of 2013, they were touring all over Europe to present their seventh recording “Loud like love” to the public. on 10 December, they stopped in Paris, for a concert on the stage of the huge Palais omnisport de Bercy, offering a show loud like rock’n’roll!

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Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle

ARTE France | Rossini’s “Petite Messe Solennelle” was written in 1863 and described by the composer as “les derniers de mes péchés de vieillesse” (the last of the sins of old age). This rarely played “little solemn mass” is performed by Daniele Gatti conducting the orchestre National de France – and a fine cast of singers.

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The Beautiful Blue Danube – Story Of A Waltz

Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake” is universally well-known. More than one century after its creation, it remains the most romantic, the most famous and the most popular ballet in the world. The “Lake” fascinates the choreographers, every dancer is dreaming about it, and all the great dance companies have their own “Lake”. Cinema takes possession of it, advertisement has also used it… the musical piece has amply overstepped its composer. Rich and cleverly organized archive material offers a various range of versions from Ivanov’s, Petipa’s, Nureyev’s, to Matthew Bourne’s or Mats Ek’s… with a special mention for those of John Neumeier, Charles Jude, Dada Massilo, who are moreover participating in the film, bringing numerous and precious information about “Swan Lake” which are completed by other dance specialists.

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The Rite Of Spring's Centenary

Le Sacre du Printemps TCE 2013 © Natasha Razina The Beautiful Blue Danube © Public domain

“By the Beautiful Blue Danube” by Johann Strauß is the score of a genius. Sounding for the first time in 1786 in Paris, its planetary success still continues. In his film, Pierre-Henry Salfati tries to decode the secrets of such a “hit”, not only through its score but also by narrating the circumstances of its celebrity.

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The Legend Of Swan Lake

Swan Lake © Morgane Productions

on 29 May 2013, the Paris Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, built in 1913, commemorated the “scandalous” creation, a hundred years earlier, of Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring” with Vaclav Nijinsky’s famous choreography. Two choreographic visions for a centenary: the original one, and a new version signed by German choreographer Sasha Waltz. The music is served by the Mariinsky Theatre’s orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev.

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Tugan Sokhiev Conducts Beethoven's Triple Concerto

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Since 2008, and for two more years (until 2016), Tugan Sokhiev is the musical director and principal conductor of the National orchestra of the Capitole of Toulouse. For this performance of Beethoven’s Triple Concerto, op. 56, composed in 1803, he invited a trio of French virtuosos: Geneviève Laurenceau (violin), Anne Gastinel (cello), Bertrand Chamayou (piano). The unusual positioning of soloists and orchestra on stage reinforces the strength of the musical dialogue. The entire concert, broadcasted on ARTE Live Web, is also including Tchaikovsky’s “Manfred Symphony”, op. 58.

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Vanessa Paradis: Private Concert

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Peter Grimes On Aldeburgh Beach

Alan oke (Peter Grimes) © Robert Workman

Filmed in June during three extraordinary performances at the Aldeburgh Festival, “Peter Grimes on Aldeburgh beach” takes place in the heart of the town that inspired it and is the film interpretation of Britten’s “Peter Grimes”, the most successful opera of post-war Britain. Based on George Crabbe’s 1810 poem “The Borough”, Britten’s powerful and masterful evocation of the North Sea in all its moods has become inextricably linked with the Aldeburgh that was home to Crabbe in the late eighteenth century and Britten in the twentieth, and where both poem and opera were written.

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Vanessa Paradis is an expert of ballads and romanticism, she proves it with her brand new album named “Love Songs”. Discover her talent thanks to this sweet and intimate showcase.

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The Art Of Sasha Waltz

Vladimir Jurowski Conducts Rachmaninov's Bells

Genre Relay of: orchestral/choral concert, Live recording | Status completed | Co-Production Company ARTE France, Bel Air Media (France) | Director Andy Sommer | Duration 42’ 15’’ / 85’ | Production Year 2013 | Musical Style Classical music | Composer Sergei Rachmaninov | Orchestra State Symphonic orchestra of Russia | Conductor Vladimir Jurowski | Libretto Konstantin Balmont | Source video/audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 Last September 2013 in Moscow, conductor Vladimir Jurowski superbly rang “The Bells” (Russian: Kolokola), op. 35, a choral symphony by Sergei Rachmaninov written in 1913 after the poem “The Bells” by Edgar Allan Poe, very freely translated into Russian by Konstantin Balmont. It was one of Rachmaninov’s two favorite compositions, along with his “All-Night Vigil”, and it is also one of Jurowski’s favorite pieces. A commitment of body, mind and soul, Jurowski’s take on the score is bringing the emotions of the orchestra, the choir and the soloists at the top of their form. The programme begins with an interview with Jurowski briefly introducing the audience to Rachmaninov’s choral masterpiece.

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Sasha Waltz © André Rival

Sasha Waltz is one of Europe’s best-known and most exciting choreographers. Her choreographies are outstanding as she always surprises with new formations, deep subjects and stunning aesthetic style. But she does not only work with dancers: the dialogue with all other art forms is her special interest. All her deep and beautifully choreographed pieces are featured in this film where Sasha Waltz gives us insight into her work. The film portrait by Brigitte Kramer draws a line from 2006 to today, the important years of Sasha Waltz’ international career.

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BBC Cardiff Singer Of The World 2013 – The Final

A three-part series, thirty minutes each, introduced by Petroc Trelawny. 1: Nowegian violinist Vilda Frang with German pianist Michael Lifits perform Mozart’s Violin Sonata in G, plus the “Blues” movement of Ravel’s second Violin Sonata, and “Estrellita” by the Mexican composer Manuel Ponce; 2: Norwegian trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth with her all-female 10-piece brass ensemble tenThing perform tangos, habaneras and marches by Piazzolla, Bizet and Edvard Grieg – plus a selection from Kurt Weill’s “Threepenny opera” and 3: two great British tenors: Ian Bostridge and James Gilchrist perform music by two great British composers, Benjamin Britten and John Dowland.

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Benjamin Britten On Camera

BBC Cardiff Singer of the World © BBC

Petroc Trelawny and Danielle de Niese present the final of what’s widely regarded as the world’s greatest singing competition. From twenty young hopefuls, five have made it through to the final. The formidable judging panel, including Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, will announce the winner and we’ll also see who wins the Dame Joan Sutherland Audience Prize. Guiding us through the proceedings is Petroc’s special guest, soprano Karita Mattila, winner of the first ever contest in 1983, while Josie D’Arby and Mary King take us behind the scenes to look at the pressures these young singers are going through.

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BBC Proms Chamber Music

Benjamin Britten © BBC

Benjamin Britten was the great classical composer of the broadcasting age. This documentary explores the dynamic relationship that developed between Britten and the BBC as they worked together to bring his music to television audiences. From elaborately staged studio operas and the massive Proms performance of his “War Requiem” through to intimate duets with his partner Peter Pears. There are specially recorded interviews with some of his singers and collaborators, as well as with the programme makers who worked behind the scenes, including Michael Crawford, David Attenborough, Humphrey Burton and the soprano April Cantelo. Narrated by James Naughtie.

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Blues America

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“Blues America” takes a fresh look at the music. Usually heard as the sound of racial suffering and personal misery, it shows blues was a new style of black pop music that took first America, and then the world, by storm. “Blues America” sees the men and women who first sang the blues as innovators, using the latest media to bring their music to the public. This is the story of how the blues crossed borders – from black to white, from South to North, from weak to powerful.

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Bobby Womack – Across 110th Street

Bollywood Carmen © BBC

Bollywood Carmen is a one-off musical spectacular performed live in the centre of Bradford. Inspired by Bizet’s popular opera “Carmen”, it’s a dramatic story of love, betrayal and intrigue told with music that mixes Bollywood classics, western pop and well known tunes from Bizet’s score. Preeya Kalidas plays Carmen, a Bradford waitress who’s obsessed with movie stardom. When a Bollywood film star, Abhay Deol, comes to Bradford to shoot scenes for his new movie she thinks her time has come. But the cards foretell a different story.

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Born To Be Wild: The Story Of Classic American Rock

Bobby Womack © BBC

Bobby Womack’s musical career has been an almost unprecedented rollercoaster ride. Starting off on the streets of segregated America, Womack launched himself into what became an epic adventure. In the 1950s – just a youngster – he was travelling the gospel highway with the Womack Brothers. With incredible access to Bobby Womack himself, plus contributions from Ronnie Wood, Damon Albarn, Bill Withers, Chuck D, Antonio Fargas, as well as close family and friends, this film brings one of the most diverse and fascinating post-war musical careers vividly to life.

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Bollywood Carmen

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It was born out of genuine revolution and scared the hell out of the establishment. Incredibly, within less than two decades rock had become pure entertainment. “Born To Be Wild” is about the birth of classic American rock, its demise, and what happened in between those two points, reflecting on everything that makes it so groovy and so ghastly. America can adapt anything into mass entertainment. It’s a saga full of great, original rebels. But it’s also about commodification and the hard sell – how everything eventually becomes a product. Intriguing, often humorous, it’s a parable across three fascinating American decades.

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Doctor Who At The Proms 2013

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BBC Dr Who Prom © BBC

When tickets for the Proms season went on sale, the Doctor Who Proms sold out in a matter of minutes. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the iconic and much-loved BBC series, this Bank Holiday television special features Murray Gold’s popular music for the show, accompanied by specially edited visual sequences from the Doctor’s most recent adventures. Hosted by the Doctor’s friends, Madame Vastra and Strax, the concert also includes a look back at “classic” Doctor Who series and the music created by the legendary BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

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Flamenco: Gypsy Soul

Petroc Trelawney interviews the great classical guitarist and lutenist, and presents a selection of Julian Bream’s best television work. Clips include Bream with the Philharmonia performing the Malcolm Arnold Guitar Concerto (conducted by the composer), a duet with John Williams and lute music performed with Bream’s own Early Music Consort. There are also some fascinating documentary extracts from a classic 1962 Monitor profile film.

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Paul Tortelier At The BBC

Paul Tortelier © BBC Gypsy Soul © BBC

Writer Elizabeth Kinder embarks on a journey through Andalusia from Malaga to Cadiz to find the soul of flamenco, the beguiling mix of guitar, song and dance strongly associated with southern Spain’s gypsies. Featuring performances from gypsy blacksmiths to goat herders, the documentary reveals a glimpse of a timeless way of life. The history of this mysterious music and its relationship to Spain is explored in locations including Moron de la Frontera, Granada, Seville and Jerez. The programme also features rare archive of notable artists such as Camaron de la Isla and Diego Del Gastor.

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Julian Bream At The BBC

With archive from 1955 to 1984. A highlight is an extract from a 1961 performance of the Elgar Cello Concerto performed with the LSo, conducted by Colin Davis. We also have clips from the legendary Masterclasses that made Paul Tortelier a household name in the late 1960s, a chance to see him performing with his musical family, including a teenage Yan Pascal, and an extraordinary performance of his own “Song for Peace” performed in the foyer of BBC Birmingham’s Pebble Mill studios.

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Soundtrack To A Changing World: The Story Of Music In Britain In The 18th Century (WT)

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| BBC MUSIC TELEVISIoN The Golden Age of Singing, popularly recognised as the 1910s – 60s, saw one of the greatest flowerings of operatic singers and voices ever. In this authoritative four-part series, Pappano identifies the Golden Age singers whom he considers to be the greatest, asking what makes them and the roles they defined, and which in turn defined them, so exemplary. Using a specific voice type as each episode’s over-arching narrative, Tony takes us on an engaging evocation of the mystery, art, joy and pain that lies behind the soul’s instrument.

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The eighteenth century was the most transformative time in Britain’s history. In a few short decades, Britain became the heart of the empire and the world’s musical superpower. The public concert, the ballad opera, the pleasure garden, the oratorio: all were born here. The great talent of Europe flocked to London, provincial women made music as never before, and a new urban working class defined itself through song. In this three-part series, presenter Suzy Klein uncovers the social history of Britain’s pivotal century through the art form that defined it and made the music.

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When Britain Fell In Love With Ballet

Tamara Rojo's Swan Lake (WT)

David Bintley © BBC

David Bintley, artistic director of the Birmingham Royal Ballet, explores how World War II provided the crucible in which British ballet was forged and finds out how one company survived the bombs, rations and punishing touring to emerge from the war as The Royal Ballet. Tamara Rojo dancing Swan Lake © BBC

“Swan Lake” is the most famous ballet ever created. To perform the dual lead role of odette-odile in Swan Lake is everything a classical ballet dancer dreams of. It is terrifying and gratifying in equal measure. It calls for a potent combination of absolute purity for the white swan odette, and alluring, fiery sexuality for odile, the black swan. With unparalleled access, this film joins Tamara Rojo on every step of her journey as odette-odile, preparing for the English National Ballet’s massive in-theround production at the Royal Albert Hall in June 2013.

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Yehudi Menuhin At The BBC

Tony Pappano's Golden Age Of Singing (WT)

Yehudi Menuhin © BBC

Tony Pappano's Golden Age of Singing © BBC

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With clips selected from 1960 to 1988 including Yehudi Menuhin with his sister Hephzibah performing César Franck’s Sonata in A for Violin and Piano, Stephane Grapelli & Menuhin playing “Jealousy” on Parkinson, an extract from the Walton Viola Concerto conducted by the composer and joining Valerie Singleton on Blue Peter for an item about Paganini’s violin. With a specially recorded interview with programme maker, and Menuhin biographer, Humphrey Burton.

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Aida

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Boris Godunov: Alexander Tsymbalyuk © Wilfried Hösl

Aida in Verona: Hui He © FotoEnnevi

Ethiopian princess Aida is kept as a slave at the the Egyptian court. She has fallen in love with Radames, a young Egyptian warrior who returns her feelings. Amneris, the daughter of Egypt’s pharaoh also loves Radames, and she is uneasy when she realizes the feelings between Radames and Aida… This new production is designed by La Fura dels Baus and directed by one of Israel’s most talented young conductors, omer Meir Wellber.

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Beethoven Piano Concertos 1 & 5

Child murder, scheming monks and a tsar lapsing into madness – That’s how Modest Mussorgsky spreads the thematic arc in his choral opera, which he began to work on from 1868, and with which he attempted to awaken an awareness of his own time through the indirect route of a historic story. As an artist of the 19th century, he was driven by the psychology of the masses. Thus, in “Boris Godunov”, alongside the title hero, the main role is actually taken primarily by the Russian people, rejoicing, starving, demanding and questioning. “Uncovering the fine features of human nature and the mass of humanity, stubbornly drilling in these unexplored regions and conquering them – this is the mission of the true artist. off to new shores!“

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Elena

Elena © Pascal Victor_ArtcomArt

Christian Zacharias © Thierry Parel

Pianist Christian Zacharias and the Lausanne Chamber orchestra unequivocally prove that the Beethoven piano concertos need not be laden with romanticized notions such as excessive rubato, heavy pedaling, or forced dynamics. For Zacharias, simplicity is the key to his performance of the concertos, and it’s an approach he pulls off masterfully.

Before being from Troy, Helen was from Sparta where she was already reputed to be the most beautiful woman on earth. As such, she turned many heads from her very early youth onwards, when she was neglecting love games in favour of olympic ones. In order to approach her, King Menelaus can think of nothing else than dressing up as an Amazon, as these were keen on wrestling games! Unfortunately, he has rivals, such as King Theseus and Prince Menestheus who are also smitten with the beautiful lady. It is only a matter of who will manage to abduct her first, be it at the price of a mad chase over land and sea.

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Follies © L Perrier

“Follies” is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Goldman. The story concerns a reunion in a crumbling Broadway theatre, scheduled for demolition, of the past performers of the “Weismann’s Follies”, a musical revue (based on the Ziegfeld Follies), that played in that theatre between the World Wars. It focuses on two couples, Buddy and Sally Durant Plummer and Benjamin and Phyllis Rogers Stone, who are attending the reunion. Sally and Phyllis were showgirls in the Follies. Both couples are deeply unhappy with their marriages. Buddy, a traveling salesman, is having an affair with a girl on the road; Sally is still as much in love with Ben as she was years ago; and Ben is so self-absorbed that Phyllis feels emotionally abandoned. Several of the former showgirls perform their old numbers, sometimes accompanied by the ghosts of their former selves.

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La Bayadère

Prince Igor © Damir Yusupov

“Prince Igor“ is rightly considered to be one of the main Russian operas and it is one of the Bolshoi Theatre’s “designer label” titles. Today “Prince Igor” comes back staged by Russian theatre director Yuri Lyubimov. The legendary founder of the Taganka Theatre worked for the world’s greatests theaters (including La Scala, The Royal opera House and Bayerische Staatsoper). “Prince Igor” is a large-scale, multi-level fresco which combines “high-style” epic narrative and folk comedy, it juxtaposes the chant of the Russian heroic poem and the boisterously “frenetic” musical world of the East. Borodin himself explains his aesthetic position as follows: “It seems to me that in opera, as in sets, there is no place for small forms, trivial detail: everything should be written in bold strokes, clearly, vividly and, in so far as possible, convenient to perform by both voice and orchestra”. Borodin spent many years writing “Prince Igor”, but he never managed to finish it. Following his sudden death, the opera was completed by Rimsky-Korsakov and Glazunov.

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The Tsar's Bride

La Bayadère/Svetlana Zakharova © Damir Yusupov

Marius Petipa’s decisive work “La Bayadère” was first performed at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in Saint Petersburg in 1877 in a grandiose production portraying a mysterious India and the impossible love between the sacred dancer Nikiya and the warrior Solor. A scene from the ballet, known as “The Kingdom of the Shades”, is one of the most celebrated excerpts in all of classical ballet, and is considered to be one of the first examples of abstract ballet. Living ballet legend, Yuri Grigorovich, created this new scenic version for the Bolshoi Theatre in 1991. Nikiya, a temple dancer, has secretly sworn her eternal love to Solor, a noble warrior. When she rejects the attentions of the High Brahmin, he becomes furious and determines to have Solor killed...

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The Tsar's Bride © Monika Rittershaus

Bel Air Media | Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images GmbH | Daniel Barenboim starts off the season with “The Tsar’s Bride” by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, a work of central importance in Slavic opera literature, staged by Dmitri Tcherniakov who lately has been among the opera stage directors most in demand worldwide. “The Tsar’s Bride” is a tragic story of love, jealousy, intrigue, treason and death. This work, which premiered in Moscow in 1899, is undoubtedly one of the highlights of the operatic literature of its time and musically includes some of the most impressive works that Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov wrote.

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Yuri Grigorovich, Bolshoi's Golden Age

Genre Documentary: Portrait | Status completed | Production Company Bel Air Media (France) | Producer François Duplat | Director Denis Sneguirev | Duration 75’ | Production Year 2014 | Source video/audio HD / Stereo Choreographic genius and controversial figure: Yuri Grigorovich’s life is inseparable from the destiny of the Bolshoi Ballet Company which he led from 1963 to 1995, literally modelling the forms of the Soviet ballet in the second half of the twentieth century. Innovator and traditionalist at the same time, multi-decorated by State Prizes while also a victim of censorship from the Soviet regime, Yuri Grigorovich is the symbol of the dramatic and glorious artistic times at the great Bolshoi Theatre – a “Golden Age” of the Bolshoi.

opera in 2 acts op. 72, (half-scenic performance): In 2013, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the “orchestra in residence” at Beethovenfest Bonn took on Beethoven’s only opera, “Fidelio”. With its characteristic dynamic and inspiring musical performance, the ensemble gave this opera of rescue and liberation speed and strength, a strength that Beethoven took from the models of revolutionary France. Guiding them on this journey is their artistic director Paavo Järvi. See a fantastic ensemble composed of the currently most sought-after musicians (including Mojca Erdmann and Burkhard Fritz) performing on stage.

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Fidelio

Genre Relay of: opera, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Unitel GmbH & Co. KG (Germany) | Co-Production Company Deutsche Welle TV (Germany) | Assoc. Prod. Company Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen | Producer Kirsten Dawes | Executive Producer Bernhard Fleischer | Director Alexander Radulescu | Camera Lukas Allmaier, Dierk Fechner, Guido Hammelstein, Joachim Hadulla, Bernhardine Schippers | Editor Carl Plötzeneder | Audio recorded and mixed by Philip Traugott | Sound Engineer Christoph Winter | Duration 80’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Beethovenhalle Bonn (Germany) 29.09.2013 | Musical Style Classical music | Composer Ludwig van Beethoven | Piece Fidelio | Orchestra Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen | Conductor Paavo Järvi | Choir Deutscher Kammerchor | Libretto Joseph Ferdinand von Sonnleithner, Stephan von Breuning, Georg Friedrich Treitschke, Walter Jens | Soloist Mojca Erdmann, Burkhard Fritz, Emily Magee, Detlef Roth, Dimitry Ivashchenko, Julian Prégardien, Ulrich Tukur | Source video/audio HD / Stereo | Distribution TV Elmar Kruse, C Major Entertainment (Germany)

Applause for Mojca Erdmann's Marzelline © Barbara Frommann

Quatre oiseaux, Four Birds, 1959 © George Braque

Hyeonjun Jo (*9 May 1994) is a South Korean pianist attending master classes of Cordelia Höfer-Teutsch at the Salzburg Mozarteum University. His repertoire comprises pieces from the baroque, classical and early romantique era and is furthermore including works from the 20th Century. In 2011, he was awarded at the 95th Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, being the youngest laureate ever at the age of 17. In 2013, this incredibly gifted artist presents the piano cycle “Catalogue d’oiseux” by olivier Messiaen at the Salzburg Mozarteum University.

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Julia & Romeo

Genre Relay of: Dance, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images GmbH (Austria) | CoProduction Company Ditte Feuk SVT (Sweden); Elmar Kruse, C Major Entertainment (Germany) | Assoc. Prod. Company Ann-Christin Danhammer, operan (Sweden) | Director Thomas Grimm | Camera Marina Poole, Isabelle Audigé, Fredrik Silverhjelm, Crille Törnqvist, Mattias Sackrén, Jörgen Arrebäck, Peter Mild | Editor Janine Dauterich | Audio recorded and mixed by Tony Dickman | Light Design Linus Fellbom | Sound Engineer Lars Göran Ehn | Duration 110’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Royal Swedish opera House, Stockholm, 26.09.2013 | Musical Style Classical music | Dance Style Contemporary dance | Composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Orchestra Stockholm Royal opera orchestra | Conductor Alexander Polianichko | Stage Director Magdalena Åberg | Choreography by Mats Ek | Dance Company The Royal Swedish Ballet | Costumes Magdalena Åberg | Soloist Mariko Kida, Anthony Lomuljo, Arsen Mehrabyan, Marie Lindquist, Nikas Ek, Ana Laguna, oscar Salomonsson, Wahe Martirosyan, Jérome Marchand, Hokuto Kodama, Daria Ivanova, Jörgen Stövind | Source video/audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV Elmar Kruse, C Major Entertainment (Germany)

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| Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images GmbH Khatia Buniatishvili’s playing has been described as having “an aura of elegant solitude and even melancholy”. The forest as a place of magic and danger is found among mythology wherever the natural state of wild land is forest: a location beyond where people normally travel, where strange and wondrous things might occur. Buniatishvili’s artistic approach is undoubtedly associated with the Romantic tradition, always maintaining a fine balance between unhinged wildness and lyrical introspection. The repertoire comprises cheerful moments, melancholic passages and nocturne-like episodes: virtuously brought to life throughout a concert experience with a great quality of intimacy and generous ardour.

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“Romeo and Juliet” becomes “Juliet & Romeo” when world renowned choreographer Mats Ek presents his full-length work to Tchaikovsky’s music, with its first performance of the Royal Swedish Ballet at the Royal opera House. “It’s time to turn things around,” says Mats Ek, “So you can say that we return to the story’s source. We also signal that we will use the music of Tchaikovsky, not Prokofiev’s. But the drama’s bearing conflict with the young unprotected love versus the established violence is still there – a tragedy in which love triumphs by going under.”

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Genre Relay of: Instrumental recital, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images GmbH (Austria) | Co-Production Company Sony Classical (USA); Sony Corporation (Japan); Elmar Kruse, C Major Entertainment (Germany) | Director Christian Kurt Weiß | Camera Günter Euringer, Paul Freeman, Wayne Ratcliffe, David Gopsill, Joe Finan | Editor Carl Plötzeneder | Sound Engineer David Lai | Duration 130’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded The Royal Albert Hall, London (UK) 17.11.2013 | Musical Style Classical music | Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Frédéric Chopin | Piece Piano Sonata No. 5 in G major KV 283, Piano Sonata No. 4 in E-flat major KV 282, Piano Sonata No. 8 in A minor KV 310, Ballade No. 1 op. 23 in G minor, Ballade No. 2 op. 38 in F major, Ballade No. 3 op. 47 in A-flat, Ballade No. 4 op. 52 in F minor | Soloist Lang Lang | Source video/audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV Elmar Kruse, C Major Entertainment (Germany)

Khatia Buniatishvili. Mind In The Wilderness

Genre Relay of: Instrumental recital, on location | Status completed | Production Company Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images GmbH (Austria) | Co-Production Company Elmar Kruse, C Major Entertainment (Germany) | Director Ernestine Böttcher | Camera Henning Brümmer, Volker Striemer, Chris Rowe, Matthias Biber | Light Design Mirko Fricke | Sound Ingineer Peter Hecker | Duration 85’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Schlosspark Potsdam-Sacrow (Germany) 04.07.2013 | Musical Style Classical music | Composer Frédéric Chopin, Johann Sebastian Bach, Claude Debussy, Johannes Brahms, Maurice Ravel, Aleksandr Skrjabin, Antonín Dvořák, Igor Stravinsky, Georg Friedrich Händel, Giya Kancheli | Soloist Khatia Buniatishvili, Gvantsa Buniatishvili | Source video/audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV Elmar Kruse, C Major Entertainment (Germany)

Lang Lang at the Royal Albert Hall © Marco Borggreve, composition by Michaela Noa

Following his Beethoven Piano Concerto cycle in 2012, the Royal Albert Hall delightedly welcomes back Lang Lang for these exclusive recitals of Mozart and Chopin performed in-the-round. These recitals have sold-out within 48 hours, a record for a recital by any classical musician at the venue in recent times. Again, he took the Royal Albert Hall by storm – no wonder, it is one of his favourite halls to perform in anywhere in the world. Lang Lang turned 30 this year and still looks like the child prodigy, but his music says otherwise. Even the doubters can only watch with amazement.

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Khatia Buniatishvili © Magdalena Lepka

Lang Lang At The Royal Albert Hall

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The Highest Level

Genre Documentary: Music, on location | Status completed | Production Company Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images GmbH (Austria) | Assoc. Prod. Company Deutsche Welle TV (Germany), Berlin Phil Media (Germany) | Director Christian Berger | Camera Henning Brümmer, Günther Euringer, Carl Plötzeneder, Heiko Rahnenführer, Karin Rewald, Christopher Rowe, Jürgen Hohmuth | Editor Stefan Kobe | Author Christian Berger | Audio recorded and mixed by Michael Gutton | Sound Engineer Bernhard Weiss, Sebastian Kleinloh | Duration 60’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Berlin | Musical Style Classical music | Composer Béla Bartók, Sergei Prokofiev | Piece Piano Concerto No. 2, Piano Concerto No. 3 | Source video/audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV Elmar Kruse, C Major Entertainment (Germany)

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Lang Lang & Sir Simon Rattle © BFMI

The film depicts a recording session at the highest possible artistic level. The viewer gets insight into a process that is usually in the hiding; super stars of the classical music world are recording at the Philharmonie Berlin, struggling for the perfect sound: during the preparing, the recording and the post-production. It is a very intimate encounter with the protagonists: the recording engineers, Lang Lang and Sir Simon Rattle, conducting the Berliner Philharmoniker. Will they succeed in working on a new convincing interpretation of Béla Bartók’s Piano Concert No.2 and Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No.3 within four days only?

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Verdi Requiem At The Hollywood Bowl

Genre Relay of: orchestral/choral concert, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images GmbH (Austria) | Co-Production Company John Walker, PBS (USA); THIRTEEN in association with WNET; Los Angeles Philharmonic Association (USA) | Assoc. Prod. Company Lothar Mattner, WDR (Germany) | Director Michael Beyer | Camera Bruce Green, Kim Bird, Paul Fenkart, Dwayne Ivey, Peter Hutchinson, Brian Kowalczyk, Doug Kowalczyk, Matt Yearsley, John Weinsheim | Audio recorded and mixed by Friedemann Engelbrecht | Light Design Marc Meisenheimer | Sound Engineer Jesse Lewis, Sergey Parfenov, Fred Vogler | Duration 98’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded The Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles (USA) 15.08.2013 | Musical Style Classical music | Composer Giuseppe Verdi | Piece Messa da Requiem | Orchestra Los Angeles Philharmonic | Conductor Gustavo Dudamel | Choir Los Angeles Master Chorale | Chorus Master Grant Gershon | Soloist Julianna Di Giacomo, Michelle DeYoung, Ildebrando D’Arcangelo, Vittorio Grigolo | Source video/audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV/ homevideo Elmar Kruse, C Major Entertainment (Germany)

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Maria Stuarda

Joyce DiDonato and Elza van den Heever in "Maria Stuarda" © Ken Howard/Metropolitan opera

In this production of Donizetti’s dramatic opera “Maria Stuarda”, Joyce DiDonato, who gave an “exquisitely proportioned, remarkably sensitive performance” (Financial Times), stars in the virtuosic title role. David McVicar’s production takes a traditional approach, but with some vivid colours and stark imagery to lend a contemporary touch to enormous period gowns. The simplicity of the set focuses attention on Donizetti’s multifaceted characters. It is the contagious energy between the duelling divas performed by Joyce DiDonato and Elza van den Heever that brings real drama to the stage, culminating in the confrontation scene as Elisabeth and Mary hurl fiery insults at one another.

Verdi Requiem at the Hollywood Bowl © Augusta Quirk

Magnificently theatrical LA Phil music director Gustavo Dudamel leads the orchestra and chorale vocalists in an under-the-stars performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s monumental Requiem at the Hollywood Bowl. “Gustavo Dudamel puts an intimate flourish on Verdi’s Requiem”, the Los Angeles Times writes about Dudamel’s performance of the piece. “A page was turned and a new chapter begun in the maturation of a music director.” Dudamel is joined by a cast of high-class singers: Ildebrando D’Arcangelo, the upcoming star tenor Vittorio Grigolo, Michelle DeYoung, and Julianna Di Giacomo.

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Mariss Jansons Conducts Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4

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Mariss Jansons Conducts Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique

Mitsuko Uchida © Chris Christodoulou

The most popular musical event in the summer months in London is the Proms concert series held at the Royal Albert Hall and other venues. It’s a gathering place for the world’s most distinguished musicians – such as pianist Mitsuko Uchida, conductor Mariss Jansons and the Bavarian Radio Symphony orchestra, who can be seen in a performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4. Reviewing Uchida’s performance, The Guardian wrote: “The poetry and dignity she brings to this work remained untarnished and remarkable.” Her “highly intimate and intense playing [...] held a capacity audience on the edge of their seats.” (Financial Times)

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Mariss Jansons Conducts Beethoven's Symphonies

Mariss Jansons and the Bavarian Radio Symphony orchestra © Chris Christodoulou

In this concert from the Proms, Jansons leads the Bavarian Radio Symphony orchestra in a dazzling performance of Berlioz’s “Symphonie Fantastique”. The audience was spellbound as “the widely adored Mariss Jansons delivered an expansive yet fiery and clean-toned account of Berlioz’s ‘Symphonie Fantastique’”, wrote The Guardian. Jansons revels in the myriad instrumental colours and innovative orchestration that Berlioz called for in this work. only a truly outstanding orchestra can successfully tackle this symphonic giant. And the Bavarian Radio Symphony orchestra “is one of the world’s great ensembles [...] their playing, immaculate in its warmth and subtlety, was incomparable.” (The Guardian)

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Mariss Jansons Conducts Verdi's Messa Da Requiem

Mariss Jansons © Koichi Miura

Jansons calls Beethoven’s symphonies “the very best music there is in this world. I am absolutely crazy about them!” This long-awaited new recording from Tokyo’s Suntory Hall shows how the conductor’s approach has changed over the years and how he understands to integrate elements of historical performance practise without losing a romantic spirit. This is what makes his Beethoven interpretation so exciting. For the emphatic high point, the performance of the Ninth Symphony, Mariss Jansons and his orchestra are joined by Christiane Karg, Mihoko Fujimura, Michael Schade and Michael Volle as well as by the Bavarian Radio Choir.

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Conducting the brilliantly disposed Bavarian Radio Chorus and Symphony orchestra, Mariss Jansons transforms the Golden Hall of Vienna’s Musikverein with Verdi’s Requiem into a heavenly anteroom. From the very first hushed measures, the orchestra “once again impressively demonstrates its leading rank among the German orchestras” (Die Presse). Vienna’s daily Kurier rhapsodized: “Whoever was lucky enough to experience this performance live will find it hard to get his feet back on the ground.” And the prestigious Süddeutsche Zeitung exclaimed: “Mariss Jansons delivers a fabulously successful Verdi Requiem.” The four outstanding soloists fuse together to project a vast range of emotions, from whispered reverence to emotional upheavals.

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Orfeo Ed Euridice

A scene from Act 1 of "Parsifal" © Ken Howard/Metropolitan opera

In this production of Wagner’s final masterpiece, Jonas Kaufmann stars in the title role of the innocent who finds wisdom. In François Girard’s much acclaimed post-apocalyptic setting, there is not one tree or tuft of grass. Instead two barren, dirt-gray mounds are divided by a river bed with just a trickle of flowing water, sometimes thick with blood. In the background, videos depict dark clouds, swirling mists, and, sometimes, cosmic images of ominous planets. “The best Parsifal cast available today” (The New York Times) is completed by Katarina Dalayman, René Pape, Peter Mattei and Evgeny Nikitin.

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Rigoletto

Bejun Mehta as orfeo © Jiri Hubač Piotr Beczala as the Duke of Mantua © Ken Howard/Metropolitan opera

For Gluck’s 300th birthday in 2014, his “orfeo ed Euridice” was recorded at the Baroque castle theatre in Český Krumlov in a unique way. The opera is presented rather as a film than as recorded opera performance. Havelka’s film adaptation is based on the contrast between two worlds: Firstly, the world of an illusionary Baroque theatre with its completely preserved stage machinery, costumes and props. Secondly, the internal world where one can observe the timeless fight between love and conscience burdened with guilt. outstanding counter tenor Bejun Mehta sings the role of the torn main character and acts as artistic adivsor.

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With such all-time favorites as “Caro nome” and “La donna è mobile”, Rigoletto is one of the most popular Italian operas and one of Verdi’s most accessible. The timeless themes of greed, power, sex, and murder are central to this opera. In Michael Mayer’s production, the action has been significantly updated to a compelling new setting: Las Vegas in 1960. As the director explains, he tried to imagine a contemporary version of the decadent world of the Duke’s palace: „and I thought of Las Vegas as the epitome of an American destiny for the events of ‘Rigoletto’.”

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Un Ballo In Maschera

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099 Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Marcelo Álvarez © Ken Howard/Metropolitan opera

David Alden’s dreamlike setting provides a compelling backdrop for Verdi’s story of betrayal, jealousy, and vengeance. David Alden calls “Un Ballo in Maschera” “one of Verdi’s greatest and most brilliant scores”, with a variety of different colors: “It alternates between the light and the intensely melodramatic. Verdi pulls it all together with unbelievable theatrical energy. ’Ballo’ is theatrical dynamite.” In his production he uses an early-20th-century setting and film noir imagery to emphasize not only the work’s darkness but also its strangeness. Verdi’s soulful score, featuring unforgettable arias and brilliantly characterized ensemble writing, is delivered by a stellar international cast.

125 Years Of The Royal Concertgebouw Amsterdam: Anniversary Gala

Genre Relay of: orchestral/choral concert, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company AVRo (The Netherlands), Unitel Classica (Germany) | Director Joost Honselaar | Duration 75’ / 90’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Royal Concertgebouw Amsterdam, 10.04.2013 | Musical Style Classical music | Composer Richard Wagner, Gustav Mahler, Sergei Prokofiev, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Camille Saint-Saëns, Richard Strauss | Orchestra Royal Concertgebouw orchestra | Conductor Mariss Jansons | Soloist Janine Janson, Lang Lang, Thomas Hampson | Source video/audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV/theatrical C Major Entertainment (Germany)

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125 Years of the Royal Concertgebouw Amsterdam: Anniversary Gala © Anne Dokter

Title page Classic Arts Showcase © Classic Arts Showcase

Classic Arts Showcase (CAS) is designed to bring the classic arts experience to the largest audience possible by providing short video clips of the arts. There are now 65 million TV households that receive Classic Arts Showcase, and untold numbers will soon see the Internet 24/7 stream on www.classicartsshowcase.org. Classic Arts Showcase is a monumental audience development project provided free and unscrambled as a public service to stimulate interest and support for the arts. It is provided free to any cable or broadcast company that wants it. The spectrum of classic arts disciplines aired on Classic Arts Showcase includes video samplings of animation, architectural art, ballet, chamber and choral music, dance, folk art, museum art, musical theatre, opera, orchestral, recital, solo instrumental, solo vocal, and theatrical performances, as well as classic film and archival documentaries.

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The Concertgebouw was officially inaugurated on 11 April 1888. Public interest was so great that Amsterdam experienced its very first traffic jam (of carriages). 125 years later, the RCo and the Concertgebouw are organising an anniversary concert together. Under the baton of its chief conductor Mariss Jansons, the orchestra is welcoming Janine Jansen, Thomas Hampson and Lang Lang as guest soloists. The programme features Mahler and Strauss, both of whom conducted the orchestra on several occasions. Musicians from the RCo, the Vienna and the Berlin Philharmonic orchestras are joining forces for a performance of the Elégie from Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings.

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125 Years Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra: Birthday Concert

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Mariss Jansons conducts the Royal Concertgebouw orchestra © Ronald Knapp

on 3 November 1888, the Concertgebouw orchestra officially presented itself to the public when it gave the opening concert of the first subscription year of Het Concertgebouw N.V. Exactly 125 years later, the orchestra is giving its Anniversary Concert, featuring a new work – a gift from the Concertgebouw to the RCo – “Mysteriën” (“Mysteries”) by Louis Andriessen, the Netherlands’ most famous living composer. Also on the programme is Richard Strauss’s “Ein Heldenleben”, dedicated in 1898 to the orchestra, which celebrated its tenth anniversary that year, and to Willem Mengelberg, its chief conductor at the time.

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Aimee Mann Plays Baloise Session

Genre Relay of: Ensemble/band appearance, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Baloise Session (Switzerland), C Major Entertainment (Germany), SRF (Switzerland) | Director Roli Bärlocher | Duration 75’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Event Hall of the Basel Fair, Basel (Switzerland) 10.11.2013 | Source video/audio HD / Stereo | Distribution TV/theatrical C Major Entertainment GmbH (Germany)

Daniel Hope © Signed Media

Violins, violas and cellos are supposed to be the most beautiful instruments in the world – perfectly constructed, sought-after and very expensive. No wonder they attract the most glamorous personalities: kings, famous violinists, millionaires, Russian oligarchs, serious dealers in art but also many fraudsters and swindlers. Star violinist Daniel Hope knows this scene like no one else. Together with him, we enjoy an exciting endeavour, as we discover the world of the super-rich collectors and world-famous violinists as well as the secrets and the history of string instruments.

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Daniel Hope – Vivaldi Four Seasons Recomposed By Max Richter

Aimee Mann © C Major Entertainment

Aimee Mann first played in a punk band, then a new wave band, before she became a singer-songwriter influenced by country music. In 1993, she released her solo debut “Whatever”, after which she was celebrated by the critics as a new female Paul McCartney. Aimee received an oscar® nomination for the magical song “Save Me”, the title song of the film “Magnolia”. Since then, Aimee has achieved a kind of iconic status: The woman, who could already play all of Neil Young’s songs as a teenager, has developed into Young’s female counterpart: rough around the edges, but loveable and above all, a brilliant songwriter.

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Daniel Hope – Vivaldi recomposed © Geert Maciejewski

In this special project, British-German new-music composer Max Richter and British-South African Violinist Daniel Hope teamed up to transform one of the most famous and most often-played works of classical music into something new: the re-composition of Vivaldi’s masterpiece, “The Four Seasons”. This live performance of Richter’s new “Four Seasons” is set in a former building of the Neptun shipyards in the docks of Rostock.

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Eric Clapton Plays Baloise Session

Genre Relay of: Ensemble/band appearance, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Baloise Session (Switzerland), SRF (Switzerland), C Major Entertainment (Germany) | Director Roli Bärlocher | Duration 75’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Event Hall of the Basel Fair, Basel (Switzerland) 14.11.2013 Source video/audio HD / Stereo | Distribution TV/theatrical C Major Entertainment (Germany)

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Festive Advent Concert 2013

Genre Relay of: orchestral/choral concert, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company ZDF (Germany) | Co-Production Company Unitel GmbH & Co. KG (Germany) | Assoc. Prod. Company Staatskapelle Dresden (Germany), Stiftung Frauenkirche Dresden (Germany), Unitel Classica (Germany) | Director Elisabeth Malzer | Duration 60’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Frauenkirche Dresden (Germany) 30.11.2013 | Musical Style Classical music | Composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Camille Saint-Saëns, Adolphe Adam, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Pietro Mascagni, Giacomo Puccini, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Max Reger | Orchestra Staatskapelle Dresden | Conductor Markus Poscher | Choir Sächsischer Staatsopernchor | Chorus Master Pablo Assante | Soloist Joyce DiDonato, Klaus Florian Vogt, Julia Lezhneva | Source video/audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV/theatrical C Major Entertainment (Germany)

Eric Clapton © C Major Entertainment

Eric Clapton wrote legendary evergreens like “Layla” and “Tears in Heaven”, and made the completely unknown Bob Marley popular with his cover version of “I shot the Sheriff”. As the guitarist in John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers and The Cream, he already firmly established his fame in the 60s with his 20-minute guitar solos. In 1966, a fan sprayed “Clapton is God” on the wall of an underground station in Islington, London. The saying spread like wildfire, because no one plays the six strings as masterfully, with as much inspiration, yet as slowly and as beautifully as Eric Clapton.

