SPRING DOCUMENTARIES
Documentary / Classical Music Number: 9958 Composer:
Title: Mythos Carmen
Year of Production: 2018
Length: 00:43:00
Director: A film by Lena Kupatz & Axel Brüggemann Soloists: Elina Garanca, Roberto Alagna, Plácido Domingo, Calixto Bieito
Content:
What do the great characters in the history of opera have to do with our own lives? “Mythos Carmen”: modern re-enactments place the respective operatic character squarely in the middle of our present times. Individual chapters examine the key issuesof the character, which are spread out in the form of a kaleidoscope. International stars of opera, singers, conductors and directors explain what continues to fascinate us about the characters to this day. They explain their own take on the various heroes and describe what makes the operatic characters mythological. In doing so, they provide a distinctive, new and fresh perspective on the great works of music. The film is augmented by footage shot behind the scenes, at the places where the operaswere written, and with a répétiteur, allowing the film to move through our present times emotionally guided by the opera.
Production: Signed Media, ZDF/arte
Format: HDTV 16:9
Year of Production: 2018 Title: 48 hours Georgia - Khatia Buniatishvili and Zubin Mehta Orchestra: Length: Israel Philharmonic Orchestra 00:52:00
Number: 9959 Composer: Director: A Film by Claus Wischmann
Content:
They have known each for a long time and performed many concerts together: the pianist Khatia Buniatishvili and the conductor Zubin Mehta. Perhaps that is why they can be so open with each other during rehearsals of Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto in A-Minor. 48 hours with the two musicians and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in Georgia under special conditions. The rehearsals in Tbilisi, capital of Georgia, take place in the great music hall. The concert two hours drive away under the open skies of Tsinandali – a brand new concert place, built up to the very last minute.
Production: Sounding Images, WDR / ARTE
Number: 9960 Composer:
Title: 2Cellos - 2Faces
Format: HDTV 16:9 Year of Production: 2018
Length: 00:53:00
Director: A film by Ali Jones Soloists: Luka Šulič, Stjepan Hauser
Content:
Cellists Luka Šulič from Slovenia and Stjepan Hauser from Croatia have been a great success all over the world. Their You Tube views, concert attendance in the largest arenas of the world and album sales have surged to record figures. They are knownas top classical musicians with academic degrees and numerous awards from the most prominent international music competitions. Their cello concerts combine classical pieces with amazing pop, rock and film soundtrack covers, attracting enthusiasts fromdifferent music worlds. The documentary film takes the viewers below the surface and introduces them to the rich mental, emotional, conscious and subconscious creative world of the two artists – a world so unique, special and peculiar; it cannot be explained; only experienced. With all the fame and overly chaotic schedules, the two artists try to maintain the delicate balance between the glorious world of international success and the personal world of inner peace and solitude.
Production: RTV Televizija Slovenija
Format: HDTV 16:9
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Documentary / Classical Music Year of Production: 2017 Title: John Williams & Steven Spielberg - The Adventure Continues
Number: 9583 Composer:
Length: 00:25:00
Director: A film by Laurent Bouzereau
Content:
A documentary by Laurent Bouzereau including new interviews with Steven Spielberg and John Williams! Over the 90-year history of sound film, there have been a handful of instances where a director and a composer have formed a longtime partnership that resulted in a series of classical scores, creating music that stands the test of time. None, however, have been as long or as fruitful as the 43-year collaboration of Steven Spielberg and John Williams. None have encompassed such a wide range of subject matter or, more significantly, have had such an enormous impact on worldwide popular culture. From the ominous shark signature of Jaws to the five-note alien greeting of Close Encounters of the Third Kind; from the heroic march of Raiders of theLost Ark to the moving themes for Schindler’s List the music Williams has written for more than two dozen Spielberg projects has not only served them brilliantly but entered the wider public consciousness.
Production: Sony Classical
Format: HDTV 16:9
Year of Production: 2017 Title: Magic Moments of Music - Maria Callas & Tosca
Number: 9584 Composer:
Length: 00:52:00
Director: Holger Preusse Soloists: Thomas Hampson, Wolfgang Joop, Jürgen Kesting, Brian McMaster, Kristine Opolais, Antonio Pappano, Anna Prohaska, Rolando Villazón, Rufus Wainwright
Content:
The beginning of 1964 held a great surprise for the music world: Maria Callas returns to the opera stage as prima donna. Her “Tosca” at the Royal Opera House becomes a sensation. Not even the Beatles received more press coverage. All this, for an artist whose glorious career was said to be over, with the singer herself passing over to legend. It is no longer her performances, but her scandals that, are dominating the headlines. Unlucky in love with her billionaire boyfriend Aristotle Onassis, Maria Callas wants to show them all that the title of ”Primadonna assoluta” is still rightfully hers. On condition that famed stage director Franco Zeffirelli takes on the production, the exceptional vocalist is prepared to take on the role of Tosca. Herfans queue outside the Royal Opera House in London’s Covent Garden for four, even five nights. To get their hands on the sought after tickets, they spend the freezing winter nights in sleeping bags and on fold up chairs. A British broadcaster has recorded the opera’s second act. It is one of the most dramatic acts in opera history – to save the artist Cavaradossi from his torturer; Tosca ends up murdering the chief of police Scarpia. The film recording is one of the few opportunities to see MariaCallas on stage and witness her emotional dramatics and vocal competence.
Production: ZDF/arte, sounding images, C Major Entertainment
Format: HDTV 16:9
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Documentary / Classical Music Number: 9594 Composer:
Title: Loud, Hard, Magical – The Sound Of Finland
Year of Production: 2017
Length: 00:52:00
Director: A Film by Ulrike Neubecker & Wilma Pradetto Soloists: Apocalyptica, Lauri Porra, Jorma Panula
Content:
The film takes the audience on a road trip into the unique Finnish music scene: a mixture of melancholy, metal and humour. Bassist and Sibelius descendent Lauri Porra, and the cello quartet Apocalyptica interpret Finnish’s unofficial national anthem‘Finlandia’ in their own style and in doing so, delve deep into the culture and psyche of this young nation. The Finns nurture an eclectic mixture of musical styles, they do so with a dark and anarchistic humour, as well as a deeply felt melancholy.The breadth of musical style ranges from Finnish Tango to deafening heavy metal, from all male choirs that shout to a long line of successful Finnish conductors.
Production: sounding images, ZDF/ Arte, in collaboration with YLE
Number: 9946 Composer:
Format: HDTV 16:9
Year of Production: 2017 Title: A New Chopin - Daniil Trifonov & Mikhail Pletnev Orchestra: Length: Mahler Chamber Orchestra 00:52:00
Director: A film by Christian Berger Soloists: Daniil Trifonov, Mikhail Pletnev
Content:
It is one of the most fascinating classical recordings of the year 2017: Daniil Trifonov’s interpretation of the Chopin piano concertos together with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra under the guidance of Mikhail Pletnev. Trifonov and Pletnev are both Russians, pianists and composers. For all these communalities, they are quite different personalities. Trifonov belongs to the crowd of highly talented and celebrated young pianists who has won numerous competitions and gives more than 100 concerts a year. In contrast, the Grammy-award-winner Pletnev is known for his intellectual grasp of musical language who might come across a little bit distant. It is a remarkable proof of trust for the young pianist, that Pletnev offers his re-orchestration of the two concertos for Trifonov’s solo recording. Chopin's music is elegant and deeply personal, but the orchestrations of his concertos are considered makeshift, many assert. There have been several attempts to re-orchestrate them: Will the Pletnev-orchestration add a new dimension to the pieces? This collaboration is likely to be an artistic exploration at the highest stage and consequently, the music documentary „A New Chopin“ takes viewers on a rare tour of the artistic process.
Production: BFMI in co-production with ZDF / Arte, DW and Deutsche Grammophon
Format: HDTV 16:9
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Documentary / Classical Music Number: 9947 Composer:
Title: Alondra... ¡La maestra! de la Parra
Year of Production: 2017
Length: 00:56:00
Director: Christian Berger Soloists: Alondra de la Parra
Content:
36-year old Mexican conductor Alondra de la Parra just made history by being appointed the first female conductor and music director of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, one of Australia’s three largest Orchestras. In 2004 she became the first Mexican woman to conduct in New York and in 2014, she led the Orchestre de Paris. Clearly breaking barriers is standard fare for Alondra. As a guest conductor she has led more than 70 renowned orchestras worldwid. She has done multidisciplinary collaborations with various actors and filmmakers and keeps on working on educational programs. The documentary traces the multiple facets of Alondra’s life, accompanies her on her binational tours and gives insight into Alondra’s interesting family. Her latestappointment as the Queensland Symphony Orchestra’s Music Director (2017) marks a special point in the orchestra’s history, not only because they decided on a young woman but also because it is the first time they have ever appointed a music director.The film also captures Alondra in her home city New York, where she works on the N.Y. City based “Niños” program, one of Alondra’s numerous initiatives that express her desire to spread classical music to everyone.
Production: BFMI in co-production with Deutsche Welle and Dorn Music
Format: HDTV 16:9
Year of Production: 2017 Title: ONE, TWO, THREE! – The “Waltz Factory” Strauss & Sons
Number: 9954 Composer:
Length: 01:07:00 00:48:00
Director: A film by Eric Schulz
Content:
Johann Strauss’ waltz “On the Beautiful Blue Danube” is considered Austria’s secret national anthem. First performed 150 years ago in Vienna, the composition from the Strauss “waltz factory” became an instant worldwide hit. The film by Eric Schulz looks behind the scenes of the “waltz factory” of the Strauss family. Historic film footage is combined with waltz impressions from Vienna’s Musikverein and an unusual collection of mobile phone selfie-videos: for the first time, every musician in the orchestra filmed themselves during the performance. The “Donauwalzer” as the world’s first “orchestra selfie” – like the entire documentary itself – creates astonishing new perspectives on one of the world’s most popular musical traditions.
Production: SERVUS TV
Number: 9955 Composer:
Format: HDTV 16:9
Title: Lucas Debargue - To the Music
Year of Production: 2017
Length: 01:24:00 00:52:00
Director: A film by Martin Mirabel
Content:
For a year, the film follows the pianist Lucas Debargue through his encounters, his discoveries and his quest for music. In his early career, revealed by the XVth International Tchaikovsky Competition, praised by the public and critics, Lucas is confronted with the concerts that come one after another. He discovers the relationship with the conductor and music partners, studio recordings, post-concerts, success and autographs. He has now found his new life, a whole life devoted to music.
Production: Bel Air Media, Sony Classical, Granitic, Medici.tv, France Télévisions
Format: HDTV 16:9
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Documentary / Classical Music Number: 9961 Composer:
Title: Regina Resnik: New York Original
Year of Production: 2017
Length: 01:03:00
Director: A film by Michael Davis and Robert Fredette
Content:
The documentary "Regina Resnik: New York Original" traces the remarkable 70-year career of the Bronx-born international opera star, Tony-nominated actress, stage director, filmmaker, and Jewish cultural figure. The program features on-screen interviews with opera stars Martina Arroyo and Teresa Stratas; Broadway legends Harold Prince and Joel Grey; Maestros Richard Bonynge, Zubin Mehta and Craig Rutenberg; and Ms. Resnik’s brother, engineer Jack H. Resnick. Ms. Arroyo introduces the film onscreen. Renowned mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves is the narrator.
Production: Remi Arts
Number: A00050047 Composer:
Format: HDTV 16:9
Title: Arnold Schönberg – Who I am
Year of Production: 2017
Length: 00:57:00
Director: A film by Paolo Faroni and Christian Giuffrida
Content:
The documentary “Arnold Schönberg – Who I am” shows the numerous faces of a genius: the composer, the painter, the father and the human Arnold Schönberg. Leading through the documentary is Nuria Schoenberg Nono, the daughter of the great Viennese composer, who together with Daniel Barenboim, worldwide famous interpreter and supporter of Schönberg’s music, embarks on a journey to discover one of the most prominent and controversial musical figures of the 20th century. With the help of musicologistHartmut Krones and Therese Muxeneder, head of archive of the Arnold Schönberg Center in Vienna, they paint an intriguing picture of an often misunderstood musician, who was despised at the time, but is now regarded as a pioneer of today’s music.
Production: Classica Italia HD in cooperation with Unitel
Number: A00050060 Composer:
Title: Saimir Pirgu – My Truth in Music
Format: HDTV 16:9 Year of Production: 2017
Length: 00:55:00
Director: A film by Paolo Aleotti and Paola Nessi
Content:
“Music is my life. Singing, playing, listening – breathing!” Based on this passionate statement, the documentary Saimir Pirgu – My Truth in Music follows the key moments of Albanian-Italian tenor Saimir Pirgu’s flourishing musical career. It is a journey to the world’s most renowned opera houses – from Salzburg and Vienna to London, Moscow and New York – and at the same time gives insight into the hidden chambers of the art of singing. What really happens in the inner mind of an artist? How is great talent discovered and nurtured? The storyline follows Saimir Pirgu’s personal reminiscences, replenished with live performances and intimate backstage moments. It depicts his work with grand maestros like Abbado, Harnoncourt, Muti and Jansons, andfeatures interviews with top names of the contemporary music world: James Conlon, Paolo Gavazzeni, Dominique Meyer, Ferzan Ozpetek and Nicoletta Pavarotti.
Production: SPM in association with Unitel
Format: HDTV 16:9
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Documentary / Classical Music Number: A04550078 Composer:
Title: Karajan – The Maestro and his Festival
Year of Production: 2017
Length: 00:52:00
Director: A film by Hannes M. Schalle
Content:
Herbert von Karajan is the world’s most famous and commercially most successful conductor ever. Inspired by his wife’s book My Life at His Side, Hannes M. Schalle’s film covers new aspects of Karajan’s career, focusing on the maestro’s work in London, Berlin, New York, Vienna, Salzburg and St Tropez. Shot on these locations, it starts in Nice, France, in 1957, when Eliette and Herbert von Karajan met for the first time. The film follows their life until July 1989 and documents Karajan’s legacy, such as the Salzburg Easter Festival. A very personal story, told by Madame Eliette von Karajan.
Production: A Moonlake Entertainment production in coFormat: HDTV 16:9 production with the Eliette und Herbert von Karjan Institut, ORF and UNITEL in cooperation with Deutsche Grammophon and Salzburg Easter Festival
Number: A04550084 Composer:
Title: I am Carmen
Year of Production: 2017
Length: 00:45:00
Director: A film by Marion FlatzMäser
Content:
A spirited woman who loves her freedom: Carmen, the protagonist of Georges Bizet’s much loved opera of the same name, brings a whirlwind of emotions to the world’s biggest sea stage at the Bregenz Festival. The documentary I am Carmen looks behind the scenes of Kasper Holten’s spectacular production and shows British stage designer Es Devlin, responsible for the grandiose Carmen set with an impressive height of 21 metres, and costume designer Anja Vangh Kragh at work. Mezzo-soprano Gaëlle Arquez,who sings her Carmen “as if she had just invented Habanera & Co.” (Tagesspiegel), and festival director Elisabeth Sobotka talk about the opera, discuss the main characters Carmen and Don José and also touch upon the role of women in today’s society.
Production: ORF Vorarlberg distributed by UNITEL
Number: A05050439 Composer:
Title: Barenboim or The Power of Music
Format: HDTV 16:9 Year of Production: 2017
Length: 01:30:00 00:45:00
Director: A film by Sabine Scharnagl Soloists: Martha Argerich, Zubin Mehta, Waltraud Meier, Michael Barenboim, Wim Wenders
Content:
On the occasion of the 75th birthday of Daniel Barenboim, one of the most renowned conductors and pianists of our times, the first ever all-embracing portrait of this outstanding musical personality has been created. Shot in Buenos Aires, Santiago deChile, Ramallah, Munich, Berlin and London, the film accompanies Maestro Barenboim for rehearsals and performances with his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra at the Teatro Colón and the Waldbühne Berlin. It looks behind the scenes of two milestone eventsin Berlin: the opening of the Pierre-Boulez-Saal and the grand re-opening of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, where Barenboim performs together with the Staatskapelle Berlin. Martha Argerich, Zubin Mehta, Waltraud Meier, his son Michael Barenboim anddirector Wim Wenders give a very personal insight in the experiences they shared with Daniel Barenboim throughout the years.
Production: A production of BR, RBB and Unitel
Format: HDTV 16:9
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Documentary / Classical Music Number: A05050588 Composer:
Year of Production: 2017 Title: Of Miracles and Superheroes - Documentary on the Stuttgart Ballet
Length: 01:30:00
Director: A film by Harold Woetzel
Content:
The documentary traces the extraordinary success story of the Stuttgart Ballet, from its rise to fame as the “Stuttgart Ballet Miracle” during the Cranko era to the ensemble’s acclaim of today. Harold Woetzel accompanied the company for one year, capturing the season’s highlights as well as everyday life at the Stuttgart Ballet.
Production: Production of SWR distributed by UNITEL
Number: A05550619 Composer:
Format: HDTV 16:9
Year of Production: 2017 Title: The Elbphilharmonie – Hamburgs new Landmark
Length: 00:53:00
Director: A film by Thorsten Mack and Annette Schmaltz
Content:
The Elbphilharmonie is undoubtedly the new landmark of Hamburg, a monumental synthesis of breath-taking architecture, a unique location and a world-class concert hall. For this documentary Thorsten Mack and Annette Schmaltz closely followed the entire development process of the building over the course of ten years. From the initial plans to the rehearsals just before the opening ceremony they show a story of enthusiasm and disappointment, of hard work and triumph. And the uncertain question whether all this has paid off.
Production: Produced by NDR, distributed by UNITEL under license by Studio Hamburg Enterprises GmbH
Number: A05550701 Composer:
Format: HDTV 16:9
Year of Production: 2017 Title: Markus Hinterhäuser - An artist runs the Salzburg Festival
Length: 00:26:00
Director: A film by Bettina Ehrhardt
Content:
He is one of them: Markus Hinterhäuser, the new director of the Salzburg Festival, is an artist himself. That might be the reason why he communicates so effortless with the protagonists of the festival. To create an in-depth portrait of Hinterhäuser,Bettina Ehrhardt followed the Austrian around the clock, compiling snap-shots of his life. The film accompanies him to the rehearsals for Jedermann, meets renowned artists such as Peter Sellars, Shirin Neshat and William Kentridge and observes how the director solves problems and how he celebrates with his team. On a stroll through Salzburg’s picturesque alleys, Markus Hinterhäuser delivers insight into his past; archive footage brings the flashbacks to life. In the rapid alternation of the documentary scenes, which are punctuated by moments of reflection, the artist and the human Markus Hinterhäuser, reveals himself.
Production: WDR and UNITEL
Format: HDTV 16:9
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Documentary / Classical Music Number: A05550705 Composer:
Title: Short Rides with John Adams
Year of Production: 2017
Length: 00:45:00
Director: A Film by Daniel Finkernagel and Magdalena ZiębaSchwind Soloists: Sir Simon Rattle, Peter Sellars, Gustavo Dudamel, Leila Josefowicz
Content:
John Adams is one of the most influential and at the same time most popular US composers of the post-war period, known for his irresistible music in which minimalism is mixed with imaginative orchestration and jazzy verve. The Film accompanied the composer for a year on his explorations and “Short Rides” in Berlin. The film documents both on and off stage encounters with musicians of the Berliner Philharmoniker, old friends and associates such as Sir Simon Rattle, Peter Sellars, Gustavo Dudamel and star violinist LeilaJosefowicz (“I call him Johnny”). A film which is both entertaining and serious, and which features jazz-inspired symphonic and poignant Passion music. A film not only for connaisseurs and admirers – just like the music of John Adams.
Production: Berlin Phil Media in co-production with UNITEL
Number: A05550731 Composer:
Title: Moving in three acts – A building site opera
Format: HDTV 16:9 Year of Production: 2017
Length: 00:45:00
Director: A film by Anne Osterloh
Content:
Now shining with its sensational sound, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden had to wait a long time for its reopening. All in all, it took seven years to refurbish the opera – just a blink of an eye in the history of the house, but a long period of insecurity for the Staatsoper family, the people who work there. Film maker Anne Osterloh documented the works over the years, her film Moving in three acts – a building site opera follows the people involved in the emotional transformation process. The legendary house was much loved by star tenor, tailors, musicians and stage cleaners alike. For them, working at the opera, is much more than just a job: it’s a passion, a life, a home. A film about a construction site where hopes and desires meet and amoving tribute to the fine arts.
Production: moving angel in co-production with Rundfunk Berlin- Format: HDTV 16:9 Brandenburg and UNITEL
Number: A05550815 Composer:
Title: Marcia Haydée - The Seduction of Dance
Year of Production: 2017
Length: 00:45:00
Director: A film by Harold Woetzel
Content:
Marcia Haydée – for many the “primadonna assoluta” of the 20th century, John Cranko’s muse and long-time director of the Stuttgart Ballet. On the occasion of her 80th birthday, Harold Woetzel pays homage to this unique artist by telling the ballerina’s captivating story.
Production: A Production of SWR distributed by UNITEL
Format: HDTV 16:9
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Documentary / Classical Music Number: 9895 Composer:
Title: Zhu Xiao-Mei: How Bach Defeated Mao
Year of Production: 2016
Length: 00:58:00
Director: Paul Smaczny
Content:
Music, especially Bach’s music, gave this artist the strength to survive unimaginable challenges. Zhu Xiao-Mei belongs to the “Lost Generation” that endured the worst excesses of Mao’s regime: several years of “re-education”, five years in a work camp, her family destroyed, endless deprivation and political intrigue… “Zhu Xiao-Mei: How Bach defeated Mao” is a portrait of an artist whose life is inextricably tied to Mao’s disastrous Cultural Revolution. In 1980 Zhu Xia-Mei emigrated to the UnitedStates, then decided to settle in Paris in 1984. In this film for the first time after 35 years she returns as a celebrated concert pianist to her roots with a triumphal tour to modern China.
Production: Accentus Music
Format: HDTV 16:9
Year of Production: 2016 Title: Maestras - The long journey of women to the podium
Number: 9898 Composer:
Length: 00:53:00
Director: Günter Atteln & Maria Stodtmeier Soloists: With Sylvia Caduff, Barbara Hannigan, Marin Alsop, Anu Tali, Gabriela Montero, Konstantia Gourzi and other
Content:
Being a female conductor means being an exception. Even today. When a woman stands on the podium she is, in most cases, somehow “the first”: the first to lead a world-class orchestra, the first to conduct the “Last Night of the Proms” in London, thefirst to win the German Conductor Prize. For decades, this sensational character has been tradition. At the same time it seems that the world of the maestro is now in a state of upheaval. The young Lithuanian conductor Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, who took over the post of Andris Nelsons in Birmingham this September, said with conviction: “I really believe that something is changing now.” But why is it that there have been so few female conductors in the international music scene? To take a closer look at this phenomenon, the 53minute film MAESTRAS follows several female conductors. This historical retrospective is supplemented by the memories of Hedy Graber. She is the daughter of Hedy Salquin, the first Swiss female conductor, who in 1955 receiveda letter from the Hessian Radio with the words: “Dear Mr. Salquin, although you are a woman we are addressing you with “Mr.” Moreover, we don’t have any use for you.”
Production: Accentus Music in co-production with SRF
Number: 9920 Composer:
Title: Survival Artists
Format: HDTV 16:9 Year of Production: 2016
Length: 00:52:00
Director: A film by Holger Preuße and Claus Wischmann
Content:
They live two lives. They work to survive, but music is their passion. At night they perform in sold out concert halls, and clean toilets the morning after. They tickle the ivories and sort out the trash in close succession. They interpret Beethovenjust before repairing exhaust pipes. They are survival artists. A musician is asked: “Can you make a living?” The reply: “Some can, others cannot.” This story is about the others: Professional musicians who practise their art with great passion and skill, but still have to work on the side. Either just to make ends meet or to maintain a certain quality of life: As a garbage collector, an auto mechanic or doctor.
Production: Sounding Images, ZDF/arte
Format: HDTV 16:9
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Documentary / Classical Music Number: 9921 Composer:
Title: Gozo - One Island, Two Opera Houses
Year of Production: 2016
Length: 00:53:00
Director: A film by Claus Wischmann
Content:
Grand opera in an unlikely setting. The small island of Gozo (right next to Malta) has 30,000 inhabitants and two opera houses. This means it has more opera per square mile than any other place in the world. The organization, the staging, and much ofthe singing are all done by amateurs. The only trouble is, there is no love lost between the two houses. There are two conductors, two choruses, two teams of stage workers and organizers and behind it all two rival clans whose sole ambition every year is to come out on top in the great operatic singing match. But there is one thing they do have to share: the orchestra. Malta only has one to its name. In the middle of the fray we find Maltese star tenor Joseph Calleja. As a teenager he earned hissinging spurs in Gozo, and now he comes back to the island every year to act as a mediator. The film observes opera-crazy volunteers and amateur musicians engaging in the annual tussle for the best Verdi performance in the Mediterranean and international tenor Joseph Calleja doing his level best to keep things from getting out of hand. A film about no-holds-barred commitment, a passionate love of music, and how cut-throat rivalry can bring forth genuine art.
Production: Sounding Images
Number: 9924 Composer:
Title: Currentzis - The Classical Rebel
Format: HDTV 16:9 Year of Production: 2016
Length: 00:52:00
Director: A film by Christian Berger
Content:
While the whole world thinks that Europe ends at Perm, Greek conductor Teodor Currentzis starts a classical music revolution together with his orchestra MusicAeterna in the Ural foothills, a fast changing former industrial city now being one of the major cultural centres of Russia. The film accompanies a new opera recording of “Don Giovanni” in studio-like conditions, traces artistic processes and portrays the maverick super-star conductor. The film combines both high standards of journalism anda pleasantly intriguing approach to the world of classical music with fascinating artists, peeks behind the scenes and timelessly beautiful music.
Production: BFMI in co-production with ZDF/Arte, Sony Classical, Deutsche Welle TV
Number: 9928 Composer:
Title: Ayham Ahmad – The Pianist of Yarmouk
Format: HDTV 16:9
Year of Production: 2016
Length: 00:30:00
Director: A film by Günter Atteln and Carmen Belaschk
Content:
Surrounded by ruins in Syria’s capital Damascus, Ayham Ahmad sings accompanied by an out-oftune piano about migration, hunger, and death. Threatened by Assad’s regime and ISIS, the Piano Man is silenced and must flee – to Germany. The documentary film The Pianist from Yarmouk tells the story of this Syrian refugee musician. After his arrival in Munich, we follow the life of a man who sang out against the suffering in his country until his instrument was destroyed. His fate stands for that of thousands – robbed of their hopes and dreams and forced to build a new existence.
Production: Accentus Music
Format: HDTV 16:9
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Documentary / Classical Music Number: 9931 Composer:
Title: Olga Peretyatko - My Love for Rossini
Year of Production: 2016
Length: 01:00:00
Director: Soloists: Olga Peretyatko, Alberto Zedda
Content:
Olga Peretyatko, her life and love to Rossini, including Rossini's best-known arias accompanied by the Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna conducted by Alberto Zedda.
Production: Sony Classical
Number: A05050283 Composer:
Format: HDTV 16:9
Year of Production: 2016 Title: Good Thoughts, Good Word, Good Deeds - The Conductor Zubin Mehta
Length: 01:29:00 00:59:00
Director: A film by Bettina Ehrhardt
Content:
Zubin Mehta is one of the world`s leading conductors. Born and raised in India, he is a brilliant symbol of today`s cross-cultural world and a living proof of the power of music to bridge different cultures and to break social and political barriers.On the occasion of Zubin Mehta’s 80th birthday, Filmmaker Bettina Ehrhardt creates a tender homage to this exceptional artist, who is Music Director for Life of the Israel Philharmonic as well as the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Conductor Laureate ofthe Bayerisches Staatsorchester, the Münchner Philharmoniker and the Wiener Philharmoniker. The film deals with an artist loved by audiences and musicians alike because he radiates warmth and humanity, in both his music and his life.
Production: bce films, ZDF/arte and UNITEL CLASSICA
Number: A05050300 Composer:
Title: Anne-Sophie Mutter - A Celebration
Format: HDTV 16:9 Year of Production: 2016
Length: 00:52:00
Director: A film by Anca-Monica Pandelea
Content:
She is doubtlessly one of the world’s best: the violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter. Since more than 40 years now she has been playing concerts in every major venue throughout the world. This portrait by Anca-Monica Pandelea shows snapshots of a career in classical music that reached an outstanding artistic position in constant search for perfection. The documentary is not only an intimate portrait of a multifaceted artist but a report of a life full of unique musical encounters and enormous social engagement. It features rare archival footage, documenting the fascinating development of Herbert von Karajan’s former protégé to one of the world's greatest musicians. Recordings of rehearsals and important stage performances provide an insight into theartistic day-today-life of an international star.
Production: A production of ZDF/arte and UNITEL CLASSICA
Format: HDTV 16:9
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Documentary / Classical Music Number: A05550523 Composer:
Year of Production: 2016 Title: Living with Beethoven - The Nine Symphonies with the BPO and Sir Simon Rattle Length: 00:45:00
Director: Daniel Finkernagel, Magdalena ZiebaSchwind
Content:
“A Beethoven symphony cycle is a kind of Mount Everest for all of us to climb” Sir Simon Rattle said about his first full cycle of all nine symphonies with his Berliner Philharmoniker. In this documentary Sir Simon Rattle presents us his approach tothe cycle with extended explanations on the piano, we see him rehearsing with the orchestra resulting in the first – by audience and press equally enthusiastically – celebrated performances in Berlin. Next to the one hand documentation how the new Beethoven cycle originated, we the films tries to give answers to what is the motivation and fascination for a conductor as well as for an orchestra musicians to “climb” this musical monument? What makes those symphonies true milestones and unique masterpieces, with impact even on our lives! What was Beethoven’s message… ?
Production: Berlin Phil Media in cooperation with BR and RBB
Number: A05550529 Composer:
Format: HDTV 16:9
Year of Production: 2016 Title: Helmuth Rilling: The Weimar Bach Cantata Academy - More than just Music Orchestra: Length: Bach Cantata Academy Ensemble 00:20:00
Director: A film by Tilo Krause
Content:
For this edition of the Weimar Bach Cantata Academy, which forms part of the Thuringia Bach Festival, the great Bach interpreter and promoter, Helmuth Rilling, invited young musicians from across the world to come to Germany to study and perform Bach’s cantatas in their authentic location in Weimar. 63 musicians from 18 countries were chosen from countless applicants who evolved in the shortest time into an excellent choir and orchestra with immense enthusiasm and great musical talent. This documentation by director Tilo Krause shows impressions of the Academy in the historic Bach places in Muehlhausen, Arnstadt and Eisenach.
Production: A co-production of TK Film Production, Thüringer Bachwochen, HfM Weimar,Friends of Helmuth Rilling and UNITEL CLASSICA
Number: A055505940000 Composer:
Title: Beethoven - The Myth: His Life in 6 Sonatas
Format: HDTV 16:9
Year of Production: 2016
Length: 03:00:00
Director: Soloists: Jan Caeyers, Rudolf Buchbinder
Content:
Already during his life time Beethoven was regarded as a myth, being the first modern artist in the sense of an autonomous spirit, not dependent on any sovereign, only committed to his own work. But how did Beethoven become hero, myth and legend? This docuseries looks into his piano sonatas as the key to these and many more questions as into a “journal intime”. Featuring animations, enactments, Dutch Beethoven biographer and bestseller author Jan Caeyers and Beethoven expert & pianist Rudolf Buchbinder.
Production: 3B Productions, ZDF/3sat, Unitel
Format: HDTV 16:9
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Documentary / Classical Music Number: A885500010000 Composer:
Title: Super Diva - Opera for Everyone
Year of Production: 2016
Length: 06:40:00
Director: Soloists: Catarina Molder, soprano
Content:
By exploring and explaining popular operas in unorthodox ways, the soprano Catarina Molder is opening the world of opera for new audiences in the most colourful and accessible style. Each episode is including intimate interviews, emblematic arias from famous operas set in unexpected situations, special opera themed recipes and finally a band that covers a great aria in their own style. PROGRAM: Puccini: Madama Butterfly; Verdi: Aida; Verdi: Un ballo in maschera; Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro; Offenbach: Les contes d’Hoffmann; Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer; Wagner: Tannhäuser; Humperdinck: Hänsel und Gretel ; da Silva: Guerras de Alecrim e Mangerona (The Wars of Rosemary and Marjoram); Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
Production: Unitel
Number: 9155 Composer:
Format: HDTV 16:9
Title: Eras of Music History
Year of Production: 2015
Length: 06:00:00 06:00:00
Director: Axel Brüggemann, Dag Freyer, Nicole Kraack, Lena Kupatz, Henrike Sandner Soloists: Daniel Hope, Philippe Jaroussky, Emmanuelle Haim, Simone Kermes, Rolando Villazón, Anna Netrebko, Giuliano Carmigniola, Diana Damrau, Leif Ove Andsnes, Lang Lang, Christian Thielemann, Teodor Currentzis, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Thomas Hampson, Jonas Kaufman
Content:
Bold in conception, popular in format, gripping in its presentation – “Eras of Music History” makes the soundtrack to European history come alive – immediate and easily comprehensible for young viewers, classical newcomers and experts. In the series“Eras of Music History” music becomes something palpable – sounds you can touch and feel. Graphic novels, historical scenes, jam sessions and commentaries by classical stars, footnotes from political figures, philosophers and cultural scholars – all these are woven together with video and audio documents of the history of great performances. (4 part series: Baroque, Romantic, Viennese Classicism, 20th Century – 4x90’ or 8x45’)
Production: Signed Media, ZDF/ARTE
Number: 9574 Composer:
Title: I’m a creative animal - Barbara Hannigan
Format: HDTV 16:9 Year of Production: 2015
Length: 00:52:00
Director: A film by Barbara Seiler Soloists: Barbara Hannigan, Simon Rattle, Neil Semer, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Content:
She crosses boundaries and loves to explore new territory. Barbara Hannigan is one of the most fascinating and multi-facetted artistic personalities of our time. She sets new standards as a singer, conductor, and performance artist. The intimate portrait “I’m a creative animal” takes the viewer into the world of an exceptional musician – a world of both passion and discipline. Her performances possess a breathtaking intensity because of her exquisite vocal technique and virtuosity, musical and theatrical expressivity, and uncompromising engagement.
Production: SRF, Accentus Musik
Format: HDTV 16:9
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Documentary / Classical Music Number: 9865 Composer:
Title: The Lost Paradise - Arvo Pärt, Robert Wilson
Year of Production: 2015
Length: 00:58:00
Director: Günter Atteln Soloists: Robert Wilson, Tõnu Kaljuste, Gidon Kremer
Content:
He is the most performed contemporary composer in the world. And yet he rarely ventures out in public, prefers to keep quiet about his music, feels at home in the forests of Estonia and generates therewith – perhaps involuntarily – the impression ofa recluse, which is attributed to him again and again: Arvo Pärt. In The Lost Paradise, we follow him over a period of one year in his native Estonia, to Japan and the Vatican. The documentary is framed by the stage production of Adam’s Passion, a music theater piece based on the Biblical story of the fall of Adam featuring three key works by Arvo Pärt. The world-renowned director Robert Wilson has brought this work to the stage in a former submarine factory in Tallinn. Tracing their creative process, the film offers rare and personal insights into the worlds of two of the most fascinating personalities in the international arts and music scene.
Production: A Production of Accentus Music in Co-production with ERR and WDR/Arte
Number: 9871 Composer:
Title: Vocal Perfection - The Tenor Nicolai Gedda
Format: HDTV 16:9
Year of Production: 2015
Length: 00:52:00
Director: Michael Beyer Soloists: Edda Moser, Mirella Freni, Brigitte Fassbaender, Loa Falkman, James Levine, Jürgen Kesting, Jonas Kaufmann
Content:
The Swedish-born lyrical tenor Nicolai Gedda is considered one of the greatest tenors of the 20th Century. From the time of his debut in 1952 right through his unprecedented career for half a century, he took the world’s stages by storm and recordedmore than 200 albums which made him the most recorded tenor in history.
Production: BFMI in co-production with BR/Arte and SVT
Format: HDTV 16:9
Year of Production: 2015 Title: Everywhere and Forever – Mahler’s Song of the Earth
Number: 9910 Composer:
Length: 01:02:00
Director: A film by Jason Starr Soloists: Thomas Hampson, Paul Groves, Neeme Järvi, Marina Mahler, Henry Louis de La Grange, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Content:
In the summer of 1907 composer Gustav Mahler experienced a crisis of such magnitude that some thought he would never recover. His five-year-old daughter died of scarlet fever after 15 days, and a doctor diagnosed him with a congenital heart defect. Mustering his courage and tapping in to his genius, Mahler transformed his despair into a great piece of music. It was something entirely new: a “song-symphony” based on ancient Chinese verses. The film presents dramatizations of the poems, commentaryby renowned experts, and excerpts from a brilliant performance featuring Metropolitan Opera stars Thomas Hampson and Paul Groves with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Neeme Järvi. The documentary explores the biographical, cultural andphilosophical context of The Song of the Earth, a masterpiece often singled out as the composer’s most personal musical statement.
Production: Cultural Media Collaborative
Format: HDTV 16:9
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Documentary / Classical Music Year of Production: 2015 Title: For the Love of Mahler: The Inspired Life of Henry-Louis de La Grange
Number: 9911 Composer:
Length: 00:52:00
Director: Jason Starr Soloists: Commentators: Pierre Boulez, Riccardo Chailly, Nicolas Dufetel, Christoph Eschenbach, Thomas Hampson, Marina Mahler
Content:
For the Love of Mahler presents a portrait of the famed French-American music historian HenryLouis de La Grange, now 90. The film joins him on his annual migration from Marrakech to Paris and to Toblach in the Italian Alps, while he busily works onrevising his epic four-volume biography of Gustav Mahler. How Mahler’s music inspired his life, and how Henry-Louis channeled what could have been a self-indulgent obsession into a lifetime of groundbreaking discoveries, famous friendships and award winning accomplishment, demonstrates the remarkable power of music to change lives.
