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Concert / Vocal Number: 9968

Year of Production: 2018 Title: Le Concert de Paris 2018 Conductor: Orchestra: Length: François-Xavier Roth Orchestre National de France; Radio approx. France Chorus 01:30:00

Soloists: Aida Garifullina, Joyce DiDonato, Philippe Jaroussky, Katia Buniatishvili, Gauthier Capuçon, Renaud Capuçon

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«Le Concert de Paris» is an exceptional event held each year on Bastille Day at the foot of the Eiffel Tower, as a prelude to the traditional July 14th fireworks display. Two of Radio France’s most prestigious musical institutions, the Orchestre National de France and the Radio France Chorus, under the baton of maestro François-Xavier Roth, proposed a top-quality programme, giving pride of place to the voice and brings together some of the world’s greatest soloists, including Aida Garifullina, Joyce DiDonato, Philippe Jaroussky and Katia Buniatishvili.Joyce DiDonato, Philippe Jaroussky and Katia Buniatishvili. AVAILABLE: July 2018

Production: Electron Libre Productions, France Télévisions, Radio France

Number: 9967

Year of Production: 2017 Title: Le Concert de Paris 2017 Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Valery Gergiev Orchestre National de France; Radio approx. France Chorus 01:30:00

Soloists: Diana Damrau, Nadine Sierra, Anita Rachvelishvili, Gautier Capuçon, Renaud Capuçon, Ludovic Tézier

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«Le Concert de Paris» is an exceptional event held each year on Bastille Day at the foot of the Eiffel Tower, as a prelude to the traditional July 14th fireworks display. Two of Radio France’s most prestigious musical institutions, the Orchestre National de France and the Radio France Chorus, under the baton of maestro François-Xavier Roth, proposed a top-quality programme, giving pride of place to the voice and brings together some of the world’s greatest soloists, including Diana Damrau, Nadine Sierra, Anita Rachvelishvili, Gautier Capuçon, Renaud Capuçon and Ludovic Tézier.Joyce DiDonato, Philippe Jaroussky and Katia Buniatishvili.

Production: Electron Libre Productions, France Télévisions, Radio France

Number: 9966

Year of Production: 2016 Title: Le Concert de Paris 2016 Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Daniele Gatti Orchestre National de France; Radio approx. France Chorus 01:30:00

Soloists: Juan Diego Flórez, Aida Garifullina, Patricia Petibon, Ildar Abdrazakov, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Julian Rachlin

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«Le Concert de Paris» is an exceptional event held each year on Bastille Day at the foot of the Eiffel Tower, as a prelude to the traditional July 14th fireworks display. Two of Radio France’s most prestigious musical institutions, the Orchestre National de France and the Radio France Chorus, under the baton of maestro François-Xavier Roth, proposed a top-quality programme, giving pride of place to the voice and brings together some of the world’s greatest soloists, including Juan Diego Flórez, Aida Garifullina, Patricia Petibon, Ildar Abdrazakov, Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Julian Rachlin.Joyce DiDonato, Philippe Jaroussky and Katia Buniatishvili.

Production: Electron Libre Productions, France Télévisions, Radio France

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Concert / Vocal Number: 9965

Year of Production: 2015 Title: Le Concert de Paris 2015 Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Daniele Gatti Orchestre National de France; Radio approx. France Chorus 01:30:00

Soloists: Joyce DiDonato, Bryn Terfel, Gautier Capuçon, Ray Chen, Sonya Yoncheva, Julie Fuchs

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«Le Concert de Paris» is an exceptional event held each year on Bastille Day at the foot of the Eiffel Tower, as a prelude to the traditional July 14th fireworks display. Two of Radio France’s most prestigious musical institutions, the Orchestre National de France and the Radio France Chorus, under the baton of maestro François-Xavier Roth, proposed a top-quality programme, giving pride of place to the voice and brings together some of the world’s greatest soloists, including Joyce DiDonato, Bryn Terfel, Gautier Capuçon, Ray Chen, Sonya Yoncheva and Julie Fuchs.Joyce DiDonato, Philippe Jaroussky and Katia Buniatishvili.

Production: Electron Libre Productions, France Télévisions, Radio France

Number: 9964

Year of Production: 2014 Title: Le Concert de Paris 2014 Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Daniele Gatti Orchestre National de France; Radio approx. France Chorus 01:30:00

Soloists: Anna Netrebko, Juan Diego Flórez, Elina Garanča, Olga Peretyatko, Natalie Dessay, Piotr Beczala

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«Le Concert de Paris» is an exceptional event held each year on Bastille Day at the foot of the Eiffel Tower, as a prelude to the traditional July 14th fireworks display. Two of Radio France’s most prestigious musical institutions, the Orchestre National de France and the Radio France Chorus, under the baton of maestro François-Xavier Roth, proposed a top-quality programme, giving pride of place to the voice and brings together some of the world’s greatest soloists, including Anna Netrebko, Juan Diego Flórez, Elina Garanča, Olga Peretyatko, Natalie Dessay and Piotr Beczala.

Production: Electron Libre Productions, France Télévisions, Radio France

Number: 9963

Year of Production: 2013 Title: Le Concert de Paris 2013 Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Daniele Gatti Orchestre National de France; Radio approx. France Chorus 01:30:00

Soloists: Lang Lang, Sonya Yoncheva, Vittorio Grigolo, Joseph Calleja, Renaud Capuçon, Roberto Alagna, Philippe Jaroussky, Ludovic Tézier

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«Le Concert de Paris» is an exceptional event held each year on Bastille Day at the foot of the Eiffel Tower, as a prelude to the traditional July 14th fireworks display. Two of Radio France’s most prestigious musical institutions, the Orchestre National de France and the Radio France Chorus, under the baton of maestro François-Xavier Roth, proposed a top-quality programme, giving pride of place to the voice and brings together some of the world’s greatest soloists, including Lang Lang, Sonya Yoncheva, Vittorio Grigolo, Joseph Calleja, Renaud Capuçon, Roberto Alagna, Philippe Jaroussky and Ludovic Tézier.

Production: Electron Libre Productions, France Télévisions, Radio France

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Concert / Vocal Number: A01050081

Year of Production: 2018 Title: Bernstein, Mass (shot in UHD/4k) Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Wayne Marshall Orchestre de Paris; Orchestre de approx. Paris Choir; Ensemble Aedes 01:30:00

Soloists: Jubilant Sykes

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As their tribute to the musical genius of Leonard Bernstein, who would have celebrated his 100th birthday in 2018, the Orchestre de Paris takes on one of the most abundant scores in musical history: Bernstein’s MASS oscillates between playful experimentation and musical comedy, between brass band and gospel. The transgressive work mixes jazz, rock and classical music, using electric guitars as well as 24 soloists, to create a whirlwind of grandeur. The Celebrant, a priest conducting a Mass who encounters doubters and wrestles with internal conflicts, is sung by the versatile baritone Jubilant Sykes. The Orchestre de Paris and its Chorus and Children’s Chorus as well as the Ensemble Aedes are led by renowned Bernstein specialist Wayne Marshall.

Production: CLC Productions, Orchestre de Paris, Radio France in association with ARTE France in cooperation with Unitel

Number: A055506860000

Year of Production: 2017 Title: Anna Netrebko & Yusif Eyvazov at the Waldbühne Berlin Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Michelangelo Mazza Hungarian Stateopera Orchestra approx. 01:30:00

Soloists: Anna Netrebko, Yusif Eyvazov, Noel Bouley

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Returning to the stage where she achieved immense success, Anna Netrebko delivers a stunning performance of the most beautiful arias and duets from Italian Opera at the Waldbühne Berlin. For a magical night at the spectacular amphitheatre, the Russian star soprano is joined by Yusif Eyvazov. Being not only her partner on stage but also in life, the internationally acclaimed Azerbaijani tenor shines in beloved arias such as “Nessun dorma” from Turandot, whilst superstar Netrebko brings Verdi’s Macbeth and Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi to life. The night’s repertoire also features several love songs by Igor Krutoy.The renowned Russian composer wrote the romantic pieces specifically for this “dream-team of the opera” (Berliner Morgenpost). The emotional opera duets and the contemporary Russian songs blend perfectly in the joyful and romantic atmosphere of this musical summer night’s dream by Netrebko and Eyvazov who “took Berlin by storm” (Opera Wire).

Production: ZDF in co-production with DEAG and Unitel

Number: A02050115

Year of Production: 2017 Title: BBC Proms: Rattle conducts Schönberg's Gurre Lieder Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Simon Rattle London Symphony Orchestra & 01:49:00 Chorus, CBSO Chorus

Soloists: Eva-Maria Westbroek, Simon O'Neill, Karen Cargill, Peter Hoare, Christopher Purves, Thomas Quasthoff

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Gurrelieder is a tale of a love that even death cannot vanquish, of rage against the heavens, and ultimately of consolation in a closing musical sunrise of unparalleled beauty. What started out as a modest song-cycle grew into one of the most opulent musical giants of the 20th century – a cantata of Wagnerian ambition and proportions. The LSO and ist designated Music Director Sir Simon Rattle are joined by an outstanding line-up of soloists.

Production: BBC, UNITEL

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Concert / Vocal Number: A05050428

Year of Production: 2017 Title: BPO: Rattle conducts John Adams: The Gospel According to the Other Mary Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Simon Rattle Berliner Philharmoniker; 02:35:00 Rundfunkchor Berlin

Soloists: Kelley OʼConnor, Tamara Mumford, Daniel Bubeck, Brian Cummings, Nathan Medley, Peter Hoare

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Sir Simon Rattle, the Berliner Philharmoniker and the Rundfunkchor Berlin give an impeccable performance of the powerful biblical oratorio "The Gospel According to the Other Mary" by John Adams, one of the most renowned contemporary composers. The sophisticated score with a libretto by acclaimed theatre director Peter Sellars comes to life thanks to the Berliner Philharmoniker, whose intimate knowledge of Adams’s music stems from the composer himself: He attended the orchestra’s rehearsals.In the role of the Evangelist, the “flawless” (Bachtrack) Bubeck, Cummings and Medley lead through the narrative. A stunning highlight is Lazarus’s aria, sung by tenor Peter Hoare – “grand!” (Berliner Zeitung). But at the heart of the piece are Mary Magdalene and her sister Martha during the last days before Jesus’s death, impressively performed by mezzo-sopranos Kelley O’Connor and Tamara Mumford.

Production: Berlin Phil Media and UNITEL

Number: A86050018

Year of Production: 2017 Title: RCO: Kerstmatinee 2017 - Bach: Mass in B minor Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Philippe Herreweghe Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra; 01:45:00 Collegium Vocale Gent

Soloists: Dorothee Mields, Hana Blažíková, Alex Potter, Robin Tritschler, Krešimir Stražanac

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The RCO’s annual “Kerstmatinee” (Christmas Matinee) has become a much loved holiday tradition. For this edition, the orchestra, led by Philippe Herreweghe, performs J.S. Bach’s Mass in B minor, one of the gems of his oeuvre – for the first time in 45 years! The choir Collegium Vocale Gent shares the stage with outstanding soloists Dorothee Mields, Hana Blažikova, Alex Potter, Robin Tritschler and Krešimir Stražanac. Often referred to as Bach’s “Hohe Messe” (High Mass), the fullscale Catholic mass was given this name in the 19th century to distinguish it from the Baroque composer’s other, small masses. Why the Lutheran Bach decided to create a Catholic mass late in life, remains unclear; what is evident, however, is that his work is nothing less than a monumental masterpiece. Herreweghe’s Mass is “grand and yet moving!” (Het Parool)

Production: RCO, Avrotros, Mezzo and UNITEL

Number: A865500340000

Year of Production: 2017 Title: RCO: Hengelbrock conducts Schubert "Unfinished" & Mozart Requiem Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Thomas Hengelbrock Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, 01:31:00 Balthasar-Neumann-Chor

Soloists: Katja Stuber, Marion Eckstein, Andreas Weller, Reinhard Mayr

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Conductor Thomas Hengelbrock performs classical repertoire as authentically as possible: one cannot get closer to the source. This is even more enjoyable with music the composer left unfinished, for whatever reason. Mozart composed his Requiem in the year of his death, a work which is as much about the life force as it is about reconciliation with death. With the vocal parts, he proved one last time just how brilliant his instincts were for drama and extraordinarily expressive melodies. Most of the orchestration had to be completed by others. Still today, the reasons behind the work’s genesis are shrouded in mystery. Even without the mystery, though, the Requiem is a work which truly touches everyone who hears it. Schubert’s Eighth Symphony also remained unfinished. No one knows why – after all, Schubert was never short on melodic miracles. PROGRAM Schubert: Stabat mater; Symphony No.8 'Unfinished', W.A. Mozart: Requiem

Production: RCO, Mezzo and Unitel

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Concert / Vocal Number: A04050081

Year of Production: 2017 Title: Salzburg Festival 2017: Mozart Requiem Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Teodor Currentzis musicAeterna, musicAeterna Choir 01:31:00

Soloists: Anna Prohaska, Katharina Magiera, Mauro Peter, Tareq Nazmi

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Deemed today’s most exciting Mozart conductor and highly acclaimed for his revolutionary DaPonte Cycle, Teodor Currentzis takes on Mozart’s Requiem for his long awaited debut at the Salzburg Festival. Currentzis assembles a fine quartet of excellent young soloists: Anna Prohaska, Katharina Magiera, Mauro Peter and Tareq Nazmi. Salzburg’s incomparable Felsenreitschule gives an ideal mystical backdrop for this masterwork of sacred music. “Currentzis’ Mozart is radical, uncompromising and of captivating clarity” (Wiener Zeitung)

Production: ZDF/3sat, ORF and UNITEL Year of Production: 2017 Title: Veni Domine - Advent & Christmas at the Sistine Chapel (shot in UHD/4k) Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Massimo Palombella Sistine Chapel Choir (Cappella 01:00:00 Sistina)

Number: 9956

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The Vatican Library is home to the most important and extensive collection of sacred music manuscripts in the world and the Sistine Chapel Choir has unlimited access to this extraordinary archive.The Sistine Chapel choir, the oldest choir in the world, has sung this music for centuries, and in recent years has reached new musical heights of excellence. The Director of the Sistine Chapel, Monsignor Massimo Palombella, has taken on an exciting double challenge.On the one hand, he is presenting polyphonic works from the Vatican Library in new editions reflecting the very highest standards of contemporary academic scholarship in polyphony. On the other hand, he is also developing performance practices for the choir to bring even the most intricate and impossibly difficult motets to life in a way which respects and clarifies the liturgical meaning of the music. Many of the works on this recording by famous names such as Palestrina and Desprez, all written to form part of Papal Celebrations for Advent and Christmas, have never been heard before.

Production: Deutsche Grammophon, C Major Entertainment

Number: A045500690000

Year of Production: 2017 Title: Bartabas in Salzburg 2017 - Mozart: Requiem Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Marc Minkowski Les Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble, 01:10:00 Salzburger Bachchor

Soloists: Bartabas, Genia Kühmeier, Elisabeth Kulman, Julien Behr, Charles Dekeyser, Académie Equestre de Versailles

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An absolute highlight of Salzburg’s Mozart week: At the time-honoured Felsenreitschule, the French equine artist and theatrical genius Bartabas presents W. A. Mozart’s Requiem. Horses and riders from the formidable Académie Équestre de Versailles join forces with the Musiciens du Louvre, conducted by Mark Minkowski, the Salzburger Bachchor and four excellent soloists (Genia Kühmeier, Elisabeth Kulman, Julien Behr and Charles Dekeyser) to place the Requiem, one of Mozart’s most popular and yet most profound and sublime creations, into a new theatrical context. Restoring the Felsenreitschule’s original purpose – a riding school – and at the same time including its impressive architecture of arcades into the musical dramaturgy, the production is a breathtaking synthesis of the arts.

Production: ORF, Arte and UNITEL, Stiftung Mozarteum Salzburg and the Académie équestre nationale du domaine de Versailles

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Concert / Vocal Year of Production: 2017 Title: Blomstedt conducts Bach’s Mass in B Minor Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Herbert Blomstedt Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, 01:54:00 Dresdner Kammerchor

Number: 9516

Soloists: Christina Landshamer, Elisabeth Kulman, Wolfram Lattke, Luca Pisaroni

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Just a few weeks before his 90th birthday, Herbert Blomstedt gifted himself a special birthday present: conducting Bach’s Mass in B Minor in the Leipzig Thomaskirche – the composer’s former workplace. According to Blomstedt, Bach’s last complete vocal work is the climax of his creativity and is one of the most important works in his life: “It is like a reflection of doubt. It is enormously powerful music in the same way that a wedge is enormously powerful.” For Peter Wollny, director of the Bach-Archiv Leipzig, Bach’s magnum opus is “without doubt the most intellectually and musically varied and challenging of Bach’s compositions” and “one of the greatest achievements of Western culture.” The concert closed the Bachfest Leipzig 2017 and was performed by the Gewandhausorchester, the Dresdner Kammerchor, and the soloists Christina Landshamer, Elisabeth Kulman, Wolfram Lattke and Luca Pisaroni.

Production: Accentus, NHK

Number: A055507580000

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Year of Production: 2017 Title: Festive Gala from the Semperoper Dresden - 100th Anniversary of UFA Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Christian Thielemann Staatskapelle Dresden approx. 01:30:00

Andy Sommer Soloists: Angela Denoke, Elisabeth Kulman, Daniel Behle

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The Festive Gala at the Semperoper Dresden brings back the splendour of UFA Film for one scintillating night full of famous melodies. Christian Thielemann and his Staatskapelle Dresden together with outstanding singers Angela Denoke, Elisabeth Kulman und Daniel Behle pay homage to the hit songs of the so-called dream factory,which dominated the German film industry from 1917 to 1945, and produced classics like “Metropolis”, “The Three from the Filling Station” and “The Blue Angel”. Created in the first half of the 20th century, the UFA productions are marked by the ambivalence of culture and politics that is characteristic for this part of German history.The concert offers the chance for a deliberate, critical review of the “film dreams” of the past and the undeniable “dissonances” of the nation’s history.

Production: ZDF in co-production with Unitel

Number: A05050506

Year of Production: 2017 Title: Festive Re-Opening: Staatsoper Unter den Linden: Schumann, Scenes from Faust Orchestra: Conductor: Length: Daniel Barenboim Staatskapelle Berlin 02:32:00

Director: Jürgen Flimm Soloists: Roman Trekel, Elsa Dreisig, René Pape, Katharina Kammerloher, André Jung, Meike Droste, Sven-Eric Bechtolf et al.

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The Staatsoper Berlin is back in its place of origin: Unter den Linden! After major renovations, it reopens with Schumann’s Scenes from Goethe’s Faust, conducted by Daniel Barenboim. Under the direction of Jürgen Flimm and in the sets of acclaimed German artist Markus Lüpertz, Schumann’s orchestral work is transformed in a captivating drama. In the glow of the renovated opera hall Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin perform alongside soloists such as Roman Trekel, Elsa Dreisig and René Pape. Besides the vocal parts, the main characters Faust, Gretchen and Mephistopheles are embodied by the renowned actors André Jung, Meike Droste and Sven-Eric Bechtolf.

Production: ZDF/arte, Unitel

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Concert / Vocal Number: A055506950000

Year of Production: 2017 Title: Festive Advent Concert at the Frauenkirche Dresden 2017 Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Christian Thielemann Staatskapelle Dresden, Sächsischer 00:48:00 Staatsopernchor

Soloists: Diana Damrau

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The Festive Advent Concert has become a much loved tradition in Dresden and one of German TV’s biggest classical music success stories. Christian Thielemann and his Staatskapelle Dresden present a programme ranging from the overture of Bach’s orchestra suite D major to Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s Christmas Cantata “Vom Himmel hoch”, Mozart’s Laudate Dominum, excerpts of Haydn’s Die Schöpfung (The Creation) and traditionals. German star soprano Diana Damrau with her “gorgeous and richly coloured timbre” (Sächsische Zeitung), the brilliant Helmut Fuchs on trumpet and the impressive Choir of the Sächsische Staatsoper create a festive concert experience together. The clear, enchanting soprano of Tuuli Takala blends perfectly with the beautiful, high baritone of Benjamin Appl, winner of the Gramophone Young Artist of the Year Award.