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Erwin Schrott – Rojotango

Joyce DiDonato © Courtesy of Virgin Classics_Sheila Rock

The German Television brings the festive atmosphere of pre-Christmas Dresden from the stunning Frauenkirche to living rooms throughout Germany. In 2013, the master of ceremonies is Markus Poscher. Also performing are the State opera Chorus Dresden and the Staatskapelle Dresden. Soloists are soprano Julia Lezhneva, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato and tenor Klaus Florian Vogt. on the programme: festive advent music by Tchaikovsky, Saint-Saëns, Mozart, Mascagni, Mendelssohn and Reger, amongst others.

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Giuseppe Verdi: Otello

Erwin Schrott – Rojotango © Thomas Ernst

After winning Plácido Domingo’s International Voice Competition, operalia, in 1998, Erwin Schrott became an operatic superstar, burning up the stages of all the important opera houses of the world – Milan, London, Vienna, Berlin and Paris. In “Rojotango”, recorded at the legendary Admiralspalast in Berlin, Erwin Schrott presents a musical journey through the wonderful world of tango and the music of Latin America. The programme features a varied and exciting selection of passionate tangos by Astor Piazzolla and Pablo Ziegler as well as evocative Argentinean and Brazilian folk songs.

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Verdi's otello at the Courtyard of the Doge's Palace, Venice © Michele Crosera

C Major Entertainment GmbH | As highlight of “The Spirit of Music in Venice” festival 2013, Venice’s venerated opera house, La Fenice, presents Giuseppe Verdi’s “otello” performed against the backdrop of the Courtyard of the Doge’s Palace, as the perfect setting for its fifteenth-century plot. The Korean maestro Myung-Whun Chung conducts La Fenice orchestra and Choir and a prestigious international cast, including American tenor Gregory Kunde as otello.

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Gloria Estefan – The Standards

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Paths Through The Labyrinth – The Composer Krzysztof Penderecki

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Gloria Estefan – The Standards © Sony Music Entertainment

Seven-time Grammy® Award-winning international superstar Gloria Estefan performs some of her all-time favorite songs, from the Billie Holiday classic “Good Morning Heartache” and her adaptation of Chaplin’s “Smile” to her wedding song, “El Dia Que Me Quieras”, translated into English for the first time as “The Day You Say You Love Me”.

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Gloria Estefan Plays Baloise Session

Genre Relay of: Ensemble/band appearance, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Baloise Session (Switzerland), SRF (Switzerland), C Major Entertainment (Germany) | Director Roli Bärlocher | Duration 90’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Event Hall of the Basel Fair, Basel (Switzerland) 29.10.2013 | Source video/audio HD / Stereo | Distribution TV/theatrical C Major Entertainment (Germany)

on the occasion of Penderecki’s 80th birthday in 2013, this film portraits the artist with a comprehensive work-in-progress documentary: despite his growing age, Penderecki is still an unflinching and active composer and conductor. For one year, the author Anna Schmidt was studying this world-famous artist, speaking also with high-calibre companions: AnneSophie Mutter, Julian Rachlin and Janine Jansen, Mariss Jansons and Lorin Maazel; Johnny Greenwood (Radiohead) and Andrzej Wajda. The film follows Penderecki from Kraków to Munich, from Vienna to Leipzig, and on various occasions to his country estate in Luslawice. A fascinating, multi-layered portrait including very rare archive material.

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Patricia Kaas Plays Baloise Session

Gloria Estefan © C Major Entertainment Patricia Kaas © Florent Schmidt

North and South, both are America. How they differ and yet, one could not get by without the other, socially and culturally. Gloria Estefan is from the South, originally from Cuba. She came to Miami in search of the American Dream. Along with her husband and producer Emilio, she melded Cuban Salsa rhythms and delves even deeper into American culture by singing the standards that Gershwin and his colleagues wrote for Broadway and – not forgotten: her Cuban temperament, her winning exuberance and a few of her hits! And all of this in a brand new form and performed with an orchestra.

“In order to sing Edith Piaf, you need life experience and courage”, says Patricia Kaas. What she means is that one must understand the emotions, the biography and the artistry of the great French chansonière to bring her songs to life. Maybe her own dramatic biography has made Patricia Kaas the ideal interpreter of the legendary Piaf repertoire. She succeeds by giving it her own personal note without tampering with the original authenticity of the chanson, which takes melancholy, irony and disillusion and combines it with an element of pride.

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Pavarotti – A Voice For The Ages

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Randy Crawford And Joe Sample Play Baloise Session

Genre Relay of: Ensemble/band appearance, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Baloise Session (Switzerland), SRF (Switzerland), C Major Entertainment (Germany) | Director Roli Bärlocher | Duration 75’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Event Hall of the Basel Fair, Basel (Switzerland), 12.11.2013 | Source video/audio HD / Stereo | Distribution TV C Major Entertainment (Germany) | Distribution theatrical C Major Entertainment (Germany)

Randy Crawford and Joe Sample © C Major Entertainment Luciano Pavarotti © Terry o'Neil

Like Enrico Caruso before him, Luciano Pavarotti extended his presence far beyond the limits of Italian opera. He brought opera to the masses and made football fans worldwide fall in love with “Nessun dorma”. This one-hour programme includes that hit and other beloved arias from “La Bohème”, “Rigoletto” and “Aida”; Neapolitan songs in arrangements by Henry Mancini including “Mamma” and “o Sole Mio”; favourite sacred songs like “Panis Angelicus”; as well as popular duets with Bono, Sting and Eric Clapton.

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Plácido Domingo Live At Loreley

Making music is like a romantic partnership. You can rely on longstanding partners, but it can get a bit boring. It was in the mid-fifties, that Joe Sample was on stage with the Crusaders, the band he founded with members of his Lifetime Band. And “Street Life”, the huge hit he had with the young singer Randy Crawford, is now 34 years old. Sample knows how to breathe life into his music and so does Randy Crawford. She knows how to get close to her audience. We all become a part of their stage family.

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Renée Fleming – Vienna At The Turn Of The 20th Century

Genre Relay of: Vocal recital, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Unitel Classica (Germany) | Director Brian Large | Duration 68’ | Production Year 2012 | Recorded Golden Hall of the Musikverein, Vienna (Austria) 11.12.2012 | Musical Style Classical music | Composer Hugo Wolf, Gustav Mahler, Arnold Schönberg, Alexander Zemlinsky, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Richard Strauss, Johann Strauß, George Gershwin | Soloist Renée Fleming, Maciej Pikulski | Source video/audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV/theatrical C Major Entertainment (Germany)

Renée Fleming – Vienna at the turn of the 20th century © Decca/Andrew Eccles Plácido Domingo live at Loreley © Artemis Entertainment

Plácido Domingo performing on the spectacular stage near the famous Loreley rock! He is joined by the two sopranos Angel Blue, who has been described by Domingo as “the next Leontyne Price”, and Micaëla oeste, who was a member of the Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist programme with Washington National opera, where she triumphed after stepping in mid performance as ophélie in “Hamlet”. on the programme: works by Wagner, Verdi, Catalani, Lehár, Kálmán, von Suppé, Strauss, Luna, Torroba, Chapí.

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At the turn of the last century, the capital of the Austrian Empire was one of the cultural centers for the fine arts and, in particular, for music. The city of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, a melting pot of cultures and musical traditions, attracted gifted musicians and composers alike and provided the perfect soil for much of the greatest music of that time. With this selection of works by Hugo Wolf and Gustav Mahler, combined with more progressive songs by Alexander Zemlinsky, Arnold Schoenberg and Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Renée Fleming presents to us the full variety of this unique epoch.

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Rossini Opera Festival Pesaro: L'Italiana In Algeri

With “Così fan tutte”, the last joint venture of operatic dream team Lorenzo da Ponte and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the Salzburg Festival launches out into its eagerly awaited new Da Ponte cycle under the musical direction of Christoph Eschenbach and the artistic direction of SvenEric Bechtolf. The “House for Mozart”, the Salzburg hall that has committed itself to a tradition of cultivating the highest artistic standards of Mozart performance, sees Mozart-wise actor and director Bechtolf in charge. True to text, humorous and precise, his classically aesthetic interpretation is good for “a whole lot of laughs” (Münchner Merkur).

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Sammy Davis Jr. – Live In Germany

Rossini opera Festival Pesaro: L'Italiana in Algeri © Studio Amati Bacciardi

“L’Italiana” is certainly the most “buffo” of Rossini’s buffo operas, with get-up-and-go rhythms and flashy colours. Davide Livermore – one of the most internationally noted young Italian directors – transposes the action to the 1960s, where an Algerian “Bey” and his court seem to be living in a psychedelic wonderland of miniskirts and lava lamps, film excerpts and comic strip exclamations, revue-style sequined costumes, and delirious, Arabian Nights-style twirling, spinning colours that capture the viewer’s ears and eyes. The Corriere Adriatico hails its “frantic rhythms, wealth of gags and comical situations”.

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Salzburg Festival 2013: Così Fan Tutte

Sammy Davis Jr. © Allan Warren

Starting at the age of three, Sammy Davis Jr., with a little help from his friend Frank Sinatra, was the first black entertainer who performed in Las Vegas. Sammy, as a member of the famous “Rat Pack”, scored worldwide evergreens like “Candy Man” or “Mr. Bojangles”. The programme presents his legendary performance at the German casino in Hohensyburg in 1985. Enjoy the “late” Sammy Davis Jr., and keep swinging with him!

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Soulpower

Amy Winehouse © Brian Adams

Così fan tutte / Salzburg Festival 2013 © Michael Pöhn

Given that soul has always developed under very particular socio-economic conditions and that the historical background is charged with a topicality that remains significant to this day, the story of the music will be told within both a historical and political context. Thus, “Soulpower” unites a period that spans from the end of the Second World War to the new millennium. A thrillingly told, groovy documentary series (4 x 52’) presenting the big names, the music, the conflicts and the attitude to life of the past 60 years and allows them to resonate.

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The Best Of Hurricane 2013

Ska-P at Hurricane Festival 2013 © Christoph Meyer

The Hurricane Festival – Germany’s leading alternative and rock festival takes place in the beautiful countryside of Northern Germany between Bremen and Hamburg since 1997. With 75,000 visitors it’s one of the biggest open airs in the world! Musically, Hurricane presents the best in contemporary live music and acts like Arctic Monkeys, Arcade Fire, Blink-182, Foo Fighters, Kings of Leon, Incubus, The Cure and The Strokes, headlining the festival during the last years. 2013’s sold-out Festival was headlined by Rammstein, Queens of the Stone Age and Sigur Rós.

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The Best Of Wacken Open Air 2013

Deep Purple at Wacken 2013 © Carsten Rehder_dpa

Wacken open Air – the biggest heavy-metal festival in the world! Since 1990, every year, for three days in August, a small village in the middle of the Northern German countryside becomes the epicenter of the metal universe. With 75,000 headbangers from all over the world invading the small town of Wacken/Germany the festival is sold out every year – the tickets for 2014 were sold out within 43 hours already! The sold-out 2013 edition of the festival was headlined by Deep Purple, Alice Cooper and Doro, presented here as exclusive 60-minute headline shows!

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The Piano Guys Live At Red Butte Garden

The Piano Guys © Paul Anderson

Hailing from Utah, The Piano Guys became an Internet sensation by way of their immensely successful series of strikingly original self-made music videos. They’ve made 35 since joining forces a little more than a year ago, including their most recent hit video, an innovative 10-handed version of one Direction’s “What Makes You Beautiful”. But it’s the Guys’ highly original blend of classical music with pop that has really been the cause of an Internet phenomenon that has now brought them to their major label debut album, “The Piano Guys”, released on Sony Masterworks.

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Two Cellos – Live At Arena Zagreb

Two Cellos © Dean Bertoncelj

“I can’t remember seeing anything as exciting as them since I saw Jimi Hendrix live back in the 60s” (Elton John). The two young cellists, Luka Sulic from Slovenia, and Stjepan Hauser from Croatia, known as 2CELLoS, achieved sensational success by taking the cello to a new level and breaking the boundaries between different genres of music. Their unique cello version of Michael Jackson’s “Smooth Criminal” took the world by storm. Within only a week, this YouTube video became a huge viral sensation leading to an invitation to join Elton John on his worldwide tour.

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Dvořák Sketches (WT)

Jiří Bělohlávek © Czech Philharmonic

The “Nine Symphonies by Antonín Dvořák” is a unique project created in co-production of the Czech Philharmonic, Czech Television and Unitel. Dvořák’s symphonic work is an essential part of the global orchestral repertoire, and symphony orchestras around the world regularly return to it. Dvořák’s nine symphonies are the highlight of his compositional work. This cycle of the nine Dvořák symphonies is an exceptional TV adaptation of a magnificent piece of music performed by a renowned orchestra, led by a world famous conductor. An adventurous expedition into the realm of Dvořák’s music. The programme, directed by Adam Rezek, is rounded off by a knowledgeable commentary, put together by sophisticated moderator Marek Eben along with conductor Jiří Bělohlávek.

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Capella Anna

Jiří Bělohlávek © Vaclav Jirasek

“Dvořák Sketches” (WT) is an intimate documentary that captures the atmosphere in the Czech Philharmonic through the first season with its new chief conductor, Jiří Bělohlávek. During this one year, the orchestra records the complete symphonies of Antonín Dvořák. The film focuses on the deep connection between the musicians, maestro Bělohlávek and Dvořák’s music, revealing many parallels between the musicians and their great national composer. A film by award-winning Canadian director Barbara Willis Sweete.

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Antonín Dvořák: Nine Symphonies

Anna Fusek © Hans Jörg Michel

New international Czech-German ensemble Capella Anna, assembled by young and promising flute virtuoso and violinist Anna Fusek, introduces an attractive programme of “Italian Bach” consisting of works by J. S. Bach and A. Vivaldi in a picturesque hall of Chateau Jaroměřice in the region of south Moravia. Casting a new light on the old masterpieces, some pieces of the repertoire, such as Bach’s Italian Concerto, have been arranged specially for this superb early music ensemble.

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Harmony Of Voices

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“Harmony of human voices”: The Prague Philharmonic Choir is one of the leading Czech vocal ensembles, with a tradition of almost eighty years. The choir has performed on stages around the world under the guidance of top conductors, including Claudio Abbado, Zubin Mehta, Ricardo Chailly and many others. At the concert which took place on 19 September 2013 in the Dvořák Hall at the Rudolfinum in Prague, Czech Television recorded a performance of an extraordinary repertoire under the direction of choirmaster Lukáš Vasilek: the Requiem by Gabriel Fauré as well as two very remarkable vocal works by Czech composer Leoš Janáček – The cantata “otčenáš” (“our Father”) and the cycle “Říkadla” (“Nursery Rhymes”). The production is directed by Radovan Urban.

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B-Movie – The Wild West Berlin Of The 80s

Prazsky Vyber

Prazsky vyber © Prazsky vyber

The band Prazsky vyber became a phenomenon on the Czechoslovak rock scene in the eighties. The distinctiveness and instrumental level of its members, sophisticated composition and completely non-conformist onstage image surpassed all clichés of the genre at that time. They became a symbol of progressive musical thinking and a violation of the directives of the state apparatus. The comeback, which the band announced in the second half of 2012, was an event not only for the fans, but also for the whole Czech music scene. Even more so because the band returned to the stage in its most famous line-up – Kocab, Pavlicek, Cok, Hrubes/Kryspin. It is this combination of remarkable musical personalities that has always characterized the music and the band’s overall stage presence that listeners can appreciate again during their tour of large halls. Directed by Jiri Chlumsky.

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“B-Movie” is a documentary about music, art and chaos in the Wild West Berlin of the 1980s which became the creative melting pot for sub and pop culture. With mostly unreleased film footage and original interviews, “B-Movie” tells the story of life in the divided city, a cultural interzone in which anything seemed possible. A fast-paced collage from a frenzied but creative decade, from punk to techno, in a time when Berlin was like a B-Movie: cheap and trashy, threatened and thrown-together, anxious and ambitious, clubbed and caned, stoned and drunk – but very special.

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Ashton Mixed Programme

Ashton Triple Bill © Royal opera House

“Les Patineurs” / “Divertissements” / “Scènes de Ballet”. Founder choreographer of The Royal Ballet, Frederick Ashton created more than 100 ballets over a 60 year career. Showcasing three of his shorter works, this disc reflects the breadth of his sophisticated, elegant and widely popular style.

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Don Quixote

Ashton Mixed Programme © Royal opera House

“La Valse” fills the stage with 21 couples, spinning endlessly to Ravel’s pulsating score. It is the perfect curtain-raiser for a generous all-Ashton programme, showing the breadth of the choreographer’s inspiration, his musicality and his infallible sense of drama. Following “La Valse” are two delightful short works, the first an ardent love duet set to the intermezzo from Massenet’s opera “Thaïs”, the second a piece, set to a waltz by Johann Strauß. Ashton’s “Monotones” are an otherworldly distillation of Erik Satie’s pia no pieces “Trois Gymnopedies”. “Monotones I and II” are among Ashton’s most modernist, and greatest works. Indelibly associated with Fonteyn and Nureyev, “Marguerite and Armand” offers audiences another opportunity to see one of Ashton’s most passionate creations.

Don Quixote © Royal opera House

The adventures of Cervantes’ bumbling knight have been the inspiration for many ballets, best known of which is the “Don Quixote” of Marius Petipa with music by Ludwig Minkus. All the elements of the great classical ballets are here: emotion, drama, and vivid characters.

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Eugene Onegin

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Gloriana © Royal opera House Eugene onegin © Royal opera House

An opera full of poignancy and exquisite sensitivity to the nuances of growing up and wrestling to understand your emotions, “Eugene onegin” is an inspiring vehicle for Kasper Holten’s first production for The Royal opera. Working with the Danish set designer Mia Stensgaard, whose design hallmark is clean, strong images ripe with emotion, and fielding a brilliant cast (including Simon Keenlyside in the title role), Holten provides a fresh reading of this classic opera.

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Faust

Britten’s portrait of the public and private faces of Elizabeth I is a brilliant depiction of the Tudor court and the tension between affairs of state and affairs of the heart. Focusing on Elizabeth’s relationship with the young Earl of Essex, “Gloriana” captures the dichotomy between the public image of the Virgin Queen and her seething personal feelings – a familiar dichotomy in these days of celebrity-worship and media scrutiny.

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La Bohème

Faust © Royal opera House La Bohème © Royal opera House

Gounod’s “Faust” was the most successful opera of its time, reaching Covent Garden in 1863, four years after its Parisian premiere, and quickly becoming a favourite of Victorian audiences. In 2004 Faust returned to The Royal opera’s repertory with a flourish: David McVicar’s brilliantly theatrical production, played out in the Paris of the Second Empire, has given its familiar melodies, grand ensembles and epic central struggle between good and evil a new lease of life.

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Teeming with period detail, John Copley’s definitive production of this much-loved opera is traditional opera at its best. From a shabby garret to the bustling Café Momus to a snowy courtyard at dawn, this minutely observed panorama of 1830s Parisian life, beautifully designed by Julia Trevelyan oman, conjures emotions and atmosphere ranging from joy to tragedy, in large-scale crowd scenes and intimate tableaux.

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La Donna Del Lago

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Rigoletto © Royal opera House

La Donna Del Lago © Royal opera House

The ultimate bel canto cast is assembled for this important yet rarely performed masterpiece. Based on Sir Walter Scott’s poem “The Lady of the Lake”, “La donna del lago” is the most fully romantic of Rossini’s Italian operas. Expansive ensembles and shimmering orchestration generate an opulence seldom heard in the composer’s comic works.

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Nabucco

In “Rigoletto”, Verdi charts the fate of his larger-than-life characters – the tormented jester trying to avenge himself on his heartless playboy employer, the Duke of Mantua, who has carelessly seduced Rigoletto’s innocent daughter Gilda – in music of immense theatrical punch and instant memorability.

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Swan Lake

Swan Lake © Royal opera House Nabucco © Royal opera House

Plácido Domingo, one of the most celebrated talents of our time, is making a major role debut. This is a rare chance to see a genre-defining masterwork, containing some of the greatest choral music ever written, along with some wonderful arias and ensembles. This new production of “Nabucco” is unmissable.

The Royal opera House’s 2012/13 live Cinema Season opens with Anthony Dowell’s production of “Swan Lake”, created for The Royal Ballet in 1987. Surely the greatest of all Romantic ballets, “Swan Lake” is a perfect synthesis of choreography and music. Though Tchaikovsky did not live to see the work become a success, his first ballet score is now synonymous with ballet itself, inspiring generations of dancers and crossing over into popular culture.

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The Nutcracker

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Chaplin – Ballet By Mario Schröder

Genre Relay of: Dance, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company EuroArts Music International GmbH (Germany), Les Films Figures Libres (France) | Co-Production Company MDR/ARTE (Germany/France), France Télévisions (France), Mezzo (France) | Producer Isabel Iturriagagoitia Bueno, Sonia Paramo, Claudia Krüger | Executive Producer Jan Bremme, Patrick Lauze | Director Sonia Paramo | Camera Patrick Lauze | Editor Patrick Lauze | Sets Paul Zoller | Sound Engineer William Valverde, Martin Staffe | Director of Photography Axel Rothenburg | Duration 85’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded opera Leipzig (Germany) 12.10.2013 | Musical Style Classical music | Dance Style Modern dance | Composer Charles Chaplin, Benjamin Britten, Samuel Barber, John Adams, Richard Wagner, Charles Ives, Kurt Schwertsik | Orchestra Gewandhaus orchestra Leipzig | Conductor Matthias Foremny | Choreography by Mario Schröder | Dance Company Leipziger Ballett / oper Leipzig | Costumes Paul Zoller | Soloist Amelia Waller, Tyler Galster | Source video/audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV/theatrical/homevideo EuroArts Music International (Germany) The Nutcracker © Royal opera House

From the very first notes of Tchaikovsky’s overture to “The Nutcracker”, a sense of mystery and magic pervades the theatre as Herr Drosselmeyer sets in train the events that will see his beloved nephew, Hans Peter, freed from the enchantment of the evil Mouse King by the resourceful Clara.

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Turandot

Chaplin / Ballet by Mario Schröder © Ida Zenna / EuroArts

The little man with mustache, bowler hat and cane is world-famous. But who’s the man behind this figure? Mario Schröder poses this question in his work “Chaplin”, which he presented in Leipzig in a revised new version. Sudden fame makes Chaplin a celebrity in public life whose voice is heard. The clown gets political. Chaplin intervenes and leads his tramp through the hotspots of society, to factories, strikes and protests and ultimately to fascism: The clown challenges the great dictator – shrinking him down to a ridiculous dwarf. But Chaplin’s involvement leaves him suspicious to conservative America, he falls victim to McCarthyism and is ultimately driven from the country. These stages of Chaplin’s life are described through the evening, always in reference to his artistic work, revealing the sensitive artist behind the figure of the funny tramp, who observes his present-day with a keen eye.

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“Turandot” is a tale of disguised identities, riddles, ritual executions and powerful, triumphant love. Andrei Serban’s production of this dark oriental fairytale is spectacular, with Sally Jacob’s magnificent sets and elaborate masks, and costumes, inspired by traditional Chinese theatre. one of the greatest Turandot singers today, Lise Lindstrom, makes her Royal opera debut, with Marco Berti, a wonderful Puccinian singer, in the role of Prince Calaf.

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Christmas With Johann Sebastian Bach

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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: Last Words

Christmas with Johann Sebastian Bach © Rondeau Production GmbH

In the ensemble’s Advent concerts at the Marktkirche, the Knabenchor Hannover sets out under the baton of Jörg Breiding in search of the dynamics and tensions that build up in the weeks between the first sunday of Advent and Christmas Day – the tensions between penitence and joy, between peaceful reverence and unceasing exultation. The musicians perform on instruments that would have been used in Bach’s time and the number of players within each group is modelled on the conditions Bach would have known.

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Delibes: Coppélia

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau © EuroArts Music International GmbH

German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau is greatly admired for his interpretive insight, note-perfect control of the tonal qualities, and the shadings of colour in his voice, for exceptional rhythmic sense and impeccable diction. In 2008/2009, Bruno Monsaingeon had the rare opportunity to capture Fischer-Dieskau in a very intimate light during many hours of most personal conversations which turned out to be the last filmed encounter. In “Last Words” Fischer-Dieskau reveals for the last time on camera the secrets of his outstanding career. He died in May 2012 at the age of 86.

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Europa Konzert 2013 From Prague

Genre Relay of: orchestral/choral concert, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company EuroArts Music International GmbH (Germany) | Co-Production Company rbb (Germany), NHK (Japan), Czech Television (Czech Republic) | Producer Isabel Iturriagagoitia Bueno, Dorothea Diekmann, Kawaguchi Masumi, Vítězslav Sýkora, Claudia Krüger | Executive Producer Bernd Hellthaler, Jan Bremme | Director Henning Kasten | Editor Robert Hentschel | Audio recorded and mixed by Peter Hecker | Light Design Andreas Paeper | Duration 83’ 52’’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Prague Castle (Czech Republic) 01.05.2013 | Musical Style Classical music | Composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, Antonín Dvořák, Ludwig van Beethoven | Piece Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, From Biblical Songs op. 99 / 8 songs, Symphony No. 6 in F major | Orchestra Berliner Philharmoniker | Conductor Simon Rattle | Soloist Magdalena Kožená | Source video/audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1

Coppélia © Jesús Vallinas

The Víctor Ullate Ballet brings to its repertoire a new version of an internationally performed classic. Choreographer and artistic director Eduardo Lao has assumed the task of reinventing Coppélia using his versatile company of 23 dancers to contribute his personal vision. He emphasizes the comical spirit of Coppélia while keeping the original score written by Delibes in 1870. Lao’s creation takes place in a cybernetic laboratory specialised in artificial intelligence, where Doctor Coppelius is attempting to create a female android that moves and acts like a human.

Europa Konzert 2013 from Prague © Monika Rittershaus

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Every year since 1991, the Berliner Philharmoniker have given a concert on 1 May in a different European city. All cities have been places with their own special cultural importance, and the concerts have served two purposes: to commemorate the anniversary of the orchestra’s founding on 1 May 1882 and to celebrate the common heritage of the old World. In 1991, soon after the opening of the Eastern European countries, the first European Concert took place in the Czech Republic in Prague. This decision was a deliberate step and an expression of willingness to support and to bring forward the democratization and the political and social changes, especially in the cultural area. In 1996, the European Concert once again took place in Prague (at the National Theatre). To continue this tradition, the European Concert 2013 is celebrated at the Prague Castle at the historical Spanish Hall.

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Gala From Berlin 2013

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Genre Relay of: Dance, Studio production | Status completed | Production Company parallax raumprojektion (Germany), EuroArts Music International GmbH (Germany) | Producer Nikolai Vialkowitsch, Stefanie Knoll, Dieter Schneider | Executive Producer Jan Bremme, Bernd Hellthaler | Director Nikolai Vialkowitsch | Camera Andreas Tonndorf, Michael Gsell | Editor Mirjana Heck | Audio recorded and mixed by Patrick Heck, Stephan Schmidt | Duration 78’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Theaterhaus, Stuttgart (Germany) 12.07.2013 | Dance Style Contemporary dance | Composer Martin Donner, Claudio Monteverdi, Robert Schumann, Cat Power, Emiliana Torrini, Johann Paul von Westhoff, Francesco Geminiani | Choreography by Christian Spuck | Dance Company Gauthier Dance // Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart | Source video/audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV/homevideo/DVD EuroArts Music International GmbH (Germany)

Genre Relay of: orchestral/choral concert, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company EuroArts Music International GmbH (Germany) | Co-Production Company RBB (Germany), Bayerischer Rundfunk (Germany) | Assoc. Prod. Company ARTE (Germany / France) | Producer Grete Liffers, Dorothea Diekmann, Claudia Krüger | Assoc. Producer Sören Schuhmann | Executive Producer Jan Bremme, Bernd Hellthaler, Sabine Scharnagl | Director Henning Kasten | Editor Robert Hentschel | Light Design Andreas Paeper | Duration 90’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Berliner Philharmonie (Germany) 31.12.2013 | Musical Style Classical music | Composer/ Piece Johannes Brahms: Hungarian Dances No. 1 in G minor and No. 3 in F major, Sergei Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3, Paul Hindemith: Symphonic Dance No. 3, Antonín Dvořák: 3 Slavonic Dances, Aram Khachaturian: 4 Dances from Gayane | Orchestra Berliner Philharmoniker | Conductor Simon Rattle | Soloist Lang Lang | Source video/audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV EuroArts Music International GmbH (Germany)

Poppea//Poppea in 3D © Regina Brocke

Gala from Berlin © Monika Rittershaus

For the coming year-end celebration we can hear two of the most popular “Hungarian Dances” by Brahms, as well as three of the “Slavonic Dances” by Dvořák, both primitive and elegant rhythms from the geographical center of Europe, so rich in musical tradition. Not quite as well-known are the melodies from the ballet “Gayaneh” by the Soviet Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian – but at least one piece from this work – the famous “Sabre Dance” – is familiar to any music fan. An exciting counterpoint is the third movement of Paul Hindemith’s “Symphonic Dances”. The programme will be rounded off by Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No.3. After his New Year’s Eve concert performance in 2009, pianist Lang Lang is now returning to the stage of the Berliner Philharmonie. His brilliant, sensitive piano playing – which always sounds spontaneous despite all his artistry – equally wows musician colleagues and the public.

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Inspired by Claudio Monteverdi’s last opera, “L’incoronazione di Poppea”, Christian Spuck choreographed “Poppea//Poppea” which was ranked among the top 10 productions of the season 2009/10 by British trade magazine Dance Europe and earned Spuck the German Theatre Prize THE FAUST 2011. Gauthier Dance is the dance ensemble of Theaterhaus Stuttgart with ten uniquely talented dancers under the direction of the choreographer, dancer and musician Eric Gauthier. Founded in 2007, the company has rapidly cut a niche for itself in the international dance scene. Gauthier Dance’s trademark is ambitious choreographies characterized by their humor, originality and technical virtuosity. That has led to sold-out shows and euphoria from public and press alike. Wherever the company appears they are greeted with enthusiasm and immediately booked for follow-up shows. Gauthier Dance can count more international appearances than many other German dance ensembles. Available in 2D and 3D.

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Richard Strauss And His Heroines

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This is the first filmed search for clues about the unforgettable heroines created by Richard Strauss. It is the story of a turbulent and, at the end, moving love of two people who were prepared to walk through fire for each other. We visit Strauss’ last living grandchild in Garmisch and we meet the great Strauss singers Brigitte Fassbaender, Reneé Fleming, Dame Gwyneth Jones and Christa Ludwig. With conductor Franz WelserMöst we research the secret of Strauss’ genius of instrumentation. Strauss expert Christoph Wagner-Trenkwitz, member of the board of the Vienna Volksoper, leads us through the film.

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San Francisco Opera: Moby-Dick

San Francisco Opera: Lucrezia Borgia

Moby-Dick © Cory Weaver

“Achingly beautiful, magnificently sung and gorgeously staged […] the audience responded with an eight-minute standing ovation” (Associated Press). Herman Melville’s epic tale of a fierce, obsessive whaling-boat captain who descends into madness and puts his crew in mortal danger is brought to the stage in this thrilling production from San Francisco opera. Commissioned and produced by San Francisco opera in partnership with the Dallas opera, San Diego opera, Calgary opera, and the State opera of South Australia.

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Lucrezia Borgia © Cory Weaver

A notorious femme fatale renowned for her ruthless pursuit of power reveals poignant vulnerability when she comes face to face with her long-lost son in this captivating, elegant production from San Francisco opera. Renée Fleming, “America’s most-loved and most-lauded opera singer” (The Times, London), returns to San Francisco opera in the title role of this melodically rich bel canto masterpiece. originally produced for the stage by Washington National opera.

San Francisco Opera: Porgy And Bess

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Laquita Mitchell (Bess) & Eric owens (Porgy) © Terrence McCarthy

The Mahler Chamber Orchestra In Bruges

Genre Relay of: orchestral/choral concert, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company VRT – Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep (Belgium) | Co-Production Company EuroArts Music International GmbH (Germany) | Producer Els T’Seyen | Executive Producer Jan Bremme | Director Johan Cloetens | Editor Michel Vanderhaegen | Audio recorded and mixed by Walter De Niel, Frank Mosch, Johann Favoreel | Director of Photography Johan De Vogelaere | Duration 81’ 05’’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Concertgebouw, Bruges (Belgium) 06.09.2013 | Musical Style Classical music | Composer/Piece Dmitri Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1 op. 107 & Symphony No. 1 op. 10, Benjamin Britten: Sinfonietta op. 1 | Soloist Steven Isserlis | Orchestra Mahler Chamber orchestra | Conductor Teodor Currentzis | Source video/audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV/homevideo/DVD EuroArts Music International GmbH (Germany)

George Gershwin miraculously melded classical music, jazz, blues and spirituals in this quintessentially American masterpiece. “Porgy and Bess” tells the story of a crippled beggar, the headstrong woman he loves, and the community that sustains them both. Eric owens and Laquita Mitchell lead an amazing cast pulling the audience into the intricate world of Catfish Row. “Triumphant! A top-notch, sold-out Porgy and Bess.” – San Francisco Examiner. originally produced for the stage by Washington National opera.

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The Magic Flute – Die Zauberﬂöte

The Mahler Chamber orchestra in Bruges © Deniz Saylan

The Mahler Chamber orchestra featured as an “ensemble in residence” at the Klara Festival (Festival of Flanders). At the Bruges Concertgebouw, this magnificent orchestra, under the direction of Teodor Currentzis, played a programme with works by Britten and Shostakovich. Steven Isserlis stars as a soloist in the first cello concerto by Dmitri Shostakovich, a breathtaking work full of poetry and humor, with a scorching energy. The Mahler Chamber orchestra plays the Sinfonietta op. 1, a work which marked the international breakthrough of the young Benjamin Britten in 1932. The same orchestra then concludes the concert with another breakthrough, the first symphony by Dmitri Shostakovich, op. 10. The exam commissioners of the Leningrad Conservatory labeled this first symphony as “the expression of a great talent”. It was the onset of Shostakovich’s long and often difficult artistic relationship with the Soviet regime.

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The Magic Flute © Andrea Kremper

The main focus of the Easter Festival 2013, held for the first time with the Berliner Philharmoniker at Festspielhaus Baden-Baden is one of the four performances of Mozart’s opera “Die Zauberflöte” conducted by Sir Simon Rattle. “The Berliner Philharmoniker and I are very excited to open a new chapter in our history and to have our own festival. We look forward to our first opera, Mozart’s ‘Magic Flute’ […]. What can I say? Just come and join us!”, the musical director said. In this co-production of the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden with Teatro Real, Madrid, the principal roles are sung by Ana Durlovski, Pavol Breslik, Kate Royal, Michael Nagy and Chen Reiss. The Three Ladies are performed by prominent artists, too: Annick Massis, Magdalena Kožená and Nathalie Stutzmann.

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The Perfect American

Genre Relay of: opera, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company EuroArts Music International GmbH (Germany), Idéale Audience (France), Teatro Real Madrid (Spain) | Co-Production Company NHK (Japan), WDR Cologne (Germany), ARTE (France/Germany), RTVE (Spain), France Télévisions (France), Museec /Medici TV, ARTE Live Web (Germany) | Producer Isabel Iturriagagoitia Bueno, Francoise Gazio, Claudia Krüger, Claire Lion | Executive Producer Jan Bremme, Bernd Hellthaler, Pierre-olivier Bardet | Director János Darvas | Editor Christoph Hermann | Sets Dan Potra, Leo Warner 59 Productions | Light Design Jon Clark | Sound Engineer François Eckert | Director of Photography Raphaël o’Byrne | Duration 110’ 54’’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Teatro Real Madrid (Spain) 06.02.2013 | Musical Style Contemporary music | Composer Philip Glass | Piece The perfect American | Orchestra Teatro Real orchestra | Conductor Dennis Russell Davies | Choir Teatro Real Choir | Chorus Master Andrés Maspero | Stage Director Phelim McDermott | Choreography by Ben Wright | Soloist Christopher Purves, David Pittsinger, Donald Kaasch, Rosie Lomas, Janis Kelly, Marie McLaughlin, Sarah Tynan, Nazan Fikret | Dance Company | Costumes Dan Potra | Libretto Rudy Wurlitzer | Original Text Peter Stephan Jungk | Source video/audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV/multimedia EuroArts Music International GmbH (Germany) | Distribution DVD opus Arte (UK)

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The Perfect American / Philip Glass © Javier del Real

At the age of 75, one of the leading figures of 20th-century music, Philip Glass, is composing a new work for the Teatro Real. “The Perfect American”, imagining the final months of the life of Walt Disney – the person who, more than any other, has influenced the current world of consumers. Children nowadays see mice and ducks as Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck, thanks to the image invented for them by the Walt Disney factory. In opposition to the world of happiness he devised, the existence of this perfect American was marked by an unhappy youth and a personality whose “political correctness” outdid that of even Richard Nixon. From the hand of Dennis Russell Davies, who has conducted almost all the premieres of Glass’s operas, and the stage director Phelim McDermott, we will be penetrating into the nightmare of a happy world.

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Waldbühne 2013: Freude Schöner Götterfunken

Genre Relay of: orchestral/choral concert, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company EuroArts Music International GmbH (Germany) | Co-Production Company RBB (Germany), NHK (Japan) | Producer Grete Liffers, Claudia Krüger, Dorothea Diekmann, Masumi Kawaguchi | Executive Producer Bernd Hellthaler, Jan Bremme | Director Henning Kasten | Editor Robert Hentschel | Audio recorded and mixed by Peter Hecker | Light Design Andreas Paeper | Duration 104’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Waldbühne, Berlin (Germany) 22.06.2013 | Musical Style Classical music | Composer/ Piece Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Violin Concerto in E minor op. 64, Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonata in C major BWV 1005 – Largo, Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor op. 125, Paul Linke: Berliner Luft | Soloist Christian Tetzlaff; Dimitry Ivashchenko, Joseph Kaiser, Camilla Tilling, Nathalie Stutzmann | Orchestra / Band Berliner Philharmoniker | Conductor Simon Rattle | Source video/audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV EuroArts Music International GmbH (Germany)

Waldbühne 2013 © Tamara Meyer

For more than 20 years, EuroArts has produced the annual summer concert of the Berliner Philharmoniker at one of the most appealing European outdoor amphitheatres – the Waldbühne in Berlin. Under the baton of its artistic director Sir Simon Rattle, together with the Rundfunkchor Berlin and renowned soloists, Camilla Tilling, Nathalie Stutzmann, Joseph Kaiser and Dimitry Ivashchenko, they perform one of Beethoven’s best-known compositions: Symphony No. 9. Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor, with soloist Christian Tetzlaff, captivates the audience with far-reaching, extensive and cantabile melodies and a formal structure that breaks with the conventions of the classical concerto.

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A Masked Ball – Un Ballo In Maschera

Genre Relay of: opera, Live recording | Status completed | Duration 120’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Chorégies d’orange (France) 06.08.2013 | Musical Style Classical music | Orchestra/Choir/Ensemble orchestre National Bordeaux-Aquitaine, Chœurs des opéras d’AngersNantes, Grand Avignon et Nice, Compagnie Fêtes Galantes, Ensemble instrumental des Chorégies | Conductor Alain Altinoglu | Stage Director Jean-Claude Auvray | Choreography by Béatrice Massin | Source video/ audio HD / Stereo Inspired by the assassination of King Gustav III of Sweden at a masked ball in 1792 at the Royal Theatre in Stockholm, the opera mixes political conspiracy and impossible love. Verdi, with great attention to elegance and perfection, composed a world of contrasts between dark secrets and illusions, fantastic festivities and betrayals. A tragic story that yet at times resembles an opera buffa.

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All Heart – Tous En Cœur

Genre Relay of: Musical, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company A Prime Group (France) | Director François Ghoetghebeur | Duration 100’ | Production Year 2013 | Source video/audio HD / Stereo More than one hundred artists, the greatest personalities from classical music, French music, jazz and theatre come together for an exceptional evening dedicated to children in danger. From Mozart through Duteil to Adele, the concert-show represents an extraordinary journey through all styles of music, for the benefit of SoS Children’s Villages. With Anny Duperey, sponsor of SoS Children’s Villages, Tal, Philippe Jarrousky, Nolwenn Leroy, Patrick Fiori, Salvatore Adamo, Yael Naim, Duteil, Karine Deshayes, Pascal obispo, Ensemble Contraste, André Ceccarelli, Elodie Frege, Emmanuel Moire, Franck Braley, Karol Beffa, Janine Jansen, and many more ...

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Evening Party At Versailles

Status completed | Producer Fabienne Servan Shreiber, Laurence Miller | Duration 152’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Versailles Castle (France) | Stage Director François Ghoetghebeur, Nicolas Lebrun | Source video/ audio HD / Stereo Stéphane Bern surrounded by celebrity guests and their acolytes – celebrating in Versailles the 400th anniversary of famous gardener André Le Nôtre. An original programme, combining culture and entertainment, transports the viewers to in the Palace of Versailles: The orangerie, the Queen’s Theatre, the Hall of Mirrors, the Grand Trianon and, of course, the gardens, groves and magnificent fountains.

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Ibrahim Maalouf At Babylon, Istanbul

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The Concert Of Paris

“The trumpet” live at Nancy Jazz Pulsations! A great opportunity to revisit this wonderful concert held in May...