Production: Cultural Media Collaborative
Number: 9913 Composer:
Title: Leonard Bernstein - Larger than Life
Format: HDTV 16:9 Year of Production: 2015
Length: 00:52:00
Director: A film by Georg Wübbolt Soloists: Otto Schenk, Stephen Sondheim, Jamie, Alexander and Nina Bernstein, Norman Lebrecht, members of the Vienna Philharmonics, Sir Peter Jonas, Kent Nagano, Marin Alsop, Humphrey Burton, Klaus Geitel, Craig Urquhart and many others
Content:
Leonard Bernstein was America’s ambassador to the world of music. He was one of the most influential musicians of the last century and inspired an entire generation with his music ensembles and symphony orchestras. An influential teacher, a brilliantconductor, a fine composer and an accomplished pianist. A man, who lived five lives and who exuded passion from every pore. This portrait by Georg Wübbolt, director of the awardwinning documentaries on Herbert von Karajan and Sir Georg Solti, coversthe whole spectrum of Bernstein’s life: From his world famous TV series Young People’s Concerts to the recording of his Mahler cycle and from the West Side Story to his Chichester Psalms. The film includes interviews with Bernstein’s children as wellas with friends and companions such as Stephen Sondheim, Kent Nagano and Christoph Eschenbach.
Production: A BFMI production in co-production with Unitel and ZDF/3sat
Number: A05018724 Composer:
Title: The Swan of Pesaro – Rossini reloaded
Format: HDTV 16:9
Year of Production: 2015
Length: 01:01:00
Director: Theo Roos Soloists: Alberto Zedda, Joyce DiDonato, Juan Diego Flórez, Daniela Barcellona
Content:
Known as “The Swan of Pesaro,” Rossini was the most popular composer of the first half of the 19th century. His highly ornate musical style revolutionized the art form, inaugurating the “Golden Century” of Italian opera. While his creative life was rather short, his success and influence was immense – Intellectual giants from Richard Wagner to Arthur Schopenhauer where amongst his admirers. In this documentary director Theo Roos explores the era of Belcanto and it's main protagonist Rossini. Together with star-tenor Juan Diego Flórez, Rossini expert Alberto Zedda, soprano Joyce DiDonato and many others, he sheds light on the complex character of a composer known to the world as musical jester while his admirers showed deepest respect for thecompelling emotions, the vivid diversity and the profound depths hidden in the lightness of his music.
Production: A Theo Roos Film production on behalf of ZDF/3sat
Format: HDTV 16:9
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Documentary / Classical Music Number: 9157 Composer:
Title: Through The Eyes Of Yuja
Year of Production: 2014
Length: 01:00:00
Director: Anaïs and Olivier Spiro
Content:
With more than 120 performances a year, Yuja Wang lives a nomadic lifestyle. Travelling the world professionally, two extra small trolley suitcases carry the essentials for a two week trip: dresses, shoes, iPad, iPod and Smartphone. Yuja is 27 and leads a new generation of pianists who can play anything with comfort thanks to their phenomenal technique and strong self-confidence. "Through the Eyes of Yuja” reveals us this artist in a very personal way, equipped with a portable camera and her smartphone the film wants to be a kind of digital diary, a reflection of the image Yuja casts to the world as well as a phantasmagorical world the directors, Anaïs and Oliver Spiro, tend to loom about this image.
Production: BFMI in co-production with DGG
Number: 9159 Composer:
Title: Mission Incognito
Format: HDTV 16:9 Year of Production: 2014
Length: 6 x 30'
Director: Bea Conrad, Claus Wischmann, Lorenz Findeisen, Caroline Haertel Soloists: Rolando Villazón, Vladimir Malakhov, Ayo, Patrice, The Berlin Wall and Jim Avignon, Ulrich Matthes
Content:
The opera house, the concert hall, the museum … these venues are passé – “Mission Incognito” is the new tomorrow. Celebrity artists go outside their comfort zone and share their high art directly with the people on the streets. An entertaining half hour format featuring well known musicians and artists, such as Rolando Villazón or Vladimir Malakhov, that will step into the world and meet their amateur counterparts.
Production: Sounding Images in co-production with ZDF / Arte
Format: HDTV 16:9
Year of Production: 2014 Title: Jonas Kaufmann - You Mean The World To Me - Documentary
Number: 9160 Composer:
Length: 00:52:00
Director: Thomas Voigt, Wolfgang Wunderlich
Content:
Jonas Kaufmann traces the paths of the great singers and composers during the last years of the Weimar Republic (between Germany’s defeat at the end of World War I in 1918, and Hitler’s rise to power in 1933). The film is focussing on three pillars:Franz Léhar, Richard Tauber and the heydays of the “Silver Operetta” era; Robert Stolz, Joseph Schmidt and the invention of sound movies; and the diversification of musical styles through international commercialization. It includes excerpts of JonasKaufmann’s correpetitions with Stellario Fagone in Munich and the recording session for his album in the Funkhaus Berlin. Also available: Concert "You Mean The World To Me" (70'), Cat.No. 9151
Production: BFMI co-production with ZDF / Arte and Sony Classical
Format: HDTV 16:9
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Documentary / Classical Music Number: 9164 Composer: Erik Satie
Title: Satiesfictions - Saunters with Eric Satie
Year of Production: 2014
Length: 00:54:00
Director: Youlian Tabakov, AnneKathrin Peitz Soloists: Piano Duo GrauSchumacher, Steffen Schleiermacher, Maria Eydmann, Timothy Fallon
Content:
Always armed with a melon, umbrella and wisecracks, he is not only on the outside the strangest fellow in French music history: Erik Satie was a composer, designer, church founder, PR pioneer and master of aperçus. In playful episodes the documentary"Satiesfictions" by Youlian Tabakov and Anne-Kathrin Peitz illuminates the phenomenon that is Satie: His countless ads evolve into real commercials and his drawings into cartoons. Interwoven with accounts by Satie associates and music experts, the film offers a unique insight into Satie's cosmos of word and sound, featuring divas, dogs, and children, pianists playing on pianos stacked atop each other or performers turning into "musical furniture".
Production: A production of Accentus Music in coproduction with WDR in co-operation with ARTE
Format: HDTV 16:9
Year of Production: 2014 Title: Classical Music for Everyone? A documentary about the popularization of classical music Length: 00:52:00
Number: 9575 Composer: Director: Günter Atteln
Content:
Although the aesthetics of staging and broadcasting classical music haven’t changed much within the past 30 years, a parallel universe driven by a new event culture, marketing strategies and stardom has developed. With the first CD in 1982 as the starting point of the “popularization of classical music” the phenomenon found ist peak in the 1990s with the overwhelming success of the “Three Tenors.” Günter Atteln’s documentary “Classical Music for Everyone?” offers a close look at the origin and development of classical music presentation. Interviews with insiders in the field provide a unique insight and outlook on the future of this genre.
Production: ACCENTUS Music in co-production with ZDF and ARTE
Format: HDTV 16:9
Year of Production: 2014 Title: The Return is the Movement of Tao: Zhu Xiao-Mei and the Goldberg Variations Length: 00:52:29
Number: 9578 Composer: J.S. Bach Director: Michel Mollard Soloists: Zhu Xiao-Mei
Content:
“The Return is the Movement of Tao” pays tribute to one of the most renowned interpreters of J.S. Bach’s music: the outstanding Chinese pianist Zhu Xiao-Mei. Shot in places that are dear to her, such as Paris, Buenos Aires and the winter beauty of the Alps, Michel Mollard's documentary centers on music and its mystery, on the links between Bach and Lao-Tze and on the dialogue between the cultures, especially between the West and China. It offers profound insight into the mind of a fascinating artist, her vision of the Goldberg Variations and on what makes this great masterpiece so powerful.
Production: MMP (France) in co-operation with ACCENTUS Music (Germany)
Format: HDTV 16:9
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Documentary / classical music Number: 9741 Composer: Mozart Director: Christian Berger
Year of Production: 2014 Title: Lang Lang & Nikolaus Harnoncourt: Mission Mozart Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Nikolaus Harnoncourt Wiener Philharmoniker 00:52:00 00:42:00
Soloists: Lang Lang
Content:
In spring 2014 the Vienna Musikverein turned into a music laboratory, a recording studio and into a venue for a very exciting enounter of two seemingly very different artists: Nikolaus Harnoncourt, well-known as an intellectual musician who came to attention as a period-practice and Lang Lang, a superstar, a pianist of stunning virtuosity and freewheeling music instincts, together with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra record the Mozart Piano Concertos No. 17 K453 in G major and No. 24 K491 in Cminor. This documentary is a revealing insight into the creative process of two of the most distinctive and influential musicians in the world today.
Production: A BFMI coproduction with ZDF/ARTE, Sony Classical International and Deutsche Welle
Format: HDTV 16:9
Year of Production: 2014 Title: Vivaldi: The Four Seasons Recomposed By Max Richter - The Berlin Concert Length: 00:54:00
Number: 9750 Composer: Director: George Scott
Content:
Vivaldi's Four Seasons may be the most widely heard piece of classical music ever composed. As the composer Max Richter suggests, “The piece is part of the musical landscape, and a part of my daily life. I hear it in supermarkets, and it’s always turning up in TV ads.” He has approached his "Vivaldi Recomposed"-project as an admirer of Vivaldi, but no less importantly, as a composer. “Anything that a composer writes is part of a conversation with music that has gone before,” he says. Max Richter’s co-conspirator in the documentary on this project is Daniel Hope, the British violinist; and the orchestra "l'arte del mondo" with violinist Werner Ehrhardt, its artistic director.
Production: Isis Productions for Deutsche Grammophon
Number: A04050038 Composer:
Format: HDTV 16:9
Title: Richard Strauss – At The End of the Rainbow
Year of Production: 2014
Length: 01:37:00
Director: Eric Schulz
Content:
Richard Strauss – who regarded himself as the last great composer ‘at the end of the rainbow’ - for sure is one of the most interesting artists of his time. This documentary by Eric Schulz (also known for the film "Karajan – The Second Life") on theoccasion of the composer’s 150th birthday gives insight into the personality and the works of Richard Strauss with never-released archive material and high-class interview partners such as Brigitte Fassbaender, Klaus König, Raymond Holden, ChristianStrauss, Walter Werbeck, Emma Moore.
Production: UNITEL, Servus TV
Format: HDTV 16:9
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Documentary / Classical Music Number: A05550371 Composer:
Title: Christian Thielemann – My Strauss
Year of Production: 2014
Length: 00:45:00
Director: Andreas Morell
Content:
On the occasion of Richard Strauss‘ 150th birthday, conductor Christian Thielemann reflects in an intensive portrait about his personal relation to the composer. Most interesting for Thielemann of course is the conductor and composer Strauss. But also the person, the director, the festival founder and careerist in times of National Socialism finds its place in this documentary.
Production: Produced by 3B-Produktion GmbH, In Koproduktion Format: HDTV 16:9 mit ZDF/3Sat und Unitel
Title: Number: A05550383 From War To Peace Composer: Conductor: Mahler, Strauss, Panufnik Valery Gergiev
Year of Production: 2014
Orchestra: West Eastern Divan Orchestra
Director: Charles Kaye
Content:
This documentary celebrates 20 years of the World Orchestra for Peace (1995-2015 ), with excerpts from the 2014 UNESCO Concert for Peace at the BBC Proms, withworks by Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss and Roxanna Panufnik, conducted by Valery Gergiev. Also featured are a rare archive of Georg Solti with Richard Strauss (1949), Solti's 80th birthday concert at Buckingham Palace (1992) with additional contributions from Irina Bokova (UNESCO Director-General) and many leading players of the World Orchestra for Peace.
Production: UNITEL
Number: A94550002 Composer:
Title: Anna The Great - A life for the opera stage
Year of Production: 2014
Length: 00:50:30 00:41:30
Director: A film by Dmitry Sapun
Soloists: Anna Netrebko, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Piotr Beczala, Valery Gergiev, Plácido Domingo and many more
Content:
A documentary about the great soprano Anna Netrebko by the russian filmmaker Dmitry Sapun which follows her at home in Russia and New York and on the road as she prepares for her performances. It also features interviews with Anna herself, her family, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Piotr Beczala and many of her supporters such as Valery Gergiev and Plácido Domingo.
Production: Fourstudio
Number: 8940 Composer:
Format: HDTV 16:9
Title: Isang Yun in North and South Korea
Year of Production: 2013
Length: 01:00:00
Director: Maria Stodtmeier
Content:
This documentary, filmed in North and South Korea, explores whether music can overcome the boundaries of a divided country. There is one figure of the two Koreas, whose outstanding biography in itself forms a bridge between both worlds: The Korean composer Isang Yun, 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 and in this way taking the viewer on an exciting journey through two political systems that Isang Yun spent his life trying to reconcile.
Production: ACCENTUS Music in co-production with ZDF/Arte
Format: HDTV 16:9
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Documentary / Classical Music Number: 9166 Composer:
Title: Miloš - Heartstrings
Year of Production: 2013
Length: 00:56:00
Director: George Scott
Content:
In early 2011 The UK’s Daily Telegraph newspaper claimed, "The Classical Guitar has a new hero". That man is thirty-year-old Miloš Karadaglic from Montenegro. "I want to wake this instrument from hibernation", he says. From growing up in war-torn Yugoslavia, discovering a battered guitar in his parents’ bedroom, Heartstrings tells the story of his love affair with the guitar, taking it to concert halls around the world and restoring it to ist rightful place in the pantheon of classical music. Thedocumentary was filmed throughout 2012, the breakthrough year on the concert stage for Miloš with sold-out debut performances and tours around the word, and charts the guitarist’s story to date.
Production: Universal
Number: 9576 Composer: Beethoven, Haydn, Bartók, Carter
Format: HDTV 16:9
Title: Speak The Music - Robert Mann
Year of Production: 2013
Length: 00:58:38
Director: Allan Mille Soloists: Robert Mann
Content:
Robert Mann has been a legendary force in music for seventy years. As founder and first violinist of the Juilliard String Quartet in 1946, he brought an astonishing new sense of energy to chamber music worldwide. "Speak the music" traces Mann's career as performer, and as composer and devoted teacher. It includes performances of Haydn and Beethoven quartets, as well as Bartok and Elliott Carter, whom the Juilliard Quartet championed. The film also highlights Mann working with young quartets in his typically no-holds-barred master classes. Appearing in the film are Seiji Ozawa, Elliott Carter, and Itzhak Perlman.
Production: The Music Project for Television (USA) in cooperation with ACCENTUS Music (Germany)
Title: Lang Lang - The Highest Level
Number: 9740 Composer:
Format: HDTV 16:9
Year of Production: 2013
Length: 01:00:00
Director: Christian Berger Soloists: Simon Rattle, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Content:
“The Highest Level“ explores the Berlin recording session of Lang Lang and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle. The documentary provides insight into processes that are usually veiled: the recording of an album in aleague of its own: the preparation of the musicians, the recording in the Philharmonie Berlin, the battle for the perfect sound, the mixing and balancing units during the audio post-production. It is the striking distance to the artists that makes thefilm an intimate experience. Lang Lang, Sir Simon Rattle, and the musicians of the Berliner Philharmoniker, but of course the audio engineers as well are taking the centre stage. The musical pieces to be recorded are Béla Bartóks Piano Concert No. 2and Sergei Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3.
Production: A co-production of BFMI with C Major Entertainment Format: HDTV 16:9 and Sony Classical International in association with DW-TV
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Documentary / Classical Music Number: 9744 Composer:
Title: Mariss Jansons: Master Class
Year of Production: 2013
Length: 2 x 35'
Director: Joost Honselaar, Dorette Kuipers, Jorgo Hoogervorst, Hans van den Boom
Content:
This 2 x 35 minutes program follows three young talented conductors in a master class with the renowned chief conductor Mariss Jansons of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. The three young participants, the Hungarian Gergely Madaras, the Chinese Yu Lu and British Alexander Prior - all well under thirty - , were selected from a total of 80 international candidates. They lead the RCO during rehearsals of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique and Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony for two days under the critical eye of maestro Mariss Janson. The film gives an interesting insight into the art of conducting and the conducting techniques of one of Europe’s most celebrated maestros.
Production: AVRO
Number: 9748 Composer:
Format: HDTV 16:9
Title: Sound of the Sidewalks
Year of Production: 2013
Length: 4 x 26'
Director: Günter Atteln, AnneKathrin Peitz
Content:
You can find them standing in walkways, in front of bars or in the Paris metro, playing rock music, classical, Latin American or Caribbean rhythms on the world’s largest public stage: the street. This series is dedicated to street musicians in Europe‘on the road’ with artists of life, dropouts, and virtuosos. Some of the résumés that can be discovered here are incredible, touching, and yet written by life. Whether getting up in the morning in Paris in search of a suitable location for the nextperformance, in dispute with the local authorities in Cologne or on nightly strolls through the lonely streets of Amsterdam, the camera is always there, allowing the audience to participate in the lives of these artists of life.
Production: ACCENTUS MUSIC in co-production with ZDF / Arte
Number: 9841 Composer:
Title: Stravinsky in Hollywood
Format: HDTV 16:9 Year of Production: 2013
Length: 00:54:00
Director: Marco Capalbo Soloists: Robert Craft
Content:
Stravinsky in Hollywood explores the short-lived film career of this legendary composer, it is the story of his trials and tribulations with the Hollywood Studios, the story of an ‘old school’ European artist knocking heads with the brash New World.Igor Stravinsky lived in the heart of Hollywood from 1939 until shortly before his death in 1971 – longer than in any other single place. He came expecting to find lucrative work composing for the movies. The 60-minute film uses a combination of existing archival footage (some of it never before seen), contemporary interviews with experts in the field and living movie composers, and scenes from several big studio films of the 40s brought together – for the first time – with the music which Stravinsky wrote for them.
Production: BFMI in co-production with WDR / Arte
Format: HDTV 16:9
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Documentary / Classical Music Number: 9858 Composer:
Title: Riccardo Chailly - A Portrait
Year of Production: 2013
Length: 00:54:00
Director: Paul Smaczny
Content:
Riccardo Chailly is one of the most exciting musicians of our time. This very first portrait shows him working with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and other leading orchestras, accompanies him on tour and with his family in Italy. It delineates theartist, the conductor as well as the husband, (grand)father and patriarch. It shows him in private settings as well as at work with leading orchestras of the world: With the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig he continues his acclaimed Mahler cycle; his passion for opera is documented in Valencia, where he recently produced Puccini’s “La Bohéme” with young vocal talents (cf. Puccini, La Bohème from Valencia. Prog. No. A93050003).
Production: A production of Accentus Music in coproduction with MDR/arte
Format: HDTV 16:9
Year of Production: 2013 Title: Paths Through The Labyrinth - The Composer Krzysztof Penderecki
Number: 9861 Composer:
Length: 01:28:00 00:57:00
Director: Anna Schmidt
Content:
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 has been studying this world-famous artist, speaking also with high-carat companions: Anne-Sophie 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. And throughout, the composer reflects on the meteoric beginning to his career, unexpected turning points in his life andingenious ideas. Thoughts, dialogues, extracts from his music and film scores, encounters and the natural world all condense to create a fascinating, multi-layered portrait including also very rare archive material.
Production: A production of EIKON MITTE in co-production with Format: HDTV 16:9 MDR and Bow & Axe Entertainment Warsaw for TVP Poland
Number: 9862 Composer:
Title: Daniel Hope: The Secrets of the Violin
Year of Production: 2013
Length: 3 x 30' 01:00:00
Director: Nicole Kraack
Content:
There is faking and haggling, lying and betrayal in THE SECRETS OF THE VIOLIN. It is all about a lot of money. Fans pay up to 20 million euros for one of such rare instruments of Antonio Stradivari (1644 – 1737) or Giuseppe Guarneri, also known as ‘del Gesu’ (1698 – 1744). 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. (Length: 3 x 30' // 1 x 60')
Production: Signed Media in co-production with ZDF/Arte
Format: HDTV 16:9
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Documentary / Classical Music Number: A02550053 Composer:
Title: Beethoven for all
Year of Production: 2013
Length: 00:56:00
Director: Birgit Herdlitschke
Content:
The film accompanies the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra through its rehearsals and concerts for the live recording of the Beethoven CD Box containing all nine symphonies. We experience the orchestra’s musicians and ist maestro at highly personal moments, whether at work (by no means a conflict-free zone) or “off duty” at parties and in private. Unreservedly frank conversations show the musicians and Daniel Barenboim explaining their vision, their hopes, and also their fears and failures - both on the musical and the political front - and the lessons they have learnt.
Production: A production of nhb for Universal Music in coproduction with Fundación Pública Andaluza and Fundación Barenboim-Said
Number: 9105 Composer:
Title: John Cage - Journeys in Sound
Format: HDTV 16:9
Year of Production: 2012
Length: 00:58:00
Director: Allan Miller and Paul Smaczny
Content:
On the occasion of the 100th birthday of the American composer in autumn 2012, the documentary honors one of the most extraordinary protagonists of 20th century music. The program is directed by Oscar® winner Allan Miller, whom the 'New York Times' called 'America's foremost filmmaker of documentaries on classical music', co-directed by Paul Smaczny. Shot in America, Germany and Japan, the program premieres rare archival footage; presenting concert excerpts and a set of short stories, featuring associates of Cage and contemporary artists, playfully delineating different aspects of John Cage. Protagonists are Yoko Ono, David Tudor, Christian Wolff, Steffen Schleiermacher, Toshio Hosokawa, Mayumi Miyata, Calvin Tomkins and many others. The filmwas awarded as 'best documentary' at the Golden Prague Festival 2012 and best educational program at FIFA Montréal 2013.<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/42135164" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe>
Production: ACCENTUS Music in co-production with WDR
Number: 9832 Composer:
Title: 800 Years St. Thomas Boys Choir
Format: HDTV 16:9 Year of Production: 2012
Length: 01:53:00
Director: Paul Smaczny and Günter Atteln
Content:
In 2012 the St. Thomas Boys Choir Leipzig celebrated its 800th birthday. An almost unbelievable period of time, if one considers that the choir outlasted all political systems, maintaining its unbroken traditions over the centuries, and was thus ableto hold onto established principles such as the inclusion of the elder boys in the education of the younger ones. The film accompanied the St. Thomas Boys Choir and their choir master Georg Christoph Biller over the period of one year, immersing theaudience in a unique world between motet, boarding school and football pitch, into a life that is distinguished by success and pressure to perform, doubts and pride, homesickness and genuine friendship.
Production: ACCENTUS Music in co-production with MDR/Arte
Format: HDTV 16:9
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Documentary / Classical Music Number: 9834 Composer:
Title: Solti - Journey of a Lifetime
Year of Production: 2012
Length: 00:52:00
Director: Georg Wübbolt
Content:
Solti’s professional advancement starts at a time when Germany was on its knees. The film depicts this situation by including historical video documents. Only a couple of hours before his death on 5th September 1997, he made his last corrections forthe book. By using a narrator who reads excerpts of his biography, Solti is virtually given a voice in this film. The interview partners add an important dimension to the film. All of them were very well acquainted with Solti and have fascinating stories to tell. In regards to capturing performances, Solti was as productive as Bernstein and Karajan. The archives of the ARD network list about 120 TV productions, interviews, rehearsals. Further rich sources are the archives of BR, HR, SWR, ORF, Unitel and the BBC.
Production: BFMI in cooperation with BR / Arte
Number: 9849 Composer:
Title: Crossing Borders: Daniel Barenboim
Format: HDTV 16:9 Year of Production: 2012
Length: 02:11:00 01:51:00
Director: Paul Smaczny
Content:
This three-part documentary accompanies outstanding artist Daniel Barenboim on his quest into the social meaning of music and the secrets of sound. Part 1: Music and Politics (55' min) // Part 2: Musical Approaches (28' min) // Part 3: Part 3 Music and Taboo (28' min / UPCOMING 58' min).
Production: ACCENTUS Music in co-production with ZDF/Arte
Number: 9859 Composer:
Title: The Colón Ring - Wagner in Buenos Aires
Format: HDTV 16:9 Year of Production: 2012
Length: 01:33:00
Director: Hans Christoph von Bock
Content:
To honor Richard Wagner's 200th birthday, Latin America's famous opera house in Buenos Aires hosts a one-of-a-kind project: Performing Wagner's powerful music drama "The Ring of the Nibelung" on stage in a single day. The documentary film "Der ColónRing - Wagner in Buenos Aires" (The Colón Ring - Wagner in Buenos Aires), directed by Hans Christoph von Bock, follows each step of the unusual production. The film aims to entertain viewers while showing them how Wagner's vision of "The Ring of the Nibelung" emerges as a Gesamtkunstwerk and an allencompassing live theater experience.
Production: BFMI in co-production with Teatro Colón and Deutsche Welle
Format: HDTV 16:9
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Documentary / Classical Music Number: A02504764 Composer:
Year of Production: 2012 Title: Maestro or Mephisto - the Real Sir Georg Solti Conductor: Length: Georg Solti 00:52:00
Director: Andy King Dabbs
Content:
This film tells the story of one of the greatest and most controversial conductors of the 20th century. The Hungarian born Georg Solti had huge drive, energy and ambition. A combination of willpower and extraordinary talent took him to the peak of musical power and prestige. It shows how Solti took music making in opera houses and orchestras to new levels, how he harnessed recording, and later television, to reach out to new audiences and how he nurtured remarkable new talent through a winning, if not always endearing, combination of ambition, technique, charm, sheer-bloody mindedness and genius.The film includes remarkably candid interviews which Solti gave just before his death, in which he talked with great honesty about his life, his challenges and achievements. It also includes new interviews with artists and musicians who worked closely with him. It also looks at his remarkable legacy which is still shaping classical music today – the World Orchestra for Peace, born of his personalexperience of a Europe fractured by war, the Solti Academy for Singers and the Solti conducting prize.
Production: A BBC / UNITEL CLASSICA co-production
Number: A04001574 Composer:
Title: Karajan The Second Life Conductor: Herbert von Karajan
Year of Production: 2012
Length: 01:20:00 00:52:00
Director: Eric Schulz
Content:
The film ‘Karajan – The Second Life’ offers a fascinating glimpse of the reality of Karajan’s work in the recording studio, painting a nuanced portrait of the conductor and his musical ideas. The main focus is on the question of what will remain of Karajan, who recorded more albums than any other musician, and of his incomparably ambitious artistic legacy. The film includes a wealth of archival footage never shown before (about 90% of the music excerpts shown have never been released before), depicting Karajan during rehearsals and recording sessions, including works that have not been shown under his baton previously on film or TV (e.g. Le Sacre du printemps and Siegfried). Renowned colleagues and contemporaries of Karajan are interviewed: Anne-Sophie Mutter, Peter Alward, David Bell, Brigitte Fassbaender, Eberhard Finke, Wolfgang Gülich, Hans Hirsch, Klaus König, Krzysztof Polonek, Ernst Pöppel, Godehard Pruin, Klaus Stoll, Peter Uehling, Hans Weber and Andrew Wedman. Excerpts from privately recorded phone conversations between Karajan and his recording producer Günter Hermanns were evaluated exclusively for this film, conveying an authentic insight into the way Karajan worked with his team.
Production: A production of ServusTV in co-production with UNITEL CLASSICA
Number: A045006410000 Composer:
Title: The World Of The Ring Conductor: Christian Thielemann
Format: HDTV 16:9
Year of Production: 2012
Length: 4 x 90' 4 x 60'
Director: Felix Breisach / SvenEric Bechtolf Soloists: Albert Dohmen, Markus Eiche, Lippert, Herbert, Adrian Eröd, Lars Woldt, Ain Anger / Set and Costumes: Rolf Glittenberg / Marianne Glittenberg
Content:
Christian Thielemann, the most soughtafter Wagner conductor of our time, looks into the story behind one of the most ambitious opera projects of music history: the genesis and reception of Wagner's "Der Ring des Nibelungen" – in a four-part documentary by film director Eric Schulz.
Production: A co-production of UNITEL CLASSICA, ZDF/3sat and Format: HDTV 16:9 ORF
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Documentary / Classical Music Number: A04550010 Composer:
Title: Verdi & Wagner - 6 part documentary series
Year of Production: 2012
Length: 6 x 27'
Director: Christian Kugler, Thomas Macho, Pepe Pippig, Martin Betz, Daniel Gerlach, Anna Schmidt
Content:
"Wagner vs. Verdi" illuminates the two composers, the Italian Giuseppe Verdi and the German Richard Wagner from different and very personal angles: Six episodes that explore various aspects of live and work of the two titans of opera: politics, love,music and emotions. Big names of the classical music scene such as conductor Christian Thielemann and singer Rolando Villazón are being interviewed as well as music experts and designated Verdi and Wagner fans and haters. A diverse and entertaining documentary series for newcomers and connoisseurs alike. PART 1: … and the Effects of their Music - Director: Christian Kugler (Length: 26' - A045500090001) / PART 2: The Chant - Director: Thomas Macho (Length: 27' - A045500090002) / PART 3: The Revolutionairies - Director: Pepe Pippig (Length: 27' - A045500090003) / PART 4: …and the Women - Director: Martin Betz (Length: 27' - A045500090004) / PART 5: The Wagner Religion Director: Daniel Gerlach (Length: 27' - A045500090005) / PART 6: Verdi's World - Director: Anna Schmidt (Length: 27' - A045500090006) // ALSO AVAILABLE: Wagner Madness! - Director: Martin Schneider (Length: 43' - A04550010)
Production: A production of makido for ZDF in cooperation with Arte, UNITEL CLASSICA, ORF III and BMUKK
Number: 9292 Composer:
Title: Andrea Bocelli: The Making Of A Dream
Format: HDTV 16:9
Year of Production: 2011
Length: 00:50:00
Director:
Content:
This film shows the making of a once in a lifetime musical event: The world’s most beloved tenor, Andrea Bocelli, gifts New York City with a free concert with the New York Philharmonic to take place at Central Park’s Great Lawn, joined by Celine Dion, Tony Bennett and Bryn Terfel. The New York Philharmonic’s music director, Alan Gilbert, conducts.
Production: Universal Music
Number: A05050495 Composer:
Format: 16:9
Year of Production: 2011 Title: George London - Between Gods and Demons
Length: 01:00:00
Director: Marita Stocker
Content:
George London was one of the most impressive bass-baritones of the postwar era. He sang on the side of Maria Callas, Renata Tebaldi and Nicolai Gedda, to name only a few, and captured the audience’s hearts with his distinctive voice and his charismatic stage presence. Way too early he had to stop his singing career due to a vocal chord disease. The film portrays this exceptional artist in all its diversity, shows rare archive footage of his great performances as an opera singer but also as an interpreter of traditional spirituals and operetta. Another important element of the film are interviews with his widow Nora London, with former colleagues, experts and current stars of the opera scene as Neil Shicoff, Catherine Malfitano and Deborah Polaski, who have been taught by George London, supported in their career by the George London Foundation or see themselves as his followers.
Production: Arthaus
Format: HDTV
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Documentary / Classical Music Number: 9547 Composer:
Title: Kinshasa Symphony
Year of Production: 2010
Length: 01:30:00 01:00:00
Director: Claus Wischmann, Martin Baer
Content:
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 fêtes”, a kind of open garage where the orchestra practises. But for its members this is noreason 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.
Production: Sounding Images in coproduction with WDR and RBB
Number: 9777 Composer:
Title: Mirella Freni – A Life Devoted to Opera
Format: HDTV
Year of Production: 2010
Length: 00:58:00
Director: Marita Stocker
Content:
Mirella Freni is one of the most remarkable soprano singers in the world of opera. She has been winning over audiences for half a century with her ever fresh and youthful vocals and a voice quality which remains undiminished. In 2010, the year of her75th birthday and the 55th anniversary of her stage debut, she receives the MIDEMClassical Award in the category ‘Lifetime Achievement’. The portrait shows Mirella Freni during a Singing Class at the Centro Universale del Bel Canto (CUBeC) in her hometown of Modena. Interviews with colleagues and friends such as tenor Plácido Domingo complete the portrait.
Production: Arthaus Musik
Number: 9779 Composer:
Title: Murray Perahia - Not Of This World
Format: HDTV 16:9 Year of Production: 2010
Length: 00:52:00
Director: Claus Wischmann, Holger Preuße Soloists: Murray Perahia
Content:
After over thirty years on the concert stage the pianist Murray Perahia has himself become a legend, one of the most sought-after pianists of our time. This film is not designed to be a conventional portrait. The documentary observes Perahia at workon the interpretation of some pieces by Chopin and Schumann at his holiday home in Switzerland. It shows him as conductor of the famous Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, follows him into the recording studio and a master class in Hanover and finally captures a concert performance at a Warsaw Chopin recital in February 2010. Interviews with Murray Perahia cast light on his approach to music, his personality and the way he has managed to cope with the personal crises that has beset him.
Production: Sounding Images / Dokfilm in co-production with RBB and arte
Format: HDTV 16:9
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Documentary / Classical Music Number: 9820 Composer:
Title: Carlos Kleiber - I Am Lost To The World
Year of Production: 2010
Length: 01:00:00
Director: Georg Wübbolt
Content:
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.
Production: BFMI with ZDF/3sat
Number: 9552 Composer:
Title: Classical Music and Cold War
Format: HDTV 16:9 Year of Production: 2009
Length: 00:52:00
Director: Thomas Zintl
Content:
»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, »Symphony & Socialism« 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 ofGermany (FRG)
Production: BFMI in co-production with Arte, RBB, WDR and ORF Format: HDTV 16:9
Number: 9553 Composer:
Title: Paul Wittgenstein
Year of Production: 2009
Length: 01:00:00
Director: Michael Beyer
Content:
Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian concert pianist, loses his arm at the age of twentyseven, while serving as an officer in the First World War. Nonetheless, he is set on continuing 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.
Production: BFMI
Format: HDTV 16:9
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Documentary / Classical Music Year of Production: 2009 Title: Joseph Haydn - Libertine & His Master's Servant
Number: 9555 Composer:
Length: 00:56:00
Director: Nele Münchmeyer
Content:
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.
Production: BFMI in co-production with ZDF
Number: 9784 Composer:
Title: Antonio Vivaldi - The Red Priest
Format: HDTV 16:9 Year of Production: 2009
Length: 00:58:00
Director: Kurt Ockermüller
Content:
This fascinating film tells the exciting life-story of the world-renowned composer Antonio Vivaldi, the redhaired priest. Famous artists and musicologists describe the great importance of Vivaldi’s music for our time. Highlight of the film is the terrific world premiere of Vivaldi’s great choral work ‘Dixit Dominus’, which was attributed to his contemporary Baldassare Galuppi for more than 200 years. Recorded at original locations in Venice, Vienna and Dresden and others.
Production: Eikon
Number: A05050459 Composer: Georg Friedrich Händel
Format: 16:9
Title: Barock Star - George Frederic Handel
Year of Production: 2009
Length: 01:00:00
Director: Ulrich Meyszies
Content:
„Barock Star“ tells the story of Handel‘s life as he journeyed through baroque Europe, leaving Germany for Italy and experiencing Florence, Rome and Venice, before arriving in London to begin the career that would bring him a worldwide reputation. The film shows the original locations in Halle, Rome, Venice, Florence and London that Handel himself visited. Stars and specialists in today‘s baroque music scene and descendants of Handel‘s friends and sponsors talk about their encounters with the maestro and his work, including Christopher Hogwood and Alan Curtis, Andrea Marcon, Trevor Pinnock and Howard Arman, Sandrine Piau, Christine Schäfer and Klara Ek, Handel specialist Donald Burrows Prince Ruspoli-Sforza and Princess Claudia Ruspoli. Handel‘s music is performed by The English Concert, the Händelfestspielorchester Halle, the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and Il Complesso Barocco.
Production: Arthaus
Format: HDTV
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Documentary / Classical Music Number: A05050505 Composer: Michael Nyman
Title: Michael Nyman in Progress
Year of Production: 2009
Director:
Content:
The film is about a very special moment in the famous composers artistic life. Composing with innovative minimalism for films as memorable as “The Draughtsman’s Contract”, “The Ogre”, “Man on Wire”, and most famously for Campion´s “The Piano”, he hasreached an international audience. But now, Michael Nyman is about to become a filmmaker himself. At first it was documenting, „collecting moments“, Michael Nyman was „just curious about the visual world out there“ but right now this turns into an art process. Featuring unprecedented access to the composer and his working life, this film shows one of the great composers of our time in all his diversity and endless energy. From London to Berlin, in Mexico, Poland, the Netherlands and Portugal thisfilm is also a journey through the musical world today. It shows Michael Nyman, the musician, in his concerts with the Michael Nyman Band and live collaborations with other internationally known musicians or orchestras. But throughout his journeys, this film discovers Nymans increasing passion for filming and photography. Witnessing the development of Nyman´s visual works from the very moment of inspiration right through to his editing of the footage and the combination of the visuals with his music, this film gives a unique insight into Michael Nyman´s very personal views, his thoughts and emotions; his world.
Production: Arthaus
Format: HDTV
Title: Malibran rediscovered - Cecilia Bartoli
Number: 9208 Composer:
Year of Production: 2008
Length: 00:52:00
Director: Michael Sturminger
Content:
Cecilia Bartoli celebrates the 200th birthday of Maria Malibran with her personal tribute to female superstar Maria Malibran, one of the most famous opera singers of the 19th century. Malibran’s extensive, exceptionally varied repertoire also demanded a range of emotional and dramatic expressiveness to which only an outstanding talent like Cecilia Bartoli’s could do justice. “Malibran rediscovered” features a fascinating 67 minute film following Cecilia Bartoli as she researches the life of MariaMalibran and records their “Maria” album.
Production: Lotus Film
Number: 9290 Composer:
Format: 16:9
Title: Sasha Waltz – Garden of Lust
Year of Production: 2008
Length: 03:25:00
Director: Brigitte Kramer
Content:
This film portrait of the choreographer Sasha Waltz depicts the progress of her work between 1992 and 2007, describing her exhilarating course through from the early choreographies to her large opera productions. An appreciation for Contemporary Dance and an insight into the life and work of the choreographer are conveyed filmically and entertainingly.
Production: NACHTAKTIV
Format: 16:9
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Documentary / Classical Music Number: A05512343 Composer: Richard Wagner
Title: Bayreuth - From Myth to Modernity
Year of Production: 2008
Length: 01:30:00
Director: Michael Kloft, Peter Siebenmorgen
Content:
Bayreuth – From Myth to Modernity’ describes the collapse of a world order: the twilight of the gods depicted in ‘Götterdämmerung’ is a powerful symbol in the canon of the Bayreuth Festival. Wagnerians of today, however, look confidently toward the future and see in Bayreuth less a twilight than a dawn – the dawn of a new leadership, a new artistic direction, a new era with Wolfgang Wagner’s daughters Eva Wagner-Pasquier and Katharina Wagner.
