C Major
In the big hall of Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, where once Vladimir Horowitz gave his legendary concert, 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra celebrate their Russian premiere in a concert crowning the ensemble's 36-year history. They belong to the top orchestra of its class and are respected worldwide, and here they present a great program from Angel Dances and Dance Around the World as a part of the first international cello festival in Moscow, an event dedicated to the big "Slava," the cellist Mstislav Rostropovich.
In 1992, Jazz at Lincoln Center and New York City Ballet commissioned the famous jazz musician Wynton Marsalis to compose music for a new ballet by choreographer Peter Martins, Ballet Master in Chief of the NYCB. The film shows the preparation and the perfomance of the ballet.
Appalachian Journey Live in Concert captures three of the world's most extraordinary musicians and some very special guests at their sold out performance at New York City's Avery Fisher Hall. The unique and compelling trio of cellist Yo-Yo Ma, violinist Mark O'Connor and bassist Edgar Meyer reaches a whole new level of artistic and technical prowess as they weave their way through a wide variety of musical genres.
Each year, the traditional Festive Opera Gala combines real musical delight and the joy of charity. The gala, which is organised for the benefit of the German AIDS Foundation, has for years been one of the social highlights on the German agenda. In the years 2005 and 2006 conductor Lawrence Foster was the responsible leader of the choir and the orchestra of the German Opera Berlin.
Each year, the traditional Festive Opera Gala combines real musical delight and the joy of charity. The gala, which is organised for the benefit of the German AIDS Foundation, has for years been one of the social highlights on the German agenda. In the years 2005 and 2006 conductor Lawrence Foster was the responsible leader of the choir and the orchestra of the German Opera Berlin.
Daniel Barenboim is the soloist in this production of Brahm's Piano Concerto No. 1. Mariss Jansons conducts the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
In December 1989, the artists came together to record some of the early chamber works of Brahms. Part I of each volume focuses on the preparation, rehearsal and re-takes, while Part II captures the final record performance. Emanuel Ax, Isaac Stern, Cho-Liang Lin, Jaime Laredo, Michael Tree, Yo-Yo Ma, Sharon Robinson.
"In my opinion, comrades, we really should end the monotony of this Yeah, Yeah, Yeah or whatever they call it" (SED General Secretary Walter Ulbricht about pop music).
As classical music was considered politically harmless in the former GDR, its education was highly encouraged. The regime quickly discovered its great potential for generating valuable cultural exchange — as well as much needed hard currency.
Classical music "made in the GDR" became an export hit for the regime, thanks to, for example, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and renowned artists like Kurt Masur, Peter Schreier, Franz Konwitschny, Kurt Sanderling and Theo Adam.
Through case studies of individuals who lived under the system, "Classical Music & Cold War" explores the fates of both the privileged and the non-privileged, and delivers insight into the influence of the political system on artistic life. The film includes interviews with contemporary witnesses both from GDR and the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG).
As classical music was considered politically harmless in the former GDR, its education was highly encouraged. The regime quickly discovered its great potential for generating valuable cultural exchange — as well as much needed hard currency.
Classical music "made in the GDR" became an export hit for the regime, thanks to, for example, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and renowned artists like Kurt Masur, Peter Schreier, Franz Konwitschny, Kurt Sanderling and Theo Adam.
Through case studies of individuals who lived under the system, "Classical Music & Cold War" explores the fates of both the privileged and the non-privileged, and delivers insight into the influence of the political system on artistic life. The film includes interviews with contemporary witnesses both from GDR and the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG).
Truls Mřrk was the first Scandinavian ever to win the Moscow Tchaikovsky competition, a triumph that marked the start of his musical career. He enjoys a close friendship with the principal conductor of the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Jonathan Nott. He played the Cello Concerto in B minor by Anton Dvořák with the entire orchestra at the conclusion of his time as "artist in residence."
"Extraordinary pieces of music transport me to another state of consciousness. I don't know if I can describe it any better. At least that is how playing the Dvořák cello concerto makes me feel."