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La Gioconda

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The Abduction From The Seraglio – Die Entführung Aus Dem Serail

This exceptional event, which was broadcast around the world, took place at the foot of the Eiffel Tower, just before the traditional fireworks of 14 July 2013. It celebrates the eternal romance accredited to this “world capital of love” with a fine programme of musical masterpieces performed by the orchestre National de France and the Radio France Choir, under the direction of Daniele Gatti. With Roberto Alagna, Joseph Calleja, Vittorio Grigolo, Sonya Yoncheva, Karine Deshayes, Philippe Jaroussky, Ludovic Tézier, Renaud Capuçon and Lang Lang. Presented by Stéphane Bern.

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The Abduction from the Seraglio © jr salles

Konstanze (the bride of Belmonte, a Spanish nobleman), Blondchen (her maid) and Pedrillo (Belmonte’s servant and fiancé of Blondchen) are kidnapped by pirates and sold as slaves to the Pasha Selim Bassa. He keeps for himself the beautiful Konstanze, and while Pedrillo serves as a gardener, he gives Blondchen to osmin, the guardian of his seraglio. Meanwhile, Belmonte has tracked down his friends and is arriving at the palace of Bassa Selim. Pedrillo introduces him as a young architect willing to work for the Bassa ...

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War & Peace At The Time Of European Baroque – Fontfroide Festival

Genre Relay of: orchestral/choral concert, Live recording | Status completed | Producer Benjamin Blêton, Karl More Productions / Mezzo (France) | Duration 120’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Fontfroide Festival (France) 19.07.2013 | Conductor Jordi Savall | Soloist Ten singers from Capella Reial de Catalunya, instrumentalists from Hespèrion XXI and Concert of Nations, singers from Bulgaria and Turkey | Source video/ audio HD / Stereo Music is a way to raise awareness of the suffering and hopes that war and peace can bring. This concert represents a universal call for peace by showing the absurdity of warlike confrontations that will not stop until a “culture of peace” prevails. Listening to the music of the world, to all the traditions that have been passed down to us, we revisit the horrors of war and the desire of the benefits of peace. The concert invokes this “culture of peace” which will be binding only through the search for solutions to conflicts in new ways, demonstrating a new way of being human.

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Ariadne On Naxos

The commedia troupe © Alastair Muir / Glyndebourne Festival

“Ariadne auf Naxos” is a compelling and intricately crafted collaboration between composer Richard Strauss and writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal. After the enormous success of “Der Rosenkavalier”, the two men conceived the idea of a light entertainment, a small trifle to amuse and divert the public. It soon became altogether more complex, subtle and ambitious, “something unusual and important” as von Hofmannsthal put it, with “music as enchanting in the memory as anything could be; like fireworks in a beautiful park, one enchanted, all too fleeting, summer night”.

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Don Giovanni

Genre Relay of: opera, Live recording | Status in progress | Production Company FRA productions (France) | Co-Production Company Théâtre des Champs-Elysées (France), Le Cercle de l’Harmonie (France), Mezzo (France) | Assoc. Prod. Company France Télévisions (France), TF1 (France) | Duration 172’ | Production Year 2014 | Recorded Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris (France) 30.04.2013 | Musical Style Classical music | Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Orchestra Le Cercle de l’Harmonie (France) | Conductor Jérémie Rhorer | Stage Director Stéphane Braunschweig | Soloist Markus Werba, Miah Persson, Daniel Behle, Sophie Marin-Degor | Source video/audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1

Markus Werba (Don Giovanni) & Miah Persson (Donna Elvira) © Vincent Pontet / Wikispectacle

“Don Giovanni” proudly proclaims itself as a dramma giocoso, a comic drama. The amalgam of terms is so strong that it tends to make the expression difficult to translate and when we seek to understand we are catapulted into a delightful whirlwind of ambiguities. Nothing in this work is really clear-cut: it extols libertinage but the couples merely meet in passing and diverge. Fate sees through the masks, right up to the ultimate confrontation. Undoubtedly, this quest for the “absolute freedom” that the lascivious Don Giovanni proudly demands, still rings true today.

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Hippolyte And Aricie

Julien Behr and Julie Fuchs © Elisabeth Carecchio

Intended to set the spice of Parisian operetta against American musical comedy, “Ciboulette” was Reynaldo Hahn’s first light score in 1923. It features the tribulations of the pretty market gardener Ciboulette, determined to earn herself a bright future without sacrificing her feelings. Her pursuit of happiness leads her to come across a whole collection of typical characters from the Paris of the Belle Époque, from the humblest to the most distinguished.

Prologue scene © Bill Cooper

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“Hippolyte et Aricie” was Rameau’s first work for the stage, written when he was nearly 50. It is also Glyndebourne’s first opera by Rameau. This production reunites the team who created such a dazzling entertainment with Purcell’s “The Fairy Queen”: conductor William Christie, director Jonathan Kent and designer Paul Brown, joined by choreographer Ashley Page. Dance is integral to this opera, acting as a counterpoint to the unfolding story of a woman who falls in love with her stepson, a man who jumps to the wrong conclusions and is pursued by fate, and the uncertain destiny of two young lovers.

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Rigoletto

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Gardenia – Before The Last Curtain Falls

Gardenia: director Thomas Wallner working with the protagonists © Axel Schneppat

George Gagnidze (Rigoletto) & Arturo Chacon Cruz (Il Duca di Mantova) © P.Berger / ArtcomArt

“What a curse!” It is because court jesters know that life is tragic that they are able to take up this profession. As soon as he is cursed by one of the victims of derision, an outraged father, who has lost his daughter to the dissolute Duke, Rigoletto understands that this malediction will soon or later wreak havoc, whereas his master, the carefree Duke of Mantova, remains totally oblivious to it. It is precisely by trying to avert catastrophe that Rigoletto provokes it. By overprotecting his beloved daughter Gilda from life’s turmoil, he ends up losing her. Adapting Victor Hugo’s colourful melodrama, Giuseppe Verdi composed one of his greatest masterpieces.

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The feature documentary captures the moving story of a group of ageing travesty artists who set out one last time to live the glamorous life of the famous. The show has changed them, it has given them the power to pursue their unconventional and often difficult lives. In June 2012, after two years of touring, they will perform their last show on stage. What does life look like “after Gardenia”?

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Midsummer Night's Tango

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Jam Session at the lake: guitarist Diego “DIPI“ Kvitko & bandoneon player Pablo Greco © Viviane Blumenschein

Finns have a quirky sense of humour – and are a bit shy. But: Tango is THE folk music of the Finns. The documentary discovers the Finnish tango from the viewpoint of the singer Chino Laborde, the guitarist Diego “DIPI” Kvitko and the bandoneonist Pablo Greco. The three Argentine musicians travel to Finland to find out whether Aki Kaurismäki is telling the truth when he asserts that tango music was invented in Finland.

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The Beethoven Files

Zarah Leander Animation © Ali Soozandeh

Zarah Leander was the Third Reich’s greatest film star. Admired by the Nazis she became the best-paid film diva ever signed by the UFA. At the peak of her career in 1943, Zarah Leander suddenly leaves Berlin and returns to Sweden. Around the same time, rumours are starting to spread which will determine the myth of Zarah Leander: a Nazi diva, a non-political actress or a soviet spy. “The Zarah Leander Files” immerses into the life of the Swedish film diva and asks who is really behind the mysterious look, the frivolous songs and pompous gestures. Who was Zarah Leander really?

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The Wagner Files

Lars Eidinger & Pheline Roggan © Tom Kretschmar

Ludwig van Beethoven’s work is legendary – and already was while he was still alive. He is famous around the world, and yet little is known about the conditions under which his music was composed. one thing is certain: he composed most of his masterpieces AFTER the onset of his deafness. When he composed his famous 9th symphony, he wasn’t able to hear a thing! A deaf composer? How is that possible? 200 years after Beethoven’s death, “The Beethoven File” casts light on one of the biggest mysteries of music history.

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The Leander Files

The Wagner Files: Pegah Ferydoni & Samuel Finzi © Falco Seliger

“The Wagner Files” is an innovative and dynamic fusion of music documentary, fictional film and animated cartoon. It critically introduces the life and musical creativity of one of the most famous – and arguably most controversial – German composers in a way that has never been done before. High quality, thought-provoking fictional scenes trace the complex and scandalous relationship between Richard Wagner (Samuel Finzi) and his second wife Cosima (Pegah Ferydoni). Marking the anniversary of Wagner’s 200th birthday in 2013, the film explores the visionary opus and arguable spirit of Richard Wagner, rediscovering the composer anew for a wide audience.

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Absolute Prokofiev

Genre Relay of: orchestral/choral concert, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Idéale Audience (France), EuroArts Music International GmbH (Germany), Moscow Easter Festival (Russia) | Producer Pierre-Martin Juban, Grete Liffers | Executive Producer Pierreolivier, Bernd Hellthaler, Jan Bremme | Director Pierre-Martin Juban, Sebastien Glas, Isabelle Soulard | Camera Nyika Jancsó | Sound Engineer Mariinsky Theatre (Russia) | Duration 450’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Mariinsky Concert Hall, Saint Petersburg; Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory (Russia) 15.04.2013 | Musical Style Classical music | Composer Sergei Prokofiev | Piece 7 Symphonies, 2 Violin Concertos, 5 Piano Concertos | Orchestra Mariinsky Theatre orchestra | Conductor Valery Gergiev | Soloist Leonidas Kavakos, Daniil Trifonov, Alexander Toradze, Alexei Volodin, Sergei Babayan, Denis Matsuev | Source video/ audio HD / Stereo | Distribution TV EuroArts Music International (Germany)

Yuri Temirkanov © Yannick Perrin

During its residency at the third edition of the Annecy Classic Festival, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic orchestra and its renowned conductor Yuri Temirkanov left a lasting imprint, especially with its gripping performance of Rimsky-Korsakov’s luxuriant “Scheherazade”, an invitation to lose oneself in the sublime orientalism of the Thousand and one Nights: a uniquely electrifying performance that will long remain etched in the memory of all music lovers.

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Così Fan Tutte

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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau – Last Words

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The prestigious Moscow Easter Festival, this year, featured an extensive programme of music by the Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev. The Mariinsky Theatre orchestra of St. Petersburg, conducted by Valery Gergiev, performed the complete cycle of seven Prokoviev symphonies (including the most captivating, the Symphony No. 5, op. 100), the two violin concertos and five piano concertos played by internationally renowned soloists Leonidas Kavakos, Daniil Trifonov, Alexander Toradze, Alexei Volodin, Sergei Babayan, and Denis Matsuev. The comprehensive programme was performed with true passion, a sentiment shared by all listeners.

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Don Giovanni

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Maurizio Pollini recital © Idéale Audience Don Giovanni © opéra de Dijon/Gilles Abegg

“Don Giovanni”, or the last day on Earth of a serial seducer engaged in a headlong, despair-fuelled pursuit of pleasure and the oblivion of the abyss. Mozart plays out Da Ponte’s libretto to create one of his most deeply moving scores, combining wit and a staggering control of drama with outrageously comic opera buffa. It is the first version, originally premiered in Prague in 1787, that the Dijon opera house commissioned from the director Jean-Yves Ruf and Gerard Korsten, conducting the Chamber orchestra of Europe in a highly-praised staging starring Edwin Crossley-Mercer for the first time as Don Giovanni and Ruxandra Donose as Donna Elvira.

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Grigory Sokolov Live At Philharmonie Berlin

In his recital in the framework of the “Perspectives cycle” of Salle Pleyel, pianist Maurizio Pollini again combines the repertoire of classical music with contemporary works, bringing together two major figures of German music: Ludwig van Beethoven – with the Sonata op. 81a “The Farewells”– and Karlheinz Stockhausen – with “Klavierstücke X”: two works sounding an extreme will to push instruments in their ultimate cuttings off. From the 1970s on, Maurizio Pollini has been an ardent advocate of avant-garde piano music seeing it as his duty to make the works of the most significant composers available to the public.

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The Magic Flute – Die Zauberﬂöte

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The Perfect American

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Verbier Festival 2013

Grigory Sokolov © AMC

A dim light picks out the outlines of the hall. Suddenly a massive shadow appears and moves swiftly over to the keyboard. There follow the vaguest of unsmiling acknowledgements in the general direction of the audience and then, the music begins. Throughout the next two hours, this music will keep its listeners enthralled with its extraordinary intensity as the audience senses the formidable physical, pianistic, musical and emotional presence of this most secretive of present-day pianists, Grigory Sokolov.

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Maurizio Pollini At Salle Pleyel

To commemorate its 20th anniversary, the Verbier Festival brought together an unparalleled cast of internationally-known artists, many already famous, others just setting out on promising careers. The 2013 Festival was an opportunity to immortalize performances by, among others, Mischa Maisky, Evgeny Kissin, Charles Dutoit, Renaud and Gautier Capuçon, Yuja Wang, Leonidas Kavakos, Milo Karadaglić, Janine Jansen, Christian Zacharias, Daniil Trifonov, Kent Nagano, Khatia Buniatishvili, Nicholas Angelich, Jan Lisiecki, Emmanuel Ax, Mikhail Pletnev, Menahem Pressler, the Quatuor Ebène, not forgetting a magnificent performance of the Verdi Requiem, by the Verbier Festival orchestra and the Reggio Teatro di Torino Chorus, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda.

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Internationally renowned conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner goes in search of Bach the man AND the musician. The ubiquitous portrait of Bach – aged 62 – shows a grumpy old codger in a wig and formal coat, yet his greatest works were composed in his late 30’s and early 40’s in an almost unrivalled decade long blaze of creativity. Then there is his lifelong tendency to clash with authority evident from an early age with accounts of public brawls, being thrown in jail, and smuggling strange girls into his organ loft! We reveal a complex and passionate artist; a warm and convivial family man at the same time a rebellious spirit struggling with the hierarchies of state and church.

Bussell On Ballerinas

Kraftwerk

Genre Documentary: Portrait | Status completed | Author/Director Simon Witter, Hannes Rossacher Duration 60’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded UK, Germany, USA, 01.05.2013 | Musical Style Contemporary music | Source video/audio DVD / Stereo Documentary on Kraftwerk. The amazing story of how a group of reclusive Rhineland experimentalists became one of the most influential pop groups of all time. A celebration of the band featuring three exclusive live tracks filmed at their Tate Modern shows in London (February 2013), interwoven with expert analysis, archive footage of the group, newsreel of the era and newly-shot cinematic evocations of their obsessions – motion, cycling, travel, globalism, communication, automation and the harmonious coexistence of man, nature and technology. A Kobalt production for ARTE Television.

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As courtesans, fashion icons, political pawns and international celebrities, the great ballerinas have played a multitude of roles both on and off the stage. They have moved from the courts of kings to the streets of Cuba, from the highs of public adoration to the lows of injury and scandal. But few people know the full story. British Prima Ballerina Darcey Bussell spent two decades at the top, performing all the great roles in the classical repertoire and becoming one of ballet’s most famous faces. In this major feature documentary we explore the changing role of the ballerina. Journeying from 18th-century France to cold-war America, we examine the challenges that Darcey’s predecessors encountered, discover the women who broke the rules and reveal what it takes to be one of the greats.

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Death In Venice

Bach: A Passionate Life

Darcey Bussell © Leopard Films

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John Graham-Hall as Gustav von Aschenbach © English National opera

Leopard Films | Les Films Jack Fébus | First performed by English National opera to great acclaim in 2007, “Death in Venice” closely follows Luchino Visconti’s cinema production, based in turn on Thomas Mann’s novella. Two unspoken themes run throughout Britten’s much-admired opera: the impossible passion that a troubled writer forms for a fellow hotel guest, and the cholera epidemic which the authorities are all too keen to hush up. In “Death in Venice”, Britten revisits the subject of corruption of youth and innocence that so fascinated him and delivers a haunting theatrical experience of consummate power. For live transmission from London Coliseum on 24 June 2013, directed for television by Ross MacGibbon

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Matthew Bourne’s haunting new scenario for “Sleeping Beauty” is a gothic tale for all ages; the traditional tale of good vs. evil and rebirth is turned upside-down, creating a supernatural love story, across the decades, that even the passage of time itself cannot hinder.

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The Rhine Gold By Richard Wagner

Genre Relay of: opera, Live recording | Status in progress | Production Company Laurent Lesperon, Les Films Jack Fébus (France) | Co-Production Company Mezzo (France), Gran Teatre del Liceu (Spain) | Director François René Martin | Duration 150’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Gran Teatre del Liceu | Composer Richard Wagner | Orchestra/Choir Symphony orchestra and Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu | Conductor Josep Pons | Stage Director Robert Carsen | Main Actor Albert Dohmen, Ralf Lukas, Marcel Reijans, Kurt Streit, Ain Anger, Ante Jerkunica | Source video/audio HD / Stereo “The Rhine Gold“ (“Das Rheingold“) is the prologue of “The Ring of the Nibelung“. In a world where harmony reigns again, the Rhine maidens watch over their treasure in the depths of the Rhine. But then it is stolen by Alberich, the Nibelung, a nasty, horny dwarf who knows the secret: The one who can take the gold and forge a gold ring, will become the master of the world. Wotan, king of the gods, manages to steal the gold and the ring from Alberich to pay the giants Fafner and Fasolt for building his palace of Valhalla. But Alberich utters a terrible curse: the ring shall bring its owners misfortune and death.

The Tales Of Hoffmann By Jacques Offenbach

Genre Relay of: opera, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Laurent Lesperon, Les FIlms Jack Fébus (France) | Co-Production Company Mezzo (France), Gran Teatro del Liceu (Spain) | Director Louise Narboni | Duration 176’ | Production Year 2013 | Orchestra/Choir Symphony orchestra and Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu | Conductor Stéphane Denève | Stage Director Laurent Pelly | Main Actor Nathalie Dessay, Laurent Naouri, Michael Spyres, Kathleen Kim, Tatiana Pavloskaya | Source video/audio HD / Stereo “The Tales of Hoffman” (Paris, 1881) is evidence of Hoffman’s determination to surpass his success with operettas and enter the world of grand opera. This is a highly inspired work where fantasy and emotion form a subtle, supernatural blend with satire and the grotesque. Hoffman, the narrator and protagonist, relates three tales to his drinking companions. Each tale illustrates a facet of his stormy affair with the singer Stella. The tales tell the stories of olympia, a mechanical doll, Antonia, a singer who sings herself to death, and Giulietta, a courtesan who steals people’s reflections.

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London Symphony Orchestra – Brahms & Szymanowski | 19 December 2012

Genre Relay of: orchestral/choral concert, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Laurent Lesperon, Les Films Jack Fébus (France) | Co-Production Company Mezzo (France), LSo Live Ltd (UK) | Director olivier Simonnet | Duration 91’ | Production Year 2012 | Recorded Barbican Centre, London (UK) 19.12.2012 | Musical Style Classical music | Composer Johannes Brahms, Karol Szymanowski | Orchestra London Symphony orchestra | Conductor Valery Gergiev | Source video/ audio HD / Stereo In collaboration with LSo Live, the London Symphony orchestra celebrates Brahms & Szymanowski at the Barbican Hall in London. on 19 December 2012, Valery Gergiev conducts Szymanovski’s Symphony No. 4 “Concertante” with pianist Denis Matsuev, the Violin Concerto with Leonidas Kavakos and Brahms’s Symphony No. 4. The concert has been captured in a 90-minute live programme, broadcasted on Mezzo Channel.

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London Symphony Orchestra – Brahms & Szymanowski | 30 March 2013

Genre Relay of: orchestral/choral concert, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Laurent Lesperon, Les Films Jack Fébus (France) | Co-Production Company LSo Live Ltd (UK), Mezzo (France) | Director olivier Simonnet | Duration 95’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Barbican Centre, London (UK) 30.03.2013 | Musical Style Classical music | Composer Johannes Brahms, Karol Szymanowski | Orchestra London Symphony orchestra | Conductor Valery Gergiev | Soloist Sally Matthews, Ekaterina Gubanova, Christopher Maltman, Kostas Smoriginas | Source video/audio HD / Stereo In collaboration with LSo Live, the London Symphony orchestra celebrates Brahms & Szymanowski at the Barbican Hall in London. on 30 March 2013, Valery Gergiev conducted Szymanovski’s Stabat Mater and Brahms’s “A German Requiem“. The concert will be released on DVD.

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London Symphony Orchestra – Brahms & Szymanowski | 18 December 2012

Genre Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Laurent Lesperon, Les Films Jack Fébus (France) | Co-Production Company Mezzo (France), LSO Live Ltd (UK) | Director Olivier Simonnet | Duration 85’ | Production Year 2012 | Recorded Barbican Centre, London (UK) 18.12.2012 | Musical Style Classical music | Composer Johannes Brahms, Karol Szymanowski | Orchestra London Symphony Orchestra | Conductor Valery Gergiev | Source video/ audio HD / Stereo In collaboration with LSO Live, the London Symphony Orchestra celebrates Brahms & Szymanowski at the Barbican Hall in London. On 18 December 2012, Valery Gergiev conducted Brahms’s Symphony No. 3, “Variations on a theme by Haydn“ and Szymanovski’s “Song of the Night”. The concert will be released on DVD.

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London Symphony Orchestra – Mendelssohn & Schumann

Genre Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording | Status in progress | Production Company Laurent Lesperon, Les Films Jack Fébus (France) | Co-Production Company Mezzo (France), LSO Live Ltd (UK) | Duration 80’ | Production Year 2014 | Recorded Barbican Centre, London (UK) 21.01.2014 | Musical Style Classical music | Composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Robert Schumann | Orchestra London Symphony Orchestra | Conductor John Eliot Gardiner | Soloist Maria João Pires | Source video/audio HD / Stereo In collaboration with LSO Live, the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner features Mendelssohn and Schumann masterpieces at the Barbican Hall in London. On 21 January 2014, the London Symphony Orchestra will perform Mendelssohn’s “The Hebrides“, “Fingal’s Cave” and the Symphony No. 3 “Scottish”, plus Schumann’s Piano Concerto, with soloist Maria João Pires.

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London Symphony Orchestra – Waverley Overture, Summer Nights & Fantastic Symphony By Hector Berlioz

Genre Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording | Status in progress | Production Company Laurent Lesperon, Les Films Jack Fébus (France) | Co-Production Company Mezzo (France), LSO Live Ltd (UK) | Director Olivier Simonnet | Duration 90’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Barbican Centre, London (UK) 14.11.2013 | Musical Style Classical music | Composer Hector Berlioz | Orchestra London Symphony Orchestra | Conductor Valery Gergiev | Soloist Karen Cargill | Source video/audio HD / Stereo In collaboration with LSO Live, the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev features the “Waverley Overture“, “Les nuits d’été“ (“Summer Nights“) and “Symphony fantastique“ by Hector Berlioz: on 14 November 2013, at the Barbican Hall in London. The London Symphony Orchestra welcomes as soloist: mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill.

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London Symphony Orchestra – Romeo & Juliet By Hector Berlioz

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In collaboration with LSO Live, the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev features “Roméo et Juliette“ by Hector Berlioz: on 13 November 2013, at the Barbican Hall in London. The London Symphony Orchestra welcomes as soloists: mezzo-soprano Olga Borodina, tenor Kenneth Tarver and bass Ildar Abdrazakov – accompanied by the London Symphony Choir.

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Toulouse Capitole National Orchestra In Moscow – Tugan Sokhiev & Jean-Yves Thibaudet

Genre Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording | Status in progress | Production Company Laurent Lesperon, Les Films Jack Fébus (France) | Co-Production Company Mezzo (France), ARTE France | Director Jean-Pierre Loisil | Duration 62’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded International House of Music, Moscow (Russia) 25.10.2013 | Musical Style Classical music | Composer Hector Berlioz, Franz Liszt, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov | Piece Le Carnaval romain, Piano Concerto No. 2, Scheherazade | Orchestra l’Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse | Conductor Tugan Sokhiev | Soloist Jean-Yves Thibaudet | Source video/ audio HD / Stereo The Toulouse Capitole National Orchestra, conducted by Tugan Sokhiev, is on tour in Russia: On 25 October 2013, at the International House of Music in Moscow, the orchestra performs Berlioz’s “Carnaval romain“, Rimski-Korsakov’s “Scheherazade“ and Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2. The soloist is pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet.

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Toulouse Capitole National Orchestra – Tugan Sokhiev & Nicholas Angelich

Genre Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording | Status completed | Co-Production Company Mezzo (France), ARTE France (France), l’Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse (France) | Director JeanPierre Loisil | Duration 83’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Halle aux Grains, Toulouse (France) 05.04.2013 | Musical Style Classical music | Composer Nikolai Rimski-Korsakov, Sergei Rachmaninov, Johannes Brahms | Piece The legend of the invisible city of Kitesh, Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini in A minor Op. 43, Symphony No. 4 in E minor Op. 98 | Orchestra l’Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse | Conductor Tugan Sokhiev | Soloist Nicholas Angelich | Source video/audio HD / Stereo Pianist Nicholas Angelich puts his fabulous sound palette in the service of the “Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini“. Rachmaninov’s 24 variations show the inexhaustible capacity of the composer in the art of variation. A virtuoso in the field of symphonic music, Brahms lets his last symphony begin in a turbulent atmosphere ending it in the masterly construction of the final 30 variations.

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Toulouse Capitole National Orchestra – Marc Minkowski & Anne Sofie von Otter

Les Films Jack Fébus | Marc Minkowski leads l’Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse for a concert with the Swedish singer Anne Sofie von Otter who has conquered the classical music world, singing the greatest mezzo-soprano roles in the most prestigious opera houses. She joins forces again with Marc Minkowski and opens this concert with Wagner’s “WesendonckLieder”. This programme is an opportunity to celebrate the bicentenary of Richard Wagner’s birth. This major piece of the Lieder repertoire tells the story of the impossible yet passionate love of the composer for the spouse of one of his sponsors, Otto von Wesendonck.

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Toulouse Capitole National Orchestra – Tugan Sokhiev Conducts Mahler's Tragic Symphony

Genre Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Laurent Lesperon, Les Films Jack Fébus (France) | Co-Production Company Medici TV (France), l’Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse (France) | Director Jean-Pierre Loisil | Duration 90’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Halle aux Grains, Toulouse (France) 01.02.2013 | Musical Style Classical music | Composer Gustav Mahler | Piece Symphony No. 6 in A minor “Tragic” | Orchestra Toulouse’s Capitole National Orchestra | Conductor Tugan Sokhiev | Source video/audio HD / Stereo Mahler himself called this symphony his “Tragic”. The orchestra, according to Schoenberg, must sound out the golden abyss of “sublime resignation”. The Sixth Symphony is a work of tragic beauty; the score reflects the battle of life, from furious struggles, through bright clouds, to the final resignation. Tugan Sokhiev, music director of l’Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse, carefully balances the textures of sound in a tight-knit performance.

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Toulouse Capitole National Orchestra In Moscow – Tugan Sokhiev & Renaud Capuçon

Genre Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording | Status in progress | Production Company Laurent Lesperon, Les Films Jack Fébus (France) | Co-Production Company ARTE France, Mezzo (France) | Director Jean-Pierre Loisil | Duration 60’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded International House of Music, Moscow (Russia) 26.10.2013 | Musical Style Classical music | Composer Ludwig van Beethoven, Max Bruch, Edward Elgar | Piece Die Weihe des Hauses Overture, Violin Concerto No. 1, Enigma Variations | Orchestra l’Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse | Conductor Tugan Sokhiev | Soloist Renaud Capuçon | Source video/audio HD / Stereo The Toulouse Capitole National Orchestra, conducted by Tugan Sokhiev, is on tour in Russia: On 26 October 2013, at the International House of Music in Moscow, the orchestra performs Beethoven’s overture “Die Weihe des Hauses”, Elgar’s “Enigma Variations” and Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1. The soloist is violinist Renaud Capuçon.

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Toulouse Capitole National Orchestra – Tugan Sokhiev Conducts Beethoven's Triple Concerto

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Toulouse Capitole National Orchestra – Tugan Sokhiev Conducts Brahms And Dvořák

Genre Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Laurent Lesperon, Les Films Jack Fébus (France) | Co-Production Company Mezzo (France), ARTE France, l’Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse (France) | Director JeanPierre Loisil | Duration 101’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Halle aux Grains, Toulouse (France) 26.01.2013 | Musical Style Classical music | Composer Johannes Brahms, Antonín Dvořák | Piece Violin Concerto in D major Op. 77, Symphony No. 7 in D minor Op. 70, | Orchestra l’Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse | Conductor Tugan Sokhiev | Soloist Sergey Khachatryan | Source video/audio HD / Stereo The Violin Concerto by Brahms is written in a joyous mood; especially the finale reflects the pleasure the composer had composing his “Hungarian Dances”. Brahms, who assisted his friend’s career, encouraged Dvořák to emancipate his music from its folkloristic sources elevating them to the tonal language of musical universality. That is what Dvořák managed to realize in his rigorously constructed Seventh Symphony. The young violinist Sergey Khachatryan, at home in a wide-ranging repertoire, plays with the best orchestras in the world, under the baton of the greatest maestros. In this concert, he goes in for an exiting musical dialogue with conductor Tugan Sokhiev.

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Toulouse Capitole National Orchestra – Tugan Sokhiev & Elisabeth Leonskaja

Genre Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Laurent Lesperon, Les Films Jack Fébus (France) | Co-Production Company Medici TV (France), l’Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse (France) | Director Jean-Pierre Loisil | Duration 93’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Halle aux Grains, Toulouse (France) 19.09.2013 | Musical Style Classical music | Composer Johannes Brahms | Piece Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major Op. 83, Symphony No. 2 in D major Op. 73 | Orchestra l’Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse | Conductor Tugan Sokhiev | Soloist Elisabeth Leonskaja | Source video/audio HD / Stereo Probably the greatest pianist for this repertoire, Elisabeth Leonskaja is the Toulouse Capitole National Orchestra’s guest to open the 2013-2014 season with a 100% Brahms programme. Together with Elisabeth Leonskaja, the Toulouse Capitole National Orchestra performs Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2. In the second part of the programme, Tugan Sokhiev, who celebrates the eighth anniversary of his being music director of the orchestra, leads an exciting performance of Brahms’s Symphony No. 2.

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Matsuev Performs Rachmaninov – Sergei Rachmaninov's 140th Anniversary

Genre Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Laurent Lesperon, Les Films Jack Fébus (France) | Co-Production Company Mezzo (France) | Director François Goetghebeur | Duration 90’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, Moscow | Musical Style Classical music | Composer Sergei Rachmaninov | Orchestra Russian State Symphony Orchestra Evgeny Svetlanov | Conductor Leonard Slatkin | Soloist Denis Matsuev | Source video/audio HD / Stereo This year, the music world celebrates the 140th anniversary of the birth of the great Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninov. The State Symphony Orchestra of Moscow celebrated this date at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall with the composer’s 2nd Symphony, the “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini”, “Vocalise” – and the Piano Concertos No. 2 and 3 with Denis Matsuev. The conductor is Leonard Slatkin.

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Béjart Ballet Lausanne: Light In Chaillot

Genre Documentary: Dance, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Laurent Lesperon, Les Films Jack Fébus (France) | CoProduction Company La Fondation Béjart Ballet Lausanne, La Fondation Maurice Béjart, Mezzo (France) | Director Arantxa Aguirre | Duration 76’ 57’’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Théâtre National de Chaillot (France) 14.06.2013 | Dance Style Modern dance | Composer Antonio Vivaldi, The Residents, Tuxedomoon | Choreography by Maurice Béjart | Costumes Nuno Corte Real | Source video/audio HD / Stereo The reunion of Béjart Ballet Lausanne on the company’s 25th anniversary is a major event. Maurice Béjart was in love with Chaillot where he first presented “The Presbytery”, one of his greatest hits. The presence of the Béjart Ballet Lausanne, now under the artistic direction of Gil Roman, will be glowing with lights: “Light” created in 1981, with Béjart being inspired by Vivaldi and Venice, presents us with a long-awaited rediscovery.

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Yuja Wang & Gautier Capuçon At St Prex Classics Festival 2013

Genre Relay of: Instrumental recital, Live recording | Status in progress | Production Company Laurent Lesperon, Les Films Jack Fébus (France) | Co-Production Company Mezzo (France), St Prex Classics Festival (Switzerland) | Director Julien Condemine, Geoffroy Duval | Duration 60’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded St Prex Classics Festival (Switzerland) 28.08.2013 | Musical Style Classical music | Composer Ludwig van Beethoven, Sergei Rachmaninov | Piece Sonata No. 3 in A major, Op. 69, Sonata in G minor, Op. 19 | Source video/audio HD / Stereo After meeting on the stage of the St Prex Classics last year, where they accompanied the stars of the Paris Opera, pianist Yuja Wang and cellist Gautier Capuçon wanted to come together again in Luna, for a second collaboration throwing off sparks of artistic congeniality. Exclusively for Saint-Prex, the two stars conceived a musically very eventful programme consisting of two sonatas for cello and piano by Beethoven and Rachmaninov. Yuja Wang can now be considered the most renowned Chinese pianist.

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Sinfonietta, Gautier Capuçon & Young Talents 2012 At St Prex Classics Festival 2013

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Renaud Capuçon, Nicholas Angelich, Edgar Moreau & Modigliani Quatuor – La Grange De Meslay 49th Festival – Fêtes Musicales En Touraine

Genre Relay of: Chamber music, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Laurent Lesperon, Les Films Jack Fébus (France) | Co-Production Company Mezzo (France) | Director François René Martin | Duration 80’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Grange de Meslay, Parçay-Meslay (France) | Musical Style Classical music | Source video/ audio HD / Stereo For the 49th edition of the Grange de Meslay festival, pianist Nicholas Angelich and very young cellist Edgar Moreau teamed up with violinist Renaud Capuçon who also brought the Modigliani Quartet. Together, they were performing Beethoven’s Piano Trio No. 7 in B-flat major, Op. 97 “Archduke” and Chausson’s Concerto for Piano, Violin and String Quartet Op. 21. A true encounter!

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Laurent Petitgirard Conducts The Moscow State Symphony Orchestra

Genre Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Laurent Lesperon, Les Films Jack Fébus (France) | Co-Production Company Mezzo (France), OSF Productions | Director François Goetghebeur | Duration 87’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Orchestrion Hall, Moscow (Russia) 15.02.2013 | Musical Style Classical music | Composer Laurent Petitgirard | Soloist Delphine Galou | Source video/audio HD / Stereo For the first time, Composer Laurent Petitgirard conducts a concert of his own works in Moscow, with contralto Delphine Galou and actress Iana Archarskaya performing “Le Fou d’Elsa”, a song cycle based on a poem by Aragon. In addition to his career as a composer of symphonic music and film music, Petitgirard travels the music world as a guest conductor. We’ll meet him on the rostrum of the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra at the Orchestrion Hall in Moscow.

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Orchestra Of The Age Of Enlightenment – The Valetta International Baroque Festival

Genre Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording | Status in progress | Production Company Laurent Lesperon, Les Fims Jack Fébus (France) | Co-Production Company Mezzo, St Prex Classics Festival (Switzerland) | Director Julien Condemine, Geoffroy Duval | Duration 60’ | Production Year 213 | Recorded St Prex Classics Festival (Switzerland) 29.08.2013 | Musical Style Classical music | Composer Camille SaintSaëns, César Franck, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach, Jean Sibelius, Sergei Rachmaninov | Conductor Alexandre Mayer | Soloist Gautier Capuçon, Solenn Lavanant Linke, Jean Baptiste Poyard, Birthe Blom, Jorge Villadoms-Weber | Source video/audio HD / Stereo

Genre Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Laurent Lesperon, Les Films Jack Fébus (France) | Co-Production Company Mezzo (France) | Director Jean Pierre Loisil | Duration 90’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded St John Cathedral, La Valetta (Malta) 17.01.2013 | Musical Style Classical music | Composer Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, Georg Friedrich Händel | Piece Suite No. 3 in D major BWV 1038, Magnificat; Gloria; Zadok the Priest | Conductor James Burton | Choir Schola Cantorum of Oxford | Chorus Master Alison Bury | Soloist Helen Jane Howells, Zoe Brown, Martha McLorinan, Matthew Long, Edward Grint | Source video/audio HD / Stereo

This evening is one of the great “firsts”: the baptism of fire for conductor Alexandre Mayer, who, for the first time, is on the rostrum of “his” Sinfonietta de Lausanne. What could be more exciting for a classical audience than attending the inaugural concert to seal a long and exciting collaboration between a maestro and his musicians. Furthermore, the evening will be enhanced by the electrifying presence of cellist Gautier Capuçon, who supports the Young Talents 2012.

At the Valletta Baroque Festival, the orchestra, under James Burton, performs Bach’s “Orchestral Suite No. 3”, Vivaldi’s “Gloria” and Händel’s “Zadok the Priest”. With the Schola Cantorum of Oxford and 6 soloists including Alison Bury. The heart of the orchestra’s repertoire is baroque; in the focus: classical works of this period, known to all. As the OAE elect their conductors individually, they seize the opportunity to work with some of the greatest maestros in the world.

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Fred Hersch Solo At St Emilion Jazz Festival 2013

Genre Relay of: Ensemble/band appearance, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Laurent Lesperon, Les Films Jack Fébus (France) | Co-Production Company Mezzo (France), ARTE France | Director Eric Michaud | Duration 55’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded St Emilion Jazz Festival (France) 20.07.2013 | Musical Style Jazz | Source video/audio HD / Stereo Little known in France, Hersch is nevertheless one of the best pianists of his generation. Like a modern-day Mozart, he composed his first symphony at 12! Fortunately for us, his genius has not dried up with age: juggling roles as a pianist, composer and conductor, he has recorded a hundred recordings. His latest album, “Alive at the Vanguard” has received two Grammy Awards and the Grand Prix du Disque. His carte blanche at Saint-Emilion Jazz Festival allows him to show the French public the full extent of his talent: traditional jazz reinvented in his very own works, in a sophisticated yet spontaneous style.

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Yaron Herman Quartet At St Emilion Jazz Festival 2013

Genre Relay of: Ensemble/band appearance, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Laurent Lesperon, Les Films Jack Fébus (France) | Co-Production Company ARTE France, Mezzo (France) | Director Eric Michaud | Duration 65’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded St Emilion Jazz Festival (France) 19.07.2013 | Musical Style Jazz | Source video/audio HD / Stereo After a dazzling career of 10 years in “his” Jazz – standards of pop, soul, R & B, classical music ... and jazz of course! – Yaron Herman presents his “Alter Ego”, performing with Emile Parisien, Ziv Ravitz and Stéphane Kerecki at the St Emilion Jazz Festival. The renaissance of an artist who is not afraid of edges, plurality, and the complexity to be several artists in one.

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Baptiste Trotignon At St Emilion Jazz Festival 2013

Genre Relay of: Ensemble/band appearance, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Laurent Lesperon Les Films Jack Fébus (France) | Co-Production Company ARTE France, Mezzo | Director Eric Michaud | Duration 81’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded St Emilion Jazz Festival (France), 19.07.2013 | Musical Style Jazz | Source video/ audio HD / Stereo | Virtuosity, by nature, is outgoing. But it can turn to itself to admire and be admired, or move to the other, turning into generosity. Baptist Trotignon is a prolific pianist obsessed with technical excellence, yet never talkative. His virtuosity is free of narcissism, which is very rare. So we say that he is a rare musician. The recital he gave in the beautiful hall of the Dominicans was a real piano festival.

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Monty Alexander – The Full Monty At St Emilion Jazz Festival 2013

“The Full Monty” its the perfect title for a concert featuring the great Monty Alexander. At the Saint-Emilion Jazz Festival, the jazzman presents a retrospective of his work, unfolding before us 50 years of jazz. Far from being confined to his own directory, Monty Alexander pays tribute to the great artists he encountered and who have inspired his work: Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong… You can be looking forward to a grand jazzy medley!

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Rumba Para Bebo At Barcelona Jazz Festival 2013

Genre Relay of: Ensemble/band appearance, Live recording | Status in progress | Production Company Laurent Lesperon, Les Films Jack Fébus (France) | Co-Production Company ARTE France, The Project | Director Eric Michaud | Duration 60’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Barts, Barcelona, 29.10.2013 | Musical Style Jazz | Band The Afro Cuban Messengers | Soloist Chucho Valdés | Source video/audio HD / Stereo Bebo Valdés died last March. This great man, both in size and in talent, was the pioneer of Latin jazz. Composer, conductor and musical director of one of the most exclusive clubs of Havana, Valdés decided to flee Castro’s Cuba. He then went into exile in Sweden falling into oblivion. Chucho Valdés, son and pianist of genius, and the Jazz Festival in Barcelona decided to organize a concert to pay tribute to this great artist. Old and new companions will meet for a rumba celebrating the vitality, virtuosity and wisdom of Bebo Valdés.

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Chucho Valdés & The Afro Cuban Messengers At Barcelona Jazz Festival 2013

Genre Relay of: Ensemble/band appearance, Live recording | Status in progress | Production Company Laurent Lesperon, Les Films Jack Fébus (France) | Co-Production Company ARTE France, The Project | Director Eric Michaud | Duration 60’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Palau de la Musica Catalana, Barcelona (Spain) 30.10.2013 | Musical Style Jazz | Band The Afro Cuban Messengers | Soloist Chucho Valdés | Source video/audio HD / Stereo Chucho Valdés’ return to the city will mark one of the great moments during the International Jazz Festival of Barcelona, which, in its 45th edition, will pay tribute to his father, Bebo, who passed away this year. Valdés presents his new album, “Border-Free”, the second album he made with the Afro-Cuban Messengers, which delves into an investigation without borders of the musical roots of the native peoples of America. It’s an exciting work with vibrant music that establishes connections between the cultures of modern-day Native Americans and the Africans who arrived in Cuba as slaves.