Production: Spiegel TV and UNITEL in coproduction with ZDF and CLASSICA in cooperation with Arte
Number: 9113 Composer:
Title: The Reichsorchester
Format: HDTV
Year of Production: 2007
Length: 01:30:00 01:00:00
Director: Enrique Sánchez Lansch
Content:
In 2009 the Berlin Philharmonic celebrated 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). Thanks tocontemporary 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.
Production: Eikon Media GmbH
Format: HDTV
Year of Production: 2007 Title: Herbert von Karajan - Maestro for the Screen Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Herbert von Karajan Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, 00:52:00 Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Number: 9203 Composer: Director: Georg Wübbolt
Content:
Herbert von Karajan was the important conductor, who created film and later video productions on his own responsibility. „I am actually born too early“, he said, well knowing, that the video possibilities were still in their very beginnings. Georg Wuebbolt made interviews with Karajan’s team: his Director of photography, his cutter, his secretary, his producer and musicians of Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. This documentary includes outstanding performance material from the Unitel and Telemondial library, as well as unreleased digitally remastered excerpts from the legendaryRBB (SFB) and ORF archive.
Production: BFMI with RBB/Arte and BR
Format: 16:9
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Documentary / Classical Music Number: A05050442 Composer:
Title: Fazil Say - Alla turca
Year of Production: 2006
Length: 01:13:00
Director: Goesta Courkamp
Content:
Fazil Say’s international reputation continues to grown apace, and he has successfully made the step from child prodigy to highly successful international star. As the French newspaper „Le Figaro“ put it: „He is more than just a brilliant pianist - he is set to become one of the greatest artists of the 21st century“. With his combination of extraordinary strength and absolute technical perfection, Fazil Say is a unique character of a kind seldom found in the world of classical music. His incredible gifts and utter commitment to the music are irresistible - and he successfully unites East and West with his personality and musicality. The film shows Fazil Say making music with Turkish pop icon Sertab Erener and interpreting Bach and Beethoven in Istanbul. It also presents excerpts from his compositions “Black Earth” and “Nazim” - the latter filmed during a performance in the amphitheatre at Aspendos.
Production: Arthaus
Number: 9344 Composer:
Format: HDTV
Title: Anna Netrebko: The Woman, The Voice
Year of Production: 2003
Length: 00:52:00
Director: Vincent Paterson
Content:
Vincent Paterson’s camera and imagination have given Anna Netrebko the scope to embrace five totally different characters within about an hour’s screen time. Revealing her true personality through an extensive and intimate interview on childhood, education, career and private matters, she then convinces the viewer as a gifted performer in her portrayals of Mozart’s Donna Anna, Bellini’s Amina, Gounod’s Marguerite, Dvorák’s Rusalka, and Puccini’s Musetta. The visual language of this portrait reflects a contemporary approach of introducing one of the most exceptional sopranos of our time to a wider audience.
Production: BFMI in co-production with Deutsche Grammophon, Format: HDTV 16:9 ORF, SF DRS, YLE & ZDF/arte
Number: 9854 Composer:
Title: Glenn Gould - Russian Journey
Year of Production: 2002
Length: 00:57:00
Director: Yosif Feyginberg
Content:
The date is May 2nd, 1957. Stalin died only four years before and perestroika is still a long way off. However, the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould, who is just 24, arrives in Moscow for an exceptional tour: he is the first North American musician to play behind the iron curtain. Witness accounts from musicians such as Ashkenazy and Rostropovitch, the original recordings of his concerts in Moscow and Leningrad, as well a recording that had never been released before of his lecture-recital in Leningrad make this an invaluable documentary revealing a whole side of Glenn Gould’s past few people are aware of.
Production: DocuTainment Plus Production
Format: 16:9
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Documentary / Classical Music Number: A05510086 Composer: Igor Stravinsky Director:
Year of Production: 1999 Title: Valery Gergiev & Le sacre du printemps Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Valery Gergiev, Igor Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra 00:57:00 Stravinsky
Peter Rump
Content:
This programme records the meeting of two Russian musical giants, as Valéry Gergiev, the most charismatic and dynamic conductor of our day, rehearses, performs and discusses Stravinsky’s masterpiece. Innovative, inspiring and exhilarating, the Sacredu printemps is close to the maestro’s heart. Among a wide range of archive material used in the programme is a rare clip of Igor Stravinsky conducting the Sacre, as well as footage of him talking about his composition.
Production: RM Arts/NPS
Number: A05508367 Composer:
Format: HDTV Year of Production: 1997 Title: Sabine Kupferberg - Woman of a Thousand Faces
Length: 01:00:00
Director: Reiner E. Moritz
Content:
Sabine Kupferberg is a remarkable dancer. At an age when most dancers hang up their shoes, leading dance-makers, including van Manen, Forsythe and Ek, continue to create exciting new pieces for her and her colleagues at Nederlands Dans Theater 3. This company for the over-forties was founded by her partner, the internationally-acclaimed choreographer Jiří Kylián. Her collaboration with Kylián comes into focus in this dance-filled profile which showcases her distinctive talent in a wealth of performance extracts.
Production: RM Arts/NDT/NPS/ZDF
Number: A025035350000 Composer: Director:
Format: HDTV
Year of Production: 1996 Title: Leaving Home - Orchestral Music in the Twentieth Century Orchestra: Conductor: Length: Simon Rattle City of Birmingham Symphony 06:04:00 Orchestra
Barrie Gavin, Deborah May, Peter West
Content:
Written and presented by Sir Simon Rattle, the foremost British conductor of our day, this series forms a fascinating introduction to, and overview of, the music of the twentieth century. Each of the seven programmes feature over thirty minutes of specially-shot music in performance, with Rattle conducting the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.Simon Rattle leads viewers on an exhilarating journey through the music of our time, explaining the chief musical developments from Mahler to the present day. Each programme is illustrated with evocative imagery, archive film and photographs and the featured music is set within the broader context of artistic and social change.Why “Leaving Home”? The story of twentieth-century music is one of leave-takings in many ways. As a wealth of talented composers searched for new creative responses to the world around them, many made departures from the solid ‘home’ foundations of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century music – tonal harmony, melody, regular rhythm and metre. Many had to literally leave home, displaced by political uphevals. A remarkable diversity of expression developed – not all of the difficult or discordant variety commonly associated with modern music. The range is wide and this series samples the work of over thirty composers, discovering new and challenging sounds as well as some unexpectedly familiar music. It presents an extraordinary kaleidoscope of orchestral images, full of contrasts and surprises.The first episode in Format: HDTV
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Documentary / Classical Music Number: A02502994 Composer:
Title: Luciano Pavarotti
Year of Production: 1995
Length: 00:53:00
Director: Nigel Wattis
Content:
Pavarotti has sold more records, performed for more people and commanded higher fees than any other tenor. This rare television interview was given at his summer home in Pesaro in northern Italy. In a frank and characteristically humorous exchange, he talks about his life, his career and his remarkable talent. The programme features lavish excerpts of Pavarotti in performance and there are contributions from his parents and his first singing teacher.
Production: RM Arts/The South Bank Show - LWTP/Bravo
Number: 9311 Composer: Schubert, Stravinsky, J. S. Bach, Mahler, Rossini, Debussy, Mozart, Beethoven
Format: HDTV
Year of Production: 1994 Title: La Casa Dei Suoni - The House of Magical Sounds Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Claudio Abbado The Youth Orchestra of A United 00:50:00 Europe
Director: Daniele Abbado Soloists: Yevgeny Kissin
Content:
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 YouthOrchestra of a United Europe.
Production: Sony
Format: 4:3
Title: Number: 9306 Horowitz: A Reminiscence Composer: Chopin, Clementi, Mozart, Scriabin, Youmans, Tschaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Beethoven, Schumann, Liszt, etc.
Year of Production: 1993
Length: 01:56:00
Director: Pat Jaffe, Bob Eisenhardt Soloists: Vladimir Horowitz, Wanda Toscanini Horowitz
Content:
00:56:00
After Horowitz's death Wanda was interviewed for this production. Also included are segments of the 1974 footage including excerpts from Clementi's Sonata in F-sharp minor and complete performances of Scriabin's Vers la Flamme, op. 72 and Chopin's Introduction and Rondo, op. 16) and segments from "The Last Romantic."
Production: Sony
Format: 4:3
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Documentary / Classical Music Number: A02503609 Composer:
Title: Montserrat Caballé
Year of Production: 1993
Length: 00:52:00
Director: Chris Hunt
Content:
Montserrat Caballé is undoubtedly one of the supreme operatic sopranos of the post-war era and her association with the late Freddie Mercury and Queen brought her a huge new audience. This film portrait celebrates her long, distinguished and uniquelyvaried career. It centres on a major interview with Caballé and features numerous performance extracts. There are also contributions from some of opera's biggest names, including Dame Joan Sutherland, Placido Domingo and José Carreras.
Production: RM Arts/Iambic Productions/LWT South Bank Show
Number: A02504111 Composer:
Title: Sylvie Guillem
Format: HDTV Year of Production: 1993
Length: 00:54:00
Director: Nigel Wattis
Content:
Sylvie Guillem is a dance superstar whose breathtaking technique ranks her beside the likes of Nureyev and Baryshnikov. She rarely agrees to interviews but co-operated fully with director Nigel Wattis for this profile. The programme centres on film of Guillem rehearsing and performing a range of pieces, both contemporary and classical, which display her astonishing virtuosity. She talks incisively about working with some of the world's top choreographers.
Production: RM Arts/LWT South Bank Show/WDR
Number: A05510260 Composer: Gioachino Rossini, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Antonio Vivaldi
Title: Cecilia Bartoli
Format: HDTV Year of Production: 1992
Length: 00:52:00
Director: David Thomas
Content:
The Italian mezzo-soprano has been hailed as the most exciting, accomplished and beautiful Rossini singer to appear in modern times. Shot largely on location in Italy, this film celebrates the talents of both Bartoli and Rossini. She is seen performing Rossini arias at the famous Gran Teatro la Fenice in Venice, in recital in London, and at home in Rome. Throughout the programme, Bartoli exhibits the passion and enthusiasm she brings to all her performances.
Production: RM Arts/LWT South Bank Show/Decca
Number: A02504060 Composer:
Title: Vera Lynn
Format: HDTV Year of Production: 1991
Length: 00:52:00
Director: Desmond Wilcox
Content:
At the height of her popularity during World War Two, the singer Dame Vera Lynn captured the heart of the British nation with ballads such as The White Cliffs of Dover and We'll Meet Again. As the Forces' sweetheart, she symbolised the fortitude withwhich Britain survived the Blitz. She has been called upon to recreate the spirit of resilience and patriotic pride ever since. This portrait celebrates Dame Vera – her music and her times.
Production: RM Arts/Wilcox Bulmer Productions/LWT South Bank Show
Format: HDTV
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Documentary / Classical Music Number: A05014189 Composer:
Title: Jiří Kylian
Year of Production: 1991
Length: 01:01:00
Director: Hans Hulscher
Content:
The acclaimed Czech choreographer Jiří Kylián worked with the Nederlands Dans Theater for over twenty years and, under his direction the company established an international reputation. This intimate portrait charts his career, shows him at work, illustrates the development of his choreography with extensive extracts from his ballets, and includes archive film and contributions from colleagues. Kylián also talks about the evolution of his work.
Production: NPS/RM-Arts/WDR/La Sept
Number: 9337 Composer:
Title: The Impossible Dream
Format: HDTV Year of Production: 1990
Length: 00:57:00
Director: Ignazio Agosta
Content:
On the evening of July 7, 1990 an 'impossible dream' came true. Against the majetic backdrop of the Baths of Caracalla in Rome, superstar tenors José Carreras, Placído Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti were joined by conductor Zubin Mehta and more than two hundred musicians for a spectacular event that was to make musical history. 'The Impossible Dream' is telling the extraordinary story of this massive musical mega-hit. Featuring interviews with the three star tenors, this documentary offers a unique glimpse behind the scenes, documenting the creation and impact of this unparalleled musical phenomenon.
Production: A Mario Dradi Production with Salzburg Festival
Format: 4:3
Year of Production: 1990 Title: Abbado in Berlin – The First Year Orchestra: Length: Berliner Philharmoniker 01:00:00
Number: 9868 Composer: Director: A Film by Bob Eisenhardt, Susan Froemke, Peter Gelb
Content:
The vote was over, and a decision had been made: Claudio Abbado was the new chief conductor of the Berliner Philharmoniker. So it was in 1989, when – for the first time – the orchestra itself decided who was to be its leader. The result was a surprise for the music world – and also for Abbado himself. This documentary from 1990 traces the first year of the new chief conductor in Berlin, the special atmosphere of new beginnings and the diverse expectations the musicians had of Herbert von Karajan’s successor. Other than this, many insights are provided into the first artistic projects of the new man at the helm, starting with the rehearsals for Mahler’s First Symphony with which he ushered in his tenure in December 1989. We are also taken behind the scenes to see among other things Abbado’s first visit to Karajan’s room – which was now to be his – and to a first birthday party with the musicians of the Berliner Philharmoniker. Of course, the members of the orchestra have their say, and tell of their hopes and what they expected of their new boss. Even today, these impressions convey the special magic that was in the air at that time.
Production: A CAMI Video Production in cooperation with Channel 4, Deutsche Grammophon, La Sept, NOS , ORF, RAI 1, Thirteen/WNET, ZDF
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Documentary / Classical Music Number: A01502372 Composer:
Title: Dance Crazy in Hollywood
Year of Production: 1990
Length: 00:57:00
Director: Robert Kuperberg
Content:
Hermes Pan began choreographing Hollywood musicals in 1933, when he embarked on a longrunning collaboration with Fred Astaire. For over three decades he was the man who made the stars dance - Ginger Rogers, Betty Grable, Rita Hayworth, Cyd Charisse,Shirley MacLaine, Frank Sinatra, Bob Fosse and many others. In this, the last programme he made before his death in 1990, Pan introduces a dance extravaganza which takes viewers back to the days when musicals were all the rage on the silver screen.
Production: RM Arts/Clara Films/Canal Plus
Number: A05510303 Composer:
Title: William Forsythe at Work
Format: HDTV Year of Production: 1990
Length: 00:56:00
Director: AndrĂŠ S. Labarthe
Content:
As director of the Frankfurt Ballet, American choreographer William Forsythe leaped to prominence, shaping an international troupe of dancers into the brilliant instrument of his choreographic and theatrical imagination. This programme shows Forsytheworking with the company on Impressing the Tsar, and introducing dancers of the New York City Ballet to his rigorous methods, as he prepares Behind the China Dogs.
Production: RM Arts/ZDF/La Sept
Number: 9310 Composer:
Title: Jessye Norman sings Carmen
Format: HDTV Year of Production: 1989
Length: 01:00:00
Director: Peter Gelb Soloists: Jessye Norman
Content:
Private recording sessions filmed in Paris.
Production: Sony
Number: 9339 Composer:
Format: 16:9
Title: Karajan in Salzburg Conductor: Herbert von Karajan
Year of Production: 1988
Length: 01:30:00
Director: Deborah Dickson, Susan Froemke
Content:
This film shows Herbert von Karajan rehearsing Don Giovanni and a Wagner concert for the Salzburg Festival. It is a deeply moving tribute to one of the greatest musicians of the century. As one of the highlights: Karajan and Jessye Norman performingIsolde's Liebestod.
Production: SONY
Format: 4:3
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Documentary / Classical Music Number: A02503063 Composer:
Title: Sylvie Guillem at Work
Year of Production: 1988
Length: 00:54:00
Director: André S. Labarthe
Content:
This portrait shows the prima ballerina in her daily round of classes, rehearsals and performances, revealing her dedication to perfection. Sylvie Guillem's preparation for Nureyev's Raymonda, her first performances in Rudi van Dantzig's Four Last Songs and William Forsythe's In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated, and her appearance at a gala, dancing Bejart's La Luna, are all recorded for posterity in this film.
Production: RM Arts/La Sept
Number: A025041620000 Composer:
Title: The Story of Fashion
Format: HDTV Year of Production: 1988
Length: 03:09:00
Director:
Content:
Feel like fashion? The Story of Fashion, with star designer Karl Lagerfeld, presents 100 years of fashion. Drawing on fashion magazines, photographs as well as unique footage, this trilogy considers the Zeitgeist of different periods. Portraits and interviews with stylistically influential fashion designers, photographers, critics and experts provide fascinating insights into the sensual world of fashion. Vol. I: The Remembrance of T, Vol. II: The Art and Sport oon, Vol. III: The Age of Dissent Format: HDTV
Number: A05014013 Composer: Denis Vaneck, Jean Sibelius, Johann Sebastian Bach
Title: John Neumeier at Work
Year of Production: 1988
Length: 01:17:00
Director: André S. Labarthe
Content:
00:52:00
The American dancer and choreographer John Neumeier is renowned for his work with the Hamburg Ballet. He was filmed with the company over a busy six-month period, which encompassed rehearsals for Artus Sage, the creation of The Magnificat, and performances in Hamburg, Paris and Avignon of works including his acclaimed St Matthew Passion. Throughout the programme Neumeier talks about his methods and his creative influences.
Production: RM Arts/La Sept/WDR
Number: A05050492 Composer: Director:
Title: The Aida File Conductor: Richard Bonynge, Lorin Maazel
Format: HDTV Year of Production: 1986
Orchestra: Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala,
Length: 01:18:00
John Cox Soloists: Luciano Pavarotti, Maria Chiara, Francesca Garbi, Ernesto Gavazzi, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Juan Pons
Content:
This film chronicles the life and times of Verdi and the history of one of his best-loved operas. It includes extensive extracts from the triumphant La Scala production starring Pavarotti, archive film of notable Aida productions from the past, and contributions from some of the great singers who have a special affection for this work – Pavarotti, Carlo Bergonzi, Grace Bumbry and Eva Turner among them.
Production: RM Arts/LWT South Bank Show
Format: HDTV
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Documentary / Classical Music Number: 9305 Composer: Bach/Busoni, Mozart, Schumann, Schubert, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Moszkowski
Title: Horowitz: The Last Romantic
Year of Production: 1985
Length: 01:30:00
Director: Albert Maysles, David Maysles Soloists: Vladimir Horowitz
Content:
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, somone 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. The film was awarded with two Emmy Awards in the category "Outstanding Classical Program in the Performing Arts": Peter Gelb (executive producer), Susan Frömke (producer), Vladimir Horowitz (star) and in the category "Outstanding Individual Achievement - Classical Music/Dance Programming Directing": Albert Maysles, David Maysles. It was nominated for Emmy Award in the category: "Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Variety or Music Series or a Special": Lee Dichter (sound mixer), Lawrence Loewinger (sound mixer).Programme: J.S. Bach: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland,BWV 659 - Transcribed for piano Ferruccio Busoni – Mozart: Piano Sonata No.10 in C major, K.330 – Chopin: Mazurka No.13 in A minor Op.17 No.4, Scherzo No.1 in B minor, Op.20 – Schubert: 4 Impromptus, Op.90, D.899: No.4 in A flat – Liszt: 6 Consolations: No. 3 in D flat major (Lento, placido) – Schumann: Noveletten, Op.21: No.1 in F (Markiert und kräftig) – Rachmaninoff: Prélude in G sharp minor, Op.32, No.12 – Scriabin: Etude
Production: Sony
Number: 9319 Composer:
Format: 4:3
Title: Ozawa
Year of Production: 1985
Length: 01:00:00
Director: Deborah Dickson, Susan Froemke, Albert Maysles, David Maysles
Content:
This 1985 documentary focues on conductor Seiji Ozawa and the behind-the-scenes world of the symphony orchestra. It communicates the intensity and passion by Ozawa brings to his works as conductor and teacher, and shows him in the context of his relationshipwith former masters, current students and family. It also exproes the cultural tensions that caused him to leave Japan and begin a career in the West.
Production: Sony
Format: 4:3
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Documentary / Classical Music Number: GBCRB0601723 Composer:
Year of Production: 1997 Title: Dancing for Dollars - The Bolshoi in Vegas & The Kirov in Petersburg
Length: 01:02:00
Director: Angus Macqueen Soloists: Narrator: Clare Higgins
Content:
Thirty years ago the Bolshoi Ballet’s first trip to America was a political and artistic triumph and audiences queued for days to see these legends of ballet. Bolshoi in Vegas, a richly entertaining documentary, follows their disastrous 1996 tour inwhich they hoped to capitalise on this earlier success. Kirov in Petersburg traces the development of an institution which is both irremediably altered and condemned to trade on its past glories. As Communism gives way to Capitalism and artistic values give way to commercial considerations, the Kirov Ballet’s chief choreographer Oleg Vinogradov’s final year in office is set against allegations of bribery and corruption. Through the deeply personal recollections of workers, dancers and critics, specially-filmed backstage footage and previously unseen archive material, a unique portrait emerges of the Kirov’s changing fortunes in the context of its awesome heritage. “These two documentaries, for all their dance interest, are centrally about theplight and destiny of post-Soviet art, and are profoundly moving.” THE FINANCIAL TIMES - "The Bolshoi in Vegas'" won:1997 International EMMY Award for Best Arts Documentary, Special Commendation at the 1998 Grierson Memorial Trust Awards, Special Mention at the 1998 Golden Prague Awards
Production: An NVC ARTS production for Channel 4 in association with MIRIS, St Petersburg, Telepiù Classica
Number: GBCRB1100037 Composer:
Format: HDTV
Year of Production: 1997 Title: Double Life of Franz Schubert - A dramatisation of Schubert’s last years Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Roy Goodman The Hanover Band 00:51:00
Director: Peter Webber Soloists: Simon Russell Beale, Jason Flemyng, Richard Van Allan, Emilia Fox
Content:
This is a dramatic exploration of the life and works of Franz Schubert. Featuring excerpts from many of his compositions, the central narrative occurs during Schubert’s hospitalization for syphilis, the contraction of which was both a consequence ofhis darker inclinations and a spur to some of his greatest work. As the doctors diagnose Schubert’s symptoms, identify their cause and administer treatment, the composer conducts his own internal imaginative examination, a sometimes delirious and dreamlike evocation of the moments and music from his past life. The characters he recalls are his maverick friend and ‘Svengali’, Franz von Schober, his authoritarian father, his illustrious but conformist patron Michael Vogl and his unfulfilled love Karoline Esterhazy.
Production: Oxford Television Company Production for NVC ARTS and Channel Four in association with RAI Thematic Channels
Number: GBCRB9800550 Composer:
Format: HDTV
Year of Production: 1998 Title: Maxim Vengerov: Playing by Heart - An exploration of Vengerov’s musical artistry Length: 00:51:00
Director: Simon Broughton Soloists: Narrator: Andrew Sachs
Content:
This profile explores his musical artistry of Maxim Vengerov, at work with Daniel Barenboim and with students of the Royal Academy in London. He believes that his music holds great potential for others, and in 1997 he became an Honorary Envoy for Music for UNICEF. This film also gives a private glimpse of the man ‘off-duty’, away from his professional responsibilities.
Production: NVC Arts for Channel Four
Format: HDTV
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Documentary / Classical Music Number: GBW951500002 Composer:
Title: Perlman in Russia Conductor: Zubin Mehta
Year of Production: 1991
Orchestra: Israel Philharmonic
Length: 00:58:00
Director: Robert Dalrymple Soloists: Itzhak Perlman
Content:
This documentary follows Itzhak Perlman when he travelled to Russia for the first time in 1991, accompanied by Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic. Perlman describes his experiences with wit and warmth, and speaks movingly of what it means to him, as a Jew, to perform in Russia with a Jewish orchestra.
Production: A Robert Dalrymple production
Number: GBX841400052 Composer:
Title: Maria Callas: Life and Art
Format: HDTV Year of Production: 1987
Length: 01:15:00
Director: Alan Lewens, Alistair Mitchell Soloists: Maria Callas
Content:
Maria Callas died on 16th September 1977 at the age of 53. She had been, without doubt, the 20th century's greatest soprano, but was equally famous for events in her private life, her reclusive later years and for the silence she imposed on herself.As well as her stunning musical performances, her reputation depended on the drama she invested in her roles, revealing to the public the true nature of characters such as Tosca, Norma, Médée or Violetta in La traviata. This film reveals her characteras well as celebrating her vocal art and her dramatic talents. It shows her as a woman and as a diva, constantly torn between her personal aspirations and her artistic ambitions.
Production: Jo Lustig Limited for Picture Music International Ltd Format: HDTV & Channel Four
Title: United Kingdom of Pop
Number: 9500 Composer:
Year of Production: 2017
Length: 2 x 52'
Director: A film by Thorsten Ernst, Stefanie Schäfer
Content:
Let’s hope that the blessing of British pop culture is not lost to us after Brexit. After all, the UK is Europe’s number one pop nation, by a long stretch. The British gave us the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Coldplay and Adele. James Bond and Harry Potter. Monty Python, Mr Bean and Eddie Izzard. Music, humour and films from the UK are permanent fixtures in definitive European culture. Now the divorce is looming. But despite the nostalgic feelings, it has never been an easy relationship. In the two-part cultural documentary United Kingdom of Pop, Signed Media pays homage to Europe’s most innovative pop superpower and presents the main genres, their stars sand subcultures in the form of film essays. United Kingdom of Pop revisits the most importantprotagonists and contemporaries behind the crucial lines of development over the past decades, reviews them with experts and categorises them. In the course of this process, United Kingdom of Pop also follows up the most important political, culturaland economic events that are reflected in the country’s pop culture, and celebrates the open and multicultural spirit that has made British pop culture so great and so unique. Each episode is commented by the stars of britpop: New wave icon John Watts, Spice Girl Mel C, late Malcom McLaren, Rag 'n' Bone Man and many more.
Production: Signed Media Produktion, ZDF/ARTE
Format: HDTV 16:9
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Documentary / Popular Music Year of Production: 2017 Title: Lady You Shot Me – Life and Death of Sam Cooke
Number: 9593 Composer:
Length: 01:35:00
Director: David Czarnetzki Soloists: Al Schmitt, Zelda Sands, Bill Gardner
Content:
The documentary “Lady You Shot Me – Life and Death of Sam Cooke” tells the story of the short but equally influential life of one of the most important artists of the 1950s and 60s: Sam Cooke. It takes a particularly close look at the mysterious circumstances surrounding his violent death. Was he killed in self-defence, as officially claimed? Or was it murder, as his family, friends and conspiracy theorists believe? A question that is worth asking, even if it ultimately remains unresolved. Because simply looking into the circumstances of his death, controversial to this day, affords insights into the social context during the founding years of pop music, which Sam Cooke defied more forcefully than any other black musician of his day.
Production: Produced by Signed Media, comissioned by ZDF, in collaboration with arte
Title: The Guns Story
Number: 9963 Composer:
Format: HDTV 16:9
Year of Production: 2017
Length: 01:33:00
Director: A film by Fabien Martorell Soloists: Tracii Guns, Iggy Pop, Lemmy Kilmister, Phil Lewis, Paul Mars Black, Michael T. Jagosz, Steve Darrow, Rikki Rockett, Rob Gardner…
Content:
THE GUNS STORY chronicles the tormented story of famed 1980s and 1990s Sunset Strip staple and first seminal half of GUNS’N’ROSES, the criminally underrated LA GUNS and its founder and leader Tracii Guns, rival singers Phil Lewis and Paul Black as well as drummer Steve Riley. The GUNS STORY is an unapologetic look at the glamorous R’n’R lifestyle including its groupies, the drugs, backstabbing, stratospheric rise to stardom for some, unfair failure for others, near-miss opportunities and second,third, fourth and fifth chances… THE GUNS STORY features classic Metal Hits, new original music, archive interviews as well as fresh and new commentaries by Iggy Pop (The Stooges), the late Lemmy Kilmister (Motorhead), Rikki Rockett (Poison) and manyothers on the impact of the band for generations of Hard Rock and Metal Acts.
Production: FM Pictures
Number: 9882 Composer:
Format: HDTV 16:9
Title: PopScandals
Year of Production: 2016
Length: 2 x 53'
Director: Nicole Kraack, Sonja Collison
Content:
PopScandals is a two part journey in time through the juiciest, dirtiest and hottest pop scandals of the last 60 years! Whether naked truths, jarring stage performances or accidental slip ups, PopScandals shows what shocked respectable citizens and the conservative establishment and left the youth rejoicing. From the stuffiness of the 50s when a pelvic thrust or flash of a breast was enough to stir up a storm, to the age of social media, where staged scandals have become an integral part of pop culture. Using the big stars as an example, PopScandals tells of what was needed at which point in time to create a legendary scandal, or to avoid one. PopScandals makes it noticeable and possible to experience the technological development and commercialization of the “scandal machine” the media have created, having become a scandal in itself.
Production: Signed Media, ZDF/Arte
Format: HDTV 16:9
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Documentary / Popular Music Number: 9874 Composer:
Title: Peace ‘n’ Pop
Year of Production: 2015
Length: 2 x 52'
Director: Christian Bettges
Content:
From the anti Vietnam protests up to the struggle for civil rights, and Yoko Ono´s and John Lennon´s "Bed Peace". The resistance of Britain´s music establishment against the Falkland war, and pop culture´s reaction on the “War on Terror“ – This two-part documentary tells the story of the pacifistic inflections in western pop culture.Exclusive interviews and music by o.a. Pink, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Dixie Chicks, Asaf Avidan, Joshua Redman, Nneka, The Avener, La Canaille, Ed Sheeran. Ken Follett, Hanif Kureishi, Nitin Sawhney, New Model Army and many more.
Production: Signed Media Produktion, ZDF/ARTE
Number: 8249 Composer:
Title: Welcome to the Nineties!
Format: HDTV 16:9 Year of Production: 2014
Length: 4 x 52'
Director: Frank Ilgener, Katharina Vollmeyer, Stephanie Schäfer, Matthias Reitze
Content:
"Welcome to the 90s"! In four thrilling episodes, the documentary series takes the audience on a journey through the most colorful decade ever. It puts us into the midst of the vibrant dance culture, tells us from the golden age of rap music, raves about the huge Boy and Girl band wave and reminds us of the new blossoms of Rock. Episodes: Dance Culture / Come as you are: Grunge, Riot Grrrl, Britpop, Nu Metal / Hip-Hop / Dance Culture
Production: Signed Media
Number: 9146 Composer:
Format: HDTV 16:9
Title: Kraftwerk - Pop Art
Year of Production: 2013
Length: 00:60:00
Director: Simon Witter, Hannes Rossacher
Content:
The amazing story of how a group of reclusive Rhineland experimentalists became one of the most influential pop groups of all time. The documentary features three exclusive live tracks filmed, at their Tate Modern shows in London (Feb 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.
Production: Kobalt for Arte
Format: HDTV 16:9
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Documentary / Popular Music Year of Production: 2013 Title: The Wayne Shorter Quartet - The Language of the Unknown
Number: 9345 Composer:
Length: 00:56:49
Director: Guido Lukoschek
Content:
“The Language of the Unknown” enters the universe of one of the last living saxophone legends of Jazz. Wayne Shorter’s maxim is to reinvent his music in each concert, always again in the radical originality. The film accompanies the great saxophonistand his band as they ready themselves for a concert on November 3, 2012, in the Salle Pleyel in Paris and observes the effect of the music on their creators, who are normally much too busy with creating the new rather than to deal with music alreadyplayed. Surprising insights into the essence of their music open up, as well as the realization that true Creator-Spirit goes far beyond pure virtuosity. “Without doubt, one of the best jazz documentaries of all time.” Jazz Podium (Also available: TheWayne Shorter Quartet - Live in Paris. Concert 93' min. / Prog. No. 9346)
Production: An avindependents production for Arthaus Music
Number: 9863 Composer:
Title: Soulpower
Format: HDTV 16:9 Year of Production: 2013
Length: 4 x 52'
Director: Jean-Alexander Ntivyihabwa, Christian Bettges, Stefanie Schäfer, Matthias Reitze
Content:
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 music story will be told within both a historical and political context. In so doing, Soulpower unites a period that spans from the end of the Second World War to the new millennium. From race music to Rihanna. From Bo Diddley to Beyoncé. From Aretha to Adele. From Al Green to Alicia Keys. A thrillingly told,groovy documentary series presenting the big names, the music, the conflicts and the attitude to life of the past 60 years and allows them to resonate.
Production: Signed Media in co-production with ZDF/Arte
Number: 9827 Composer:
Title: London Calling
Format: HDTV 16:9 Year of Production: 2012
Length: 4 x 52
Director: Simon Witter and Hannes Rossacher
Content:
London Calling tells the untold story of British pop through the prism of related artforms, revealing how photographic imagery defined the medium, the phenomenal influence of art schools and fashion, the scene's love/hate affair with cinema and the pivotal role of the starmakers and svengalis who invented the rules of the modern music industry as they went along. London Calling cracks the creative code underpinning the irresistible rise of British pop. The 4-part series from award-winning music TV veterans Hannes Rossacher and Simon Witter. Episode 1: Fuck Art Let’s Dance - Episode 2: Every Picture Tells A Story - Episode 3: You Wear It Well - Episode 4: Master Of Puppets.
Production: Kobalt / Stefan Mathieu for Arte
Format: HDTV 16:9
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Documentary / Popular Music Number: 9837 Composer:
Title: On the Road - On the Trail of Jack Kerouac
Year of Production: 2012
Length: 02:00:00
Director: Hannes Rossacher
Content:
In 1951- 60 years ago - Jack Kerouac wrote 'On The Road'. The novel tells the story of Jack Kerouac's travels across the America of the late forties, always searching for freedom, for himself, for drugs, sex and the next great adventure. 'On The Road' lies at the core of pop culture. This book is the key to everything that followed. We want the 60th anniversary of its orginal publication to be the moment we take a closer look at it, as well: Four young people got the opportunity to get into an old convertible and drive that car straight across America on Jack Kerouac's route. How will these modern young people experience a trip through modern America with 'On The Road' shining in the background? The result: a road movie, a collage of originallocations, poetry slams, cinema verite, jam sessions, and new adventures on the road, with music by Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Gotye, Scott McKenzie, REM, Morcheeba, Eric Clapton, Fleetwood Mac, John Coltrane and Don McLean, amongst others.
Production: Kobalt / Stefan Mathieu
Number: 9824 Composer:
Title: The Queens of Pop
Format: HDTV 16:9 Year of Production: 2011
Length: 04:00:00
Director: Jean-Alexander Ntivyihabwa, Simone Owczarek, Henrike Sandner, Stefanie Schäfer, Jürgen Schindler, Nicole Kraack, Julie Wessling, Matthias Schmidt, Kai Mierow Soloists: Diana Ross, Donna Summer, Debbie Harry, Madonna, Britney Spears, Mariah Carey, Lady Gaga, Beyoncé
Content:
In January 2011, ARTE viewers voted for the ‘Queens of Pop’. 8 pop queens were chosen from 50 proposals and these are presented in a 26-minute documentary: From the 1960s: Diana Ross. From the 1970s: Donna Summer and Debbie Harry. From the 1980s: Madonna. From the 1990s: Britney Spears and Mariah Carey. From 2000-2009: Lady Gaga and Beyoncé. The title of the programme, ‘Queens of Pop’, in itself shows where the emphasis lies – none of those simplistic chart rankings, but instead a documentary series that looks at our cultural history, dealing with the women who shaped popular music over the past fifty years.
Production: Signed media in co-production with arte
Format: HDTV 16:9
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Documentary / Popular Music Number: 9781 Composer:
Title: Komeda - A Soundtrack for A Life
Year of Production: 2010
Length: 00:52:00
Director: Claudia ButhenhoffDuffy Soloists: Roman Polanski
Content:
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 isa 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.
Production: Benedikt Pictures
Number: 9592 Composer:
Title: All you need is Klaus
Format: HDTV 16:9 Year of Production: 2009
Length: 01:30:00 00:52:00
Director: Jörg Bundschuh
Soloists: With participation of Klaus Voormann, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono, Eric Clapton, Carly Simon, Van Dyke Parks, Joe Walsh, Randy Newman, Richard Perry, Olivia Harrison, Twiggy, Rob Townsend …
Content:
A journey into the incredible life of Klaus Voormann. An inside view into the history of Rock'n'Roll. A story of friendship, art and music. Klaus Voormann was on the frontlines of the pop era's meteoric rise. His friendship with the Beatles has lasted ever since their joint Hamburg Days. This is his story. The film follows him to the most important places of his career in England, the US and to friends like Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Carly Simon, Van Dyke Parks, Joe Walsh, Randy Newman, RichardPerry, Jim Keltner, Trevor Lawrence, Twiggy, The Manfreds, Olivia Harrison. We meet stars like we've never seen them before and witness new and extraordinary music sessions.
Production: Kick Film
Number: 9686 Composer:
Format: HDTV 16:9
Title: Welcome to the Eigthies!
Year of Production: 2009
Length: 6 x 52'
Director: Frank Jastfelder, JeanAlexander Ntivyihabwa, Hannes Rossacher, Tom Theunissen, Frank Ilgener
Content:
Welcome to the 80s - This 6 x 52min music documentary is a unique production showing a fascinating musical journey through the 80s featuring all the facets of this exciting area: Synthiepop & New Romantic, Charts, Clips & Commerce, Rap, Breakdance &Graffiti, House Nation & Acid Parties, Gothic, Industrial & Black Metal.
Production: Signed Media
Format: HDTV 16:9
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Documentary / Popular Music Number: 9840 Composer:
Title: Joan Baez - How Sweet The Sound
Year of Production: 2009
Length: 01:24:00 01:00:00
Director: Mary Wharton
Content:
In the first comprehensive film to chronicle the private life and public career of Joan Baez, Thirteen’s American Masters documentary Joan Baez: How Sweet The Sound examines her history as a recording artist and performer as well as her remarkable journey as the conscience of a generation. In addition to featuring rare, archival performance footage, the film includes candid interviews with David Crosby, Bob Dylan, ex-husband David Harris, Reverend Jesse Jackson, Roger McGuinn, and more. The filmis rich with historic material including footage of Baez’ controversial visit to North Vietnam and footage of Martin Luther King Jr. outside a California prison, where he visited Joan to offer his support after she was jailed for protesting the draftduring the Vietnam War. Following Baez on her 2008-2009 world tour, the filmmakers captured Baez in performance as well as in intimate conversations with individuals whose lives parallel hers. From a stop in Sarajevo, Bosnia to revisit the scene of Joan’s courageous trip to that war-torn city in the middle of the 1993 siege, to Nashville, TN, where she joined Steve Earle to talk about their collaboration on Joan’s 2008 Grammy-nominated album Day After Tomorrow, the film allows viewers an unprecedented level of access to Ms. Baez.