The film visits Truls Mřrk at his Scandinavian holiday home, accompanying him on his boat out at sea and on walks along the coast. The Cello Concerto by Anton Dvořák with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra and the Chopin interpretations are focal points of the story.
"Extraordinary pieces of music transport me to another state of consciousness. I don't know if I can describe it any better. At least that is how playing the Dvořák cello concerto makes me feel."
The film visits Truls Mřrk at his Scandinavian holiday home, accompanying him on his boat out at sea and on walks along the coast. The Cello Concerto by Anton Dvořák with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra and the Chopin interpretations are focal points of the story.
The young French countertenor Philippe Jaroussky is one of the most exceptional artists of our time. He is highly acclaimed by critics all over the world for his virtuoso coloratura technique, as well as for his compelling and lively interpretations of baroque cantatas and operas. Together with the Concerto Köln he embarks on a journey into the world of an almost forgotten composer. Antonio Caldara (1670-1736) was on one of the most renowned opera composers of his time. Philippe Jaroussky and the ensemble transfer selected arias of the composer into the 21st century. The film accompanies the musicians to rehearsals and to the concert at the Prinzregententheater in Munich.
Concert on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Bernard Haitink's collaboration with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
The Cape Festival celebrated the joy and energy of South Africa's choral talent in a special event on 13 March 2010, the Cape Festival Choral Celebration. It took place at Cape Town's famous waterfront, and six choirs, nine instrumentalists, and five conductors joined forces for this unique event.
The Cape Festival Choral Celebration brings together the best of South Africa's youth and community choirs with the acclaimed Chamber Choir of South Africa, award-winning violinist Samson Diamond and his Mzansi Classical Players, and star soprano Angela Kerrison, who was a part of the Salzburg Festival's prestigious Young Singers project in 2009, for an evening of unique music-making.
The artists of the Cape Festival Choral Celebration represent all sections of South African society, from the student world of Cape Town's university through the vibrant world of the Cape Flats "coloured" communities to the tin shacks of Guguletu's informal settlements. These are courageous, optimistic voices, many of whom have triumphed over individual hardship to serve as part of a greater collective. They sing with a dynamism and discipline that has to be heard to be believed.
The Cape Festival Choral Celebration brings together the best of South Africa's youth and community choirs with the acclaimed Chamber Choir of South Africa, award-winning violinist Samson Diamond and his Mzansi Classical Players, and star soprano Angela Kerrison, who was a part of the Salzburg Festival's prestigious Young Singers project in 2009, for an evening of unique music-making.
The artists of the Cape Festival Choral Celebration represent all sections of South African society, from the student world of Cape Town's university through the vibrant world of the Cape Flats "coloured" communities to the tin shacks of Guguletu's informal settlements. These are courageous, optimistic voices, many of whom have triumphed over individual hardship to serve as part of a greater collective. They sing with a dynamism and discipline that has to be heard to be believed.
On occation of his 80th birthday, legendary conductor Bernard Haitink leads "his" Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in this great production of Beethoven's 7th Symphony .
The world is going to see increasingly less of legendary conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt, who celebrates his 80th birthday in December 2009. So the time is right for a comprehensive portrait of one the most important conductors of our time.
Harnoncourt - the captivator. One immediately comes under the spell of his admirable intensity, his humorous comparisons, his wit and his brilliant rhetoric. It's nearly impossible not to succumb to his fascinating congeniality. Even his critics are captivated!
The film also draws parallels between Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Joseph
Haydn, who in their popularity and diversity are both unique. Besides great concerts in Eisenstadt and Esterháza, Harnoncourt conducts Haydn's famous opera Il mondo della Luna at the stunning Theater an der Wien. In his inimitable way Harnoncourt presents his own picture of Haydn, which is different from anything we have known before.
Harnoncourt - the captivator. One immediately comes under the spell of his admirable intensity, his humorous comparisons, his wit and his brilliant rhetoric. It's nearly impossible not to succumb to his fascinating congeniality. Even his critics are captivated!