Production: ZDF in co-production with UNITEL Year of Production: 2017 Title: Juan Diego Flórez sings Mozart Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Ricardo Minasi Orchestra La Scintilla 01:15:00

Number: 9962

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Acclaimed across the globe for the beauty of his voice and the emotional power of his performances, Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez has in his career so far focused almost exclusively on the masterpieces of the bel canto repertoire by Rossini, Donizetti and Bellini, and others. From his earliest studies at the conservatory in Lima to the present day, Flórez has sung Mozart arias every now and then but he has never sung a complete Mozart opera on stage. “It just hadn’t worked out till now”, he confesses. And now Mozart, finally. True, the desire had been there for a long time, but “now is the time, I feel I’m ready.” To display another fascinating side to his vocal personality, the concert program includes many of the best-loved Mozart arias – all of them magnificently performed by the Orchestra La Scintilla, an ensemble with outstanding reputation for their historical performance practice, led by Ricardo Minasi.

Production: BFMI in co-production with ZDF/Arte and Sony Classical

Number: A055506770000

Year of Production: 2017 Title: Handel in Concert - Patrizia Ciofi & Donna Leon Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Maxim Emelyanychev Il Pomo d'Oro 01:26:00

Soloists: Patrizia Ciofi (soprano), Donna Leon (narrator)

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Fearless in the face of death, unflinching in their love, ruthless in their revenge: the women in Handel’s operas are anything but one-dimensional. Italian coloratura soprano Patrizia Ciofi and the Baroque ensemble Il Pomo d'Oro, led by Maxim Emelyanychev, perform the most powerful and moving arias from Handel's operas. Together with bestselling author and Handel enthusiast Donna Leon they set out to discover the women's stories. “An original and electrifying spectacle!” (ForumOpera)

Production: Ozango, Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, M Media/Classic All TV, Szenik and UNITEL

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Concert / Vocal Number: A01050075

Year of Production: 2017 Title: Harding conducts Elgar’s "The Dream of Gerontius" (shot in UHD/4k) Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Daniel Harding Orchestre de Paris approx. 01:50:00

Soloists: Magdalena Kožená, Andrew Staples, John Relyea

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The Dream of Gerontius, Edward Elgar’s striking musical meditation on life after death, showcases superb choral writing and Wagnerian inflections. Daniel Harding leads the Orchestre de Paris. Mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená performs as Guardian Angel alongside Andrew Staples and John Relyea in the Grand Salle Pierre Boulez.Created in 1900, this great oratorio, often called the “English Parsifal”, is considered a national gem. While it has been the subject of unconditional admiration for more than a century in England, it was rarely performed outside England’s borders. Even if George Bernard Shaw had no doubt that Elgar’s music was to be immortal, it took some time to prove that he was right. The powerful work, which keeps in tradition with greats like Beethoven, is now revered throughout the world and in this case receives a stellar staging in the beautiful Philharmonie de Paris.

Production: CLC Productions/Orchestre de Paris/Radio France, Arte France, Philharmonie de Paris, Unitel

Number: A935500200000

Year of Production: 2017 Title: Joyce DiDonato sings In War and Peace: Harmony through Music Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Maxim Emelyanychev Il Pomo d'Oro 01:19:00

Soloists: Joyce DiDonato

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In the midst of chaos, how do you find peace? Superstar mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato turns to Baroque opera to answer this very contemporary question. In a filmed concert at Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu, DiDonato performs a recital of arias from her latest album, joined by Il Pomo d'Oro and the harpsichordist-conductor Maxim Emelyanichev. Joyce DiDonato's most recent recording began life as a project to present a collection of little-known Neapolitan Baroque opera arias in collaboration with the stellar Italian baroque orchestra Il Pomo d'Oro and their director Maxim Emelyanichev. Then, in the wake of the brutal November 2016 terror attacks in Paris, the musicians felt a more urgent calling: the need to respond musically to the turmoil and violence of our times. Their answer was an album of arias by Handel, Purcell, Jommelli, and Monteverdi that explore war and peace, both external and internal.

Production: Camera Lucida and Askonas Holt, ARTE France, with the participation of MUSEEC/medici.tv and UNITEL, with the support of CNC

Number: 9922

Year of Production: 2016 Title: Il Volo - Notte Magica "A Tribute To The Three Tenors" Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Plácido Domingo, Orchestra del Teatro Massimo 01:46:00 Marcello Rota Palermo

Soloists: Il Volo, Plácido Domingo

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Notte Magica - A Tribute To The Three Tenors: On July 7, 1990, a magical night took place in Rome: José Carreras, Plácido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti sang together for the very first time in one of the most evocative temples of opera, the ancient Baths of Caracalla in Rome, giving life to the biggest classical music project of the century: The Three Tenors. 26 years later, worldwide platinum selling artists, Il Volo, pay tribute to the event and to the Three Tenors with this live concert event. It took place at the Piazza Santa Croce, one of the most beautiful plazas in Florence with the famous Teatro Massimo di Palermo Orchestra. Il Volo performed some of the most famous Neapolitan songs and arias from the Italian and international operatic repertoire all of which were sung by the original Three Tenors. As a special guest, Maestro Plácido Domingo conducted almost half of the program and joined Il Volo singing the classic “Non ti scordar di me”.

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Concert / Vocal Year of Production: 2016 Title: Rattle conducts Haydn "The Seasons" Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Sir Simon Rattle London Symphony Orchestra and 02:10:00 Chorus

Number: 9580

Soloists: Monika Eder, Andrew Staples, Florian Boesch

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The London Symphony Chorus celebrate its 50th anniversary with Haydn’s ‘nature’ oratorio The Seasons, a stellar cast of international singers and Sir Simon Rattle. The Seasons is divided in to four sections: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter charting a musical year with rousing choruses, a riotous wine tasting with dancing peasants, a loud thunderstorm, even the croaking of frogs. In his old age Haydn achieved fame and fortune in London following visits here in the 1790s. ‘Papa Haydn’ was encouraged to write The Seasons by the great success of his previous oratorio The Creation, which was performed all over Europe.

Production: London Symphony Orchestra

Number: A055505400000

Year of Production: 2016 Title: Baden-Baden-Gala 2016 Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Marco Armiliato Badische Staatskapelle 02:19:00

Soloists: Anja Harteros, Ekaterina Gubanova, Jonas Kaufmann, Bryn Terfel

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“An extraordinary evening full of emotions!” that is how the press called “the concert event of the year”: Anja Harteros, Ekaterina Gubanova, Jonas Kaufmann and Bryn Terfel, four singers in a league of their own presented an extraordinary summit of classical music superstars. The starstudded cast took the audience on a long journey, exploring some of the most remarkable and popular operas and combining all the features of this supreme musical genre in a single concert: beauty, magical sound, tragedy, and overflowing passion.

Production: ZDF/3sat, UNITEL

Number: A045500640000

Year of Production: 2016 Title: Salzburg Festival 2016: Missa Salisburgensis Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Václav Luks Collegium 1704, Collegium Vocale 01:33:00 1704

Soloists: Miriam Feuersinger, Franscesca Aspromonte, Julia Böhme, Terry Wey, Alessio Tosi, Tomáš Král, Stephan MacLeod

Content:

An extravagant but joyous enterprise, a real festival event. Long will this spectacular Mass continue to resound in my memory” (Salzburger Nachtrichten). One of the supreme masterworks of Baroque polyphony, the Missa Salisburgensis by the brilliant Bohemian-born composer-violinist Heinrich Biber is here performed in the Salzburg Cathedral – the very building where it was first heard – as part of the Festival’s celebrations for the bicentenary of the former prince-bishopric’s union with Austria. Performed by the renowned Prague-based period ensembles Collegium 1704 and Collegium Vocale 1704 under their founderdirector Václav Luks, and bringing into play all four of the Cathedral’s organs, Biber’s Mass is prefaced by a selection of sacred choral works composed by Monteverdi during his time as choirmaster at St Mark’s.

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Concert / Vocal Number: A865500320000

Year of Production: 2016 Title: RCO: Bach, Christmas Oratorio (Part 4-6) Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Trevor Pinnock Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, approx. Nederlands Kamerkoor 01:20:00

Soloists: Marlis Petersen, Ursula Eittinger, Daniel Behle, Michael Nagy

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The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra’s annual Kerstmatinee (Christmas Day Matinee) has become a beloved holiday tradition. For the second time, this matinee has been entirely dedicated to Bach’s inspirational Christmas Oratorio: The RCO presents the cantatas 4 to 6, conducted by Trevor Pinnock, a renowned authority on eighteenth-century music. He leads the RCO in this masterpiece of Baroque music, accompanied by German coloratura soprano Marlis Petersen as well as Ursula Eittinger, Daniel Behle, Michael Nagy, and the “top ensemble” (Volkskrant) of the Nederlands Kamerkoor. The first three sections of the Christmas Oratorio, performed by the RCO under the baton of Jan Willem de Vriend, are also available: J.S. Bach: Christmas Oratorio (Part 1-3), Cat. No.: A 865 50025 0000.

Production: RCO, UNITEL Year of Production: 2016 Title: RCO: Glanert, Requiem for Hieronymus Bosch Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Markus Stenz Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, 01:23:00 Netherlands Radio Choir

Number: 9503

Soloists: Aga Mikolaj, Ursula Hesse von den Steinen, Gerhard Siegel, Christof Fischesser (singer), Leo van Doeselaar (organ), David Wilson-Johnson (voice)

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s-Hertogenbosch’s most famous son, the famed painter Hieronymus Bosch lived and worked at the town marketplace, portraying medieval life in his paintings brimming with symbolism, fantasy and riddles. With the international event Bosch 500, ’s-Hertogenbosch is commemorating the five hundredth anniversary of the artist’s death in a spectacular way. The RCO’s house composer Detlev Glanert has been commissioned by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Bosch 500 to write a requiem for soloists, choir, organ and orchestra. The composition translates the demonic nature of Bosch’s paintings with textual counterparts into music. Glanert combines traditional requiem texts with excerpts from the manuscript collection Carmina Burana – each movement of the Requiem is accompanied by a poem about the seven deadly sins.

Production: RCO

Number: A01050062

Year of Production: 2016 Title: Paris: Daniel Harding - The Inaugural Concert: Schumann, Faust Orchestra: Conductor: Length: Daniel Harding Orchestre de Paris 01:57:00

Soloists: Hanna-Elisabeth Müller, Bernarda Fink, Andrew Staples, Christian Gerhaher, Franz-Josef Selig

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For his inaugural concert as the new Musical Director of the Orchestre de Paris, the young British conductor Daniel Harding chose to conduct a work with which he has already enjoyed phenomenal success in Berlin, Munich and London: Robert Schumann’s rarely performed Szenen aus Goethes Faust (Scenes from Goethe’s Faust). A Magical evening in the Parisian concert hall, with an aesthetic excellence that leaves you speechless.” (Huffington Post) “For his inauguration concert Harding lands a coup.” (Le Figaro)

Production: CLC Productions, Orchestre de Paris, ARTE France, medici.tv, Philharmonie de Paris, Unitel

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Concert / Vocal Number: A01050065

Year of Production: 2016 Title: Paris: Harding conducts Schumann "Paradise and Peri" (shot in UHD/4k) Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Daniel Harding Orchestre de Paris approx. 01:50:00

Soloists: Matthias Goerne, Christiane Karg, Andrew Staples, Kate Royal, Gerhild Romberger, Allan Clayton

Content:

Daniel Harding, the new music director of the prestigious Orchestre de Paris, pays homage to Schumann through one of his most radiant works: Das Paradies und die Peri (Paradise and the Peri), an adaptation for orchestra, choir and soloists of an oriental tale and a jewel of romanticism. Matthias Goerne, Christiane Karg, Andy Staples, Kate Royal, Gerhild Romberger and Allan Clayton join Harding and the Orchestre de Paris in a worldly Oratorio that exalts the heavenly purity of paradise in the shimmering and magical colours of Arabian Nights.

Production: UNITEL, CLC for Arte

Number: A015500520000

Year of Production: 2016 Title: Donizetti, Messa da Requiem Orchestra: Conductor: Length: Leonardo García Orchestre Millenium, Choeur de 01:22:00 Alarcón Chambre de Namur

Soloists: Francesca Aspromonte, Giuseppina Bridelli, Fabio Trümpy, Nikolay Borchev

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From the Basilique de Saint Denis, the burial place of the French Kings since centuries and at the same time one of the first gothic churches in the world, comes the first ever audiovisual recording of a long lost masterpiece of Italian sacred music, full of romance and belcanto: Gaetano Donizetti’s luminous Messa da Requiem. The highly virtuosic and lyrical score, expressing the Christian vision of the passage from death to eternal life, combines the imposing polyphony of a choir with the operatic brilliance of soloist arias. The Argentine conductor Leonardo García Alarcón conducts his Orchestre Millenium, an orchestra dedicated to bring ancient music to a new generation, with “precise gestures and rich contrast” while the Choeur de Chambre de Namur impresses with “clarity and power” (Forum Opera).

Production: CLC, KTO and UNITEL and the support of CNC

Number: A055505920000

Year of Production: 2016 Title: Festive Advent Concert at the Frauenkirche Dresden 2016 Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Andrés Orozco Staatskapelle Dresden, Dresdner 01:01:00 Kreuzchor

Soloists: Sonya Yoncheva, Regula Mühlemann

Content:

The Advent Concert has become a much loved tradition in Dresden, enjoyed by music lovers throughout the world. In this edition the Staatskapelle Dresden performs under the baton of the renowned Columbian maestro Andrés Orozco-Estrada. Bulgarian star soprano Sonya Yoncheva returns to the Frauenkirche and excels with “volume and sonority and a rich vibrato”. She is accompanied by another rising star: Swiss soprano Regula Mühlemann, impressing by her “clear, bright, almost girlish soprano, full of ease” (Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten). Two top-class choirs, Dresdner Kreuzchor – celebrating its 800th anniversary and Dresdner Kammerchor, provide for choral church music at its best. The thoughtfully compiled program features seasonally appropriate selections by Handel, Schubert, Mozart, Mendelssohn as well as traditionals.

Production: ZDF in co-prodution with UNITEL

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Concert / Vocal Number: A045500660000

Year of Production: 2016 Title: Red Ribbon Celebration Concert 2016 - Orpheus and Eurydice Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Martin Haselböck Orchester Wiener Akademie approx. 01:30:00

Soloists: Anna Netrebko, Piotr Beczala, Juan Diego Flórez, Thomas Hampson, Max Emanuel Cencic

Content:

On the occasion of the Red Ribbon Celebration Concert, Vienna’s famous charity concert for the benefit of HIV and AIDS aid projects, some of the world’s greatest opera stars made their appearance at the venerable Burgtheater. Anna Netrebko, Piotr Bezcała, Juan Diego Flórez and Thomas Hampson took part in this festive concert evening which revolved around the legend of Orpheus and Eurydice. With excerpts from corresponding operas by Claudio Monteverdi and Christoph Willibald Gluck, works by W. A. Mozart and Franz Liszt, the audience is taken on Orpheus' journey to the underworld, from where he desperately tries to take his love Eurydice back to the world of the living by the help of his singing.

Production: Interspot Film, ORF III, UNITEL

Number: A005500540000

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Year of Production: 2016 Title: The Deadly Sins - Angels and Demons in the works of Claudio Monteverdi (shot in UHD/4k) Orchestra: Conductor: Length: Leonardo Garcia La Cappella Mediterranea 01:21:00 Alarcon

Stage Director: Olivier Lexa Soloists: Francesca Aspromonte, Mariana Flores, Christopher Lowrey, Emiliano Gonzalez Toro

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In order to honor the anniversary of Claudio Monteverdi’s (1567- 1643) the ensemble Cappella Mediterranea and their founder Leonardo García Alarcón were given the special permission, to perform in an outstanding venue, the Chiesetta del Doge at the Palazzo Ducale in Venice for an unique musical project: The first performance of Monteverdi’s music in more than 300 years at the Doges chapel, the heart of the old Venetian republic, where Monteverdi was the official court composer. Based on the theme of “Angels and Demons” the ensemble perform extracts from Monteverdi’s opera and madrigal compositions. The half-scenic production is staged by Olivier Lexa, founder and artistic director of the Venetian Centre for Baroque Music.

Production: Heliox, Venetian Centre for Baroque Music, ClassicAll TV / M_Media, France Télévisions, Unitel

Number: 9864

Title: 3 Stars in Munich Conductor: Claudio Vandelli

Year of Production: 2015

Orchestra: Czech National Symphony Orchestra

Length: 01:29:00

Soloists: Anna Netrebko, Jonas Kaufmann, Thomas Hampson

Content:

The superstars of classical music are together for the first time at the Königsplatz, Munich for one night only. The Munich Königsplatz, with its elegant classical buildings, is a unique, picturesque performance space. With this rare meeting of opera superstars, the square transforms into an opera house under the open sky, and creates an atmospheric setting for its 15 000 strong audience. Anna Netrebko joins Jonas Kaufmann and Thomas Hampson at the cultural heart of Munich for an openair evening of celebrated arias, duets and opera scenes by Verdi, Puccini, Giordano, Leoncavallo, Bizet, Offenbach, Lehár, and more. Special guests: Elena Zhidkova and Ildar Abdrazakov.

Production: ZDF, DEAG Classics

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Concert / Vocal Number: 9579

Year of Production: 1999 Title: The 3 Tenors - Christmas Concert 1999 Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Stephen Mercurio Vienna Symphony Orchestra 01:21:00

Soloists: José Carreras, Plácido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti

Content:

The 3 Tenors capture the joy and spirit of the season with their first ever Christmas concert, live from Vienna, featuring performances of international season favourites by the best-selling and worldrenowned trio. Have yourself a warm, sophisticated Christmas with the 3 Tenors as they cradle the classics with their magnificient voices. Cantique de noel (O Holy Night); Ave Maria, Dolce Maria; Oh Tannenbaum; White Christmas, and more.

Production: A Coproduction of Sony Classical International Music Events and ORF

Number: 9866

Year of Production: 2015 Title: The 3 Tenors - The Birth of a Legend Orchestra: Conductor: Length: Zubin Mehta Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera di 01:15:00 Roma and the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Soloists: Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo and José Carreras

Content:

The 3 Tenors joined to conquer. When this trio of famous opera singers - Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo and José Carreras - gave a one-night-only show at the baths of Caracalla in Rome on July 1990, it was a massive spectacle watched by a billion people worldwide. More than that, the Three Tenors phenomenon permanently altered how a large amount of classical music is presented, packaged and sold. 67 mins of performance (Baths of Caracalla), 8 mins of background documentary.

Production: ZDF, C Major Entertainment

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Opera Number: A04050088

Director:

Year of Production: 2018 Title: Salzburg Easter Festival 2018: Puccini, Tosca (shot in UHD/4k) Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Christian Thielemann Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden approx. 02:00:00

Stage Director: Michael Sturminger Soloists: Anja Harteros, Aleksandrs Antonenko, Ludovic Tézier, Andrea Mastroni

Content:

In Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca, one of the great verismo operas of the Italian repertoire, Anja Harteros will star in the title role, just a year after making her stage debut as Sieglinde at the 2017 Easter Festival. Cavaradossi will be sung by Aleksandrs Antoņenko, one of the world’s leading spinto tenors, while internationally renowned baritone Ludovic Tézier will star as Scarpia.

Production: ORF/3sat, NHK and Unitel

Number: A00050057

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Year of Production: 2018 Title: Puccini, Turandot (shot in UHD/4k) Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Gianandrea Noseda Orchestra and Chorus Teatro Regio approx. Torino 01:55:00

Stage Director: Stefano Poda Soloists: Rebeka Lokar, Jorge de León, Erika Grimaldi, In-Sung Sim

Content:

Gianandrea Noseda conducts Puccini’s incomplete masterpiece, Stefano Poda has designed the original, spectacular, metaphysical stage production. The cast includes leading internationally famous artists like soprano Rebeka Lokar, tenor Jorge de León, and soprano Erika Grimaldi. Turandot is the great “incomplete” work of the 1900s. Gianandrea Noseda‘s intention is to literally follow the autograph manuscript and perform the musical score up to the point reached by Puccini, without adding a posthumous finale.