Production: RAZOR & TIE in co-production with THIRTEEN in association with WNET.ORG
Number: A025045970000 Composer:
Title: Sting - A Winter's Night… Documentary
Format: HDTV 16:9
Year of Production: 2009
Length: 00:52:00
Director: Jim Gable, Ann Kim
Content:
In ‘Sting – A Winter’s Night … Documentary’, the artist takes his producer-friend Robert Sadin – and the viewer – on a tour of the places where he grew up in and around Durham and Newcastle upon Tyne in northern England, and reunites with so.
Production: Universal Music, Thirteen/WNET, Idéale Audience, UNITEL, NRK, SchweizerFS, YLE, EESTI Rahvusringhääling, Latvian Tel., TVP Kultura, Bulgarian National Tel., SVT, RSI , Multishow, BBC, Decca
Number: 8018 Composer:
Title: Summer of Love
Year of Production: 2007
Length: 4 x 52' 2 x 45'
Director: Jürgen Schindler, Frank Illgner, Hannes Rossacher, Tom Theunissen
Content:
In four (two) creatively composed episodes provided with clips from Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, The Rolling Stones, Cat Stevens, Led Zeppelin and many other legendary artists of that time, the documentary deals withthe central topics of this unique phenomenon in pop history: The Summer of Love. The sexual liberation and the search for new, spiritual ways were most important for an attitude towards life that established its own event- and party culture for the first time in history. The documentary is based on interviews with vocalists like Donovan, Art Garfunkel, Adam Green, Bob Marley, Yoko Ono and Michelle Philipps from „The Mamas & The Papas”. As a leitmotif we pose the question of actuality of the cultural achievements in which the hippies succeeded.
Production: MME
Format: 16:9
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Documentary / Popular Music Number: 8024 Composer:
Title: Sunshine Superman – The Story of Donovan
Year of Production: 2007
Length: 02:00:00
Director: Hannes Rossacher
Content:
From shaggy-haired, demin-clad Dylan Apostle to brocade-robed, hitmaking folk-rock guru, Donovan’s ascension to 60s pop royalty was meteoric. From mediating with the Beatles in India to recording with Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page or Jack Bruce, everything this gentle Glasgow born troubadour touched turned to gold. Over the last three years, Hannes Rossacher from DoRo Productions has filmed Donovan at all the locations that have had the highest significance in this extraordinary singer/songwriter’s life,weaving together a comprehensive documentary about the life and work of Donovan.
Production: DoRo Productions / SPV (owner of the programme)
Title: To Tulsa and Back - On Tour with J.J. Cale
Number: 9590 Composer:
Format: 16:9 Year of Production: 2005
Length: 01:30:00 00:52:00
Director: Jörg Bundschuh
Content:
He was the most unpretentious man in pop music. Success seemed to come to him, only when he wanted it and his definition of success was unlike any other performers. He made a fortune writing songs, but lived for years in a trailer hiding from the public. All of his records have reached cult status. They called him the Howard Hughes of the music world. A legend wrapped in mystery. Eric Clapton had huge hits with Cale’s After Midnight and Cocaine. Johnny Cash, the Allman Brothers, Brian Ferry, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Santana, Deep Purple and many more covered his songs. For Eric Clapton Cale is the person he admires most and the only other musician he would like to be. Cale created the Tulsa Sound, a laid back mix of Rock`n’ Roll, Country, Blues and Jazz and is one of the most influential artists of the last three decades. Dire Straits admit to have built up their sound upon his laid back Blues-Rock. Among his devoted fans are musicians of all generations as Willy Nelson, Tom Petty and Widespread Panic. He is the musician of the musicians. For the first time, Cale agreed to have a film made on him. The documentary follows him and his band through six American states on his To Tulsa and Back Tour.
Production: Kick Film
Format: HDTV 16:9
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Documentary / Popular Music Number: 9591 Composer:
Title: John Lee Hooker - That's my Story
Year of Production: 2001
Length: 01:30:00 00:52:00
Director: Jörg Bundschuh
Soloists: With participation of John Lee Hooker, Eric Clapton, Famous Coachman, Robert Cray, Buddy Guy, John Hammond, Archie Hooker, John Lee Hooker jr., Maude Hooker, Zakiya Hooker, Mike Kappus, Eddie Kirkland, John Mayal, Charkie Musselwhite, Adolfo de la Parra (
Content:
In this loving, endearing portrait of the legendary, passed away blues artist John Lee Hooker, his life is described by himself, his closest friends and music colleagues, from his birthplace in Mississippi following the ups and downs of his career tothe big successes. That's My Story is also the title of a famous Hooker song. Its text implies many autobiographic elements. It was his way to compensate life through music. The film accompanies him musically through the last six decades by using material from the archives to the latest recordings. The story of Hooker's life is at the same time the history of Blues and its influence on British and American music from the fifties to the seventies. With hits like Boogie Chillen, Crawling King Snake, I'm in the Mood and Boom Boom he became an idol for whole generations of music makers. Especially for bands from Great Britain in the early sixties, like the Animals, The Rolling Stones and for musicians like Van Morrison, John Mayall and Eric Clapton, in the US for Bob Dylan. For the groups Canned Heat, J.Geils Band and Santana he was even something like a father figure. His music style has always differed from the style of other Blues musicians. Maybe this is the reason he has fans in every generation over the last sixty years.
Production: Kick Film
Format: HDTV 16:9
Title: Marsalis on Music
Number: 9313 Composer:
Year of Production: 1995
Length: 04:00:00
Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Content:
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 colourfulvernacular of Jazz. Musical performances include "The Nutcracker", Prokofiev´s "Classical Symphony", "Stars and Stripes Forever" and more.
Production: Sony
Number: GBCRB0601727 Composer: Gardel, Piazzolla, Salgán, Ginastera, Buzon
Format: 4:3 Year of Production: 1997 Title: Tangos Among Friends - Presented by Daniel Barenboim
Length: 00:54:00
Director: José Montes-Baquer Soloists: Daniel Barenboim, Rodolfo Mederos, Hector Console, Placido Domingo
Content:
In this personal pilgrimage, world-renowned pianist and conductor, Daniel Barenboim, travels to Buenos Aires to rediscover his home town, the magic of tango and the legend of its greatest pioneer, Carlos Gardel. Interviews and fabulous archive footage evoke the glamorous and optimistic spirit of Buenos Aires in the early 20th century, and provide a framework for investigating the forces which brought such material and artistic wealth to its impoverished, immigrant communities. Barenboim demonstrates tango styles and techniques, and brings the music of Gardel, Salgán, Píazzolla and Ginastera to life in performances with Rodolfo Mederos and Hector Console, and in a thrilling partnership with Placido Domingo.
Production: An NVC ARTS, WDR and Telepiù Classica Coproduction
Format: HDTV
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Documentary / Popular Music Number: GBCRB1500015-20 Composer:
Year of Production: 1998 Title: Beat Route - Around the World with Jools Holland
Length: 6 x 30'
Director: Geoff Wonfor Soloists: Jools Holland, Van Morrison, The Chieftains, Ruben González, Compay Segundo, Des’ree, Koko Taylor, Lonnie Brooks
Content:
This 6-part BBC TV series, Beat Route, takes top music television presenter, Jools Holland (The Tube, Later with Jools Holland) and places him in six major cities around the world to delve ‘under the skin’ of each location. The result is a stunning mix of music, travel and culture, with each city revealed through Jools’ inimitable wit and personality. Jools meets many celebrated musicians, listens to their music and jams with the best of them. From the urban blues of Chicago, the flamenco of Seville and the folklore of Budapest, to the riverside bars of Dublin, 1950s Cadillacs in Havana and girl bands in Beirut, Beat Route paints a vivid and engrossing picture of urban identity. Whether it’s a brief encounter with a dating agency run out of the back of a Chicago cab, or a musical collaboration in an old square in Havana, Beat Route pays homage to some of the world’s most fascinating and diverse locations.
Production: An Initial production for BBC, NVC ARTS and NPS
Number: GBCRB1500023 Composer:
Format: HDTV
Year of Production: 1997 Title: Naked Nashville – My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
Length: 01:00:00
Director: Joanna Bailey, Teresa Griffiths Soloists: Mindy McCready, Reba McEntire, Tammy Wynette, Dale Watson, Willie Nelson, Keith Harling
Content:
This hard-edged series probes behind the hype for the true story of country music in America. "My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys" investigates why new and exciting Dale Watson and established 70s star Willie Nelson just can’t cut a record deal, whilst the MCA Records marketing machine gets to work on singer-songwriter Keith Harling.
Production: Oxford Television Company for NVC Arts and Channel Four in association with Bravo & RAI Thematic Channels
Number: GBCRB1500024 Composer:
Title: Naked Nashville – I Won’t Die for any Man
Format: HDTV
Year of Production: 1997
Length: 01:00:00
Director: Joanna Bailey, Teresa Griffiths Soloists: Mindy McCready, Reba McEntire, Tammy Wynette, Dale Watson, Willie Nelson, Keith Harling
Content:
This hard-edged series probes behind the hype for the true story of country music in America. I Won’t Die For Any Man follows three generations of Nashville women – Mindy McCredy, Reba McEntire and legend Tammy Wynette (whose last interview before her death finds her still having to work for a living).
Production: Oxford Television Company for NVC Arts and Channel Four in association with Bravo & RAI Thematic Channels
Format: HDTV
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Documentary / Popular Music Number: GBCRB1500025 Composer:
Title: Naked Nashville â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Hillbilly Hollywood
Year of Production: 1997
Length: 01:00:00
Director: Joanna Bailey, Teresa Griffiths Soloists: Mindy McCready, Reba McEntire, Tammy Wynette, Dale Watson, Willie Nelson, Keith Harling
Content:
This hard-edged series probes behind the hype for the true story of country music in America. Hillbilly Hollywood meets some of the hundreds of aspiring songwriters attending the 1997 annual Nashville Songwriters Seminar, who are looking to find future success without any heartache.
Production: Oxford Television Company for NVC Arts and Channel Four in association with Bravo & RAI Thematic Channels
Format: HDTV
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Portrait / Number: A05512516 Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach, Joseph Haydn, Claude Debussy, George Thalben-Bell
Year of Production: 2009 Title: Portrait Alison Balsom - The Trumpet's Splendour
Length: 00:42:00
Director: Andreas Morell
00:27:00
Soloists: Alison Balsom
Content:
In only a few years, trumpeter Alison Balsom has shot forward to the topmost ranks of today’s instrumental soloists, reaching untold popularity for her playing – and for the trumpet. At the latest since her appearance in a live international broadcast of the ‘Last Night of the Proms,’ she has become one of the best-known UK artists of today, with sales of her CDs topping the charts. At the center of the documentary are two performances. One is a public performance of Haydn’s celebrated Trumpet Concerto in E flat major with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin under the Chinese conductor Xian Zhang, recorded in the classicistic hall of the Konzerthaus Berlin. The other is a ‘private’ recording of Bach’s Concerto in D major BWV 972 and Gigue BWV 1008, Debussy’s ‘Syrinx’, and George Thalben-Ball’s Elegy for trumpet and organ, performed with organist David Goode at Berlin’s historic Sophienkirche.
Production: AVE with ZDF in cooperation with Arte and UNITEL CLASSICA
Number: A05512537 Composer:
Format: HDTV
Year of Production: 2009 Title: Diana Damrau - Diva Divina: Nine Months With The German Opera Star
Length: 00:52:00 00:26:00
Director: Beatrix Conrad Soloists: Diana Damrau
Content:
She is simply one of the best singers in the world,’ proclaimed the New York Sun triumphantly after another of Diana Damrau’s spectacular performances at the Metropolitan Opera. And while The Guardian gushed: ‘The German soprano...has become a cult figure,’ the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung noted succinctly: ‘Whoever says coloratura says Damrau.’ In private moments with her parents and her first teacher, Damrau talks about her childhood and youth, about her discovery of opera while watching TV,her early career and her international breakthrough in 2002 in roles such as Donna Anna and Zerbinetta. The film portrays an exciting, high-intensity, fast-paced jet-set life tempered by the harmony of a rewarding family life with her husband, her parents and, at the end of the film, with her brand-new baby!
Production: Salve TV for ZDF in co-production with UNITEL, Deutsche Welle TV and CLASSICA
Number: A93500224 Composer: Director: Christoph Goldmann, Leif Karpe Production: Unitel
Number: A93500225 Composer: Director: Christoph Goldmann, Leif Karpe / Carlos Padrissa Production: Unitel
Format: HDTV
Year of Production: 2009 Title: Wagner Furioso - The Ring in Valencia - Franc Aleu - Painting with Light Length: 00:15:00
Format: HDTV Year of Production: 2009 Title: Wagner Furioso - The Ring in Valencia - Carlus Padrissa - The Visionary Length: 00:15:00
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Portrait / Number: A04001517 Composer:
Year of Production: 2008 Title: Portrait André Previn - A Bridge Between Two Worlds Conductor: Length: Sir André Previn 00:52:00
Director: Lillian Birnbaum, Peter Stephan Jungk
Content:
Sir André Previn is one of the most multi-talented and prominent musicians of our time. In this intimate portrait, we meet a composer of music of all genres, a conductor, arranger, pianist and jazz musician, and winner of four Academy Awards for hisfilm scores. Among the musical and artistic personalities contributing to this documentary are the great soprano Renée Fleming, Previn's exwife Mia Farrow, world-class violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, playwright Tom Stoppard, Previn's sons and others. In candid conversations with the versatile musician, they help capture the essence of an artist who is truly at home in the different cultural worlds of America and Europe.
Production: DOR Film and UNITEL in co-production with ORF and CLASSICA
Number: A05512202 Composer:
Year of Production: 2008 Title: Portrait Edita Gruberova - The Art of Belcanto
Length: 01:19:00 00:54:00
Director: Stefan Pannen, Claus Wischmann Soloists: Edita Gruberova
Content:
Edita Gruberova turned the bel canto style – as exemplified primarily by the early 19th-century operas of Bellini and Donizetti – into her own, unmistakable specialty. But what is the nature of bel canto? What is the secret of her vocal gift? These are a couple of the questions the film addresses. In addition to rehearsal excerpts from ‘Lucrezia Borgia,’ the film shows Gruberova in the title role of ‘Norma’ and as Elisabetta in ‘Roberto Devereux’. Archival recordings allow us to admire her in ‘Rigoletto’ with Luciano Pavarotti, the legendary ‘Ariadne auf Naxos’ under Karl Böhm, and JeanPierre Ponnelle’s film adaptation of ‘Così fan tutte’ under Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
Production: Sounding Images and UNITEL with ZDF in cooperation with Arte, SF, ORF and CLASSICA
Number: A05512216 Composer:
Title: Christine Schäfer - My Art of Singing
Year of Production: 2008
Length: 00:52:00
Director: Felix Schmidt Soloists: Christine Schäfer
Content:
In this light-hearted documentary portrait, Christine Schäfer reveals how she has come to position herself in the top ranks of today's sopranos while still maintaining her artistic freedom. With razorsharp wit and intelligence, she describes how shekeeps herself grounded in a world that craves celebrities. Among the friends and colleagues who provide insights into her artistry as well as her refreshing normality are conductors Christian Thielemann and Sylvain Cambreling, stage director Christoph Marthaler, music journalist Jürgen Kesting, singer José van Dam and others.
Production: FTS Media and UNITEL in co-production with CLASSICA for ZDF in cooperation with Arte
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Portrait / Number: A04500514 Composer:
Title: Karajan or Beauty As I See It Conductor: Herbert von Karajan
Director: Robert Dornhelm, Christoph Engel
Content:
Year of Production: 2007
Length: 01:30:00 01:00:00
Who was Herbert von Karajan? What lurks behind the enigmatic face of this man, on whom more has been written than on any other member of his profession? For many, he was the epitome of classical music, for others the embodiment of the music market. He was the last dictator among orchestral conductors, and the first successful large-scale music entrepreneur. And in everything he did, he was ahead of his time. This documentary is the first to truly penetrate behind Karajan's regal façade. The program is structured along the personal recollections and interviews, the rehearsals and concerts of the maestro. Much of the material has been drawn from the archives of Unitel, the firm that produced his music films for 12 years. This footage is supplemented by many candid and revealing comments by some of the men and women who accompanied him on his path to legendary status. The result is a multi-faceted, multi-layered portrait of the artist - a portrait that ultimately deepens the mystery of one of the greatest conductors of the 20th century.
Production: UNITEL , MR Film in co-production with ORF, ZDF, SF, SMG and Classica with kind support of the Fernsehfonds Austria
Number: A04500528 Composer:
Title: Inside Karajan
Year of Production: 2007
Length: 01:00:00
Director: Otto Schwarz
Content:
Very few people really knew Herbert von Karajan. The conductor gave access to his private life only a little circle of strictly loyal people who kept their secrets even long after the maestro’s death. This documentary for the first time shows in thewhole dimension the real man Karajan: not only the image of a dandy that he himself had shown to the public, but the unfiltered image of his personality. Newly discovered original film footage from the inner circle shows Karajan’s private life like itreally was.
Production: UNITEL in co-production with ORF
Number: A055121380001 Composer:
Title: Christian Thielemann Conductor: Christian Thielemann
Year of Production: 2007
Length: 00:50:00
Director: Christoph Engel
Production: Unitel
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Portrait / Number: A055121380002 Composer:
Title: Albrecht Mayer
Year of Production: 2007
Length: 00:50:00
Director: Christoph Engel Soloists: Albrecht Mayer
Content:
Unlike the piano, the violin or even the flute, the oboe is a relatively rare instrument for a solo career. And when a soloist such as Albrecht Mayer plays the oboe, one wishes composers had written more works for this weetly mellow instrument. Critics write about the "divine spark" that inspires his playing, and about the "miraculous oboe" that turns into "an instrument of seduction." With his particularly warm tone and exceptionally broad palette of nuances, it's no surprise that Albrecht Mayeris one of today's most sought-after international oboists. In this documentary portrait of the oboist, we retrace the musician's impressive career and witness some of its many high points. Mayer embarked on a professional career in 1990, when he joined the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra as solo oboist. Two years later, he made the transition to the absolute top league with his appointment as solo oboist of the Berlin Philharmonic, and since then he has made countless international appearances, playing under such eminent conductors as Abbado, Rattle and Harnoncourt. In addition to his work as a soloist, Mayer also attaches great importance to chamber music. He is a permanent member of the Sabine Meyer Wind Ensemble and also plays with such partners as Thomas Quasthoff, Matthias Goerne and Leif Ove Andsnes.
Production: Unitel
Number: A05512194 Composer:
Title: In Memoriam Mstislav Rostropovich
Year of Production: 2007
Length: 00:29:00
Director: Enrique Sánchez-Lansch Soloists: Mstislaw Rostropowitsch
Content:
This Unitel documentary with unreleased footage material - produced in the course of his 80th birthday in March 2007 - shows the eventful and emotional life of the extraordinary cellist Mstislaw Rostropovich. In one of his last interviews, Mstislaw Rostropovich draws a touching bow from his childhood in Russia - when he suffered from the apathy of his father - to his emigration, his enormous prosperities in a foreign country and to the point of his triumphal return back home. The portrait describes emotional moments in the life of one of the most important cellists and lights up the political and social commitment of the artist. Companions and pupil of the musician like the composer Krzysztof Penderecki, Natalia Gutman and Maxim Vengerov givean impression of who and how he was.
Production: Unitel
Number: A05512238 Composer:
Title: Elina Garanca - Naturally A Singer
Year of Production: 2007
Length: 00:52:00
Director: Claire Alby Soloists: Elina Garanca
Content:
The challenges of a young singer today: by telling Elina Garancˇa’s story, this film invites us on a journey into the heart of today’s lyrical art. It is this intriguing contrast between the beaming singer on stage with the young, concentrated woman,demanding and fragile in her work. This film will be a testimony, one of a future great singer that allows the general public to discover and understand the rise of a grand diva today. ‘There is a moment when you close yourself off completely. You don’t want to let anyone in because you have just given and shown everything possible of yourself and you simply feel empty and sort of lost. It is a special moment… so I gather all the pieces together that I have just given. [...] Sometimes it occurs overnight. I wake up in the morning and I realize: Yes, the cosmos has pieced me together again.’Elina Garanca
Production: BFMI and UNITEL in co-production with ZDF/Arte and CLASSICA
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Portrait / Number: A75500012 Composer:
Title: Portrait Anna Netrebko - Report About Anna Conductor: Valery Gergiev
Year of Production: 2007
Length: 00:55:00
Director: Tatyana Andreeva Soloists: Anna Netrebko
Content:
Her rise to international fame may have been meteoric, but her radiance is nothing less than galactic: Anna Netrebko, soprano and superstar. A phenomenal artist, she has been breaking all records in the world of classical music, and has injected a much-needed shot of youthful vitality into the classical scene. She can dominate the musical stage as Violetta Valéry in "La Traviata" or blend seamlessly into an ensemble as Susanna in "Le nozze di Figaro." She can move audiences to tears with Russiansongs or bring down the house with operetta arias. She is versatile, talented, gorgeous - and deserves to be in the spotlight. Yet though she may have all the makings of a diva, she prefers to play with the notion rather than live it out. This documentary shows Anna Netrebko as she really is: a natural, unaffected young woman full of fun, energy and, yes, boundless ambition and self-confidence. We accompany her to her parents' home in Krasnodar and to her apartment in St. Petersburg. She relates her beginnings at the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, where she scrubbed the floors of the lobby¿ And we see the visible impact she makes on a dignified public when she is awarded the Russian State Prize by President Putin. In candid conversations, she tells us about her plans for the future, her hobbies, her loves, but also her fears and how fame has changed her life. Revealing insights are also provided by conductor Valery Gergiev, Netrebko's mentor, and tenor Rolando Villazón, her most impo
Production: Unitel
Number: A05511963 Composer:
Title: Portrait Anne-Sophie Mutter - My Mozart
Year of Production: 2006
Length: 00:44:00
Director: Christian Kurt Weisz Soloists: Anne-Sophie Mutter
Content:
In the "making-of" documentary on "My Mozart" Anne-Sophie Mutter talks about her relationship to Mozart's music and is joined by her colleagues André Previn, Lambert Orkis and Daniel MüllerSchott.
Production: Unitel
Number: A05512028 Composer:
Title: Portrait Fritz Wunderlich - Life and Legend
Year of Production: 2006
Length: 00:58:00
Director: Thomas Staehler Soloists: Fritz Wunderlich
Content:
"Fritz Wunderlich is one of those singers whom I've never felt were historical. In his recordings he sounds so much of the present, that it's as though he were still among us." These comments by Rolando Villazón make it clear that the book of Fritz Wunderlich's life is by no means closed. Forty years after his tragic death, he is a far more potent presence through his recordings than he was during his lifetime. He continues to reach his public, whether they be fans who know his recordings inside-out or people hearing his voice for the first time.
Production: Loopfilm GmbH / Wunderlich Medien GbR in coproduction with Deutsche Grammophon, ORF, SF, CLASSICA and UNITEL in collaboration with Arte / SWR / BR
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Portrait / Number: A05507791 Composer:
Year of Production: 1998 Title: Leonard Bernstein: Reaching for the Note - In honor of Leonard Bernstein's 80th birthday. Conductor: Length: Leonard Bernstein 02:00:00
Director: Susan Lacy
Content:
When Leonard Bernstein died in 1990 at the age of 72, music lovers the world over mourned the loss of one of the 20th century's artistic giants. In addition to his role as conductor, composer, educator and performing artist, Bernstein was one of theearly pioneers in bringing the arts to television. As such, he became one of the most internationally recognized musical personalities in the world. Yet in spite of the existence of vast quantities of visual material, the two-hour film "The Infinite Variety of Leonard Bernstein" is the first full-scale biographical film portrait of the musician. The spine of the film is Bernstein's own narrative. Supplementing this are recollections from friends, family, artistic collaborators and others who provide a historically critical perspective on his work and career. An equally important element is the integration of Bernstein's compositions throughout the film. Through his television specials as an educator, as well as through the orchestral works heconducted for television, the film also provides a rich, varied and insightful reflection on Bernstein's music-making.
Production: Unitel
Number: A05507212 Composer:
Format: Normal
Title: Sir Georg Solti - In the midst of battle Conductor: Georg Solti
Year of Production: 1997
Length: 00:08:00
Director: Christoph Engel
Content:
"The last of the great international orchestral and operatic maestri" (The Times), Sir Georg Solti was a testament to the elegance and impeccable tastefulness of central European music-making. Born in Budapest in 1912, he studied with Béla Bartók, Ernö von Dohnányi, Zoltán Kodály and Leo Weiner. In 1937, Toscanini chose him to be his assistant at the Salzburg Festival. After the war, Solti was asked by the American military government to conduct a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio in Munich. This led to his appointment as Music Director of the Bavarian State Opera. In 1952 he became Artistic and Music Director at the Frankfurt Opera, where he remained for ten years. The next station in his career was the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, where he was Music Director from 1961 to 1971 and was named Music Director Laureate in 1992. He served as Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the London Philharmonic Orchestra from 1979 to 1984. Solti's remarkable partnership with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra began in 1954, when he first led the orchestra at the Ravinia Festival. After returning to conduct the ensemble several times during the following years, he was named Music Director in 1969 and held this post for a phenomenal 22 years. He is credited with greatly extending and enhancing the orchestra's worldwide reputation. Solti died in September 1997 shortly before his 85th birthday. Unitel is proud to offer a number of Strauss masterpieces recorded under the maestro's baton. To
Production: Unitel
Number: A05010387 Composer:
Format: Normal
Title: In memoriam Jean-Pierre Ponnelle
Year of Production: 1996
Length: 02:44:00
Director: Horant H. Hohlfeld / Jean-Pierre Ponnelle
Production: Unitel
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Portrait / Number: A05502964 Composer:
Year of Production: 1994 Title: "I Remember..." Dr. Karl Böhm. His Life - His Music Conductor: Length: Karl Böhm 01:00:00
Director: Horant H. Hohlfeld
Content:
To honor Karl Böhm on the 100th anniversary of his birth, Unitel put together a one-hour portrait of the great conductor, who was an exclusive artist of Unitel from 1966 until his death on 14 August 1981. Karl Böhm was born in Graz, Austria, on 28 August 1894. He made his conducting debut in his hometown in 1917 before going on to Munich in 1921, where he was hired by Bruno Walter. He made his debut at the Vienna State Opera in 1933 and was appointed general manager of the Dresden State Opera thesame year. This marked the beginning of an intensive and fruitful collaboration with Richard Strauss (Böhm conducted the world premieres of Die schweigsame Frau and Daphne). He died in Salzburg on 14 August 1981. One of the hallmarks of Böhm's conducting was its perennially youthful vigor and directness, its lack of pathos and sentimentality. Dramatic climaxes and full sonorities grew out of almost imperceptible accents, out of the natural rhythm of the human breath. His gestures were minimalistic, his baton suggested movement more than it described it. Böhm set standards with his interpretations of the works of his long-time friend Richard Strauss. The unofficial curator of Strauss' musical legacy, Böhm knew his friend's music inside and out- and he knew just how Strauss wanted his works to sound. Böhm's Mozart interpretations reflect the naturalness and clarity of his conducting. Although Wagner was one of his first loves, Böhm soon discovered Mozart's operas thanks to Bruno Walter. La
Production: Unitel
Number: A05503962 Composer: Carl Orff
Title: Portrait Carl Orff
Year of Production: 1994
Length: 01:00:00
Director: Werner Lütje
Production: Unitel
Number: A05502136 Composer:
Format: Normal
Title: Leonard Bernstein: The Gift of Music Conductor: Leonard Bernstein
Year of Production: 1993
Length: 01:30:00
Director: Horant H. Hohlfeld
Content:
This 90-minute special tribute was produced to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Leonard Bernstein's birth on 25 August 1993. Narrated by legendary screen star Lauren Bacall, it also relies extensively on Bernstein's own words to provide the counterpoint to the abundant visual material. The special draws on the nearly 120 hours of programming with Leonard Bernstein produced exclusively by Unitel, as well as on material from the extensive Bernstein archives and earlier television ventures. Highlights include excerpts of Bernstein conducting masterworks by Beethoven and Mahler, as well as of the maestro with the New York Philharmonic in Moscow in 1959 before an audience which included composer Dmitri Shostakovich and the dissident poet BorisPasternak. It also contains never-before-seen footage, such as outtakes from televised concerts and interviews. Among these special treats: the dashing 28-year-old maestro representing the U.S. at the 1947 Prague Spring Festival - possibly the earliest extant film of Leonard Bernstein.
Production: Unitel
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Portrait / Number: A05504146 Composer:
Title: Hermann Prey - Portrait
Year of Production: 1989
Length: 00:40:00
Director: Werner Lütje Soloists: Hermann Prey
Content:
The internationally acclaimed baritone Hermann Prey was born in Berlin in 1929. He made his breakthrough in 1956 as Figaro in the Vienna State Opera's production of Rossini's "Barber of Seville". His resounding success as Figaro in Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's 1969 staging of Rossini's "Barber of Seville" at the Salzburg Festival stamped him as the Figaro of that era. Recorded a few years later by Unitel, this production has taken on an almost legendary status. Prey soon became a Mozart singer par excellence, portraying Guglielmo ("Così fan tutte"), Almaviva ("The Marriage of Figaro"), Papageno ("The Magic Flute") and, of course, Figaro. His unforgettable interpretation of this role in Ponnelle's production of "The Marriage of Figaro" is preservedfor all times by Unitel in a 1976 recording with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Kiri Te Kanawa and Mirella Freni. Prey also enjoyed great popularity in the United States, appearing in operas in San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, Houston and New York. After his Met debut as Wolfram in "Tannhäuser" in 1960, he regularly sang at that house until 1995. In addition to Mozart and Rossini, Prey's other favorite composers included Lortzing, Donizetti, Strauss and Wagner. Prey made his Bayreuth debut in 1965. It was there that he transformed the Meistersinger's Beckmesser into a sympathetic figure, a poet tinged with melancholy, in Wolfgang Wagner's early 1980s production. This performance is also preserved on film by Unitel. Hermann Prey was never exclusively
Production: Unitel
Number: A05004631 Composer:
Format: Normal
Title: James Levine - A Life in Music Conductor: James Levine
Year of Production: 1985
Length: 00:55:00
Director: Peter Weinberg
Production: Unitel
Number: A05004609 Composer:
Format: Normal
Title: Sir Georg Solti, Conductor - A Portrait Conductor: Georg Solti
Year of Production: 1983
Length: 01:13:00
Director: Valérie Pitts / Wolfgang Wagner Soloists: Hildegard Behrens, Isaac Stern
Content:
Sir Georg Solti (1912-1997), one of the greatest conductors of the 20th century, was a testament to the elegance and impeccable tastefulness of Central European music-making. Born in Budapest in 1912, he studied with Béla Bartók, Ernö von Dohnányi, Zoltán Kodály and Leo Weiner. In 1937, Toscanini chose him to be his assistant at the Salzburg Festival. After the war, Solti was appointed Music Director of the Bavarian State Opera. Further stations in his career were the Frankfurt Opera, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden and the London Philharmonic. His remarkable partnership with the Chicago Symphony began in 1954; he was named Music Director in 1969 and held this post for a phenomenal 22 years. He is credited with greatly extending and enhancing the orchestra's worldwide reputation. Solti died in September 1997, just before his 85th birthday. The fascinating portrait of the artist, Sir Georg Solti, Conductor - A Portrait, was produced with the participation of Isaac Stern, Hildegard Behrens, Wolfgang Wagner, the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Production: Unitel
Format: Normal
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Portrait / Number: A01500460 Composer:
Title: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle or The Warpath
Year of Production: 1979
Length: 00:53:00
Director: Brigitte Carreau / JeanPierre Ponnelle
Production: Unitel
Number: A05004564 Composer: Richard Strauss
Format: Normal
Title: Portrait Richard Strauss
Year of Production: 1979
Length: 01:00:00
Director:
Production: Unitel
Number: A05500101 Composer:
Format: Normal
Title: Impressions about Herbert von Karajan Conductor: Herbert von Karajan
Year of Production: 1978
Length: 01:00:00
Director: Vojtech Jasny
Content:
Commanding the podium with his slender figure, theatrical shock of hair and penetrating blue eyes, Herbert von Karajan (1908-1989) projected the hieratic image of the conductor as officiant of some quasi-mystic rite. And anyone who ever saw him conduct live or on his many audiovisual recordings will agree that in his performances, music did indeed become a religion and Karajan its high-priest. Karajan embodied classical music in the general consciousness as an epoch-making conductor, media star,opera producer, festival director and festival founder. But in spite of his Promethean and widely varied activities, he remained a superb conductor, with a grasp of the standard orchestral and operatic repertory from Mozart to Schoenberg that was unsurpassed among his peers.
Production: Unitel
Number: A05500635 Composer:
Format: Normal Year of Production: 1978 Title: Impressions of Herbert Von Karajan - A Documentary on the Maestro at 70. Conductor: Length: Herbert von Karajan 00:50:00
Director: Vojtech Jasny
Production: Unitel
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Portrait / Number: A05004510 Composer:
Title: Rafael Kubelik - Portrait Conductor: Rafael KubelĂk
Year of Production: 1972
Length: 00:55:00
Director: Fritz Buttenstedt
Content:
Rafael Kubelik (1914-1996) was the son of the well-known Bohemian violinist Jan Kubelik. He studied music in Prague and made his conducting debut at 20 at the head of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. Later he became the principal conductor of this famous orchestra and founded the "Prague Spring" Festival. After the Communist takeover of the government, Kubelik emigrated to the West and returned to his native land only after the end of the Communist regime. From 1950 to 1953 he headed the ChicagoSymphony, from 1955 to 1958 he was music director of the Covent Garden Opera in London. A period of great artistic successes began in 1961, when he was appointed principal conductor of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Many recordings document Kubelik's mastery and sense of artistry, his enjoyment of music and his temperament. His connection with the Munich orchestra lasted 18 years; in between, he also briefly served as music director of New York's Metropolitan Opera. Kubelik retired from the concert staged in 1985. But on the occasion of the first Prague Spring Festival after the fall of Communism in 1990, he returned to the podium of the Czech Philharmonic after more than 40 years in exile and conducted Smetana's "My Fatherland" cycle. His profound bonds with his native land and its composers were always clearly visible. Rafael Kubelik was a full-blooded musician. Every performance of his radiated a feeling of spontaneity, impulsiveness and joy. Kubelik died in Lucerne in August 1
Production: Unitel
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Special / Number: A01050072 Composer: Giovanni Maria Pagliardi
Title: Caligula Conductor: Vincent Dumestre
Year of Production: 2017
Orchestra: Le Poème Harmonique
Length: 01:23:00
Director: Stage Directors: Alexandra Rübner and Mimmo Cuticchio Soloists: Jan van Elsacker, Caroline Meng, Florian Götz, Jean-François Lombard, Sophie Junker
Content:
The Théâtre d’Arras unearthed a hidden treasure of opera history, Giovanni Maria Pagliardi’s Baroque “melodrama” Caligula, and breathed new life into it: Mimmo Cuticchio’s and Alexandra Rübner’s spectacular staging uses magnificent marionettes to tell a captivating tale of the mad Roman emperor, accompanied by Vincent Dumestre and his ensemble Le Poème Harmonique. The “excellent musicians” (Le Monde), specialized in vocal and instrumental music of the 17th and early 18th century, could not be better suited for the versatile score with ist overflowing energy. They support six singers, “each one as exquisite as the next” (Mouvement), who are positioned on either side of the stage to voice the marionettes. “Want to travel in time and space? ThisCaligula is made for you!” (Télérama) “A show for young and old, not to be missed under any circumstances!” (Mouvement)
Production: CLC Productions and Arcal with the participation of francetélévisions and UNITEL and with support of CNC
Number: A05550618 Composer: Sergei Prokofiev
Format: HDTV 16:9
Year of Production: 2017 Title: Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Valery Gergiev Münchner Philharmoniker 00:38:00
Director: Soloists: Malte Arkona, presenter
Content:
Russian star conductor Valery Gergiev leads the Mariinsky Orchestra in a captivating rendition of Sergei Prokofiev’s symphonic fairy tale for children Peter and the Wolf in the Philharmonie Munich at the MPHIL 360° festival. One of the most beautifulexplanatory works, which gives young listeners an understanding of the orchestral instruments, Peter and the Wolf famously attributes each character of its tale a corresponding instrument in the orchestra. To the delight of the children in the audience, a committed Gergiev and his musicians bring the fairy tale to life with the help of German kids’ TV presenter Malte Arkona, who charmingly voices the different parts. In the hometown of his German orchestra, the star conductor’s Petersburg orchestra shines with a wonderful warm, dark tone. “The Gasteig was buzzing during MPHIL 360°. More of this, please!” (BR Klassik)
Production: Münchner Philharmoniker and Telmondis in association with medici.tv andUNITEL and with the support of CNC
Number: A04500638 Composer: Richard Strauss
Format: HDTV 16:9
Year of Production: 2011 Title: Christian Thielemann rehearses "Die Frau ohne Schatten" Orchestra: Conductor: Length: Christian Thielemann Wiener Philharmoniker 00:26:00
Director: Eric Schulz / Christof Loy Soloists: Stephen Gould, Anne Schwanewilms, Michaela Schuster, Wolfgang Koch, Evelyn Herlitzius Production: Unitel
Format: HDTV
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Special / Number: A055126150000 Composer:
Year of Production: 2011
Title: Discovering Beethoven
Length: 09:00:00
Director: Christoph Engel, AncaMonica Pandelea Soloists: Christian Thielemann, Joachim Kaiser
Content:
For each symphony of the BEETHOVEN 9 project Christian Thielemann and Joachim Kaiser present an entertaining introduction feature with various examples and music excerpts plus documentary with Prof. Hellsberg on Beethoven and the Wiener Philharmoniker (A05512808 1x34’).