The film also draws parallels between Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Joseph
Haydn, who in their popularity and diversity are both unique. Besides great concerts in Eisenstadt and Esterháza, Harnoncourt conducts Haydn's famous opera Il mondo della Luna at the stunning Theater an der Wien. In his inimitable way Harnoncourt presents his own picture of Haydn, which is different from anything we have known before.
Haydn's lifetime saw a series of striking changes in musical style. At the time of his birth and childhood baroque traditions still prevailed. By the end of his life the apparent stability of the classical style was being challenged, notably by Beethoven. Haydn did not simply live through this long development; he was a central part of it. Nele Münchmeyer's documentary throws light upon Haydn as the ingenious composer and as the private person – the "Libertine" in his private life and the "Servant" as the Kapellmeister of Esterházys'.
The film includes excerpts from highly acclaimed performances of Haydn works. Amongst them are: the opera, Armida with the German Soprano Annette Dasch, Arias from Haydn performed by the Freiburger Barockorchester and the Baritone Thomas Quasthoff, performances of Die Schöpfung and Die Jahreszeiten conducted by Roger Norrington.
The film includes excerpts from highly acclaimed performances of Haydn works. Amongst them are: the opera, Armida with the German Soprano Annette Dasch, Arias from Haydn performed by the Freiburger Barockorchester and the Baritone Thomas Quasthoff, performances of Die Schöpfung and Die Jahreszeiten conducted by Roger Norrington.
Mariss Jansons and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra with Arthur Honegger's Third Symphony, "Liturgique" from the main hall of the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
Recorded and broadcast in May 1982, Horowitz's technique was beginning to decline, though he retained all the fire of his playing.
A recording of Horowitz's historic recital in Moscow, the program also includes highlights of his return to his native Soviet Union - his first visit in 61 years.
After a few years rest and some at-home unofficial rehabilitation Horowitz was ready to begin performing again. Horowitz recorded the material on this production in his own living room. We see a rejuvinated, different Horowitz, someone in much more control than in the 1982 and 1983 recitals. The only thing lacking in Horowitz's performance from this point on was preparation, Horowitz admittedly did not practice very much and it shows.
This film is both a memoir of the Berliner Philharmoniker director Claudio Abbado's early years, and a personal introduction to the orchestra. It culminates in a deeply felt introduction to the sections of the orchestra with Abbado leading the Youth Orchestra of a United Europe.
Daniel Harding, one of the most sought-after young conductors of our time, and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra performing Janáček's Lachian Dances, which originally were titled Wallachian Dances after the Moravian Wallachia region. The composition reflects folk songs from that specific area of Janáček's home country.
Herbert von Karajan was the only major orchestral conductor to create film and later on video productions on his own responsibility. "I am actually born too early", he said, well aware that video's possibilities were still in their infancy. Georg Wubbolt did interviews with Karajan's team: his Director of photography, his cutter, his secretary, his producer and musicians of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. This documentary includes outstanding performance material from the Unitel and Telemondial library, as well as unreleased digitally remastered excerpts from the legendary RBB (SFB) and ORF archive. We see Karajan talking about this subject in talk shows and TV-magazines. It underlines Karajan's appearance as a real Maestro for the Screen from a side, which is unknown to most people, introduced by his closest collaborators.
The film is constructed chronolgoically. It starts with the very first concert productions in 1957 at NHK in Japan, followed by the impressive cooperation with director Henri-Georges Clouzot in 1965 and ends with Karajan's own film company Telemondial. The Silvesterkonzert 1988. at the Philharmonie in Berlin marks the end of the great era, long before Music Video entered the entertainment industry.
The film is constructed chronolgoically. It starts with the very first concert productions in 1957 at NHK in Japan, followed by the impressive cooperation with director Henri-Georges Clouzot in 1965 and ends with Karajan's own film company Telemondial. The Silvesterkonzert 1988. at the Philharmonie in Berlin marks the end of the great era, long before Music Video entered the entertainment industry.