Production: Teatro Regio Torino in cooperation with UNITEL

Number: A05005322

Year of Production: 1986 Title: Bernstein, A Quiet Place Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Leonard Bernstein ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra 02:49:00

Director: Stage Director: Stephen Wadsworth Soloists: Chester Ludgin, Beverly Morgan, John Brandstetter, Peter Kazaras, Jean Kraft, Theodor Uppman

Content:

In 1986 Bernstein conducted a refined version of his own opera A Quiet Place in Vienna. It contains singable late romantic melodies as well as Broadway musical sounds, syncopated jazz rhythms and well-tempered modernity and, of course, a masterful instrumentation. Estranged family members recall the history of their relationships with each other and with their dead mother. The next morning, after breakfast and games in the garden – the “quiet place” –, they find that their hostility has given way to reconciliation.

Production: Unitel, ORF

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Opera Number: A04050072

Year of Production: 2017 Title: Bregenz Festival 2017: Bizet, Carmen Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Paolo Carignani Wiener Symphoniker 02:04:00

Director: Stage Director: Kasper Holten Soloists: Gaëlle Arquez, Daniel Johansson, Scott Hendricks, Elena Tsallagova

Content:

Georges Bizet‘s captivating music with its Spanish sounds took the world by storm: Carmen‘s Habanera and Seguidilla, like Escamillo‘s Toreador‘s Song, are known to one and all. The French composer‘s most successful opera is staged on the world’s largest, spectacular floating stage of Lake Constance in Bregenz, with a set designed by British artist Es Devlin. She has designed sets for pop stars like Adele, U2, Take That, the Pet Shop Boys and Kanye West. In collaboration with the stage director Kasper Holten, Director of Opera at the Royal Opera House in London, she has also worked at opera houses in Helsinki and Copenhagen, at the Theater an der Wien and the Royal Opera House Covent Garden. For the Danish stage director, this "opera about destiny and obsession" centres on "two people who are treated as outsiders, whose paths cross and who cling to each other in a passionate but unhealthy relationship".

Production: ORF, SRF, TPC, UNITEL, ZDF, 3sat in cooperation with Bregenz Festival

Number: A04050076

Year of Production: 2017 Title: Bregenz Festival 2017: Rossini, Mosè in Egitto Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Enrique Mazzola Wiener Symphoniker 02:30:00

Director: Stage Director: Lotte de Beer Soloists: Andrew Foster-Williams, Mandy Fredrich, Sunnyboy Dladla, Clarissa Costanzo

Content:

This production from the Festspielhaus at Bregenz Festival centers on the Biblical Exodus. The universal story, with its themes of migration and inability to deal with power, has lost none of its urgency and topicality. By choosing an Old Testament subject, Rossini was able to get round the ban on staging operas during Lent. None the less, Mosè in Egitto contains all the ingredients of grand opera, mainly thanks to the concealed love story of the heir to the Egyptian throne. Today the moving prayer-aria of the Israelites in captivity remains the best known piece from the opera. For the staging of this rarely performed work by Rossini, Dutch director Lotte de Beer, one of the most sought-after stage directors of her generation (International Opera Newcomer Award 2015) teams up with the Dutch theatre collective Hotel Modern. While the soloists and choir relate the tale of the pharaoh and the conflicts in his family, Hotel Modern conjure up its own reality by using live animations to portray the mass scenes and the parallel narrative of the people and the slaves. Miniature cameras, thousands of puppets, models of villages and cities and a spectacular aquarium installation present the biblical tale of plagues and the parting of the Red Sea on the Bregenz stage.

Production: ORF III, Unitel and ORF Vorarlberg, in cooperation with Bregenz Festival

Number: A02050117

Director:

Year of Production: 2017 Title: ROH: Puccini, La Bohème Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Antonio Pappano Orchestra of the Royal Opera House appr. 01:50:00

Stage Director: Richard Jones Soloists: Nicole Car, Michael Fabiano, Mariusz Kwiecien, Nadine Sierra

Content:

An irresistible blend of comedy and tragedy, Richard Jones’s new staging of Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème at London’s Royal Opera House is an insightful take on the much-loved classic about two fated lovers in bohemian Paris, here brilliantly sung by Michael Fabiano and Nicole Car under the baton of Sir Antonio Pappano.

Production: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

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Opera Number: A02050110

Director:

Year of Production: 2017 Title: ROH: Puccini, Madama Butterfly Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Antonio Pappano Orchestra of the Royal Opera House approx. 02:30:00

Stage Directors: Moshe Leiser, Patrice Caurier Soloists: Ermonela Jaho, Marcelo Puente

Content:

East meets West with devastating consequences in Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier’s production of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. Antonio Pappano conducts an impressive cast led by Ermonela Jaho and Marcelo Puente in Puccini’s deeply poignant opera. Set against an exotic Nagasaki backdrop drawn from 19th century western artists' romanticised view of Japan, it's a heart-breaking tale of love, honour and betrayal played out to a magnificently evocative score. Puccini drew on Japanese folk melodies for the score, one of his most evocative and atmospheric. The romantic exoticism of 19th-century European images of Japan – an integral part of Madama Butterfly’s character – inspire Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier’s elegant production for The Royal Opera. “Marcelo Puente makes an ideal, blury, young navy lieutenant” (Financial Times) “Superlative conducting of the inexhaustible Antonio Pappano.” (The Daily Telegraph) "Ermonela Jaho is the best Cio-Cio-San London has seen in years.” (The Independent) “This production of Puccini’s tragedy is a superb achievement. The whole evening is, in fact, outstanding.” (The Guardian)

Production: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Number: A02050102

Director:

Year of Production: 2017 Title: ROH: Verdi, Il Trovatore Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Richard Farnes Orchestra of the Royal Opera House approx. 02:20:00

Stage Director: David Bösch Soloists: Lianna Haroutounian, Gregory Kunde, Vitaliy Bilyy, Anita Rachvelishvili, Alexander Tsymbalyuk

Content:

The first revival of David Bösch’s Royal Opera production of Verdi's masterpiece "Il Trovatore", conducted by Richard Farnes, strikingly pulls out the opera's prominent themes of jealousy, revenge and love against a hauntingly beautiful wintry landscape. The superb international cast includes Armenian soprano Lianna Haroutounian, American tenor Gregory Kunde, Georgian mezzo Anita Rachvelishvili and Ukrainian baritone Vitaliy Bilyy.

Production: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Number: A02050114

Title: ROH: Verdi, Otello Conductor: Antonio Pappano

Director:

Year of Production: 2017

Orchestra: Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House

Length: approx. 02:50:00

Stage Director: Keith Warner Soloists: Jonas Kaufmann, Maria Agresta, Marco Vratogna, Frédéric Antoun

Content:

Jonas Kaufmann makes his role debut in Verdi’s thrilling Shakespeare based opera Otello, directed by Keith Warner. It is the first new staging of the Italian composer’s final tragedy at the Royal Opera House in 30 years. With Antonio Pappano’s contribution in the orchestra pit, valued as “a thing of wonder” (The Independent), the performance of Kaufmann and the ensemble is of stunning intensity, from the violent storm that opens the opera through to Iago’s blood-chilling Credo and Otello’s increasingly desperate duets with Desdemona. – “Jonas Kaufmann sings an Otello for the Ages!” (The NY Times)

Production: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

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Opera Number: A04050082

Year of Production: 2017 Title: Salzburg Festival 2017: Berg, Wozzeck (shot in UHD/4k) Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Vladimir Jurowski Wiener Philharmoniker 01:42:00

Director: Stage Director: William Kentridge Soloists: Matthias Goerne, Asmik Grigorian, John Daszak, Jens Larsen

Content:

With a triumphant staging of Berg’s monumental opera Wozzeck, universal artist William Kentridge, who already made headlines with his productions of The Nose and Lulu, makes his appearance at the Salzburg Festival. In a “breathtaking reassessment” (Financial Times), he puts Berg’s tragical portrait of a simple soldier harassed by a merciless society in an extraordinary, multilayered set design, in which various projections of movie scenes and drawings intertwine with the action on stage. “Mr. Kentridge has given Wozzeck his most elegant and powerful operatic treatment yet.” (New York Times)

Production: UNITEL in cooperation with ARTE, medici.tv and Salzburg Festival

Number: A04050078

Director:

Year of Production: 2017 Title: Salzburg Festival 2017: Mozart, La Clemenza di Tito Orchestra: Conductor: Length: Teodor Currentzis musicAeterna, musicAeterna Choir approx. 02:50:00

Stage Director: Peter Sellars Soloists: Russell Thomas, Golda Schultz, Marianne Crebassa, Christina Gansch, Willard White

Content:

Deemed today’s most exciting Mozart conductor and highly acclaimed for his revolutionary DaPonte Cycle, Teodor Currentzis takes on Mozart’s final opera for his long awaited debut at the Salzburg Festival: “La clemenza di Tito”. The current Artistic Director of the Perm State Opera and Ballet Theatre is accompanied by his MusicAeterna and MusicAeterna Chamber Choir and joins forces with award winning director Peter Sellars, with whom he has established a successful longterm collaboration. Known himself as Mozart rebel for his unique contemporary stagings of Mozart’s operas, Sellars directs the opera also for the screen. “Peter Sellars’ picture language and precise direction are masterful!” (Der Spiegel)

Production: ORF, ORF/3sat and Unitel in collaboration with the Salzburg Festival

Number: A04050077

Director:

Year of Production: 2017 Title: Salzburg Festival 2017: Verdi, Aida Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Riccardo Muti Wiener Philharmoniker, 02:40:00 Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor

Stage Director: Shirin Neshat Soloists: Anna Netrebko, Francesco Meli, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Dmitry Belosselskiy

Content:

Passionate and unconditionally dedicated” (Süddeutsche Zeitung), Anna Netrebko makes her role debut as Aida at the Salzburg Festival, joined by Francesco Meli as Radamès and Ekaterina Semenchuk as her rival Amneris. In the pit: no other than Verdi expert Riccardo Muti, “our finest Verdi conductor” who “creates effects you didn't quite think possible” (NY Times). This Aida is the first opera staging by award-winning Iranian film-maker, photographer and video artist Shirin Neshat, known for her critical examinations of gender roles and religious fundamentalism. “Lyric sensitivity and searing power – Ms. Netrebko is ready for Aida!” (New York Times)

Production: ORF, NHK, UNITEL and ZDF in cooperation with ARTE, Wiener Philharmoniker and Salzburg Festival

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Opera Number: A04050067

Year of Production: 2017 Title: Salzburg Easter Festival 2017: Wagner, Die Walküre (shot in UHD/4k) Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Christian Thielemann Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden 03:55:00

Director: Stage Director: Vera Nemirova Soloists: Anja Kampe, Vitalij Kowaljow, Anja Harteros, Peter Seiffert, Georg Zeppenfeld

Content:

On the occasion of its 50th anniversary, the Salzburg Easter Festival presents a very particular staging of Richard Wagner’s opera Die Walküre under the baton of Artistic Director Christian Thielemann: a “Re-creation” of Herbert von Karajan’s musico-theatrical vision of the 19th century masterwork, with which the legendary Maestro opened the very first Easter Festival in 1967. The top-ranking ensemble of Wagner singers includes Anja Harteros, Peter Seiffert, Christa Mayer, Vitalij Kowaljow and Anja Kampe. They perform in the faithfully reconstructed scenery of the original production. "...a declaration of love to Wagner, Karajan, Salzburg, and to the international audiences" (Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten)

Production: UNITEL in co-production with ORF/3Sat and NHK in cooperation with Salzburg Easter Festival Year of Production: 2016 Title: Bayreuth Festival: Wagner, Parsifal Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Hartmut Haenchen Bayreuth Festival Orchestra & Choir 04:07:00

Number: 9953

Director: Stage Director: Uwe Eric Laufenberg Soloists: Klaus Florian Vogt, Georg Zeppenfeld, Elena Pankratova, Ryan McKinny, Karl-Heinz Lehner

Content:

No burkas and no bikinis – long before Bayreuth’s latest Parsifal had opened in Uwe Eric Laufenberg’s new reading, these two phrases had done the rounds, their emotive content ensuring that the production was hotly debated. Laufenberg shows us everything: the Grail chalice, the dead swan, the wound, the lance. Such realism in the staging, which above all reveals an eye for intricate detail, creates the impression of a new radicalism. With Klaus Florian Vogt “as a powerfully heroic Parsifal (…), the beautiful gold, silver piercing iron of Elena Pankratova’s voice as Kundry” (…), Georg Zeppenfeld as a slim Gurnemanz providing unparalleled vocal command (…) and Ryan McKinny as a noble and agonised Amfortas.” (The Telegraph)

Production: DGG

Number: 9952

Year of Production: 2015 Title: Bayreuth Festival: Wagner, Tristan und Isolde Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Christian Thielemann Bayreuth Festival Orchestra & Choir 04:09:00

Director: Stage Director: Katharina Wagner Soloists: Stephen Gould, Evelyn Herlitzius, Georg Zeppenfeld, Iain Paterson, Christa Mayer

Content:

In celebration of the 150th anniversary of Tristan & Isolde this production was premiered on 25 July 2015 and marked the high-point of the Bayreuth Festival. An important and highly-anticipated new production of Wagner's take on this ultimate, immortal tale of love and longing by the composer's great-granddaughter Katharina Wagner. Enjoy some of today's most prominent vocalists and Christian Thielemann, arguably the most important Wagner conductor of our day and age. "… a sensationally good musical realisation." BBC Music

Production: BF Medien and NHK in cooperation with TV Skyline, TMT, BR Klassik and 3sat

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Opera Number: A04050062

Year of Production: 2016 Title: Donizetti, Don Pasquale Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Evelino Pidò Wiener Philharmoniker 02:10:00

Director: Stage Director: Irina Brook Soloists: Michele Pertusi, Juan Diego Flórez, Adam Plachetka, Valentina Naforniță

Content:

After four decades, Donizetti’s Don Pasquale returns to the renowned Vienna State Opera in a cheeky, highly entertaining new staging by Irina Brook. As if to make up for the neglect from which the work has been suffering, Brook’s “operacartoon” (Die Presse) with its opulent, colourful setting features a splendid cast, led by star-tenor Juan Diego Flórez. Flórez, “without a doubt the leading Bel Canto tenor of today, places his legendary, sheer impeccable high notes in all their splendour” (Die Presse)

Production: Wiener Staatsoper in co-production with ORF III in cooperation with UNITEL

Number: A05050560

Director:

Year of Production: 2017 Title: Giordano, Andrea Chenier Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Marco Armiliato Bayerisches Staatsorchester; approx. Chorus of theBayerische Staatsoper 02:05:00

Stage Director: Philipp Stölzl Soloists: Jonas Kaufmann, Anja Harteros, George Petean

Content:

Jonas Kaufmann and Anja Harteros, the dream team of opera, continue their successful collaboration in a new production of Umberto Giordano’s Andrea Chénier at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich. Alongside the superb baritone George Petean, the superstars show how love triumphs over death in the shadow of a terrifying regime. In the opulent staging by film director Philipp Stölzl, Marco Armiliato conducts the Bayerisches Staatsorchester. “A sensational Anja Harteros brings the house down! Kaufmann is perfect for the role – full of vitality and radiance! World-class!” (BR Klassik)

Production: UNITEL in cooperation with Bayerische Staatsoper

Number: A04050080

Director:

Year of Production: 2017 Title: Gounod, Roméo et Juliette Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Plácido Domingo Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper; 02:43:00 Chor derWiener Staatsoper

Stage Director: Jürgen Flimm Soloists: Aida Garifullina, Juan Diego Flórez, Rachel Frenkel, Rosie Aldridge

Content:

The most famous tragic love story in history, conducted by a legend of opera: superstar Plácido Domingo leads the stellar Juan Diego Flórez and Aida Garifullina as star-crossed lovers in Jürgen Flimm’s atmospheric staging of “Roméo et Juliette” by Charles Gounod at the Wiener Staatsoper. Domingo, Flórez and Garifullina tell a tale of “tragic love that has the air of Hollywood about it!” (Die Presse)

Production: Wiener Staatsoper in co-production with UNITEL

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Opera Number: A05050434

Title: Handel, Arminio Conductor: George Petrou

Year of Production: 2017

Orchestra: Ensemble Armonia Atenea

Length: 02:48:00

Director: Stage Director: Max Emanuel Cencic Soloists: Max Emanuel Cencic, Lauren Snouffer, Gaia Petrone, Juan Sancho

Content:

Max Emanuel Cencics celebrated and award winning production of Handel’s masterwork from the Internationale Händel Festspiele Karlsruhe. Described by one contemporary commentator as “a miracle”, and another as “in every respect excellent & vastly pleasing”, Arminio strangely received only six performances between 12 January and 12 February 1737 at London’s Covent Garden, and was never staged again for almost two hundred years. The heroic story, based on historical events occurring on the Germanic fringes of the Roman Empire, saw ist fulminant revival with a new and ravishing production only in 2016 in Karlsruhe. Max Emanuel Cenčić is surrounded by a fine ensemble of singers, with the Greek ensemble Armonia Atenean in the pit, conducted by George Petrou. The press praised the multiply-award-winning production as “rehabilitation of the piece” (FAZ). “Cencic is not only as countertenor but also as stage director at the peak of his success” (Süddeutsche Zeitung).

Production: Ozango in cooperation with UNITEL and Classicall M_Media and the support of CNC

Number: A05050433

Title: Handel, Semele Conductor: Christopher Moulds

Year of Production: 2017

Orchestra: Deutsche Händel-Solisten

Length: 02:55:00

Director: Stage Director: Floris Visser Soloists: Anna Devin, Ed Lyon, Alexandra Kadurina, Katharine Tier

Content:

A fulminant opening of the International Handel festival Karlsruhe, Floris Visser’s staging of George Frideric Handel’s musical drama Semele brings distinguished Handel specialists such as the Deutsche Händel-Solisten and the Händel Festspielchor together. Labelled a piece “after the manner of an oratorio”, the dazzling Semele fuses elements of opera, oratorio and classical drama.

Production: Ozango in cooperation with Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, UNITEL, Classicall TV_M media and Szenik, with the support of CNC

Number: A05050409

Director:

Year of Production: 2017 Title: Handel, Xerxes/Serse (shot in UHD/4k) Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Constantinos Carydis Frankfurter Opern- und 03:00:00 Museumsorchester

Stage Director: Tillmann Köhler Soloists: Gaëlle Arquez, Lawrence Zazzo, Elizabeth Sutphen, Louise Alder

Content:

Xerxes was one of Handel's last operas. It bears witness to the polished and virtuoso late style of the by then marked by illness composer. The unusual opening aria sung by Xerxes is not the only pointer to a new musical dramaturgy – there are no da capo arias, the switching between recitatives and arias is rapid and the opera takes on a dizzying tempo. Handel's late work is a vicious persiflage about the longings, doubts, quirks and (self)destructive megalomania of a ruler. Frankfurt's new production, staged by Tillmann Köhler, presents an excellent cast headed by Gaëlle Arquez in the tite role.

Production: UNITEL in co-production with NHK

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Opera Number: A04050061

Director:

Year of Production: 2016 Title: Janáček, The Cunning Little Vixen Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Tomáš Netopil Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, 01:40:00 Chor der Wiener Staatsoper

Stage Director: Otto Schenk Soloists: Chen Reiss, Roman Trekel, Paolo Rumetz, Hyuna Ko

Content:

After quarter of a century, legendary director Otto Schenk returns to the Wiener Staatsoper to stage Leoš Janáček’s musical fairy tale The Cunning Little Vixen, conducted by Tomáš Netopil. Although the opera premiered in 1924, it took more than 90 years for The Cunning Little Vixen to enter the stage of the magnificent Wiener Staatsoper. To celebrate the fact that the work is heard at the house on the Ring for the very first time, none other than Austrian theatre luminary Otto Schenk devotes himself to staging the adventures of the clever fox and accompanying wildlife. Otto Schenk’s take on Janáček’s opera leaves nothing to be desired: “A triumph!” (Kronen Zeitung). “Tremendous applause for Schenk, the living legend!” (Wiener Zeitung).