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Nigel Kennedy & Richard Galliano At St Prex Classics Festival 2013

Genre Relay of: Ensemble/band appearance, Live recording | Status in progress | Production Company Laurent Lesperon, Les Films Jack Fébus (France) | Co-Production Company Mezzo (France), St Prex Classics Festival (Switzerland) | Director Julien Condemine, Geoffroy Duval | Duration 60’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded St Prex Classics Festival (Switzerland) 31.08.2013 | Musical Style Jazz | Source video/audio HD / Stereo Nigel Kennedy and Richard Galliano chose the St Prex Classics for their first joint appearance on stage. The meeting holds many promises, as both artists have two strings to their bow, and a fiery temperament... Both “enfants terrible” of classical music, they always took pleasure in blurring their image, to the chagrin of purists, opening new horizons, experimenting with the immense talent they can call their own.

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Uri Caine & Friends At St Prex Classics Festival 2013

Genre Relay of: Ensemble/band appearance, Live recording | Status in progress | Production Company Laurent Lesperon, Les Films Jack Fébus (France) | Co-Production Company Mezzo (France), St Prex Classics Festival (Switzerland) | Director Julien Condemine, Geoffroy Duval | Duration 60’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded St Prex Classics Festival (Switzerland) 30.08.2013 | Musical Style Jazz | Soloist Uri Caine, Theo Bleckmann, David Gilmore | Source video/audio HD / Stereo No barrier can stop Uri Caine, not even when it comes to appropriating, always in an innovative way, the classical composers, from Wagner to Bach, by way of Schumann, as his various recordings demonstrate. Brilliant composer and jazz pianist, Uri Caine has no rival when it comes to mixing all musical styles. His incursions into classical music have not gone unnoticed. “Classics goes jazz” will be a really great evening … and Theo Bleckmann and David Gilmore will join Uri Caine on stage for a trio like no other “under Luna”!

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Cheick Tidiane Seck At Cully Jazz Festival 2013

Genre Relay of: Ensemble/band appearance, Live recording | Status completed | Co-Production Company Universal Music (France), Mezzo (France), ARTE France | Producer Laurent Lesperon, Les Films Jack Fébus (France) | Director Eric Michaud | Duration 57’ 24’’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Cully Jazz Festival | Musical Style World music | Source video/audio HD / Stereo A regular at Cully, either with his training, duo or as music director, good humor and infectious joy of music naturally accompany the Malian musician based in Paris since the mid-80s. Disciple of Jimmy Smith, equally at home on the Mandingo field, when it comes to honor his music’s roots in the hard branch of jazz, or alongside Carlos Santana, Joe Zawinul or Jimmy Cliff, he even contributed to the forefront of the London jungle. With this project he returned to Cully, hoping to discover a young singer, representing the hope and future of his country.

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Steve Coleman & Five Elements At Cully Jazz Festival 2013

Genre Relay of: Ensemble/band appearance, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Laurent Lesperon, Les Films Jack Fébus (France) | Co-Production Company Mezzo | Director Eric Michaud | Duration 92’ 20’’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Cully Jazz Festival (Switzerland) | Musical Style Jazz | Source video/audio HD / Stereo Considered the most creative saxophonist of his generation, Steve Coleman, with his quintet Five Elements, created the M’Base structure, a unique structure of avant-garde, which is less a musical identity than an attitude towards life. At this year’s Cully Jazz Festival, Coleman and his Five Elements present tracks from the album “Functional Arrhythmias” in combination with compositions taken from previous albums, including the great “Phase Space” with Dave Holland.

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Groundation – Musiques Métisses Festival

Genre Relay of: Ensemble/band appearance, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Laurent Lesperon, Les Films Jack Fébus (France) | Co-Production Company France Télévisions | Director Jean Marc Birraux | Duration 82’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Musiques Métisses Festival, Angoulême (France) 18.05.2013 | Musical Style World music | Band Groundation | Source video/audio HD / Stereo The Californian group Groundation has established a unique sound, spiritual roots reggae, a subtle blend of reggae and jazz. From Bob Marley, through Burning Spear and John Coltrane, to Miles Davis, the band’s influences are manifold. The texts are involved with Rastafarian philosophy and a militant pacifism, carried on by the distinctive voice of “Professor” Harrison, recognizable by his nasal style. Their latest album, “Building an Ark”, released in 2012, is already establishing itself as one of the best of the group.

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XII International Ballet Festival Dance Open 2013

Genre Documentary: Music, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Laurent Lesperon, Les Films Jack Fébus (France) | Co-Production Company Mezzo (France) | Director Tommy Pascal | Duration 90’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded St Petersburg (Russia) | Dance Style Classical ballet | Source video/audio HD / Stereo The Dance Open Gala of 21 April 2013 focuses on the “History of Russian ballet”. Its programme will allow us to rediscover some of the greatest choreographers of the country. The documentary builds on the works featured that night to capture the essence of Russian ballet, reflecting on its contribution to the history of classical music and dance. Another issue is the sustainability of these works: they still fascinate, influence many contemporary choreographers and always quicken the pulse of critics and spectators. Today, Russian ballet and choreographers seem to have traveled through time, or rather seem be enrolled in our time.

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Youssoupha Boma Yé – Back In Kinshasa

Genre Documentary: Music, on location | Status in progress | Production Company Laurent Lesperon, Les Films Jack Fébus (France) | Co-Production Company France 0 – France Télévisions, Bomaye | Director Fabrice Castanier | Duration 52’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Kinshasa (Africa) | Musical Style World music | Source video/audio HD / Stereo “Youssoupha Boma Yé” is a portrait of French rap artist Youssoupha, capturing the unique moment of his return to Congo, which he left at the age of 10 years, in order to give his first concert in Kinshasa. The film is an intimate journey on the trail of his childhood, his family, Africa and follows the footsteps of his father, the famous Congolese singer Tabu Ley Rochereau. A homecoming at a decisive moment in his career, which, in 2012, was kicked off in France with the release of his album Black D ****.

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A Midsummer Night's Dream By Michel Kelemenis

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At age 33, Latvian conductor Andris Poga is a rising talent amongst the younger generation. He was awarded the first prize at the Svetlanov international competition in 2010, an award which opened the doors to the Boston Symphony orchestra, Russian National orchestra, NHK Symphony orchestra… Here, he conducts the orchestre de Paris for the first time in Tchaikovsky’s celebrated Symphony No.5. Poga’s distinguished conducting technique and natural authority are at the service of a work that he performs with great bravura.

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Bobby McFerrin At Alfa Jazz Fest

Status completed | Production Company LGM Télévision (France) | CoProduction Company Mezzo (France)| Assoc. Prod. Company Alfa Jazz Fest, Cinaps TV, M_MEDIA | Producer Bénédicte Buffière | Executive Producer Sabrina Iwanski | Director Sébastien Glas | Duration 56’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Alfa Jazz Festival, Lviv (Ukraine) 15.06.2013 | Musical Style Jazz | Composer Bobby McFerrin, Gil Goldstein, Bob Dylan, Steve Winwood, Fats Waller, Fats Waller, Andy Razaf | Piece Everytime, Joshua, Fix me Jesus, Whole World, I shall be released, Stranded, Can’t find my way home, Circle song, Gracious, Honeysuckle rose, Rest/ No indeed | Source video/audio HD / Stereo | Distribution TV Poorhouse International Ltd. (UK) A Midsummer Night's Dream © LGM Télévision

It was thanks to Marius Petipa, in 1876, that the incidental music composed by the young Mendelssohn for the swirling, magical, burlesque and elegant comedy by Shakespeare entered the great tradition of Russian ballet. Even if French choreographer Michel Kelemenis takes a few liberties with Shakespeare’s original plot; the spirit of the play remains a driving force in his work and he leads the Grand Théâtre de Genève Ballet Company (accompanied by the Basel Sinfonietta) to dance to the origins of this delicious Shakespearean fantasy.

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Andris Poga Conducts Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5

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The famous American jazz vocalist, a ten-time Grammy Award winner, Bobby McFerrin, performed at the Alfa Jazz Fest 2013 in Lviv, Ukraine. He presented his new album “SpiritYouAll” with a line-up of brilliant musicians such as keyboardist Gil Goldstein and bassist Scott Colley. Complete musician, conductor and jazz improviser, Bobby McFerrin has the specialty to create a strong bond with his audience during his performances. It is exactly this unique relationship between artist and audience that is captured in this programme.

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Georges Momboye's Rite Of Spring

At the age of 86, Herbert Blomstedt has devoted most of his time and energy to performing works by German and Austrian composers. Therefore, it is no surprise that he has chosen to conduct the orchestre de Paris in Beethoven’s first piano concerto with Lars Vogt as soloist. Although twice as young, Vogt is equally at ease as Blomstedt in the works of the great German master. The classicism of both musicians blends together in a performance devoid of any sentimentality, delivering a compelling reading of a great masterpiece.

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Jean-Claude Gallotta's Yvan Vaffan

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one of the biggest art scandals of 1913 was the creation of “The Rite of Spring”: Stravinsky’s score and Nijinsky’s choreography shocked everyone’s mind. 100 years later, the music of earth and sacrifice has lost none of its force and has inspired many interpretations. This version by choreographer George Momboye subtly marries the rooted-in-the-soil side of African dance with a distinctive contemporary style.

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Herbert Blomstedt And Lars Vogt Perform Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1

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Ever since the creation in 1984 of “The Adventures of Ivan Vaffan”, the name “tribe” has been used to qualify Gallotta’s dancers. The boys and girls, with warrior-like looks, moved in space vibrantly, performing bizarre rituals, and expressing the passion between them. Nearly three decades later, Gallotta continues his wild dream of recreating one of his first choreographies every year: “I always feel the need to see my pieces relive, to recreate the repertoire, link them together, challenge the ephemeral, and compare my work with time” he says. Today’s audience will be seduced by this dynamic and up-to-date reinterpretation.

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Jorge Luis Prats Plays Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 3

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Commemorating the 70th anniversary of Rachmaninov’s death, this concert conducted by Paavo Järvi features Cuban pianist Jorge Luis Prats, heir to the grand pianistic tradition to which Rachmaninov belonged. Prats, who studied at the Moscow conservatory, has a stupendous technique and a versatile musical style which is reminiscent of the “golden age” of the piano. He plays with all the qualities of a pianist-composer with a sense of immediate invention and an almost improvisatory style. His creativity shows in the two encores where he enhances the original score with his own personal additions.

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Kurtág – Games And Transcriptions

Genre Relay of: Instrumental recital, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company LGM Télévision | Assoc. Prod. Company Cité de la Musique | Producer Pierre-Martin Juban | Executive Producer Sabrina Iwanski | Director Isabelle Soulard | Duration 85’ | Production Year 2012 | Recorded Cité de la Musique, Paris (France) 22.09.2012 | Musical Style Contemporary music | Composer Johann Sebastian Bach, György Kurtág | Piece Nun komm der Heiden Heiland BWV 599, Actus tragicus BWV 106/Sonatina, Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir BWV 687, Duo No. 3 in G major BWV 804, Das alte Jahr vergangen ist BWV 614, Alle Menschen müssen sterben BWV 643, o Lamm Gottes BWV 618, Trio Sonata in E flat major BWV 525. Games (Játékok): Adieu, Haydée I, Flowers we are..., Prelude and Chorale, Knots, Antiphony in F sharp, Hommage à Christian Wolff, Playing with overtones, Draft-sheet for Tünde Szitha, … and once more: Flowers we are…, Beating-Quarelling, Study to Pilinszky’s “Hölderlin“, Hommage à Stravinsky, Furious Chorale, Hoquetus, Palm stroke, Campanule, Thistle, Stubbunny, Merran’s dream, Hommage à Domenico Scarlatti, A voice in the distance, Lamentation, Tumble–bunny, Hommage à Kurtág Márta, Hommage à Farkas Ferenc, Hommage à Soproni, Hommage à Halmágyi Mihály | Soloist Márta and György Kurtág | Source video/audio HD / Stereo | Distribution TV Poorhouse International Ltd. (UK)

Khatia Buniatishvili Plays Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 2

This recital is a rare opportunity to see a composer performing his own works. Kurtág’s (b. in 1926) “Games and Transcriptions” hold a special place in his creative output. Each Game is short, never exceeding 3 minutes, and is like the page of a diary which Kurtág started in 1973. The pieces are based on a simple exploration of the keyboard, looking for new ways to approach the piano. Likewise, the Bach pieces are transcribed with the greatest simplicity. This concert is the occasion to see Kurtág performing with his wife Márta in an intimate moment of music making.

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Khatia Buniatishvili stormed onto the classical music scene with her spectacular technique and a sense of bravura which are particularly well-suited to Liszt’s second piano concerto. Liszt wrote his score at the height of his virtuoso period and revised it ten years later, in 1861, to give it the form we know today. Buniatishvili takes us for a ride of lyricism and fireworks. In addition, Andrey Boreyko conducts the orchestre de Paris in the refined and challenging Concerto for orchestra by Lutoslawski and Tchaikovsky’s Suite for orchestra No.3.

Leonard Slatkin – Works For Organ and Orchestra

Genre Relay of: orchestral/choral concert, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company LGM Télévision | Assoc. Prod. Company Mezzo (France), Medici TV, Lyon Capitale TV, Cinaps TV | Producer Pierre-Martin Juban | Executive Producer Sabrina Iwanski | Director Isabelle Soulard | Duration 80’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Lyon (France) 19.11.2013 | Musical Style Classical music | Composer Camile Saint-Saëns, Francis Poulenc | Piece Cyprès et Lauriers for organ and orchestra op. 156, Concerto for organ, String orchestra and Timpani in G minor, Symphony No. 3 in C minor op. 78 “organ” Games and Transcriptions | Orchestra orchestre national de Lyon | Conductor Leonard Slatkin | Soloist Vincent Warnier | Source video/audio HD / Stereo | Distribution TV Poorhouse International Ltd. (UK)

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Leonard Slatkin © Auditorium orchestre national de Lyon

Inaugurating the new organ of the Lyon auditorium, Slatkin and Warnier present key works of the organ and orchestra repertoire. About his organ Symphony (1886), Saint-Saëns wrote: “I gave everything to it […]. What I have here accomplished, I will never achieve again.” In 1919, the composer came back to organ and orchestra, this time to celebrate the Allied victory in World War I. Poulenc’s concerto shows the darker side of the composer. He explained: “The concerto […] is not the amusing Poulenc of the Concerto for two pianos, but more like a Poulenc en route for the cloister.”

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Menahem Pressler – A 90th Birthday Celebration With The Ebène Quartet

Genre Relay of: Chamber music, Live recording | Status in progress | Production Company LGM Télévision (France) | Assoc. Prod. Company Cité de la Musique, ARTE Live Web, Cinaps TV, TV Fil 78, Lyon Capitale TV | Producer Pierre-Martin Juban | Executive Producer Sabrina Iwanski | Director Sébastien Glas | Duration 80’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Salle Pleyel, Paris (France) 07.11.2013 | Musical Style Classical music | Composer Antonín Dvořák, Franz Schubert | Piece Piano Quintet in A major op. 81, Piano Quintet in A major “Die Forelle“ (“Trout“) D667 | Soloist Quatuor Ebène, Benjamin Berlioz, Menahem Pressler | Source video/audio HD / Stereo | Distribution TV Poorhouse International Ltd. (UK)

Louis Langrée Conducts Brahms, Mendelssohn And Franck

Genre Relay of: orchestral/choral concert, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company LGM Télévision (France) | Co-Production Company orchestre de Paris | Assoc. Prod. Company France Télévisions | Producer Pierre-Martin Juban | Executive Producer Sabrina Iwanski | Director François-René Martin | Editor Mathieu Lamotte | Light Design Cécile Trelluyer | Duration 99’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Salle Pleyel, Paris (France) 04.04.2013 | Musical Style Classical music | Composer Johannes Brahms, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Robert Schumann, Gabriel Fauré, César Franck | Piece Tragic overture op. 81, Concerto for Two Pianos in E major, Study in the form of a Canon op. 56 No. 5, Le jardin de Dolly op. 56 No. 3, Symphony in D major | Orchestra orchestre de Paris | Conductor Louis Langrée | Soloist Bertrand Chamayou, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger | Source video/audio HD / Stereo | Distribution TV Poorhouse International Ltd. (UK)

Menahem Pressler © Julien Mignot

on the occasion of Menahem Pressler’s 90th Birthday, the legendary pianist who led the Beaux-Arts trio for fifty-three years receives a tribute at Salle Pleyel, Paris. on this occasion, he chose to perform Dvořák and Schubert with one of the finest string quartets of today, the Ebène Quartet. This musical encounter represents the transmission of a tradition between musicians who share the same ideals despite a half-century age difference.

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Mikko Franck – An Evening With Maurice Ravel

Louis Langrée © LGM Télévision

Three french performers came together for this concert of orchestre de Paris. Louis Langrée conducts two exponents of the young generation of french pianists: Bertrand Chamayou and J.-F. Neuburger who perform the seldom played Double Piano Concerto by Mendelssohn. While this work is the creation of a teenager – Mendelssohn was 14 when he wrote it – Franck’s Symphony is the masterpiece of a mature man, completed two years before his death. It holds a unique position in Franck’s output and announced the return of symphony as a concert-piece, a form which was neglected by french composers since Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique.

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Mikko Franck © Julien Mignot

LGM Télévision | 34-year-old Finnish conductor Mikko Franck explores the realm of Ravel’s music with a mixture of technical precision, sensuality, tension, colour and texture, that few can surpass. The programme is a demonstration of conducting wizardry whether in orchestrated piano works “Une barque sur l’océan”, “Alborada”), vocal scores (“Shéhérazade” with mezzo-soprano Nora Gubisch) or in Ravel’s most substantial orchestral composition, “Daphnis and Chloé”, originally written for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes.

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Nils Landgren Funk Unit At Alfa Jazz Fest

opening with the lively overture to Glinka’s “Russlan and Ludmilla”, this programme presents two russian masterpieces. Tchaikovsky’s first piano concerto is arguably the most famous work in its category. Despite its technical demands, Yefim Bronfman’s peerless technique never converts the work into a showpiece, maintaining constant attention to its lyricism and musical line. With Prokofiev’s fifth symphony (1944) we enter a world whose driving force and sweeping energy propels the orchestra into a 45-minute journey which Prokofiev described as a “hymn to free and happy man, to his mighty powers, his pure and noble spirit”.

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Poulenc: Dialogues Des Carmélites

Genre Relay of: opera, Live recording | Status in progress | Production Company LGM Télévision (France) | Assoc. Prod. Company France Télévisions, Angers Nantes opéra | Producer Pierre-Martin Juban | Executive Producer Sabrina Iwanski | Director Sébastien Glas | Camera Thierry Godefroy | Sets Rudy Sabounghi | Light Design Dominique Borrini | Duration 150’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Angers Le Quai (France) 15.11.2013 | Composer Francis Poulenc | Piece Dialogues des Carmélites | Orchestra orchestre National des Pays de la Loire | Conductor Jacques Lacombe | Choir Chœur d’Angers Nantes opéra, Chœur de l’orchestre National des Pays de la Loire | Chorus Master Xavier Ribes, Valérie Fayet | Stage Director Mireille Delunsch | Costumes Rudy Sabounghi | Main Actor Frédéric Caton, Stanislas de Barbeyrac, Anne-Catherine Gillet, Doris Lamprecht, Sophie Junker, Hedwig Fassbender, Catherine Hunold, Hélène Lecourt, Christine Craipeau, Mathias Vidal, Philippe-Nicolas Martin, Marc Scoffoni, Jean-Jacques L’Anthoën, Éric Vrain | Source video/audio HD / Stereo | Distribution TV Poorhouse International Ltd. (UK)

Funk Unit © LGM Télévision

Nils Landgren Funk Unit is one of the best funk bands in Continental Europe. The Funk Unit’s band leader, famous trombonist and singer Nils Landgren, is one of Sweden’s best jazz musicians, a bright showman and instigator of many projects. “Music has no limits, it’s free!” – is the credo of the band. Their songs – a hot mix of soul music with jazz – combines an easiness with a tremendous energy, making their concerts so memorable.

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Paavo Järvi Conducts Russian Masterpieces

Paavo Järvi © Julien Mignot

Dialogues des Carmélites © Jef Rabillon

on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Poulenc’s death, soprano Mireille Delunsch stages the French composer’s masterpiece. Delunsch explains: “this opera holds a unique place in the history of this art; it has no love story, no hero, and we know how the story will end before it even starts”. With simple means, Delunsch questions the matter of faith and death served by a cast of singers led by Anne-Catherine Gillet in the role of Blanche de la Force.

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Trisha Brown's For M.G. – The Movie

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For M.G.: The Movie © Michel Cavalca

“For M.G.: The Movie” by American choreographer Trisha Brown is performed by the dancers of the Lyon opera Ballet. Premiered in France in 1991 by the Trisha Brown Dance Company at the Hippodrome de Douai, this piece is dedicated to Michel Guy, founder of the Festival d’Automne in Paris, that invited – amongst others – the American avant-garde of the early 70s: Merce Cunningham, Lucinda Childs, Douglas Dunn and also Paul Taylor, Alwin Nikolais, Meredith Monk, Bob Wilson ...

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Trisha Brown's Newark

Yuri Temirkanov © LGM Télévision

Yuri Temirkanov is one of the towering figures of Russian conducting with exceptional understanding of the Slavic repertoire. For this programme with the orchestre de Paris, Temirkanov chose three of his signature pieces: Prokofiev’s “Lieutenant Kijé” suite depicts the absurd life of a character who does not exist but who owes his “birth” to an administrative error; Tchaikovsky’s versatile and romantic “Rococo Variations” are played with masterful confidence by Alisa Weilerstein, while Ravel’s orchestration of Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an exhibition” allow Temirkanov to demonstrate his ability for characterization.

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Yutaka Sado Conducts Ibert, Rachmaninov And Verdi

Newark © Michel Cavalca

“Newark’’ by American choreographer Trisha Brown is performed by the dancers of the Lyon opera Ballet. Created in 1987 at the CNDC of Angers by the Trisha Brown Dance Company, this piece sees several duets evolve, showing the contrast and complementarity of masculine strength and feminine flexibility. The bright panels cut out the bodies and structure the choreography, as they slide, cross and embrace the rhythm of the colours and sounds, confronting power and fluidity.

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Yuri Temirkanov – A Russian Night With Orchestre De Paris

Genre Relay of: orchestral/choral concert, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company LGM Télévision (France) | Co-Production Company orchestre de Paris (France), Mezzo (France) | Assoc. Prod. Company ARTE France, Cinaps TV (France), TV Fil 78 (France) | Producer Pierre-Martin Juban | Executive Producer Sabrina Iwanski | Director Sébastien Glas | Duration 82’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Salle Pleyel, Paris (France) 13.02.2013 | Musical Style Classical music | Composer Sergei Prokofiev, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Modest Mussorgsky/Maurice Ravel | Piece Lieutenant Kijé Suite op. 60, Variations on a rococo theme op. 33; Pictures at an exhibition | Orchestra orchestre de Paris | Conductor Yuri Temirkanov | Soloist Alisa Weilerstein | Source video/ audio HD / Stereo | Distribution TV Poorhouse International Ltd. (UK)

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The sparkling and seldom played “Divertissement” was composed by Ibert for a play by Eugene Labiche. The orchestral suite is full of wit and surprises – qualities that Yutaka Sado brings up with remarkable humor and versatility. With his “Paganini Rhapsody”, Rachmaninov explores the vast possibilities offered by Paganini’s 24th Caprice. Boris Berezovsky’s remarkable affinity for Rachmaninov’s musical language is startling. Marking Verdi’s anniversary, the concert closes with a selection of orchestra and choir pieces from different operas. Verdi’s genius adapts to different moods whether patriotic or solemn, and Yutaka Sado’s abilities are demontrated in its full scale.

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Brahms Haydn Variations

Series Brahms And Szymanowski Cycle | Genre Relay of: orchestral/choral concert, Live recording | Status completed | Co-Production Company London Symphony orchestra (UK), Les Films Jack Fébus (France) | Duration 85’ 21’’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Barbican Hall, London (UK) 18.12.2012 | Musical Style Classical music | Composer Johannes Brahms, Karol Szymanowski | Piece Symphony No. 3, Haydn Variations, Symphony No. 3 | Source video/audio HD / Stereo Brahms’ first orchestral piece, the witty and inventive “Haydn Variations’’ is set alongside his Symphony No. 3 and the contrasting Symphony No. 3 by Szymanowski. This concert forms part of a wider project of concerts featuring the symphonies of Brahms and Szymanowski, during the 2012-13 LSo season residency at London’s Barbican Hall.

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Szymanowski Stabat Mater

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Georg Kreisler Doesn't Exist

Series Brahms And Szymanowski Cycle | Genre Relay of: orchestral/ choral concert, Live recording | Status completed | Co-Production Company London Symphony orchestra (UK), Les Films Jack Fébus (France) | Duration 95’ 34’’ | Production Year 2014 | Recorded Barbican Hall, London (UK) 30.03.2013 | Musical Style Classical music | Piece Stabat Mater | Source video/audio HD / Stereo Szymanowski’s Stabat Mater, is a deeply personal and simplistic choral work, sadly rarely performed in concert today. Valery Gergiev draws out the scintillating texture of this work, and further enhances the reputation of this previously neglected composer.

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Valery Gergiev's Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique

Series Valery Gergiev’s Berlioz | Genre Relay of: orchestral/choral concert, Live recording | Status in progress | Co-Production Company London Symphony orchestra (UK), Les Film Jack Fébus (France) | Duration 90’ | Production Year 2014 | Recorded Barbican Hall, London (UK) 14.11.2013 | Musical Style Classical music | Composer Hector Berlioz | Piece Symphonie fantastique | Source video/audio HD / Stereo Valery Gergiev channels his famously intense, magnetic energy into some of the most powerful music ever written – Hector Berlioz’s dramatic masterpieces. Berlioz let his imagination run wild in his music, finding inspiration in all manner of sources, including his own turbulent personal life. His experience of powerful, unrequited love finds its expression in the emotionally charged “Symphonie fantastique”, the story of an artist’s “hopeless love”, complete with waltzes, witches and a hallucinogenic nightmare. It is heard alongside the moving song cycle “Les nuits d’été”, sung by mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill, whose recent recording of the work was described by The Independent as “a performance of extraordinary musical delicacy, poetic sensitivity and emotional range”.

Georg Kreisler – Satirist and doyen of Viennese cabaret © makido film

Georg Kreisler, cabaret singer-songwriter, stage director and novelist, is known for his dark sarcasm and criticism well hidden beneath Viennese “Schmäh”. Music videos, created by young filmmakers, run like a thread through the stages of Kreisler’s life, from his first performances in Vienna, through his exile in the United States, to his late years back in Austria, the country he will never forgive for the Holocaust. The music videos, as “stumbling blocks”, represent a young creative way of interpreting the music of this literary and musical genius; together with documentary elements they form a demanding and entertaining visual production.

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Minds Apart – Richard Strauss And Kurt Weill

Genre Documentary: Historical | Status completed | Duration 43’ 30’’ | Production Year 2013 | Musical Style Classical music | Source video/ audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 Both were artists from the bottom of their hearts. Both created unforgettable masterpieces. Both can be seen as a model for possibilities to influence culture and society; both had to cope with the same social and cultural zeitgeist. But while Richard Strauss came to terms with the system of National Socialism, Kurt Weil left Germany and never spoke a German word again. Can you separate an artist’s biography from his work? Can you listen to a composer’s piece with pleasure, knowing it was written for Hitler’s pleasure? or does art always stand for itself?

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Wagner Madness!

on 31 october 2013, Konstantin Wecker and Angelika Kirchschlager performed their first concert together. The opening night of their concert tour “Liedestoll” (“Mad about Music”) took place in Frankenthal, Germany. An exceptional cross-over project, performed by two artists from different genres, each one of them finding a way to create a new approach to their art.

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Liedestoll – Mad About Music

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Konstantin Wecker and Angelika Kirchschlager © makido film

opera singer meets balladeer: The documentary captures a unique cross-over project: opera star Angelika Kirchschlager and balladeer Konstantin Wecker are switching genres and exploring new musical avenues by preparing their joint international concert tour “Liedestoll”. How do two exceptional musicians approach an absolutely different sector leaving their regular genre behind? The film accompanies the artists on their way to the fulminant first concert of the tour. Harmonizing perfectly in the joint songs, Kirchschlager and Wecker, at the same time, reveal their respective artistic roots and their individual approach to the genre of their counterpart.

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200 years after the composer’s birth, some shocked audience members had to consult a doctor after watching the premiere of a “Tannhäuser” production while Wagner fans outperformed each other. There are few composers who polarize both audience and feuilleton like Richard Wagner does. With various experts of his works, an overview on the most exciting episodes of his biography, and with statements by prominent musicians like Christian Thielemann and Rolando Villazón, “Wagner Madness”, between fascination and opposition, draws a picture of one of the most revolutionary geniuses of the music world.

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Wagner Versus Verdi – Documentary Series

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Cirkopolis – German Wheel © Productions Neuvart/Valerie Remise

With “Cirkopolis”, Cirque Éloize presents a show that combines the worlds of circus, dance and theatre. In the heart of a stern and imposing city, giant gears and dark portals symbolize a mechanism that crushes individuality. Performing within an inventive stage design and accompanied by an original musical score and video projections, twelve acrobats and multidisciplinary artists rebel against monotony, reinvent themselves and challenge the limits of the factory city. In a world where fantasy recalls reality, the veil of anonymity and solitude is lifted and replaced by bursts of colour.

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Kings Of The World

Chocolat, the first black clown, was a Parisian celebrity of the early 20th century. In fact, more than his clowning qualities, it is his colour that was thrown into pasture in the circus, as shown by the Lumière films, prints by Toulouse-Lautrec and other magazine covers. To honour his work, actor Marcel Bozonnet brings together circus, dance and theatre performers playfully reconstructing the life of this amazing and talented artist. We also discover his struggle against the prejudices of a colonial European world yet fascinated by Africa.

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Unveiling Salome

Salome on the floor © Nayo Titzin Bik Sunset © Natalia Tsarkova

Through the life story of one man, the film tells the story of the French gypsies, their roots, their traditions, their exclusion and suffering, and their music, which, thanks to the phenomenon of the Gypsy Kings, has become France’s most successful music export. our guide is Bik Regis, one of the founding members of the Gypsy Kings, and sort of a godfather of the Gypsy tribe. This documentary takes us on a very private and intimate journey into the world of Camargue gitanes.

Bulgarian opera Diva Alex Penda, French fashion designer Christian Lacroix, Latvian conductor Modestas Pitrenas and French stage director Vincent Boussard present the most beautiful and provocative staging of the opera “Salome” at the beginning of the 21st century. “Unveiling Salome” is a documentary that follows the creative process of revealing the dark side of the human soul. Director Nayo Titzin, in this documentary, shows aesthetic and emotional experience never seen before in the Strauss opera.

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CocoRosie At The Bouffes Du Nord

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Vincent Peirani With Michel Portal, Serena Fisseau, Michel Benita, Emile Parisien, François Salque And Michael Wollny

Series Les Salons De Musique | Genre Relay of: Instrumental recital, Live recording | Status completed | Producer Jean-Philippe Perrot, Sombrero & Co (France) | Director Sebastien Lefèvre, Jean-Philippe Perrot | Light Design Florence Levasseur | Sound Ingineer Alban Moraud | Duration 66’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Les Chaudronneries de Montreuil, 10.10.2013 | Musical Style Classical music | Composer/Piece Britten: Corpus Christi Carol, Popper: Hungarian Rhapsody, Peirani: B&H, Lhasa: Semua Ucapan, Chkrrr: Hati Hati, Schumann: Popular Song, Bruch: Romanian Dance, Peirani: Hypnotic, Ellington: Dancers in Love | Soloist Vincent Peirani, Michel Portal, François Salque, Michael Wollny, Michel Benita, Emile Parisien, Serena Fisseau | Source video/ audio HD / Stereo | Distribution TV Marie-odile Demay, MoDemay Entertainment (Canada)

CocoRosie © Sombrero & Co.

To celebrate the release of “Tales of a Grass Widow”, their fifth album, the two sisters of CocoRosie offer a concert at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord on the day of its publication. Revealed with “La Maison de Mon Rêve”, in 2004, CocoRosie produces pop-folk front lo-fi references of highly complex construction. The two sisters do not hesitate to take from trip-hop, hip-hop, or psychedelic rock.

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The Quatuor Ardeo – With Reto Bieri, David Kadouch And Rosemary Standley

Series Les Salons de Musique | Genre Relay of: Instrumental recital, Live recording | Status completed | Producer Jean-Philippe Perrot, Sombrero & Co (France) | Director Corentin Leconte, Jean-Philippe Perrot | Light Design Florence Levasseur | Sound Ingineer Alban Moraud | Duration 66’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Cirque Romanes, 26.06.2013 | Musical Style Classical music | Composer/Piece Bach: Toccata, Ravel: Quartet in F major, Brahms: Quintet in B minor op. 115, Franck: Quintet in F minor, Moriarty: Fireday, Kletzmer piece | Ensemble Quatuor Ardeo | Soloist Reto Beri, David Kadouch, Rosemary Standley | Source video/ audio HD / Stereo | Distribution TV Marie-odile Demay, MoDemay Entertainment (Canada)

Quatuor Ardeo © Sombrero & Co.

The Latin word Ardeo means “I burn”; a constant inspiration for Quatuor Ardeo. The four young musicians created their quartet Ardeo while studying at the Conservatoire in 2001, and soon became one of the most successful, acclaimed and awarded French classical music formation. For this Salon de Musique, the quartet invites Reto Bieri, clarinettist, David Kadouch, pianist, and singer Rosemary Standley, directly from the Cirque Romanes in Paris.

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Salon de Musique with Vincent Peirani © Sombrero & Co.

After studying clarinet and accordion and winning numerous awards as classical musician, Vincent Peirani expanded his interest towards jazz, world music and now his own creations. He invites his close collaborators and his mentor, the jazz musician Michel Portal for a captivating Salon de Musique, presenting the audience with an intimate and eclectic performance.

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Murray Perahia Piano Recital 2013 In Tokyo

Genre Relay of: Instrumental recital, Live recording | Status in progress | Production Company NHK – Japan Broadcasting Corporation (Japan) | Producer Yasuko Kobayashi | Executive Producer Toshiyuki Araki | Director Yoko Ishida | Duration 110’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Suntory Hall, Tokyo (Japan) 24.10.2013 | Musical Style Classical music | Composer/Piece Bach: French Suite No. 4 in E-flat major BWV 815, Beethoven: Sonata No. 23 in F minor op. 57 “Appassionata”, Schumann: Faschingsschwank aus Wien op. 26, Chopin: Impromptu No. 2 in F-sharp major op. 36, Chopin: Scherzo No. 2 in B-flat major op. 31 | Soloist Murray Perahia | Source video/audio HD / Stereo

New National Theater Tokyo – Così fan tutte © NHK

From the Theatre’s 2012-13 season, NHK presents Mozart’s “Cosi fan tutte”. Damiano Michieletto turned the stage into a contemporary campground – much to the delight of the audience. Further reason to rejoice: the marvelous cast with Miah Persson, Dominik Köninger, Jeniffer Holloway, Paolo Fanale, Akie Amou, and Maurizio Muraro. The conductor is Yves Abel.

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Murray Perahia Piano Recital 2013 in Tokyo © NHK

Pianist Murray Perahia is renowned for both his intensive examination of the composers’ scores – e.g. recently, Beethoven’s complete Piano Sonatas – and the wholehearted generosity of his sharing them with the public. In his latest recital in Tokyo, he offered a programme under the banner of “Devotion” to the audience who were soon thrilled by his overwhelming virtuoso.

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Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto Gig © NHK

Conductor Seiji ozawa returned to the stage of the Festival for the first time since 2011. He conducted “The Child and the Spells” by Ravel and celebrated a concert with the popular Japanese NY-based jazz pianist Junko onishi. Joining forces with Reginald Veal (bass), Eric McPherson (drums) and the Saito Kinen orchestra, they performed an entrancing “Rhapsody in Blue” by Gershwin. NHK presents the concerts plus a documentary.

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The Book Of Tears

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The book of tears © NHK

Tan Dun, one of the most creative composers of modern China, receives global attention by combining music and video on stage. In May 2013, he introduced his 13-movement symphony at an NHK Symphony concert. The piece was built around “Nu Shu”, an ancient and mysterious syllabic script in China that was created and used exclusively by women. This programme depicts Tan Dun’s journey of discovery, from his visit to the Hunan villages where he filmed the world of “Nu Shu”, to the completion of his brilliant piece.

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The Mystery Of Stradivarius

Tokyo String Quartet – The Last Concert in Japan © NHK

The Tokyo String Quartet was founded in 1969 at the Juilliard School of Music in NY. They won First Prize the following year at ARD International Music Competition Munich. Making some shifts in personnel, the ensemble has been fascinating the audience around the world as one of the most supreme string quartets. NHK presents their last concert at oji Hall which served as their “home” for the last 7 years until their disbanding in June 2013. Don’t miss their ripened performance!

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Stradivarius violins are regarded as the acme of string instruments. The secret of their sound is a longstanding mystery, and many scientists and instrument makers around the world are undertaking numerous experiments in pursuit of unveiling it. Karen Gomyo, a violinist who herself plays a Stradivarius travels the world to learn the 300-year-old legend and the challenges of the musicians, makers, and scientists across the globe who are possessed by the “magical instruments”. The programme includes the testing results by the latest science such as the very first sound analysis of violins which was simultaneously recorded by 42 microphones.

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Celebration Of The Centenary Of Women's Suffrage In Norway

Status completed | Production Company NRK – Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation | Executive Producer Anne Røthing | Author Bentein Baardson | Audio recorded and mixed by Arild Erikstad | Sound Engineer Per Ravnaas | Director of Photography Torstein Vegheim | Duration 120’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Kilden Concert House Kristiansand (Norway) 08.03.2013 | Orchestra Jubileumsorkesteret | Source video/audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 In 2013, Norway was celebrating the centenary of women’s suffrage. The anniversary was commemorated throughout the year with a series of nationwide events. The day of 8 March – International Women’s Day – was dedicated to this jubilee, with a big arrangement in Kilden, the concert hall of Kristiansand. An orchestra of 70 women musicians, conducted by the young, talented Halldis Rønning, gave a spectacular show together with female soloists of all genres.

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JazzLAB

Andrew Litton © Lars Svenkerud

Igor Stravinsky’s legendary piece is performed by the Bergen Philharmonic orchestra, conducted by Andrew Litton, at the Edvard Grieg hall in Bergen. The programme comes with a short and engaged introduction to the work by conductor Andrew Litton.

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Salute To Girls In Music

Four summer days – four different jazz concerts. Three Norwegian jazz musicians meet at a small seaside hotel to make music together for the very first time. Every day, new guests and new challenges arrive. The cameras follow the process from the first idea, through working sessions, to the final result in concert. A series of four programmes: Trio concert, traditionally based jazz, vocal jazz, and experimental jazz.

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Queen Sonja International Music Competition

In 2013, the 100th anniversary of women’s right to vote was celebrated in Norway. The two programmes “Salute to girls in music” focus on gender and women going in front and making untraditional choices on the music scene. The first programme tells the story of the most important pioneers in all genres through the century. And in the second programme, we meet girls who are pioneers today: The metal guitarist, the conductor, the jazz saxophonist and the producer.

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The National Anthem

5 singers from all over the world are competing for opportunities, honour and prize money in the final of the QSIMC at the Norwegian opera house in oslo. The Queen of Norway has been patron of the competition for 20 years. And this year, the winner is… Kristina Mkhitaryan from Russia!

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Rite Of Spring

Grete Pedersen, conductor © ole Jørgen Kaland

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In 2014, Norway celebrates the 200th anniversary of the National Constitution. As a starting point of the jubilee, the Norwegian Soloist Choir sings the national anthem in the White Hall in oslo. Lines are drawn from the historical building in Eidsvoll, where the constitution took place, to the headquarters of the Norwegian democracy today.

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Top Of The World – International Piano Competition In Tromsø

Genre Documentary: Music, on location | Status completed | Production Company NRK – Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation | Executive Producer Kerstin Asplund | Camera Tor Even Mathisen | Audio recorded and mixed by Arild Erikstad | Sound Ingineer Billy Henningsen | Director of Photography Anne Kjersti Goberg | Duration 80’ 30’’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Tromsø Kulturhus (Norway) 21.06.2013 | Musical Style Classical music | Orchestra / Band Nordnorsk Symfoniorkester | Soloist Dumont Francois, Emanuel Rimoldi, Lukás Vondrácek | Source video/ audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 Tromsø – The Gateway to the Arctic: the place with the most northern lights activity in the world, two months of midnight sun in the summer, and a lively and colourful downtown. Great arctic history surrounded by the drama of the Lyngen Alps, the calmness of the blue fjords and hundreds of islands. Tromsø is a lovely surprise – a mere 2,000 km from the North Pole. The 3rd Top of the World International Piano Competition took place in exotic Tromsø in June 2013. NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting) transmitted the Grand Finale where Francois Dumont (France), Emanuel Rimoldi (Italy) and Lukas Vondracek (Czhech Republic) were playing with the Arctic Philharmonic orchestra.

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Vilde Frang

Vilde Frang © presse

Noted particularly for her superb musical expression as well as her welldeveloped virtuosity, Vilde Frang has established herself as one of the leading young violinists of her generation, since she was engaged by Mariss Jansons at the age of twelve to perform with the oslo Philharmonic orchestra. Vilde Frang was unanimously awarded the 2012 Credit Suisse Young Artist Award and made her debut with the Vienna Philharmonic under Bernard Haitink at the 2012 Lucerne Summer Music Festival. NRK has a rich archive covering Vilde’s life from her first TV performances as a young child growing up in oslo.