Two hundred orchestral musicians are playing Orff's Carmina Burana in total darkness. A power cut has hit the Ngiri Ngiri district of Kinshasa, only a few bars before the last section of the work. Kinshasa's power stations and main networks are insufficient to supply electricity to all the 8 million inhabitants of what is Africa's third-largest city. Once again the lights have gone out in the "Salle des fętes", a kind of open garage where the orchestra practises. But for its members this is no reason to stop rehearsing. Most of them know their parts by heart. Small lapses of memory are compensated for by a talent for improvisation and the grace of God.
Carlos Kleiber, the eccentric and reclusive conductor was a fabled perfectionist who was known as much for the rarity of his appearances as for the brilliance of his interpretations. Georg Wübbolt's film sheds light on the relationships with his family, including his father and mother, traces the development of Kleiber's career and covers the "mythologizing" that started during the lifetime of the maestro.
Krzysztof Komeda – Jazz pianist and film composer. With compositions like the lullaby for Rosemary's Baby from Roman Polanski, Komeda succeeded in writing his own chapter in the history of soundtracks. As a Jazz musician he gained cult-status in Poland. As a film composer he made it into Hollywood's first ranks. But there his career came to a sudden end.
The film essay KOMEDA – A SOUNDTRACK FOR A LIFE is a reflection on Komeda's soundtracks, which changed the common film scores forever. It is a contemporary document about the attitude to life in a time of social, political and cultural change after war, about work and exodus of Polish artist in the 50s and 60s.
Directors who worked with Komeda and who are also friends will talk about him: Roman Polanski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Henning Carlsen and Andrzej Wajda. His wife, Zofia Komeda, and his sister, Irena Orlowska, remember him.
The film essay KOMEDA – A SOUNDTRACK FOR A LIFE is a reflection on Komeda's soundtracks, which changed the common film scores forever. It is a contemporary document about the attitude to life in a time of social, political and cultural change after war, about work and exodus of Polish artist in the 50s and 60s.
Directors who worked with Komeda and who are also friends will talk about him: Roman Polanski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Henning Carlsen and Andrzej Wajda. His wife, Zofia Komeda, and his sister, Irena Orlowska, remember him.
Star baritone Thomas Hampson is the soloist in this performance of Mahler's Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen . Joining him are famous conductor Mariss Jansons and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Also on the programme: Antonín Dvorák's Symphony No. 8.
After the two famous Mahler festivals in 1920 and 1995, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam is now presenting a special two-season Mahler series, which includes ten large-scale symphonies plus Das Lied von der Erde , performed in chronological order by the world's greatest orchestra under the direction of great conductors – all brought to life in the wonderful acoustics of the Main Hall of the Concertgebouw.
After the two famous Mahler festivals in 1920 and 1995, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam is now presenting a special two season Mahler series, which includes ten large-scale symphonies plus Das Lied von der Erde , performed in chronological order by the world's greatest orchestra under the direction of great conductors – all brought to life in the wonderful acoustics of the Main Hall of the Concertgebouw.
After the two famous Mahler festivals in 1920 and 1995, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam is now presenting a special two-season Mahler series, which includes ten large-scale symphonies plus Das Lied von der Erde , performed in chronological order by the world's greatest orchestra under the direction of great conductors – all brought to life in the wonderful acoustics of the Main Hall of the Concertgebouw.
After the two famous Mahler festivals in 1920 and 1995, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam is now presenting a special two-season Mahler series, which includes ten large-scale symphonies plus Das Lied von der Erde , performed in chronological order by the world's greatest orchestra under the direction of great conductors – all brought to life in the wonderful acoustics of the Main Hall of the Concertgebouw.
After the two famous Mahler festivals in 1920 and 1995, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam is now presenting a special two-season Mahler series, which includes ten large-scale symphonies plus Das Lied von der Erde , performed in chronological order by the world's greatest orchestra under the direction of great conductors – all brought to life in the wonderful acoustics of the Main Hall of the Concertgebouw.