Production: Wiener Staatsoper live at home in co-production with ORF III in cooperation with UNITEL Year of Production: 2017 Title: Lehár, Das Land des Lächelns Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Fabio Luisi Orchestra of the Opernhaus Zürich 01:48:00

Number: 9515

Director: Stage Director: Andreas Homoki Soloists: Piotr Beczala, Julia Kleiter

Content:

Franz Lehár’s "Das Land des Lächelns" is one of the best-known operettas of all time. For this new production Piotr Beczala, a world star who cultivates the tradition of the famous Tauber style like no other, returned to the Opernhaus Zürich as Sou-Chong. He has an equal partner in Julia Kleiter, who played the role of Lisa. Fabio Luisi and Andreas Homoki also know that the genre of operetta requires particular care – which is why they have assumed personal responsibility for this production. Homoki lets the plot take place in a Paris Variététheater from the 1920s, complete with show staircase and heavy curtains. To emphasize the operatic elements, he purged the piece, cutting several secondary roles and shortening dialogues. “Julia Kleiter as Lisa and Piotr Beczala as Sou-Chong – unhappy lovers, but vocally a dream couple!” SRF

Production: Accentus, ZDF/Arte

Number: 9520

Title: Massenet, Werther Conductor: Cornelius Meister

Year of Production: 2017

Orchestra: Orchestra of the Opernhaus Zürich

Length: 02:16:00

Director: Stage Director: Tatjana Gürbaca Soloists: Juan Diego Flórez, Anna Stéphany, Mélissa Petit

Content:

Goethe’s Sturm und Drang drama is echoed in Massenet’s score by emotionally wide-ranging vocal parts written on a grand scale. The world star Juan Diego Flórez, who “iscurrently the best representative of his rare field” (NZZ), sings one of the most poetic and expressive tenor roles of the French repertoire. At his side, Anna Stéphany sang her critically acclaimed role début as Charlotte. Tatjana Gürbaca, known for her great narrative imagination, directed Zurich’s new production of Massenet’s drame lyrique: the one-room staging cleverly renders the social stranglehold of oppression. “This is how musical theater should be (..).” Neue Zürcher Zeitung

Production: Accentus

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Opera Number: A00050048

Title: Monteverdi: L'Orfeo Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner

Director:

Year of Production: 2017

Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir

Length: approx. 02:00:00

Stage Direction: Elsa Rooke Soloists: Krystian Adam, Hana Blažíková, Lucile Richardot, Anna Dennis

Content:

2017 marks the 450th anniversary of Claudio Monteverdi’s birth, known to his more discerning contemporaries as ‘oracolo della musica’. Moreover, Claudio Monteverdi is also considered as one of the founders of opera, who transformed the miniature form of the madrigal into a full-scale music drama. On the occasion of the jubilee, Sir John Eliot Gardiner is dedicating a series of semi-staged performances at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, of the surviving trilogy of Monteverdi’s great operas to the visionary sixteenth-century composer.

Production: Ozango, France Télévisions, Unitel

Number: A00050050

Director:

Year of Production: 2017 Title: Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea Orchestra: Conductor: Length: John Eliot Gardiner English Baroque Soloists, approx. Monteverdi Choir 03:10:00

Stage Direction: Elsa Rooke Soloists: Hana Blažíková, Kangmin Justin Kim, Carlo Vistoli, Gianluca Buratto

Content:

Production: Ozango, France Télévisions, Unitel

Number: A00050049

Director:

Year of Production: 2017 Title: Monteverdi: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria Conductor: Orchestra: Length: John Eliot Gardiner English Baroque Soloists, approx. Monteverdi Choir 03:10:00

Stage Direction: Elsa Rooke Soloists: Furio Zanasi, Lucille Richardot, Hana Blažíková, Krystian Adam

Content:

Production: Ozango, France Télévisions, Unitel

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Opera Number: 9957

Title: Mozart, Don Giovanni Conductor: Plácido Domingo

Year of Production: 2017

Orchestra: National Theatre Orchestra

Length: 03:02:00

Director: Stage Director: Jiří Nekvasil Soloists: Simone Alberghini, Adrian Sampetrean, Irina Lungu, Dmitry Korchak

Content:

The world-famous singer, conductor and holder of 14 Grammy Awards, Plácido Domingo, came up as conductor and artistic director with a unique Don Giovanni at the Estates Theatre Prague, where the opera had it´s premiere 230 years ago. The production boasts an original classic scene and traditional costumes, designed by Theodor Pištěk, the Oscar winner „Best costume design“ for the Amadeus movie and authentic stage direction matching the performance features from 1787. The cast features extraordinary Operalia competition winners with top Czech singers chosen by Plácido Domingo.

Production: BFMI & Česká televize & ArtMuse, Domingo-MozartPrague Ass. & ZDF in cooperation with Národni divadlo, ARTE

Number: A00050059

Year of Production: 2017 Title: Nono, Prometeo (shot in UHD/ 4k) Orchestra: Conductor: Length: Marco Angius Ensemble Prometeo, Filarmonica approx Arturo Toscanini; Coro del Teatro 02:05:00 Regio di Parma

Soloists: Livia Rado, Alda Caiello, Marco Rencinai, Katarzyna Otczyk

Content:

Punished for stealing the fire from the gods to bring the light of science and art to men, Prometheus has to endure darkness. In Luigi Nono’s “tragedy of listening” Prometeo the hero’s fate and his inner conflicts are transformed into a deeply impressive listening experience with the help of a fascinating spatial sound concept. It comes into its own in a rare staging at the spectacular Baroque cultural monument Teatro Farnese, conducted by Marco Angius. “A fascinating journey through sound!” (Gazzetta di Parma)

Production: Teatro Regio di Parma and UNITEL

Number: A00050046

Director:

Year of Production: 2017 Title: Respighi, La bella addormentata nel bosco (Sleeping Beauty) (shot in UHD/4k) Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Donato Renzetti Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Lirico di 01:38:00 Cagliari

Stage Director: Leo Muscato Soloists: Veta Pilipenko, Angela Nisi, Antonio Gandìa, Claudia Urru

Content:

Charles Perrault's fairy tale of the Sleeping Beauty in an enchanting 3-act opera by Italian composer Ottorino Respighi, better known for his orchestral works. This production of the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari is the first video recording of this opera.

Production: Unitel in cooperation with Teatro Lirico di Cagliari Fondazione

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Opera Number: A01050077

Director:

Title: Rossini, Le Comte Ory Conductor: Louis Langrée

Year of Production: 2017

Orchestra: Orchestre des Champs-Élysées; Choeur Les éléments

Length: approx. 02:30:00

Stage Director: Denis Podalydès Soloists: Philippe Talbot, Julie Fuchs, Gaëlle Arquez, Éve-Maud Hubeaux

Content:

With the Opéra Comique’s staging of Le Comte Ory in Paris, starring stellar soloists Philippe Talbot, Julie Fuchs and Gaëlle Arquez as well as the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, conducted by Louis Langrée, the Rossini anniversary year starts off with “a masterpiece!” (Télérama). It is staged by a first-rate creative team: Stage director Denis Podalydès and costume designer Christian Lacroix provide stunning visuals, whilst conductor Louis Langrée leads the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, the Choeur Les éléments and a stellar cast of soloists in this delightful fool’s game. Gaëlle Arquez shines with her “superlative technique” (Le Monde). “Pure pleasure!” (Les Échos)

Production: CLC, Opéra Comique, Radio France and Mezzo, with the participation of Francetélévisions, in cooperation with UNITEL and with support of CNC

Number: A00050058

Year of Production: 2017 Title: Rossini, Otello (shot in UHD/4k) Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Gabriele Ferro Orchestra of Teatro di San Carlo 03:09:00

Director: Stage Director: Amos Gitai Soloists: John Osborn, Nino Machaidze, Dmitry Korchak, Juan Francisco Gatell

Content:

Gioachino Rossini’s Otello returns to the place of its premiere 200 years ago in the inspired staging of director Amos Gitai at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples. The stellar vocal cast is led by John Osborn, who shines in the highly difficult title role, and Nino Machaidze as outstanding Desdemona. Gabriele Ferro conducts the flawless orchestra and chorus of the Teatro San Carlo. An Otello that “evokes modern dramas” (Formiche) with “standing ovations for Machaidze and Osborn!” (Corriere del mezzogiorno)

Production: Teatro di San Carlo and Metisfilm Classica in cooperation with Unitel

Number: A05050451

Director:

Year of Production: 2017 Title: Tchaikovsky, Pique Dame (shot in UHD/4k) Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Sylvain Cambreling Staatsorchester Stuttgart approx. 02:50:00

Stage Directors: Jossi Wieler, Sergio Morabito Soloists: Erin Caves, Rebecca von Lipinski, Vladislav Sulimsky, Helene Schneiderman

Content:

Stuttgart’s world renowned directing-duo, Jossi Wieler, Intendant of the Oper Stuttgart and the opera’s chief dramaturg Sergio Morabito, stage a new production of Tchaikovsky’s operatic masterwork Pique Dame. The production featuring Erin Caves as Hermann, Vladislav Sulimsky as Tomsky, Helene Schneiderman as the Countess and Rebecca von Lipinski as Lisa is conducted by Stuttgart’s musical director Sylvain Cambreling.

Production: A co-production of ZDF, 3Sat and UNITEL; in cooperation with Oper Stuttgart

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Opera Number: A05005284

Year of Production: 1981 Title: Wagner, Tristan und Isolde Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Leonard Bernstein Symphonieorchester des approx. Bayerischen Rundfunks 04:24:00

Soloists: Peter Hofmann, Hildegard Behrens, Yvonne Minton, Bernd Weikl, Hans Sotin

Content:

Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde is one of Bernstein’s finest opera recordings and still considered exemplary. It presents the top Wagner singers of the time: Peter Hofmann and Hildegard Behrens in the title roles as well as Yvonne Minton (Brangäne), Bernd Weikl (Kurwenal) and Hans Sotin (King Marke). In this semi-staged performance from the Herkulessaal in Munich, Bernstein conducts the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks.

Production: BR

Number: A01050073

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Title: Verdi, Rigoletto Conductor: Mikko Franck

Year of Production: 2017

Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France; Choirs of the Operas of Avignon, Monte-Carlo and Nice

Length: approx. 02:10:00

Stage Director: Charles Roubaud Soloists: Leo Nucci, Nadine Sierra, Celso Albelo, Marie-Ange Todorovitch

Content:

France’s most tradition-steeped theatre festival, the Chorégies d’Orange, presents Verdi’s Rigoletto on the open air stage of the city’s ancient Roman theatre – Europe’s best preserved amphitheatre – in a staging by Charles Roubaud. Sung by Leo Nucci, the title role of the tragic hero Rigoletto, hunchbacked court jester of the Duke of Mantua, appears “more touching than ever”. He and Nadine Sierra as his daughter Gilda form a “perfect symbiosis which inevitably leaves you speechless - an exceptional evening full of adrenaline” (ForumOpéra).

Production: CLC Productions and France Télévisions

Number: A04050066

Year of Production: 2016 Title: Bregenz Festival 2016: Faccio, Amleto (Hamlet) Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Paolo Carignani Wiener Symphoniker 02:32:00

Director: Stage Director: Oliver Tambosi Soloists: Pavel Černoch, Claudio Sgura, Eduard Tsanga, Paul Schweinester, Sébastien Soules

Content:

It's an impetuous, impassioned Hamlet that treads the boards in composer Franco Faccio and librettist Arrigo Boito's opera Hamlet (Amleto), which was first staged in 1865 in Genua. Faccio and Boito skilfully and effectively challenge the conventions of Italian opera, which they wanted to revitalise by infusing it with the spirit of Shakespeare's drama. Amleto was performed again at La Scala in 1871, after that the opera was not staged again - until 2014 when it was revived in the USA. The Bregenz Festival is now bringing Faccio's Hamlet back to Europe. This production “offers all an Italian-opera-lovercould possibly desire” (FAZ); “a triumphal rebirth” (Deutschlandradio Kultur)

Production: ORF III, Unitel and ORF Vorarlberg, in cooperation with Bregenz Festival

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Opera Number: A02050094

Title: ROH: Bellini, Norma Conductor: Antonio Pappano

Year of Production: 2016

Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House

Director:

Length: approx. 02:30:00

Stage Director: Alex Ollé (La Fura dels Baus) Soloists: Sonya Yoncheva, Joseph Calleja, Sonia Ganassi, Brindley Sherratt

Content:

For the first new production of Bellini’s Norma at the Royal Opera House in 30 years, Royal Opera Music Director Antonio Pappano conducts a superlative cast of internationally renowned singers, led by Sonya Yoncheva. The young singer star and acclaimed soprano makes her debut in the title role alongside tenor Joseph Calleja as Norma’s secret lover, Pollione. Àlex Ollé of the innovative Catalan theatre group La Fura dels Baus directs, bringing a modern edge to this timeless tale of love, rivalry and betrayal set against a backdrop of war driven by the extremes of a fanatically religious, fascist society. “Yoncheva, making her role debut as Norma, is hugely impressive" (Evening Standard). “Joseph Callejas timelessly beautiful voice has never sounded better.” (The Independent)

Production: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Number: A02050089

Year of Production: 2016 Title: ROH: Donizetti, Lucia di Lammermoor Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Daniel Oren Orchestra of the Royal Opera House 02:29:00

Director: Stage Director: Katie Mitchell Soloists: Diana Damrau, Charles Castronovo, Ludovic Tézier, Kwangchul Youn

Content:

In this, psychologically compelling, production by Katie Mitchell, Diana Damrau as Lucia “is brilliantly convincing as a woman of modern attitudes in a still feudal man’s world” (The Financial Times) and in the duets with the American tenor Charles Castronovo, in fine and strong voice as Edgardo, “their voices blend perfectly with each other” (The Daily Express). The undeniable emotional impact gets intensified by Mitchell’s split screen approach, whereby the audience sees not only the characters meant to be singing at any given moment, but also what is happening simultaneously offstage, which offers additional insight into the storyline.

Production: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Number: A02050088

Year of Production: 2016 Title: ROH: Mussorgsky, Boris Godunov Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Antonio Pappano Orchestra of the Royal Opera House 02:16:00

Director: Stage Director: Richard Jones Soloists: Bryn Terfel, John Graham-Hall, Vlada Borovko, Sarah Pring

Content:

In the first production of Mussorgsky’s original 1869 version of Boris Godunov at the Royal Opera House, director Richard Jones, conductor Antonio Pappano and bass-baritone Bryn Terfel join forces to deliver “an evening of excellence all round”. (The Guardian) This “masterpiece of Russian art” (The Telegraph), was inspired by the true story of the Tsar Boris Godunov, who rose to power by supposedly murdering the true heir, nine-year-old Tsarevich Dmitry. The work is the Russian composer’s only completed opera and is known as one of the greatest bass-baritone roles in the canon, which Bryn Terfel, in his role debut, fulfills with “a superlative performance – dramatically powerful, vocally refined”. (The Daily Mail)

Production: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

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Opera Number: A02050096

Director:

Year of Production: 2016 Title: ROH: Offenbach, Les Contes d'Hoffmann Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Evelino Pidò Orchestra of the Royal Opera House approx. 02:50:00

Stage Director: John Schlesinger Soloists: Vittorio Grigòlo, Thomas Hampson, Sofia Fomina, Christine Rice, Sonya Yoncheva, Kate Lindsey

Content:

Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann) is one of his most serious operas, in which his witty and highly melodious music finds the perfect vehicle in the romantic, richly imaginative world of the storyteller E.T.A. Hoffmann. Created by Academy Award-winning film director John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy) and conducted by Evelino Pidò, this production of the Royal Opera House showcases a starry cast. The charismatic young tenor Vittorio Grigòlo “acts with terrific fervour as both the drunken wreck of the exordia and the ingenuous patsy of the central episodes” (The Daily Telegraph). He appears in a “most striking pairing” (The Guardian) with Thomas Hampson, who performs all four villains. The women’s vocal virtuosity has been highly praised as well: “Sofia Fomina’s Olympia, with her steely, clockwork coloratura, contrasts nicely with Christine Rice’s truly dangerous Giulietta. Sonya Yoncheva […] makes a heartbreaking Antonia” (The Guardian).

Production: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Number: A04050055

Year of Production: 2016 Title: Salzburg Easter Festival 2016: Verdi, Otello (shot in UHD/4k) Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Christian Thielemann Staatskapelle Dresden 02:27:00

Director: Stage Director: Vincent Boussard Soloists: José Cura, Dorothea Röschmann, Carlos Álvarez, Georg Zeppenfeld

Content:

A superb new Otello from the Salzburg Easter Festival: “Cura is a commanding Otello with his richly coloured tenor and both fragile delicacy and fiery ardour” (Südwestpresse). “Röschmann as Desdemona guarantees effortless perfection” (Neue Musikzeitung). “Álvarez as Iago would be hard to surpass” (Abendzeitung). Thielemann"has discovered an impressively modern sound for Verdi” (Süddeutsche Zeitung), “generating Italian ‘Musikdrama’ with their incandescence and precise nuances” (Abendzeitung). In his fascinating staging, director Vincent Broussard integrates video with set and lighting design to create an idealized visual context for what he calls Otello’s “conflict of ancient and modern, of 2D and 3D”.

Production: Unitel, ORF/3sat and in cooperation with the Salzburg Easter Festival

Number: A04050065

Year of Production: 2016 Title: Salzburg Festival 2016: Gounod, Faust (shot in UHD/4k) Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Alejo Perez Wiener Philharmoniker 03:04:00

Director: Stage Director: Reinhard von der Thannen Soloists: Piotr Beczala, Ildar Abdrazakov, Maria Agresta, Alexey Markov

Content:

Gounod’s Faust was once one of the most famous and most performed of all operas and is still cherished today: surprisingly enough it has never been performed at the Salzburg Festival until 2016! This premiere featured a stunning production by Reinhard von der Thannen, award winning stage director and designer, and a supreme cast, where Ildar Abdrazakov embodies a seductive and demonic Mephistophélès and Italian soprano Maria Agresta stars as Marguerite, who struggles to resist temptation and gain salvatio. But “the crown deserves Piotr Beczala (Faust), a perfect cast” (Abendzeitung). The production was led by young Argentinian conductor Alejo Pérez.

Production: UNITEL in co-production with ORF and 3sat in cooperation with Wiener Philharmoniker, Salzburger Festspiele

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Opera Number: A04050056

Year of Production: 2016 Title: Salzburg Festival 2016: Strauss, Die Liebe der Danae Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Franz Welser-Möst Wiener Philharmoniker 02:39:00

Director: Stage Director: Alvis Hermanis Soloists: Krassimira Stoyanova, Tomasz Konieczny, Norbert Ernst, Wolfgang AblingerSperrhacke, Michaela Selinger

Content:

A work narrowly linked to the Festival’s rich history, Richard Strauss’ Die Liebe der Danae (The Love of Danae) surely ranks among the highlights of this year’s Salzburg Festival. Krassimira Stoyanova, regular fixture at the Salzburg Festival, is heading a truly supreme cast and emerges as the “one in a thousand, the true Strauss lyric-dramatic soprano who can soar and swoop, working miracles on phrases that never stop coming” (The Artsdesk). Bass-Baritone Tomasz Konieczny, “sings this Jupiter almost unsurpassably” (FAZ). Alvis Hermanis’ colourful production brings oriental flair to the Salzach, his “staging was spectacular above all else” (Opera Today). Labelled as “too beautiful to be true”, the score presents a retrospect of Strauss’ lifework.

Production: ORF, NHK and UNITEL in cooperation with Wiener Philharmoniker and Salzburg Festival

Number: A05050392

Title: Donizetti, La Favorite Conductor: Karel Mark Chichon

Year of Production: 2016

Orchestra: Bayerisches Staatsorchester

Length: 02:37:00

Director: Stage director: Amélie Niermeyer Soloists: Elīna Garanča, Matthew Polenzani, Mariusz Kwiecien, Mika Kares, Joshua Owen Mills, Elsa Benoit

Content:

Donizetti’s La Favorite at the Bayerische Staatsoper comes up with a cast of outstanding belcanto singers: star mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča as seducing Léonor de Guzman (her very first stage role!), Matthew Polenzani as her desperate lover Fernand and Mariusz Kwiecień as King Alphonse. Amélie Niermeyer transforms the tragedy of the female role torn between spiritual and secular values into “a concentrated and intense drama […] with high acting quality” (Münchner Merkur). This contrast is highlighted by enormous architectural box structures that continually transport the characters between the convent and the royal palace, emphasizing the influence each party has on the current scene.