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Aida

Aida © C. Pelé / oNP

This opera, intended as a celebration of universal concord and harmony between nations with all the pomp and ceremony appropriate to such solemn occasions, is in fact entirely about conflict: the war between Egypt and Ethiopia is nothing compared to that which opposes the characters to each other. Their bloody confrontations give way, in turn, to the conflict within each individual. A work both flamboyant and hieratic, spectacular and intimate, and one of Verdi’s most beautiful masterpieces, “Aida” returns to the Paris opera after more than half a century’s absence.

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Aunis – Tricentenary Of The French School Of Dance

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D'Ores Et Déjà – Tricentenary Of The French School Of Dance

Aunis © E. Bauer / oNP

To music of traditional inspiration, played by two accordionists, Jacques Garnier conceived a male trio – as three brothers – whose steps evoke the regional dances. Mixing learned and popular cultures, “Aunis“ renews the French art of the dance by drawing from the very sources of the choreographic art.

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Celebration – Tricentenary Of The French School Of Dance

D'ores et déjà © E. Bauer / oNP

Being inspired by the baroque language, Béatrice Massin and Nicolas Paul conceived a play for sixteen young dancers from the Dancing school, on the theme of the frame and the look, the passage from childhood to adulthood. only the space and the musicality guide this choreographic variation, establishing a dialogue between the contemporary dance and the “beautiful dance” of the XVIIth century.

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Falstaff

Genre Relay of: opera, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Laurent Métivier, opéra de Paris Production (France) | CoProduction Company Fabienne Servan Schreiber, CINÉTÉVÉ (France) | Director Philippe Béziat | Sets Alexandre Beliaev | Light Design Philippe Albaric | Duration 153’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded opéra National de Paris – opéra Bastille (France) 12.03.2013 | Musical Style Classical music | Composer Giuseppe Verdi | Orchestra/Choir Paris opera orchestra & Choir | Conductor Daniel oren | Chorus Master Patrick Marie Aubert | Stage Director Dominique Pitoiset | Costumes Elena Rivkina | Libretto Arrigo Boito | Original Text William Shakespeare: The merry wives of Windsor, Henri IV (excerpts) | Soloist Ambrogio Maestri, Artur Rucinski, Paolo Fanale, Raúl Giménez, Bruno Lazzaretti, Mario Luperi, Svetla Vassileva, Elena Tsallagova, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Gaëlle Arquez | Source video/audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV Telmondis Distribution (France) | Distribution theatrical FRA Cinéma (France)

Célébration © E. Bauer / oNP

A tribute to the French school, “Celebration” resumes its characteristics, its fast, spiritual, musical steps … on a classical structure – entrée, adage, variation, coda – Pierre Lacotte shows us the way from the XVIIth century to today, through the extraordinary wealth of the French vocabulary of dance.

Falstaff © Eric Mahoudeau

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“For forty years I have wanted to write a comic opera”. When Verdi wrote these words in 1890, he had already bid farewell to the stage not once but twice, with “Aida” and with “otello”. At the age of eighty, his composing was leisurely and liberated from the rules. Arias, duets and ensembles merge together in the same musical movement, continuous and boisterous, making “Falstaff” an unsurpassed operatic comedy that, a century later, continues to give us the gift of joyous laughter.

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Gustav Mahler 3rd Symphony

Hansel and Gretel © C. Leiber / oNP

This fairy-tale opera drew on children’s songs and the sort of popular melodies whose origins tend to become lost in the mists of time. The result is music that astounds, as deep as the lakes of Germanic legends but at the same time strangely familiar. It conjures up memories of our forgotten childhoods as though once, long ago, we ourselves were that very brother and sister lost in the forest, trapped in the grasp of the witch with her gingerbread house.

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La Gioconda

The entire edifice of John Neumeier’s work is built around a profound musical sensibility. The piece is an osmosis between music and dance, shot through with a palette of emotions, from existential angst to mystical faith. Chorus and soloists accompany the dancers’ elegant movements, curved lines and vertiginous lifts, reminding us yet again of the richness of inspiration that powers Neumeier’s choreography.

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La Gioconda © Antoni Bofill

“La Gioconda” portrayed broken hearts and shattered destinies in 17thcentury Venice. Power and love, sacrifice and betrayal, poison and revenge: the opera brings together all the elements of melodrama and infuses them with a new lease of life, grandiose and operatic. Violeta Urmana, Luciana D’Intino, Marcelo Álvarez and Sergey Murzaev appear together under the baton of Daniel oren and Pier Luigi Pizzi’s direction in this rare, spectacular masterpiece.

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La Nuit De Walpurgis – Tricentenary Of The French School Of Dance

La nuit de Walpurgis © E. Bauer / oNP

“The Walpurgis Night” is a part of the fifth act of Gounod’s “Faust”: Méphistophélès pulls Faust in his empire, with beauties both mythical and poisonous. Appearing successively: the Beautiful Hélène and her Trojans, Cléopâtre and her Nubians, then, surrounded by her courtesans, Phryné, the hétaïre who was of use as a model to Praxitèle for his Aphrodite’s statue, absolved by the Greeks of her moral faults because of her sublime charms...

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Péchés De Jeunesse – Tricentenary Of The French School Of Dance

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The Puritans – I Puritani

I Puritani © Christian Leiber/oNP

In 1835, when all Europe was obsessed by romanticism, the vogue for Bellini’s final masterpiece, “I Puritani”, a tale of impossible love and vengeance set in 17th-century England, swept all before it, including the composer himself.

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The Sleeping Beauty

La Belle au bois dormant © Christian Leiber / oNP

Péchés de jeunesse © E. Bauer / oNP

An ode to the youth... youthful indiscretions stage trios and couples arising out of music by the “Mozartian” Rossini. Evolving in an atmosphere of the romantic night, they show hillside situations sometimes more dramatic, sometimes in pursuit of lighter affairs – and always in search of harmony.

“The Sleeping Beauty” remains, as Rudolf Nureyev often called it, the “ballet of ballets”. It is the most accomplished and the most brilliant, as well as one of the most spectacular of the XIXth century, and the most representative of the “noble” style of the classical language. “The Sleeping Beauty“ is a key work in Nureyev’s career, a major success for Marius Petipa (the choregrapher he admired the most) and the ultimate expression of Saint Petersburg’s classical style. Rudolf Nureyev staged the piece at the Paris opera in 1989.

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An Evening With Armin Mueller-Stahl

Due to Verdi’s bicentennial, the Salzburg Festival hosted a new production of Verdi’s “Don Carlo”, directed by Peter Stein. The production was based on the original version of the opera, which includes those passages that were cut shortly before the first performance in 1867. Verdi’s masterpiece was interpreted by singers at the peak of their powers, such as tenor Jonas Kaufmann, soprano Anja Harteros and baritone Thomas Hampson.

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La Fanciulla Del West

Armin Mueller-Stahl © oRF

He is one of the few German actors to gain highest reputation in Hollywood. World-renowned German actor, painter, poet and violinist Armin Mueller-Stahl presented his music programme for the first time in Linz, as part of the internationally acclaimed Bruckner Festival. His own songs were composed 45 years ago, when he was still citizen of the former GDR. Supported by musicians Tobias Morgenstern and Tom Götze, Mueller-Stahl sung and performed together with film music composer Günther Fischer.

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Christmas In Vienna 2013

Genre Relay of: orchestral/choral concert, Live recording | Status in progress | Production Company oRF, Felix Breisach Medienwerkstatt | Director Felix Breisach | Duration 100’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Konzerthaus, Vienna (Austria) 21.12.2013 | Musical Style Classical music | Orchestra RSo Wien – oRF Vienna Radio Symphony orchestra | Conductor Erwin ortner | Soloist Angelika Kirchschlager, Anna Prohaska, Joel Prieto, Luca Pisaroni | Source video/audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV oRF For many years, “Christmas in Vienna” has been a fixed star in the universe of Viennese Advent concerts. In 2013, it excels, again, in a brilliant line-up of national and international protagonists: Anna Prohaska, Angelika Kirchschlager, Joel Prieto and Luca Pisaroni are singing Christmas songs from all over the world.

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Don Carlo

La Fanciulla del West © oRF

After a long break of not composing, Giacomo Puccini felt inspired by a play by David Belasco and wrote a stirring opera: “La Fanciulla del West”. Just like in one of his former operas, “Tosca”, the story describes a dramatic triangle between the protagonists, set, in this case, during the Californian gold fever years 1849/50. Sung by Jonas Kaufmann, Nina Stemme and Thomasz Konieczny and conducted by Franz Welser-Möst, this production has been the first premiere in the Vienna State opera’s new season.

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Places Of Childhood

Ildiko Raimondi © oRF/Pre TV

This new series presents artists, their homeland and the places of their childhoods. Films and photos of the artists’ families are as much a part of this series as the many memories shared by childhood friends and further witnesses. Already completed: The episodes on Piotr Beczala, Ildiko Raimondi, Angelika Kirchschlager

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Summer Gala Concert – Grafenegg 2013

Summer Gala Concert Grafenegg © oRF

Each year, the majestic Wolkenturm in Grafenegg serves as a stage for many great concerts. The series of concert evenings is traditionally opened by the Mid Summer Night’s Gala, which brings to Grafenegg some of the greatest stars of the international music scene. This year, soprano Karita Mattila, bass baritone Luca Pisaroni and Austrian percussion virtuoso Martin Grubinger performed together with the Tonkünstler-orchestra under Andrés orozco-Estrada

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The Magic Flute – Die Zauberﬂöte

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The Merchant Of Venice

Der Kaufmann von Venedig © oRF

Throughout his short life, composer André Tchaikovsky battled the demons of his war-time experiences, and was stateless for many years until he finally found a home in the UK. It was there that he composed his only opera, finishing all but a few bars before he died of cancer aged just 46. His dying wish was for his opera to be performed one day, and it is only now, some thirty years later, that his wish has finally come true thanks to the mercurial artistic director of the Bregenz Festival, David Pountney. The opera has received great acclaim, and many experts were astonished to discover that this was Tchaikovsky’s first attempt at an opera composition which is a testament to the true genius and talent of this remarkable man.

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The Other Tchaikovsky

Der Kaufmann von Venedig, Bregenz Festival © oRF

The Magic Flute © oRF

one of the most often performed operas in the world, Mozart’s “Magic Flute”, in the spectacular new production from Bregenz Festival 2013, that takes the audience into a fantasy world. Stage director and Intendant of the Bregenz Festival, David Pountney has found stunning answers to the everlasting questions surrounding the phantastic play, created by the Masons Mozart and Schikaneder.

The Bregenz Festival had one year to prepare for the first-ever performance of the opera “The Merchant of Venice” (“Der Kaufmann von Venedig”) by the late composer André Tchaikowsky, whose tragic life story was as dramatic as any Shakespeare play. Tchaikovsky escaped from the Warsaw ghetto and was hidden in a cupboard until the war ended. Later he became one of the most renowned classical pianists of his time touring the world with Rubinstein. He then also became renowned for turning away from great fame in order to concentrate on composing. An eccentric genius, André lived a fascinating life as an artist and polymath.

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War Requiem

War Requiem © oRF

Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Benjamin Britten’s birth in 2013, Antonio Pappano led the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia orchestra and Choir and the first-class soloists Anna Netrebko, Thomas Hampson and Ian Bostridge in an intense and strongly acclaimed performance at the Salzburg Festival.

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La Cambiale Di Matrimonio

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La Straniera

La Straniera © Julia Wesely

on 18 February 1968, she made her debut as Rosina at the National Theatre in Bratislava. Exactly 45 years later, we see and hear the great unrivalled Edita Gruberova singing Bellinis rarely performed “La Straniera” at Vienna Musikverein! The performance with the same cast earned standing ovation at Munich’s Philharmonie Gasteig in 2012. “La Straniera” (“The Stranger Woman”) is an opera in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini, with libretto by Felice Romani, based on “L’étrangère” (1825) by CharlesVictor Prévot, vicomte d’Arlincourt. It was composed in the autumn of 1828 and premiered in February 1829 at La Scala in Milan. A recording from the Vienna Musikverein, 2013.

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Lucia Di Lammermoor

Lucia di Lammermoor © www.verenagremmer.com

La Cambiale di Matrimonio © Rolf Bock

This early stroke of genius of the young Gioacchino Rossini speaks as a prelude to other Rossini one-act operas and foreshadows what is to come in “The Swan of Pesaro’s” later works: The European merchant Tobia Mill wants to marry off his daughter Fanny for a considerable sum to his American business partner Slook, but Fanny loves the poor young Edoardo. After a while, turbulence dissolves into pleasure as Slook agrees to the marriage contract. A recording from Theater an der Wien in the Vienna Chamber opera, 2012.

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The cycle of concertante opera performances at the Philharmonie Gasteig in Munich reaches another peak with Gaetano Donizetti’s masterpiece “Lucia di Lammermoor”. In what is probably his most famous opera, the composer masters the clashing of high-grade pulsating passions confidently and with musical refinement. Italian opera had never been this venturous, never this attractive! Interpreting the mad scene in “Lucia di Lammermoor” has been a career highlight for every great soprano. Now, the exceptional singer Diana Damrau once again takes on the challenge of connecting vocal peak performance with dramatic vehemence. Her musical partner Joseph Calleja will ensure that there is plenty of vocal brilliance and an unforgettable bel canto experience. A dream cast for a legendary opera.

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Orlando

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Pan Dream SRL orlando © Armin Bardel

The hero, orlando, loses his mind thanks to his unrequited love for Angelica, the Queen of Cathay. Angelica is in love with Medoro, who has left the shepherdess, Dorinda, because of her. However, the master of events is a friend of orlando, the magician, Zoroastro. Freed from his love delusion with his help, disappointed, orlando turns away from love and back to combat and glory. “orlando” represents the end of an era, but at the same time constitutes an interesting new beginning in Händel’s oeuvre, since the composer moved away dramatically and musically from established artistic traditions by for example reducing the da capo arias or breaking up their strict form. A recording from the Theater an der Wien in the Vienna Chamber opera, 2013.

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Wall Street Of Voices – The Most Important International Singing Competition

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Cavalleria Rusticana

Wall Street of Voices © www.christian-husar.com

In 2011, the Hans Gabor Belvedere International Singing Competition, one of the oldest and most renowned singing competitions for young singers, celebrated a significant anniversary. For the past 30 years, the Vienna Chamber opera has given young singing talents the opportunity to make international contacts for their future careers in opera. The film features interviews with among the most prominent casting directors in Europe and the United States, including Christophe Seuferle, current General Manager of the Deutsche oper Berlin, Christina Scheppelmann, Artistic Director of Washington National opera, Dominque Meyer, General Manager of the Vienna State opera, and Peter Katona, Casting Director of the Royal opera House Covent Garden, to name a few.

Cavalleria Rusticana © Taormina Festival

A new spectacular production of Pietro Mascagni’s “Cavalleria Rusticans”, filmed in HD at the extraordinary Greek Theatre of Taormina, in Sicily, Italy, under the stage/video direction of Enrico Castiglione and with new costumes by Sonia Cammarata. A successful production reflecting the passions of Sicily, with a great cast including soprano Daniela Dessì, tenor Fabio Armiliato and mezzo-soprano Giuseppina Piunti. The set makes use of a large cross that crosses the stage, and the costumes are inspired by the ancient colours of the Sicilian ceramics of the XV century.

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Pagliacci

Rigoletto © Taormina Festival

The love of the deformed court jester Rigoletto for his daughter Gilda is pushed to its limits in Verdi’s dark tale of betrayal and vengeance. on the occasion of Verdi’s bicentennial, director Enrico Castiglione sent the audience on a dramatic journey of passionate love and sacrifice, set on the stunning open-air stage in Taormina, Sicily. With a score much loved for such arias as “La donna è mobile”, sung by the womanizing Duke and the virtuoso “Caro nome” performed by the innocent Gilda, “Rigoletto” is one of the most popular operatic masterpieces. A new spectacular production, recorded in HD, under the stage/video direction of Enrico Castiglione and with new costumes by Sonia Cammarata.

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A gorgeous new production of Ruggero Leoncavallo’s masterpiece, “Pagliacci”, directed by Enrico Castiglione as stage and video director, with colourful new costumes by Sonia Cammarata. Filmed in HD, in spectacular cinematic style, at the Greek Theatre of Taormina, in Sicily, Italy, the film captures one of the most engaging productions of “Pagliacci” that have been recorded in the last years. The role of Canio is sung by Piero Giuliacci, considered the greatest tenor in this role, alongside Chiara Taigi, a very beautiful Nedda/Colombina. “Pagliacci” is the ninth opera recorded by Enrico Castiglione at the Greek Theatre of Taormina.

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Rigoletto

Series opera | Genre Relay of: opera, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Pan Dream SRL (Italy) | Co-Production Company Festival Euro Mediterraneo (Italy), Taormina Festival (Italy) | Executive Producer Tania Mastrangioli | Director Enrico Castiglione | Audio recorded and mixed by Fabio Ferri, Millennium (Italy) | Light Design Lorenzo Tropea | Sound Engineer Fabio Ferri, Digital Village SRL (Italy) | Duration 140’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Greek Theatre, Taormina (Italy) 09.07.2013 | Musical Style Classical music | Dance Style Classical ballet | Composer Giuseppe Verdi | Piece Rigoletto | Orchestra orchestra sinfonica Bellini | Conductor Gianluca Martinenghi | Choir Coro lirico Siciliano | Chorus Master Francesco Costa | Stage Director/Sets Enrico Castiglione | Choreography by Sarah Lanza | Costumes Sonia Cammarata | Libretto Francesco Maria Piave | Soloist Carlos Almaguer, Gianluca Terranova, Rocio Ignacio, Gianfranco Montresor, Emanuele Cordaro, Lara Rotili, Antonio Barbagallo, Chiara Fracasso, Giuseppe Distefano, Salvatore Grigoli, Annalisa Sprovieri, Alberto M. Munafò | Source Video/Audio HD / Dolby Surround 5.1 | Distribution TV/ homevideo Tania Mastrangioli, Pan Dream SRL (Italy) | Distribution theatrical RAI – Radiotelevisione Italiana SpA (Italy) | Distribution multimedia Pan Dream SRL (Italy)

Special Concert In Tribute To Domenico Bartolucci

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Concerto Tribute: Domenico Bartolucci © Festival di Pasqua

A special concert in tribute to Domenico Bartolucci on the occasion of his 96th birthday, recorded in the Vatican at the magnificent Aula Paolo VI. The programme features music by Domenico Bartolucci including his Magnificat and his Requiem, performed as a world premiere. Domenico Bartolucci was one of the most important composers of the Catholic Church, for over 40 years at the helm of the choir of the Sistine Chapel of the Vatican City. Representative of the romantic style and very communicative, Bartolucci became famous for his specializing in sacred music.

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Breath Of The Gods

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Touching The Sound

Genre Documentary: Music, on location | Status completed | Production Company Peter Rosen Productions Inc. (USA) | Co-Production Company oRF (Austria), WDR (Germany), Nick Asano – Avex Classics International (Japan) | Producer Peter Rosen, Sayuri Nakata Altsman | Assoc. Producer Peter Grilli | Executive Producer Nick Asano | Director/Camera Peter Rosen | Editor Gregory Keras, Asako Ushio | Author Sara Lukinson | Duration 70’ / 56’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Tohuko Region (Japan) and various USA sites, 30.11.2012 | Musical Style Classical music | Composer Nobuyuki Tsujii, Yoko Kanno, Ludwig van Beethoven, Claude Debussy, Frédéric Chopin, Franz Liszt, Modest Mussorgsky | Piece Flowers Will Bloom, Elegy for the Victims of the Earthquake and Tsunami, Hammerklavier, The Tempest, various Chopin and Debussy works | Musical Style Classical music | Source video/audio HD / Stereo

Solo Shivu © Pars Media

Modern yoga goes back directly to God Shiva according to Indian tradition. At the same time, however, modern yoga originated in the early 20th century, a creation of Indian savant T. Krishnamacharya. That story is far less known and is what this film is all about. Krishnamacharya’s life and teachings are seen through the eyes of the director on his search for authentic yoga. His journey leads him from the legendary students and relatives of Krishnamacharya’s to the source of modern yoga, at the palace of the Maharaja of Mysore. A feature-length documentary including rare historical footage as well as lavish re-enactments.

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Country Roads – The Heartbeat Of America

Genre Documentary | Status completed | Producer Marieke Schroeder, Thali Media GmbH (Germany) | Camera Ralph Netzer | Editor Gaby KullNeujahr | Duration 90’ / 58’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded USA | Main Actor Justin Townes Earle, Caitlin Rose, Nora Guthrie, John Carter Cash, John Rumble | Source video/audio HD / Stereo Country music does not enjoy a good reputation – at least not in Europe. Country is barely within the boundaries of good taste. Country: that’s botoxed women and flabby men with guitars. Just one look at the American Country Music Awards (ACM) and everything becomes perfectly clear: mediocre pop-music with bad lyrics that consult varying quantities of mother, homemade pie, cold beer, and USA – and throw them together in good measure to define the concept of “home”. Country celebrates the simple life, the limitation to and contentment with the home, family and friends: an exploration of one’s lot in life. Such lyrics would be unthinkable in Germany. A harmless variation can only be found in the “Musikantenstadl”. Country: that’s white trash; a representation of Bush’s America that deters and appalls many. But what else is there to Country? Country: that’s also Johnny Cash, Townes van Zandt and Steve Earle. A value-conservative America, that considers its fellow human beings with empathy. They still exist in today’s America: They’re the children of the legends: Steve Earle’s son Justin Townes Earle, Johnny Cash’s son John Carter, and Songwriter Liz Rose’s daughter Caitlin.

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Nobuyuki Tsujii (Touching the Sound) ©Yuji Hori

This film reveals the power of music to provide hope to people in difficult circumstances, specifically through the performances of a young Japanese pianist as he tours the tsunami-devastated areas of Japan. Redemption and hope are its themes, as well as overcoming hardship through the unique power and inspiration of music. The film depicts the life journey of the blind pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii and his extraordinary ability to communicate and connect with audiences all over the world, transcending cultural obstacles and undeterred by the limitations of his blindness.

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A Hooligan Baritone

Evgeny Nikitin (A Hooligan Baritone) © Poorhouse International Ltd.

Hooligan at the age of 20, world famous lyrical artist at the age of 40, Evgeny Nikitin has gone a long way since his early years. “A Hooligan Baritone” is a portrait of Evgeny Nikitin as an artist and as a man at a key turn of his life when, after the Bayreuth incident, he needs to bounce back by reasserting his stature as a great artist and exorcise his old demons. The film follows Nikitin in his work and his daily life for two years and shows his efforts to reach the best in his art as well as his quest for redemption.

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Ariane And Bluebeard – Ariane Et Barbe Bleue

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Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake © New Adventures

Ariane et Barbe Bleue © Antoni Bofill

Paul Dukas is best known for his Scherzo for orchestra “L’apprenti sorcier”. His only opera “Ariane et Barbe-bleue” is based on a text by Maurice Maeterlinck who had conceived it with Dukas in mind. While Bartók’s short opera sticks more to the fairytale-like plot, Dukas creates in Ariane a character which symbolizes the liberating struggles against the enslavement and feebleness of mankind. But in the end even she is not able to liberate Bluebeard’s former wives, who prefer to go back to the daily slavery of their existence.

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Cinderella

Dance is a very ephemeral art form or at least it used to be before the advent of film and television. “Dance on Screen” will take you on a journey beginning with the earliest dance recorded – would you believe it – in 1896, shortly after the film camera had been invented, to dance made especially for the camera and finally to live recordings to be enjoyed on a big screen in cinemas. Featuring great dancers from Margot Fonteyn to Rudolf Nureyev and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui to Akram Khan. Contributors include The Ballet Boyz, Matthew Bourne, the FT ballet critic Clement Crisp, Valery Gergiev, Brigitte Lefèvre and Bob Lockyer, who, with his great knowledge, puts many of the dance sequences into perspective.

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Le Corsaire

Le Corsaire © Ballet du Capitole

Cinderella © DNo

Christopher Wheeldon, of whom the NY Times said “no ballet choreographer of his generation can match his imaginative use of the classical vocabulary”, has created a new and exciting version of “Cinderella” for the Dutch National Ballet and San Francisco Ballet. Plot, dance and design work together with Prokofiev’s music to create a narrative ballet for the 21st Century. Anna Trygankova in the title role makes this a highlight among recent ballet productions.

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When former Étoile of the Paris opera Ballet, Kader Belarbi, was appointed Director of Dance at the Toulouse Théâtre du Capitole, the ballet world expected great things from him, and Belarbi did not disappoint. His new version of “Le Corsaire” was highly acclaimed as one of the few successful full-length ballets of recent times. The story is based on Lord Byron’s “The Corsair” and was first choreographed for the Paris opera by Mazilier. Petitpa made his version towards the end of his career in St Petersburg, of which only the famous pas de deux was known in the West before the Kirov recreated a full-length version. Kader Belarbi dropped some of the added music and chose Arensky, Coleman, Lalo, Massenet and Sibelius to complete what has been preserved from Adam’s music. He also made the twisted plot more plausible by introducing the Sultan’s Favourite.

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Peter Grimes

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The Cunning Little Vixen © Bill Cooper

Peter Grimes © Teatro alla Scala

“Peter Grimes” is probably Benjamin Britten’s best known and most successful opera. This new production from La Scala in Milan transposes successfully the plot into our time with a stunning John Graham-Hall in the role of Peter Grimes. The almost completely English cast was directed by Richard Jones who focuses on the eternal conflict between individual and society.

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Roland Petit: The Entertainer

Inspired by a serial publication in Brno’s liberal daily paper “Lidové noviny”, this is entertainment for old and young. The opera is an account from an animal point of view of the adventures of a vixen cub, found by a forester who takes her home and brings her up with his dachshund and his farm yard hens. Janáček who had thoroughly studied speech melody did a lot of research into bird songs and natural noise for this opera. Glyndebourne with its intimate theatre was an ideal venue to produce and record this wonderful piece of music theatre during the summer of 2012.

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The Dead City – Die Tote Stadt

Die tote Stadt © Poorhouse International Ltd.

Roland Petit and Nicolas Le Riche © Telmondis

Roland Petit belongs to the small group of outstanding storytelling choreographers of the 20th Century. Lesley Caron, who in our documentary talks about their time in Hollywood, rates him together with Georges Balanchine and Jerome Robbins as the most important choreographer of her time. Interviews with dancers and critics as well as a rich amount of performance footage including feature film clips round off this first truly international profile of a choreographer who compared himself with a sculptor working on the bodies of dancers.

“Die tote Stadt” might be better know for the lushly orchestrated lyricism of its music, but the psychological acuity of its exploration of grief and memory is no less impressive from a composer who was still 23 when none other than otto Klemperer conducted the premiere in Cologne in 1920. Korngold’s gift for a tune ensured that his star has hardly waned since then, though the opera is rarely staged. Kasper Holten’s insightful and restrained production is a rare chance both to see and hear an opera of high emotional charge heightened by the dark city scape of its title. A superb cast is directed by Finnish National opera’s artistic director Mikko Franck, who is celebrated for his impassioned interpretations of romantic opera.

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The Legend Of The Invisible City Of Kitezh And The Maiden Fevroniya

The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh © DNo

Rimsky-Korsakov’s next to last finished opera “The Legend of the invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya” was premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre on 20 February 1907 under the baton of F.M. Blumenfeld. Based on a libretto by Belsky this is at once a fairy tale abounding in fantasy and a parable about oppression and political arrogance. Spectacular crowd scenes are contrasted with a deeply personal treatment of the leading characters that puts into relief the protagonist.

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Così Fan Tutte

Giuseppina Bridelli © RAI – Radiotelevisione Italiana SpA

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Don Quixote

Genre Relay of: Dance, Live recording | Status in progress | Duration 160’ | Production Year 2014 | Recorded Teatro alla Scala, Milano (Italy) 24.09.2014 | Musical Style Classical music | Dance Style Classical ballet | Composer Ludwig Minkus | Conductor Aleksander Titov | Choreography by Rudolf Nureyev | Costumes Anna Anni | Soloist Svetlana Zakharova, Denis Matvienko | Source video/audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 According to notes by Minkus, the adventures of Don Quixote and his squire Sancho Panza intertwine, or rather provide the pretext for a love story and an evening of sparkling ballet. From chases, tricks and disguises, the young Kitri and Basilio will fulfil their dream; Don Quixote will fight the windmills and dance with his Dulcinea in the dream of an enchanted garden. “Don Quixote” requires superb technique in the variations, especially in the final Grand Pas de Deux that celebrates the triumph of love: a true test of the talent of every Étoile.

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Armida

Genre Relay of: opera, Live recording | Status in progress | Duration 180’ | Production Year 2014 | Recorded Rossini opera Festival, Pesaro (Italy) 31.07.2014 | Musical Style Classical music | Composer Gioacchino Rossini | Stage Director Luca Ronconi | Source video/audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 In 2014, the Rossini opera Festival presents “Armida”, a new production, brought to life by Luca Ronconi who has already directed the piece at Pesaro in 1993.

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Daniel Barenboim © Brescia/Amisano Teatro alla Scala

Grand opening Season 2014-2015

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Il Trittico

Live recording (9 –10 october 2014) from Teatro Petruzzelli, Bari

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Il Trovatore

Japanese tragedy in three acts. Libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa after the novel by John Luther Long and the drama by David Belasco.

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Otello

Genre Relay of: opera, Live recording | Status in progress | Duration 210’ | Production Year 2014 | Recorded Teatro di San Carlo, Napoli (Italy) 22.04.2014 | Musical Style Classical music | Composer Giuseppe Verdi | Conductor Nicola Luisotti | Stage Director Henning Brockhaus | Soloist Marco Berti, Lianna Haroutounian, Roberto Frontali, Alessandro Liberatore, Dario Russo | Source video/audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 Verdi composed “otello” after a long period of silence. Fifteen years after “Aida” (1871) he came back to work on the opera inspired by Shakespeare’s masterpiece, at the invitation of Boito and Ricordi. The season 2013/14 at San Carlo offers a unique occasion to rediscover, at a distance of few months, the two masterpieces, bringing light to the changes of Verdi’s style in that decade.

Leo Nucci © Tamoni / Teatro alla Scala

The opera’s main dilemma of maternal love and filial love is in the focus of this classical stage production directed by Hugo De Ana, last seen in 2001, for the centenary of Verdi’s death. Protagonists: one of the greatest Italian voices, soprano Maria Agresta, who celebrated an extraordinary success in last Season’s “oberto conte di San Bonifacio”; alongside her will be the acclaimed Argentinian tenor Marcelo Álvarez, and a true Italian legend, baritone Leo Nucci. The conductor is Daniele Rustioni, a talented young man whose popularity is on the rise.

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La Bohème

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The Dream Of A Thing

Puccini © Photos Archivio Fondazione Festival Pucciniano

The Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago is the only one in the world dedicated to the composer Giacomo Puccini. It takes place every summer during the months of July and August, in the very places that inspired Puccini’s immortal melodies. For the festival’s 60th edition, RAI will reprise “La Bohème”.

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Contemporary music opera

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Music Of The Underground Railroad

Genre Documentary: Music, on location | Status in progress | Duration 90’ / 60’ | Production Year 2014 | Source video/audio HD / Dolby surround 5.2

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God's Greatest Hits

Kathleen Battle © Rhombus Media Inc. God’s Greatest Hits © Riddle Films Inc.

Renowned soprano Kathleen Battle performs a unique programme of music influenced by the Underground Railroad and guides us on a historical journey, exploring the role of music in this turbulent chapter of North American history. “Music of the Underground Railroad” is a stylistic blend of live performance, historical documentary and road movie. The film follows Kathleen Battle and her piano accompanist, Cyrus Chestnut, also descended from Slavery, on a cross-continental tour tracing the remarkable journey of 19th-century African-American slaves along “the Underground Railroad” – the network of secret escape routes that were travelled by slaves seeking freedom in Canada.

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When You're A Star: The Worlds Of Leslie Caron

Genre Documentary: Portrait, on location | Status in progress | Producer Vanessa Dylyn, Matter of Fact Media Inc. (Canada); Anne Schuchman, Schuch Conseils & Productions (France) | Director Larry Weinstein, Rhombus Media Inc. (Canada) | Duration 90’ | Production Year 2014 | Source video/audio HD / Dolby surround 5.2

Because music is so subjective, it is difficult to pronounce any single piece the most beautiful or the most divine – but “God’s Greatest Hits” makes a case for the most powerful pieces of music ever written. Through breathtaking performances, historical footage and interviews with critics, world-class musicians and religious experts, we experience songs with the power to move us, lift us and inspire us. Viewers will come away with a new appreciation of pieces they know and love in this half-hour series of divinely inspired music!

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Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone: The Search For Leon Redbone

Leslie Caron © Rhombus Media Inc. Leon Redbone © Riddle Films Inc.

Actress/dancer Leslie Caron, star of classic Hollywood musicals, “An American in Paris” and “Gigi” and winner of British Academy Awards for “Lili” and “L-Shaped Room”, guides us on a journey through the Golden Age of film and dance while revealing both poignant and exhilarating human stories behind the fantasy images of the celluloid world. Caron takes us to Hollywood, Paris and London as the past merges with the present. Through her own story of an artist struggling to fulfil her destiny, we’re offered rare insight into the universe of the greatest icons, intellects and stars of the 20th century.

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Leon Redbone’s life is a mystery. It is almost entirely based on rumors. And he’s okay with that. In the tradition of films like “Be Here To Love Me” and “No Direction Home”, “Please don’t talk about me when I’m gone” goes beyond the myth, even as it adds to the legend, of this fabled performer. With performances by Redbone and appearances by Adam Sandler, Bonnie Raitt, Lorne Michaels, David Wilcox, Ringo Starr, Zooey Deschanel and more. “Please don’t talk about me” celebrates a true original, and one of the most admired musicians of the past 40 years.

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The Curse Of Competition

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In classical music, competitions are a blessing and a curse. But are they the only way to get attention – from the public, from sponsors and from musicians themselves – or are they a diversion from a real relationship with music? Are we, in fact, breeding consumers only interested in winners and losers? To understand the debate better, we follow three different competitions and speak with musical luminaries, many of whom owe their careers to these very same competitions, and a few who chose a different path.

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The Jews Who Stole Christmas

After almost a century, improvisation is reintroduced as an integral aspect of classical music practice. Experts and students from across Europe spend 10 days in an intensive programme to explore possibilities and perspectives improvisation can offer to the curriculum as well as to concert practice.

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Musica Antiqua Anno 2014

In a time where classical music audiences dwindle, early music concerts and recordings are still on the rise. The Early Music Department of the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague ranks amongst the best in the world. Irving Berlin Commemorative Stamp © United States Postal Service, 2002

This offbeat, irreverent documentary explores the relationship between Jewish composers and Christianity’s biggest holiday. It can be argued that Jews invented modern Christmas music. And not just Irving Berlin penning “White Christmas”. The songs “Winter Wonderland”, “Silver Bells”, even “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer”, were all written by Jews. Featuring David Wall, Michael Bublé, Sarah Silverman, Philip Springer, Brenda Lee, Chuck Berry and more, this controversial (and sometimes self-hating) look at Hebrews and the holidays (they don’t celebrate) investigates the Jewish stranglehold over the most sacred of birthdays.

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NTR Podium Oskar Back Violin Competition

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The National Violin Competitions in the Netherlands consist of three categories between the ages of 6 to 25 years old. over the past years it has brought violinists such as Jaap van Zweden, Janine Jansen, Isabelle van Keulen and Simone Lamsma to the forefront. The top category, which is named after legendary violin pedagogue oscar Back, is held every other year. This documentary covers the 2013 edition.

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Nuovi Maestri

11-year-old violin student at the Young Talent School of the Royal Conservatoire, The Hague, Mayte Levenbach is invited to meet star DJ Armin van Buuren and to perform in one of his shows.

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Nuovi Maestri. Master student Huba Hollókői.

The only way to become a professional conductor is to learn so by standing in front of an orchestra. The conservatoires of The Hague and Amsterdam offer a unique Master Programme in orchestral Conducting in which all the professional orchestras in the Netherlands (and some outside it) offer young conductors that opportunity.

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Reinbert de Leeuw Portrait

This film describes Paolo Fresu and his world of music but it is so much more than a mere presentation of a string of songs and neither is it just a film for jazz aficionados. It is a journey through a musical experience, a story that sets out to reveal how a sound is born: what are the experiences, backstories, places, emotions and memories that magically come together to create a song. one year (365 days, as the title indicates) spent on tour with Paolo Fresu, following him in his many musical projects through different parts of the world.

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Celebrating Giuseppe Verdi

Reinbert de Leeuw is one of the world’s leading conductors of contemporary music, whose career spans five decades. A 3-day Festival celebrates both his 75th birthday and his 50 years anniversary as professor at the Royal Conservatoire, The Hague.

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Zapp Music Challenge: Armin van Buuren vs. Mayte

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A celebrated conductor who has dedicated his entire life to studying and performing the most important works of Italian opera, Nello Santi lives in Zurich where for years he was the principal conductor at the opernhaus. He still conducts in Europe and America and owes his great success to a lifetime dedicated to performing works by composers such as Verdi whom the orchestra della Svizzera italiana has chosen to celebrate together with the great maestro. A one-of-a-kind programme featuring excerpts from “Stiffelio”, “Vespri siciliani”, “Luisa Miller”, “Don Carlos”, and “Macbeth”.

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Dans Les Coulisses: Verdi's Requiem Backstage

What is involved when one seeks to organize a gargantuan production such as Verdi’s Requiem at a venue which was not specifically designed to host concerts? If the venue is the sacred, artistic space within a church, how must one conduct oneself and what precautions should be taken to ensure that nothing is damaged? What are the challenges thrown down by shooting images and recording sound? These are just some of the questions that this short documentary by Vito Robbiani and Christian Gilardi seeks to answer, revealing the often amusing and exhilarating events going on behind the scenes.

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In The Name Of Classicism

A precious stone set on an exceedingly elegant mounting. This could well be the description of Concerto no. 3 by Beethoven as played by Evgeni Bozhanov, the up-and-coming Bulgarian pianist who performs the piece. His interpretation is typified by a crystal clear, thoroughly modern approach. Hubert Soudant’s masterful conducting, the orchestra della Svizzera italiana and the unaffected style in which Bozhanov plays are the highlights of this concert which is based on two astonishing examples of classicism, the Symphonies No.1 and No.104 by Haydn, illustrating his entire evolutionary development bursting with joy, elegance, and a pinch of the mundane.

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Sous L'Empire D'Amour

This is an enthralling musical journey set at the time of Louis XIV, performed by Luca Pianca (lute), Vittorio Ghielmi (viola da gamba) and mezzo-soprano Marie-Claude Chappuis. It features works by heavyweight musicians such as Lully, Lambert, Marais and Forqueray and combines moments of total engagement with others verging on eroticism and drama, culminating in a characterful composition in which the play of sounds of the various musical instruments gives rise to truly inimitable entertainment. An auditory photograph of a particular ambience recounting court life and a historic moment in time in which music played a unique role.

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Verdi's Requiem: A Meditation On Eternity

one of the most poignant, well-known works by the great Italian composer, in a masterful interpretation giving particular prominence to the words and text. Diego Fasolis, conducting the orchestra della Svizzera italiana and a cast of highly talented singers such as Carmela Remigio, Anna Bonitatibus, Carlo Allemano and Petri Lindroos, tackle Verdi’s highly intense score which more than any other testified to the depth of the Maestro of Busseto’s soul, despite the fact that during the course of his long career, he had always declined to compose celebratory music. A thrilling experience and a crystal-clear performance.

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A Musical Visualization With Janez Dovc And Bostjan Gombac

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Nights In Old Ljubljana Town

Janez Dovc and Bostjan Gombac are among the most outstanding Slovene musicians. They used to be members of the Terrafolk Group, recipient of the distinguished Radio BBC3 audience prize in the category Music of the World; they are also enthusiastically received by listeners around the world. In the programme, the accordionist Janez Dovc presents himself as an author and performer; the visualization of two of his compositions was recorded in the picturesque surroundings of Eastern Slovenia, in Prekmurje, at the Lipica stables and on the Vremscica hill, one of the windiest places in Slovenia, known for its magnificent view.

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Kurt Elling And Laurence Hobgood In Slovenia

At the height of summer pulsation, the Slovene capital Ljubljana hosted a large family of nomadic musicians coming from different European countries and getting together for the first time in Barcelona in 2010. The starting-point of their joint creativity were musical gatherings, improvisations and sharing a passion for the traditional Jewish and Romany music to which they added professional expertise and influences from other kinds of music. They gave the concert to the opening of the 25th Night in the Ancient Quarter of Ljubljana and were joined on stage by Vlado Kreslin, one of the top Slovene singers and songwriters.

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Operatic Arias – Soprano Bernarda Bobro

It is the recording of one of the most mentionable jazz concerts in Slovenia this year. Kurt Elling, now one of the leading jazz singers in the world, and his associate of many years, pianist Laurence Hobgood, gave a concert in Ljubljana. They were accompanied by a large combined orchestra, the RTV Slovenia Symphony orchestra and Big Band led by the conductor and author of music arrangements, Michael Abene. They presented a selection of jazz and pop compositions in complex arrangements for this vast body of musicians, including an improvised voice and piano part.

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The cycle of TV programmes entitled “operatic Arias” presents a wide selection of Slovene artists in this field. The goal is to introduce operatic arias performed by Slovene opera singers on television in the most attractive way possible and with a variety of approaches during the production. Another goal is to compose public archives of today’s generation of Slovene opera singers and their interpretations. The Slovenian born soprano Bernarda Bobro is one of Europe’s finest artists, well known for her exquisite technique and brillant sound. She collaboreted with the top conductors – such as Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Robin Ticciati, Christian Thielemann, Claudio Abbado a.o. – and appeared in leading roles with well known companies – such as Glyndebourne, Staatsoper Hamburg, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Salzburg Festival, The Nederlandse opera a.o.