Production: UNITEL in co-production with ZDF/3sat
Number: A055130320000 Composer:
Title: High Performance Sports - Singing Opera
Year of Production: 2011
Length: 00:43:00 00:29:00
Director: Thomas Voigt, Wolfgang Wunderlich Soloists: Anja Harteros, Piotr Beczala, Christa Ludwig, Edda Moser, Daniel Behle, Jonas Kaufmann
Content:
What do Jonas Kaufmann, Anja Harteros, Piotr Beczala and Daniel Behle have in common? Besides being internationally acclaimed singers, they're all "vocal athletes" who keep their voices in shape. In this "rewarding documentary" (Opernglas), filmmakers Barbara and Wolfgang Wunderlich team up with Thomas Voigt to examine the physical and psychological hurdles that constantly face professional singers. Next to theoretical matters, the program offers a generous selection of musical excerpts that illustrate the topic at hand and shed light into the complex interplay of every singer's body and mind.
Production: Wunderlich Medien GbR in coproduction with SWR, ORF, UNITEL and CLASSICA
Number: A055134940000 Composer: Robert Schumann
Title: Schumann at Pier 2 Conductor: Paavo Järvi
Format: HDTV
Year of Production: 2011
Orchestra: Deutsche Kammerphilh. Bremen
Length: 00:01:38
Director:
Content:
After their internationally acclaimed Beethoven cycle, Paavo Järvi and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen now present their vision of Schumann's four symphonies. As the press wrote: "The dream team under Järvi has just landed another major coup".In addition to the live recordi of the concerts, the production also features a documentary which portrays the origin and development of the project. "We want to show ourselves as we make music", says Järvi. Reflecting the ensemble's pedagogical mission to make classical music accessible to the young, the production took place the popular venue "Pier 2".
Production: Unitel
Number: A02504650 Composer:
Format: HDTV Year of Production: 2010 Title: Solti's Vision - The World Orchestra for Peace Orchestra: Length: World Orchestra for Peace 00:21:00
Director:
Production: Unitel
Format: HDTV
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Special / Number: A045006070000 Composer:
Title: Alfred Brendel on Music - Three Lectures
Year of Production: 2010
Length: 03:45:00
Director: Mark Kidel Soloists: Alfred Brendel
Content:
In his lectures, which were recorded in Salzburg, Brendel, the ‘most profound pianist of our day’ (Joachim Kaiser), takes his listeners on a journey of discovery behind the notes and into the mysteries of the musical world. Thanks to their mixture oftheory and practical examples, his lectures – in spite of their very high level of sophistication – are entertaining not only for the expert, but also for everyone interested in music. Lecture 1: Does Classical Music Have To Be Entirely Serious? (74’); Lecture 2: Musical Character(s) As Exemplified In Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas (72’); Lecture 3: Light And Shade Of Interpretation (79’)
Production: UNITEL and CLASSICA in cooperation with Salzburg Format: HDTV Festival
Number: A04500621 Composer: Mieczyslaw Weinberg
Year of Production: 2010 Title: In exile - Miecyslaw Weinberg at the Bregenz Festival
Length: 00:29:00
Director: Markus Barnay
Production: Unitel
Number: A04500622 Composer: Gustav Mahler Director: Beate Thalberg
Content:
Format: HDTV Year of Production: 2010 Title: My time will come - Gustav Mahler as remembered by Natalie BauerLechner Length: 00:58:00 00:52:00
Filmmaker Beate Thalberg has crafted a docu-drama based on a little- known source of information on Gustav Mahler, the diaries of Natalie Bauer-Lechner, Mahler's long-time confidante. The film portra Mahler's private and professional life from his student years in Vienna up to his marriage with Alma Schindler. The diaries evoke the man behind the artist and testify not only to Mahler's erratic character and to his humor, but also to his dramatic struggle for recognition as a composer.
Production: A co-production of ORF, BR, 3sat, Format: HDTV Bundesministerium für Unterricht, Kunst und Kultur, Tellux-Film, UNITEL CLASSICA and SF in cooperation with merkur.tv
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Special / Number: A05512616 Composer:
Title: Victims & Seducers - The Fate of the Castrati
Year of Production: 2010
Length: 00:45:00
Director: Cristina Trebbi, Stefan Schneider Soloists: Cecilia Bartoli
Content:
An expert in the virtuoso and often unjustly forgotten coloratura music of the Baroque era, the great mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli showcased the repertoire of the castrato singers in her successful CD/DVD "Sacrificium - The Art of the Castrati". She is the face of the present documentary, in which she takes us into the intriguing world of the castrati, and lends her voice to the great Farinelli in performances of rediscovered bravura works. The film features dramatic re-enactments that alternate with information on medical, historical and sociological aspects of the castrato phenomenon.
Production: Gruppe 5 Filmproduktion for ZDF in co-production with UNITEL and CLASSICA
Number: A05512854 Composer:
Title: Rolando Villazon - ¡Viva México!
Format: HDTV
Year of Production: 2010
Length: 01:02:00
Director: Peter Schönhofer Soloists: Rolando Villazón
Content:
A lively documentary and road movie with Rolando Villazón. His very personal homage to Mexico and to the beautiful Mexican songs like ‘Bésame mucho’, ‘Cucurrucucú paloma’, ’Noche de ronda’ and ‘Solamente una vez’. The programme also includes a medleyof ‘Cielito lindo’ and ‘México lindo y querido’ as well as other internationally familiar standards.
Production: ZDF in cooperation with Universal Music Classical Management & Productions and UNITEL
Number: A05513244 Composer:
Title: Acción! The Story of La Fura dels Baus
Format: HDTV
Year of Production: 2010
Length: 01:21:00 00:58:00
Director: Christoph Goldmann, Leif Karpe
Content:
From city streets to the world's great stages, from underground to establishment - this is the story of a theater collective without parallel in the world today, La Fura dels Baus. The film starts with one of their most widely seen productions - thegigantic opening ceremony of the Shanghai Expo 2010 and relates the story of this visionary ensemble that is now setting new standards in opera production worldwide. Elements such as flying actors, human sculptures, socio-political critique and esotericism have helped create the "brand" La Fura dels Baus in the over 30 years of their existence.
Production: Ilona Grundmann Filmproduction and UNITEL CLASSICA for ZDFkultur and TVE
Number: A04500556 Composer: Director: Karina Fibich Soloists: Patricia Petibon Production: Unitel
Title: Portrait Patricia Petibon
Format: HDTV
Year of Production: 2009
Length: 00:35:00
Format: HDTV
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Special / Number: A05017535 Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Title: Passion - Last Stop Kinshasa Orchestra: AKA MOON
Year of Production: 2009
Length: 01:30:00
Director: Ballet Ensemble: Brigitte Kramer, Joerg LES BALLETS C DE LA B Jeschel Soloists: Serge Kakudji / Set and Costumes: Peter De Blieck / Claudine Grinwis Plaat Stultje
Content:
Founded in 1984, Alain Platel’s modern-dance ensemble ‘Les ballets C de la B’ of Ghent, Belgium, has since become a renowned, powerful, highly professional and rousingly virtuoso troupe. The ensemble performed Platel’s work ‘pitié! Erbarme dich’ in many traditional musical centers such as Paris, Berlin and Tokyo. For the final performances of his work, however, Platel wanted a very special venue and chose Kinshasa, the Congolese capital, which gave rise to a daring and enormously enriching experience. Filmmakers Jörg Jeshel and Brigitte Kramer accompanied the ensemble within Europe and then to Africa. They portray the rare encounter of classical music and modern dance with African reality, a celebration of passion and compassion.
Production: nachtaktivfilm in co-production with UNITEL CLASSICAcommissioned by ZDF in collaboration with Arte
Number: A05512410 Composer: Robert Schumann, Franz Schubert
Year of Production: 2009 Title: The Most Beautiful Song - A Search for Singers with Thomas Quasthoff (Documentary) Length: 01:00:00
Director: Tilo Krause
Content:
Thomas Quasthoff founded this contest ‘Das Lied’ to ensure that the Lied, which the baritone calls ‘the most beautiful form of music making,’ continues to hold its place in the concert repertoire of the future. The film accompanies some of the youngsingers during the competition’s three rounds, providing a showcase not only for beautiful voices and poignant Lieder, but also, and above all, for emotions. The hopes and disappointments, the joys and doubts, the tension and exhilaration of the youngsingers are all captured on film. And it soon emerges that the contest is as stimulating and galvanizing for the jurors as it is for the contestants! Excerpts from the closing gala concert recorded at the sumptuous Apollo Hall of the Staatsoper Unterden Linden Berlin round off the film.
Production: UNITEL in co-production with rbb and CLASSICA in cooperation with ‘Das Lied – International Song Competition’
Number: A055125280000 Composer:
Title: The Most Beautiful Operas of All Time
Format: HDTV
Year of Production: 2009
Length: 05:00:00
Director: Dag Freyer, Andreas Dutschke, Jürgen Schindler, Nicole Kraack, Matthias Schmidt, Nils Negendank
Content:
Reach out with ‘The Most Beautiful Operas of All Time’ format to a viewership beyond the typical classical music fans: Present the most beautiful operas of all time by combining the broadcast of the documentaries with the according opera productionsin as many different stagings as you like. Let the viewers not only discover the rich world and full variety of opera music but also let them choose the ‘most beautiful opera of all time’ and create the classical music TV-event which is widely perceived in all media. Documentaries: AIDA, LA BOHÈME, CARMEN, DON GIOVANNI, FIDELIO, LOHENGRIN, DER ROSENKAVALIER, TOSCA, LA TRAVIATA, DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE
Production: SMP Signed Media Production for ZDFtheaterkanal, 3sat and UNITEL Classica
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Special / Number: A04001513 Composer: Director:
Title: Salsa in Salzburg Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel
Year of Production: 2008
Orchestra: SIMON BOLIVAR YOUTH ORCHESTRA
Length: 01:34:00
Martin Schneider
Content:
Under the heading "Party in the Felsenreitschule," the Munich daily Münchner Merkur boldly proclaimed: "Venezuela's Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra guests at the Salzburg Festival - and delivers the biggest audience hit of the summer." Two days after the concert reviewed by the Merkur, the ensemble united its massive forces once again for a spectacular concert in the Grosses Festspielhaus - another unqualified success! Rarely has an orchestra reached out and grabbed its audience in such a visceralmanner; and even more rarely has such a feat been accomplished by an orchestra of youngsters between the ages of 12 and 26! The Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra, the Salzburg Festival's resident orchestra of 2008, is a product of the "Sistema de Orquestas" set up to allow children of all social levels to learn a musical instrument and play in an ensemble. Today, 250,000 youths are learning from 15,000 instructors and playing in over 120 youth orchestras and nearly 60 children's orchestras. Some of the Sistema's finest players were picked to form the S.B.Y.O. and to work in Salzburg with such outstanding musicians as Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Martha Argerich.
Production: UNITEL CLASSICA and BFMI in cooperation with Salzburg Festival for ZDF/Arte
Number: A045005380000 Composer: Director:
Year of Production: 2008 Title: School for the Ear - Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Gustavo Dudamel, SIMON BOLIVAR YOUTH 01:30:00 Nikolaus Harnoncourt ORCHESTRA
Christian Kurt Weisz
Content:
Under the heading "Party in the Felsenreitschule," the Munich daily Münchner Merkur boldly proclaimed: "Venezuela's Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra guests at the Salzburg Festival - and delivers the biggest audience hit of the summer." Two days after the concert reviewed by the Merkur, the ensemble united its massive forces once again for a spectacular concert in the Grosses Festspielhaus - another unqualified success! Rarely has an orchestra reached out and grabbed its audience in such a visceralmanner; and even more rarely has such a feat been accomplished by an orchestra of youngsters between the ages of 12 and 26! The Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra, the Salzburg Festival's resident orchestra of 2008, is a product of the "Sistema de Orquestas" set up to allow children of all social levels to learn a musical instrument and play in an ensemble. Today, 250,000 youths are learning from 15,000 instructors and playing in over 120 youth orchestras and nearly 60 children's orchestras. Some of the Sistema's finest players were picked to form the S.B.Y.O. and to work in Salzburg with such outstanding musicians as Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Martha Argerich. Documenting their activity there is the program "School for the Ear" featuring works by Beethoven and Mahler (also available from UNITEL CLASSICA). Conducting the present concert is the Sistema's most celebrated alumnus, Gustavo Dudamel, born in 1981. The young maestro, who was appointed chief conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orch
Production: Unitel
Format: HDTV
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Special / Number: A04500548 Composer: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Year of Production: 2008 Title: Anne-Sophie Mutter, Encounters with Mendelssohn
Length: 00:18:00
Director: Angelika Stiehler Soloists: Anne-Sophie Mutter, Sir André Previn, Lynn Harrell
Content:
One of the world's foremost violinists, Anne-Sophie Mutter is a musical celebrity known even by countless people who rarely listen to classical music. The artist and teacher, who promotes young musicians and commissions new works from contemporary composers, made her spectacular breakthrough under Herbert von Karajan at the 1977 Salzburg Easter Festival. She has since concertized at every major venue throughout the world. In 2008 she was awarded not only the prestigious Ernst von Siemens Music Award, but also the Leipzig Mendelssohn Award. The award ceremony in March 2008 was crowned by a gala concert at Leipzig's Gewandhaus with the Gewandhaus Orchestra under Kurt Masur, at which Mutter performed the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor op. 64 presented here. The recording offers a selection of masterpieces by Mendelssohn (1809-1847) in a variety of instrumentations. In addition to Mutter, Masur and the Leipzig orchestra, the performers also include Mutter's chamber-music partners LynnHarrell and André Previn. On the occasion of the Mendelssohn Year, UNITEL CLASSICA also offers the documentary Anne-Sophie Mutter - Encounters with Mendelssohn, in which the artist discusses her affinity to Mendelssohn and explains why she particularly admires the works presented here. Mutter has performed the Violin Concerto several times in her career. Joining her in Mendelssohn's Violin Sonata is pianist André Previn, who is also an internationally renowned conductor and composer. Previn accom
Production: Unitel
Number: A05016554 Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven, Leonard Bernstein
Format: HDTV 16:9
Title: The Promise of Music Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel
Year of Production: 2008
Orchestra: SIMON BOLIVAR YOUTH ORCHESTRA
Length: 01:32:00
Director: Enrique Sánchez-Lansch
Content:
The Promise of Music is a full-length feature film about the story of Gustavo Dudamel and the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela. The film documents Dudamel preparing his orchestra in Caracas for their upcoming concert at the Beethovenfest inBonn, 2007. Following different young musicians in their day-to-day lives, the film shows how classical music has the capability of changing both the individual and their environment. A unique and deeply moving look behind the scenes of one of the most talked about phenomena in the musical world of today!
Production: A BFMI production for Deutsche Welle and UNITEL CLASSICA
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Special / Number: A05512391 Composer: Gustav Mahler Director:
Year of Production: 2008 Title: The Mahler Project - Documentary Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Daniel Barenboim, Staatskapelle Berlin 00:22:00 Pierre Boulez
Christoph Engel
Content:
The Mahler Project: A fascinating documentary on the musical world of Gustav Mahler as seen by the two great musicians, and a recording of Mahler's colossal Ninth. "Mahler created a new world with each of his symphonies (...) It is a fantastic journey for both of us". With these few words, Daniel Barenboim sums up the vast scope of a project undertaken with his friend Pierre Boulez: two very different world-class conductors tackle all nine completed symphonies of Gustav Mahler (18601911) with one orchestra, the Staatskapelle Berlin. Performed as a complete cycle in Berlin, Vienna and New York, the concerts were a tremendous success. The Financial Times even wrote: "New York is going Mahler mad". Before embarking on this journey, the two conductors underwent a long period of reflection and discussion. In this documentary, director Christoph Engel compiles a rich selection of statements, conversations and musical excerpts which show how differently each maestro approaches this mighty oeuvre.
Production: UNITEL in coproduction with CLASSICA in Format: HDTV cooperation with STAATSOPER UNTER DENLINDEN
Number: A045005350000 Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Title: Mozart 22 Documentaries
Year of Production: 2007
Length: 17:20:00
Director: Carl Plötzeneder
Content:
Mozart22’ is an enterprise of utterly unique dimensions, the musical project of the century: all of Mozart’s stage works presented over the course of six weeks during the 2006 Salzburg Festival. The project brought together the greatest Mozart singers, conductors, stage directors and ensembles of the day. To make this extraordinary artistic achievement accessible to a broad public, the entire ‘Mozart22’ cycle was recorded with the highest-quality HD technology and 5.1 Dolby Digital sound. Each work in the cycle is also examined in documentaries containing excerpts from rehearsals, interviews with artists, and background reports that shed light on the meticulously elaborated, multilayered concepts of the musical interpretations and stage productions.
Production: UNITEL in cooperation with Salzburg Festival and CLASSICA
Format: HDTV
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Special / Number: A045005350001 Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Title: Apollo et Hyacinthus Documentary
Year of Production: 2007
Length: 00:52:00
Director: Carl Plรถtzeneder
Content:
"Mozart22" is an enterprise of utterly unique dimensions, the musical project of the century: all of Mozart's stage works presented over the course of six weeks during the 2006 Salzburg Festival. The project brought together the greatest Mozart singers, conductors, stage directors and ensembles of the day. To make this extraordinary artistic achievement accessible to a broad public, the entire "Mozart22" cycle was recorded with the highest-quality HD technology and 5.1 Dolby Digital sound. The cycle also includes 20 one-hour documentaries containing excerpts from rehearsals, interviews with artists, and background reports that shed light on the meticulously elaborated, multi-layered concepts of the musical interpretations and stage productions. The programs introduce the work in question and situate it in Mozart's oeuvre. Each documentary is devoted to one opera, whereby the shorter works and fragments are bundled. All the operas, of course, are available from UNITEL CLASSICA. In additionto providing valuable insights from the artists, the documentaries also bear witness to the incredible logistic achievement of the Mozart22 project. At the peak of the project, about 160 people were working on it nearly around the clock. Fifty thousand meters of cable were laid out in seven venues in Salzburg. Parallel to the recording crew of the opera cycle, who required up to twelve cameras for each recording, the documentary filmmakers scurried from rehearsal stage to hotel lounge, from artis
Production: Unitel
Number: A045005350002 Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Format: HDTV
Title: Ascanio in Alba Documentary
Year of Production: 2007
Length: 00:52:00
Director: Carl Plรถtzeneder
Content:
"Mozart22" is an enterprise of utterly unique dimensions, the musical project of the century: all of Mozart's stage works presented over the course of six weeks during the 2006 Salzburg Festival. The project brought together the greatest Mozart singers, conductors, stage directors and ensembles of the day. To make this extraordinary artistic achievement accessible to a broad public, the entire "Mozart22" cycle was recorded with the highest-quality HD technology and 5.1 Dolby Digital sound. The cycle also includes 20 one-hour documentaries containing excerpts from rehearsals, interviews with artists, and background reports that shed light on the meticulously elaborated, multi-layered concepts of the musical interpretations and stage productions. The programs introduce the work in question and situate it in Mozart's oeuvre. Each documentary is devoted to one opera, whereby the shorter works and fragments are bundled. All the operas, of course, are available from UNITEL CLASSICA. In additionto providing valuable insights from the artists, the documentaries also bear witness to the incredible logistic achievement of the Mozart22 project. At the peak of the project, about 160 people were working on it nearly around the clock. Fifty thousand meters of cable were laid out in seven venues in Salzburg. Parallel to the recording crew of the opera cycle, who required up to twelve cameras for each recording, the documentary filmmakers scurried from rehearsal stage to hotel lounge, from artis
Production: Unitel
Format: HDTV
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Special / Number: A045005350003 Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Year of Production: 2007 Title: Bastien und Bastienne / Der Schauspieldirektor Documentary
Length: 00:52:00
Director: Carl Plรถtzeneder
Content:
"Mozart22" is an enterprise of utterly unique dimensions, the musical project of the century: all of Mozart's stage works presented over the course of six weeks during the 2006 Salzburg Festival. The project brought together the greatest Mozart singers, conductors, stage directors and ensembles of the day. To make this extraordinary artistic achievement accessible to a broad public, the entire "Mozart22" cycle was recorded with the highest-quality HD technology and 5.1 Dolby Digital sound. The cycle also includes 20 one-hour documentaries containing excerpts from rehearsals, interviews with artists, and background reports that shed light on the meticulously elaborated, multi-layered concepts of the musical interpretations and stage productions. The programs introduce the work in question and situate it in Mozart's oeuvre. Each documentary is devoted to one opera, whereby the shorter works and fragments are bundled. All the operas, of course, are available from UNITEL CLASSICA. In additionto providing valuable insights from the artists, the documentaries also bear witness to the incredible logistic achievement of the Mozart22 project. At the peak of the project, about 160 people were working on it nearly around the clock. Fifty thousand meters of cable were laid out in seven venues in Salzburg. Parallel to the recording crew of the opera cycle, who required up to twelve cameras for each recording, the documentary filmmakers scurried from rehearsal stage to hotel lounge, from artis
Production: Unitel
Number: A045005350004 Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Format: HDTV
Title: Betulia Liberata Documentary
Year of Production: 2007
Length: 00:52:00
Director: Carl Plรถtzeneder
Content:
"Mozart22" is an enterprise of utterly unique dimensions, the musical project of the century: all of Mozart's stage works presented over the course of six weeks during the 2006 Salzburg Festival. The project brought together the greatest Mozart singers, conductors, stage directors and ensembles of the day. To make this extraordinary artistic achievement accessible to a broad public, the entire "Mozart22" cycle was recorded with the highest-quality HD technology and 5.1 Dolby Digital sound. The cycle also includes 20 one-hour documentaries containing excerpts from rehearsals, interviews with artists, and background reports that shed light on the meticulously elaborated, multi-layered concepts of the musical interpretations and stage productions. The programs introduce the work in question and situate it in Mozart's oeuvre. Each documentary is devoted to one opera, whereby the shorter works and fragments are bundled. All the operas, of course, are available from UNITEL CLASSICA. In additionto providing valuable insights from the artists, the documentaries also bear witness to the incredible logistic achievement of the Mozart22 project. At the peak of the project, about 160 people were working on it nearly around the clock. Fifty thousand meters of cable were laid out in seven venues in Salzburg. Parallel to the recording crew of the opera cycle, who required up to twelve cameras for each recording, the documentary filmmakers scurried from rehearsal stage to hotel lounge, from artis
Production: Unitel
Format: HDTV
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Special / Number: A045005350005 Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Title: Cosรฌ fan tutte Documentary
Year of Production: 2007
Length: 00:52:00
Director: Carl Plรถtzeneder
Content:
"Mozart22" is an enterprise of utterly unique dimensions, the musical project of the century: all of Mozart's stage works presented over the course of six weeks during the 2006 Salzburg Festival. The project brought together the greatest Mozart singers, conductors, stage directors and ensembles of the day. To make this extraordinary artistic achievement accessible to a broad public, the entire "Mozart22" cycle was recorded with the highest-quality HD technology and 5.1 Dolby Digital sound. The cycle also includes 20 one-hour documentaries containing excerpts from rehearsals, interviews with artists, and background reports that shed light on the meticulously elaborated, multi-layered concepts of the musical interpretations and stage productions. The programs introduce the work in question and situate it in Mozart's oeuvre. Each documentary is devoted to one opera, whereby the shorter works and fragments are bundled. All the operas, of course, are available from UNITEL CLASSICA. In additionto providing valuable insights from the artists, the documentaries also bear witness to the incredible logistic achievement of the Mozart22 project. At the peak of the project, about 160 people were working on it nearly around the clock. Fifty thousand meters of cable were laid out in seven venues in Salzburg. Parallel to the recording crew of the opera cycle, who required up to twelve cameras for each recording, the documentary filmmakers scurried from rehearsal stage to hotel lounge, from artis
Production: Unitel
Number: A045005350006 Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Format: HDTV
Title: Don Giovanni Documentary
Year of Production: 2007
Length: 00:52:00
Director: Carl Plรถtzeneder
Content:
"Mozart22" is an enterprise of utterly unique dimensions, the musical project of the century: all of Mozart's stage works presented over the course of six weeks during the 2006 Salzburg Festival. The project brought together the greatest Mozart singers, conductors, stage directors and ensembles of the day. To make this extraordinary artistic achievement accessible to a broad public, the entire "Mozart22" cycle was recorded with the highest-quality HD technology and 5.1 Dolby Digital sound. The cycle also includes 20 one-hour documentaries containing excerpts from rehearsals, interviews with artists, and background reports that shed light on the meticulously elaborated, multi-layered concepts of the musical interpretations and stage productions. The programs introduce the work in question and situate it in Mozart's oeuvre. Each documentary is devoted to one opera, whereby the shorter works and fragments are bundled. All the operas, of course, are available from UNITEL CLASSICA. In additionto providing valuable insights from the artists, the documentaries also bear witness to the incredible logistic achievement of the Mozart22 project. At the peak of the project, about 160 people were working on it nearly around the clock. Fifty thousand meters of cable were laid out in seven venues in Salzburg. Parallel to the recording crew of the opera cycle, who required up to twelve cameras for each recording, the documentary filmmakers scurried from rehearsal stage to hotel lounge, from artis
Production: Unitel
Format: HDTV
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Special / Number: A045005350007 Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Title: Die Entführung aus dem Serail Documentary
Year of Production: 2007
Length: 00:52:00
Director: Carl Plötzeneder
Content:
"Mozart22" is an enterprise of utterly unique dimensions, the musical project of the century: all of Mozart's stage works presented over the course of six weeks during the 2006 Salzburg Festival. The project brought together the greatest Mozart singers, conductors, stage directors and ensembles of the day. To make this extraordinary artistic achievement accessible to a broad public, the entire "Mozart22" cycle was recorded with the highest-quality HD technology and 5.1 Dolby Digital sound. The cycle also includes 20 one-hour documentaries containing excerpts from rehearsals, interviews with artists, and background reports that shed light on the meticulously elaborated, multi-layered concepts of the musical interpretations and stage productions. The programs introduce the work in question and situate it in Mozart's oeuvre. Each documentary is devoted to one opera, whereby the shorter works and fragments are bundled. All the operas, of course, are available from UNITEL CLASSICA. In additionto providing valuable insights from the artists, the documentaries also bear witness to the incredible logistic achievement of the Mozart22 project. At the peak of the project, about 160 people were working on it nearly around the clock. Fifty thousand meters of cable were laid out in seven venues in Salzburg. Parallel to the recording crew of the opera cycle, who required up to twelve cameras for each recording, the documentary filmmakers scurried from rehearsal stage to hotel lounge, from artis
Production: Unitel
Number: A045005350008 Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Format: HDTV
Title: La finta giardiniera Documentary
Year of Production: 2007
Length: 00:52:00
Director: Carl Plötzeneder
Content:
"Mozart22" is an enterprise of utterly unique dimensions, the musical project of the century: all of Mozart's stage works presented over the course of six weeks during the 2006 Salzburg Festival. The project brought together the greatest Mozart singers, conductors, stage directors and ensembles of the day. To make this extraordinary artistic achievement accessible to a broad public, the entire "Mozart22" cycle was recorded with the highest-quality HD technology and 5.1 Dolby Digital sound. The cycle also includes 20 one-hour documentaries containing excerpts from rehearsals, interviews with artists, and background reports that shed light on the meticulously elaborated, multi-layered concepts of the musical interpretations and stage productions. The programs introduce the work in question and situate it in Mozart's oeuvre. Each documentary is devoted to one opera, whereby the shorter works and fragments are bundled. All the operas, of course, are available from UNITEL CLASSICA. In additionto providing valuable insights from the artists, the documentaries also bear witness to the incredible logistic achievement of the Mozart22 project. At the peak of the project, about 160 people were working on it nearly around the clock. Fifty thousand meters of cable were laid out in seven venues in Salzburg. Parallel to the recording crew of the opera cycle, who required up to twelve cameras for each recording, the documentary filmmakers scurried from rehearsal stage to hotel lounge, from artis
Production: Unitel
Format: HDTV
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Special / Number: A045005350009 Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Title: Idomeneo Documentary
Year of Production: 2007
Length: 00:52:00
Director: Carl Plรถtzeneder
Content:
"Mozart22" is an enterprise of utterly unique dimensions, the musical project of the century: all of Mozart's stage works presented over the course of six weeks during the 2006 Salzburg Festival. The project brought together the greatest Mozart singers, conductors, stage directors and ensembles of the day. To make this extraordinary artistic achievement accessible to a broad public, the entire "Mozart22" cycle was recorded with the highest-quality HD technology and 5.1 Dolby Digital sound. The cycle also includes 20 one-hour documentaries containing excerpts from rehearsals, interviews with artists, and background reports that shed light on the meticulously elaborated, multi-layered concepts of the musical interpretations and stage productions. The programs introduce the work in question and situate it in Mozart's oeuvre. Each documentary is devoted to one opera, whereby the shorter works and fragments are bundled. All the operas, of course, are available from UNITEL CLASSICA. In additionto providing valuable insights from the artists, the documentaries also bear witness to the incredible logistic achievement of the Mozart22 project. At the peak of the project, about 160 people were working on it nearly around the clock. Fifty thousand meters of cable were laid out in seven venues in Salzburg. Parallel to the recording crew of the opera cycle, who required up to twelve cameras for each recording, the documentary filmmakers scurried from rehearsal stage to hotel lounge, from artis
Production: Unitel
Number: A045005350010 Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Format: HDTV
Title: Irrfahrten I: La finta semplice Documentary
Year of Production: 2007
Length: 00:52:00
Director: Carl Plรถtzeneder
Content:
"Mozart22" is an enterprise of utterly unique dimensions, the musical project of the century: all of Mozart's stage works presented over the course of six weeks during the 2006 Salzburg Festival. The project brought together the greatest Mozart singers, conductors, stage directors and ensembles of the day. To make this extraordinary artistic achievement accessible to a broad public, the entire "Mozart22" cycle was recorded with the highest-quality HD technology and 5.1 Dolby Digital sound. The cycle also includes 20 one-hour documentaries containing excerpts from rehearsals, interviews with artists, and background reports that shed light on the meticulously elaborated, multi-layered concepts of the musical interpretations and stage productions. The programs introduce the work in question and situate it in Mozart's oeuvre. Each documentary is devoted to one opera, whereby the shorter works and fragments are bundled. All the operas, of course, are available from UNITEL CLASSICA. In additionto providing valuable insights from the artists, the documentaries also bear witness to the incredible logistic achievement of the Mozart22 project. At the peak of the project, about 160 people were working on it nearly around the clock. Fifty thousand meters of cable were laid out in seven venues in Salzburg. Parallel to the recording crew of the opera cycle, who required up to twelve cameras for each recording, the documentary filmmakers scurried from rehearsal stage to hotel lounge, from artis
Production: Unitel
Format: HDTV
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Special / Number: A045005350011 Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Title: Irrfahrten II: Abendempfindung Documentary
Year of Production: 2007
Length: 00:52:00
Director: Carl Plรถtzeneder
Content:
"Mozart22" is an enterprise of utterly unique dimensions, the musical project of the century: all of Mozart's stage works presented over the course of six weeks during the 2006 Salzburg Festival. The project brought together the greatest Mozart singers, conductors, stage directors and ensembles of the day. To make this extraordinary artistic achievement accessible to a broad public, the entire "Mozart22" cycle was recorded with the highest-quality HD technology and 5.1 Dolby Digital sound. The cycle also includes 20 one-hour documentaries containing excerpts from rehearsals, interviews with artists, and background reports that shed light on the meticulously elaborated, multi-layered concepts of the musical interpretations and stage productions. The programs introduce the work in question and situate it in Mozart's oeuvre. Each documentary is devoted to one opera, whereby the shorter works and fragments are bundled. All the operas, of course, are available from UNITEL CLASSICA. In additionto providing valuable insights from the artists, the documentaries also bear witness to the incredible logistic achievement of the Mozart22 project. At the peak of the project, about 160 people were working on it nearly around the clock. Fifty thousand meters of cable were laid out in seven venues in Salzburg. Parallel to the recording crew of the opera cycle, who required up to twelve cameras for each recording, the documentary filmmakers scurried from rehearsal stage to hotel lounge, from artis
Production: Unitel
Number: A045005350012 Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Format: HDTV
Title: Irrfahrten III: Rex Tremendus Documentary
Year of Production: 2007
Length: 00:52:00
Director: Carl Plรถtzeneder
Content:
"Mozart22" is an enterprise of utterly unique dimensions, the musical project of the century: all of Mozart's stage works presented over the course of six weeks during the 2006 Salzburg Festival. The project brought together the greatest Mozart singers, conductors, stage directors and ensembles of the day. To make this extraordinary artistic achievement accessible to a broad public, the entire "Mozart22" cycle was recorded with the highest-quality HD technology and 5.1 Dolby Digital sound. The cycle also includes 20 one-hour documentaries containing excerpts from rehearsals, interviews with artists, and background reports that shed light on the meticulously elaborated, multi-layered concepts of the musical interpretations and stage productions. The programs introduce the work in question and situate it in Mozart's oeuvre. Each documentary is devoted to one opera, whereby the shorter works and fragments are bundled. All the operas, of course, are available from UNITEL CLASSICA. In additionto providing valuable insights from the artists, the documentaries also bear witness to the incredible logistic achievement of the Mozart22 project. At the peak of the project, about 160 people were working on it nearly around the clock. Fifty thousand meters of cable were laid out in seven venues in Salzburg. Parallel to the recording crew of the opera cycle, who required up to twelve cameras for each recording, the documentary filmmakers scurried from rehearsal stage to hotel lounge, from artis
Production: Unitel
Format: HDTV
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Special / Number: A045005350013 Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Title: Lucio Silla Documentary
Year of Production: 2007
Length: 00:52:00
Director: Carl Plรถtzeneder
Content:
"Mozart22" is an enterprise of utterly unique dimensions, the musical project of the century: all of Mozart's stage works presented over the course of six weeks during the 2006 Salzburg Festival. The project brought together the greatest Mozart singers, conductors, stage directors and ensembles of the day. To make this extraordinary artistic achievement accessible to a broad public, the entire "Mozart22" cycle was recorded with the highest-quality HD technology and 5.1 Dolby Digital sound. The cycle also includes 20 one-hour documentaries containing excerpts from rehearsals, interviews with artists, and background reports that shed light on the meticulously elaborated, multi-layered concepts of the musical interpretations and stage productions. The programs introduce the work in question and situate it in Mozart's oeuvre. Each documentary is devoted to one opera, whereby the shorter works and fragments are bundled. All the operas, of course, are available from UNITEL CLASSICA. In additionto providing valuable insights from the artists, the documentaries also bear witness to the incredible logistic achievement of the Mozart22 project. At the peak of the project, about 160 people were working on it nearly around the clock. Fifty thousand meters of cable were laid out in seven venues in Salzburg. Parallel to the recording crew of the opera cycle, who required up to twelve cameras for each recording, the documentary filmmakers scurried from rehearsal stage to hotel lounge, from artis
Production: Unitel
Number: A045005350014 Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Format: HDTV
Title: Mitridate, re di ponto Documentary
Year of Production: 2007
Length: 00:52:00
Director: Carl Plรถtzeneder
Content:
"Mozart22" is an enterprise of utterly unique dimensions, the musical project of the century: all of Mozart's stage works presented over the course of six weeks during the 2006 Salzburg Festival. The project brought together the greatest Mozart singers, conductors, stage directors and ensembles of the day. To make this extraordinary artistic achievement accessible to a broad public, the entire "Mozart22" cycle was recorded with the highest-quality HD technology and 5.1 Dolby Digital sound. The cycle also includes 20 one-hour documentaries containing excerpts from rehearsals, interviews with artists, and background reports that shed light on the meticulously elaborated, multi-layered concepts of the musical interpretations and stage productions. The programs introduce the work in question and situate it in Mozart's oeuvre. Each documentary is devoted to one opera, whereby the shorter works and fragments are bundled. All the operas, of course, are available from UNITEL CLASSICA. In additionto providing valuable insights from the artists, the documentaries also bear witness to the incredible logistic achievement of the Mozart22 project. At the peak of the project, about 160 people were working on it nearly around the clock. Fifty thousand meters of cable were laid out in seven venues in Salzburg. Parallel to the recording crew of the opera cycle, who required up to twelve cameras for each recording, the documentary filmmakers scurried from rehearsal stage to hotel lounge, from artis
Production: Unitel
Format: HDTV
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Special / Number: A045005350015 Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Title: Le Nozze di Figaro Documentary
Year of Production: 2007
Length: 00:27:00
Director: Griss, Sylvia, Alexander HellbrĂźgge
Content:
"Mozart22" is an enterprise of utterly unique dimensions, the musical project of the century: all of Mozart's stage works presented over the course of six weeks during the 2006 Salzburg Festival. The project brought together the greatest Mozart singers, conductors, stage directors and ensembles of the day. To make this extraordinary artistic achievement accessible to a broad public, the entire "Mozart22" cycle was recorded with the highest-quality HD technology and 5.1 Dolby Digital sound. The cycle also includes 20 one-hour documentaries containing excerpts from rehearsals, interviews with artists, and background reports that shed light on the meticulously elaborated, multi-layered concepts of the musical interpretations and stage productions. The programs introduce the work in question and situate it in Mozart's oeuvre. Each documentary is devoted to one opera, whereby the shorter works and fragments are bundled. All the operas, of course, are available from UNITEL CLASSICA. In additionto providing valuable insights from the artists, the documentaries also bear witness to the incredible logistic achievement of the Mozart22 project. At the peak of the project, about 160 people were working on it nearly around the clock. Fifty thousand meters of cable were laid out in seven venues in Salzburg. Parallel to the recording crew of the opera cycle, who required up to twelve cameras for each recording, the documentary filmmakers scurried from rehearsal stage to hotel lounge, from artis
Production: Unitel
Number: A045005350016 Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Format: HDTV
Title: Il re pastore Documentary
Year of Production: 2007
Length: 00:52:00
Director: Carl PlĂśtzeneder
Content:
"Mozart22" is an enterprise of utterly unique dimensions, the musical project of the century: all of Mozart's stage works presented over the course of six weeks during the 2006 Salzburg Festival. The project brought together the greatest Mozart singers, conductors, stage directors and ensembles of the day. To make this extraordinary artistic achievement accessible to a broad public, the entire "Mozart22" cycle was recorded with the highest-quality HD technology and 5.1 Dolby Digital sound. The cycle also includes 20 one-hour documentaries containing excerpts from rehearsals, interviews with artists, and background reports that shed light on the meticulously elaborated, multi-layered concepts of the musical interpretations and stage productions. The programs introduce the work in question and situate it in Mozart's oeuvre. Each documentary is devoted to one opera, whereby the shorter works and fragments are bundled. All the operas, of course, are available from UNITEL CLASSICA. In additionto providing valuable insights from the artists, the documentaries also bear witness to the incredible logistic achievement of the Mozart22 project. At the peak of the project, about 160 people were working on it nearly around the clock. Fifty thousand meters of cable were laid out in seven venues in Salzburg. Parallel to the recording crew of the opera cycle, who required up to twelve cameras for each recording, the documentary filmmakers scurried from rehearsal stage to hotel lounge, from artis
Production: Unitel
Format: HDTV
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Special / Number: A045005350017 Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Year of Production: 2007 Title: Die Schuldigkeit des Ersten Gebots Documentary
Length: 00:52:00
Director: Carl Plรถtzeneder
Content:
"Mozart22" is an enterprise of utterly unique dimensions, the musical project of the century: all of Mozart's stage works presented over the course of six weeks during the 2006 Salzburg Festival. The project brought together the greatest Mozart singers, conductors, stage directors and ensembles of the day. To make this extraordinary artistic achievement accessible to a broad public, the entire "Mozart22" cycle was recorded with the highest-quality HD technology and 5.1 Dolby Digital sound. The cycle also includes 20 one-hour documentaries containing excerpts from rehearsals, interviews with artists, and background reports that shed light on the meticulously elaborated, multi-layered concepts of the musical interpretations and stage productions. The programs introduce the work in question and situate it in Mozart's oeuvre. Each documentary is devoted to one opera, whereby the shorter works and fragments are bundled. All the operas, of course, are available from UNITEL CLASSICA. In additionto providing valuable insights from the artists, the documentaries also bear witness to the incredible logistic achievement of the Mozart22 project. At the peak of the project, about 160 people were working on it nearly around the clock. Fifty thousand meters of cable were laid out in seven venues in Salzburg. Parallel to the recording crew of the opera cycle, who required up to twelve cameras for each recording, the documentary filmmakers scurried from rehearsal stage to hotel lounge, from artis
Production: Unitel
Number: A045005350018 Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Format: HDTV
Title: Il sogno di scipione Documentary
Year of Production: 2007
Length: 00:52:00
Director: Carl Plรถtzeneder
Content:
"Mozart22" is an enterprise of utterly unique dimensions, the musical project of the century: all of Mozart's stage works presented over the course of six weeks during the 2006 Salzburg Festival. The project brought together the greatest Mozart singers, conductors, stage directors and ensembles of the day. To make this extraordinary artistic achievement accessible to a broad public, the entire "Mozart22" cycle was recorded with the highest-quality HD technology and 5.1 Dolby Digital sound. The cycle also includes 20 one-hour documentaries containing excerpts from rehearsals, interviews with artists, and background reports that shed light on the meticulously elaborated, multi-layered concepts of the musical interpretations and stage productions. The programs introduce the work in question and situate it in Mozart's oeuvre. Each documentary is devoted to one opera, whereby the shorter works and fragments are bundled. All the operas, of course, are available from UNITEL CLASSICA. In additionto providing valuable insights from the artists, the documentaries also bear witness to the incredible logistic achievement of the Mozart22 project. At the peak of the project, about 160 people were working on it nearly around the clock. Fifty thousand meters of cable were laid out in seven venues in Salzburg. Parallel to the recording crew of the opera cycle, who required up to twelve cameras for each recording, the documentary filmmakers scurried from rehearsal stage to hotel lounge, from artis
Production: Unitel
Format: HDTV
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Special / Number: A045005350019 Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Title: Zaide & Adama Documentary
Year of Production: 2007
Length: 00:52:00
Director: Carl Plรถtzeneder
Content:
"Mozart22" is an enterprise of utterly unique dimensions, the musical project of the century: all of Mozart's stage works presented over the course of six weeks during the 2006 Salzburg Festival. The project brought together the greatest Mozart singers, conductors, stage directors and ensembles of the day. To make this extraordinary artistic achievement accessible to a broad public, the entire "Mozart22" cycle was recorded with the highest-quality HD technology and 5.1 Dolby Digital sound. The cycle also includes 20 one-hour documentaries containing excerpts from rehearsals, interviews with artists, and background reports that shed light on the meticulously elaborated, multi-layered concepts of the musical interpretations and stage productions. The programs introduce the work in question and situate it in Mozart's oeuvre. Each documentary is devoted to one opera, whereby the shorter works and fragments are bundled. All the operas, of course, are available from UNITEL CLASSICA. In additionto providing valuable insights from the artists, the documentaries also bear witness to the incredible logistic achievement of the Mozart22 project. At the peak of the project, about 160 people were working on it nearly around the clock. Fifty thousand meters of cable were laid out in seven venues in Salzburg. Parallel to the recording crew of the opera cycle, who required up to twelve cameras for each recording, the documentary filmmakers scurried from rehearsal stage to hotel lounge, from artis
Production: Unitel
Number: A045005350020 Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Format: HDTV
Title: Die Zauberflรถte Documentary
Year of Production: 2007
Length: 00:52:00
Director: Carl Plรถtzeneder
Content:
"Mozart22" is an enterprise of utterly unique dimensions, the musical project of the century: all of Mozart's stage works presented over the course of six weeks during the 2006 Salzburg Festival. The project brought together the greatest Mozart singers, conductors, stage directors and ensembles of the day. To make this extraordinary artistic achievement accessible to a broad public, the entire "Mozart22" cycle was recorded with the highest-quality HD technology and 5.1 Dolby Digital sound. The cycle also includes 20 one-hour documentaries containing excerpts from rehearsals, interviews with artists, and background reports that shed light on the meticulously elaborated, multi-layered concepts of the musical interpretations and stage productions. The programs introduce the work in question and situate it in Mozart's oeuvre. Each documentary is devoted to one opera, whereby the shorter works and fragments are bundled. All the operas, of course, are available from UNITEL CLASSICA. In additionto providing valuable insights from the artists, the documentaries also bear witness to the incredible logistic achievement of the Mozart22 project. At the peak of the project, about 160 people were working on it nearly around the clock. Fifty thousand meters of cable were laid out in seven venues in Salzburg. Parallel to the recording crew of the opera cycle, who required up to twelve cameras for each recording, the documentary filmmakers scurried from rehearsal stage to hotel lounge, from artis
Production: Unitel
Number: A04500542 Composer:
Format: HDTV Year of Production: 2007 Title: Music Across All Borders Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Daniel Barenboim West-Eastern Divan Orchestra 00:54:00
Director: Kurt Christian Weisz
Production: Unitel
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Special / Number: A05016488 Composer:
Year of Production: 2007 Title: Behind the Scene - The Opera Gala Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Marco Armiliato SWF-Sinfonieorch. Baden-Baden 00:56:00
Director: Robert Dornhelm, Christoph Engel Soloists: Anna Netrebko, Elina Garanca, Ramón Vargas, Ludovic Tézier
Content:
Four of the greatest singers of our time combine their talents and their artistry in an evening of beloved operatic numbers - rarely has a concert deserved the title "Opera Summit" as much as this one, recorded live at the Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden on 3 August 2007. Heading the quartet is soprano Anna Netrebko with her inimitable blend of glamour and simplicity, her enticing appearance and seductive singing, a musical powerhouse who tops the pop charts and sells out operas houses within hours.Hardly less dazzling than her Russian colleague is Latvian mezzo Elina Garanca, whose crystal-clear voice and charismatic stage presence never fail to enthrall her audiences. She is a frequent guest of the Vienna State Opera and the Salzburg Festival, where she made her sensational debut as Annio in Mozart's "La clemenza di Tito" in 2003. Her international career has taken her to Covent Garden, the Met and other prestigious stages. She was awarded the European Cultural Prize in Dresden in 2006. Replacing the indisposed Rolando Villazón is his fellow Mexican tenor Ramón Vargas, who began his career in Europe after winning the first prize in the Enrico Caruso Competition in Milan. His international breakthrough came in 1993 when he replaced Luciano Pavarotti as Edgardo in "Lucia di Lammermoor." Today he sings at all the world's major theaters. French baritone Ludovic Tézier is a frequent guest at La Scala, the Opéra Bastille and the Met. His interpretations of Don Giovanni and Count Almaviv
Production: Unitel
Number: A05512198 Composer:
Year of Production: 2007 Title: Introduction to Albrecht Mayer's New Seasons Orchestra: Length: Sinfonia Varsovia 00:40:00
Director: Christoph Engel Soloists: Albrecht Mayer
Content:
Unlike the piano, the violin or even the flute, the oboe is a relatively rare instrument for a solo career. And when a soloist such as Albrecht Mayer plays the oboe, one wishes composers had written more works for this sweetly mellow instrument. Critics write about the "divine spark" that inspires his playing, and about the "miraculous oboe" that turns into "an instrument of seduction." With his particularly warm tone and exceptionally broad palette of nuances, it's no surprise that Albrecht Mayer is one of today's most sought-after international oboists. In this documentary portrait of the oboist, we retrace the musician's impressive career and witness some of its many high points. Mayer embarked on a professional career in 1990, when he joined the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra as solo oboist. Two years later, he made the transition to the absolute top league with his appointment as solo oboist of the Berlin Philharmonic, and since then he has made countless international appearances, playing under such eminent conductors as Abbado, Rattle and Harnoncourt. In addition to his work as a soloist, Mayer also attaches great importance to chamber music. He is a permanent member of the Sabine Meyer Wind Ensemble and also plays with such partners as Thomas Quasthoff, Matthias Goerne and Leif Ove Andsnes.