Production: UNITEL in co-production with NHK in cooperation with Bayerische Staatsoper

Number: A00050040

Director:

Year of Production: 2016 Title: Mozart, Die Zauberflöte Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Ádám Fischer Orchestra Accademia Teatro alla 02:53:00 Scala

Stage Director: Peter Stein Soloists: Martin Summer, Yasmin Özkan, Martin Piskorski, Fatma Said, Till von Orlowsky

Content:

Accompanied by a luxurious team of professionals,led by renowned stage director Peter Stein and conductor Ádám Fischer, a number of international young singers were given the opportunity to introduce themselves to the public of La Scala in an extremely high level setting. The result was an instant success, not only with the audience of La Scala, which is famous for its more than critical loggionisti, but also with the television audience, where the live broadcast reached record breaking viewing rates. According to Die Presse Fischer “gets the best out of the Accademia Orchestra with delicate execution and humane phrasing” while the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung praises “the high number of promising young voices”, including the “radiantly brilliant Newcomer Fatma Said as Pamina and Yasmin Özkan as a flawlessly great Queen of the Night”.

Production: Arte France, CLC, Shoot Again Productions, Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Unitel and CNC

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Opera Number: A00050041

Director:

Title: Puccini, La Bohème Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda

Year of Production: 2016

Orchestra: Orchestra and Chorus Teatro Regio Torino

Length: 01:52:00

Stage Director: Alex Ollé (La Fura dels Baus) Soloists: Irina Lungu, Giorgio Berrugi, Kelebogile Besong, Massimo Cavalletti, Julian Kim, Aleksandr Vinogradov

Content:

120 years after its very first performance, which took place at Teatro Regio di Torino, La Bohème returns to the tradition-steeped Italian opera house. With director Àlex Ollé from La Fura dels Baus and music director Gianandrea Noseda the Teatro Regio presents a spectacular, up-to-date anniversary production featuring a young, lively and high-quality cast. “A triumphant youthful Bohème”, in which the singers excel due to their naturalness. Giorgio Berrugi sings his Rodolfo “with a luminous timbre, in refined nuances” (La Stampa), perfectly matching “Irina Lungu’s full-bodied Mimì” (The London Times). All in all, “this is theatre, this is life, this is passion” (Corriere della sera).

Production: Teatro Regio Torino in cooperation with UNITEL

Number: A86050015

Director:

Year of Production: 2016 Title: Tchaikovsky, Pique Dame Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Mariss Jansons Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, 03:01:00 Chorus of Dutch National Opera

Stage Director: Stefan Herheim Soloists: Misha Didyk, Svetlana Aksenova, Vladimir Stoyanov, Andrei Popov, Alexey Markov, Larissa Diadkova

Content:

As one of the highlights of the Holland Festival 2016, renowned director Stefan Herheim staged Tchaikovsky’s much-loved opera about a young man who, for the prospect of earthly wealth, gambles away his chance for love and happiness. Herheim gives an exciting visualisation of how Tchaikovsky’s unspeakable homosexuality and passion rises through the music to the surface of the story of gambling and love. The life he has acted and forfeited is played out against the drama. Mariss Jansons returned to Amsterdam to conduct Pique Dame with “his” Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. He encounters a noteworthy cast, including star tenor Misha Didyk, a sought after interpreter of the Russian repertoire, who was making his Amsterdam debut in the role of Herman. The critics agree about the production’s quality: “A Pique Dame of extraordinary musical and scenical power” (Avant-Scène Opéra), which it is “absolutely worth seeing!” (Die Welt).

Production: Dutch National Opera and Royal Opera House

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Opera Number: A00050042

Director:

Year of Production: 2016 Title: Verdi, Giovanna d'Arco (shot in UHD/4k) Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Ramón Tebar Orchestra and Chorus Teatro 02:08:00 Farnese Parma

Stage Director: Peter Greenaway Soloists: Luciano Ganci, Vittorio Vitelli, Vittoria Yeo, Gabriele Mangione, Luciano Leoni

Content:

With more than 50 years of experience as film director, Peter Greenaway (Nightwatching, Eisenstein in Guanajuato) combines the worlds of film and opera with Giovanna d'Arco at the Verdi Festival in Parma. The opera’s libretto is based on Friedrich Schiller’s The Maid of Orleans. It tells the story of the French national hero Jeanne d’Arc. Earthly passion and supernatural purity are rendered vivid in the musical interpretation of the Virtuosi Italiani and the Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, conducted by Ramón Tebar, and by three exceptional singers, Vittoria Yeo, Luciano Ganci and Vittorio Vitelli, “who have the Verdian idiom in their blood, performing veritable miracles of expressive singing and italianità” (Kieler Nachrichten). Turning the auditorium into the scene, Greenaway includes the unique architecture of the Teatro Farnese, one of Italy’s oldest and most exceptional theatre gems, into his staging. By the help of spectacular video and light installations, he creates a completely new opera experience, using a picture language that reaches from depictions of the Madonna to modern manga girls and the real faces of refugee children.

Production: Fondazione Teatro Regio di Parma, Luperpedia Foundation and Unitel

Number: A00050037

Year of Production: 2016 Title: Verdi, I due Foscari (shot in UHD/4k) Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Michele Mariotti Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala 02:02:00

Director: Stage Director: Alvis Hermanis Soloists: Plácido Domingo, Francesco Meli, Anna Pirozzi, Andrea Concetti, Chiara Isotton

Content:

Acclaim for La Scala’s new Foscari: “Plácido Domingo is the definitive Francesco of recent times” (Financial Times)." Here is Plácido Domingo’s latest conquest: the leading baritone role of Francesco Foscari in Verdi’s darkly atmospheric, melodically generous early opera, based on Lord Byron’s play. Set in 15th-century Venice, I due Foscari is the forerunner of Simon Boccanegra, and Domingo’s triumph as the Doge set the seal on this critically lauded new production from Milan’s Teatro alla Scala, the ultimate Verdi shrine. Declaring the legendary singer “the definitive Francesco of recent times”, the Financial Times’s reviewer also had high praise for the rest of La Scala’s superb cast, from “Andrea Concetti’s solid Loredano, to the immaculate Francesco Meli in a perfect match for Jacopo. Anna Pirozzi makes a triumphant house debut as Lucrezia. She wins hearts and minds through fearsome dramatisation and thrilling vocal power. But the revelation of the night is [conductor] Michele Mariotti."

Production: Servus TV, UNITEL CLASSICA

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Opera Number: A01050060

Director:

Title: Verdi, La Traviata Conductor: Daniele Rustioni

Year of Production: 2016

Orchestra: Orchestre National BordeauxAquitaine

Length: 02:18:00

Stage Director: Louis Désiré Soloists: Ermonela Jaho, Placido Domingo, Francesco Meli, Ahlima Mhamdi

Content:

Verdi’s La traviata at the Chorégies d’Orange Festival on the open air stage of the ancient Roman Théâtre has all ingredients for a big success: a popular title, renowned artists with luxury voices, a tasteful staging and a great show in a stunning ambience - and it lived up to the expectations: “We have seen many La traviatas, and heard, but this one will rest in our memories” echoed the press after the first night. Placido Domingo in the role of Giorgio Germont is celebrating a triumphal return to the Festival after nearly four decades of absence. Albanian soprano Ermonela Jaho, immediately elevated to “the queen of the Chorégies”, is a stunning Violetta at eye level with the great interpreters of this role, tenor Francesco Meli as a vibrant Alfredo completes the supreme cast.

Production: Cinétévé with the participation of Les Chorégies d’Orange, medici.tv, France Télévisions, CNC and UNITEL

Number: A05050309

Year of Production: 2016 Title: Verdi, Un ballo in maschera (shot in UHD/4k) Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Zubin Mehta Bayerisches Staatsorchester 02:29:00

Director: Stage Director: Johannes Erath Soloists: Anja Harteros, Piotr Beczala, George Petean, Okka von der Damerau

Content:

To celebrate his 80th birthday, in March 2016, Zubin Mehta returned to Munich conducting Verdi’s masterpiece for the first time in a staged production. His cast features some of today’s finest Verdi singers: soprano Anja Harteros, singing Amelia for the first time and “filling every note with Verdian intensity”, tenor Piotr Beczala as a “visually and vocally dashing Riccardo” and George Petean as an “exemplary” Renato (Neue Musikzeitung). In director Johannes Erath’s musically super-sensitive new production, this historically-based tale of illicit love, conspiracy and betrayal unfolds in a surrealistic, shadowy setting transformed by lighting and projections.

Production: UNITEL in co-production with BR for arte in cooperation with Bayerische Staatsoper

Number: A05050310

Year of Production: 2016 Title: Wagner, Lohengrin (shot in UHD/4k) Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Christian Thielemann Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden 03:35:00

Director: Stage Director: Christine Mielitz Soloists: Anna Netrebko, Piotr Beczala, Georg Zeppenfeld, Tomasz Konieczny, Evelyn Herlitzius, Derek Welton

Content:

Anna Netrebko and Piotr Beczala in their first ever Wagnerian roles as Elsa and Lohengrin under the baton of Christian Thielemann, doubtlessly today’s foremost conductor of this repertoire. Outstanding Wagnerians Evelyn Herlitzius and Tomasz Konieczny are starring as the opponents Ortrud and Friedrich von Telramund and Georg Zeppenfeld is Heinrich der Vogler at the prestigious Semperoper Dresden, with the Staatskapelle Dresden in the pit. The production with its psychologic depth, timeless setting and stunning costumes is staged after the original production by Christine Mielitz: “Netrebko and Beczala are Wagner Stars (New York Times)”; “Pure bliss! (FAZ)”

Production: UNITEL and Semperoper Dresdenin co-production with ZDF/Arte

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Ballet Number: A05050606

Year of Production: 2018 Title: Richard Siegal & Ballet of Difference (shot in UHD/4k)

Length: approx. 00:58:00

Director: Choreography: Richard Siegal Soloists: Ballet of Difference

Content:

Ballet Ensemble: Ballet of Difference

Richard Siegal / Ballet of Difference promotes the furthering of the balletic discourse by providing counterpoint to today's institutional ballet. The company brings together international dance artists of the highest caliber who differ in their genotypes, cultural backgrounds, aesthetic socializations, and sexual orientations. Their diversity reflects the program: Richard Siegal / Ballet of Difference explores the boundaries of what is normative in our society. Fusing with the dance are some of today's most provocative voices in style, fashion, electronic music, light and industrial design. The union of this diverse knowledge under the direction of Richard Siegal forges a unique vision of ballet's present and future.

Production: Unitel Year of Production: 2017 Title: Bach, St. Matthew Passion Orchestra: Conductor: Length: Hans-Christoph Gaechinger Cantorey 02:54:00 Rademann

Number: 9521

Director:

Choreography: Friederike Rademann Soloists: Ensemble VivaTanz!

Content:

In 2017 – the year of Luther – Hans-Christoph Rademann and the Gaechinger Cantorey take on Johann Sebastian Bach’s St. Matthew’s Passion, the key work of the Protestant church. The exceptional concert impressively documented the new sound and superb manner of playing on historical instruments, which Hans-Christoph Rademann was able to hone in masterfully with the Gaechinger Cantorey over the course of just one year. In its choreographed version of the St. Matthew Passion, the programme offers new dimensions to Bach‘s musical drama. And, for the one hundred schoolchildren who delved into Bach‘s monumental work and learned to dance as an artistic form of self-expression, it was an opportunity to experience the power of his music first hand. The interplay of professional musicians and young amateurs turned into a creative bridge for all involved.

Production: Accentus, Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart

Number: A05050527

Year of Production: 2017 Title: John Cranko's Onegin (shot in UHD/4k) Conductor: Orchestra: Length: James Tuggle Staatsorchester Stuttgart 01:36:00

Director: Choreography: John Cranko Soloists: Alicia Amatriain, Friedemann Vogel, Elisa Badenes, David Moore, Marcia Haydée, Stuttgart Ballet

Content:

With his full-length ballet Onegin, John Cranko secured his place in the pantheon of great 20th century choreographers. Based on Alexander Pushkin’s dramatic verse novel „Eugen Onegin“, he tells the story of the arrogant and world weary aristocrat Onegin who rejects the love of the naïve country girl Tatiana only to realize - upon meeting her again years later - that in her he threw away the only woman who ever truly loved him. On the occasion of its 50th anniversary the Stuttgarter Ballett has come up with a special cast featuring Alicia Amatriain as Tatjana, Friedemann Vogel as Onegin, Elisa Badenes as Olga, David Moore as Lenski, Jason Reilly as Prince Gremin, Melinda Witham as Madame Larina and no other than the wonderful Marcia Haydée as nurse.

Production: UNITEL in co-production with NHK and Stuttgart Ballet

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Ballet Number: A05050435

Year of Production: 2017 Title: John Cranko's Romeo and Juliet (shot in UHD/4k) Conductor: Orchestra: Length: James Tuggle Staatsorchester Stuttgart 02:07:00

Director: Choreography: John Cranko Soloists: Elisa Badenes, David Moore, Marcia Haydée, Reid Anderson, Melinda Witham, Robert Robinson, Stuttgart Ballet

Content:

55 years after its premiere, the Stuttgart Ballet revisits John Cranko’s legendary Romeo and Juliet – the very choreography which laid the foundations for the “Stuttgart Ballet Miracle”, the company’s meteoric rise to fame. In this anniversary performance of the stunning, timeless production, experienced Cranko-performers and highly talented young dancers share the stage to tell the most famous love story of all time.John Cranko, who led the Stuttgart Ballet from 1961 until his death in 1973, created the choreography of Romeo and Juliet especially for his ensemble. Set to the superb score by Sergei Prokofiev, William Shakespeare’s story about two star-crossedlovers, caught in their families’ feuds, offers dramatic roles for the top-notch soloists: Elisa Badenes shines as “youthful, fresh, entirely natural and spontaneous Juliet”, while her partner David Moore dances a Romeo who is “expressing his love with the greatest sensitivity” (Der Neue Merker).

Production: UNITEL in co-production with SWR/ARTE, NHK and Stuttgart Ballet

Number: A01060076

Year of Production: 2017 Title: Le Ballet royal de la nuit Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Sébastien Daucé Ensemble Correspondances 03:30:00

Director: Choreography: Francesca Lattuada Soloists: Sean Patrick Mombruno, Lucile Richardot, Violaine Le Chenadec, Caroline Weynants, Ilektra Platiopoulou

Content:

A unique and extravagant spectacle at the crossroads of opera, ballet and artistry, captured on film for the very first time: Conductor Sébastien Daucé recreates the Sun King’s opulent Ballet royal de la nuit and evokes the splendour of the 17th century’s French court at the Théâtre de Caen. To recreate this total work of art, which brings together music and imagery, lavish decorations and opulent costumes, Daucé enlists the help of 20 singers, twelve acrobats and three jugglers as well as dancer Sean Patrick Mombruno and the musicians of Ensemble Correspondance, distinguished specialists in the music of the French Grand Siècle. And when Ballet royal de la nuit culminates in the rise of the radiating Sun, there’s nothing left but “unreserved admiration” (Le Monde) for this “exquisite Gesamtkunstwerk” (Welt.de). “A king-like, no, a veritable Sun-King-like delight!” (br.de)

Production: CLC Productions, Théâtre de Caen, Radio France with the participation of France Télévisions, Mezzo, medici.tv, Unitel

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Ballet Number: 9948

Title: Nijinsky - A ballet by John Neumeier

Year of Production: 2017

Length: 02:12:00 Director: Ballet Ensemble: Choreography: John Stuttgart Ballet Neumeier Soloists: Alexandre Riabko, Carolina Agüero, Carsten Jung, Lloyd Riggins, Anna Laudere, Hamburg Ballett

Content:

„Nijinsky“ is the title of this „choreographic approach“ to a dance phenomenon that has been part of Neumeier‘s life ever since the beginning of his career. During his approximately ten years as a dancer, Vaslav Nijinsky set a new standard both technically and expressively, while in his choreographic work he pointed the way towards modern dance. His personal fate and mental illness that forced him to spend the last 30 years of his life in various asylums and in the keeping of his wife gave his short artistic career an even more aweinspiring All three aspects - the dancer, the choreographer and the person Nijinsky - form the starting point for John Neumeier‘s latest creation. Neumeier, who as early as 1979 presented a short ballet „Vaslav“, is regarded as one of the leading Nijinsky experts worldwide.

Production: C Major Entertainment, NHK, NDR, arte

Number: A00050055

Year of Production: 2017 Title: Pablo Picasso at Pompeii - Parade & Pulcinella (shot in UHD/4k)

Director: Choreography: Léonide and Lorca Massine Soloists: Corps de Ballet of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma

Content:

Length: 01:07:00 01:03:00

Celebrating the centenary of Picasso’s visit to Italy, the Teatro Grande di Pompeii hosts two ballets with sets and costumes designed by this legendary Spanish artist. 100 Years ago, Picasso made a journey to Naples in order to work on Parade, an avant-garde ballet for the famous Ballets Russes with a libretto by Jean Cocteau, music by Erik Satie and a choreography by Léonide Massine. Three years later, Picasso and the Ballets Russes joined forces again for Stravinsky’s “Pulcinella” at the Opéra de Paris.Performance only: Length 63' // Narrated Performance Version: Length 67'

Production: Heliox Films, Opéra Films in association with medici.tv, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma and UNITEL, with support of CNC

Number: A02050106

Year of Production: 2017 Title: ROH: Tchaikovsky, The Sleeping Beauty Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Koen Kessels Orchestra of the Royal Opera House 01:39:00

Director: Ballet Ensemble: Choreography: Marius Royal Ballet Petipa, F. Ashton, A. Dowell, C. Wheeldon Soloists: Marianela Nuñez, Vadim Muntagirov, Royal Ballet

Content:

The Sleeping Beauty holds a special place in The Royal Ballet’srepertory. It was the ballet with which the Company reopened the Royal Opera House in 1946 after World War II, its first production at its new home in Covent Garden. Sixty years later, in 2006, the original 1946 staging was revived, returning Oliver Messel’s wonderful designs and glittering costumes to the stage. The masterful 19th-century choreography of Marius Petipa is combined with sections created for The Royal Ballet by Frederick Ashton, Anthony Dowell and Christopher Wheeldon. Together they create an enchanting sequence of gems in the ballet repertory. Throughout, Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky’s masterful score takes ballet music to a height of passion, sophistication and intensity that arguably has never been surpassed.

Production: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

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Ballet Number: A02050103

Title: ROH: Woolf Works Conductor:

Year of Production: 2017

Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House

Director:

Length: approx. 01:10:00

Ballet Ensemble: Choreography: Wayne Royal Ballet Mc Gregor Soloists: Alessandra Ferri, Natalia Osipova, Federico Bonelli, Sarah Lamb, Steven McRae, Royal Ballet

Content:

Wayne McGregor’s award-winning ballet triptych inspired by the writings of Virginia Woolf, with an original score by Max Richter met with outstanding critical acclaim on its premiere in 2015, and went on to win McGregor the Critics’ Circle Award for Best Classical Choreography and the Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production. The Observer described it as "a compellingly moving experience"; for The Independent it "glows with ambition… a brave, thoughtful work"; The Guardian concluded that "it takes both McGregor – and the concept of the three-act ballet – to a brave and entirely exhilarating new place". Each of the three acts springs from one of Woolf’s landmark novels: Mrs Dalloway, Orlando and The Waves – but these inspirations are also enmeshed with elements from her letters, essays and diaries. Woolf Works was McGregor’s first full-length work for The Royal Ballet, and saw him reunited with regular collaborator Max Richter, who provides a commissioned score incorporating electronic and orchestral music.

Production: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Number: A02050093

Title: ROH: Adam, Giselle Conductor: Barry Wordsworth

Year of Production: 2016

Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House

Length: 01:55:00

Director: Ballet Ensemble: Choreography: Peter Royal Ballet Wright Soloists: Marianela Nuñez, Vadim Muntagirov, Itziar Mendizabal, Royal Ballet

Content:

The quintessential Romantic ballet, Giselle, has remained a cornerstone of the classical repertory, which has captivated audiences all over the world since ist premiere in 1841. Peter Wright’s staging places this Giselle “as one of the jewels in the Royal Ballet’s crown” – an “exquisite choreography” (The Telegraph) in which the principals Vadim Muntagirov and Marianela Nuñez “display absolute mastery” (The Guardian) and in which “the tale of betrayed love, death and forgiveness is lucidly told” (The Independent).