After the two famous Mahler festivals in 1920 and 1995, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam is now presenting a special two-season Mahler series, which includes ten large-scale symphonies plus Das Lied von der Erde , performed in chronological order by the world's greatest orchestra under the direction of great conductors – all brought to life in the wonderful acoustics of the Main Hall of the Concertgebouw.
A series for young people of our time, it embraces classical music as well as jazz. After each performance, Marsalis illuminates the music in terms that everyone can understand, using language that is clear and simple, and infused with the colourful vernacular of Jazz. Musical performances include The Nutcracker , Prokofiev's Classical Symphony , Stars and Stripes Forever and more.
A series for young people of our time, it embraces classical music as well as jazz. After each performance, Marsalis illuminates the music in terms that everyone can understand, using language that is clear and simple, and infused with the colourful vernacular of Jazz. Musical performances include The Nutcracker , Prokofiev's Classical Symphony , Stars and Stripes Forever and more.
A series for young people of our time, it embraces classical music as well as jazz. After each performance, Marsalis illuminates the music in terms that everyone can understand, using language that is clear and simple, and infused with the colourful vernacular of Jazz. Musical performances include The Nutcracker , Prokofiev's Classical Symphony , Stars and Stripes Forever and more.
A series for young people of our time, it embraces classical music as well as jazz. After each performance, Marsalis illuminates the music in terms that everyone can understand, using language that is clear and simple, and infused with the colourful vernacular of Jazz. Musical performances include The Nutcracker , Prokofiev's Classical Symphony , Stars and Stripes Forever and more.
Kurt Masur, one of the world's greatest maestros, challenges and teaches the next generation of young musicians and conductors by stretching their limits and transforming their perspectives and abilities. Following master classes around the world over a period of few years, the film is a carefully constructed collage organically interviewing the maestro's teachings and his personal life experiences.
The result is a comprehensive emotional portrait of one of the most respected conductors of our time.
The result is a comprehensive emotional portrait of one of the most respected conductors of our time.
Legendary Canadian artist Joni Mitchell in collaboration with internationally acclaimed choreographer Jean Grand-Mâitre of the Alberta Ballet Company created The Fiddle and The Drum , a special ballet that speaks volumes of Joni Mitchell's life-long concerns about environmental neglect and the warring nature of mankind. It is a celebration of the profoundly humanistic questions and testimonies that are expressed so poetically by Joni Mitchell, a world-renowned poet.
Legendary pianist Vladimir Horowitz, conductor Carlo Maria Giulini and The Orchestra of La Scala perform Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major in a studio setting. The film also includes discussions, playback sessions and interviews.
Frans Brüggen and his Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century reinvent the classical masterpieces of Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven and other 18th-century composers by playing them on period instruments and interpreting the music as if it were written yesterday. After almost 30 years of traveling all around the globe they now, in their 99th world tour, play Mozart with the spirit, freshness and eagerness of their first concert. On the programme are Mozart's final three symphonies including No. 40, the first symphony ever played by Frans Brüggen and his band.
Music, Mon Amour delves into the secret of a grand passion – the love of music. What makes it irresistible? Why can't we live without music? In Music, Mon Amour we embark on a search for clues – together with the Israeli singer Yasmin Levy, the Japanese violinist Midori and the German composer Helmut Oehring. They reveal their deep love of music and talk of the joy and despair that go with it. Their accounts, intimate and affecting, and from widely differing perspectives, convey their existential and contradictory relationship to music.
Magic was created one starlit night in July 1990, when Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, and Jose Carreras met onstage at the Baths of Caracalla in Rome and became the Three Tenors . 800 million people attended this live event which caused the biggest hype ever in the history of classical music. They eschewed competitive instincts and cooperated in the spirit of mutual admiration to create one of the greatest musical events ever. This concert is an awe-inspiring orgy of greatest hits for the tenor voice.