Production: Unitel
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Special / Number: A055119410000 Composer: Anton Bruckner, Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Richard Strauss, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms
Year of Production: 2005 Title: Kent Nagano Conducts Classical Masterpieces - Documentaries Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Kent Nagano Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin 05:12:00
Director: Oliver Becker, Ellen Fellmann
Content:
Six great composers, six landmark symphonies, a top orchestra and its star conductor - these are the components of an extraordinary classical-music television event. Shot in High Definition, it takes a bold and innovative approach to the recording ofclassical music. Boom and tracking shots, quick cuts, remote-controlled cameras - stylistic means previously used chiefly for pop music recordings give the programs an up-to-the-minute look and feel. A team of more than 30 specialists makes sure thatviewers enjoy a truly cinematic experience. The programs also go new ways by featuring entertaining, historically founded animated sequences illustrating episodes from the lives of the composers. Backstage interviews with the musicians and excerpts from their rehearsals let us share in the spirit of their music-making. Conductor Kent Nagano also relates what is of special importance to him in each work, and offers fascinating insights on the origin and context of the work in question. Documentaries: Bruckner, Symphony No. 8 – Mozart, Symphony No.41 ‘Jupiter’ – Beethoven, Symphony No.3 ‘Eroica’ – Strauss, Alpensymphonie (An Alpine Symphony) – Schumann, Symphony No.3 – Brahms, Symphony No.4
Production: A BFMI production for Deutsche Welle in coproduction with UNITEL CLASSICA
Number: A055119410001 Composer: Anton Bruckner
Year of Production: 2005 Title: Documentary: Bruckner, Symphony No.8 in C minor, WAB 108 Orchestra: Conductor: Length: Kent Nagano Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin 00:52:00
Director: Oliver Becker, Ellen Fellmann
Content:
Six great composers, six landmark symphonies, a top orchestra and its star conductor Kent Nagano - these are the components of an extraordinary classical-music television event. Shot in High Definition, it takes a bold and innovative approach to therecording of classical music. Boom and tracking shots, quick cuts, remote-controlled cameras - stylistic means previously used chiefly for pop music recordings give the programs an up-to-the-minute look and feel. A team of more than 30 specialists makes sure that viewers enjoy a truly cinematic experience. The programs also go new ways by featuring entertaining, historically founded animated sequences illustrating episodes from the lives of the composers. Backstage interviews with the musicians and excerpts from their rehearsals let us share in the spirit of their music-making. Conductor Kent Nagano also relates what is of special importance to him in each work, and offers fascinating insights on the origin and context of the work in question.Documentaries: Bruckner, Symphony No. 8 – Mozart, Symphony No.41 ‘Jupiter’ – Beethoven, Symphony No.3 ‘Eroica’ – Strauss, Alpensymphonie (An Alpine Symphony) – Schumann, Symphony No.3 – Brahms, Symphony No.4
Production: A BFMI production for Deutsche Wellein coproduction with UNITEL CLASSICA
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Special / Number: A055119410002 Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Year of Production: 2005 Title: Documentary: Mozart, Symphony No.41 in C major, K.551 "Jupiter" Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Kent Nagano Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin 00:52:00
Director: Oliver Becker, Ellen Fellmann
Content:
Six great composers, six landmark symphonies, a top orchestra and its star conductor Kent Nagano - these are the components of an extraordinary classical-music television event. Shot in High Definition, it takes a bold and innovative approach to therecording of classical music. Boom and tracking shots, quick cuts, remote-controlled cameras - stylistic means previously used chiefly for pop music recordings give the programs an up-to-the-minute look and feel. A team of more than 30 specialists makes sure that viewers enjoy a truly cinematic experience. The programs also go new ways by featuring entertaining, historically founded animated sequences illustrating episodes from the lives of the composers. Backstage interviews with the musicians and excerpts from their rehearsals let us share in the spirit of their music-making. Conductor Kent Nagano also relates what is of special importance to him in each work, and offers fascinating insights on the origin and context of the work in question.Documentaries: Bruckner, Symphony No. 8 – Mozart, Symphony No.41 ‘Jupiter’ – Beethoven, Symphony No.3 ‘Eroica’ – Strauss, Alpensymphonie (An Alpine Symphony) – Schumann, Symphony No.3 – Brahms, Symphony No.4
Production: A BFMI production for Deutsche Wellein coproduction with UNITEL CLASSICA
Number: A055119410003 Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Year of Production: 2005 Title: Documentary: Beethoven, Symphony No.3 in E flat major, op.55 "Eroica" Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Kent Nagano Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin 00:52:00
Director: Oliver Becker, Ellen Fellmann
Content:
Six great composers, six landmark symphonies, a top orchestra and its star conductor Kent Nagano - these are the components of an extraordinary classical-music television event. Shot in High Definition, it takes a bold and innovative approach to therecording of classical music. Boom and tracking shots, quick cuts, remote-controlled cameras - stylistic means previously used chiefly for pop music recordings give the programs an up-to-the-minute look and feel. A team of more than 30 specialists makes sure that viewers enjoy a truly cinematic experience. The programs also go new ways by featuring entertaining, historically founded animated sequences illustrating episodes from the lives of the composers. Backstage interviews with the musicians and excerpts from their rehearsals let us share in the spirit of their music-making. Conductor Kent Nagano also relates what is of special importance to him in each work, and offers fascinating insights on the origin and context of the work in question.Documentaries: Bruckner, Symphony No. 8 – Mozart, Symphony No.41 ‘Jupiter’ – Beethoven, Symphony No.3 ‘Eroica’ – Strauss, Alpensymphonie (An Alpine Symphony) – Schumann, Symphony No.3 – Brahms, Symphony No.4
Production: A BFMI production for Deutsche Wellein coproduction with UNITEL CLASSICA
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Special / Number: A055119410004 Composer: Richard Strauss
Year of Production: 2005 Title: Documentary: Strauss, Alpensymphonie (An Alpine Symphony), op.64 Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Kent Nagano Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin 00:52:00
Director: Oliver Becker, Ellen Fellmann
Content:
Six great composers, six landmark symphonies, a top orchestra and its star conductor Kent Nagano - these are the components of an extraordinary classical-music television event. Shot in High Definition, it takes a bold and innovative approach to therecording of classical music. Boom and tracking shots, quick cuts, remote-controlled cameras - stylistic means previously used chiefly for pop music recordings give the programs an up-to-the-minute look and feel. A team of more than 30 specialists makes sure that viewers enjoy a truly cinematic experience. The programs also go new ways by featuring entertaining, historically founded animated sequences illustrating episodes from the lives of the composers. Backstage interviews with the musicians and excerpts from their rehearsals let us share in the spirit of their music-making. Conductor Kent Nagano also relates what is of special importance to him in each work, and offers fascinating insights on the origin and context of the work in question.Documentaries: Bruckner, Symphony No. 8 – Mozart, Symphony No.41 ‘Jupiter’ – Beethoven, Symphony No.3 ‘Eroica’ – Strauss, Alpensymphonie (An Alpine Symphony) – Schumann, Symphony No.3 – Brahms, Symphony No.4
Production: A BFMI production for Deutsche Wellein coproduction with UNITEL CLASSICA
Number: A055119410005 Composer: Robert Schumann
Year of Production: 2005 Title: Documentary: Schumann, Symphony No.3 in E flat major, op.97 Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Kent Nagano Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin 00:52:00
Director: Oliver Becker, Ellen Fellmann
Content:
Six great composers, six landmark symphonies, a top orchestra and its star conductor Kent Nagano - these are the components of an extraordinary classical-music television event. Shot in High Definition, it takes a bold and innovative approach to therecording of classical music. Boom and tracking shots, quick cuts, remote-controlled cameras - stylistic means previously used chiefly for pop music recordings give the programs an up-to-the-minute look and feel. A team of more than 30 specialists makes sure that viewers enjoy a truly cinematic experience. The programs also go new ways by featuring entertaining, historically founded animated sequences illustrating episodes from the lives of the composers. Backstage interviews with the musicians and excerpts from their rehearsals let us share in the spirit of their music-making. Conductor Kent Nagano also relates what is of special importance to him in each work, and offers fascinating insights on the origin and context of the work in question.Documentaries: Bruckner, Symphony No. 8 – Mozart, Symphony No.41 ‘Jupiter’ – Beethoven, Symphony No.3 ‘Eroica’ – Strauss, Alpensymphonie (An Alpine Symphony) – Schumann, Symphony No.3 – Brahms, Symphony No.4
Production: A BFMI production for Deutsche Wellein coproduction with UNITEL CLASSICA
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Special / Number: A055119410006 Composer: Johannes Brahms
Year of Production: 2005 Title: Documentary: Brahms, Symphony No.4 in E minor, op.98 Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Kent Nagano Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin 00:52:00
Director: Oliver Becker, Ellen Fellmann
Content:
Six great composers, six landmark symphonies, a top orchestra and its star conductor Kent Nagano - these are the components of an extraordinary classical-music television event. Shot in High Definition, it takes a bold and innovative approach to therecording of classical music. Boom and tracking shots, quick cuts, remote-controlled cameras - stylistic means previously used chiefly for pop music recordings give the programs an up-to-the-minute look and feel. A team of more than 30 specialists makes sure that viewers enjoy a truly cinematic experience. The programs also go new ways by featuring entertaining, historically founded animated sequences illustrating episodes from the lives of the composers. Backstage interviews with the musicians and excerpts from their rehearsals let us share in the spirit of their music-making. Conductor Kent Nagano also relates what is of special importance to him in each work, and offers fascinating insights on the origin and context of the work in question.Documentaries: Bruckner, Symphony No. 8 – Mozart, Symphony No.41 ‘Jupiter’ – Beethoven, Symphony No.3 ‘Eroica’ – Strauss, Alpensymphonie (An Alpine Symphony) – Schumann, Symphony No.3 – Brahms, Symphony No.4
Production: A BFMI production for Deutsche Wellein coproduction with UNITEL CLASSICA
Number: A055072420006 Composer:
Year of Production: 2001 Title: Tod und Verklärung (Death and Transfiguration)
Length: 01:42:00
Director: Alfred Kranzmayr
Content:
Born in Bolzano (Bozen, Italy) in 1934, Herbert Rosendorfer is a lawyer who introduced himself as an author in 1966 with his short story "Die Glasglocke." This was followed by many novels, stage works, scripts and short stories, which revealed him tobe an imaginative and multi-faceted author. A socio-critical satirist, he writes with a well-balanced mixture of wit, thought-provoking ideas and absurd-grotesque elements. All this is also found in his novel "Briefe in die chinesische Vergangenheit"(Letters to China's Past) of 1983, which ranks among his most well-known books. Here the Chinese Kao-Tai travels from the 10th century to the Munich of the 20th century. In addition to his legal activities, Rosendorfer is honorary professor for contemporary Bavarian literature at the University of Munich and obtained the Bavarian Literature Prize in 1999.
Production: Unitel
Number: A05509776 Composer:
Format: Normal
Title: Lecture Recital with Walter Levin Orchestra: Artis Quartett
Year of Production: 2001
Length: 01:15:00
Director: Horant H. Hohlfeld Soloists: Peter Lang
Content:
Walter Levin was born and raised in Berlin, but emigrated to Palestine in 1938. In 1946 he began studying the violin under Ivan Galamian at the Juilliard School of Music in New York. He was the founder and first violinist of the LaSalle Quartet (1946-1988) and went on tours with this ensemble throughout the world. When the LaSalle Quartet ended its concert activity after more than 40 years, Levin turned to the teaching of young quartet ensembles and worked as a teacher and author in Europe. The Artis Quartet (Peter Schuhmayer and Johannes Meissl, violins; Herbert Kiefer, viola; Othmar Müller, violoncello) was founded at the Vienna Musikhochschule in 1980. The ensemble studied in Vienna and in Cincinnati with the LaSalle Quartet. After winningmany awards at the beginning of the 1980s, the group began its international career. The Artis Quartet has been giving its own concert series at the Vienna Musikverein since 1988.
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Special / Number: A05510426 Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Year of Production: 2001
Title: CosĂŹ fa ... Ponnelle
Length: 01:10:00
Director: Horant H. Hohlfeld / Jean-Pierre Ponnelle
Production: Unitel
Number: A05510427 Composer:
Title: August Everding about Jean-Pierre Ponnelle
Year of Production: 2001
Length: 00:08:00
Director: Horant H. Hohlfeld / Jean-Pierre Ponnelle
Production: Unitel
Number: A05012332 Composer: Richard Wagner, Giuseppe Verdi
Title: La Scala and the Magic of Gold
Year of Production: 1999
Length: 01:40:00
Director: Christian Rischert
Production: Unitel
Number: A055072420004 Composer:
Format: Normal
Title: Animals
Year of Production: 1999
Length: 01:20:00
Director: Alfred Kranzmayr
Content:
Born in Bolzano (Bozen, Italy) in 1934, Herbert Rosendorfer is a lawyer who introduced himself as an author in 1966 with his short story "Die Glasglocke." This was followed by many novels, stage works, scripts and short stories, which revealed him tobe an imaginative and multi-faceted author. A socio-critical satirist, he writes with a well-balanced mixture of wit, thought-provoking ideas and absurd-grotesque elements. All this is also found in his novel "Briefe in die chinesische Vergangenheit"(Letters to China's Past) of 1983, which ranks among his most well-known books. Here the Chinese Kao-Tai travels from the 10th century to the Munich of the 20th century. In addition to his legal activities, Rosendorfer is honorary professor for contemporary Bavarian literature at the University of Munich and obtained the Bavarian Literature Prize in 1999.
Production: Unitel
Format: 4:3
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Special / Number: A05508317 Composer: Dimitri Schostakowitsch Director:
Year of Production: 1999 Title: Pierre-Dominique Ponnelle about Shostakovich's Symphony No.8 Conductor: Length: Pierre-Dominique 00:16:00 Ponnelle
Horant H. Hohlfeld
Content:
Pierre-Dominique Ponnelle was born in Munich and studied there as well as in Weimar with Otmar Suitner and in Berlin and Salzburg with Herbert von Karajan. From the start of his career, he has been active in the fields of symphony and opera alike, conducting at the theaters in Kassel, Marseille, Bratislava, Zurich and elsewhere. The spectrum of his symphonic repertoire ranges from the classical period to contemporary music. He has guest conducted numerous orchestras, including the Radio SymphonyOrchestras of Baden-Baden, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Leipzig, Luxembourg..., the State Orchestras of Armenia, Greece, Slovenia, Lithuania, Ukraine..., the Philharmonic Orchestras of Strasbourg, Zagreb, Monte Carlo, Dresden, Munich and St. Petersburg. In addition, he has appeared at the Festival dei due Mondi in Spoleto and Charleston, as well as at other festivals. From 1992 to 1996 he was associated with the Minsk State Philharmonic Orchestra, first as Principal Guest Conductor and later as PrincipalConductor. The main focus of his work there was on Brahms, Mahler, Bruckner and Shostakovich, as well as on large choral works. His successful activity there has been documented by CDs and television recordings. Ponnelle ended his collaboration withthis orchestra in late 1996 and is presently active once again as a guest conductor.
Production: Unitel
Number: A05508470 Composer: Richard Wagner Director:
Format: Normal Year of Production: 1999 Title: Twilights of the Gods: Comparison of Productions Orchestra: Conductor: Length: Pierre Boulez, Daniel Bayreuther Festspiele 00:37:00 Barenboim, James Levine
Thomas M. Salb / Patrice ChĂŠreau, Harry Kupfer, Alfred Kirchner Soloists: Richard Peduzzi, Hans Schavernoch, Rosalie Production: Unitel
Number: A05507738 Composer: Director: Christoph Engel Soloists: Wenzel Fuchs Production: Unitel
Number: A55500748 Composer: Richard Wagner
Format: Normal
Title: Wenzel Fuchs - Clarinetist
Year of Production: 1998
Length: 00:10:00
Format: Normal Year of Production: 1998 Title: Introduction to Wagner, Der Ring des Nibelungen Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Pierre Boulez Bayreuther Festspiele 00:30:00
Director: Thomas M. Salb / Patrice ChĂŠreau
Production: Unitel
Format: Normal
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Special / Number: A005006390001 Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Title: In Search of Beethoven - Part 1
Year of Production: 1997
Length: 00:30:00
Director: Andy Sommer
Content:
This four-part program sets out to "search for Beethoven" in the interpretation of his orchestral works. Each episode explores one specific work as it is understood by great conductors and musicians of our day. Sir Georg Solti, Riccardo Muti, Lorin Maazel and Roger Norrington are seen rehearsing passages from Beethoven's symphonies with the Vienna Philharmonic and the Camerata Academica Salzburg. Creating a counterpoint to these sections are excerpts from performances by Leonard Bernstein and Herbert von Karajan, as well as historical footage of concerts led by Wilhelm Furtwängler and Arturo Toscanini. Also expressing their views are a number of other distinguished musicians such as Pierre Boulez, Claudio Abbado, John Eliot Gardiner and others. A fascinating panorama of contemporary interpretations of Beethoven's music!
Production: Unitel
Number: A005006390002 Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Format: Normal
Title: In Search of Beethoven - Part 2
Year of Production: 1997
Length: 00:30:00
Director: Andy Sommer
Content:
This four-part program sets out to "search for Beethoven" in the interpretation of his orchestral works. Each episode explores one specific work as it is understood by great conductors and musicians of our day. Sir Georg Solti, Riccardo Muti, Lorin Maazel and Roger Norrington are seen rehearsing passages from Beethoven's symphonies with the Vienna Philharmonic and the Camerata Academica Salzburg. Creating a counterpoint to these sections are excerpts from performances by Leonard Bernstein and Herbert von Karajan, as well as historical footage of concerts led by Wilhelm Furtwängler and Arturo Toscanini. Also expressing their views are a number of other distinguished musicians such as Pierre Boulez, Claudio Abbado, John Eliot Gardiner and others. A fascinating panorama of contemporary interpretations of Beethoven's music!
Production: Unitel
Number: A005006390003 Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Format: Normal
Title: In Search of Beethoven - Part 3
Year of Production: 1997
Length: 00:30:00
Director: Andy Sommer
Production: Unitel
Number: A005006390004 Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Format: Normal
Title: In Search of Beethoven - Part 4
Year of Production: 1997
Length: 00:30:00
Director: Andy Sommer
Production: Unitel
Format: Normal
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Special / Number: A05010458 Composer: Director:
Year of Production: 1997 Title: Song of the Birds - A Portrait of Minsk and its Music Conductor: Length: Pierre-Dominique 01:30:00 Ponnelle
Christian Rischert
Production: Unitel
Number: A05504069 Composer: Richard Wagner
Year of Production: 1997 Title: Introduction to Wagner, Der Ring des Nibelungen Orchestra: Length: Bayreuther Festspiele 00:17:00
Director: Thomas M. Salb
Content:
The "Introduction to Wagner's 'Ring des Nibelungen'" describes the origin of the monumental work and provides biographical information on the protagonists of this gigantic saga in addition to information on the construction and opening of the Festspielhaus in Bayreuth, the world premiere of the Ring and the production history of the work up to Harry Kupfer's Bayreuth staging of 1988 under the musical direction of Daniel Barenboim and with sets by Hans Schavernoch. "Harry Kupfer has created a production of great coherency, hard, cutting, transparent, which will delight those who see in Wagner a contemporary and will displease those who consume Wagner like some consecrated artifact in a museum. The entire mythological apparatus is demolished bit by bit: what remains is what Wagner himself wanted: the 'pure humanity' of the myth. [...] The entire 'Ring' unfolds like an intellectual adventure that provokes unforgettable emotions." (La Repubblica)
Production: Unitel
Number: A05504158 Composer: Franz Schubert
Format: Normal Year of Production: 1997 Title: Introduction: Schubert, Die Winterreise (The Winter Journey), D.911, op.89
Length: 00:05:00
Director: Horant H. Hohlfeld Soloists: Helmut Deutsch, Hermann Prey Production: Unitel
Number: A05504159 Composer: Franz Schubert
Format: Normal Year of Production: 1997 Title: Introduction to Schubert, "Schwanengesang" (Swan Song), D.957
Length: 00:04:00
Director: Horant H. Hohlfeld Soloists: Hermann Prey, Leonard Hokanson Production: Unitel
Number: A05504160 Composer: Robert Schumann
Format: Normal Year of Production: 1997 Title: Introduction: Schumann, "Liederkreis" (Song-Cycle), op.39
Length: 00:06:00
Director: Horant H. Hohlfeld Soloists: Hermann Prey, Leonard Hokanson Production: Unitel
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Special / Number: A055072420000 Composer:
Year of Production: 1997 Title: Musical Chats from and with Herbert Rosendorfer Length: 01:00:00
Director: Alfred Kranzmayr
Content:
Born in Bolzano (Bozen, Italy) in 1934, Herbert Rosendorfer is a lawyer who introduced himself as an author in 1966 with his short story "Die Glasglocke." This was followed by many novels, stage works, scripts and short stories, which revealed him tobe an imaginative and multi-faceted author. A socio-critical satirist, he writes with a well-balanced mixture of wit, thought-provoking ideas and absurd-grotesque elements. All this is also found in his novel "Briefe in die chinesische Vergangenheit"(Letters to China's Past) of 1983, which ranks among his most well-known books. Here the Chinese Kao-Tai travels from the 10th century to the Munich of the 20th century. In addition to his legal activities, Rosendorfer is honorary professor for contemporary Bavarian literature at the University of Munich and obtained the Bavarian Literature Prize in 1999.
Production: Unitel
Number: A055072420001 Composer:
Format: Normal Year of Production: 1997
Title: Water
Length: 01:05:00
Director: Alfred Kranzmayr
Content:
Born in Bolzano (Bozen, Italy) in 1934, Herbert Rosendorfer is a lawyer who introduced himself as an author in 1966 with his short story "Die Glasglocke." This was followed by many novels, stage works, scripts and short stories, which revealed him tobe an imaginative and multi-faceted author. A socio-critical satirist, he writes with a well-balanced mixture of wit, thought-provoking ideas and absurd-grotesque elements. All this is also found in his novel "Briefe in die chinesische Vergangenheit"(Letters to China's Past) of 1983, which ranks among his most well-known books. Here the Chinese Kao-Tai travels from the 10th century to the Munich of the 20th century. In addition to his legal activities, Rosendorfer is honorary professor for contemporary Bavarian literature at the University of Munich and obtained the Bavarian Literature Prize in 1999.
Production: Unitel
Number: A055072420002 Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonín Dvorák Director:
Format: Normal
Title: Journey Conductor: Leonard Bernstein, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Karl Böhm, Marc Andreae
Year of Production: 1997
Orchestra: Wiener Philharmoniker
Length: 01:29:00
Alfred Kranzmayr / Ruth Berghaus, Jean-Pierre Ponnelle Soloists: Hermann Prey, Thomas Hampson, Alfred Brendel
Content:
Born in Bolzano (Bozen, Italy) in 1934, Herbert Rosendorfer is a lawyer who introduced himself as an author in 1966 with his short story "Die Glasglocke." This was followed by many novels, stage works, scripts and short stories, which revealed him tobe an imaginative and multi-faceted author. A socio-critical satirist, he writes with a well-balanced mixture of wit, thought-provoking ideas and absurd-grotesque elements. All this is also found in his novel "Briefe in die chinesische Vergangenheit"(Letters to China's Past) of 1983, which ranks among his most well-known books. Here the Chinese Kao-Tai travels from the 10th century to the Munich of the 20th century. In addition to his legal activities, Rosendorfer is honorary professor for contemporary Bavarian literature at the University of Munich and obtained the Bavarian Literature Prize in 1999.
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Format: Normal
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Special / Number: A05508068 Composer: Franz Schubert
Year of Production: 1997 Title: Introduction: Schubert, Die schöne Müllerin (The Beautiful Maid of the Mill), D.795 Length: 00:05:00
Director: Horant H. Hohlfeld Soloists: Hermann Prey, Leonard Hokanson Production: Unitel
Number: A555008350001 Composer:
Format: Normal
Title: Rosendorfer's Features: Journey, Part 1
Year of Production: 1997
Length: 00:44:00
Director: Alfred Kranzmayr
Production: Unitel
Number: A555008350002 Composer:
Format: Normal
Title: Rosendorfer's Features: Journey, Part 2
Year of Production: 1997
Length: 00:46:00
Director: Alfred Kranzmayr
Production: Unitel
Number: A555005020000 Composer:
Format: Normal
Title: Christa Ludwig - Portrait
Year of Production: 1996
Length: 00:40:00
Director: Horant H. Hohlfeld Soloists: Christa Ludwig Production: Unitel
Number: A05503610 Composer:
Year of Production: 1995 Title: Sir Georg Solti practises with the Wiener Philharmoniker Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Georg Solti Wiener Philharmoniker 00:28:00
Director: Horant H. Hohlfeld
Content:
Sir Georg Solti (1912-1997), one of the greatest conductors of the 20th century, was a testament to the elegance and impeccable tastefulness of Central European music-making. Born in Budapest in 1912, he studied with Béla Bartók, Ernö von Dohnányi, Zoltán Kodály and Leo Weiner. In 1937, Toscanini chose him to be his assistant at the Salzburg Festival. After the war, Solti was appointed Music Director of the Bavarian State Opera. Further stations in his career were the Frankfurt Opera, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden and the London Philharmonic. His remarkable partnership with the Chicago Symphony began in 1954; he was named Music Director in 1969 and held this post for a phenomenal 22 years. He is credited with greatly extending and enhancing the orchestra's worldwide reputation. Solti died in September 1997, just before his 85th birthday.
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Special / Number: A05009282 Composer: Richard Wagner
Year of Production: 1993 Title: The Transformation of the World into Music - Werner Herzog in Bayreuth.
Length: 01:30:00
Director: Werner Herzog / Werner Herzog
Production: Unitel
Number: A05008617 Composer: Federico Moreno Torroba, Georges Bizet, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Giuseppe Verdi, Gioachino Rossini, Ludwig van Beethoven, Manuel Penella Morena
Format: 4:3
Title: Hommage à Séville Conductor: James Levine
Year of Production: 1991
Orchestra: Wiener Symphoniker
Length: 00:59:00
Director: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, Horant H. Hohlfeld Soloists: Plácido Domingo, Victoria Vergara, Virginia Alonso Production: Unitel
Number: A05502243 Composer: Robert Schumann
Format: Normal Year of Production: 1990 Title: Sharing - Leonard Bernstein's last video recording Orchestra: Conductor: Length: Leonard Bernstein Pacific Music Festival Orch. 00:57:00
Director: Horant H. Hohlfeld
Content:
After his unforgettable work with young musicians in Tanglewood and Salzau, Leonard Bernstein was invited to conduct a similar summer academy in Asia. His enthusiastic acceptance led to the founding of the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan. Rigorous auditions were held, and young musicians brought together to form an orchestra. They were chosen from all the nations bordering on the Pacific: the U.S., Canada, the South American countries, China, Japan ,Taiwan, Korea, etc. Just before the Pacific Music Festival was inaugurated in June 1990, Leonard Bernstein fell ill. But despite his doctors' warnings, and marked by his serious illness, he refused to let his "kids" down and flew to Japan. With unbelievable intensity, passion, wit and charm, Bernstein worked with the youths on Schumann's Symphony No. 2, one of the Maestro's favorite orchestral pieces. This production is the last visual record of the Maestro at work.
Production: Unitel
Number: A05503523 Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns
Format: Normal Year of Production: 1990 Title: Le carnaval des animaux (The carnival of the animals) Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Charles Dutoit London Sinfonietta 00:28:00
Director: Zülal Aytüre-Scheele
Production: Unitel
Format: Normal
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Special / Number: A05503966 Composer: Richard Wagner Director:
Title: Wieland Wagner - Portrait Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch, Pierre Boulez
Year of Production: 1990
Length: 00:52:00
Werner LĂźtje Soloists: Wolfgang Windgassen, Anja Silja Production: Unitel
Number: A05501890 Composer: Hector Berlioz
Format: Normal Year of Production: 1989 Title: Leonard Bernstein in Salzau 1989 - Part I: Romeo Alone (Berlioz, Excerpts from "Romeo and Juliet" - Rehearsal and Concert) Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Leonard Bernstein Schleswig-Holstein Musikfest. 00:44:00
Director: Horant H. Hohlfeld
Content:
Bernstein always knew how important it was to pass one's knowledge on to younger generations. As a young man in Tanglewood in 1940, he made an unforgettable experience: a summer spent in an atmosphere of relaxed creativity with a charismatic teacher(Serge Koussevitzky) and a great orchestra (the Boston Symphony). Later, when he returned to Tanglewood as a teacher, he gave his best to the students of the Berkshire Music Center. And it is his experiences there which stimulated him to create something similar in Europe. The venue was the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival. In 1987 120 young musicians from all over the world were invited to Salzau Palace to form the Festival Orchestra, which rehearsed and performed under the direction of LeonardBernstein. At the same time, Bernstein worked with young conductors in master classes. From 1987 to 1989, Bernstein devoted himself with astonishing energy to his work with the festival students. And each summer, Unitel was there to document this forposterity. In 1989, his final summer in Salzau, Bernstein chose Berlioz's vocal symphony RomĂŠo et Juliette. Written in 1839, it illustrates a series of episodes from Shakespeare's play and involves chorus, soloists and a large orchestra. Seeking new ways of capturing on film the unique combination of creative exchange and festival atmosphere, Unitel director Horant Hohlfeld turned to a new technique of underlaying the final concert with scenes from the rehearsals.