Production: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Number: A02050095

Title: ROH: Anastasia Conductor: Simon Hewett

Year of Production: 2016

Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House

Length: 01:52:00

Director: Ballet Ensemble: Choreography: Kenneth Royal Ballet MacMillan Soloists: Natalia Osipova, Christopher Saunders, Marianela Nuñez, Federico Bonelli, Edward Watson, Thiago Soares, Royal Ballet

Content:

Kenneth MacMillan’s landmark production Anastasia remains one of his most experimental works. The plot is based on the true story of psychiatric patient Anna Anderson, who believed herself to be Anastasia, the only survivor from the assassination of the Russian Imperial family in 1918. MacMillan originally created Anastasia as a one-act ballet with an adventurous staging to Martinů’s Sixth Symphony. It was expanded into a three-act work in 1971, using Tchaikovsky’s First and Third Symphonies. The contrasty way of staging provides an extraordinary psychological challenge for principal ballerina Natalia Osipova, who is “commanding in emotion as in execution”. “Anastasia brings back to the stage an expressionist drama of haunting imagery and resonating force” (The Financial Times).

Production: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

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Ballet Number: A02050090

Year of Production: 2016 Title: ROH: Liebermann, Frankenstein Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Koen Kessels Orchestra of the Royal Opera House 02:11:00

Director: Ballet Ensemble: Choreography: Liam Royal Ballet Scarlett Soloists: Laura Morera, Federico Bonelli, Steven McRae, Bennet Gartside, Royal Ballet

Content:

The Royal Ballet’s Artist in Residence Liam Scarlett has become known for ballets that marry highly expressive movement, sophisticated musical response and dark psychological depth. Now he creates his first full-length work with Frankenstein, a period adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Gothic tale of morality and our craving for love, companionship and understanding. For this new work Scarlett has assembled a number of regular collaborators. American composer Lowell Liebermann, one of America’s most frequently Lanchbery.be human. On its London debut in May 2016, the production was called “lavish” by The New York Times and “emotionally intense” by The Guardian.

Production: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Number: A02050085

Year of Production: 2016 Title: ROH: Rachmaninov, Rhapsody & André Messager, The Two Pigeons Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Barry Wordsworth Orchestra of the Royal Opera House 01:44:00

Director: Ballet Ensemble: Choreography: Royal Ballet Frederick Ashton, Gregory Mislin, Grant Coyle Soloists: Natalia Osipova, Steven McRae, Lauren Cuthbertson, Vadim Muntagirov, Fumi Kaneko

Content:

In this double programme the Royal Ballet celebrates its Founder Choreographer Frederick Ashton and his legacy. Rhapsody, created in 1980, is one of Ashton's final works. Created for Mikhail Baryshnikov, it is a celebration of the male virtuoso but also endowing the Principal female role with choreography of breathtaking clarity and speed. The Two Pigeons is a quintessential Ashton work, which he created for The Royal Ballet in 1961, together with his regular collaborator John Lanchbery (La Fille mal gardée). Ashton turned to La Fontaine’s fable of the same title for inspiration but telling quite a different story of a wayward young man blind to the value of what is right in front of him - the nature of love in one of his most charming, elegant and moving works.

Production: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Number: A02050098

Director:

Year of Production: 2016 Title: ROH: Tchaikovsky, The Nutcracker Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Boris Gruzin Orchestra of the Royal Opera House approx. 01:40:00

Ballet Ensemble: Choreography: Peter Royal Ballet Wright, Lev Ivanov Soloists: Gary Avis, Francesca Hayward, Alexander Campbell, Lauren Cuthbertson, Federico Bonelli, Royal Ballet

Content:

This all-time ballet favourite, in which young girl Clara is taken on a fantasy adventure when one of her Christmas presents comes to life, is gloriously put on stage in Peter Wright’s production, with a choreography by Lev Ivanov. Tchaikovsky’s ravishing score, the period designs including an ingenious christmas tree and outstanding principals of the Royal Ballet make for a captivating performance. Francesca Hayward, who “dances like a dream child as Clara” (The Stage), is superbly partnered by “Nutcracker” Alexander Campbell: “Their duet has a delightful sense of discovery” (The Independent).

Production: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

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Ballet Number: A02050097

Year of Production: 2016

Title: ROH: Yates, Elizabeth Orchestra:

Length: 01:33:00

Director: Stage Director: Will Tuckett Soloists: Carlos Acosta, Zenaida Yanowsky (Dancers), Laura Caldow, Sonya Cullingford, Julia Righton (Actors), Raphael Wallfisch (cello), David Kempster (baritone)

Content:

Opulent and intimate, the enchanting chamber piece Elisabeth, with music by Martin Yates (Don Quixote), combines dance, text and music in a fascinating exploration of the life and loves of Queen Elizabeth I. Choreographer Will Tuckett and playwright and librettist Alasdair Middleton co-direct this special performance, which brings together Royal Ballet Principals Zenaida Yanowsky and Carlos Acosta with actors Laura Caldow, Sonya Cullingford and Julia Righton in an atmospheric and nuanced tribute to the remarkable nature of this extraordinary woman. “Yanowsky is perfectly cast as Elizabeth, her height and innate regality allowing her a natural authority on stage, and her longlimbed technique brings Tuckett’s sensitive choreography to vivid life” (The Stage).

Production: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Number: 9935

Title: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

Year of Production: 2016

Length: 01:34:00 Director: Choreography: Wayne McGregor, Ronald K. Brown, Robert Battle, Alvin Ailey

Content:

Ballet Ensemble: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

You don’t just see an Ailey performance, you feel it. Experience this electrifying modern dance program that includes four audience favorites: Wayne McGregor’s sumptuous "Chroma" with a score by Jack White and Joby Talbot; Ronald K. Brown’s powerful "Grace", with music by Duke Ellington, Roy Davis Jr., and Fela Kuti; Robert Battle’s humorous, high-flying "Takademe"; and Alvin Ailey’s beloved "Revelations" – “one of the great works of the human spirit” (New York Times) – that will rock your soul.

Production: Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.

Number: A01050057

Title: BABEL 7.16 (shot in UHD/4k)

Year of Production: 2016

Length: 01:51:00 Director: Choreography: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Damien Jalet Soloists: Aimilios Arapoglou, Magali Casters, Navala "Niku" Chaudhari, Sandra Delgadillo, Francis Ducharme, Jon Filip Fahlstrom

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Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Damien Jalet’s Babel 7.16 unites 22 dancers from 15 nations in a performance that explores language and its relationship with nationhood, identity and religion. The ballet takes its title and tone from the apocalyptic Bible story in which God punitively divides his people into competing nations and tongues. The imposing three-dimensional structures of Antony Gormley’s stage design suggest a nameless intersection in a city near the borders of a no man’s land. The choreography elaborates the dynamic of connection and withdrawal, sustained by the installation of light-catching steel cubes. By inviting the “astonishingly multitalented cast of dancers” the two Belgian choreographers have put the concept of masses, of history and of territory in the Cour d’Honneur du Palais des Papes in Avignon, and thus created “the most fiercely resonant dance theatre of the decade” (The Guardian).

Production: Heliox Films, Festival d’Avignon, UNITEL

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Ballet Number: 9936

Title: CARMEN.maquia and Club Havana

Year of Production: 2016

Length: 01:36:00 Director: Choreography: Pedro Ruiz, Gustavo Ramírez Sansano

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Ballet Ensemble: Ballet Hispanico

Ballet Hispanico will “whisk us away to contemporary dance’s hottest spot” (Washington Post) in this showcase of Latin-inspired dancing at its best. In Club Havana, the intoxicating rhythms of the conga, rumba, mambo, and cha cha are brought to life by Cuban choreographer Pedro Ruiz. Gustavo Ramírez Sansano’s CARMEN.maquia is a Picasso-inspired, contemporary take on Bizet’s classic opera. Riveting from start to finish, the physically charged and sensual choreography fuses contemporary dance with nods to the Spanish paso doble and flamenco.

Production: Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. Year of Production: 2016 Title: Messa da Requiem - Verdi’s Requiem Choreographed by Christian Spuck Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Fabio Luisi Philharmonia Zürich, Choir and 01:37:00 Extra Choir of the Opera Zürich

Number: 9886

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Ballet Ensemble: Choreography: Zurich Ballet Christian Spuck Soloists: Krassimira Stoyanova, Veronica Simeoni, Francesco Meli, Georg Zeppenfeld

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With the Messa da Requiem, Christian Spuck brought one of Verdi’s key works on performing stage. In a large-scale co-production by the Ballet and Opera Zurich, Spuck portrays a profound interpretation of Verdi’s funeral mass. He focuses on people who, in their vulnerability and helplessness, are in the search for comfort. Spuck is not at all concerned with a purely dance-like illustration of Verdi’s music, but instead in the contentual-scenic link of the dancers with the soloists and choristers. They act on stage together and take part in ritualized movements and sequences. With Fabio Luisi leading the Philharmonia Zurich, the Opera Choir, and the soloists Krassimira Stoyanova, Veronica Simeoni, Francesco Meli and Georg Zeppenfeld, there is a musical interpretation of some of the most acknowledged artists of our times.

Production: Accentus Music, NHK, SRF, SRG, Arte

Number: A04050064

Year of Production: 2016 Title: Minkus, Nureyev’s: Don Quixote Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Kevin Rhodes Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper 02:02:00

Director: Ballet Ensemble: Choreography: Manuel Wiener Staatsballett Legris after Rudolf Nurejew and Marius Petipa Soloists: Maria Yakovleva, Denys Cherevychko, Roman Lazik, Ketevan Papava,

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The centuries-long dialogue between Spanish folk dance and high culture stage dance reached its zenith in the ballet „Don Quixote“, which was premiered in 1869 in Moscow. For his ballet, Frenchman Marius Petipa drew inspiration from episodes in the legendary novel by Cervantes. The music was composed by Austrian Ludwig Minkus. In the East a fixture in the repertoire since its première, in the West „Don Quixote“ became part of the international repertoire only following the adaptation by Rudolf Nureyev for the Vienna State Opera. From Vienna the ballet went around the world and now returned to the opera house on the Ring after an extended absence.“A Don Quixote to love … Legris and company can count the evening a total success” (Die Presse);

Production: ORF and UNITEL in cooperation with Wiener Staatsoper

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Ballet Number: 9930

Year of Production: 2016 Title: Swan Lake Reloaded - Tchaikovsky meets Streetdance

Length: 01:16:00 Director: Idea & Choreography by Fredrik Rydman Soloists: Maria Andersson, Lisa Arnold, Alexandro Duchén, Daniel Koivunen, Robert Malmborg

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There are no sorcery or supernatural events in Fredrik Rydman´s interpretation of this Tchaikovsky classic. It is set in the present and Rothbart uses drugs to gain and keep control over his surroundings. The swans in Rydman’s production are prostitutes in white furs and high-heeled shiny hooker boot´s, all completely dependent on Rothbart’s protection and the heroine he supplies them with. In the struggle between good and evil the desire for drugs and love plays a central role. Can true love break the “spell” just like in the original? How does the story end this time? In this production Rydman not only uses the music of Tchaikovsky but also special composed work of a host of Swedish and international pop and Paris, Geneva, Linz, Milano, Moscow and London.

Production: Paul Möllerstedt and Magnus Ader Berg

Number: 9663

Year of Production: 2015 Title: Bach, Christmas Oratorio - A Ballet by John Neumeier Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Alessandro de Marchi Philharmoniker Hamburg 02:18:00 01:30:00 Ballet Ensemble:

Director: Choreography: John Hamburg Ballet Neumeier Soloists: Julian Prégardien, Melissa Petit, Katja Pieweck, Manuel Günther, Wilhelm Schwinghammer

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“My choreography to Bach’s Christmas Oratorio is not a religious undertaking" Neumeier comments." It is not ‘sacred dance’ and should neither be regarded as an alternative to a church service, nor as the propaganda of a Christian missionary. In the past, I took a similar approach in creating Bach’s St. Matthew Passion – choreographing movements, characters and situations, intended for presentation in a theatre, inspired by music that still touches us today. We perform to Bach’s music, for a few hours unifying individuals of many different cultural and religious backgrounds. For me, the basic human values expressed through the choreography are always the most important thing. Therefore, in my ballet, Mary is known simply as ‘the Mother’ and Joseph as ‘her Husband’."

Production: BFMI co-production with ZDF/Arte in cooperation with Hamburg Ballet

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Concert / Orchestral Music Number: A805500210000

Year of Production: 2018 Title: Eldbjørg Hemsing rediscovers Hjalmar Borgstrøm’s Violin Concerto (shot in UHD/4k) Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Eivind Gullberg Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra approx. Jensen 01:30:00

Soloists: Eldbjørg Hemsing (violin)

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When she was just six years old, Eldbjørg Hemsing made a name for herself by performing for the Norwegian royal family at the National Theatre in Oslo. Since then the soloist has received many awards for her violin playing. Under the Northern Lights, at the Stormen Concert Hall in Bodø, North Norway, she rediscovers Hjalmar Borgstrøm’s Violin Concerto in G major – a forgotten treasure that was premiered more than a century after it was composed. The work has the potential to achieve the same significance among violin concertos as Edvard Grieg’s Piano Concerto has for all piano concertos. In addition to Borgstrøm’s violin concerto, the Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra under conductor Eivind Gullberg Jensen play Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 1 “Winter Dreams”, one of the most beautiful 19th-century symphonies.

Production: Clockwork/Peiling Film & TV and UNITEL

Number: 9525

Year of Production: 2018 Title: Andris Nelsons' Inaugural Concert - Gewandhausorchester Leipzig Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Andris Nelsons Gewandhausorchester Leipzig 01:39:00

Soloists: Baiba Skride (violin)

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A new era in Leipzig has just begun: Andris Nelsons started his tenure as the 21st Gewandhaus conductor. The inaugural concert combined the world premiere of Relief, a new piece by composer Steffen Schleiermacher, with one of the most important premieres in the history of the orchestra. In March 1842, the Gewandhausorchester performed the famous Scottish Symphony by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy under the direction of the composer himself for the first time. In choosing this repertoire, Andris Nelsons pays tribute to the grand history of the city of Leipzig and its Gewandhausorchester. Alban Berg’s violin concerto, performed by Latvian Baiba Skride, works as a link between the decades. After Andris Nelsons’ first concert as the 21st Gewandhaus Kapellmeister, the Financial Times states: “the new partnership brims with artistic promise.” PROGRAM Schleiermacher: Relief for Orchestra; Berg: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra; Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Symphony No.3

Production: Accentus, MDR, ARTE, MEZZO

Number: 9526

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Year of Production: 2018 Title: Nelsons conducts Bruckner and Widman Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Andris Nelsons Gewandhausorchester Leipzig 02:04:00’

The Gewandhaus season 2017/18 celebrates two momentous occasions: the investiture of Andris Nelsons to the position of the 21st Gewandhauskapellmeister and the 275th anniversary of the Gewandhausorchester's founding. This festive concert with Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7 and a World Premiere of Jörg Widmann's Partita promises to become one of the emotional highlights of the festival. PROGRAM Bruckner: Symphony No. 7; Widman: Partita

Production: Accentus, MDR, ARTE

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Concert / Orchestral Music Year of Production: 2018 Title: Nelsons conducts Mozart and Tchaikovsky Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Andris Nelsons Gewandhausorchester Leipzig 01:48:00

Number: 9527

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This concert is devoted to Andris Nelsons' assumption of the position of Gewandhauskapellmeister. It marks the beginning of the highly promising Tchaikovsky cycle by Andris Nelsons and the Gewandhausorchester. Andris Nelsons: “Being appointed as the next Gewandhauskapellmeister of the Gewandhausorchester is a completely overwhelming honour. This extraordinary orchestra and its wonderful musicians are unique in so many respects, and particularly in their creation of an exceptional sound world based on outstanding tradition that is, at its heart, inspirational.” PROGRAM Mozart: Symphony K. 550; Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.6

Production: Accentus, MDR, ARTE

Number: A025503670000

Year of Production: 2017 Title: BBC Proms: First Night of the Proms Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Edward Gardner BBC Symphony Orchestra; BBC 01:31:00 Proms Youth Choir

Soloists: Igor Levit (piano)

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The 2017 BBC Proms opens with a dance and a shout, celebrating John Adams’s 70th birthday with his masterpiece "Harmonium". Award-winning pianist Igor Levit is the soloist in Beethoven’s ground-breaking Third Piano Concerto. John Adams’s Harmonium is an intricate tapestry of sound, with bright vocal threads and driving brass and percussion rhythms. This year’s First Night opens with the world premiere of "St John’s Dance" by rising British composer Tom Coult. PROGRAM Adams: Harmonium; Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.3; Coult: St John’s Dance

Production: BBC, UNITEL

Number: A025503680000

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Year of Production: 2017 Title: BBC Proms: Barenboim conducts Birtwistle and Elgar Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Daniel Barenboim Staatskapelle Berlin 01:31:00

Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin bring the generous scope of their interpretation of Elgar's Second Symphony, celebrating a work whose modernity and astonishing textural effects startle even now. Dedicated to the memory of Peter Maxwell Davies, who died last year, Sir Harrison Birtwistle's "Deep Time" continues his career-long fascination with time and its manipulation in a sweeping new orchestral work that swaps the relentless tick-tock of the everyday for something more powerful and more alien. PROGRAM Elgar Symphony No.2; Birtwistle: Deep Time

Production: BBC, UNITEL

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Concert / Orchestral Music Number: A025503690000

Year of Production: 2017 Title: BBC Proms: Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla conducts Beethoven, Stravinsky, Barry Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla City of Birmingham Symphony 01:28:00 Orchestra

Soloists: Leila Josefowicz (violin), Allan Clayton (tenor)

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After a triumphant Proms debut with the CBSO last year, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla returns with a programme that sets Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony against a world premiere by Gerald Barry. Leila Josefowicz is the soloist in Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto. PROGRAM Beethoven: Overture 'Leonore' No. 3, Symphony No. 5; Stravinsky: Violin Concerto; Barry: Canada

Production: BBC, UNITEL

Number: A055506890000

Year of Production: 2017 Title: BPO: Dudamel conducts Dvorak & Adams Orchestra: Conductor: Length: Gustavo Dudamel Berliner Philharmoniker 01:40:00

Soloists: Timothy McAllister (saxophone)

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Antonín Dvořák’s Ninth Symphony, composed in New York, presents itself as colourful, yearning, with a somewhat exotic touch – an inspired fusion of American impressions and symphonic music. In an exciting juxtaposition, Gustavo Dudamel will also conduct John Adams’s City Noir. Here too there is a fascinating mixture of styles, this time between classical music and jazz of the 1940s and 1950s. PROGRAM Dvorak: Symphony No.9; Adams: City Noir

Production: Berlin Phil Media and UNITEL

Number: A015500530000

Year of Production: 2017 Title: BR: Mariss Jansons conducts Mahler & Rachmaninov Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Mariss Jansons Symphonieorchester des 01:31:00 Bayerischen Rundfunks

Soloists: Gerhild Romberger

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Appearances by Latvian conductor Mariss Jansons are becoming rare. At the head of the BR Orchestra, he guided the audience through a fabulous whirlwind of Rachmaninov's Danses symphoniques, Sommer's orchestral prelude "Antigone" and Mahler’s touching Kindertotenlieder with the magnificent Gerhild Romberger as soloist at the Philharmonie, Paris.

Production: Unitel

Number: 9518

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Year of Production: 2017 Title: Lucerne Festival 2017: Chailly conducts Tchaikovsky and Mendelssohn Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Riccardo Chailly Lucerne Festival Orchestra 01:40:00

“What an evening. What a kickoff. The future of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra – it has now begun.” This is how Peter Hagmann of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung described Riccardo Chailly’s debut as the new artistic director of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra last year. Chailly devoted himself in his second year in Lucerne to the works of composers that strongly influenced him during his conducting career. Among these are Felix Mendelssohn and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The program included Mendelssohn’s enchanting tone poems to Shakespeare’s "A Midsummer Night’s Dream" and Tchaikovsky’s "Manfred Symphony", based on the poem written by Lord Byron.