This 1985 documentary focuses on conductor Seiji Ozawa and the behind-the-scenes world of the symphony orchestra. It communicates the intensity and passion that Ozawa brings to his work as conductor and teacher, and shows him in the context of his relationship with former masters, current students and family. It also explores the cultural tensions that caused him to leave Japan and begin a career in the West.
Kimmo Pohjonen is one of the cutting-edge accordion virtuosi and composers of our time. After having heard a record of Pohjonen's during their concert tour in Finland, Kronos Quartet – who is well known for breaking new musical grounds – decided to get in touch with him. The Kronos/Kluster project entitled Uniko is a mutually beneficial sonic/visual adventure with this goal: to create unique and never-before-heard-of sounds from accordion and strings. The Making-Of is a short documentary giving an insight into the collaboration between Kimmo Pohjonen, who has taken the accordion to new dimensions, his Kluster-partner Samuli Kosminen, Finland's sampling guru, and the world's most revolutionary string quartet – the Kronos quartet.
Puccini's Gianni Schicchi perfomed at the AVRO Kerstmatinee 2000 by Riccardo Chailly and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
Riccardo Chailly and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra with a highly acclaimed perfomance of Puccini's opera in one act, Suor Angelica , at the legendary AVRO Kerstmatinee in 1999.
From the main hall of the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam: Riccardo Chailly and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra perfoming Puccini's opera in one act, Il tabarro . Joining them is a great cast of high-class singers. Amongst them star tenor José Cura.
The Italian composer, Giacomo Puccini is reputed to have once described himself as "a passionate hunter of water birds, texts and women." It was an ironic description of the problems which are said to have accompanied him throughout his life. He was indeed a passionate, yet terrible, hunter. With every opera he wrote, he wore out numerous librettists in the search for the perfect text, because unlike Mozart, he couldn’t write a single note before the "script" for a new piece of work was just as he wanted it – and for as long as he lived, he was almost manic in his hunt for and collection of beautiful women…
The film by Andreas Morell looks at Giacomo Puccini's life from the point of view of his psychological manic preoccupation with one subject: women. He makes connections between the women in Puccini's life and those in his operas, looking as he goes, at what made Puccini tick. Starting with a characteristic situation in Vienna in 1923 – one year before the composer's death – the film offers an insight into Puccini and reflects a repetitive pattern which spanned almost three decades of his life. As he summarised for his own credo: "I cannot compose without love in my life!"
The film by Andreas Morell looks at Giacomo Puccini's life from the point of view of his psychological manic preoccupation with one subject: women. He makes connections between the women in Puccini's life and those in his operas, looking as he goes, at what made Puccini tick. Starting with a characteristic situation in Vienna in 1923 – one year before the composer's death – the film offers an insight into Puccini and reflects a repetitive pattern which spanned almost three decades of his life. As he summarised for his own credo: "I cannot compose without love in my life!"
In 2007 the Berlin Philharmonic celebrates its 125th year. The orchestra is using its jubilee as an opportunity to examine a rather unknown chapter in its history: The years under the rule of the National Socialists (between 1933 and 1945). The centre stage is taken by the musicians, the people and their individual fates.
Thanks to contemporary witnesses from the orchestra and its fringes who are still alive today, and thanks also to extensive and until now unappraised archive materials, it is possible to gain an insight into this microcosmos: where does the thin line run separating autonomy from entanglement, innocence from guilt? A chapter from the history of Germany and Berlin, as gripping as it is volatile, comes to life once more.
The film made by Enrique Sanchez-Lansch - whose documentary Rhythm is it! was awarded with the Bavarian Film Award 2004, the German Critics Award 2004 and two times with the German Film Award LOLA for Best Documentary and Best Editing - seeks out witnesses from all over the world: forgotten (or carefully concealed) footage of propaganda events such as the Nuremberg Rallies or the opening ceremony of the 1936 Olympics. It visits the relatives of the four Jewish members who were removed from the orchestra, the descendants of the musicians who...