Production: Unitel
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Special / Number: A05501892 Composer: Hector Berlioz
Year of Production: 1989 Title: Leonard Bernstein in Salzau 1989 - Part II: Love Scene (Berlioz, Excerpts from "Romeo and Juliet" - Rehearsal and Concert) Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Leonard Bernstein Schleswig-Holstein Musikfest. 00:45:00
Director: Horant H. Hohlfeld
Content:
Bernstein always knew how important it was to pass one's knowledge on to younger generations. As a young man in Tanglewood in 1940, he made an unforgettable experience: a summer spent in an atmosphere of relaxed creativity with a charismatic teacher(Serge Koussevitzky) and a great orchestra (the Boston Symphony). Later, when he returned to Tanglewood as a teacher, he gave his best to the students of the Berkshire Music Center. And it is his experiences there which stimulated him to create something similar in Europe. The venue was the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival. In 1987 120 young musicians from all over the world were invited to Salzau Palace to form the Festival Orchestra, which rehearsed and performed under the direction of LeonardBernstein. At the same time, Bernstein worked with young conductors in master classes. From 1987 to 1989, Bernstein devoted himself with astonishing energy to his work with the festival students. And each summer, Unitel was there to document this forposterity. In 1989, his final summer in Salzau, Bernstein chose Berlioz's vocal symphony Roméo et Juliette. Written in 1839, it illustrates a series of episodes from Shakespeare's play and involves chorus, soloists and a large orchestra. Seeking new ways of capturing on film the unique combination of creative exchange and festival atmosphere, Unitel director Horant Hohlfeld turned to a new technique of underlaying the final concert with scenes from the rehearsals.
Production: Unitel
Number: A05503520 Composer: Antonín Dvorák
Year of Production: 1989
Title: Dvorák, Dumky Trio Orchestra: Suk-Trio
Length: 00:40:00
Director: Petr Weigl Soloists: Josef Suk, Jan Panenka, Josef Chuchro Production: Unitel
Number: A05006714 Composer:
Format: Normal Year of Production: 1988 Title: Leonard Bernstein: Teachers and Teaching - An Autobiographic Essay by Leonard Bernstein Conductor: Length: Leonard Bernstein 00:59:00
Director: Humphrey Burton
Content:
This 60-minute program honors the great American conductor, pianist and composer Leonard Bernstein as a teacher. It assesses his importance, his credo and his sense of obligation to pass on to following generations what he himself learned and experienced. Leonard Bernstein saw himself as a link in a long chain of musical tradition leading from Koussevitzky, Mitropoulos, Reiner and Copland to himself and on to a younger generation represented by Seiji Ozawa and Michael Tilson Thomas, and to the youngest musicians he particularly enjoyed teaching, those who were still dreaming of a career. The film shows Leonard Bernstein as the great "roaming rabbi" of music and love, two concepts which were synonyms for him, just like learning and teaching. We see the great musician who offered his knowledge without reservation and was still developing himself in his last years, eager to learn from other artists. The film also shows Bernstein during rehearsals with orchestras, with famous soloists (e.g. Krystian Zimerman), in conversation with friends and pupils and at work in Vienna, New York, Tanglewood and Salzau.
Production: Unitel
Format: Normal
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Special / Number: A05501778
Composer:
Year of Production: 1988 Title: Leonard Bernstein in Moscow - Documentary about the first foreign tour of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival Orchestra with Leonard Bernstein to Moscow Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Leonard Bernstein Schleswig-Holstein Musikfest. 00:15:00
Director: Horant H. Hohlfeld Production: Unitel
Number: A05501807 Composer: Dimitri Schostakowitsch
Year of Production: 1988 Title: Leonard Bernstein in Salzau 1988 - Part I: Introduction and Rehearsal of Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 1 in F minor, op.10 Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Leonard Bernstein Schleswig-Holstein Musikfest. 00:44:00
Director: Horant H. Hohlfeld
Content:
Dmitry Shostakovich (* St. Petersburg, 1906 - + Moscow, 1975) immediately made a name for himself with his First Symphony. In spite of political pressure from the Soviet authorities on account of his alleged "Western formalism", and in spite of certain critiques from Western commentators, Shostakovich is considered as the Soviet Union's major symphonist and one of Russia's greatest composers. The influence of Tchaikovsky, Rimsky- Korsakov, Mahler, Stravinsky and Hindemith is evident in his earlyworks.
Production: Unitel
Number: A05501834 Composer: Dimitri Schostakowitsch
Year of Production: 1988 Title: Leonard Bernstein in Salzau 1988 - Part II: Introduction and Performance of Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 1 in F minor, op.10 Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Leonard Bernstein Schleswig-Holstein Musikfest. 00:44:00
Director: Horant H. Hohlfeld
Content:
Dmitry Shostakovich (* St. Petersburg, 1906 - + Moscow, 1975) immediately made a name for himself with his First Symphony. In spite of political pressure from the Soviet authorities on account of his alleged "Western formalism", and in spite of certain critiques from Western commentators, Shostakovich is considered as the Soviet Union's major symphonist and one of Russia's greatest composers. The influence of Tchaikovsky, Rimsky- Korsakov, Mahler, Stravinsky and Hindemith is evident in his earlyworks.
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Special / Number: A05501495
Composer: Robert Schumann
Year of Production: 1987 Title: Schumann's Symphonies - A TV essay by Klaus Lindemann featuring Leonard Bernstein and the Vienna Philharmonic performing Robert Schumann's symphonies Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Leonard Bernstein Wiener Philharmoniker 01:00:00
Director: Klaus Lindemann
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Produced in 1987, the one-hour television special "Schumann's Symphonies - An Essay by Klaus Lindemann on the Schumann Cycle with Leonard Bernstein and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra" explores Schumann's romanticism in the light of the literatureand visual arts of the times. The paintings of Caspar David Friedrich - the epitome of German romanticism - provide revealing parallels with Schumann, as well as the works of William Turner, Delacroix, the Nazarene School, Constable, GĂŠricaultÂż "WithSchumann," says Lindemann, "we stand in the full flowering of Romanticism and gaze from one peak to another." In addition to many new insights on Schumann and his relationship to the visual and literary arts of his day, the program also contains manyexcerpts from Schumann's four symphonies.
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Number: A05501540 Composer:
Format: Normal Year of Production: 1987 Title: The Secret Of Macbeth - The Making of an Opera Film
Length: 00:43:00
Director: Anna Raphael / Claude d'Anna
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Number: A05501618 Composer:
Format: Normal Year of Production: 1987 Title: Leonard Bernstein in Salzau 1987 - Part I: "...so that we get ahead..." The Birth of an Orchestra. Conductor: Length: Leonard Bernstein 01:00:00
Director: Horant H. Hohlfeld, Humphrey Burton
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The music special "Leonard Bernstein in Salzau" offers a lively and fascinating inside look at the professional world of young conductors and orchestral musicians in three one-hour-long programs. It also portrays one of the greatest conductors of the20th century, Leonard Bernstein, shown at work with young musicians, challenging them, but also encouraging and reassuring them. In Part One, we witness the arrival of 120 young musicians in Salzau, all of whom have been selected from over 1600 competitors in auditions. Under the guidance of experienced conductors and teachers, they work together in various groups which yield a homogeneous orchestral body in an amazingly short time. During this preparatory phase, the musicians were constantly observed by Unitel's cameras and interviewed about their impressions and experiences.
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Special / Number: A05501619 Composer:
Year of Production: 1987 Title: Leonard Bernstein in Salzau 1987 - Part II: With him up front..." Orchestral Work with Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring" Conductor: Length: Leonard Bernstein 01:00:00
Director: Humphrey Burton, Horant H. Hohlfeld
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"Leonard Bernstein in Salzau" offers a lively and fascinating inside look at the professional world of young musicians. At the same time, it portrays one of the most eminent musicians of our time: Leonard Bernstein. Young conductors and instrumentalists, some of whom have already acquired a certain reputation, have come to Salzau Castle to learn while playing and to make music of the highest standards. "I am trying to do something for Europe that Europe actually did for me: through Sergei Koussevitzky, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Fritz Reiner... I had promised myself to founding another Tanglewood here." (Leonard Bernstein)
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Number: A05501620 Composer:
Year of Production: 1987 Title: Leonard Bernstein in Salzau 1987 - Part III: "Beating time is very basic, but..." International Conductor's Competition and Master Course. Conductor: Length: Leonard Bernstein 01:00:00
Director: Horant H. Hohlfeld, Humphrey Burton
Content:
The music special "Leonard Bernstein in Salzau" offers a lively and fascinating inside look at the professional world of young conductors and orchestral musicians in three one-hour-long programs. It also portrays one of the greatest conductors of the20th century, Leonard Bernstein, shown at work with young musicians, challenging them, but also encouraging and reassuring them. In Part Three, we follow four young conductors who are given the chance to work with Leonard Bernstein and to go on a concert tour with him. The youths are torn between fear and hope, disappointment and triumph before finally submitting to the ultimate challenge of conducting the orchestra under the watchful gaze of the maestro. "Beating time is naturally very basic. Almost everybody can learn to beatÂż But what we are looking for is not the beating of the beat, it is the beating of the music." (Leonard Bernstein)
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Number: A05005821 Composer: Franz Schubert
Year of Production: 1986 Title: Schubert, My Dream - Schubert's "Great" C major symphony as a film by Norbert Beilharz Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Nikolaus Harnoncourt SWF-Sinfonieorch. Baden-Baden 01:03:00
Director: Norbert Beilharz Soloists: Alfred Solm, Siemen RĂźhaak, Sabine Weber
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We see Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 9 (The Great C-major Symphony) in Vienna's Musikvereinssaal. Filming him is Norbert Beilharz. But what he is filming are also the thoughts which listening to the music arouses in him. Beilharz has atempted to transform the symphony into images. To emphasize the subjective nature of his vision, Beilharz conjures up an old man who, while attending the concert, is overtaken by memories. Schubert's music evokes in him moments of joyand sadness, happiness and desperation, love and pain - all as changeable as the seasons. Harnoncourt, the member of the audience and his memories are woven into a triangle with such a dramatic tension that even Harnoncourt's gestures seem to be in interplay with the old man's images of the past. "My Dream" is the device which appears at the beginning of a story written in 1822 and attributed to Franz Schubert. In 1839, a signed manuscript was given to Robert Schumann by Franz's brother FerdinandSchubert. Norbert Beilharz chose the device to be the title of his filmed essay on Schubert's Symphony No. 9 in C major.
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Special / Number: A05501340 Composer: Astor Piazzolla Director:
Year of Production: 1986 Title: Piazzolla, The next Tango Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Pinchas Steinberg KĂślner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orch., 00:45:00 Piazzolla Quintet
JosĂŠ Montes Baquer Soloists: Astor Piazzolla Production: Unitel
Number: A05004589 Composer: Claude Debussy Director:
Year of Production: 1984 Title: Debussy, The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Colin Davis Orchestre National de France / 01:22:00 Chorus: Radio France
Petr Weigl
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Number: A05004590 Composer: Claude Debussy Director:
Format: Normal Year of Production: 1984 Title: Debussy, The Matyrdom of Saint Sebastian (Workshop) Orchestra: Conductor: Length: Colin Davis Orchestre National de France / 00:58:00 Chorus: Radio France
Petr Weigl
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Number: A05004622 Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Format: Normal Year of Production: 1984 Title: Weltliche Musik (Secular Music) Orchestra: Conductor: Length: Nikolaus Harnoncourt Concentus Musicus Wien 00:56:00
Director: Klaus Lindemann
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In this program featuring excerpts from secular works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Nikolaus Harnoncourt strives to reveal something of the mystery and fascination of Bach's compositional art in the domain of non-sacred music. With his Concentus musicusWien and the vocal soloists Janet Perry and Robert Holl, Harnoncourt interprets passages and movements from Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 3, the Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 3 and 5, Bach's arrangement of Benedetto Marcello's Oboe Concerto and parts of the "Coffee Cantata". "In my view, Bach is a total musician. No matter in what musical domain he lands, he immediately deploys his full resources and creates the greatest music that is imaginable in his time in this respective domain. [...] I feel thatsacred and secular music are of equal value in the lives of all significant composers, because an important composer of that time was a believer, and he didn't make any distinction between the spiritual and the secular. In his secular life, he is justas pious as in his spiritual one, and when he eats and drinks, when he lives and loves, he is as much of a Christian as when he goes to church to pray on Sunday. He considers life as a whole, and he will write a symphony or a dance for the greater glory of God to the same extent that he would a Passion. [...] German musicians... repeatedly attempted to combine the dance-like, short-winded style of French music with the eruptive, spontaneous and passionate, wild style of the Italians. The result
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Special / Number: A05004623 Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Title: Der Kirchenmusiker (Sacred Music) Conductor: Orchestra: Helmuth Rilling Bach-Collegium
Year of Production: 1984
Length: 00:59:00
Director: Klaus Lindemann
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Number: A05004627 Composer:
Year of Production: 1984 Title: Leonard Bernstein conducts "West Side Story" - The Making of a Recording. Conductor: Length: Leonard Bernstein 01:28:00
Director: Christopher Swann Soloists: Kiri Te Kanawa, JosĂŠ Carreras, Tatiana Troyanos, Kurt Ollmann
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"West Side Story" is perhaps Leonard Bernstein's most popular work and contains songs that have achieved enormous popularity throughout the world. The film version won no less than ten Academy Awards. In 1984, 27 years after the premiere, Bernstein finally conducted the work for the first time, with singers of his choice. "The Making of West Side Story" won the Prix Italia and the British Academy's Robert Flaherty Award in 1985.
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Number: A05004629 Composer: Director:
Year of Production: 1984 Title: The Love of Three Orchestra Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Leonard Bernstein New York Philharmonic Orch., Israel 01:28:00 Philharmonic Orchestra, Wiener Philharmoniker
Humphrey Burton
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Leonard Bernstein's relationships with the orchestras he conducted were always intense. At their best, he felt that they were somewhere between a love affair and a family in which he played the role of the father. In more than 40 years on the podium,he enjoyed this special kind of relationship with a number of orchestras in the Old World and the New. "The Love of Three Orchestras" is an account of that experience, but concentrates on the three great orchestral families closest to his heart: theNew York Philharmonic, the Israel Philharmonic, and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestras. Bernstein begins by looking back to that moment in 1943 when he made his triumphant debut with the New York Philharmonic at age 25. Among the landmarks he recallsare the Young People's Concerts and his twelve years as musical director. Bernstein's association with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra began in 1947. His reminiscences include stories of performances during the early battle-torn days of the foundation of the State of Israel. Bernstein's relationship with the Vienna Philharmonic began in 1966. He tells how the relationship got off to a disastrous start and recounts some of the difficulties he found in playing the music of Gustav Mahler with them.The music sequences and examples which illustrate Bernstein's reminiscences are taken from Unitel films and videotapes directed by Humphrey Burton.
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Special / Number: A05004630
Composer: Gustav Mahler
Year of Production: 1984 Title: The Little Drummerboy - A TV-Essay on Gustav Mahler by and with Leonard Bernstein including excerpts from Mahler's symphonies and song cycles Conductor: Length: Leonard Bernstein 01:25:00
Director: Humphrey Burton
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In this musical essay, Leonard Bernstein recollects and relives his experiences with the music of the great Viennese composer and conductor Gustav Mahler (1860-1911). Bernstein filmed all of Mahler's ten symphonies for Unitel as well as Das Lied vonder Erde and the Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn. The vocal soloists of these productions, Dame Janet Baker, Christa Ludwig, Edith Mathis, Lucia Popp and Walton Groenroos, underscore Leonard Bernstein's elucidations with appropriate music examples. The recordings with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra were made in Tel Aviv, those with the London Symphony Orchestra in the Cathedral of Ely and those with the Wiener Philharmoniker in the Grosser Musikvereinssaal in Vienna, in which Gustav Mahler himself conducted. The Little Drummer Boy illustrates the fundamental concepts of Leonard Bernstein's interpretation of Mahler's works, and exposes not only the building material and framework of Mahler's brilliant structures, but also the tensional pulls within them. Searching for the musical roots and the hidden truths guiding the composer, Leonard Bernstein discovers the key to Mahler's music in the composer's repressed Jewishness. Starting from the song Der Tambourg'sell (From Des Knaben Wunderhorn, written in 1899), Leonard Bernstein spans a broad arch over all the symphonies and concludes with Mahler's last and greatest song, the Lied von der Erde (1910).
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Number: A05503963 Composer: Carl Orff Director: Werner LĂźtje Production: Unitel
Number: A05500711 Composer: Johannes Brahms
Title: Journal of a Production
Year of Production: 1984
Length: 00:57:00
Format: Normal Year of Production: 1983 Title: Introduction to Brahms, Violin Concerto, op.77 Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Leonard Bernstein Wiener Philharmoniker 00:16:00
Director: Humphrey Burton Soloists: Gidon Kremer Production: Unitel
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Special / Number: A05500712 Composer: Johannes Brahms
Year of Production: 1983 Title: Introduction to Brahms, Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra in A minor, op.102 Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Leonard Bernstein Wiener Philharmoniker 00:06:00
Director: Humphrey Burton Soloists: Gidon Kremer, Mischa Maisky
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This dignified work, Brahms's last orchestral score, seems to have been composed in part with the intention of bringing about a reconciliation between Brahms himself and his old friend, the violinist Joseph Joachim. The two had had a falling out at the time of Joachim's divorce. Brahms wrote various musical reminiscences of their friendship into the music but also looked to the past by referring to a tradition of ensemble composition that had reached its apex back in the 18th century: that of theconcerto grosso, which had climaxed in Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, and the sinfonia concertante tradition, whose landmarks include Mozart's works in this genre. The Double Concerto has taken longer to achieve popularity and is still more rarely played the other Brahms concertos. This is perhaps partly because two soloists must share the limelight - and because there is little limelight to share, Brahms having written difficult yet not outwardly dazzling virtuoso parts. Between 1981 and 1984, Leonard Bernstein recorded nearly all of Brahms's orchestral works with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra to honor the 150th anniversary of the composer's birth in 1983. Today, the cycle is considered as a landmark in the interpretation of Brahms' music. Bernstein and the Vienna Philharmonic have underscored both the classicism and romanticism, the dramatic intensity and the sober restraint of Brahms's music. The venue was Vienna's Musikvereinssaal, where two of Brahms's symphonies were premiered an
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Number: A05500713 Composer: Johannes Brahms
Year of Production: 1983 Title: Introduction to Brahms, Symphony No.1 in C minor, op.68 Orchestra: Conductor: Length: Leonard Bernstein Wiener Philharmoniker 00:02:00
Director: Humphrey Burton
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"I shall never write a symphony! You have no idea how it makes one feel to hear the thunderous step of a giant like him always behind you!", wrote Johannes Brahms to a friend in the early 1870s. He had long felt overwhelmed and creatively blocked byBeethoven's symphonic legacy. Though he had been working on a symphony since the 1850s, he completed the score of the First Symphony only in 1876. The work cannot deny the influence of Brahms's great predecessor, and particularly the final theme showsan obvious similarity to the "Ode to Joy" theme of Beethoven's Ninth. While the outer movements frequently unfurl impressively concentrated masses of sound, the two middle movements are more succinct and transparently orchestrated. The four movementsare also linked by motivic and harmonic relationships which, however, are more subliminal than blatantly obvious. Between 1981 and 1984, Leonard Bernstein recorded nearly all of Brahms's orchestral works with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra to honor the 150th anniversary of the composer's birth in 1983. Today, the cycle is considered as a landmark in the interpretation of Brahms' music. Bernstein and the Vienna Philharmonic have underscored both the classicism and romanticism, the dramatic intensity and the sober restraint of Brahms's music. The venue was Vienna's Musikvereinssaal, where two of Brahms's symphonies were premiered and where Brahms himself conducted. In his introductions, Bernstein speaks with an eloquence and conviction that
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Special / Number: A05500714 Composer: Johannes Brahms
Year of Production: 1983 Title: Introduction to Brahms, Symphony No.2 in D major, op.73 Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Leonard Bernstein Wiener Philharmoniker 00:05:00
Director: Humphrey Burton
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Brahms's sunny Second Symphony is as warm and lyrical as his First had been stormy and dramatic. It quite possibly reflects the idyllic nature around Lake Wörth in Austria, where Brahms composed it in the summer of 1877. Brahms himself, however, called attention to the melancholy current that undermines the pastoral serenity ("You've never heard anything as world-weary as this", he wrote to his friend Schubring). Despite the apparent simplicity of the symphonic writing, the work is strengthened and enriched by many thematic threads that run from one movement to another. It has been a special favorite among music lovers since its premiere in Vienna on 30 December 1877. The celebrated 19th-century music critic Eduard Hanslick wrote that it wasfor "all who long for good music, whether they understand its complexity or not". Between 1981 and 1984, Leonard Bernstein recorded nearly all of Brahms's orchestral works with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra to honor the 150th anniversary of the composer's birth in 1983. Today, the cycle is considered as a landmark in the interpretation of Brahms' music. Bernstein and the Vienna Philharmonic have underscored both the classicism and romanticism, the dramatic intensity and the sober restraint ofBrahms's music. The venue was Vienna's Musikvereinssaal, where two of Brahms's symphonies were premiered and where Brahms himself conducted. In his introductions, Bernstein speaks with an eloquence and conviction that go far beyond the opening words t
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Number: A05004573 Composer: Hans Werner Henze, Antonio Vivaldi, Georg Friedrich Händel, Igor Strawinsky, Richard Wagner, Louis Armstrong, Vicente Martín y Soler
Title: Concierto Barroco Conductor: Hans Werner Henze, Ingfried Hoffmann, Claudio Scimone
Year of Production: 1982
Orchestra: I Solisti Veneti, SWF-Sinfonieorch. Baden-Baden, Kölner RundfunkSinfonie-Orch., Big Band Des Wdr
Length: 01:53:00
Director: José Montes Baquer Soloists: Marilyn Horne, Lucia Valentini-Terrani, Carmen Gonzales, Zajos Terzakis, Alberto Cupido Production: Unitel
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Special / Number: A05004578 Composer:
Year of Production: 1982 Title: Documentary on the Filming of "Elektra" - "Do I hear the music? It pours out of me." Conductor: Length: Karl Böhm 01:30:00
Director: Norbert Beilharz
Content:
The "Elektra" documentary is the last testimony to a life of artistic fulfillment, an homage to the conductor Karl Böhm. The streets and squares of Vienna unfold before our eyes as the automobile bringing Karl Böhm to the recording studio drives through the city with which Karl Böhm had the most intimate musical relationship. And when he steps up to the conductor's desk in the Sophiensaal, we are about to witness his last great performance. We see him conversing with the singers and the orchestra, rehearsing, criticizing, encouraging, and reminiscing: "Strauss once told me¿" At the end of the production, after Elektra's dance, he sits back silently in his chair exhausted but happy. On 14 August 1981, shortly after the shooting of the film,Karl Böhm died, aged almost 86. His death marked the end of an era. This documentary provides fascinating insights into the work of the director Götz Friedrich. And it also illustrates the dramatic power of musical tragedy, for example in the masterful depiction of Clytemnestra by Astrid Varnay, herself once a fabulous Elektra, and in the outstanding interpretations of top singers such as Leonie Rysanek, Catarina Ligendza, Hans Beirer, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Josef Greindl, Kurt Böhme and others.
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Number: A05004581 Composer: Georges Bizet, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Giuseppe Verdi, Gioachino Rossini, Ludwig van Beethoven, Manuel Penella Morena
Title: Hommage à Séville Conductor: James Levine
Year of Production: 1982
Orchestra: Wiener Symphoniker
Length: 01:00:00
Director: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle Soloists: Plácido Domingo, Victoria Vergara, Virginia Alonso Production: Unitel
Number: A05004582 Composer: Georges Bizet, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Giuseppe Verdi, Gioachino Rossini, Ludwig van Beethoven, Manuel Penella Morena
Format: Normal
Title: Hommage à Séville Conductor: James Levine
Year of Production: 1982
Orchestra: Wiener Symphoniker
Director: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle Soloists: Plácido Domingo, Victoria Vergara, Virginia Alonso Production: Unitel
Length: 00:59:00
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Special / Number: A05004583 Composer: Federico Moreno Torroba, Georges Bizet, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Giuseppe Verdi, Gioachino Rossini, Ludwig van Beethoven
Title: Hommage à Séville Conductor: James Levine
Year of Production: 1982
Orchestra: Wiener Symphoniker
Director: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle Soloists: Plácido Domingo, Victoria Vergara, Virginia Alonso Production: Unitel
Number: A05004587 Composer: Richard Wagner
Length: 01:14:00
Format: Normal
Year of Production: 1982 Title: Introduction to Wagner's "Der Ring des Nibelungen" Conductor: Length: Pierre Boulez 00:56:00
Director: Philippe Deriaz / Patrice Chéreau
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Number: A05500402 Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Format: Normal Year of Production: 1982 Title: Introduction: Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F major BWV 1046 Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Nikolaus Harnoncourt Concentus Musicus Wien 00:23:00
Director: Klaus Lindemann
Content:
"It is very unusual that a three-movement Baroque concerto should suddenly give way to a fourmovement piece, as is the case here. In my opinion, this has medical reasons: the audiences of the Baroque era were much more passionate listeners, they were more deeply moved by what they heard, and I think that Bach wanted to calm the listener with a little suite after this exciting third movement. The first Brandenburg Concerto is the one with the largest orchestral scoring, and the orchestra shows upa few peculiarities with respect to the instruments used: it is one of the first pieces in which the bassoon is treated as a solo instrument. In the first movement the hunting horns (immediately recognizable as such) are introduced into art music, and this movement is one of Bach's most refined little pieces altogether. Then he uses a 'violino piccolo', a little violin - not to be confused with a child's violin - which sounds a lot cheekier than its big sister." (Nikolaus Harnoncourt) Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, named after their dedicatee the Margrave Christian Ludwig von Brandenburg, have been part of Nikolaus Harnoncourt's permanent repertoire ever since he founded his Concentus musicus ensemble. The ensemble has recorded them and playedthem on their tours throughout the world. The impulse which led Harnoncourt to establish the Concentus musicus in 1953 was his dissatisfaction with the traditional way of interpreting early music. The uncommon and sometimes radically different style
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Special / Number: A05500404 Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Year of Production: 1982 Title: Introduction: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F major, BWV 1047 Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Nikolaus Harnoncourt Concentus Musicus Wien 00:20:00
Director: Klaus Lindemann
Content:
"Everyone who knows the second Brandenburg Concerto thinks: 'Oh great, a Baroque trumpet concerto!' Hence: Baroque trumpet, physical power, high tones, sound - and everything else is secondary. But that's just what it is not: Bach wrote a concerto for four different but equal instruments: trumpet, recorder, oboe, violin. The art was to create a dialogue among these four instruments, and this is obviously only posible when the trumpet plays as softly as the recorder and the recorder as loud as thetrumpet. The trumpet which we use is a natural trumpet, i.e. there are no technical means such as valves and keys. The player has to do everything on his own. How was it played in Bach's time? I think that there were exceptional talents on specific instruments back then just as today. And we know that there was a phenomenal trumpet player in Bach's day who could play everything an octave higher. Bach must have had such a trumpet player at his disposal, since the level of difficulty of this pieceis unusual for its time." (Nikolaus Harnoncourt) Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, named after their dedicatee the Margrave Christian Ludwig von Brandenburg, have been part of Nikolaus Harnoncourt's permanent repertoire ever since he founded his Concentusmusicus ensemble. The ensemble has recorded them and played them on their tours throughout the world. The impulse which led Harnoncourt to establish the Concentus musicus in 1953 was his dissatisfaction with the traditional way of interpreting early
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Number: A05500419 Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Year of Production: 1982 Title: Introduction: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048 Orchestra: Conductor: Length: Nikolaus Harnoncourt Concentus Musicus Wien 00:12:00
Director: Klaus Lindemann
Content:
"The third Brandenburg Concerto is a kind of demonstration. It is the only demonstration concerto of that quintessential Italian Baroque instrument - the violin. This may sound a little strange, but violas, celli and double basses are nothing but enlarged violins. This string writing - it uses up to nine parts - is so dense! I feel it radiates a southern fullness of sound, a truly Italian feel. The violin is no doubt a southern instrument, and in the last movement of this concerto you can hear the warm Adriatic breeze very clearly." (Nikolaus Harnoncourt) Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, named after their dedicatee the Margrave Christian Ludwig von Brandenburg, have been part of Nikolaus Harnoncourt's permanent repertoire ever since he founded his Concentus musicus ensemble. The ensemble has recorded them and played them on their tours throughout the world. The impulse which led Harnoncourt to establish the Concentus musicus in 1953 was his dissatisfaction with the traditional way of interpreting early music. The uncommon and sometimes radically different style of the Concentus musicus, as well as its exclusive use of historical instruments, secured the ensemble its international reputation. Harnoncourt introduces the concerto with a moving and fascinating analysis of the piece. Interesting musical examples, which Harnoncourt inserts in a humorous and relaxed manner, make this introduction an informative and entertaining guide to this masterpiece of music. The production was filmed i
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Special / Number: A05500420 Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Year of Production: 1982 Title: Introduction: Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G major, BWV 1049 Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Nikolaus Harnoncourt Concentus Musicus Wien 00:13:00
Director: Klaus Lindemann
Content:
"This concerto is generally considered as a genuine triple concerto for violin and two flutes. In my opinion, it is purely a violin concerto, and the most virtuoso one Bach ever wrote. Musicologists always had their problems with the two flutes. Bachdesignated them as 'Flauti d'echo', and there have been all kinds of theories as to what instruments he could have meant. No one thought of looking for the explanation in the music itself. Bach always uses the term 'flauto' for the recorder, and 'd'echo' means nothing else than that the two recorders leave their seats in the orchestra in the slow movement, which is built around an echo effect, and play from another point in the room or outside of it, but in any case from a distance. Strong evidence supporting this theory is found at the beginning of the last movement, where the tutti plays without the recorders, so as to give them enough time to get back to their seats. " (Nikolaus Harnoncourt) Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, named after theirdedicatee the Margrave Christian Ludwig von Brandenburg, have been part of Nikolaus Harnoncourt's permanent repertoire ever since he founded his Concentus musicus ensemble. The ensemble has recorded them and played them on their tours throughout the world. The impulse which led Harnoncourt to establish the Concentus musicus in 1953 was his dissatisfaction with the traditional way of interpreting early music. The uncommon and sometimes radically different style of the Concentus musicus, as well as
Production: Unitel
Number: A05500422 Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Year of Production: 1982 Title: Introduction: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major, BWV 1050 Orchestra: Conductor: Length: Nikolaus Harnoncourt Concentus Musicus Wien 00:19:00
Director: Klaus Lindemann
Content:
"I feel that the fifth Brandenburg Concerto is the most modern of all. Bach did borrow quite a bit of Vivaldi in it, but it does remain the first clavier concerto in music history. I consciously say 'clavier' concerto, since back then every keyboardinstrument was called a clavier. So let's call it a harpsichord concerto. But the idea of suddenly making a solo instrument out of an instrument that had been used in the ensemble only for the thoroughbass - I find that incredibly modern. This piece is no longer a concerto in which several soloists compete with each other and fight for preeminence. Here the harpsichord very clearly dominates. Bach played this part himself and must truly have felt like an emperor of music whose stature could be questioned by no one." (Nikolaus Harnoncourt) Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, named after their dedicatee the Margrave Christian Ludwig von Brandenburg, have been part of Nikolaus Harnoncourt's permanent repertoire ever since he founded his Concentus musicus ensemble. The ensemble has recorded them and played them on their tours throughout the world. The impulse which led Harnoncourt to establish the Concentus musicus in 1953 was his dissatisfaction with the traditional way of interpreting early music.The uncommon and sometimes radically different style of the Concentus musicus, as well as its exclusive use of historical instruments, secured the ensemble its international reputation. Harnoncourt introduces the concerto with a moving and fascinatin
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Special / Number: A05500424 Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Year of Production: 1982 Title: Introduction: Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B flat major, BWV 1051 Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Nikolaus Harnoncourt Concentus Musicus Wien 00:19:00
Director: Klaus Lindemann
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"Bach made a gift of the manuscript of these concertos to the Margrave of Brandenburg, and in this manuscript this concerto is the last and that is why it is called the sixth Brandenburg Concerto. But it could also have been the first of these concertos, which Bach had all written in Cöthen. Among musicologists, it is considered as the most traditional, but I am not at all of this opinion. What is sensational in this piece is its use of instruments, since the only solo strings used in the Baroqueera were essentially the extroverted violins of Italy or the introverted gambas of France and England. That Bach wrote a concerto for two solo violas, the proletarian among the instruments, the one who never gets to play a solo - that was a social revolution among the instruments." (Nikolaus Harnoncourt) Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, named after their dedicatee the Margrave Christian Ludwig von Brandenburg, have been part of Nikolaus Harnoncourt's permanent repertoire ever since he founded his Concentus musicus ensemble. The ensemble has recorded them and played them on their tours throughout the world. The impulse which led Harnoncourt to establish the Concentus musicus in 1953 was his dissatisfaction with the traditional way of interpretingearly music. The uncommon and sometimes radically different style of the Concentus musicus, as well as its exclusive use of historical instruments, secured the ensemble its international reputation. Harnoncourt introduces the concerto with a moving a
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Number: A05500607 Composer: Michael Praetorius, Georg Muffat, Johannes Eccard
Year of Production: 1976 Title: Weihnachtliche Blaeserkonzerte (Christmas Wind Concerts) - Part I: Himmlische Cantorey Orchestra: Length: Bläser-Ens. d. Berliner Philh. 00:33:00
Director: Hugo Niebeling
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Number: A05500608 Composer: Michael Praetorius, Erhard Bodenschatz, Samuel Scheidt, Johannes Eccard
Format: Normal Year of Production: 1976 Title: Weihnachtliche Bläserkonzerte (Christmas Wind Concerts) - Part II: Engelische Weihnachtspost Orchestra: Length: Bläser-Ens. d. Berliner Philh. 00:34:00
Director: Hugo Niebeling
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Special / Number: A05500609 Composer: Vincenzo Albrici, Hans Leo Haßler, Johann Christoph Pezel
Year of Production: 1976 Title: Weihnachtliche Bläserkonzerte (Christmas Wind Concerts) - Part III: Winterreise Orchestra: Length: Bläser-Ens. d. Berliner Philh. 00:35:00
Director: Hugo Niebeling
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Number: A05500599 Composer:
Format: Normal Year of Production: 1975 Title: Lustwandel in Hohenlohe I - Dances and Canzoni from Early 16th Century Courts Orchestra: Length: Bläser-Ens. d. Berliner Philh. 00:29:00
Director: Hugo Niebeling
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Number: A05500600 Composer:
Format: Normal Year of Production: 1975 Title: Lustwandel in Hohenlohe II - Dances and Canzoni from Early 16th Century Courts Orchestra: Length: Bläser-Ens. d. Berliner Philh. 00:21:00
Director: Hugo Niebeling
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Number: A05500601 Composer:
Format: Normal Year of Production: 1975 Title: Lustwandel in Hohenlohe III - Dances and Canzoni from Early 16th Century Courts Orchestra: Length: Bläser-Ens. d. Berliner Philh. 00:26:00
Director: Hugo Niebeling
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Number: A05501062 Composer: Gustav Mahler
Format: Normal Year of Production: 1975 Title: Bernstein, Mahler Rehearsals (Symphonies 5&9) Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Leonard Bernstein Wiener Philharmoniker 00:55:00
Director: Humphrey Burton
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Special / Number: A05004513 Composer: Johann Strauß Jr., Josef Strauß, Carl Michael Ziehrer, Karl Komzak, Franz von Suppé
Year of Production: 1973 Title: Wien nach Noten (Vienna in Music) - Part I Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Willi Boskovsky Wiener Philharmoniker / Chorus: 01:00:00 Wiener Sängerknaben
Director: Peter Lodynski
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Number: A05004514 Composer: Johann Strauß Jr., Josef Strauß, Carl Michael Ziehrer, Karl Komzak, Franz von Suppé
Format: Normal Year of Production: 1973 Title: Wien nach Noten (Vienna in Music) - Part II Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Willi Boskovsky Wiener Philharmoniker / Chorus: 01:02:00 Wiener Sängerknaben
Director: Peter Lodynski
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Number: A05500545 Composer: Gustav Mahler
Format: Normal Year of Production: 1972 Title: Mahler, Rehearsal "Das Lied von der Erde" Orchestra: Conductor: Length: Leonard Bernstein Israel Philharmonic Orchestra 00:42:00
Director: Humphrey Burton Soloists: Christa Ludwig, René Kollo Production: Unitel
Number: A05004495 Composer: Anton Bruckner
Year of Production: 1971 Title: Rehearsal for Bruckner, Symphony No.4 in E flat major "Romantic" Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Rafael Kubelík Wiener Philharmoniker 00:54:00
Director: Arne Arnbom
Content:
Rafael Kubelik (1914-1996) was the son of the well-known Bohemian violinist Jan Kubelik. He studied music in Prague and made his conducting debut at 20 at the head of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. Later he became the principal conductor of this famous orchestra and founded the "Prague Spring" Festival. After the Communist takeover of the government, Kubelik emigrated to the West and returned to his native land only after the end of the Communist regime. From 1950 to 1953 he headed the ChicagoSymphony, from 1955 to 1958 he was music director of the Covent Garden Opera in London. A period of great artistic successes began in 1961, when he was appointed principal conductor of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Many recordings document Kubelik's mastery and sense of artistry, his enjoyment of music and his temperament. His connection with the Munich orchestra lasted 18 years; in between, he also briefly served as music director of New York's Metropolitan Opera. Kubelik retired from the concert staged in 1985. But on the occasion of the first Prague Spring Festival after the fall of Communism in 1990, he returned to the podium of the Czech Philharmonic after more than 40 years in exile and conducted Smetana's "My Fatherland" cycle. His profound bonds with his native land and its composers were always clearly visible. Rafael Kubelik was a full-blooded musician. Every performance of his radiated a feeling of spontaneity, impulsiveness and joy. Kubelik died in Lucerne in August 1
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Special / Number: A05004497 Composer: Gustav Mahler
Year of Production: 1971 Title: Mahler, Rehearsal Symphony No.9 Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Leonard Bernstein Wiener Philharmoniker 00:56:00
Director: Humphrey Burton
Content:
"Four Ways to Say Farewell" is a personal introduction to Mahler and his Ninth Symphony, during which Leonard Bernstein is seen and heard rehearsing the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Filmed in 1971, this rehearsal was directed by Humphrey Burton - one of the most prolific directors of Bernstein's video oeuvre - and Tony Palmer. Leonard Bernstein was the first conductor ever to record all of Mahler's symphonies not only on disk, but also on video. The Mahler cycle was the first project in the more than 20-year-long association between Leonard Bernstein and Unitel. The leading Mahler interpreter of our time, Bernstein recorded all of Mahler's symphonies between 1971 and 1985, chiefly with the Vienna Philharmonic, producing a unique musical document and triggering a major reappreciation of Mahler's works. "All Mahler symphonies, all Mahler works for that matter, deal in extremes, extremes of dynamic, of tempo, of emotional meaning. When it is bare, it's extremely bare, when it is thick andrich, it's thicker and richer than anything in 'Götterdämmerung', and when it is suffering it suffers to a point that no music has ever suffered before." (Leonard Bernstein).