Production: Accentus, ARTE G.E.I.E., SRF, Arte Concert, Lucerne Festival

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Concert / Orchestral Music Year of Production: 2017 Title: Lucerne Festival 2017: Rattle conducts Haydn’s Schöpfung Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Simon Rattle Berliner Philharmoniker, Berlin 01:45:00 Radio Choir

Number: 9519

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It was a farewell and the end of an era: Sir Simon Rattle was in Lucerne as principal conductor of the Berliner Philharmoniker one final time this summer. Together, they evoked the original state of the world with a performance of Haydn’s Schöpfung. It was a finale that touched upon life through music – thereby proving once again the distinctiveness and the outstanding standard of the artistic cosmos of Rattle and his orchestra. Earlier in the program, they played “ein kleines symphonisches Gedicht” by Georg Friedrich Haas, who was “composer-in-residence” of the Lucerne Festival in 2011. “Rattle highlights the story of the creation with a great sense of detail” NZZ

Production: Accentus, 3Sat, Lucerne Festival Year of Production: 2017 Title: Lucerne Festival 2017: Long Yu conducts Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Long Yu Shanghai Symphony Orchestra approx. 01:30:00

Number: 9523

Soloists: Maxim Vengerov

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For the first time ever, a Chinese symphony orchestra is performing at Lucerne Festival. If yet more evidence that classical music has long since become a global language were needed, it would be this appearance by the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra under music director Long Yu. Their concert is dedicated to Russian composers, among them Tchaikovsky whose immortal Violin Concerto is performed by one of the leading virtuosos of our time: Maxim Vengerov and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5.

Production: Accentus

Number: A045500820000

Year of Production: 2017 Title: Salzburg Festival 2017: Lorenzo Viotti conducts Beethoven and Schumann Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Lorenzo Viotti Camerata Salzburg 01:31:00

Soloists: Sergey Khachatryan

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Lorenzo Viotti, winner of the Young Conductor’s Award of the Salzburg Festival 2015, returns to the venue of his triumphal success. On the rostrum the young shooting star conducts the Camerata Salzburg, with whom he shares a close collaboration since their first encounter at the Conductor’s Competition two years ago. They are joined by Armenian violinist Sergey Khachatryan, youngest ever winner of the International Jean Sibelius Competition in Helsinki and of the prestigious Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels and former scholarship holder of the Anne-Sophie-Mutter Foundation. “The debut of the young and wild” (Bayerischer Rundfunk) PROGRAM Beethoven: Violin Concerto; Schumann: Symphony No. 3

Production: Bayerischer Rundfunk, Arte and Unitel in collaboration with the Salzburg Festival

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Concert / Orchestral Music Number: A865500420000

Year of Production: 2017 Title: RCO: Gatti conducts Haydn & Mahler Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Daniele Gatti Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra approx. 01:45:00

Soloists: Tatjana Vassiljeva (cello), Julia Kleiter (soprano)

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Joseph Haydn’s Cello Concerto in C major was long thought to have been lost, but in 1961 the manuscript was discovered in the archives of the Prague National Museum.Chief conductor Daniele Gatti leads the principal cellist of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Tatjana Vassilijeva, in Haydn’s animated, ingenious work, before performing Gustav Mahler’s Fourth Symphony together with his orchestra.Mahler himself led the RCO in the Dutch premiere of the work in 1904. In the 3rd movement “Ruhevoll”, the orchestra’s sound is “so beautiful it makes you want to cry” (NRC).With her angelic voice, soprano Julia Kleiter sings an ode to Das himmlische Leben in the finale. The soprano solo, originally intended for the song cycle Des Knaben Wunderhorn, alternates with fast orchestral runs. PROGRAM Haydn: Cello Concerto in C major; Mahler: Symphony No. 4

Production: RCO, Unitel

Number: A865500430000

Year of Production: 2017 Title: RCO: Gatti conducts Beethoven & Brahms Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Daniele Gatti Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra approx. 01:50:00

Soloists: Frank Peter Zimmermann

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Outstanding German violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann, who has been performing regularly with the RCO since 1990, collaborates once more with Daniele Gatti to great acclaim. Within the lush, energetic melodies of Beethoven’s immensely popular Violin Concerto the solo violinist showcases his artistry.Under Gatti’s guidance, “the coordination between orchestra and soloist is especially fine” (Bachtrack). It is followed by Brahms’ First Symphony. It took Brahms at least 14 years to complete it, as he battled self-doubt, when comparing it to Beethoven’s symphonies. The audience, however, gave the work the highest praise by dubbing it “Beethoven’s Tenth”. Gatti gives the score a reading of high drama, leading the RCO to a most convincing finale. “In an onslaught of inspiration, all musicians climbed to a level you rarely hear … An unforgettable evening!” (Het Parool). PROGRAM: Beethoven: Violin Concerto; Brahms: Symphony No. 1

Production: RCO, Avrotros and UNITEL

Number: A865500350000

Year of Production: 2017 Title: RCO Opening Night 2017: Hengelbrock conducts Mozart and Dvorak Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Thomas Hengelbrock Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra 01:22:00

Soloists: Diana Damrau

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With its festive RCO Opening Night, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra kicks off the new season with a hall full of loyal listeners and new music lovers. The RCO is joined by celebrated conductor Thomas Hengelbrock and – for the first time ever – by German star soprano Diana Damrau. Together they perform well-loved arias and orchestral works by W.A. Mozart, as well as Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8.

Production: RCO, Unitel

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Concert / Orchestral Music Number: A865500330000

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Year of Production: 2017 Title: RCO: Gatti conducts a French Night Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Daniele Gatti Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra 01:20:00

Daniele Gatti is conducting three works all connected by the theme of nature and embodying the great musical changes taking place around 1900: Claude Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune and La mer and Igor Stravinsky’s Le sacre du printemps. After they were first performed by the Concertgebouw Orchestra, all three immediately struck a chord with audiences and critics alike thanks to their exceptionally beautiful and inventive orchestration, and quickly found their way into the standard repertoire. Four years before his death, in 1914, Debussy himself led the Concertgebouw Orchestra in his Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune and was met at the stage door by an applauding crowd after the performance. Stravinsky made his first guest appearance with the orchestra in 1924, after which he returned regularly. He conducted his Sacre twice in a single day in 1926 to long and loud ovations. Under the baton of Maestro Gatti, the orchestra is performing these three groundbreaking classics on the same programme for the very first time.PROGRAM Debussy: Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, La mer; Stravinsky: Le sacre du printemps

Production: RCO, Unitel Year of Production: 2017 Title: 2Cellos at Sydney Opera House Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Robin A. Smith Sydney Symphony Orchestra 01:37:00 01:00:00

Number: 9942

Soloists: 2Cellos

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2Cellos at a special Sydney show that see them perform in the iconic Sydney Opera House, accompanied by the prestigious Sydney Symphony Orchestra, playing famous film scores. PROGRAM: Film Music - Now We Are Free (The Gladiator); Cinema Paradiso; Malena; Love Story; For the Love of a Princess (Braveheart); Schindler’s List Main Theme; The Godfather Theme; May it Be (Lord of the Rings); Moon River (Breakfast at Tiffany's); Rain Man Theme; Cavatina (Deer Hunter); Game of Thrones Medley; My Heart Will Go On (Titanic); Chariots of Fire; Ryuichi Sakamoto track

Production: Sony Classical

Number: 9502

Year of Production: 2017 Title: 80 Years Israel Philharmonic Orchestra - The Jubilee Concert Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Zubin Mehta Israel Philharmonic Orchestra approx. 01:40:00

Soloists: Pinchas Zukerman, Amanda Forsyth, Yefim Bronfman

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Over the past 47 years, Zubin Metha has given more than 3000 concerts with “his” Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, individually selecting each musician himself. “We are one great family. One can both see and hear that,” explains Metha on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the IPO. Founded in 1936 by Bronislaw Huberman as the Palestine Symphony Orchestra, ist inaugural concert on 26 December was conducted by Arturo Toscanini. 80 years later on the very same day, Zubin Mehta, the orchestra’s musical director for life, conducted the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in a veritable Jubilee Concert with an all-Beethoven program. Mehta was joined by his longtime artistic friends Pinchas Zukerman, Amanda Forsyth, and Yefim Bronfman. PROGRAM Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3; Violin Concerto; Triple Concerto for Violin, Cello and Piano

Production: Accentus Music in co-production with ZDF/3sat

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Concert / Orchestral Music Number: A05050525

Year of Production: 2017 Title: Barenboim condutcs Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Daniel Barenboim Staatskapelle Berlin, 01:40:00 Staatsopernchor Berlin

Soloists: Diana Damrau, Okka von der Damerau, Burkhard Fritz, René Pape

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A veritable “Ode to Joy”: the Staatsoper Unter den Linden celebrates its reopening with a rousing open-air performance of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 by General Musical Director Daniel Barenboim, the Staatskapelle Berlin and the Staatsopernchor, featuring Diana Damrau, Okka von der Damerau, Burkhard Fritz and René Pape as stellar soloists.Set in the heart of the German capital, the Bebelplatz is home to Barenboim’s “Staatsoper für alle”, a yearly open-air tradition that has become a firm favourite with audiences: the maestro “turns cultural performances of the highest level into blockbusters”, “meeting visitors in the streets” and thus making the Staatsoper Unter den Linden the city’s “true Volksbühne” (Berliner Zeitung).

Production: UNITEL and ZDF in cooperation with Arte and Staatsoper Unter den Linden

Number: A015500510001

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Year of Production: 2017 Title: Barenboim conducts Bruckner Symphony No. 1-3 Orchestra: Conductor: Length: Daniel Barenboim Staatskapelle Berlin 03:00:00

Daniel Barenboim – conductor, pianist, all-round musician – has been exploiting the impact of cyclical performances of composers’ works for several years now, with cycles of Beethoven’s symphonies and piano concertos, Wagner’s operas, Schoenberg’s orchestral works and, in conjunction with Pierre Boulez, Mahler’s symphonies.With the performance of Bruckner’s Symphonies No. 1-3 at the Philharmonie de Paris, he completes his Bruckner Cycle with the Staatskapelle Berlin. Bruckner’s symphonies have “rarely been performed so passionately” (Altamusica).Separate programmes in the catalogue: A015500510001 Bruckner 1 // A015500510002 Bruckner 2 // A015500510003 Bruckner 3

Production: CLC Productions, UNITEL in association with medici.tv with the participation of la Cité de la musique – Philharmonie de Paris and with the support of CNC

Number: A835500100000

Year of Production: 2017 Title: Barenboim conducts Strauss & Tchaikovsky Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Daniel Barenboim West-Eastern Divan Orchestra 01:45:00

Soloists: Kian Soltani, Miriam Manasherov

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On the occasion of the Festival de Música y Reflexión at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Daniel Barenboim returns to his native city to perform with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra who regularly “exceed all expectations” (FAZ) with their festival programme. During their Summer Residency at the magnificent theatre, they play Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 and Richard Strauss’s Don Quixote, enlisting the help of Kian Soltani and Miriam Manasherov. The soloists unite effortlessly with Barenboim’s orchestra which famously brings together young Israeli and Arab players from the warring states of the Middle East in a model of peaceful harmony. PROGRAM Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5; Strauss: Don Quixote

Production: arteAR and UNITEL in cooperation with WEDO and Teatro Colón

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Concert / Orchestral Music Number: A055506920000

Year of Production: 2017 Title: Blomstedt conducts Bruckner and Beethoven Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Herbert Blomstedt Staatskapelle Dresden 02:00:00

Soloists: Sir András Schiff

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Only a few days before his ninetieth birthday, Herbert Blomstedt, the principal conductor of many years, returns to the rostrum of the Staatskapelle with a programme of favourite works. Throughout his career the Swedish Maestro has continually explored the symphonic music of Anton Bruckner. Here he combines the »Romantic« symphony No.4, with the First Piano Concerto of Ludwig van Beethoven. In this work Beethoven reveals his debt to W.A. Mozart, a composer also closely associated with tonight’s brilliant soloist Sir András Schiff.

Production: UNITEL Year of Production: 2017 Title: Blomstedt conducts Beethoven Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Herbert Blomstedt Gewandhausorchester Leipzig 01:24:00

Number: 9501

Soloists: Isabelle Faust, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Martin Helmchen

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More than 200 years after its premiere at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, the famous trio Isabelle Faust, Jean-Guihen Queyras and Martin Helmchen have congenially mastered the artistic challenge of Beethoven’s gemstone. Under Herbert Blomstedt’s sensitive direction, the soloists unite chamber music intimacy together with virtuoso sophistication – and prove once again that the Triple Concerto is an unduly underestimated, much too rarely programmed masterpiece. The composer’s fifth symphony – indeed, the hit of classical music – is better known. In Leipzig, however, Blomstedt succeeds in achieving an entirely new perspective of this work. In the culmination of his three-year, intensive reenactment of Beethoven’s cosmos, the impressive sound that characterizes the Swedish grand seigneur’s conducting is heralded by transparency rather than showmanship, relevance instead of pathos, and tenderness in place of sentimentality.PROGRAM Beethoven: Triple Concerto for Violin, Cello and Piano, Symphony No 5

Production: Accentus Music, MDR, ARTE Concert, Mezzo

Number: A055506100000

Year of Production: 2017 Title: Elbphilharmonie Hamburg: The Opening Concert Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Thomas Hengelbrock NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, 01:52:00 NDR Chor, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks

Soloists: Hanna-Elisabeth Müller, Wiebke Lehmkuhl, Pavol Breslik, Bryn Terfel, Philippe Jaroussky, Iveta Apkalna

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HERE TIME BECOMES SPACE : In January 2017 the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg finally opened its doors with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester under the baton of Principal Conductor Thomas Hengelbrock and several top-class soloists. The audience enjoyed an exceptional celebration with numerous guests from the worlds of culture and politics, plus 1,000 people who won tickets in an international raffle. The NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester performed an exciting programme that spans across all musical eras, from the Renaissance to the present. It culminated in a brand-new commissioned work, created especially for this occasion by the most important living German composer Wolfgang Rihm. In varying instrumentation and with outstanding soloists the possibilities of the Grand Hall and its acoustics are explored.

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Concert / Orchestral Music Number: A015500920000

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Year of Production: 2017 Title: Ensemble Intercontemporain (shot in UHD/4k) Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Matthias Pintscher, Ensemble Intercontemporain 07:50:00 Gregor A. Mayrhofer, Duncan Ward

Choreography by Saburo Teshigawara

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In the year of its 40th anniversary, the Ensemble Intercontemporain, famous for its performances of 20th and 21st century music, presented five very special programmes at the Cité de la Musique and the Théâtre de Chaillot in Paris, each one of them dealing with its own particular subject. The single works performed in the 5 concerts are available as 23 individual films. 5 programmes available: Celestial Mechanics; Rothko Chapel; Flexible Silence; Genesis; Grand Soir Stravinsky

Production: Heliox Films in co-production with Ensemble Intercontemporain and Décadrage Productions in association with ClassicAll/M_Media and La Cité de la musique Year of Production: 2017 Title: Gabriela Montero plays her first Piano Concerto Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Carlos Miguel Prieto YOA Orchestra of the Americas 01:32:00

Number: 9517

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Accentus Music recorded Gabriela Montero playing her Piano Concerto No.1, the “Latin Concerto”, as well as Ravel’s Piano Concerto together with the pan-American YOA Orchestra of the Americas under the baton of Carlos Miguel Prieto. The performance took place in one of the most beautiful concert halls in the world: the Teatro del Lago in Frutillar, Chile. With her 1st piano concerto, Gabriela Montero extends an invitation to share in a multi-layered and passionate expression of her beloved, native continent. Additionally, the rehearsals have been filmed as well as impressions of country and people of this region. In an accompanying interview, Montero spoke about composing, improvisation and the interpretation of her own works. She also talked about her home country Venezuela, where she no longer performs for political reasons.

Production: Accentus

Number: A055506620000

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Year of Production: 2017 Title: Gergiev conducts the complete Prokofiev Symphonies Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Valery Gergiev Münchner Philharmoniker, Mariinsky 04:41:00 Orchestra

As the highlight of the MPHIL 360° festival, Valery Gergiev performs all seven symphonies by Sergei Prokofiev with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra and the Mariinsky Orchestra in the Philharmonie Munich. In this “grandiose exhibition of the composer’s oeuvre” (BR Klassik), Gergiev delivers a stunning rendition of Prokofiev’s symphonic cycle 1-7, from the first symphony, which Prokofiev himself named the “Classical”, as ist style is very close to that of Joseph Haydn, to the much-loved Symphony No. 5 and the composer’s beautiful last symphony with its lyrical qualities. The Russian star conductor leads his musicians with minimal movements through Prokofiev’s phantasmagoria of sound. He excels in bringing the little details of the compositions to life – it is nothing short of an “intoxication which Gergiev so irresistibly generates!” (Süddeutsche Zeitung)

Production: Münchner Philharmoniker and Telmondis in association with medici.tv andUNITEL and with the support of CNC

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Concert / Orchestral Music Number: A045500830000

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Year of Production: 2017 Title: Hollywood in Vienna 2017: A Tribute top Danny Elfman Conductor: Orchestra: Length: John Mauceri, James ORF RSO Wien 01:31:00 Shearman

»Hollywood in Vienna« is a symphonic gala concert celebrating classic and current masterpieces of film music in the prestigious Wiener Konzerthaus (Vienna Concert Hall) in Vienna, capital of Austria. As a congenial partner of the director Tim Burton, Danny Elfman added his unmistakably powerful sound fantasies to the morbid and playful worlds of Edward Scissorhands , Nightmare Before Christmas, and Corpse Bride. In Batman and Batman Returns, as well as in the movie celebrating America’s yellow cult family The Simpsons.

Production: ORF III, Interspot and Unitel Year of Production: 2017 Title: Jordi Savall - Jerusalem Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Jordi Savall Hespèrion XXI; La Capella Reial de 01:54:00 Catalunya

Number: 9524

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It is one of the oldest existing cities in the world and at the same time one of the most contested: Jerusalem. All three major monotheistic religions refer to it as the “Holy City”. Jerusalem has been and still is the center of fierce conflicts for centuries. With his ensembles Hespèrion XXI and La Capella Reial de Catalunya, however, Jordi Savall is already making this wish come true in a musical way. Together with guest musicians from Israel, Palestine, Syria, Armenia, Greece, and Turkey, they trace the history of Jerusalem authentically and in a touching manner. Jordi Savall places Islam, Judaism, and Christianity on equal footing, allowing the musicians to sow a seed of hope for peace.

Production: Accentus, ZDF/arte

Number: A055507320000

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Year of Production: 2017 Title: Mariss Jansons and Daniel Barenboim perform Beethoven & Prokofiev Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Mariss Jansons Symphonieorchester des 01:30:00 Bayerischen Rundfunks

Daniel Barenboim returns to Mariss Jansons and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (BRSO) for a very special collaboration - ten years after his first performance as piano soloist with them. Together they present a stunning rendition of Ludwig van Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto. Hardly any other musician has studied the works of Beethoven as thoroughly as Barenboim and he turns the second movement into something special indeed: the calmness and intimacy of the Adagio is second to none. “No other piano player creates such a magical atmosphere in the quiet passages; no other is capable of stopping time hypnotically like this.” (Abendzeitung) The second part of the night is devoted to Sergei Prokofiev's Fifth Symphony. Here, the BRSO soars to great achievements in sound, creating a finale “with vertiginous vehemence and power of sound” (Bachtrack). PROGRAM: Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5; Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5

Production: BR, in co-production with Unitel, in association with Mezzo

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Concert / Orchestral Music Number: A985500420000

Year of Production: 2017 Title: Martinů Symphony Cycle: Martinů 4, Strauss Horn Concerto No 2 Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Jiří Bělohlávek Czech Philharmonic Orchestra 01:26:00

Soloists: Radek Baborák, French horn; Prague Castle Guard and Czech Police Band

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From the time-honoured and acoustically superb Prague Rudolfinum, this concert of the Czech Philharmonic under its music director Jiří Bělohlávek is part of the first-ever filmed, complete cycle of all six symphonies by Bohuslav Martinů. Bělohlávek and the Czech Philharmonic have a reputation to interpret his works like no other. ClassicsToday declared their Martinů cycle to “live up to the highest expectations [...] With an orchestra that knows the music this well, Bělohlávek can focus on details of rhythm and texture that create a powerful feeling of symphonic continuity without stinting on the work’s evocative colors.” This program features Martinů's Symphony No. 4, together with Janáček's Sinfonietta and Richard Strauss' Horn Concerto No. 2, performed by Radek Baborák.