Thanks to contemporary witnesses from the orchestra and its fringes who are still alive today, and thanks also to extensive and until now unappraised archive materials, it is possible to gain an insight into this microcosmos: where does the thin line run separating autonomy from entanglement, innocence from guilt? A chapter from the history of Germany and Berlin, as gripping as it is volatile, comes to life once more.
The film made by Enrique Sanchez-Lansch - whose documentary Rhythm is it! was awarded with the Bavarian Film Award 2004, the German Critics Award 2004 and two times with the German Film Award LOLA for Best Documentary and Best Editing - seeks out witnesses from all over the world: forgotten (or carefully concealed) footage of propaganda events such as the Nuremberg Rallies or the opening ceremony of the 1936 Olympics. It visits the relatives of the four Jewish members who were removed from the orchestra, the descendants of the musicians who...
This ambitious production uses a number of striking visual elements including a massive set that floats above a reflecting pool, huge puppets and sculptures. The noted Butoh artist, Min Tanaka, dances the role of Oedipus, and is joined by twenty dancers to portray this classical tragedy.
The stage-play for a Baroque-Orchestra, two Sopranos and one actor is based on the real-life story of Jack Unterweger, a notorious womanizer and celebrated author and journalist, who was suspected of killing prostitutes in Vienna, Graz, Prague and Los Angeles; later vanished from Vienna, fled into the U.S., got arrested in Miami, transferred to Austria, accused and finally committed suicide after being convicted of homicide in eleven cases.
Gala in commemoration of the 150th birthday of Peter Tchaikovsky.
From the Gasteig in Munich: Germany’s most popular tenor Jonas Kaufmann presents an evening with the most famous German operatic arias. Amongst them "Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön" from W.A. Mozart's The Magic Flute , "In fernem Land" from Wagner's Lohengrin and "Winterstürme" from Walküre . With this repertoire Kaufmann goes back to his roots: "I grew up with this music. It is embedded in my genes."
Sasha Waltz is one of the world's most exciting choreographers. Her work includes provocative one-woman shows, inventive dance comedies, and philosophical dance-drama exploring subjects like the human body, sensuality and transcendence. The international company Sasha Waltz and Guests is renowned for the originality and creativity it has brought to contemporary dance. Brigitte Kramer's biopic lays bare the trials, the tribulations and the triumphs of 20 years in Sasha Waltz's soaring career. It reveals her research and working methods, her self-doubt and self-reflection, and her capacity for joy - including interviews with Waltz and her dancers. Garden of Lust presents extracts from many of the choreographies in rehearsal and performance, and captures astonishing moments on and off stage.
Paul Wittgenstein, the Austrian concert pianist, loses his arm at the age of twenty-seven while serving as an officer in the First World War. Nonetheless, he was determined to continue his career. Major composers, such as Ravel and Strauss write concerts for him, from which he gains international acclaim. Forced to leave Austria by the Nazis, he dies in New York in 1961.
Paul's father, Karl Wittgenstein millionaire and chief Austrian "iron and steel baron", determined to have his five sons follow in his footsteps and become industrialists, he does not permit them to pursue artistic careers. Ultimately, he will pay for his intransigence with the lives of his three eldest children who escape their father's authority by committing suicide. Finally, Karl Wittgenstein allows his two remaining sons the freedom to choose their own profession. Ludwig, the younger brother of Paul, turns to philosophy.
Paul Wittgenstein's biography is an extraordinary life-affirming story. It is the tale of a man who perseveres in the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles and prevails.
Paul's father, Karl Wittgenstein millionaire and chief Austrian "iron and steel baron", determined to have his five sons follow in his footsteps and become industrialists, he does not permit them to pursue artistic careers. Ultimately, he will pay for his intransigence with the lives of his three eldest children who escape their father's authority by committing suicide. Finally, Karl Wittgenstein allows his two remaining sons the freedom to choose their own profession. Ludwig, the younger brother of Paul, turns to philosophy.
Paul Wittgenstein's biography is an extraordinary life-affirming story. It is the tale of a man who perseveres in the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles and prevails.