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Number: A035051240025 Composer:
Format: Normal Year of Production: 1970 Title: Young People's Concerts: Fidelio: A celebration of life Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Leonard Bernstein New York Philharmonic Orch. 00:51:00
Director: Roger Englander
Content:
Awarded four Emmys and hailed by Variety as "a rare moment in the symbiosis of the arts and broadcasting," Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts left their mark on television history. Aired on CBS from 1958 to 1972, these 53 one-hour programs were written and hosted by Leonard Bernstein. With the New York Philharmonic and guest artists providing the live music, these programs brought musical concepts and music history to life for generations of viewers. "Lectures accompanying music might not sound like the formula of a hit kids' TV program, but Bernstein was the secret ingredient who made it work" (Variety). Balancing scholarship and showmanship, Maestro Bernstein brings the full range of his magnetic personality to play in these programs. And he succeeds in infecting viewers young and old, connoisseurs and the uninitiated, with his overwhelming love of music. Bernstein takes a look at Beethoven's so-called "flawed masterpiece" his only opera, "Fidelio." After discussing the storyand its problems, excerpts are performed. Four vocal selections from Act II follow, each preceded by an analysis and plot summary.
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Number: A05500456 Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven Director: Ake Falck Production: Unitel
Year of Production: 1970 Title: Rehearsal for Beethoven, Leonore Overture No.3, op.72a Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Rafael Kubelík Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest 00:47:00
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Special / Number: A05500505 Composer: Richard Strauss
Year of Production: 1970 Title: Strauss, Rehearsal of "Don Juan", op.20 Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Karl Böhm Wiener Philharmoniker 00:55:00
Director: Arne Arnbom
Content:
Karl Böhm was born in Graz, Austria, on 28 August 1894. He made his conducting debut in his hometown in 1917 before going on to Munich in 1921, where he was hired by Bruno Walter. He made his debut at the Vienna State Opera in 1933 and was appointedgeneral manager of the Dresden State Opera the same year. This marked the beginning of an intensive and fruitful collaboration with Richard Strauss (Böhm conducted the world premieres of "Die schweigsame Frau" and "Daphne"). He died in Salzburg on 14August 1981. One of the hallmarks of Böhm's conducting was its perennially youthful vigor and directness, its lack of pathos and sentimentality. Dramatic climaxes and full sonorities grew out of almost imperceptible accents, out of the natural rhythmof the human breath. His gestures were minimalistic, his baton suggested movement more than it described it. Böhm set standards with his interpretations of the works of his long-time friend Richard Strauss. The unofficial curator of Strauss' musical legacy, Böhm knew his friend's music inside and out - and he knew just how Strauss wanted his works to sound. Here Böhm works with the Vienna Philharmonic, which premiered Strauss's "Don Juan" in Vienna in 1892.
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Number: A035051240023 Composer: Hector Berlioz
Format: Normal Year of Production: 1969 Title: Young People's Concerts: Berlioz takes a trip Orchestra: Conductor: Length: Leonard Bernstein New York Philharmonic Orch. 00:52:00
Director: Roger Englander
Content:
Awarded four Emmys and hailed by Variety as "a rare moment in the symbiosis of the arts and broadcasting," Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts left their mark on television history. Aired on CBS from 1958 to 1972, these 53 one-hour programs were written and hosted by Leonard Bernstein. With the New York Philharmonic and guest artists providing the live music, these programs brought musical concepts and music history to life for generations of viewers. "Lectures accompanying music might not sound like the formula of a hit kids' TV program, but Bernstein was the secret ingredient who made it work" (Variety). Balancing scholarship and showmanship, Maestro Bernstein brings the full range of his magnetic personality to play in these programs. And he succeeds in infecting viewers young and old, connoisseurs and the uninitiated, with his overwhelming love of music. Bernstein discusses what he describes as the "first psychedelic symphony," Berlioz's "Symphonie fantastique," examining theconcept of the "idée fixe" in music and illustrating this concept with excerpts from the first movement. Bernstein analyzes the music and discusses the storyline of the remaining movements, which are performed by the Philharmonic.
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Special / Number: A035051240024 Composer:
Year of Production: 1969 Title: Young People's Concerts: Two Ballet Birds Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Leonard Bernstein New York Philharmonic Orch. 00:52:00
Director: Roger Englander
Content:
Awarded four Emmys and hailed by Variety as "a rare moment in the symbiosis of the arts and broadcasting," Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts left their mark on television history. Aired on CBS from 1958 to 1972, these 53 one-hour programs were written and hosted by Leonard Bernstein. With the New York Philharmonic and guest artists providing the live music, these programs brought musical concepts and music history to life for generations of viewers. "Lectures accompanying music might not sound like the formula of a hit kids' TV program, but Bernstein was the secret ingredient who made it work" (Variety). Balancing scholarship and showmanship, Maestro Bernstein brings the full range of his magnetic personality to play in these programs. And he succeeds in infecting viewers young and old, connoisseurs and the uninitiated, with his overwhelming lov of music. Bernstein compares the main theme of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" with Stravinsky's "Firebird." A performance of the pas de deuxfrom "Swan Lake" illustrates the concept of abstract ballet, followed by the "Firebird" Suite and other excerpts from the Stravinsky ballet.
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Number: A05500460 Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Year of Production: 1969 Title: Rehearsal for Mozart, Symphony No.33 in B flat major, K.319 Orchestra: Conductor: Length: Karl Bรถhm Wiener Symphoniker 00:27:00
Director: Arne Arnbom
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Number: A035051240022 Composer:
Year of Production: 1968 Title: Young People's Concerts: Quiz-Concert: How musical are you? Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Leonard Bernstein New York Philharmonic Orch. 00:51:00
Director: Roger Englander
Content:
Awarded four Emmys and hailed by Variety as "a rare moment in the symbiosis of the arts and broadcasting," Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts left their mark on television history. Aired on CBS from 1958 to 1972, these 53 one-hour programs were written and hosted by Leonard Bernstein. With the New York Philharmonic and guest artists providing the live music, these programs brought musical concepts and music history to life for generations of viewers. "Lectures accompanying music might not sound like the formula of a hit kids' TV program, but Bernstein was the secret ingredient who made it work" (Variety). Balancing scholarship and showmanship, Maestro Bernstein brings the full range of his magnetic personality to play in these programs. And he succeeds in infecting viewers young and old, connoisseurs and the uninitiated, with his overwhelming love of music. Leonard Bernstein quizzes Avery Fisher Hall and television audiences on their musicality. Highlights include true-or-false questions with musical examples, and excerpts from Mozart, Prokofiev, and Rimsky-Korsakov.
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Special / Number: A035051240021 Composer:
Year of Production: 1967 Title: Young People's Concerts: Toast to Vienna in 3/4 Time Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Leonard Bernstein New York Philharmonic Orch. 00:50:00
Director: Roger Englander
Content:
Awarded four Emmys and hailed by Variety as "a rare moment in the symbiosis of the arts and broadcasting," Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts left their mark on television history. Aired on CBS from 1958 to 1972, these 53 one-hour programs were written and hosted by Leonard Bernstein. With the New York Philharmonic and guest artists providing the live music, these programs brought musical concepts and music history to life for generations of viewers. "Lectures accompanying music might not sound like the formula of a hit kids' TV program, but Bernstein was the secret ingredient who made it work" (Variety). Balancing scholarship and showmanship, Maestro Bernstein brings the full range of his magnetic personality to play in these programs. And he succeeds in infecting viewers young and old, connoisseurs and the uninitiated, with his overwhelming love of music. Bernstein pays tribute to the New York Philharmonic's "fraternal orchestra," the Vienna Philharmonic, in celebration of the125th anniversary of both orchestras. Works by Johann and Richard Strauss, Mozart, Beethoven, and Mahler are performed, preceded by brief discussions.
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Number: A035051240019 Composer: Dimitri Schostakowitsch
Year of Production: 1966 Title: Young People's Concerts: Birthday Tribute to Shostakovich Orchestra: Conductor: Length: Leonard Bernstein New York Philharmonic Orch. 00:53:00
Director: Roger Englander
Content:
Awarded four Emmys and hailed by Variety as "a rare moment in the symbiosis of the arts and broadcasting," Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts left their mark on television history. Aired on CBS from 1958 to 1972, these 53 one-hour programs were written and hosted by Leonard Bernstein. With the New York Philharmonic and guest artists providing the live music, these programs brought musical concepts and music history to life for generations of viewers. "Lectures accompanying music might not sound like the formula of a hit kids' TV program, but Bernstein was the secret ingredient who made it work" (Variety). Balancing scholarship and showmanship, Maestro Bernstein brings the full range of his magnetic personality to play in these programs. And he succeeds in infecting viewers young and old, connoisseurs and the uninitiated, with his overwhelming love of music. Bernstein celebrates Dmitry Shostakovich's 50th birthday by discussing his work and conducting an excerpt from his SymphonyNo. 7, as well as Symphony No. 9 in its entirety.
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Special / Number: A035051240020 Composer:
Year of Production: 1966 Title: Young People's Concerts: What is a Mode? Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Leonard Bernstein New York Philharmonic Orch. 00:53:00
Director: Roger Englander
Content:
Awarded four Emmys and hailed by Variety as "a rare moment in the symbiosis of the arts and broadcasting," Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts left their mark on television history. Aired on CBS from 1958 to 1972, these 53 one-hour programs were written and hosted by Leonard Bernstein. With the New York Philharmonic and guest artists providing the live music, these programs brought musical concepts and music history to life for generations of viewers. "Lectures accompanying music might not sound like the formula of a hit kids' TV program, but Bernstein was the secret ingredient who made it work" (Variety). Balancing scholarship and showmanship, Maestro Bernstein brings the full range of his magnetic personality to play in these programs. And he succeeds in infecting viewers young and old, connoisseurs and the uninitiated, with his overwhelming love of music. Bernstein discusses scales, intervals and tones, and analyzes several pieces, including Debussy's "Fêtes," Rimsky-Korsakov's"Scheherazade," and music from the Kinks and the Beatles, to illustrate different modes. An excerpt from Bernstein's ballet "Fancy Free" is also performed.
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Number: A05003134 Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Year of Production: 1966 Title: Rehearsal for Beethoven, Symphony No.7 in A major, op.92 Orchestra: Conductor: Length: Karl Böhm Wiener Symphoniker 00:54:00
Director: Henri Colpi
Content:
After four years of symphonic silence, Beethoven presented Vienna with his Seventh Symphony in 1813. The first performance of this work was a spectacular event. The long awaited Seventh was completed in May 1812 when the Austrian capital was recovering from the French occupation. The defeat of Napoleon's armies made the concert an occasion for celebration, and this historical event helped ensure the work's enormous popularity and the composer's lasting fame. The Seventh Symphony is essentially rhythmic, rather then thematic, to such a degree that Wagner called it "an apotheosis of the dance". it is one of the best examples of how Beethoven used simple harmonies and filled them with energetic, repetitive rhythms, which never become monotonousbecause of the fresh harmonic progressions that accompany them. Karl Böhm rehearses the Wiener Symphoniker in this recording made in the mid 1960s.
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Number: A05003136 Composer: Franz Schubert
Year of Production: 1966 Title: Rehearsal for Schubert, Symphony No.7 in C major, D.944 Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Karl Böhm Wiener Symphoniker 01:12:00
Director: Henri Colpi
Content:
In the throes of his mortal illness, Franz Schubert (1797-1828) heroically succeeded in putting to paper his splendid last symphony, whose "divine lengths" are truly unique. Composed in 1825/26, Schubert's largest symphonic work was first discoveredafter his death by Robert Schumann and first performed one year later, in 1839, by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in the Leipzig Gewandhaus. In marked contrast to the equally beloved "Unfinished" Symphony, Schubert devises a labyrinth of harmonies in a piece full of artless directness and joyful dance-like rhythms. Echoes of the visionary secrets of Romanticism surface from the depths of the work, only to be washed away by the inexorable current of the melodies. Never did Schubert write with such a lavish and impetuous hand than in his Ninth Symphony: "...it bears the eternal seed of youth within it." (Robert Schumann) Karl Böhm rehearses the Wiener Symphoniker in this recording made in the mid 1960s.
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Special / Number: A05500431 Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Year of Production: 1966 Title: Mozart, Rehearsal Violin Concerto No.5 in A major, K. 219 Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Herbert von Karajan Wiener Symphoniker 00:25:00
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot Soloists: Yehudi Menuhin
Content:
Herbert von Karajan in conversation with Yehudi Menuhin & Rehearsal.
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Number: A05500437 Composer: Antonín Dvorák
Year of Production: 1966 Title: Dvorák, Rehearsal Symphony No.9 in E minor, op.95 "From the New World" Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Herbert von Karajan Berliner Philharm. Orchester 00:15:00
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
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Number: A05500441 Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Format: Normal Year of Production: 1966 Title: Beethoven, Rehearsal Symphony No.5 in C minor, op.67 Orchestra: Conductor: Length: Herbert von Karajan Berliner Philharm. Orchester 00:20:00
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
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Number: A035051240016 Composer: Jean Sibelius
Format: 4:3 Year of Production: 1965 Title: Young People's Concerts: A Tribute to Sibelius Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Leonard Bernstein New York Philharmonic Orch. 00:53:00
Director: Roger Englander
Content:
Awarded four Emmys and hailed by Variety as "a rare moment in the symbiosis of the arts and broadcasting," Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts left their mark on television history. Aired on CBS from 1958 to 1972, these 53 one-hour programs were written and hosted by Leonard Bernstein. With the New York Philharmonic and guest artists providing the live music, these programs brought musical concepts and music history to life for generations of viewers. "Lectures accompanying music might not sound like the formula of a hit kids' TV program, but Bernstein was the secret ingredient who made it work" (Variety). Balancing scholarship and showmanship, Maestro Bernstein brings the full range of his magnetic personality to play in these programs. And he succeeds in infecting viewers young and old, connoisseurs and the uninitiated, with his overwhelming love of music. Bernstein celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, and comments on Finland, theFinnish language, and Finnish patriotism, as well as Sibelius himself. Works by the composer, including "Finlandia," are performed.
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Special / Number: A035051240017 Composer:
Year of Production: 1965 Title: Young People's Concerts: Musical Atoms: A Study of Intervals Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Leonard Bernstein New York Philharmonic Orch. 00:55:00
Director: Roger Englander
Content:
Awarded four Emmys and hailed by Variety as "a rare moment in the symbiosis of the arts and broadcasting," Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts left their mark on television history. Aired on CBS from 1958 to 1972, these 53 one-hour programs were written and hosted by Leonard Bernstein. With the New York Philharmonic and guest artists providing the live music, these programs brought musical concepts and music history to life for generations of viewers. "Lectures accompanying music might not sound like the formula of a hit kids' TV program, but Bernstein was the secret ingredient who made it work" (Variety). Balancing scholarship and showmanship, Maestro Bernstein brings the full range of his magnetic personality to play in these programs. And he succeeds in infecting viewers young and old, connoisseurs and the uninitiated, with his overwhelming love of music. Bernstein explains what musical intervals are and discusses their relationship to harmony, melody and inversion. After analysis, the first movement of Symphony No. 4 by Brahms is performed. The discussion continues, focusing on major and minor seconds.
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Number: A035051240018 Composer:
Year of Production: 1965 Title: Young People's Concerts: The Sound of an Orchestra Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Leonard Bernstein New York Philharmonic Orch. 00:54:00
Director: Roger Englander
Content:
Awarded four Emmys and hailed by Variety as "a rare moment in the symbiosis of the arts and broadcasting," Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts left their mark on television history. Aired on CBS from 1958 to 1972, these 53 one-hour programs were written and hosted by Leonard Bernstein. With the New York Philharmonic and guest artists providing the live music, these programs brought musical concepts and music history to life for generations of viewers. "Lectures accompanying music might not sound like the formula of a hit kids' TV program, but Bernstein was the secret ingredient who made it work" (Variety). Balancing scholarship and showmanship, Maestro Bernstein brings the full range of his magnetic personality to play in these programs. And he succeeds in infecting viewers young and old, connoisseurs and the uninitiated, with his overwhelming love of music. Bernstein explains that the duty of the orchestra is to reproduce faithfully the notes and instructions of the composer. Themain focus is the first half of Haydn's Symphony No. 88. The opening music is deliberately played incorrectly and errors are pointed out.
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Number: A05003128 Composer: Robert Schumann
Year of Production: 1965 Title: Rehearsal for Schumann, Symphony No.4, op.120 Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Herbert von Karajan Wiener Symphoniker 01:01:00
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
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Number: A05504151 Composer: Richard Wagner Director: Werner LĂźtje Production: Unitel
Format: Normal
Title: Workshop Bayreuth Conductor: Karl BĂśhm
Year of Production: 1965
Length: 01:00:00
Format: Normal
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Special / Number: A035051240014 Composer:
Year of Production: 1964 Title: Young People's Concerts: Jazz in the Concert Hall Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Leonard Bernstein New York Philharmonic Orch. 00:53:00
Director: Roger Englander
Content:
Awarded four Emmys and hailed by Variety as "a rare moment in the symbiosis of the arts and broadcasting," Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts left their mark on television history. Aired on CBS from 1958 to 1972, these 53 one-hour programs were written and hosted by Leonard Bernstein. With the New York Philharmonic and guest artists providing the live music, these programs brought musical concepts and music history to life for generations of viewers. "Lectures accompanying music might not sound like the formula of a hit kids' TV program, but Bernstein was the secret ingredient who made it work" (Variety). Balancing scholarship and showmanship, Maestro Bernstein brings the full range of his magnetic personality to play in these programs. And he succeeds in infecting viewers young and old, connoisseurs and the uninitiated, with his overwhelming love of music. Bernstein discusses the mixing of jazz and symphonic music, with performances and readings to illustrate. The program ends with Larry Austin's "Improvisations for orchestra and jazz soloists."
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Number: A035051240015 Composer:
Year of Production: 1964 Title: Young People's Concerts: What is Sonata Form? Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Leonard Bernstein New York Philharmonic Orch. 00:53:00
Director: Roger Englander
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Awarded four Emmys and hailed by Variety as "a rare moment in the symbiosis of the arts and broadcasting," Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts left their mark on television history. Aired on CBS from 1958 to 1972, these 53 one-hour programs were written and hosted by Leonard Bernstein. With the New York Philharmonic and guest artists providing the live music, these programs brought musical concepts and music history to life for generations of viewers. "Lectures accompanying music might not sound like the formula of a hit kids' TV program, but Bernstein was the secret ingredient who made it work" (Variety). Balancing scholarship and showmanship, Maestro Bernstein brings the full range of his magnetic personality to play in these programs. And he succeeds in infecting viewers young and old, connoisseurs and the uninitiated, with his overwhelming love of music. Bernstein describes the three-part sonata form, and exemplifies it by singing the Beatles' "And I love her." Veronica Tylersings Micaela's aria from Bizet's "Carmen" and Bernstein conducts the Philharmonic in the first movement of Mozart's "Jupiter" Symphony.
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Special / Number: A035051240013 Composer:
Year of Production: 1963 Title: Young People's Concerts: The Latin American Spirit Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Leonard Bernstein New York Philharmonic Orch. 00:54:00
Director: Roger Englander
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Awarded four Emmys and hailed by Variety as "a rare moment in the symbiosis of the arts and broadcasting," Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts left their mark on television history. Aired on CBS from 1958 to 1972, these 53 one-hour programs were written and hosted by Leonard Bernstein. With the New York Philharmonic and guest artists providing the live music, these programs brought musical concepts and music history to life for generations of viewers. "Lectures accompanying music might not sound like the formula of a hit kids' TV program, but Bernstein was the secret ingredient who made it work" (Variety). Balancing scholarship and showmanship, Maestro Bernstein brings the full range of his magnetic personality to play in these programs. And he succeeds in infecting viewers young and old, connoisseurs and the uninitiated, with his overwhelming love of music. Bernstein discusses "the two ingredients that give music its special Latin flavor: rhythm and color." Excerpts include Bernstein's own symphonic dances from "West Side Story."
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Number: A035051240011 Composer: Igor Strawinsky
Year of Production: 1962 Title: Young People's Concerts: Happy Birthday: Igor Stravinsky Orchestra: Conductor: Length: Leonard Bernstein New York Philharmonic Orch. 00:54:00
Director: Roger Englander
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Awarded four Emmys and hailed by Variety as "a rare moment in the symbiosis of the arts and broadcasting," Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts left their mark on television history. Aired on CBS from 1958 to 1972, these 53 one-hour programs were written and hosted by Leonard Bernstein. With the New York Philharmonic and guest artists providing the live music, these programs brought musical concepts and music history to life for generations of viewers. "Lectures accompanying music might not sound like the formula of a hit kids' TV program, but Bernstein was the secret ingredient who made it work" (Variety). Balancing scholarship and showmanship, Maestro Bernstein brings the full range of his magnetic personality to play in these programs. And he succeeds in infecting viewers young and old, connoisseurs and the uninitiated, with his overwhelming love of music. Bernstein sketches a brief history of Stravinsky's musical career, noting changes of style and shifts of directions. The whole of "Petrouchka" is played and each scene is analyzed.
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Special / Number: A035051240012 Composer:
Year of Production: 1962 Title: Young People's Concerts: What is a Melody? Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Leonard Bernstein New York Philharmonic Orch. 00:53:00
Director: Roger Englander
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Awarded four Emmys and hailed by Variety as "a rare moment in the symbiosis of the arts and broadcasting," Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts left their mark on television history. Aired on CBS from 1958 to 1972, these 53 one-hour programs were written and hosted by Leonard Bernstein. With the New York Philharmonic and guest artists providing the live music, these programs brought musical concepts and music history to life for generations of viewers. "Lectures accompanying music might not sound like the formula of a hit kids' TV program, but Bernstein was the secret ingredient who made it work" (Variety). Balancing scholarship and showmanship, Maestro Bernstein brings the full range of his magnetic personality to play in these programs. And he succeeds in infecting viewers young and old, connoisseurs and the uninitiated, with his overwhelming love of music. Bernstein discusses the different forms melody can take, including tune, theme, motive, melodic line and musical phrase. Heillustrates by conducting the orchestra in excerpts from Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Mozart, Hindemith and Brahms.
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Number: A035051240009 Composer:
Year of Production: 1961 Title: Young People's Concerts: Folk Music in the Concert Hall Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Leonard Bernstein New York Philharmonic Orch. 00:53:00
Director: Roger Englander
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Awarded four Emmys and hailed by Variety as "a rare moment in the symbiosis of the arts and broadcasting," Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts left their mark on television history. Aired on CBS from 1958 to 1972, these 53 one-hour programs were written and hosted by Leonard Bernstein. With the New York Philharmonic and guest artists providing the live music, these programs brought musical concepts and music history to life for generations of viewers. "Lectures accompanying music might not sound like the formula of a hit kids' TV program, but Bernstein was the secret ingredient who made it work" (Variety). Balancing scholarship and showmanship, Maestro Bernstein brings the full range of his magnetic personality to play in these programs. And he succeeds in infecting viewers young and old, connoisseurs and the uninitiated, with his overwhelming love of music. Bernstein discusses folk music and its influence on orchestral music, and conducts excerpts from Mozart, Chavez and Ives, and "Songs of the Auvergne" sung by Marni Nixon.
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Special / Number: A035051240010 Composer:
Year of Production: 1961 Title: Young People's Concerts: What is Impressionism? Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Leonard Bernstein New York Philharmonic Orch. 00:55:00
Director: Roger Englander
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Awarded four Emmys and hailed by Variety as "a rare moment in the symbiosis of the arts and broadcasting," Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts left their mark on television history. Aired on CBS from 1958 to 1972, these 53 one-hour programs were written and hosted by Leonard Bernstein. With the New York Philharmonic and guest artists providing the live music, these programs brought musical concepts and music history to life for generations of viewers. "Lectures accompanying music might not sound like the formula of a hit kids' TV program, but Bernstein was the secret ingredient who made it work" (Variety). Balancing scholarship and showmanship, Maestro Bernstein brings the full range of his magnetic personality to play in these programs. And he succeeds in infecting viewers young and old, connoisseurs and the uninitiated, with his overwhelming love of music. Bernstein focuses on Impressionism in music, discussing the methods and styles of Debussy and Ravel. He conducts three movements from "La Mer" and the final dance of "Daphnis et ChloĂŠ."
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Number: A035051240008 Composer: Gustav Mahler
Year of Production: 1960 Title: Young People's Concerts: Who was Gustav Mahler? Conductor: Length: Leonard Bernstein 00:53:00
Director: Roger Englander
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Awarded four Emmys and hailed by Variety as "a rare moment in the symbiosis of the arts and broadcasting," Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts left their mark on television history. Aired on CBS from 1958 to 1972, these 53 one-hour programs were written and hosted by Leonard Bernstein. With the New York Philharmonic and guest artists providing the live music, these programs brought musical concepts and music history to life for generations of viewers. "Lectures accompanying music might not sound like the formula of a hit kids' TV program, but Bernstein was the secret ingredient who made it work" (Variety). Balancing scholarship and showmanship, Maestro Bernstein brings the full range of his magnetic personality to play in these programs. And he succeeds in infecting viewers young and old, connoisseurs and the uninitiated, with his overwhelming love of music. Leonard Bernstein celebrates Mahler's centennial by conducting excerpts from the composer's Fourth Symphony and discussing his career as a composer and conductor. Soprano Reri Grist joins the orchestra in a performance of the last movement of the Fourth Symphony. William Lewis sings "Youth" and Helen Raab sings from "The Farewell," both from Mahler's "The Song of the Earth."
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Special / Number: A035051240005 Composer:
Year of Production: 1959 Title: Young People's Concerts: What is Classical Music? Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Leonard Bernstein New York Philharmonic Orch. 00:59:00
Director: Roger Englander
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Awarded four Emmys and hailed by Variety as "a rare moment in the symbiosis of the arts and broadcasting," Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts left their mark on television history. Aired on CBS from 1958 to 1972, these 53 one-hour programs were written and hosted by Leonard Bernstein. With the New York Philharmonic and guest artists providing the live music, these programs brought musical concepts and music history to life for generations of viewers. "Lectures accompanying music might not sound like the formula of a hit kids' TV program, but Bernstein was the secret ingredient who made it work" (Variety). Balancing scholarship and showmanship, Maestro Bernstein brings the full range of his magnetic personality to play in these programs. And he succeeds in infecting viewers young and old, connoisseurs and the uninitiated, with his overwhelming love of music. Bernstein conducts Handel's "Water Music" and cites it as an indisputable example of classical music. "Exact" is the word that best defines classical music, Bernstein says, and he demonstrates with musical illustrations from Bach's Fourth Brandenburg Concerto, Mozart's Concerto No. 21 and the Marriage of Figaro, and Haydn's Symphony No. 102. The decline in classical musicat the end of the 18th century is tied to Beethoven and the Romantic movement, and Bernstein conducts Beethoven's "Egmont" overture.
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Number: A035051240006 Composer:
Year of Production: 1959 Title: Young People's Concerts: Humor in music Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Leonard Bernstein New York Philharmonic Orch. 00:59:00
Director: Roger Englander
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Awarded four Emmys and hailed by Variety as "a rare moment in the symbiosis of the arts and broadcasting," Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts left their mark on television history. Aired on CBS from 1958 to 1972, these 53 one-hour programs were written and hosted by Leonard Bernstein. With the New York Philharmonic and guest artists providing the live music, these programs brought musical concepts and music history to life for generations of viewers. "Lectures accompanying music might not sound like the formula of a hit kids' TV program, but Bernstein was the secret ingredient who made it work" (Variety). Balancing scholarship and showmanship, Maestro Bernstein brings the full range of his magnetic personality to play in these programs. And he succeeds in infecting viewers young and old, connoisseurs and the uninitiated, with his overwhelming love of music. Using excerpts from Shostakovich, Mahler, Haydn and others, Bernstein demonstrates how a "serious" composition can take an unexpectedly humorous turn. Prokofiev's "Classical Symphony" is played in its entirety.
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Special / Number: A035051240007 Composer:
Year of Production: 1959 Title: Young People's Concerts: What is a Concerto? Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Leonard Bernstein New York Philharmonic Orch. 00:59:00
Director: Roger Englander
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Awarded four Emmys and hailed by Variety as "a rare moment in the symbiosis of the arts and broadcasting," Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts left their mark on television history. Aired on CBS from 1958 to 1972, these 53 one-hour programs were written and hosted by Leonard Bernstein. With the New York Philharmonic and guest artists providing the live music, these programs brought musical concepts and music history to life for generations of viewers. "Lectures accompanying music might not sound like the formula of a hit kids' TV program, but Bernstein was the secret ingredient who made it work" (Variety). Balancing scholarship and showmanship, Maestro Bernstein brings the full range of his magnetic personality to play in these programs. And he succeeds in infecting viewers young and old, connoisseurs and the uninitiated, with his overwhelming love of music. Leonard Bernstein discusses the development of the concerto form from Bach to Bartók. Bernstein conducts examples of early concertos - Bach's Fifth Brandenburg Concerto and Vivaldi's Concerto in C major. From the classical period, he conducts Mozart's Sinfonia concertante and, finally, the fourth and fifth movements of Bartók's neo-classical Concerto for Orchestra.
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Number: A035051240000 Composer:
Year of Production: 1958-19 Title: Leonard Bernstein: Young People's Concerts - 2nd Season Conductor: Length: Leonard Bernstein 27 x 55'
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27 NEW EPISODES AVAILABLE // Awarded four Emmys and hailed by Variety as “a rare moment in the symbiosis of the arts and broadcasting”, Leonard Bernstein’s Young People’s Concerts left their mark on television history. Aired on CBS from 1958 to 1972,these 53 one-hour programmes were written and hosted by Leonard Bernstein. With the New York Philharmonic and guest artists providing the live music, these programmes brought musical concepts and music history to life for generations of viewers. In 27 “new” episodes of this legendary series, Bernstein presents famous masterpieces like Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, music from Paris, unusual instruments and young talented performers such as 16-year-old cellist Lynn Harrell (later one of the most famous cellists in the world …).
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Special / Number: A035051240001 Composer:
Year of Production: 1958 Title: Young People's Concerts: What does music mean? Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Leonard Bernstein New York Philharmonic Orch. 00:59:00
Director: Roger Englander
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Awarded four Emmys and hailed by Variety as "a rare moment in the symbiosis of the arts and broadcasting," Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts left their mark on television history. Aired on CBS from 1958 to 1972, these 53 one-hour programs were written and hosted by Leonard Bernstein. With the New York Philharmonic and guest artists providing the live music, these programs brought musical concepts and music history to life for generations of viewers. "Lectures accompanying music might not sound like the formula of a hit kids' TV program, but Bernstein was the secret ingredient who made it work" (Variety). Balancing scholarship and showmanship, Maestro Bernstein brings the full range of his magnetic personality to play in these programs. And he succeeds in infecting viewers young and old, connoisseurs and the uninitiated, with his overwhelming love of music. At the start of the first Young People's Concert, Leonard Bernstein told the TV audience: "No matter what stories people tell you about what music means, forget them. Stories are not what music means. Music is never about things. Music just is. It's a lot of beautiful notes and sounds put together so well that we get pleasure out of hearing them. So when we ask: 'What doesit mean, what does this piece of music mean?' we're asking a hard question. Let's do our best to answer it." During the course of the first program, the New York Philharmonic performs portions of Rossini's "William Tell" overture, Beethoven's Sixth S
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Number: A035051240002 Composer:
Year of Production: 1958 Title: Young People's Concerts: What is American Music? Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Leonard Bernstein New York Philharmonic Orch. 00:59:00
Director: Roger Englander
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Awarded four Emmys and hailed by Variety as "a rare moment in the symbiosis of the arts and broadcasting," Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts left their mark on television history. Aired on CBS from 1958 to 1972, these 53 one-hour programs were written and hosted by Leonard Bernstein. With the New York Philharmonic and guest artists providing the live music, these programs brought musical concepts and music history to life for generations of viewers. "Lectures accompanying music might not sound like the formula of a hit kids' TV program, but Bernstein was the secret ingredient who made it work" (Variety). Balancing scholarship and showmanship, Maestro Bernstein brings the full range of his magnetic personality to play in these programs. And he succeeds in infecting viewers young and old, connoisseurs and the uninitiated, with his overwhelming love of music. From Carnegie Hall, Bernstein discusses the origins and characteristics of American music. After an extended excerpt from George Gershwin's "An American in Paris" and a discussion of nationalistic and folk music, excerpts from compositions by American composers Edward MacDowell, William Schuman, Virgil Thomson and others are performed. In closing, Aaron Copland conducts part of his own Third Symphony.
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Special / Number: A035051240003 Composer:
Year of Production: 1958 Title: Young People's Concerts: What does orchestration mean? Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Leonard Bernstein New York Philharmonic Orch. 00:58:00
Director: Roger Englander
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Awarded four Emmys and hailed by Variety as "a rare moment in the symbiosis of the arts and broadcasting," Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts left their mark on television history. Aired on CBS from 1958 to 1972, these 53 one-hour programs were written and hosted by Leonard Bernstein. With the New York Philharmonic and guest artists providing the live music, these programs brought musical concepts and music history to life for generations of viewers. "Lectures accompanying music might not sound like the formula of a hit kids' TV program, but Bernstein was the secret ingredient who made it work" (Variety). Balancing scholarship and showmanship, Maestro Bernstein brings the full range of his magnetic personality to play in these programs. And he succeeds in infecting viewers young and old, connoisseurs and the uninitiated, with his overwhelming love of music. After brief introductory remarks, Bernstein conducts the finale of Rimsky-Korsakov's "Capriccio Espanol" and then explains what a composer must know in order to orchestrate music successfully. He compares the flute to the trumpet, and the clarinet to the viola, with examples from Debussy and Gershwin. After asking the audience to sing two notes in a variety of ways, he contrasts the families of instruments that compose an orchestra, using excerpts from Prokofiev, Hindemith, Mozart and others, ending with Ravel's "Bolero."
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Number: A035051240004 Composer:
Year of Production: 1958 Title: Young People's Concerts: What makes music symphonic? Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Leonard Bernstein New York Philharmonic Orch. 00:59:00
Director: Roger Englander
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Awarded four Emmys and hailed by Variety as "a rare moment in the symbiosis of the arts and broadcasting," Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts left their mark on television history. Aired on CBS from 1958 to 1972, these 53 one-hour programs were written and hosted by Leonard Bernstein. With the New York Philharmonic and guest artists providing the live music, these programs brought musical concepts and music history to life for generations of viewers. "Lectures accompanying music might not sound like the formula of a hit kids' TV program, but Bernstein was the secret ingredient who made it work" (Variety). Balancing scholarship and showmanship, Maestro Bernstein brings the full range of his magnetic personality to play in these programs. And he succeeds in infecting viewers young and old, connoisseurs and the uninitiated, with his overwhelming love of music. Using the examples of Mozart's "Jupiter" Symphony and Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony, Bernstein demonstrates the techniques of repetition and variation in the development of symphonic music. After conducting part of Tchaikovsky's "Romeo and Juliet," he asks the audience to sing "Frère Jacques", demonstrating the uses of sequencing and imitation in symphonic composition. Thefinal movement of Brahms' Second Symphony is then analyzed and played.
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Number: A05501004 Composer: Gustav Holst Director: Wilhelmina Hoedeman Production: Unitel
Year of Production: 1977 Title: Holst, The Planets - Visual impressions on a composition performed by Eugene Ormandy Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Eugene Ormandy Philadelphia Orchestra 00:50:00
Ballet Ensemble: The London Dance Group Format: Normal
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Special / Vocal Number: A55501200 Composer: Antonio Salieri, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Alfred Schnittke, Franz Schubert, Valentin Silvestrov, Alexander Raskatow, Domenico Cimarosa
Title: Famous Opera Choirs Conductor: Hubert Soudant, Leonidas Kavakos, Gidon Kremer, Ton Koopman
Year of Production: 1996
Orchestra: Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, Camerata Academica Salzburg, Wiener Streichsextett, Kremerata Baltica
Length: 00:57:00
Director: Horant H. Hohlfeld Soloists: Erich HĂśbarth, Luba Orgonasova, Maurizio Muraro, Peter Matzka, Thomas Riebl, Siegfried FĂźhrlinger, Susanne Ehn Production: Unitel
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