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Pedal Piano

Few people are acquainted with music instruments like the pedal harpsichord or the pedal piano. Slovene organist, pianist, harpsichord player and master of improvisation Dalibor Miklavčič, is one of the rare people delving into the world of rich sound dimensions and the demanding techniques of playing such instruments. His repertory of pieces for the pedal piano and pedal harpsichord is internationally acknowledged by professionals and audiences alike. The documentary takes us into the world of virtuoso performances of performers using legs as well as hands, and into the world of compositions written for the pedal piano by J. S. Bach, W.A. Mozart, R. Schumann, F. Liszt and F. MendelssohnBartholdy. At Lonigo, Italy, the TV crew visited Paola and Luigi Borgato, makers of concert pianos and pedal pianos. Luigi Borgato had the idea of making a double modern piano called Doppio Borgato.

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The Charitable St Nicholas' Concert

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The Sleeping Beauty

In 1890, when Tchaikovsky had long been a well-known and distinguished composer, the curtain rose in the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg for the first performance of the latest ballet production that was often said to be the event of the century. The ballet “The Sleeping Beauty” is still deemed to be the most genuine work of classical ballet repertoire. Its importance also lies in the fact that it brought on the historical encounter of two important great artists, Tchaikovsky and Petipa, whose individual style immediately achieved fame as being elegant, aristocratic and brilliant, while at the same time being fluent and typically Russian. The wellknown story of the Sleeping Beauty in the ballet is presented with a touch of dreamland magic and romance. Irek Mukhamedov, artistic director of the Ballet Ensemble of the Slovene National opera and Ballet Theatre, Ljubljana, staged the ballet using Petipa’s choreography.

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Verdi / Wagner

Bernarda Fink and Gregor Pompe © TV Slovenija / Jani Ugrin The charitable St Nicholas' Concert © Stane Srsen/RTV Slovenija

“The charitable St Nicholas’ Concert” is a traditional humanitarian event organized by RTV Slovenija and the Ljubljana Rotary Club. The funds collected in this way are intended for Slovene elementary school children whose possibilities for character growth and education are impaired due to the untoward financial situation of their parents. The anchors of this year’s concert were Slovene jazz singer Nina Strnad and the tenor Branko Robinsak. A visually attractive concert featuring top Slovene music groups and musicians, e.g. the soprano Sabina Cvilak.

Last year, we were celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of the two greatest 19th-century opera composers, Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner. In spite of this point of contact between the two composers we mostly tend to discover enormous aesthetic differences. The documentary presents opinions about the specific qualities of the two composers as well as the differences between them expressed by some Slovene artists and researchers who, in the course of their careers, have had firsthand experience with the music of Wagner, Verdi, or both – among them the conductor Marko Letonja, and the singers Marjana Lipovšek, Bernarda Fink, Bernarda Bobro and Branko Robinšak.

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Christmas Concert With Capella Gabetta

Genre Relay of: Chamber music, Live recording | Status in progress | Production Company SRF – Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (Switzerland) | Producer Markus Wicker | Duration 90’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Stadttheater olten (Switzerland) | Musical Style Classical music | Composer Antonio Vivaldi, Arcangelo Corelli, Francesco Geminiani, Giovanni Plati, Georg Philipp Telemann, Johann Sebastian Bach | Source video/ audio HD / Stereo

Episode I of the documentary series “Jazz in Switzerland” reaches from the 1920s to the birth of helvetic Bebop in the 1950s. Episode II explores the emancipation of Swiss jazz from its American idols in the 60s and 70s. Big band great George Gruntz, free jazz pioneer Irène Schweizer or drumming poet Pierre Favre all left their mark on the international map of jazz. Episode III links the 1980s with the future. What is jazz today? The answer is written in the music and stretches from Erika Stucky’s experimental folk-jazz to Nik Bärtsch Zen funk and Jojo Mayers live drum’n’bass.

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World Class On The Lake – The Lucerne Festival Story

Sol Gabetta is one of the most celebrated cello players in classical music today. Her creative virtuosity and musical sensousness especially come to fruition in one of her own projects: the baroque ensemble Capella Gabetta. The all-star orchestra conducted by brother and violinist André Gabetta is a hand-picked group of chamber music aficionados who gather every two years for a tour. The “Christmas Concert with Capella Gabetta” was performed at Stadttheater olten – a charming small town in the heart of Switzerland right before Christmas 2013.

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Jazz In Switzerland – A Music Documentary In 3 Parts

Series From Dance Piece to Art Piece / The own Way / Between Tradition and Avant-Garde | Genre Documentary: Music, on location | Status completed | Production Company SRF – Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (Switzerland) | Producer Christian Eggenberger | Director Barbara Seiler, Jürg Gautschi, Beat Häner | Duration 55’ / 59’ / 57’ | Production Year 2013 | Musical Style Jazz | Piece Swiss Jazz – Various Artists | Band Teddy Stauffer, original Teddies, George Gruntz, Irène Schweizer, Pierre Favre, Erika Stucky, Jojo Mayer, Daniel Schnyder, Nik Bärtsch, Mathias Rüegg, Vienna Art orchestra, Bruno Spoerri, Hans Kennel, Koch-Schütz-Studer, Daniel Humair, Andreas Vollenweider, Hazy osterwald | Source video/ audio HD / Stereo

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A spectacular building, two extraordinary orchestras, a visionary programme and a clever director – these are the ingredients that have made the Lucerne Festival one of today’s most prestigious festivals in the world of classical music. The documentary is a voyage through the festival’s rich history and landmarks. The audience is taken backstage and offered a glance at the mechanisms that bring art to the people. At the center of it all, howevever, is the music and the people that make it play: musicians, conductors and actors behind the scene.

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Glove Story

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Against Silence – Hubert Von Goisern In Greenland

“Glove Story” explores the notion of personal space and the all-too-often invasion into it. It asks the question: What are the psychological, physical and social repercussions of treating borders as mere suggestions? This question echoes most powerfully in the local political climate of our region and in our times. The film follows four characters through a series of hyper-realistic topographies and architectural settings in which, like in Sartre’s “No Exit”, individuals are one another’s heaven or hell. The gloves are ever present, a thin line of protection that gives its wearer “permission” to penetrate another’s space unharmed.

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Private I's

Extreme climatic conditions, isolation and a barely existing infrastructure make Eastern Greenland one of the most inhospitable regions of the world. The Austrian singer-songwriter Hubert von Goisern traces its folk culture endangered by Western influence. The musician attempts to approach a culture in the midst of radical transition. Hubert von Goisern wrote the music for this film.

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Austropop Legends – Rainhard Fendrich

The film follows the construction, eruption, corruption and destruction of the masculine self and other. It investigates the boundaries of masculinity, and the forces that operate on the male body, while borrowing from different cultures and modalities. The movement language can be traced to traditional forms and concepts integral to martial arts. It translates it into a contemporary individualized expression in different ways, while counterbalancing it with the mundane everyday gestures of male bonding.

Rainhard Fendrich is one of the living legends of Austrian pop music. With indestructible hits like “Macho Macho”, “I am from Austria” or “Weus’d a Herz hast wia a Bergwerk”, Fendrich has made music history. Using unpublished archive material and newly filmed interviews, Rudi Dolezal’s film portrait for ServusTV offers insights into an eventful life.

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Reach Beyond Yourself In Song! – The Musical Initiative Superar

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Simon Rattle Conducts The Venezuelan Children's Orchestra – Salzburg Festival

Genre Relay of: orchestral/choral concert, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company ServusTV (Austria) | Co-Production Company Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images GmbH (Austria), Unitel GmbH & Co. KG (Germany) | Producer Frank Gerdes, Mariella Tschenett | Executive Producer Bernhard Fleischer | Director Henning Kasten | Sound Engineer Clemens Deller, Andreas Hain | Director of Photography Günter Euringer | Duration 95’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Felsenreitschule Salzburg (Austria) 11.08.2013 | Musical Style Classical music | Composer Gustav Mahler, George Gershwin, Alberto Ginastera, Leonard Bernstein, Johann Strauß (The Father) | Orchestra National Children’s Symphony orchestra of Venezuela | Conductor Simon Rattle, Jesús Parra | Source video/audio HD / Stereo | Distribution TV C Major Entertainment GmbH (Germany)

The social music project superar implements the ideas of the Venezuelan music movement El Sistema in Central Europe. The film “Sing über deinen Schatten!” (“Reach beyond yourself in Song!”) accompanies children participating in superar’s classes. At the 2013 Salzburg Festival, some of them encounter Venezuelan children and teenagers participating in El Sistema. The highlight of the documentary is their joint concert at Salzburg’s Hangar-7.

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Salzburg's New Jedermann – Behind The Scenes Of The New Production

When the National Children’s Symphony orchestra was founded in Venezuela in 2010, Sir Simon Rattle conducted its first concert. At the invitation of the Salzburg Festival, the Children’s orchestra undertook its first concert tour abroad in 2013. Simon Rattle guided the children to an impressive interpretation of Mahler’s Symphony No. 1. After the rendition of Gershwin’s “Cuban overture”, Ginastera’s “Danzas de Estancia” and Bernstein’s “Mambo”, the Salzburg audience’s enthusiasm was boundless.

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The Abduction From The Seraglio – From Salzburg's Hangar-7

World-famous and much acclaimed: “Jedermann” (“Everyman”) lies at the heart of the Salzburg Festival. Accordingly, the expectations placed on Julian Crouch and Brian Mertes were high – they were the first nonGerman-speaking directors entrusted with a new production of Hofmannsthal’s play in Salzburg in 2013. The documentary accompanies the team of actors surrounding Cornelius obonya (Jedermann) and Brigitte Hobmeier (The Lover) through the rehearsal process, allowing the viewer glimpses behind the scenes on Cathedral Square.

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ServusTV | Sombrero & Co. | Bassa Selim is a fashion tsar, Blondchen a model and Konstanze is torn between a bourgeois relationship and seductive passions... The Salzburg Festival and ServusTV present a very special opera production. The entire Hangar-7 becomes a fashion empire, a film set and the performance venue for a spectacular version of Mozart’s “Die Entführung aus dem Serail” (stage director: Adrian Marthaler).

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The Making Of A TV Opera – The Abduction From The Seraglio

The White Hands Choir was founded in Venezuela in 1995 as part of the music education movement El Sistema in order to better integrate children and teenagers with handicaps into society. Conductors like Simon Rattle and Claudio Abbado have shown themselves deeply impressed by the children’s choir. At the 2013 Salzburg Festival, the choir performed outside of Venezuela for the first time.

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Alice Sara Ott With Francesco Tristano And Avi Avital

Series Les Salons de Musique | Genre Relay of: Instrumental recital, Live recording | Status completed | Producer Jean-Philippe Perrot, Sombrero & Co. (France) | Director Samuel Petit, Jean-Philippe Perrot | Audio recorded and mixed by Benoit Gilg | Light Design Florence Levasseur | Duration 66’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded oderberger Stadtbad, Berlin (Germany) 12.09.2013 | Musical Style Classical music | Composer/Piece Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Duport variations, Béla Bartók: Romanian folk dances, Ludwig van Beethoven: Andante von variazioni in D major, Frédéric Chopin: Scherzo No. 2 in B-flat minor, Maurice Ravel: La valse | Soloist Alice Sara ott, Avi Avital, Francesco Tristano | Source video/audio HD / Stereo | Distribution TV Marie-odile Demay, MoDemay Entertainment (Canada)

In this spectacular opera production, Mozart’s “Die Entführung aus dem Serail” becomes a “seduction by the jet set world”: Salzburg’s Hangar-7 is transformed into a fashion empire where 17 cameras capture the action in various locations. The documentary offers a glimpse behind the scenes of this unique co-operation between the Salzburg Festival and ServusTV

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The White Hands Choir – From Venezuela To Salzburg

Genre Documentary: Music, on location | Status completed | Production Company ServusTV (Austria) | Co-Production Company Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images GmbH (Austria), Unitel GmbH & Co. KG (Germany) | Producer Frank Gerdes, Mariella Tschenett | Executive Producer Bernhard Fleischer | Director Christian Kurt Weisz, fckw – Filmproduktion Christian Kurt Weisz (Austria) | Camera Günter Euringer, Michael Riegler, Lukas Allmaier, Jörg Prandler, Werner Schwanninger | Editor Carl Ploetzeneder | Duration 50’ | Production Year 2013 | Musical Style Classical music | Conductor Naybeth García, Luis Chinchilla | Choir White Hands Choir (Coro de Manos Blancas) | Source video/audio HD / Stereo | Distribution TV C Major Entertainment GmbH (Germany)

An encounter of three of the most talented young soloists of the international music scene (of the prestigious label Deutsche Grammophon) filmed at a truly incredible venue in Berlin. An eclectic programme, a relaxed atmosphere. The series “Les Salons de Musique” is an innovative broadcast of classical music, with the purpose of creating something different and original. The idea is to break the mould of how serious music is presented on television, to reinvigorate the genre and attract new audiences.

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Antoine Tamestit And Cédric Tiberghien

Series Les Salons de Musique | Genre Relay of: Instrumental recital, Live recording | Status completed | Producer Jean-Philippe Perrot, Sombrero & Co. (France) | Director Thierry Villeneuve, Jean-Philippe Perrot | Audio recorded and mixed by Alban Moraud | Director of Photography Florence Levasseur | Duration 66’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded La Cartonnerie Paris, 25.11.2012 | Musical Style Classical music | Composer Franz Schubert, Paul Hindemith | Piece Sonata for Arpeggione and Piano D 821 – 1st movement, Piano Sonata D 958, Lieder for Alto and Piano – Nacht und Träume D 827, An den Mond D 193, Die Taubenpost; Sonata for Alto and Piano op. 11 No. 4 – 3rd movement: final (with variations) | Soloist Antoine Tamestit, Cédric Tiberghien | Source video/audio HD / Stereo | Distribution TV Marie-odile Demay, MoDemay Entertainment (Canada)

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A dream duet for an extraordinary “Schubertiade”! Two artists of international fame meet for the first time in front of cameras! “Les Salons de Musique” is a series of private musical encounters. The concept behind these performances is to create an intimate, alternative and unusual setting where one can share in exclusive encounters between leading musicians. These are not recitals or concerts in the traditional sense, but rather relaxed gatherings. The standard of performance remains just as high, with a choice of repertoire that’s both beautiful and accessible.

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Bring Me Paléo

Genre Documentary: Music, Live recording | Status completed | Producer Patrick Villeneuve, Sombrero & Co. (France) | Director Thierry Villeneuve | Duration 90’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Paléo Festival Nyon (Switzerland) 30.06.2013 | Musical Style Contemporary music | Band Sophie Hunger, oxmo Puccino, Mokoomba, Arctic Monkeys, Palma Violets, Sigur Rós, Asaf Avidan, Smashing Pumpkins. | Source video/ audio HD / Stereo | Distribution TV Marie-odile Demay, MoDemay Entertainment (Canada)

Formed in 2001 around the singer and guitarist Alexander Kapranos, this Scottish quartet with already three albums is a group that matters, somewhere between The Strokes and The Loose. At Rock en Seine Festival, the group reveals their new album. Their compositions are an energetic poprock, driven by scathing guitar riffs, groovy basses and an unforgettable voice. A disco-punk machine to produce simple and effective songs, in particular the addicting “Take me out “ which made them conquer a wider public. Franz Ferdinand has only one objective: making you dance!

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Joshua Redman Quartet At Jazz Sous Les Pommiers Coutances 2013

With six days, six nights, 230,000 spectators and more than 210 concerts and shows, The Paléo Festival Nyon is the biggest open air festival in Switzerland. Coming together in 2013 on the banks of the Lake Léman: the Swiss singer Sophie Hunger, the french king without coach oxmo Puccino, the Mozambicans of Mokoomba, the English Arctic Monkeys, the young troublemakers of Palma Violets, their Icelandic cousins Sigur Rós, Asaf Avidan – plus the big return of Smashing Pumpkins.

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Franz Ferdinand At Festival Rock En Seine 2013

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The Joshua Redman Quartet with Aaron Goldberg, Reuben Rogers and Gregory Hutchinson. Since his debuts in a famous quartet with Brad Mehldau, Joshua Redman did not stop delighting his public by his talent, his generosity and his energy. over the years, albums and formations, the sound became more free and adventurous. He is one of the major saxophonists of today’s jazz scene. If he once reminded us of Wayne Shorter, it’s maybe more of Sonny Rollins’ powerful and melodious style he makes us think of today. Featuring prestigious sidemen, this concert is a highlight.

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Shani Diluka With Quatuor Ebène And Valentin Erben

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Revealing a profound sound and a soaring virtuosity – words to describe pianist Shani Diluka, who in this edition of “Salons de Musique” is performing with the Ebène Quartet, one the most sought-after quartets worldwide. Mastery, elegance, density, complicity, spirit, are words that regularly come back about Quatuor Ebène. “Les Salons de Musique” is a series of private musical encounters targeted at a young, contemporary and open-minded public, not only classical music lovers. The stage is set, with the spotlight on enthusiasm, amity and generosity!

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Sigur Rós At Paléo Festival 2013

From the tuba to the piccolo: 66 women, 21 different instruments, and the widest possible range of life stories come together every Tuesday to make music. In combination, they are more than 2700 years old: the youngest is barely twenty and the oldest celebrated her 70th birthday years ago. Their joy of life and their instruments is contagious – no matter whether they are performing in Berlin’s Philharmonie or a beer tent in Bavaria. At a time of growing social isolation, the FBoB is a piece of real solidarity; a place where perfectly ordinary women come together to pull off something extraordinary.

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To Russia With Love – Human Rights Concert

Status completed | Assoc. Prod. Company KB Management (Estonia) | Producer Claus Wischmann, Sounding Images (Germany) | Director Martin Baer | Author Holger Preusse | Duration 43’ / 90’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Berliner Philharmonie (Germany) 07.10.2013 | Musical Style Classical music | Composer Pyotr Ilyich Tschaikowsky, Arvo Pärt, Dmitri Shostakowitsch, Sergei Prokofiev, Mieczyslaw Weinberg, Giya Kancheli | Orchestra Kremerata Baltica | Choir Shchedryk children’s choir | Soloist Gidon Kremer, Martha Argerich, Kathia Buniatishvili, Emmanuel Pahud, Sergei Nakariakov | Source video/audio HD / Stereo

Sigur Rós, Icelandic celestial post-rock! Like a bunch of diabolically cheeky kids, the musicians of Sigur Rós play their instruments as if they had never heard of the basic rules of music. Bows are used to caress cymbals and guitars, unless drumsticks are striking these instruments. The singer uses his voice like some celestial being, chanting a mysterious tale in his shrill falsetto. Their music possesses the slowness and magic of a woodland walk, lulled on one side by the babbling of a tranquil brook and on the other by the twittering of playful songbirds. Their concerts are like a mystical voyage, an experience of ethereal lightness.

The event marks the 7-year anniversary of journalist Anna Politkowskaja’s murder and is dedicated to the Human Rights in Russia. Well known Russian composers will be performed at Berliner Philharmonie with performances and readings by Gidon Kremer, Martha Argerich, Khatia Buniatishvili and the Nobel Prize winner Herta Müller. Highlights of the concert will be featured, as well as interviews and archive material.

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Wild In Art – Six-part Series

Jenny Wilson is one of Sweden’s most interesting indie artists. A composer, singer, film maker and a fighter against the severe cancer diagnosis mirrored in her work

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Quartet!

The dynamic new series “Mission Incognito” (“Wild in Art”) brings renowned musicians and artists to the streets and department stores, to Aerobic lessons and underground stations of Berlin: flash-mob style. Six entertaining episodes feature Rolando Villazón, Vladimir Malakhov, and Patrice and include Jim Avignon re-painting a mural on the Berlin Wall at the East Side Gallery. A top-secret event that has now been publicised and met with much reaction from the press. The spontaneous and unforeseeable nature of the episode meets unpredictable characters, putting the high-profile artists outside their comfort zone with often hilarious results.

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The string quartet is the very essence of classical music. A format of 250 years, still very much alive. This film tells about string quartets in concert and at home, in literature and in movies, plugged and unplugged, male and female. Camilla Lundberg, an amateur player herself, explores the many aspects of string quartets

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Streaming For The People

Housekeeper Wanted

Genre Relay of: Musical, on location | Status completed | Duration 110’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded orion Theatre, Stockholm | Composer Benny Andersson | Stage Director Lars Rudolfsson | Libretto Kristina Lugn, Björn Ulvaeus | Source video/audio DVD / Stereo An animal musical about two brothers in a remote and decaying farm. Asking for help with their cattle and their lives, they are joined by a mute woman and her daughter. on stage, two actors, a singer and an animal trainer – together with Benny Andersson’s small band. Plus two giant cows, three goats, three geese, one horse, three dogs, two hens and one rooster!

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Genre Documentary: Portrait, on location | Status completed | Duration 52’ | Production Year 2013 | Source video/audio DVD / Stereo

The history of Swedish electronic music, told from the early pioneers to contemporary big acts such as The Knife and Robyn. The documentary is edited in the same pace, 125 bpm, which creates a seamless blend of music, interviews, archive, and makes the perfect documentary kaleidoscope

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The Deadly Sins

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Johan Ullén was inspired by the seven deadly sins when he composed his tangos for Trio Nova (Terés Löf, piano, Klara Hellgren, violin, Kati Raitinen, cello). TV director Bengt Wennehorst-Norrman engaged a poet, Kristina Lugn, and two dancers, Anna Holmström and Kenny Svensson, to interpret this sinful music in words and moves.

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Astana Opera – Opening Gala Concert

Genre Relay of: opera, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Telmondis (France) | Co-Production Company Astana opera, Mezzo | Director Roberto Maria Grassi | Duration 100’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Astana opera (Kazakhstan) 22.10.2013 | Musical Style Classical music | Orchestra Astana opera symphony orchestra | Conductor Abzal Mukhitdinov, Yerzhan Dautov, Marco Boemi | Choir Astana opera choir | Dance Company Astana opera ballet | Original Text Alfiya Karimova | Soloist Maira Kerei, Claudio Sgura, Anna Markarova, Sergey Krylov, Luciano Ganci, olga Peretyatko, Sergey Nakaryakov, Elena obraztsova, Denis Matsuev, Svetlana Zakharova, Ildar Abdrazakov, Sundet Baigozhin, Baurzhan Anderzhanov, Medet Chotabayev | Source video/ audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV Telmondis Distribution

“Cavalleria Rusticana” is considered the leading Italian veristic melodrama in that it portrays the feelings of common people, in this instance villagers and artisans. This key work in the history of opera gives opera its official role as a popular show through a tragic, simple and powerful plot. Mascagni, then aged 27, has created a genuine masterpiece: there is nothing to dilute the slow, gradual tension leading to the final murder.

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Cinderella

Gala concert with the participation of classical music stars: Elena obraztsova, Denis Matsuev, Sergey Nakaryakov, Ildar Abdrazakov, Anna Markarova, Sergey Krylov, olga Peretyatko, Maira Kerei, Medet Chotabaev, Alfiya Karimova, Abzal Muhitdinov and others.

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Cavalleria Rusticana

The classic story of “Cinderella” is brought to life in the grand tradition of Russian ballet by the Mariinsky Ballet and the Mariinsky Theatre Symphony orchestra, under the direction of maestro Valery Gergiev. Complete with a lavish set and sumptuous costumes, this production of “Cinderella” was originally choreographed by Rostislav Zakharov for the premiere of Sergei Prokofiev’s glorious score at the Mariinsky Theater in 1945. This Ratmansky version, which premiered on 5 March 2002, is performed with Mariinsky Ballet’s prima ballerina Diana Vishneva in the title role.

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Claude

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World premiere by the opera de Lyon in association with the Mariinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg. Claude, a worker at la Croix-Rousse, leads a hard-working and contented life with his wife and daughter. He rejects the misery inflicted by his boss when he is laid off with his fellow workers to be replaced by machines. Claude, with other canuts (silk workers) took to his gun and set up barricades. Sentenced to 7 years of hard labour, he was imprisoned at the prison-workshop of Clairvaux. A study of injustice and violence: Claude kills the prison governor and is guillotined.

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Giselle

Violinist David Grimal’s ensemble Les Dissonances is a libertarian orchestra playing without a conductor. Recorded at the Dijon opera House: Johannes Brahms, Symphony No. 4 In E minor, op. 98 - Do you (still) love Brahms?

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La Fanciulla Del West

Minnie is the landlady of “the Polka”, a bar in the West frequented by miners. The Sheriff has eyes only for this woman who is devoted to these strapping fellows. But when Dick Johnson turns up, she immediately falls in love with him. But who is this man whom she does not recognise straightaway? Will the bandit be exposed sooner or later? First performance at the Metropolitan opera, New York, on 10 December 1910.

Charles Jude always is conscious of the dominating influence Rudolf Nureyev has had on his revisiting the classical ballets. The story of “Giselle” is timeless, with such a simple structure that Charles Jude (like Nureyev with “Romeo and Juliet”) did not wish to transpose it. He therefore has kept the original historical context, but with a strictly contemporary choreography. Each character dances in a different chorographic style, corresponding to the specific personality of the role. “Giselle” intensifies the play of the actors, the mastery of the dancers; it is a luxuriant ballet, with breathtaking technical complexity.

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La Traviata

Johannes Brahms, Symphony No. 4 In E Minor

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Telmondis | “La Traviata” epitomizes, along with Puccini’s “La Boheme”, Italian verismo opera. The work by Giuseppe Verdi, directed by Robert Carsen, is carried by the power of the choirs and the tragic sensitivity of the feelings of the soloists. Robert Carsen has created a post-modern, playful, off-beat staging where the flamboyant choir is contrasted with the elegant sobriety of the main characters, whose solitude is amplified by the immense and often bleak sets.

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La Traviata

“les Adieux” refers to the last show of the principal dancers with the Paris opera Ballet, also known as Étoiles. The Étoile Clairemarie osta has chosen to dance for the last time in Paris in “Manon” by Kenneth MacMillan alongside her husband, the famous Étoile Nicolas Le Riche. The final countdown to this special day has begun. For the first time, a dancer of the Paris opera Ballet shares the last weeks of her career: the last rehearsals, the choice of the last dresses, the last moments until this final show.

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Les Enfants Terribles

After Mozart in 2009 and 2011, in 2013, it is the most beautiful of Verdi heroines who invited for the party held on 4 June at the opéra de Rennes. This is undoubtedly one of the most important events in Europe to celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of Giuseppe Verdi, popular composer in the noblest sense of the word, who made opera a living art, quivering with passion and humanity, a sophisticated art open to all.

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Les Adieux

“Les Enfants Terribles” is a brilliant novel written in 90 days in 1929 by a convalescing Jean Cocteau, in need of recognition. The feverish story of Paul and Elisabeth, of a brother and sister bound to each other until death. The composer Philip Glass has transformed the storyline into an operatic form, accompanied by three pianos and sung by a soprano, a baritone bass, a tenor and a mezzo-soprano. The pianos’ harmonic combinations give great intimacy to the brother/sister tête-à-têtes, whilst preserving the great power of the drama.

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Manon Lescaut

Genre Relay of: opera, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Wahoo Production (France), La Monnaie / De Munt | CoProduction Company Teatr Wielki opera Narodowa (Warsaw), Welsh National opera with the support of Allianz, Polish Institute | Director Roberto Maria Grassi | Duration 120’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels (Belgium) 31.12.2012 | Musical Style Classical music | Composer Giacomo Puccini | Orchestra/Choir Symphony orchestra and Chorus of La Monnaie. | Conductor Carlo Rizzi | Choir Singers of the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel | Soloist Madrigal Soloists, Eva Maria Westbroek, Aris Argiris, Brandon Jovanovich, Giovanni Furlanetto | Source video/audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV Telmondis Distribution

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Pagliacci

“Manon Lescaut” received thirty curtain calls and was celebrated with standing ovation when Giacomo Puccini’s work was premiered in Turin in 1893. The Monnaie is banking on the exceptional partnership between the conductor Carlo Rizzi and a new arrival, the Polish director, Mariusz Trelinski, for this long awaited return to the Brussels stage (the opera was last performed there 37 years ago) as well as an all-star cast with EvaMaria Westbroek, in the role of Manon, Brandon Jovanovich in the role of Knight Des Grieux and Aris Argiris as Lescaut. Puccini paints a black and realistic picture of a doomed passion.

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Mariinsky II Opening Gala

Status completed | Production Company Telmondis (France) | Co-Production Company Channel one Russia, ARTE France, France Télévisions, Mezzo | Director Don Kent | Duration 120’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded St Petersburg (Russia) 02.05.2013 | Musical Style Classical music | Dance Style Classical ballet | Orchestra Mariinsky Theatre orchestra | Conductor Valery Gergiev | Choir Academy of Young Singers Children chorus and chorus of the Mariinsky Theatre | Stage Director Vasily Barkhatov | Dance Company Principal dancers and soloists and corps de ballet of the Mariinsky Theatre, Vaganova Ballet Academy | Soloist Anna Netrebko, olga Borodina, Sergei Semishkur, Plácido Domingo, Alexei Markov, Yevgeny Nikitin, Ildar Abdrazakov, René Pape, Mikhail Petrenko, Diana Vishneva, Yekaterina Kondaurova, Ulyana Lopatkina, Vladimir Shklyarov, Denis Matsuev, Leonidas Kavakos, Yuri Bashmet | Source video/audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV Telmondis Distribution (France)

“Pagliacci” is a very short opera (lasting little more than an hour) in which the spectator is called, in a prologue, to distinguish truth from falsehood, reality from fiction. Here, the paradox of the actor (expressing emotions which he does not feel) finds its full power. This is why the greatest tenors appreciate this role.

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Romeo And Juliet

Designed by Toronto-based Diamond Schmitt Architects, St Petersburg’s new opera house, Mariinsky II, opened on 2 May 2013. Joining the historic stage of the Mariinsky Theatre (1860) and the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre (inaugurated in 2006), Mariinsky II expands the Mariinsky’s cultural complex on the legendary Theatre Square and enables Maestro Gergiev to offer the public a greatly increased schedule of presentations. The opening marks Artistic and General Director Valery Gergiev’s 25th anniversary of leading the institution and is celebrated with a grand gala featuring excerpts from Russian masterpieces, opera and ballet performances.

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Leonid Lavrovsky’s celebrated realisation of “Romeo and Juliet” to Prokofiev’s music was created at the Mariinsky Theatre in January 1940. The staging has been treasured in Saint Petersburg ever since, and this production still honours the original version. Guided by the dramatic force and lyric power of Prokofiev’s score, Lavrovsky’s choreography draws a grandly moving portrait of the star-crossed lovers and the Renaissance society which frames their tragedy.

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Shalyapin Gala

Genre Relay of: opera, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Telmondis (France) | Co-Production Company Channel one Russia, Mezzo | Director Vincent Massip | Duration 120’ | Production Year 2014 | Recorded Kazan opera (Russia) 30.06.2013 | Musical Style Classical music | Orchestra Mariinsky Theatre orchestra | Conductor Valery Gergiev, Renat Salavatov | Choir Chorus of the Tartar State Academic opera, Chorus of the Tartar State Academic opera and Ballet Theatre named after Musa Jalil | Chorus Master Liubov Draznina | Soloist Ildar Abdrazakov, Akhmed Agadi, Aida Garifullina, Gevorg Hakobyan, Mikhail Kazakov, Alexei Markov, Albina Shagimuratova | Source video/ audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV Telmondis Distribution

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Stradella

This Gala concert in the Kazan opera was held on the occasion of the olympic Universiade in Kazan, Capital of Tatarstan, as part of a tribute to the great bass singer Feodeor Shalyapin who was born in Kazan. The most famous Tatar in the world is the outstanding dancer Rudolf Nureyev; the International Festival of Classical Ballet named in his honour is held in Kazan in May. This Shalyapin Gala gathered the most famous singers of the Tatarstan with the orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre conducted by Valery Gergiev and Renat Salavatov in a Russian, French and Italian repertoire.

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Shostakovich Cycle: Cello Concerto No. 2

Composed at the time of Shostakovich’s 60th birthday and premiered on the very day, on 25 September 1966, by Evgeny Svetlanov and the State Symphony orchestra of the USSR, this concerto was again dedicated to Mstislav Rostropovich who was also the soloist. Although the composer received many honours at the time, the piece has to be seen in connection with the poet Anna Akhmatova who had passed away in March of the same year. Therefore introspective mood prevails, only interrupted by the quotation of a popular song from odessa in the middle movement, which unabashedly invites to carnal pleasures.

“Stradella” is an uncompleted early work of composer César Franck, who was born and raised in Liège. The 1842 manuscript of “Stradella” was found in the National Library of France in 1984, and the premiere took place at the Royal opera House of Wallonia, in an orchestration by Luc Van Hove and directed by filmmaker Jaco Van Dormael (“Le huitième jour”, “Toto le héros”). “Stradella” belongs to a humanistic body of thought, akin to the ideas of Liszt.

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Sunday In The Park With George

Stephen Sondheim and his librettist have imagined the exhausting work of Seurat painting this huge table with this breathtaking technique, to the point of neglecting Dot (Point), his mistress, who is expecting a child. Act 2 continues the theme of the arduous nature of the artist’s lot by bringing forward the action to New York in 1984, where George, Seurat’s great-grandson, is struggling against the odds. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1985, the work is powerful and poetic. The refinement of the great songs has contributed significantly to the reputation of this very moving work.

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The Nutcracker

Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker” is one of the best known and most loved pieces of the composer, the music of which has inspired many choreographers to tell the colourful Christmas fairytale in the language of dance. Ben Stevenson is considered one of the most important movers and shakers of the American ballet art. For almost thirty years, he has been Artistic Director of the Houston Ballet, and since 2003, he is Artistic Director of the Texas Ballet. His stage productions were on tour at opéra de Paris, Canadian National Ballet, La Scala, Bavarian State opera, London City Ballet etc.

of all the great ballerinas, Tanaquil Le Clercq may have been the most transcendent. With a body unlike any before hers, she mesmerized viewers and choreographers alike – her elongated, race-horse physique became the new prototype for the great George Balanchine. Her unique style, humor and authenticity redefined ballet for all dancers who followed. Amazingly, she was the muse to not one great artist but two; both George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins loved her as a dancer and a woman. Balanchine married her and Robbins created his famous version of “Afternoon of a Faun” for Tanny. Tanaquil Le Clercq was the foremost dancer of her day until it suddenly all stopped. on a tour of Europe, she was struck down by polio and paralyzed. She never danced again.

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Barbra Streisand: Back To Brooklyn

Series Great Performances | Genre Relay of: Vocal recital, on location | Status completed | Production Company The Jack My Dog Corporation (USA) | Co-Production Company THIRTEEN Productions LLC (USA) | Assoc. Prod. Company WNET (USA) | Producer Scott Lochmus, Eileen Bernstein | Executive Producer Barbra Streisand, Marty Erlichman, David Horn | Director Scott Lochmus | Editor Guy Harding | Sets David George | Audio recorded and mixed by Dave Reitzas | Light Design Peter Morse | Duration 113’ 07’’ | Production Year 2012 | Recorded Barclays Center, Brooklyn NY (USA) 11.10.2012 | Musical Style Contemporary music | Composer/Piece Jimmy Webb: Didn’t We, Paul Jabbara: No More Tears (Enough is Enough; original Text: Bruce Roberts), Marvin Hamlisch: The Way We Were (original Text: Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman), Jule Styne: People (original Text: Bob Merrill), Milton Ager: Happy Days (original Text: Jack Yellen) | Irving Berlin: How Deep Is The ocean | Soloist Barbra Streisand, Jason Gould | Source video/audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1

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Afternoon Of A Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq

Barbra Streisand makes a historic homecoming: “Back to Brooklyn” at the new Barclays Center arena, marking the superstar’s first Brooklyn concert. Joined by special guests Il Volo and Chris Botti, Streisand performs an extensive selection of songs from throughout her fivedecade career, and duets with her son Jason Gould on “How Deep is the ocean”. other selections include “Nice N Easy”, “Didn’t We”, “No More Tears (Enough is Enough)”, “Rose’s Turn”, “My Funny Valentine”, “Some other Time” and “Make our Garden Grow”, along with such Streisand standards as “Evergreen”, “The Way We Were”, “People” and “Happy Days are Here Again”. Reviewing her opening night, Stephen Holden of The New York Times wrote: “Like few singers of any age, she has the gift of conveying a primal human longing in a beautiful sound.”

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Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love

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Steve Martin And Edie Brickell: Love Has Come For You In Concert (WT)

By age 31, Marvin Hamlisch had won four Grammys, an Emmy, three oscars, a Tony and a Pulitzer Prize, making him one of only 2 PEGoT winners ever. Hit after hit – “The Way We Were”, “Nobody Does It Better” and scores for “The Sting”, “Sophie’s Choice” and the Broadway juggernaut “A Chorus Line” – made him the go-to composer and performer for film, Broadway, every U.S. President since Reagan, and concert halls worldwide. A child prodigy accepted at Juilliard at age six, he defied classical expectations to create his own music. With exclusive access to Hamlisch’s personal archival treasure trove, new interviews with A-list collaborators from Barbara Streisand to Steven Soderbergh, and complete co-operation from his family, this documentary tells a deeply personal insider story of one of the greatest artists of our time.

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Rejoice! With Itzhak Perlman And Cantor Meir Helfgot (WT)

Comedy legend Steve Martin is now in the fifth decade of a varied and accomplished career as a comic, actor, author and playwright. He is also a Grammy-winning, boundary-pushing bluegrass banjoist and songwriter. Great Performances turns the spotlight on Martin’s musical side with a concert performance of his new CD release with Edie Brickell, who initially burst onto the national scene in the late 80s fronting the New Bohemians. Although these new musical partners have already built widely-respected individual bodies of work, their inaugural due effort is a substantial departure as well as a creative milestone. “Love Has Come for You” offers 13 eloquent Martin/Brickell compositions that combine Martin’s inventive five-string banjo playing with Brickell’s heart-tugging vocals to create a playful and irresistibly accessible collection of songs.

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Sting: The Last Ship (WT)

Legendary violinist Itzhak Perlman and celebrated cantor Yitzchok Meir Helfgot join forces for a musical exploration of liturgical and traditional works in new arrangements for both chamber orchestra and klezmer settings. The music of “Rejoice!” showcases the confluences between the violinist’s famed classical technique and Helfgot’s magnificent voice.

For the last several years, rock’n’roll renaissance man Sting has been working on a new musical play titled “The Last Ship”. Featuring new and original music and lyrics by Sting, the project is a collaboration with Tony-winning book writer John Logan (“Red”, “Skyfall” screenplay) and will be directed by Tony-winner Joe Mantello (“Wicked”, “other Desert Cities”). Exploring a range of universal themes including transgression, redemption and the complexity of relationships over the passage of time, “The Last Ship” tells the story of the demise of the ship building industry in 1980s Newcastle, which for so long had shaped and overshadowed the city’s development and community. Having grown up in the shadow of the Swan Hunter’s Shipyard in Wallsend, Sting was deeply inspired by the subject and wrote more than 40 songs for the project.

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Brahms Cycle – Piano Concerto No. 2 & Symphony No. 2

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Beethoven – The Complete Violin Sonatas

Genre Relay of: Instrumental recital, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Unitel GmbH & Co. KG (Germany), BR (Germany) | Assoc. Prod. Company Salzburg Festival (Austria), Classica (Germany) | Executive Producer Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images (Austria) | Director Christian Kurt Weisz | Duration 308’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Salzburg Festival | Musical Style Classical music | Soloist Leonidas Kavakos, Enrico Pace | Source video/audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV/theatrical/homevideo/multimedia/DVD C Major Entertainment (Germany)

After the great success of his Beethoven cycle, Christian Thielemann now turns with his new orchestra, the Staatskapelle Dresden, to the symphonic and concertante works of Johannes Brahms. And once again he succeeds in presenting a new and authoritative reading of these works. In place of romantic “feelings” he infuses the soundscape with clarity and finely judged balance. “Voices are audible that otherwise flit by” (Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten), “Thielemann unravels an enormous piece into a delicate chamber music” wrote the renowned Japanese daily Mainichi Shimbun. This approach is extended to the solo concertos played by the young violinist Lisa Batiashvili and the great Maurizio Pollini. The press was thrilled by “breathtaking” and “deeply poetic moments”, by a “musical event of true greatness”. Leonidas Kavakos © Decca/Daniel Regan

For this sonata cycle, recorded at the Salzburg Festival, the Greek violinist Leonidas Kavakos teams up with the Italian pianist Enrico Pace to perform the complete Violin Sonatas by Ludwig van Beethoven – available in ten single episodes, one for each sonata. Kavakos is one of today’s most widely admired and sought-after artists – dubbed “The Violinist of Violinists” by the classical music magazine The Strad – who won the 1985 International Sibelius Competition at the age of only 18, as the youngest contestant that year, before going on to scoop up a string of other top awards. Pace is an equally illustrious contemporary and a first prize winner at both the 1987 International Yamaha and the 1989 International Franz Liszt competitions. “Together these two make magic” (Buffalo News), “an ideally attuned, technically perfect duo” (Die Presse).

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Brahms Cycle – Violin Concerto, Symphony No. 4

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After the great success of his Beethoven cycle, Christian Thielemann now turns with his new orchestra, the Staatskapelle Dresden, to the symphonic and concertante works of Johannes Brahms. And once again he succeeds in presenting a new and authoritative reading of these works. In place of Romantic “feelings” he infuses the soundscape with clarity and finely judged balance. “Voices are audible that otherwise flit by” (Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten), “Thielemann unravels an enormous piece into a delicate chamber music” wrote the renowned Japanese daily Mainichi Shimbun. This approach is extended to the solo concertos played by the young violinist Lisa Batiashvili and the great Maurizio Pollini. The press was thrilled by “breathtaking” and “deeply poetic moments”, by a “musical event of true greatness”.

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Capriccio

Genre Relay of: opera, Live recording | Status completed | Co-Production Company oRF (Austria), Unitel GmbH & Co. KG (Germany), ZDF/ARTE Live Web (Germany) | Assoc. Prod. Company Wiener Staatsoper (Austria), Classica (Germany) | Executive Producer oRF (Austria) | Director Brian Large | Duration 162’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna (Austria) | Musical Style Classical music | Composer Richard Strauss | Orchestra Wiener Staatsopernorchester | Conductor Christoph Eschenbach | Stage Director Marco Arturo Marelli | Soloist Renée Fleming, Bo Skovhus, Michael Schade, Markus Eiche, Angelika Kirchschlager | Source video/audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV/homevideo/multimedia/DVD C Major Entertainment (Germany)

Charles Dutoit / NHK Symphony Orchestra: Works By Takemitsu & Hosokawa, Berlioz – Symphonie Fantastique

Genre Relay of: orchestral/choral concert, Live recording | Status completed | Co-Production Company Unitel GmbH & Co. KG (Germany), NHK (Japan) | Assoc. Prod. Company Salzburg Festival (Austria), Classica (Germany) | Executive Producer Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images (Austria) | Director Yoko Ishida | Duration 111’ 11’’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Salzburg Festival | Musical Style Classical music | Orchestra NHK Symphony orchestra | Conductor Charles Dutoit | Soloist Anna Prohaska, Kakujo Nakamura, Kaoru Kakizakai | Source video/audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV/theatrical/homevideo/multimedia/ DVD C Major Entertainment (Germany)

For their Salzburg Festival debut, the NHK Symphony orchestra under Charles Dutoit chose a classic of the concert literature, Berlioz’s “Symphonie fantastique”, and combined it with two works from their native land of Japan – a “fantastic Salzburg Festival launch”. (Die Presse). Berlioz’s (1803-1869) “Symphonie fantastique” is a pivotal work for the romantic period and a textbook example of programme music: the composer portrays an episode from his own youth, wavering between dream and reality – the “Episode de la vie d’un artiste”.

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Daniel Barenboim / West-Eastern Divan Orchestra: Works By Wagner & Verdi

Genre Relay of: orchestral/choral concert, Live recording | Status in progress | Co-Production Company Unitel GmbH & Co. KG (Germany), West-Eastern Divan orchestra | Assoc. Prod. Company Lucerne Festival (Switzerland), Classica (Germany) | Executive Producer ACCENTUS Music GmbH & Co. KG (Germany) | Director Ute Feudel | Duration 70’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Lucerne Festival | Musical Style Classical music | Orchestra / Band West-Eastern Divan orchestra | Conductor Daniel Barenboim | Source video/audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV/theatrical/homevideo/multimedia/DVD C Major Entertainment (Germany) Capriccio © Wiener Staatsoper/Axel Zeiniger

A woman is equally attracted to two men, Flamand, the composer and olivier, the writer. They typify their profession as embodiments of music and narrative in opera. A contest breaks out; the undecided love of the Countess is a mirror image of the insoluble question. Capriccio is at one and the same time true theatre of types, tender declaration of love, clever debate and elegant studio drama. His “conversation piece with music” is the last complete stage work by Strauss, his swan song as an opera composer, the cultivated conclusion of a well-considered life’s work. “Renée Fleming is a world-class Countess: moving and intense.” She is flanked by an elite ensemble: Bo Skovhus, Michael Schade, Markus Eiche, Kurt Rydl and Angelika Kirchschlager – “They all catch the right tone, join the players of the smaller parts in making ‘Capriccio’ a night to remember.” (Kurier)

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The Lucerne Festival is one of the most important music festivals worldwide. Daniel Barenboim and his West-Eastern Divan orchestra have been making regular guest appearances there, and to mark the festival’s 75th birthday, the orchestra is playing a special programme. In addition to a selection of overtures and preludes composed by this year’s two “birthday boys”, Wagner and Verdi, they will play two premieres commissioned specially by the festival and the orchestra for this concert – “The concert marked a milestone, not just for the composers and the musicians, but for the Lucerne Festival itself.” (Deutschlandradio)

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Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg

Genre Relay of: opera, Live recording | Status completed | Co-Production Company oRF (Austria), Unitel GmbH & Co. KG (Germany), ZDF/3sat (Germany) | Assoc. Prod. Company Wiener Philharmoniker (Austria), Salzburg Festival (Austria), Classica (Germany) | Executive Producer oRF (Austria) | Director Hannes Rossacher | Duration 281’ 28’’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Salzburg Festival | Musical Style Classical music | Composer Richard Wagner | Orchestra Wiener Philharmoniker (Austria) | Conductor Daniele Gatti | Stage Director Stefan Herheim | Soloist Michael Volle, Roberto Saccà, Anna Gabler, Georg Zeppenfeld, Markus Werba | Source video/audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV/theatrical/homevideo/multimedia/DVD C Major Entertainment (Germany)

outside the Casa Verdi in Milan, the famous old people’s home for retired singers and musicians founded by Giuseppe Verdi, the afternoon traffic roars by. This establishing shot takes the viewer to Milan, the city where Verdi’s last opera – “Falstaff” – was premiered. The music begins and the stage is an elegant salon inside the house with its infirm but eccentric residents. “Michieletto shows old people who thanks to music are young again. It is a declaration of love for youth and age, for life and love, for wine and for the theatre” (Kurier). Ambrogio Maestri seems a tailor-made Falstaff. A giant of a man in real life, he is the ideal eponymous hero and the most sought-after Falstaff singer of his time. “His physique is just right for the part, as are his powerful voice, flair for drama and feeling for the Verdi style.” (New York Times)

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Guillaume Tell

Genre Relay of: opera, Live recording | Status in progress | Production Company Unitel GmbH & Co. KG (Germany) | Co-Production Company Rossini opera Festival (Italy) | Assoc. Prod. Company Classica (Germany) | Executive Producer Metisfilm Classica (Italy) | Director Tiziano Mancini | Duration 210’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Rossini opera Festival, Pesaro (Italy) | Musical Style Classical music | Composer Gioacchino Rossini | Orchestra orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna | Conductor Michele Mariotti | Stage Director Graham Vick | Soloist Juan Diego Flórez, Nicola Alaimo, Simón orfila, Amanda Forsythe, Simone Alberghini | Source video/audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV/theatrical/homevideo/multimedia/DVD C Major Entertainment (Germany) Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Salzburg Festival) © oRF/Roman Zach-Kiesling

“All narrative and poetry is nothing but the key to true dreams” – Hans Sachs. Spontaneously emerging from just such a truthful dream by the cobbler-poet on Midsummer Night, this new staging of Richard Wagner’s “Mastersingers” burst upon the Salzburg Festival like a thunderclap. Nuremberg medieval romanticism is not part of the scenario. What makes its triumphant appearance on the stage is Stefan Herheim’s idea of staging a midsummer night’s dream as a fairytale narrative - as the New York Times wrote: a “fresh, charming and perceptive production, magical and irresistible!”

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Falstaff

Genre Relay of: opera, Live recording | Status completed | Co-Production Company oRF/3sat (Austria), Unitel GmbH & Co. KG (Germany) | Assoc. Prod. Company Wiener Philharmoniker (Austria), Salzburg Festival (Austria), Classica (Germany) | Executive Producer oRF (Austria) | Director Karina Fibich | Duration 132’ 14’’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Salzburg Festival | Musical Style Classical music | Composer Giuseppe Verdi | Orchestra Wiener Philharmoniker | Conductor Zubin Mehta | Stage Director Damiano Michieletto | Soloist Ambrogio Maestri, Fiorenza Cedolins, Massimo Cavalletti, Elisabeth Kulman, Javier Camarena | Source video/audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV/theatrical/homevideo/multimedia/DVD C Major Entertainment (Germany)

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Rossini’s “Guillaume Tell” is an early example of romantic French Grand opera, and often anticipates Bellini, Donizetti, Meyerbeer, Verdi and even Wagner. At the Rossini Festival in Pesaro, it is given in its original French version and includes the beautiful, but often omitted ballet music. Director Graham Vick offers a timeless take on class struggles captured in unforgettable images, such as a gigantic staircase that descends from the ceiling and shows Tell’s son the way to a free future. As the conflicted hero Arnold, Juan Diego Flórez “is in a class of his own” (Deutschlandradio).

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Haydn – The Seasons / Die Jahreszeiten

Genre Relay of: orchestral/choral concert, Live recording | Status completed | Co-Production Company ZDF/3sat (Germany), Unitel GmbH & Co. KG (Germany), oRF (Austria) | Assoc. Prod. Company Wiener Philharmoniker (Austria), Salzburg Festival (Austria), Classica (Germany) | Executive Producer oRF (Austria) | Director Michael Beyer | Duration 146’ 37’’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Salzburg Festival | Musical Style Classical music | Orchestra Wiener Philharmoniker | Conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt | Choir Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor | Soloist Dorothea Röschmann, Michael Schade, Florian Boesch | Source video/audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV/theatrical/homevideo/multimedia/DVD C Major Entertainment (Germany)

Since its Salzburg premiere in 1920 Hugo von Hofmannthal’s “Jedermann” (“Everyman”), is one of the highlights of the Salzburg Festival, sold out for months every year. The Salzburg Cathedral serves as the backdrop of the play about the rich Jedermann who is faced by unexpected Death, calling him to his judgment. Allowed company in his final journey, he is deserted by his loyal servant, his friends and his money; the figures of Good Works and Faith help him repent and save his soul before he is lowered into his grave. “A fantastic fairy tale trip, charming, harmless und a touch of kitsch - A joyous theatre feast” (Die Furche). “A Triumph” (Die Presse).

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Joseph Calleja: A Tribute To Mario Lanza

Genre Relay of: orchestral/choral concert, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company DoK-HAUS Film- und Fernsehproduktion (Germany) | Co-Production Company ZDF/ARTE Live Web (Germany), Unitel GmbH & Co. KG (Germany) | Assoc. Prod. Company Classica (Germany) | Executive Producer DoK-HAUS Film- und Fernsehproduktion (Germany) | Director Victor Grandits, Hanna Henigin | Duration 80’ 11’’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Wiener Konzerthaus, Vienna (Austria) | Musical Style Classical music | Orchestra orquesta Sinfonica de Navarra | Conductor Frédéric Chaslin | Soloist Joseph Calleja | Source video/audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV/theatrical/homevideo/multimedia/DVD C Major Entertainment (Germany) Nikolaus Harnoncourt © oRF/Roman Zach-Kiesling

“Jubilation!” (Kronen Zeitung) in the Great Festival Hall in Salzburg for Joseph Haydn’s oratorio “The Seasons” with Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting the Vienna Philharmonic and for Michael Schade, Florian Boesch and Dorothea Röschmann in the solo parts. “The Seasons”, a late work of Haydn’s and the last oratorio he wrote, is a musical manifesto addressed to nature and the countryfolk, breaking ground with its hitherto unexplored subject-matter as it heralds the dawning romantic era in music, thus occupying a special place in Haydn’s oeuvre. Nikolaus Harnoncourt brings out the simplicity of the work, “creating one sonic miracle after another” (Drehpunktkultur). Enhanced by the wellrehearsed choir of the Vienna State opera, the performance proves a “stroke of luck, when the grandezza of this music is brought home to one like this, without airs and graces!”, concludes the Salzburger Nachrichten.

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Jedermann

With his “Tribute to Mario Lanza”, Maltese tenor Joseph Calleja bows to one of his big idols, whom he has admired since he was a child: the great Mario Lanza. Born in Philadelphia (USA) in 1921 as the son of Italian immigrants, Lanza started a career in Hollywood and, in the late 1940s and 1950s, became one of the most famous tenors in the world. Joseph Calleja, himself now a star tenor, dedicates a whole concert programme to his idol by singing the melodies, arias and popular songs that made Mario Lanza unforgettable…“Calleja effortlessly served up high notes and delicately controlled emotions, and filled the Great Hall with the finest tenor artistry” (Kurier).

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La Sonnambula

Genre Relay of: opera, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company EuroArts Music (Germany), Unitel GmbH & Co. KG (Germany) | Assoc. Prod. Company SWR (Germany), ARTE Live Web (Germany), Classica (Germany) | Executive Producer Favo Filmproduktion (Germany) | Director Marcus Richardt | Duration 154’ 36’’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded oper Stuttgart (Germany) | Musical Style Classical music | Composer Vincenzo Bellini | Orchestra Staatsorchester Stuttgart | Conductor Gabriele Ferro | Stage Director Jossi Wieler, Sergio Morabito | Soloist Ana Durlovski, Luciano Botelho, Enzo Capuano, Helene Schneiderman, Catriona Smith | Source video/audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV/theatrical/homevideo/multimedia/DVD C Major Entertainment (Germany)

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Midori & Lorin Maazel / Münchner Philharmoniker – Hindemith: Mathis Der Maler & Brahms: Violin Concerto

“La Sonnambula” at the Stuttgart opera has proved a “great triumph. Not only for the directing duo but for the ensemble as a whole, for they have delivered a heart-warming miracle in their coordination of stage and orchestra, voice and roleplay” (Süddeutsche Zeitung): the production by Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabito was honoured at the International opera Awards as “new production of the year” and ensemble member Ana Durlovski won the coveted theatre prize “Der Faust” for her portrayal of the somnambulist. The action is transported to a grimly claustrophobic tavern some time in the recent past. Tables and benches are folded and unfolded in a windowless communal space where people meet to mind each other’s business, drink schnapps and form judgements. Sleep-walker Amina is made the victim of this tight-knit, egotistical village community, which fails to understand the affliction of somnambulism and drives her to the brink of death.

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Mahler – Symphony No. 8

Genre Relay of: orchestral/choral concert, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Unitel GmbH & Co. KG (Germany) | Assoc. Prod. Company Salzburg Festival (Austria), Classica (Germany) | Executive Producer Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images (Austria) | Director Andreas Morell | Duration 85’ 59’’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Salzburg Festival | Musical Style Classical music | Orchestra Simón Bolívar Symphony orchestra of Venezuela | Conductor Gustavo Dudamel | Choir Simón Bolívar National Youth Choir of Venezuela, Wiener Singverein, Salzburger Festspiele und Theater Kinderchor, Members of “superar“ | Soloist Emily Magee, Juliane Banse, Anna Prohaska, Klaus Florian Vogt, Detlef Roth, Kurt Rydl, Yvonne Naef, Birgit Remmert | Source video/audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV/theatrical/homevideo/ multimedia/DVD C Major Entertainment (Germany)

30 years after Midori’s legendary concert debut with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Zubin Mehta, Midori and Mehta come together again for a special concert with the Münchner Philharmoniker. It opens with Brahms’s “Tragic overture”, which is followed by Hindemith’s “Mathis der Maler” symphony, commissioned by Wilhelm Furtwängler and the Berliner Philharmoniker in 1934. Johannes Brahms’s (1833-1897) Violin Concerto is one of the greatest of all times. A symphonically designed work, it lets the orchestra and soloist both share in presenting and elaborating the musical substance to an equal extent.

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Otello

Which work could be more suitable for Gustavo Dudamel and his Simón Bolivár Symphony orchestra – formerly known as the Simón Bolívar Youth orchestra, the most well-known flagship ensemble of El Sistema – to mark the highlight of the residency of El Sistema at the Salzburg Festival than Mahler’s Eighth, the “Symphony of a Thousand”? Eight topnotch soloists – among them Emily Magee, Anna Prohaska and Klaus Florian Vogt – four choruses and the 200 orchestra musicians stretch the limits of the immense stage of Großes Festspielhaus. “The invasion of sheer enthusiasm” (Der Standard) and: “Crystal clear, highly defined Mahler sound” (Frankfurter Rundschau).

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With Zubin Mehta conducting the orchestra of Valencia’s Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, and three superb soloists – Gregory Kunde, Maria Agresta and Carlos Álvarez – forming the lead trio, this production will leave its mark in the annals of “otello” interpretations. Director Davide Livermore focuses on the inner conflicts gnawing at the hearts of otello (Kunde), Desdemona (Agresta) and Iago (Álvarez). The elegant set, effective use of projections and graceful costumes delight the eyes and ears. Confirming its reputation as one of the leading European opera orchestras is the orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana.

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Parsifal

Music of introverted tenderness and a libretto that hints at much and offers few answers – such is “Pelléas et Mélisande”, Claude Debussy’s only completed opera. Dubbed “Drama lyrique” by the composer himself, and written in 1902 at a time when the subconscious, the psyche, dreams and urges commanded the attention of science and art, this music searches the souls of its characters with its subtle nuances. Pelléas and Golaud are half-brothers, each loving the girl-from-nowhere Mélisande. The elder, dominant Golaud makes her his wife; the younger Pelléas is the soul-mate of the taciturn, strangely vulnerable Mélisande and an equally mysterious bond of concealed love is formed between them. The consummately precise staging by Nikolaus Lehnhoff has a cast to match these wondrous sounds. This exceptional production “achieves [...] what actually can only be understood as magic” (Die Welt).

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Rarely can an opera premiere have been more eagerly awaited than the premiere of “Parsifal” at the Salzburg Easter Festival. For the first time since the festival was founded by Herbert von Karajan in 1967, it has a new orchestra, the Staatskapelle Dresden, once hailed by Wagner as “his magic harp”. Its Principal Conductor Christian Thielemann is also the new Artistic Director of the Festival, an artist regarded as “perhaps the greatest Wagner conductor of our time” (Focus). And rarely indeed can an opera performance have been so universally praised for its music by press and public alike: “Magical string sounds” (Süddeutsche Zeitung), “Dresden’s Staatskapelle gives a near-perfect rendition of Wagner’s score” and “it is beautiful, and as close to perfection as humans can get” (Financial Times), “The singers, never lost, are affectionately accompanied and could not be better” (Der Tagesspiegel).

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Red Ribbon Celebration Concert

Genre Relay of: orchestral/choral concert, Live recording | Status in progress | Production Company Life Ball (Austria) | Assoc. Prod. Company Interspot Film (Austria), oRF III (Austria), Unitel GmbH & Co. KG (Germany), Classica (Germany) | Executive Producer Interspot Film (Austria) | Director Peter Rabinger | Duration 90’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Burgtheater Vienna (Austria) | Musical Style Classical music | Orchestra oRF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien | Conductor omer Meir Wellber | Soloist Elisabeth Kulman, Anna Netrebko, Piotr Beczala, Ildebrando D’Arcangelo, René Pape, Erwin Schrott | Source video/audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV/theatrical/homevideo/multimedia/DVD C Major Entertainment (Germany)

Pelléas Et Mélisande

Genre Relay of: opera, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Unitel GmbH & Co. KG (Germany) | Assoc. Prod. Company Arthaus Musik (Germany), Aalto-Musiktheater Essen (Germany), Classica (Germany) | Executive Producer Favo Filmproduktion (Germany) | Director Marcus Richardt | Duration 150’ 24’’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Aalto-Musiktheater Essen | Musical Style Classical music | Composer Claude Debussy | Orchestra Essener Philharmoniker | Conductor Stefan Soltesz | Stage Director Nikolaus Lehnhoff | Soloist Jacques Imbrailo, Michaela Selinger, Vincent Le Texier, Doris Soffel, Wolfgang Schöne | Source video/audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV/theatrical/homevideo/multimedia/DVD C Major Entertainment (Germany)

According to its motto “United in difference”, the Red Ribbon Celebration Concert at the Vienna Burgtheater assembles a unique line-up of artists: Anna Netrebko, Elisabeth Kulman, Erwin Schrott, Piotr Beczala, Ildebrando D’Arcangelo and René Pape: They all embrace the good cause for the benefit of people living with HIV or AIDS and present a gala concert inspired by “1001 Nights”. Accompanied by the oRF Radio Symphony orchestra Vienna which is conducted by omer Meir Wellber, the concert is part of Vienna’s famous Life Ball, one of the world’s biggest charity events fighting the lethal disease.

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The Odeonsplatz Concert – Wagner & Verdi

“It is a rare event, that such a warm, captivating and smooth voice is heard here in the Netherlands”, Peter van der Lint wrote in the Dutch newspaper Trouw following one of the performances of Italian bass Ferruccio Furlanetto with the RCo. For this performance of the annual Christmas Matinee of the Royal Concertgebouw orchestra under the baton of Mariss Jansons, Furlanetto returns to Amsterdam with a selection of arias from “Le nozze di Figaro” and “Don Giovanni”. The concert also features Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7.

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Sol Gabetta & Hélène Grimaud In Concert: Works By Schumann, Brahms, Debussy, Shostakovich

Genre Relay of: Instrumental recital, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company DoK-HAUS Film- und Fernsehproduktion (Germany) | Co-Production Company ZDF/ARTE Live Web (Germany), Unitel GmbH & Co. KG (Germany) | Assoc. Prod. Company Classica (Germany) | Executive Producer DoK-HAUS Film- und Fernsehproduktion (Germany) | Director Victor Grandits, Hanna Henigin | Duration 96’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Philharmonie Berlin (Germany) | Musical Style Classical music | Soloist Sol Gabetta, Hélène Grimaud | Source video/ audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV/theatrical/homevideo/ multimedia/DVD C Major Entertainment (Germany)

This time, the annual open-air opera gala from the odeonsplatz in Munich features arias, duets, overtures and choruses from operas by Richard Wagner and Giuseppe Verdi. Tenor Rolando Villazón and baritone Thomas Hampson are accompanied by the Chorus and the Symphony orchestra of Bayerischer Rundfunk under the baton of Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

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The Wagner Gala From Semperoper Dresden

Ever since cellist Sol Gabetta met pianist Hélène Grimaud at the Menuhin Festival in Gstaad, the two artists have been getting together regularly to contribute to the history of great piano and cello duos – two charismatic musicians who embody the spirit of our time. Both have vastly different characters: the philosophical Frenchwoman at the piano, and the temperamental Argentinean cellist. Yet there was an immediate “intimacy and mutual passion; a verve, a flow that I love so much in music”, says Gabetta. “This has the potential to be something really unique” (Gramophone).

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“Dresden is still the only place on earth where I feel at home, everywhere else I am a stranger”, wrote Richard Wagner in 1858 in a letter to his first wife Minna. Wagner felt Dresden to be home, and the city did much to shape his intellectual and artistic development: after spending his childhood and early years there, from 1843 to 1849 he was the Royal Saxon Kapellmeister of the Dresden Hofkapelle (court orchestra) – as the Staatskapelle was then known. In memory of the great composer, and mindful of its own Wagner tradition, the Staatskapelle staged a glittering gala concert in the Semperoper on the eve of Richard Wagner’s bicentenary featuring conductor Christian Thielemann, indisputably one of the great Wagner conductors of the present day, and Jonas Kaufmann, the hottest young heroic tenor of recent years.

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Wagner vs. Verdi

Genre Documentary: Music, on location | Status completed | Production Company makido film (Austria), ZDF/ARTE (Germany) | Assoc. Prod. Company Unitel GmbH & Co. KG (Germany), oRF III (Austria), bm:ukk (Austria), Classica (Germany) | Executive Producer makido film production (Austria) | Director Christian Kugler, Pepe Pippig, Daniel Gerlach, Thomas Macho, Martin Betz, Anna Schmidt | Duration 6x27’ | Production Year 2013 | Musical Style Classical music | Source video/audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV/theatrical/homevideo/multimedia/ DVD C Major Entertainment (Germany)

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Richard Wagner and Giuseppe Verdi are undeniably two of the greatest opera composers in the history of music. Yet although they lived at about the same time – they were even born in the same year, 1813 – they each influenced the history of opera in very different ways. The six-part documentary “Wagner vs. Verdi” throws light on the history of the period and the impact of these two composers from such different personal, emotional, musical and political backgrounds. Verdi, the Italian and Wagner, the German are frequently compared with one another and measured against one another. Great present-day singers and conductors express their opinions as well as directors, music historians and other experts.

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Wagner vs. Verdi – The Match

Genre Relay of: orchestral/choral concert, Live recording | Status completed | Production Company Unitel GmbH & Co. KG (Germany) | Assoc. Prod. Company Bayerische Staatsoper (Germany), Classica (Germany), ZDF/ARTE Live Web (Germany) | Executive Producer Metisfilm Classica (Italy) | Director Tiziano Mancini | Duration 40’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich (Germany) | Musical Style Classical music | Orchestra / Band Polizeiorchester Bayern, Musikkapelle Peter Mayr Pfeffersberg | Conductor Johann Mösenbichler | Stage Director La Fura dels Baus | Source video/audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1 | Distribution TV/theatrical/homevideo/multimedia/DVD C Major Entertainment (Germany) Dirk Brossé © Bulletproof Cupid

Who’s the better composer: Wagner or Verdi? In a playful attempt to answer this question, the Bavarian State opera invited the world-famous Catalan action group La Fura dels Baus to put together a programme full of lights, fireworks, acrobats, dancers, music and two giant puppets representing Wagner and Verdi. The musicians – two wind orchestras and two brass bands, nearly 240 musicians – launched musical excerpts into the “boxing ring” on the opera square. About 10,000 people watched this street event that turned the square and its majestic buildings into a stage, and enchanted the spectators with its magical atmosphere.

Documentary about the Belgian composer and conductor Dirk Brossé. Brossé (Ghent, 1960) built an impressive reputation as a composer and conductor of film music. He is chief conductor of the Philadelphia Chamber orchestra, always on the move while sketching and completing his film scores. one of his favourite film co-production partners is director Roland Joffe (“Killing Fields”, “The Mission”). But besides revealing that successful outside world, Dirk Brossé also unveils for us his inner world. There he protects himself from his daily hectic routine to become an introvert seeker who has faced the necessity to pay a big price for his success.

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In 2013, the Brussels Jazz orchestra celebtated its 20th anniversary with a series of jubilee concerts. Top-of-the-bill names of the Belgian jazz scene were called to the stage: Tutu Puoane, Bert Joris, Philip Catherine, David Linx and Michel Herr. It is no coincidence that these are the very artists with whom the BJo collaborated most succesfully in the past, creating an impressive international realm. The Brussels Jazz orchestra has built a solid international reputation. It played together with the Brussels Philharmonic orchestra in the soundtrack for the film “The Artist” (oscar for Best original Soundtrack).

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Final Concert Queen Elisabeth Competition 2013

Documentary zooming in on young musicians from around the world who have chosen Belgium to follow a summer course in chamber music. At the idyllic lake of Genval young musicians are taught by worldclass musicians like Maxim Vengerov. Befriended musicians like Mischa Maisky and the duo Labèque lend their own support by giving a number of concerts. They all ensure a unique experience, where everyone can learn from each other. In the end, the success of chamber music is not so much ensured by solo stars, as by their playing together. Above all, this report deals with the vibrant energy of young people, thriving on their friendship and their music. “It’s Magic”, indeed! The teachers: Ivry Gitlis, Gérard Caussé, Mark Messanger, Tamar Golan.

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La Clemenza Di Tito

The Queen Elisabeth Competition holds its stature as one of the oldest and most renowned international music competitions. This concert features the first, second and third prize winner of the prestigeous competition in its 2013 edition for piano. These artists will be accompanied by the Royal Flemish Philharmonic conducted by its chief conductor Edo de Waart. Mateusz Borowiak will perform Mozart’s Concerto No. 9, KV 271, whereas Rémi Geniet will star in Piano Concerto No. 3 op. 30 by Sergei Rachmaninov. Boris Giltburg, winner of the first prize, chose to play the Piano Concerto No. 2 by Sergei Prokofiev.

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Relay of the acclaimed Monnaie production of “La Clemenza di Tito”. Mozart’s last opera has long been underestimated, however it is now seen as a musical and psychological masterpiece. After the conspiracy of his friend Sesto, Titus is facing a difficult choice: will he let his friend at the mercy of judges, or will he lend him pardon? Director Ivo van Hove and set designer Jan Versweyveld have preferred a contemporary reading of this opera seria, which deals with the question of a great political leader who ultimately decides for a policy against violence and for forgiveness.

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Mahler Chamber Orchestra

See 156 The Mahler Chamber orchestra In Bruges / EuroArts

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Nikolai Lugansky is one of the most renowned performers of Rachmaninov today. With the National orchestra of Belgium, directed by chief conductor Andrey Boreyko, he stars as a soloist in the second piano concerto by Sergei Rachmaninov. In the Wagner year 2013, the orchestra also played the overture from Richard Wagners “Flying Dutchman”. The concert concluded with the third symphony, “Eroica”, by Ludwig van Beethoven. Recorded at the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels.

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Birth Of A Quartet

The Making Of Tristan und Isolde

Four brilliant musicians searching for each other and for music, over seven intensive days. Pekka Kuusisto & Patricia Kopatchinskaja, violin, Lilli Maijala, viola and Pieter Wispelwey, cello, are conducting a unique experiment during a week-long residency – Will the outcome be their first or their last concert? The Making of Tristan and Isolde © VRT

In September, “Tristan und Isolde” premiered at the Flemish opera. Canvas Classic followed the progress of the the opera production, directed by Stef Lernous, behind the scenes. Lernous is notorious for his fascination with the darker sides of man and his intriguing game with reality and imagination. This allows for an unusual but appropriate match for the “Tristan” story, in which the night plays a central role. In a fine collaboration, the Flemish opera link him to a cast of traditional opera singers performing one of the most iconic but also pioneering pieces of the repertoire.

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Birth Of A Quartet – The Concert

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After seven days of fierce rehearsals the music is there. Three different composers – Mozart, Britten and Crumb – and a gamut of expressions. A musical spectrum reflecting not only the music but the artistry and the virtuosity of the newborn ensemble. The staging of the TV production is expanding the event beyond the concert hall experience.

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Jean Sibelius – Seven Symphonies

“Miles Davis of the north”: trumpeter Verneri Pohjola is one of the hottest Finnish jazz names. Pohjola’s playing has been described as meditative and exploratory. He is a master of combining styles, moods and sounds. Verneri Pohjola Quartet is a decade-old band of longtime friends who know each other inside out. This concert will include Pohjola’s own compositions and gems from Björk and Tom Waits. The Quartet (Verneri Pohjola – trumpet, Aki Rissanen – grand piano, Antti Lötjönen – bass, Joonas Riippa – drums) played at the M1-studio, YLEs crown jewel, where Finnish music has been recorded over 30 years from classical to hard rock and from experimental prog to pop songs.

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Rautavaara's All-Night Vigil

This programme will give a new perspective to Sibelius and his symphonies. The programme (7 x 60’) has three parts: documentary, introduction to the symphonies and, of course, live recordings of the Symphonies presented by the FRSo and conductor Hannu Lintu. All symphonies will be recorded in Helsinki Music Centre during the seasons 2013-2014. The documentary part will be filmed in different locations in Helsinki, Tuusula, Kerava, Hämeenlinna and also abroad: in Italy, Germany, Austria (at the Vienna Musikverein). It tells us what happened in the world, the art world and, especially, in Sibelius’ life during his composing the symphonies. We will see a composer at his best age. In the introduction, the FRSo and Hannu Lintu play us samples: what kind of music Sibelius composed, what kind of versions there are, themes etc. Conductor Hannu Lintu and composer osmo-Tapio Räihälä will also discuss the symphonies and Sibelius.

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Live at YLE M1-Studio: Verneri Pohjola Quartet

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Einojuhani Rautavaara’s “All-night Vigil” has become a modern classic. To mark the composer’s 85th birthday, the choir returns to the space for which “Vigilia” was written, the atmospheric and beautiful Uspenski Cathedral. Jyrki Korhonen has been the leading exponent of the basso profondo solo for more than a decade and the tenor is Niall Chorell. The “All-night Vigil” has two parts, Evening Service (Vespers) and Morning Service (Matins). Risto Nordell introduces the church, composer Rautavaara and “All-Night Vigil”. Composer Rautavaara is in the audience, too. This makes the concert even more emotive and touching.

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RSO Live At Helsinki Music Centre: Verdi's Requiem

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Short Films Of Jean Sibelius

This season, YLE rebranded the RSo concert TV-format: Live 135-minute broadcasts with two hosts, a youngish music expert at the keyboard during the intermissions, several quests, and, immediately after the concert, the conductor himself with his special quests. Plus camera feeds from the concert hall, backstage, foyer ect. Verdi’s Requiem is in the focus of the series’ second episode. During the performance, director Hannu Kamppila used images of famous 19th-century paintings by Verdi’s coevals about funerals and mourning – all digitally projected to the concert hall’s ceiling.

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Seized By Santtu-Matias Rouvali

Jean Sibelius composed seven symphonies. His struggle with the eighth symphony lasted for years and ended with burning the score. It’s time to demolish the myth of Jean Sibelius. These 8 10-minute films are about the man, not about his music. Interviewees are experts, but not music specialists and scientists. Each short film uses in its expression codes of one film genre (for example horror movie, children’s movie or silent film). Animation is replenishing the narration. Commentator is composer Kaija Saariaho.

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Tero Saarinen Company: Hunt

”You have to be yourself”, says young but already internationally renowned conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali. He is flying to work with the great orchestras but loves to live a simple family life at his picturesque countryside cottage. The camera follows one day in Rouvali’s life, through his house construction site to a symphony concert. “Seized by SanttuMatias Rouvali” is an independent episode of a documentary series.

Dancer-choreographer Tero Saarinen’s solo, The riveting work “HUNT” has captivated audiences and critics alike in more than 170 performances in 32 countries, making it one of the most significant reinterpretations of Igor Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring”. Unlike most interpreters of this classic piece of music, Saarinen focuses on the conflicts within an individual. The original “Rite of Spring” story is transformed into a multilayered struggle of one man. Themes such as alienation, the fading of beauty and the duality of life – the hunter and the hunted, the sacrifice and the sacrificed, life and death, good and evil, feminine and masculine – can be found. The inclusion of live multimedia by Marita Liulia also added new aspects, which now seem more relevant than ever: the effects of the continuous flood of information and technological advances.

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Helena is in love with Demetrius. Demetrius is in love with Hermia. Hermia is in love with Lysander. And Titania, the Queen of the Fairies is in love with Nick Bottom, although his head is transformed into that of a donkey… Something weird is going on at night in a forest near Athens, and until dawn the victims of love are tumbling like in a crazy dream. That is how British director Henry Mason has put on stage Shakespeare’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream” at the Salzburg Festival 2013 – flamboyant, colourful and not at all predictable. Furthermore, he integrated the wonderful incidental music by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, thus increasing the suggestive power of the play even more.

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Arkady Shilkloper On His Way To JazzBaltica

Eight international artists, in four nights, are playing their songs on the stage of 3satfestival 2013. Bands of national and international fame join the music marathon: German pop band Frida Gold, Marla Glen with her smoky deep voice, Mrs. Greenbird, Christina Stürmer, Abby, Bosse, Gleis 8 and Maybebop. 3satfestival is a series of 8 60-minute concerts.

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A Midsummer Night's Dream – A Play By William Shakespeare

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Arkady Shilkloper is an internationally acclaimed alphorn/French horn player. His creativity as a musician is unlimited. Today, the big jazz and classical concert houses are Shilkloper’s home. As a part of the JazzBaltica ensemble, Shilkloper visited the JazzBaltica 2013. 3sat accompanied the world-class musician. Shilkloper is a searcher. He not only likes to experiment with serious and popular music. He also likes to travel and to develop new cultures. “When I’m playing the alphorn, the sun shines”, so Shilkloper, for whom music represents a universal power.

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C(H)ŒURS

ZDF/3sat | A musical theatre by Alain Platel. For years, the tension between the group and the individual has been the central theme in Platel’s performances. In C(H)ŒURS he – together with his dancers and the Teatro Real choir – examines how “dangerously beautiful” a group can be. What is the relation between the progressive 19th-century nationalism of Verdi and Wagner and the increasing current tendency of nations to cut themselves off? The production was awarded Best Live Performance Relay at dance screen 2013 in San Francisco.

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For My Sisters

“For my sisters” is a film about female Afro-American vocalists. Alberta Hunter, Sarah Vaughan, Carmen McRae and Nina Simone are the four “Big Sisters”, whose footsteps the singer Carole Alston is following through the Jazz Age.The road movie through history, from Vienna to New orleans, Chicago and New York is a jazz expedition which connects the musical past with its present – and which risks a very personal view – not only to the roots of Jazz and racism, analysing the present and future situation of jazz and today’s Afro-American vocalists.

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Jonas Kaufmann: My Verdi

Jonas Kaufmann currently is not only one of the best, but also one of the most famous tenors in the world. In 2013, he especially dedicated himself in musical terms to Richard Wagner and Giuseppe Verdi celebrating their jubilee. Kaufmann’s performance of Verdis “Troubadour” in his hometown Munich was absolutely successful earning him “Best Singer” at the International opera Award. on the occasion of Verdi’s 200th birthday, Kaufmann shares his personal artistic view on Verdi’s oeuvre. A journey to Italy, documented in the film, shows the most important biographical locations of Verdi’s life.

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Richard Wagner – The World Of The Ring

Richard Wagner’s 15-hour tetralogy “The Ring of the Nibelung” is an exceptional phenomenon of human history in the field of music drama – in content and extent. “Wagner is not difficult”, Christian Thielemann insists, pleading for an unprejudiced approach to the composer. As one of the most important Wagner conductors of the present day, he set store by his participation in the four-part documentary series “Richard Wagner – World of the Ring”. This fusion of opera guide and documentary offers newcomers to Wagner an entertaining introduction to his “Ring” while keeping some surprises up its sleeve for connoisseurs. Series: 4 x 60’

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Z + addendum T | ZDF/3sat | TVP Kultura Their songs are about horses and cattle, about endless hours in the saddle, about loneliness and freedom. At first sight, American Cowboy music seems to confirm every single cliché we know from Western movies and Country and Western songs. But true Cowboy music has little to do with that. For his documentary Herbert Krill embarked on a search for Cowboy singers, amateurs and professionals in Montana, Arizona, California. They are all deeply rooted in the myth of the old west. Their music is passionate about a life coined by the pioneers of past and modern social and ecological problems.

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The world famous Bauhaus in Dessau sets the stage for one of the most unique live music events in German television. International artists, in an intimate setting, play for an exclusive audience. In 2013, Jake Bugg stands out as one of the most exciting new UK acts, managing to effortlessly straddle the gap between authenticity and mainstream appeal. The powerful and emotional pianist and performer Tom odell fascinated the audience, as well as British lady Jessie Ware, Silbermond, Jonas Myrin, ok Kid, Laing a.o. zdf@bauhaus is a series of concerts (16x60’).

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The Eurovision Young Dancers competition is open to solo dancers aged between 16 and 21, from EBU member broadcasters. The jury trio consisting of Krzysztof Pastor, Nadia Espiritu and Cameron McMillan chose the dancers from Germany and the Netherlands for the final duel, after which they have decided that Sedrig Verwoert from the Netherlands is the winner of the 2013 edition of Eurovision Young Dancers in the Baltic opera and Dance Theatre in Gdansk. The group choreographies were choreographed by Ballet Boyz.

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Krzysztof Penderecki's 80th Birthday Gala Concert

Genre Relay of: orchestral/choral concert, Live recording | Status completed | Producer Paul Smaczny, ACCENTUS Music GmbH & Co. KG (Germany); Robert Kamyk, TVP Kultura (Poland) | Director Michael Bayer | Duration 120’ | Production Year 2013 | Recorded The Polish National opera, 23.11.2013 | Musical Style Classical music | Piece Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima, Duo Concertante, Concerto Grosso for 3 Cellos & orchestra, Credo | Orchestra Sinfonia Varsovia | Conductor Krzysztof Urbanski, Charles Dutoit, Valery Gergiev | Choir Warsaw Philharmonic Choir, Choir of the Teatr Wielki – National opera, Warsaw Boys Choir | Soloist Anne-Sophie Mutter, Roman Patkolo, Arto Noras, Ivan Monighetti, Daniel Müller-Schott, Iwona Hossa, Ewa Vesin, Agnieszka Rehlis, Rafał Bartminski, Nikolay Didenko | Source video/audio HD / Dolby surround 5.1

Krzysztof Penderecki’s 80th Birthday Gala Concert finished a festival showcasing the composer’s music, performed by many great artists. Anne-Sophie Mutter, Valery Gergiev, Charles Dutoit, Daniel MüllerSchott, Krzysztof Urbanski a.o. paid tribute to the composer, presenting highlights of his oeuvre at the National opera in Warsaw. Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, who regularly collaborates with Penderecki, gave a celebratory performance of the “Duo Concertante”. Further highlights included Gergiev conducting the monumental “Credo” for choir and orchestra and Charles Dutoit conducting the “Concerto grosso for three Cellos and orchestra”.

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Swinging With Sinatra – Jarek Wist & Krzysztof Herdzin Big Band

“Swinging with Sinatra – Jarek Wist & Krzysztof Herdzin Big Band” is the joint project of two talented artists: Jarek Wist, a singer, and Krzysztof Herdzin, a composer/arranger/conductor. The members of the Krzysztof Herdzin Big Band represent the best quality of the current Polish music scene. You will undoubtedly agree with it on hearing the beautiful trumpet solos, captivating sounds of the saxophone, the deep tone of the contrabass or the piano – inviting us to the world of swing. The concert features the great Sinatra hits, such as “New York”, “Fly Me to the Moon”, “Love and Marriage”, “Mack the Knife”, “My Way” and many others – newly arranged by Krzysztof and sung by Jarek, who is considered by many critics to be the best Polish singer of swing.

L.U.C. & Motion Trio

Status completed | Executive Producer Beata Boleslawska-Lewandowska, TVP Kultura (Poland) | Director Krzysztof Ligęzowski | Light Design Adam Tyszka | Duration 75’ | Production Year 2013 | Ensemble Motion Trio | Soloist L.U.C. | Source video/audio HD / Stereo Amazing artistic encounter of two extremely different worlds. Motion Trio is an accordion phenomenon successfully conquering the most important concert halls of the world (Carnegie Hall in New York, Konzerthaus in Vienna…). L.U.C is an indefinite artist, who, just taking his first steps abroad, in Poland has already won the majority of the most important cultural awards. Their project reveals the totally different possibilities of accordion – from sacral, tuneful harmony and futuristic sounds, through the light, surrealistic themes in electro-hip-hop, down to the Bavarian, derisive oldies. This is a poetical tale about looking for harmony in the chaotic Polish reality and, at the same time, a journalistic post card from the Vistula River.

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125 Years Of The Royal Concertgebouw Amsterdam: Anniversary Gala......099 125 Years Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra: Birthday Concert............. 100 365............................................................................................................. 345 3satfestival................................................................................................ 455 66 Women................................................................................................ 379 A Hooligan Baritone................................................................................ 312 A Masked Ball – Un Ballo In Maschera.................................................. 159 A Midsummer Night's Dream – A Play By William Shakespeare........ 456 A Midsummer Night's Dream By Michel Kelemenis........................... 228 A Musical Visualization With Janez Dovc And Bostjan Gombac......... 351 A Season At The Juilliard School............................................................ 034 Absolute Prokofiev................................................................................... 177 Afternoon Of A Faun: Tanaquil LeClercq.............................................. 407 Against Silence – Hubert Von Goisern In Greenland........................... 364 Aida.......................................................................................................... 073 Aida.......................................................................................................... 278 Aimee Mann Plays Baloise Session........................................................ 101 Alice Sara Ott With Francesco Tristano And Avi Avital......................... 372 All Heart – Tous En Cœur...................................................................... 160 Amarcord – Music Of The Renaissance................................................ 001 An Evening With Armin Mueller-Stahl................................................... 290 Andris Poga Conducts Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5....................... 229 Anna Netrebko And Dmitri Hvorostovsky – The Red Square Concert........... 022 Annecy Classic Festival 2013................................................................... 178 Antoine Tamestit And Cédric Tiberghien............................................... 373 Antonín Dvořák: Nine Symphonies........................................................ 126 Ariadne On Naxos................................................................................... 167 Ariane And Bluebeard – Ariane Et Barbe Bleue..................................... 313 Arkady Shilkloper On His Way To JazzBaltica....................................... 457 Armida...................................................................................................... 322 Arvo Pärt – A Journey To Music's Roots (WT)...................................... 023 Ashton Mixed Programme...................................................................... 131 Ashton Triple Bill...................................................................................... 132 Astana Opera – Opening Gala Concert.................................................. 387 Aunis – Tricentenary Of The French School Of Dance........................ 279 Austropop Legends – Rainhard Fendrich.............................................. 365 B-Movie – The Wild West Berlin Of The 80s......................................... 130 Bach: A Passionate Life........................................................................... 188 Baptiste Trotignon At St Emilion Jazz Festival 2013.............................. 217 Barbra Streisand: Back To Brooklyn...................................................... 408 BBC Cardiff Singer Of The World 2013 – The Final.............................. 057 BBC Proms Chamber Music.................................................................. 058 Beethoven – The Complete Violin Sonatas............................................ 413 Beethoven Piano Concertos 1 & 5.......................................................... 074 Béjart Ballet Lausanne: Light In Chaillot............................................... 209 Benjamin Britten On Camera................................................................. 059 Birth Of A Quartet – The Concert.......................................................... 447 Birth Of A Quartet................................................................................... 446 Blues America......................................................................................... 060 Bobby McFerrin At Alfa Jazz Fest........................................................... 230 Bobby Womack – Across 110th Street................................................... 061 Bollywood Carmen.................................................................................. 062 Boris Godunov........................................................................................ 075

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Born To Be Wild: The Story Of Classic American Rock........................ 063 Brahms Cycle – Piano Concerto No. 2, Symphony No. 2..................... 414 Brahms Cycle – Violin Concerto, Symphony No. 4............................... 415 Brahms Haydn Variations...................................................................... 248 Breath Of The Gods................................................................................ 309 Bring Me Paléo......................................................................................... 374 Brossé...................................................................................................... 438 Bruckner 5 & Eisler: Ernste Gesänge – Thomas Hampson / Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann............................................................. 002 Brussels Jazz Orchestra.......................................................................... 439 Bussell On Ballerinas............................................................................... 189 C(H)ŒURS............................................................................................... 458 Cameron Carpenter – Rebirth Of Majesty............................................. 024 Capella Anna............................................................................................ 127 Capriccio.................................................................................................. 416 Cavalleria Rusticana................................................................................. 305 Cavalleria Rusticana................................................................................. 388 Celebrating Giuseppe Verdi................................................................... 346 Celebration – Tricentenary Of The French School Of Dance............... 280 Celebration Of The Centenary Of Women's Suffrage In Norway........ 270 Chailly – Mahler 5.................................................................................... 003 Chailly – Mahler 9................................................................................... 004 Chaplin – Ballet By Mario Schröder........................................................ 144 Charles Dutoit/NHK Symphony Orchestra: Works By Takemitsu & Hosokawa, Berlioz – Symphonie Fantastique....................................... 417 Cheick Tidiane Seck At Cully Jazz Festival 2013..................................... 223 Chocolat Negro Clown........................................................................... 259 Christmas Concert With Capella Gabetta.............................................. 359 Christmas In Vienna 2013........................................................................ 291 Christmas With Johann Sebastian Bach................................................. 145 Chucho Valdés & The Afro Cuban Messengers At Barcelona Jazz Festival 2013.......................................................................................................... 220 Ciboulette................................................................................................. 168 Cinderella.................................................................................................. 314 Cinderella................................................................................................. 389 Cirkopolis.................................................................................................. 257 Classic Arts Showcase............................................................................ 098 Claude...................................................................................................... 390 Claudio Abbado And Lucerne Festival Orchestra / Mihoko Fujimura........... 005 CocoRosie At The Bouffes Du Nord....................................................... 261 Così Fan Tutte.......................................................................................... 035 Così Fan Tutte.......................................................................................... 179 Così Fan Tutte.......................................................................................... 323 Costello, The Other Elvis........................................................................ 036 Country Roads – The Heartbeat Of America......................................... 310 D'Ores Et Déjà – Tricentenary Of The French School Of Dance.......... 281 Dance On Screen..................................................................................... 315 Daniel Barenboim/West-Eastern Divan Orchestra: Works By Wagner & Verdi.......................................................................................................... 418 Daniel Hope – The Secrets Of The Violin.............................................. 103 Daniel Hope – Vivaldi Four Seasons Recomposed By Max Richter.... 104 Daniil Trifonov And The Magic Of Music (WT).................................... 021 Daniil Trifonov In Concert (WT)............................................................ 025

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Dans Les Coulisses: Verdi's Requiem Backstage.................................. 347 Death In Venice....................................................................................... 190 Delibes: Coppélia.................................................................................... 146 Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg.......................................................... 419 Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau – Last Words................................................. 180 Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau – Last Words.................................................. 147 Doctor Who At The Proms 2013............................................................ 064 Don Carlo................................................................................................ 292 Don Giovanni .......................................................................................... 169 Don Giovanni........................................................................................... 181 Don Quixote............................................................................................. 133 Don Quixote............................................................................................ 324 Dvořák Sketches (WT)............................................................................. 125 Elektra...................................................................................................... 037 Elena........................................................................................................ 076 Erasmus Intensive Programme.............................................................. 339 Eric Clapton Plays Baloise Session......................................................... 105 Erwin Schrott – Rojotango..................................................................... 106 Eugene Onegin........................................................................................ 134 Europa Konzert 2013 From Prague......................................................... 148 Eurovision Young Dancers 2013............................................................ 464 Evening Party At Versailles...................................................................... 161 Falstaff..................................................................................................... 282 Falstaff..................................................................................................... 420 Faust......................................................................................................... 135 Festive Advent Concert 2013................................................................... 107 Fidelio...................................................................................................... 082 Fidelio....................................................................................................... 325 Final Concert Queen Elisabeth Competition 2013................................ 440 Flamenco: Gypsy Soul............................................................................ 065 Follies....................................................................................................... 077 For My Sisters......................................................................................... 459 Franz Ferdinand At Festival Rock En Seine 2013................................... 375 Fred Hersch Solo At St Emilion Jazz Festival 2013................................ 215 Gala For 300 Years Of The French School Of Dance........................... 038 Gala From Berlin 2013............................................................................ 149 Gardenia – Before The Last Curtain Falls............................................... 172 Georg Kreisler Doesn't Exist................................................................... 251 Georges Momboye's Rite Of Spring....................................................... 231 Giselle....................................................................................................... 391 Giuseppe Verdi: Otello........................................................................... 108 Gloria Estefan – The Standards............................................................. 109 Gloria Estefan Plays Baloise Session...................................................... 110 Gloriana.................................................................................................... 136 Glove Story.............................................................................................. 362 God's Greatest Hits................................................................................. 335 Grigory Sokolov Live At Philharmonie Berlin......................................... 182 Groundation – Musiques Métisses Festival.......................................... 225 Guillaume Tell.......................................................................................... 421 Gustav Mahler 3rd Symphony................................................................. 283 Hansel And Gretel.................................................................................. 284 Harmony Of Voices................................................................................. 128 Haydn – The Seasons / Die Jahreszeiten.............................................. 422

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Herbert Blomstedt And Lars Vogt Perform Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1.......................................................................................................... 232 Hippolyte And Aricie................................................................................ 170 Housekeeper Wanted.............................................................................. 382 Hyeonjun Jo Plays Messiaen.................................................................. 083 Ibrahim Maalouf At Babylon, Istanbul ...................................................162 Il Trittico.................................................................................................. 326 Il Trovatore............................................................................................... 327 In Between: Isang Yun In North And South Korea............................... 006 In The Name Of Classicism................................................................... 348 It's Magic. Musica Mundi....................................................................... 441 J. S. Bach – Mass In B Minor – Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, St. Thomas Boys Choir, Biller..................................................................................... 007 Jazz In Switzerland – A Music Documentary In 3 Parts....................... 360 JazzLAB..................................................................................................... 271 Jean Sibelius – Seven Symphonies........................................................ 448 Jean-Claude Gallotta's Yvan Vaffan........................................................ 233 Jedermann............................................................................................... 423 Jenny Wilson............................................................................................. 383 Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 4 In E Minor.................................. 392 Jonas Kaufmann: My Verdi..................................................................... 460 Jordi Savall Conducts Sacred Music At The Royal Chapel Of Versailles Palace....................................................................................................... 039 Jorge Luis Prats Plays Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 3.............. 234 Joseph Calleja: A Tribute To Mario Lanza............................................. 424 Joshua Redman Quartet At Jazz Sous Les Pommiers - Coutances 2013 ........376 Julia & Romeo......................................................................................... 084 Julian Bream At The BBC........................................................................ 066 Khatia Buniatishvili Plays Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 2........................ 235 Khatia Buniatishvili. Mind In The Wilderness....................................... 085 Kings Of The World................................................................................. 258 Körperlust – Deborah Colker & Der Tanz Am Zuckerhut.................... 026 Kraftwerk................................................................................................... 187 Krzysztof Penderecki – An 80th Birthday Gala Concert....................... 008 Krzysztof Penderecki's 80th Birthday Gala Concert............................. 465 Kurt Elling And Laurence Hobgood In Slovenia.................................... 352 Kurtág – Games And Transcriptions..................................................... 236 L.U.C. & Motion Trio.............................................................................. 466 La Bayadère............................................................................................. 078 La Bohème – Riccardo Chailly – Palau De Les Arts, Valencia.............. 009 La Bohème................................................................................................ 137 La Bohème ...............................................................................................328 La Cambiale Di Matrimonio................................................................... 300 La Clemenza Di Tito............................................................................... 442 La Donna Del Lago.................................................................................. 138 La Fanciulla Del West............................................................................. 293 La Fanciulla Del West.............................................................................. 393 La Gioconda............................................................................................. 163 La Gioconda............................................................................................. 285 La Nuit De Walpurgis – Tricentenary Of The French School Of Dance......... 286 La Sonnambula........................................................................................ 425 La Straniera.............................................................................................. 301 La Traviata............................................................................................... 394

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La Traviata................................................................................................ 395 Lang Lang At The Royal Albert Hall....................................................... 086 Lars Vogt Plays Grieg's Piano Concerto................................................ 010 Laurent Petitgirard Conducts The Moscow State Symphony Orchestra......... 213 Le Corsaire................................................................................................ 316 Leonard Slatkin – Works For Organ and Orchestra.............................. 237 Leonidas Kavakos Plays Sibelius With Orchestre De Paris.................. 040 Les Adieux............................................................................................... 396 Les Enfants Terribles............................................................................... 397 Liedestoll – Concert In Frankenthal........................................................ 252 Liedestoll – Mad About Music................................................................ 253 Lionel Bringuier, Renaud Capuçon And The Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra................................................................................................. 041 Live at YLE M1-Studio: Verneri Pohjola Quartet................................... 449 London Symphony Orchestra – Brahms & Szymanowski – 18 December 2012.......................................................................................................... 196 London Symphony Orchestra – Brahms & Szymanowski – 19 December 2012.......................................................................................................... 194 London Symphony Orchestra – Brahms & Szymanowski – 30 March 2013........................................................................................................... 195 London Symphony Orchestra – Mendelssohn & Schumann............... 197 London Symphony Orchestra – Romeo & Juliet By Hector Berlioz.... 199 London Symphony Orchestra – Waverley Overture, Summer Nights & Fantastic Symphony By Hector Berlioz.................................................. 198 Louis Langrée Conducts Brahms, Mendelssohn And Franck............... 238 Lucia Di Lammermoor........................................................................... 302 Madame Butterfly................................................................................... 329 Mahler – Symphony No. 8..................................................................... 426 Mahler Chamber Orchestra................................................................... 443 Manon Lescaut....................................................................................... 398 Maria Stuarda.......................................................................................... 089 Mariinsky II Opening Gala (excerpts).................................................... 042 Mariinsky II Opening Gala..................................................................... 399 Mariss Jansons Conducts Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4............ 090 Mariss Jansons Conducts Beethoven's Symphonies........................... 091 Mariss Jansons Conducts Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique.............. 092 Mariss Jansons Conducts Verdi's Messa Da Requiem........................ 093 Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love............................................. 409 Matsuev Performs Rachmaninov – Sergei Rachmaninov's 140th Anniversary............................................. 208 Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty........................................................ 191 Maurizio Pollini At Salle Pleyel................................................................ 183 Menahem Pressler – A 90th Birthday Celebration With The Ebène Quartet......... 239 Midori & Lorin Maazel/Münchner Philharmoniker – Hindemith: Mathis Der Maler & Brahms: Violin Concerto................. 427 Midsummer Night's Tango..................................................................... 173 Mikko Franck – An Evening With Maurice Ravel.................................. 240 Minds Apart – Richard Strauss And Kurt Weill...................................... 254 Mission Incognito: Rolando Villazón.................................................... 027 Monty Alexander – The Full Monty At St Emilion Jazz Festival 2013... 218 Mozart – The Last Three Symphonies – Berliner Philharmoniker, Simon Rattle................................................... 011 Murray Perahia Piano Recital 2013 In Tokyo......................................... 264

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The Conductor Riccardo Chailly.................. 028 Music In The Time Of The Great War.................................................... 013 Music Of The Underground Railroad..................................................... 333 Musica Antiqua Anno 2014.................................................................... 340 Nabucco................................................................................................... 139 Nancy Jazz Pulsations: Avishai Cohen.................................................. 043 New National Theatre Tokyo – Così Fan Tutte..................................... 265 Nigel Kennedy & Richard Galliano At St Prex Classics Festival 2013... 221 Nights In Old Ljubljana Town . ............................................................... 353 Nikolai Lugansky Plays Rachmaninov................................................... 444 Nils Landgren Funk Unit At Alfa Jazz Fest............................................. 241 NTR Podium Oskar Back Violin Competition........................................ 341 Nuovi Maestri......................................................................................... 342 Operatic Arias – Soprano Bernarda Bobro............................................ 354 Orchestra Of The Age Of Enlightenment – The Valetta International Baroque Festival ............................................214 Orfeo Ed Euridice.................................................................................... 094 Orlando..................................................................................................... 303 Otello........................................................................................................ 330 Otello....................................................................................................... 428 Paavo Järvi Conducts Russian Masterpieces........................................ 242 Pagliacci................................................................................................... 306 Pagliacci................................................................................................... 400 Paris Opéra Comique: The Birth Of An Academy................................. 044 Parsifal..................................................................................................... 095 Parsifal..................................................................................................... 429 Paths Through The Labyrinth – The Composer Krzysztof Penderecki............ 111 Patricia Kaas Plays Baloise Session........................................................ 112 Paul Tortelier At The BBC....................................................................... 067 Pavarotti – A Voice For The Ages............................................................ 113 Péchés De Jeunesse – Tricentenary Of The French School Of Dance ............287 Pedal Piano............................................................................................... 355 Pelléas Et Mélisande............................................................................... 430 Peter Grimes............................................................................................ 317 Peter Grimes On Aldeburgh Beach........................................................ 055 Placebo Live In Paris 2013...................................................................... 045 Places Of Childhood............................................................................... 294 Plácido Domingo As Nabucco – Verdi At NCPA Beijing..................... 014 Plácido Domingo Live At Loreley............................................................ 114 Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone: The Search For Leon Redbone.................................................................................................... 336 Polina Semionova................................................................................... 029 Poppea // Poppea In 3D.......................................................................... 150 Poulenc: Dialogues Des Carmélites...................................................... 243 Prazsky Vyber........................................................................................... 129 Prince Igor............................................................................................... 079 Private I's.................................................................................................. 363 Quartet!................................................................................................... 384 Queen Sonja International Music Competition.................................... 272 Randy Crawford And Joe Sample Play Baloise Session.......................... 115 Rautavaara's All-Night Vigil.................................................................... 450 Reach Beyond Yourself In Song! – The Musical Initiative Superar..... 366

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Red Ribbon Celebration Concert............................................................. 431 Reinbert de Leeuw Portrait...................................................................... 343 Rejoice! With Itzhak Perlman And Cantor Meir Helfgot (WT)............. 410 Renaud Capuçon, Nicholas Angelich, Edgar Moreau & Modigliani Quatuor – La Grange De Meslay 49th Festival – Fêtes Musicales En Touraine.................................................................................................... 212 Renée Fleming – Vienna At The Turn Of The 20th Century................. 116 Richard Strauss And His Heroines.......................................................... 151 Richard Wagner – The World Of The Ring............................................ 461 Rigoletto.................................................................................................. 096 Rigoletto.................................................................................................. 140 Rigoletto................................................................................................... 171 Rigoletto.................................................................................................. 307 Rite Of Spring........................................................................................... 273 Rocio Molina Presents Danzaora.......................................................... 046 Rock En Seine: Paul Kalkbrenner........................................................... 047 Roland Petit: The Entertainer.................................................................. 318 Romeo And Juliet.................................................................................... 401 Rossini Opera Festival Pesaro: L'Italiana In Algeri................................ 117 Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle......................................................... 048 Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra – Christmas Matinee / Kerstmatinee....................................................... 432 RSO Live At Helsinki Music Centre: Verdi's Requiem........................... 451 Rumba Para Bebo At Barcelona Jazz Festival 2013................................ 219 Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto Gig..................................................... 266 Salute To Girls In Music......................................................................... 274 Salzburg Festival 2013: Così Fan Tutte................................................... 118 Salzburg's New Jedermann – Behind The Scenes Of The New Production.......................................... 367 Sammy Davis Jr. – Live In Germany....................................................... 119 San Francisco Opera: Lucrezia Borgia................................................... 152 San Francisco Opera: Moby-Dick........................................................... 153 San Francisco Opera: Porgy And Bess................................................... 154 Seized By Santtu-Matias Rouvali............................................................ 452 Shalyapin Gala......................................................................................... 402 Shani Diluka With Quatuor Ébène And Valentin Erben........................ 377 Short Films Of Jean Sibelius................................................................... 453 Shostakovich Cycle: Cello Concerto No. 2............................................ 403 Sigur Rós At Paléo Festival 2013............................................................. 378 Simon Boccanegra................................................................................... 331 Simon Rattle Conducts The Venezuelan Children's Orchestra – Salzburg Festival..................................................................................... 368 Sinfonietta, Gautier Capuçon & Young Talents 2012 At St Prex Classics Festival 2013............................................................................................. 211 Singing Cowboys..................................................................................... 462 Sol Gabetta & Hélène Grimaud In Concert: Works By Schumann, Brahms, Debussy, Shostakovich............................................................. 433 Soulpower................................................................................................ 120 Sounds Of The Sidewalk – Felix Meyer And Band................................. 015 Sounds Of The Sidewalk – Klaus The Violinist ..................................... 016 Sounds Of The Sidewalk – Light In Babylon.......................................... 017 Sounds Of The Sidewalk – The Musicians Of The Paris Metro.......... 018 Soundtrack To A Changing World: The Story Of Music In Britain In The

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18th Century (WT)................................................................................... 068 Sous L'Empire D'Amour........................................................................ 349 Special Concert In Tribute To Domenico Bartolucci............................ 308 Stars Of Tomorrow: Rolando Villazón Presents Young Musicians..... 030 Steve Coleman & Five Elements At Cully Jazz Festival 2013................ 224 Steve Martin And Edie Brickell: Love Has Come For You In Concert (WT)..... 411 Sting: The Last Ship (WT)....................................................................... 412 Stradella................................................................................................... 404 Streaming For The People....................................................................... 385 Summer Gala Concert – Grafenegg 2013.............................................. 295 Sunday In The Park With George........................................................... 405 Swan Lake................................................................................................. 141 Swinging With Sinatra – Jarek Wist & Krzysztof Herdzin Big Band.... 467 Szymanowski Stabat Mater.................................................................... 249 Tamara Rojo's Swan Lake (WT)............................................................. 069 Tero Saarinen Company: Hunt.............................................................. 454 The Abduction From The Seraglio – Die Entführung Aus Dem Serail ...........164 The Abduction From The Seraglio – From Salzburg's Hangar-7........ 369 The Art Of Sasha Waltz.......................................................................... 056 The Beautiful Blue Danube – Story Of A Waltz.................................... 049 The Beethoven Files................................................................................. 174 The Best Of Hurricane 2013.................................................................... 121 The Best Of Wacken Open Air 2013....................................................... 122 The Book Of Tears.................................................................................. 267 The Charitable St Nicholas' Concert....................................................... 356 The Concert Of Paris............................................................................... 165 The Cunning Little Vixen......................................................................... 319 The Curse Of Competition...................................................................... 337 The Dead City – Die Tote Stadt.............................................................. 320 The Deadly Sins....................................................................................... 386 The Dream Of A Thing............................................................................ 332 The Highest Level................................................................................... 087 The Jews Who Stole Christmas............................................................... 338 The Leander Files..................................................................................... 175 The Legend Of Swan Lake...................................................................... 050 The Legend Of The Invisible City Of Kitezh And The Maiden Fevroniya......... 321 The Magic Flute – Die Zauberflöte......................................................... 155 The Magic Flute – Die Zauberflöte......................................................... 184 The Magic Flute – Die Zauberflöte........................................................ 296 The Mahler Chamber Orchestra In Bruges............................................ 156 The Making Of A TV Opera – The Abduction From The Seraglio....... 370 The Making Of Tristan And Isolde......................................................... 445 The Merchant Of Venice......................................................................... 297 The Mystery Of Stradivarius................................................................... 268 The National Anthem.............................................................................. 275 The Nutcracker......................................................................................... 142 The Nutcracker........................................................................................ 406 The Odeonsplatz Concert – Wagner & Verdi........................................ 434 The Other Tchaikovsky........................................................................... 298 The Perfect American............................................................................... 031 The Perfect American............................................................................... 157 The Perfect American............................................................................... 185 The Piano Guys Live At Red Butte Garden............................................. 123

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The Puritans – I Puritani......................................................................... 288 The Quatuor Ardeo – With Reto Bieri, David Kadouch And Rosemary Standley................................................................................................... 262 The Rhine Gold By Richard Wagner....................................................... 192 The Rite Of Spring's Centenary............................................................... 051 The Sleeping Beauty............................................................................... 289 The Sleeping Beauty................................................................................ 357 The Tales Of Hoffmann By Jacques Offenbach .....................................193 The Tchaikovsky Files (WT).................................................................... 032 The Tsar's Bride...................................................................................... 080 The Wagner Files..................................................................................... 176 The Wagner Gala From Semperoper Dresden...................................... 435 The White Hands Choir – From Venezuela To Salzburg...................... 371 To Russia With Love – Human Rights Concert.................................... 380 Tokyo String Quartet – The Last Concert In Japan............................... 269 Tony Pappano's Golden Age Of Singing (WT)..................................... 070 Top Of The World – International Piano Competition In Tromsø...... 276 Touching The Sound............................................................................... 311 Toulouse Capitole National Orchestra – Marc Minkowski & Anne Sofie von Otter.............................................. 202 Toulouse Capitole National Orchestra – Tugan Sokhiev & Elisabeth Leonskaja................................................... 207 Toulouse Capitole National Orchestra – Tugan Sokhiev & Nicholas Angelich..................................................... 201 Toulouse Capitole National Orchestra – Tugan Sokhiev Conducts Beethoven's Triple Concerto....................... 205 Toulouse Capitole National Orchestra – Tugan Sokhiev Conducts Brahms And Dvorak..................................... 206 Toulouse Capitole National Orchestra – Tugan Sokhiev Conducts Mahler's Tragic Symphony......................... 203 Toulouse Capitole National Orchestra In Moscow – Tugan Sokhiev & Jean-Yves Thibaudet.................................................. 200 Toulouse Capitole National Orchestra In Moscow – Tugan Sokhiev & Renaud Capuçon....................................................... 204 Trisha Brown's For M.G. – The Movie.................................................. 244 Trisha Brown's Newark........................................................................... 245 Tugan Sokhiev Conducts Beethoven's Triple Concerto ....................... 052 Turandot................................................................................................... 143 Two Cellos – Live At Arena Zagreb......................................................... 124 Un Ballo In Maschera............................................................................. 097 Unveiling Salome.................................................................................... 260 Uri Caine & Friends At St Prex Classics Festival 2013.......................... 222 Valery Gergiev's Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique................................ 250 Vanessa Paradis: Private Concert........................................................... 053 Verbier Festival 2013................................................................................ 186 Verdi / Wagner......................................................................................... 358 Verdi Requiem At The Hollywood Bowl................................................ 088 Verdi's Requiem: A Meditation On Eternity........................................... 350 Vilde Frang............................................................................................... 277 Vincent Peirani With Michel Portal, Serena Fisseau, Michel Benita, Emile Parisien, François Salque And Michael Wollny..................................... 263 Viva Verdi – A Celebration Gala At NCPA Beijing................................ 019 Vivat Verdi! Silvestergala Aus Dem Festspielhaus Baden-Baden......... 033

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Adama Ulrich .......................................................................................... 381 Adamopoulos, Leonid ........................................................................... 440 Aguirre, Arantxa ..................................................................................... 209 Albery, Tim .............................................................................................. 055 Arai, Toshiyuki . ...................................................................................... 266 Atteln, Günter . ................................................................ 001, 015, 016, 017 Baer, Martin ............................................................................................380 Bärlocher, Roli ............................................................ 101, 105, 110, 112, 115 Bataillon, Vincent ....................................................................................078 Batthyany, Béla . ...................................................................................... 361 Bayer, Michael . .......................................................................................465 Berger, Christian .....................................................................................087 Bernstein, Dori ....................................................................................... 409 Best, Dominic ........................................................................................ 069 Bettges, Christian . ..................................................................................120 Betz, Martin . ...........................................................................................436 Beyer, Michael ...............008, 009, 011, 019, 020, 088, 093, 422, 434, 435 Béziat, Philippe .......................................................................................282 Bhose, Indra........................................................................................... 062 Bijlsma, Carine........................................................................................ 343 Birraux, Jean Marc.................................................................... 225, 231, 233 Bleton, Benjamin.................................................................................... 039 Blondeel, Jan........................................................................................... 441 Blumenschein, Viviane............................................................................ 173 Bogensberger, Thomas......................................................................... 290 Böhler, Olaf ............................................................................................. 455 Böttcher, Ernestine................................................................................. 085 Breisach, Felix......................................................... 291, 293, 296, 297, 369 Bridger, Sam........................................................................................... 060 Buirski, Nancy........................................................................................ 407 Burlovic, Kristijan.................................................................................... 124 Busè, Norbert.......................................................................................... 023 Caillierez, Frederic.................................................................. 388, 400, 404 Caïozzi, Denis ................................................................................. 395, 405 Carmine, Patrizia...................................................................................... 317 Castanier, Fabrice................................................................................... 227 Castiglione, Enrico.................................................................. 305, 306, 307 Chahin, Adeline....................................................................................... 377 Chala, Samia............................................................................................ 259 Charles, Mark.......................................................................................... 298 Charters, Jason.................................................................. 335, 336, 337, 338 Chlumsky, Jiri.......................................................................................... 129 Cloetens, Johan....................................................................... 156, 443, 444 Condemine, Julien........................................................... 210, 211, 221, 222 Conders, Erik........................................................................................... 272 Conrad, Beatrix................................................................................ 027, 106 D'Agostino, Pietro.................................................................................... 313 Darvas, János................................................................................... 157, 185 De Bruyn, Guido..................................................................................... 445 De Tienda, Luc........................................................................................ 391 Delesques, Frédéric................................................................................ 392 Diamond, Matthew................................................................................ 096 Dobmeier, Simone................................................................................... 175

Dolezal, Rudi ........................................................................................... 365 Domanig, Stephanu..............................................................................s 459 Duval, A. D.............................................................................................. 396 Duval, Geoffroy................................................................. 210, 211, 221, 222 Eaton, Cesca............................................................................................ 188 Ehrhardt, Bettina..................................................................................... 186 Engel, Christoph...................................................................................... 457 Erikstad, Arild.......................................................................................... 277 Feudel, Ute............................................................ 004, 005, 007, 014, 418 Fibich, Karina ......................................................................................... 420 Fieberler, Carsten................................................................................... 029 Forster, Bernie......................................................................................... 361 Freer, Steve.............................................................................................. 063 Friederike Schlumbom............................................................................ 381 Gautschi, Jürg .........................................................................................360 Gebhardt, Ute......................................................................................... 294 Gerlach, Daniel........................................................................................ 436 Ghoetghebeur, François......................................................................... 160 Glas, Sebastien........ 177, 229, 230, 234, 239, 240, 241, 242, 243, 246, 247 Goberg, Anne Kjersti............................................................................... 274 Goetghebeur, François................................................................... 208, 213 Goldmann, Christoph............................................................................ 026 Grandits, Victor....................................................................... 104, 424, 433 Grassi, Roberto Maria..................................................................... 387, 398 Grimm, Thomas...................................................................... 084, 283, 319 Grube, Thomas...................................................................................... 024 Gummlich, Robert.................................................................................. 145 Haase, Laurent................................................................................. 375, 376 Hale, James............................................................................................. 063 Halvorson, Gary............................................................................. 089, 097 Haneke, Michael............................................................................. 035, 179 Häner, Beat............................................................................................. 360 Haschek, Heidelinde.............................................................................. 295 Havelka, Ondřej..................................................................................... 094 Heigl-Fegerl, Katharina........................................................................... 370 Heiskanen, Elina.................................................................... 446, 447, 452 Henigin, Hanna............................................................................... 424, 433 Herrmann, Steffen................................................................................. 020 Hirvensalo, Piia....................................................................................... 453 Hof, Frank................................................................................................ 022 Honselaar, Joost............................................................................ 099, 432 Horn, David.............................................................................................. 411 Hribernik, Jasna....................................................................................... 351 Hunter, Michael .......................................................................................123 Huw, Rhodri................................................................................... 063, 064 Ishida, Yoko..................................................................................... 264, 417 Iwata, Sanshiro........................................................................................ 267 Jäger, Dagmar......................................................................................... 379 Jäger, Kerstin........................................................................................... 379 Janelle, Mario.......................................................................................... 257 Joutsi, Laura............................................................................................ 448 Juban, Pierre-Martin................................................................................ 177 Kaisik, Hanne.......................................................................................... 427

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Kamppila, Hannu............................................................................ 448, 451 Karpe, Leif............................................................................................... 026 Kasten, Henning.................... 002, 003, 010, 148, 149, 158, 299, 368, 414 Kelder, Jan................................................................................................ 341 Kent, Don................................................................................ 042, 399, 403 Kidel, Mark.............................................................................................. 036 King-Dabbs, Andy................................................................................... 059 Knoles, Leon............................................................................................ 109 Kowalewski, Józef.................................................................................... 467 Kraack, Nicole......................................................................................... 103 Kramer, Brigitte....................................................................................... 056 Krill, Herbert........................................................................................... 462 Kucej, Marjan.......................................................................................... 356 Kugler, Christian...................................................................................... 436 Kuijs, Dick................................................................................................ 100 Laine, Rémi............................................................................................. 044 Large, Brian............................................................................. 116, 416, 429 Lebard, Stéphane.................................................................................... 228 Leblé, Christian............................................................................... 041, 186 Leclere, Thierry........................................................................................ 259 Leconte, Corentin........................................................... 076, 079, 186, 262 Lefèvre, Sebastien................................................................................... 263 Levillain, Fabrice............................................................................. 394, 397 Lidbo, Håkan........................................................................................... 385 Ligęzowski, Krzysztof............................................................................. 466 Lochmus, Scott...................................................................................... 408 Loisil, Jean Pierre........... 214, 178, 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207 Lundberg, Camilla................................................................................... 384 MacGibbon, Ross.................................................................... 189, 190, 191 Macho, Thomas...................................................................................... 436 Malzer, Elisabeth............................................................................. 030, 107 Mancini, Tiziano............................................... 108, 117, 118, 421, 428, 437 Mariani, Lorenzo..................................................................................... 393 Martin, François René............................................................. 192, 212, 238 Massip, Vincent............................................................. 278, 389, 390, 402 Maycock, James...................................................................................... 061 Menart, Urša............................................................................................. 353 Meško, Primož.................................................................................. 354, 354 Metge, Stephane..................................................................................... 037 Méth, Agnes............................................................................................ 292 Michaud, Eric.................................... 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 223, 224 Minini, Roberto....................................................................................... 345 Miyazaki, Shoichiro........................................................................ 266, 268 Monsaingeon, Bruno............................................................... 147, 180, 182 Morell, Andreas................................................................ 013, 415, 426, 458 Moritz, Reiner E................................................................................ 315, 318 Motyl, Tomasz....................................................................................... 464 Narboni, Louise....................................................................... 048, 181, 193 Nordberg, Linn A.................................................................................... 271 Normand, Bertrand................................................................................. 312 Ntivyihabwa, Jean-Alexander.................................................................. 120 Nupen, Christopher........................................................................ 021, 025 Offen, Sven....................................................................................... 121, 122

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Mink........................................................................................... 339 Pippig, Pepe............................................................................................ 436 Pizzato, Priscilla...................................................................................... 034 Pleger, Ralf . ............................................................................. 032, 174, 176 Plötzeneder, Carl..................................................................................... 083 Podogil, Michael..................................................................................... 304 Rabinger, Peter........................................................................................ 431 Radulescu, Alexander............................................................................. 082 Raja, Emile................................................................................................ 183 Rebois, Marie-Hélène..................................................................... 244, 245 Reitze, Matthias...................................................................................... 120 Rezek, Adam............................................................................................ 126 Riahi, Arash and Arman T...................................................................... 366 Richardt, Marcus............................................................................. 425, 430 Riolon, Luc....................................................................................... 046, 316 Robbiani, Vito.......................................................................................... 347 Romalis, Liam................................................................... 335, 336, 337, 338 Rosen, Peter............................................................................................. 311 Rossacher, Hannes................................................................. 035, 179, 419 Roussillon, François...................... 038, 279, 280, 281, 286, 287, 288, 289 Saito, Naoko . ..........................................................................................268 Salfati, Pierre-Henry............................................................................... 049 Schäfer, Stefanie...................................................................................... 120 Schmidt-Garre, Jan.................................................................................. 309 Schmidt, Anna.................................................................................. 111, 436 Schmutte, Hedwig.................................................................................. 174 Schönhofer, Peter.................................................................................... 456 Schulz, Eric.............................................................................................. 461 Seeber, Michael....................................................................................... 366 Seiler, Barbara......................................................................................... 360 Servaes, Jacques...................................................................................... 438 Shida, Yoshinori...................................................................................... 265 Shkedy, Oren................................................................................... 362, 363 Simonnet, Olivier.............. 040, 051, 155, 184, 194, 195, 196, 198, 199, 401 Siniketo, Tiina......................................................................... 449, 450, 454 Smaczny, Paul......................................................................................... 012 Sneguirev, Denis..................................................................................... 081 Soma, Kazuhiro...................................................................................... 269 Sommer, Andy............................................... 054, 073, 074, 075, 080, 284 Soulard, Isabelle............................................................... 177, 232, 236, 237 Spiro, Anais 186............................................................................................. Spiro, Olivier........................................................................................... 235 Stodtmeier, Maria.................................................................................. 006 Striegnitz, Torsten.................................................................................... 175

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uligoj, Jaka............................................................................................... 352 Tagliabue, Carlo...................................................................................... 308 Theiner, Silke........................................................................................... 367 Thiebaut, Samuel.................................................................................... 162 Thiel, Dominique.................................................................................... 285 Tonooka, Hisao....................................................................................... 091 Toulemonde, Benoit............................................................................... 053 Tsarkova, Natalia.................................................................................... 258 Tudor, Jeff................................................................................................ 314 Turnheim, André..................................................................................... 423 Urban, Radovan...................................................................................... 128 Van Eyck, Jaap................................................................................. 340, 342 Van Someren, Tim................................................................................. 062 Vanduren, Willy....................................................................................... 442 Varga, Andreea....................................................................................... 460 Vechty, H.C....................................................................................... 121, 122 Vegheim, Torstein................................................................................... 271 Vérité, Stéphane..................................................................................... 406 Vermeiren, Misjel..................................................................................... 321 Vervoort, Etienne.................................................................................... 439 Vialkowitsch, Nikolai............................................................................... 150 Vidmar, Vojko........................................................................................... 357 Villeneuve, Thierry.................................................... 045, 261, 373, 374, 378 Von Steinaecker, Thomas........................................................................ 151 Walker, John............................................................................................. 113 Wallner, Thomas..................................................................................... 172 Weicker, Volker................................................................................ 455, 463 Weinstein, Larry...................................................................................... 334 Weiß, Christian Kurt........................................................ 086, 364, 371, 413 Wende, Michael..................................................................................... 460 Whalley, Ben............................................................................................ 065 Williams, Margaret................................................................................. 055 Willis Sweete, Barbara.................................................................... 095, 125 Wischmann, Claus.......................................................................... 027, 381 Wit, Brenda.............................................................................................. 344 Woodward, Matthew.................................................................... 090, 092 Wu, Paul.................................................................................................. 071 Zamacona, Frank...................................................................... 152, 153, 154 Zupe, Igor................................................................................................ 358

Acosta, Carlos........................................................................................... 133 Ballet Boyz................................................................................................ 464 Bart, Jean-Guillaume . .............................................................................. 287 Béjart, Maurice . .......................................................................................209 Belarbi, Kader ............................................................................................316 Bessy, Claude ........................................................................................... 286 Brandstrupp, Kim .................................................................................... 190 Brown, Trisha ................................................................................... 244, 245 Burge, Lucy . ..............................................................................................136 Carsen, Robert ......................................................................................... 394 Ek, Mats . ..................................................................................................084 Fabricius, Signe . .......................................................................................134 Flind, Matt ................................................................................................062 Francesc, Abós ......................................................................................... 456 Gallotta, Jean-Claude ................................................................................233 Garnier, Jacques . ..................................................................................... 279 Giraudeau, Philippe ................................................................................. 394 Iancu, Gheorghe .......................................................................................285 Izzo, Daniel .............................................................................................. 390 Jude, Charles .............................................................................................391 Kalaria, Honey ..........................................................................................062 Kelemenis, Michel ................................................................................... 228 Lacotte, Pierre .......................................................................................... 280 Lancu, Gheorghe . .....................................................................................163 Lanza, Sarah ............................................................................................. 307 Lao, Eduardo ............................................................................................ 146 Lavrosky, Leonid ...................................................................................... 401 Lily, Liu . .................................................................................................... 014 Lovodice, Leda ......................................................................................... 019 Marcadé, Caroline . ................................................................................... 181 Massin, Béatrice .......................................................................................159 Massin, Béatrice .......................................................................................281 Molina, Rocio ...........................................................................................046 Momboye, George .................................................................................... 231 Mukhamedov, Irek . .................................................................................. 357 Neumeier, John . .......................................................................................283 Nijinski, Vaslav . ........................................................................................051 Nureyev, Rudolf................................................................................ 289, 324 Paul, Nicolas .............................................................................................281 Pech, Lawrence ......................................................................................... 152 Petipa, Marius ............................................................................078, 141, 357 Platel, Alain . ..............................................................................................458 Randi, Lorena ........................................................................................... 405 Ratmansky, Alexei .................................................................................... 389 Ruttenberg, Dana . ............................................................................362, 363 Saarinen, Tero .......................................................................................... 454 Sayers, Denni ............................................................................................ 154 Schröder, Mario ........................................................................................144 Spuck, Christian ........................................................................................150 St-Pierre, Dave ..........................................................................................257 Statts, Léo . ............................................................................................... 286 Stevenson, Ben ........................................................................................406 Stickann, Keturah ...................................................................................... 153 Waltz, Sasha ......................................................................................051, 056 Wheeldon, Christopher 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