Production: Czech Television and UNITEL CLASSICA in cooperation with Czech Philharmonic Year of Production: 2017 Title: Nelsons conducts Gewandhausorchester: Dvorak Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Andris Nelsons Gewandhausorchester Leipzig 01:45:00

Number: 9514

Soloists: Kristine Opolais

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When Nelsons steps up to the podium of the Gewandhausorchester in March 2018 as its new musical director, Leipzig will indeed undergo a makeover. Apart from Felix Mendelssohn, his famous predecessor, he is the youngest conductor in the history of the orchestra beingthen only 37 years old. In this program Nelsons focuses on Dvořák – the “Otello” overture is followed by extracts from his opera Rusalka. Nelsons’ spouse, Kristine Opolais, takes over the arias of the title role, which she has already performed at the New York Met and the Bavarian State Opera. The fact that Nelsons also selected Dvořák’s 9th “From The New World” can be seen as a programmatic omen: Nelsons and the Gewandhausorchester now enter new territory, so to speak, on a joint musical journey.

Production: Accentus, MDR/Arte

Number: A055506980000

Year of Production: 2017 Title: Odeonsplatz Concert 2017: Gergiev & Wang Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Valery Gergiev Münchner Philharmoniker approx. 01:10:00

Soloists: Yuja Wang

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Munich’s Odeonsplatz Concert is one of the open-air highlights of the year. The magnificent Residenz Palace on one side and the serene, towering Theatinerkirche on the other provide the ideal backdrop for exceptional performances of classical music. In this setting, Chinese star pianist Yuja Wang, Valery Gergiev and the Münchner Philharmoniker present an atmospheric concert programme consisting of two works which are at the same time popular and demanding. PROGRAM Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1; Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition

Production: BR in co-production with UNITEL and medici.tv

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Concert / Orchestral Music Number: A055506970000

Year of Production: 2017 Title: Odeonsplatz Concert 2017: Honeck & Grubinger Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Manfred Honeck Symphonieorchester des 01:41:00 Bayerischen Rundfunks

Soloists: Martin Grubinger

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Nestled in the historic city centre, between the magnificent Residenz Palace, the towering Theatinerkirche and the spectacular Feldherrnhalle, the Odeonsplatz provides the appropriate setting for an exceptional performer such as Martin Grubinger. Grubinger demonstrates his versatility with works by Antonín Dvořák, Dmitri Shostakovich, Bruno Hartl and Tan Dun, who wrote The Tears of Nature specifically for him. Performing ata breakneck pace, Grubinger shows once more that he is “a virtuoso beyond believe” (Süddeutsche Zeitung).

Production: BR in co-production with UNITEL

Number: A055506120000

Year of Production: 2017 Title: Opening Concert of the Pierre Boulez Concert Hall (shot in UHD/4k)

Length: 02:35:00

Soloists: Daniel Barenboim, Anna Prohaska, Jörg Widmann, Michael Barenboim et al.

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The inaugural concert of the Pierre Boulez Saal celebrated the idea of what this venue stands for: to create a space where beloved classics, modern masterworks of the early 20th century, and music of our time can be heard side by side and inspire audiences and performers alike. Program included Schubert’s lyrical scene “Der Hirt auf dem Felsen” with Anna Prohaska, Jörg Widmann and Daniel Barenboim; Mozart’s Piano Quartet with Barenboim and the Boulez Ensemble’s strings; Berg’s Chamber Concerto with Karim Said and Michael Barenboim, and Widmann performing his Fantasy for Solo Clarinet. In tribute to Pierre Boulez, the program was bookended by his fanfare-like Initiale and sur Incises, for three pianos, three harps, and three percussionists. The Pierre Boulez Saal is an exquisite and architecturally distinct international concert hall and the public face of the Barenboim-Said Akademie, designed by star architect Frank Gehry and acclaimed acoustician Yasuhisa Toyota.

Production: rbb/Arte, Unitel

Number: 9511

Year of Production: 2017 Title: Rattle conduct Haydn and Bartok Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Simon Rattle London Symphony Orchestra 01:30:00 01:00:00

Soloists: Denis Kozhukhin (piano)

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Music Director Designate Sir Simon Rattle conducts the work of a composer who has always been close to his heart: Haydn. To begin, the "Prelude and Liebestod" from Wagner’s ground-breaking opera, Tristan and Isolde, leads to Bartók’s notorious technicallydemanding Piano Concerto No. 2, all racing scales, fistfuls of notes and frantically quick tempos. Rattle himself calls the final part of the programme 'an eccentric journey through Haydn'. 'I thought how wonderful it would be if all the most outlandish and particularly the most forward-looking pieces of his were all put together like a kind of 'greatest hits',' he says. 'The idea is to make a musical journey through all that is quirky and extraordinary, humorous and profound in Haydn. Hopefully this pasticcio will give a picture of the composer who most summed up all the ideals of the Enlightenment, of intelligence, respect, humour, wit and profound thought.' Program WAGNER: "Prelude and Liebestod" from Tristan und Isolde; BARTÓK Piano Concerto No 2; HAYDN An imaginary orchestral journey - featuring excerpts from Symphonies Nos 6, 45, 46, 60, 64, 90 and 101; 'The Creation', 'The Seasons', 'The Desert Island' and 'The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross'

Production: London Symphony Orchestra

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Concert / Orchestral Music Number: A055134370025

Year of Production: 2017 Title: Stars of Tomorrow presented by Rolando Villazón - Episodes 25-28 Orchestra: Length: Junge Sinfonie Berlin approx. 4 x 40'

Soloists: Rolando Villazón, Fatma Said, Kian Soltani, Dmitri Masleev, Gaëlle Arquez, Asya Fateyeva

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With unparalleled charm and whirlwind exuberance, world-renowned tenor Rolando Villazón hosts a unique television special in which young musical “stars of tomorrow” are introduced to millions of music lovers as soloists in performances with the Junge Sinfonie Berlin under the baton of Giedre Slekyte und Elias Grandy – a highly successful, casual, briskly paced concert series that appeals to young audiences!

Production: SalveTV for ZDF in cooperation with Arte and UNITEL

Title: Trifonov plays Chopin Conductor: Mikhail Pletnev

Number: 9949

Year of Production: 2017

Orchestra: Mahler Chamber Orchestra

Length: 01:32:00

Soloists: Daniil Trifonov

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Daniil Trifonov, the current Gramophone Artist of the Year and today’s top young classical pianist, offers Chopin’s two piano concertos in collaboration with his fellow pianist-composer Mikhail Pletnev, who conducts the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in his freshly re-orchestrated editions of Chopin’s piano concertos.

Production: BFMI in co-production with, ZDF, arte, Deutsche Grammophon

Number: A025501570000

Year of Production: 2016 Title: BBC Proms: Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla conducts Mozart & Tchaikovsky Orchestra: Conductor: Length: Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla City of Birmingham Symphony 01:38:00 Orchestra

Soloists: Barbara Hannigan

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The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra has a reputation as “the best catalyst of success for young conductors” (Die Zeit) having discovered great conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle and latest Andris Nelsons. Therefore the inaugural concert of Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla as the new CBSO Music Director was eagerly awaited, so much, that next to the first night in Birmingham, the concert was repeated on the following day at the prestigious BBC Proms. In this position Gražinytė-Tyla is also the first woman conductor taking over one of the world’s leading orchestras. Combining the dynamism of youth and a profundity beyond her years, she is a creative and technical force presenting “the most newsworthy of all the 2016 Proms” (The Telegraph). PROGRAM: Mozart: Overture Die Zauberflöte; Abrahamsen: Let me tell you; Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4; Tchaikovsky: Final Variation and Coda from The Sleeping Beauty

Production: BBC, UNITEL

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Concert / Orchestral Music Number: A025501580000

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Year of Production: 2016 Title: BBC Proms: Rattle conducts Mahler 7 Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Simon Rattle Berliner Philharmoniker approx. 01:30:00

For the opening of his last season as chief conductor of the Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle chose Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 7. Following the performance at the Philharmonie in Berlin, Rattle took his orchestra to London, to present Mahler’s mighty work to his new concert audience from next year on. Indeed it was Mahler’s music that initially led Rattle to the idea of pursuing a career on the podium. And it was an interpretation of Mahler’s 7th that made a significant contribution to the Berliner Philharmoniker selecting the maestro as their chief conductor. “The Berliner Philharmoniker led off in ravishing brass colours that punched the air with exalted penetration before softening to an equally glorious restraint. Thereafter, with dynamics that turned on a sixpence the symphony held together as persuasively as I’ve heard it” (Bachtrack). PROGRAM: Boulez: Éclat, Mahler: Symphony No 7 in E minor

Production: BBC, UNITEL

Number: A025501560000

Year of Production: 2016 Title: BBC Proms: WEDO and Barenboim perform Widmann, Liszt, Wagner Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Daniel Barenboim West Eastern Divan Orchestra 01:55:00

Soloists: Martha Argerich (piano)

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Proms don’t come more stellar than this!”, raved The Independent about the WEDO’s performance at the BBC Proms. The concert opens with a rendition of Jörg Widmann’s overture Con brio. Martha Argerich continues with an “unforgettable performance” of Franz Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1, dazzling with her “frighteningly precise” playing (The Guardian). As encore the two childhood friends join forces at the piano for a four handed rendition of Schubert’s Rondo in A “that for 12 minutes provides a glimpse of paradise” (The Standart) holding “6000 people spellbound” (The Times). Further repertoire includes Wagner's Overtures to Tannhäuser and Meistersinger; Dawn, Siegfried's Rhine Journey and Funeral March from Götterdämmerung et al.

Production: BBC, UNITEL

Number: A025501550000

Year of Production: 2016 Title: BBC Proms: John Wilson - George & Ira Gershwin Rediscovered Conductor: Orchestra: Length: John Wilson John Wilson Orchestra 01:54:00

Soloists: Louise Dearman, Matthew Ford, Julian Ovenden & the Maida Vale Singers

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Once again John Wilson and his orchestra, “combining swing authenticity with the poise of a deluxe concert Orchestra” (The Times), return to the Royal Albert Hall with a performance counted among “the star attractions” (Financial Times) of this year’s Proms. Their concert, accompanied by three of the “greatest West-End musical theatre stars” Louise Dearman, Matthew Ford and Julian Ovenden (also known from Downtown Abbey), pays tribute to George and Ira Gershwin, one of America’s most celebrated song-writing duos. Divided between film score theme tunes, dance numbers, and songs from musicals such as the favourites “Embraceable You”, “Love Walked In”, “Fascinatin’ Rhythm” and the ballet music from the 1951 film An American in Paris, “this glorious concert” (The Times) just “dazzled on every level.”

Production: BBC, UNITEL

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Concert / Orchestral Music Number: A055506030000

Year of Production: 2016 Title: BPO: Rattle Conducts The Beethoven Symphonies Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Simon Rattle Berliner Philharmoniker 05:54:00

Soloists: Annette Dasch, Eva Vogel, Christian Elsner, Dimitry Ivashchenko

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“A Beethoven symphony cycle is a kind of Mount Everest for all of us to climb” Sir Simon Rattle said about his first cycle of all nine symphonies with his Berliner Philharmoniker. The expectations were incredibly high, not only due to the work itself, which is known to be extremely demanding, but also due to the existing legendary recordings of the Beethoven symphonies with Rattle’s predecessors like Herbert von Karajan and latest Claudio Abbado. The concerts in which the Berliner Philharmoniker and their maestro present the symphonies at the Philharmonie are overwhelming indeed. “This is the greatest performance of the Beethoven symphonies as a cycle that I have ever seen and heard” (BBC Music Magazine). “Impressive“ (The New York Times).

Production: Berlin Phil Media and UNITEL

Number: 9445

Year of Production: 2016 Title: Lucerne Festival 2016: Inaugural Concert of Riccardo Chailly - Mahler 8 Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Riccardo Chailly Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Chor approx. des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Latvian 01:30:00 Radio Choir, Orfeón Donostiarra, Tölzer Knabenchor

Soloists: Ricarda Merbeth, Juliane Banse, Anna Lucia Richter, Sara Mingardo, Mihoko Fujimura, Andreas Schager, Peter Mattei, Samuel Youn

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“To be responsible for this outstanding artistic project that Claudio Abbado has initiated is not only a privilege but it has touched me deeply.” These are the very words Riccardo Chailly uses to describe his new job in Lucerne. The conductor, who left his post as music director of the Gewandhaus Leipzig and became principal conductor at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan last year, follows in this new position Arturo Toscanini and Claudio Abbado, thus becoming the third chief conductor of this unique orchestra. On August 12, 2016, Riccardo Chailly premiered as conductor of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra with an opening concert: The orchestra and its principal conductor paid their respects to the late Abbado with Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 8. An inaugural concert that with its superb cast of musicians became a memorable event!

Production: ACCENTUS Music in co-production with SRF, SRG, Arte G.E.I.E. and NCPA Beijing

Number: 9884

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Year of Production: 2016 Title: Lucerne Festival 2016: Rattle conducts Berliner Philharmoniker Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Simon Rattle Berliner Philharmoniker approx. 01:30:00

Even if the music world is often dominated by rivalry, examples of genuine friendships can certainly be found. Take Johannes Brahms and Antonín Dvořák: a pair whose friendship was free of selfinterest. And sure enough, his first publication, the spirited Slavonic Dances, enjoyed a sensational success. The Berlin Philharmonic paid homage to this musical friendship by pairing Dvořák’s bravura Slavonic Dances with the Second Symphony of Brahms, also composed in 1877. And as an “appetizer” Sir Simon Rattle has commissioned a new work from his compatriot Julian Anderson. PROGRAM: Julian Anderson: Incantesimi for Orchestra; Dvorák: Slavonic Dances, Op. 46; Brahms: Symphony No. 2

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Concert / Orchestral Music Number: A015500470000

Title: Paris: Harding conducts Berg and Mahler Conductor: Orchestra: Daniel Harding Orchestre de Paris

Year of Production: 2016

Length: 01:37:00

Soloists: Isabelle Faust (violin), Christina Landshamer (soprano)

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It was the death of 18-year-old Manon Gropius, the daughter of Alma Mahler and Walter Gropius, which spurred Alban Berg to compose his violin concerto Dem Andenken eines Engels (To the Memory of an Angel). This concerto is played by multiple awarded German violinist Isabell Faust, who has been praised by New York Times: “Her sound has passion, grit and electricity but also a disarming warmth and sweetness that can unveil the music’s hidden strains of lyricism.” The violin concerto is followed by György Kurtág’s Doloroso. As third part of the programme, the Orchestre de Paris performs Mahler’s 4th Symphony, built around the song "Das himmlische Leben" (The Heavenly Life) from Des Knaben Wunderhorn, presenting a child's vision of Heaven. The soprano solo is sung by Christina Landshamer.

Production: CLC, UNITEL

Number: A865500310000

Year of Production: 2016 Title: RCO Opening Night 2016 - Daniele Gatti’s Inaugural Concert Orchestra: Conductor: Length: Daniele Gatti Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra 01:22:00

Soloists: Christian Gerhaher, baritone

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This season, it’s a night for the history books, marking the official beginning of Daniele Gatti’s tenure as the orchestra’s sevenths chief conductor in history. Such an event wouldn’t be complete without Mahler. The world-renowned baritone Christian Gerhaher appeares as soloist in the Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen. Besides works by Schubert, Respighi and Verdi, the orchestra also happens to have a couple of musical surprises up its sleeve…

Production: RCO, UNITEL

Number: A86050014

Year of Production: 2016 Title: RCO: Gatti conducts Mahler Symphony No. 2 Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Daniele Gatti Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, 01:34:00 Netherlands Radio Choir

Soloists: Annette Dasch, Karen Cargill

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For his first series of concerts as Chief Conductor of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Italian maestro Daniele Gatti conducts the iconic Symphony No. 2, "Resurrection", by Gustav Mahler. He performs together with German soprano Annette Dasch and Scottish mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill. “Gatti’s magic” (Trouw) makes clear that “a new era has definitely begun by now” (NRC).

Production: RCO, Unitel

Number: A865500270000

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Year of Production: 2016 Title: RCO: Gatti conducts Wagner, Liszt and Berlioz Orchestra: Conductor: Length: Daniele Gatti Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra 01:36:00

Daniele Gatti conducts the RCO in a special concert celebrating three Romantic heroes of the nineteenth-century: All works of the programme are related to dramatic choices and life determining decisions. All three depict the intensity of feelings of their romantic heroes, of their joy and grief about unfulfilled longing. “Daniele Gatti’s unconventionality is exiting” (NRC). “He took nothing for granted” (Trouw). “Triumphal!” (De Volkskrant) PROGRAM: Wagner, Overture to Tannhäuser; Liszt, Orpheus, Symphonic Poem No. 4; Berlioz, Symphonie fantastique

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Concert / Orchestral Music Number: A045500650000

Year of Production: 2016 Title: Salzburg Festival 2016: Yuja Wang and the Camerata Salzburg Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Lionel Bringuier Camerata Salzburg 01:23:00

Soloists: Yuja Wang (piano)

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The Camerata Salzburg, a musical mainstay in the city of Mozart’s birth, joins forces with French conductor Lionel Bringuier, one of the most promising young conductors of his generation, and Yuja Wang, who has established herself as an international sensation and a fixture among the world’s leading orchestras since her debut in 2007, for a concert featuring music of the early 20th century at Salzburg’s Haus für Mozart. At the centre of the program is Maurice Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G major, a sparkling work composed, as Ravel put it himself, “in the spirit of Mozart and Saint-Saens”. With its echoes of jazz and folklore, it recalls Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue”, also on the program and written as “a sort of musical kaleidoscope of America”, that has remained a hit ever since its triumphal premiere in February 1924. Folk music of Galánta is the source of which Zoltan Kodaly created his “Dances of Galanta”, which – together with Ravel’s orchestra suite “Ma Mere l’oye” – complete the evening.

Production: ZDF/3sat and Unitel Year of Production: 2016 Title: Blomstedt conducts Reger and Beethoven Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Herbert Blomstedt Gewandhausorchester Leipzig approx. 01:30:00

Number: 9892

Soloists: Peter Serkin

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Max Reger’s Piano Concerto was created in the summer of 1910 in Leipzig and was there brought into the world by pianist Frieda Kwast‐Hodapp and the Gewandhausorchester under Arthur Nikisch. To date, few other artists have dared to undertake this pianistic challenge: The American Peter Serkin, however, is one of those few whose repertoire includes this rare piece. In the second part of the concert, Herbert Blomstedt approached Beethoven’s evocative impressions of nature in the Symphony No 6, the “Pastoral”. PROGRAM: Reger: Piano Concerto in F minor; Beethoven: Symphony No. 6

Production: MDR/arte, Accentus Music

Number: A045500670000

Year of Production: 2016 Title: Hollywood in Vienna - A Tribute to Alexandre Desplat Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Keith Lockhart ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester 01:34:00 Wien, Neue Wiener Stimmen

Soloists: Kristin Lewis, Martin Haselböck, Katherina Ellis, František Janoska

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In 2016, Hollywood in Vienna invited to an unforgettable musical journey through space and time and honoured the Hollywood composer, Oscar-, Golden Globe and Grammy Award winner Alexandre Desplat. First, A Space Odyssey leads us to outer space. We enter the infamous, global Star Wars and are rescued by Star Trek's spaceship “Enterprise” before Gravity pulls us back to earth and, finally, we fulfill E.T.'s wish, to phone home. In the second part, Desplat’s atmospheric melodies for Harry Potter, Twilight, The King’s Speech and The Grand Budapest Hotel let us virtually float through the universe. Featuring star singers from various musical genres - Verdi soprano Kristin Lewis, singersongwriter Katerine Ellis and pop star Grace Capristo – “standing ovations were preprogrammed” (Kronenzeitung).

Production: Interspot, Tomek Productions, ORF III, UNITEL

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Concert / Orchestral Music Number: A055506040000

Year of Production: 2016 Title: In dulci jubilo - Alison Balsom & The Balsom Ensemble Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Alison Balsom The Balsom Ensemble 01:00:00

Soloists: Alison Balsom

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The trumpets’ carolling sound and the festive baroque repertoire associated with it are the key ingredients for this most atmospheric of Christmas concerts. Award-winning British musician Alison Balsom explores dazzling original compositions by Bach, Bendinelli, Biber, Zamboni, and Handel. The trumpet’s lyrical voice is also present in her transcriptions and arrangements of songs by Dowland and Arcangelo Corelli’s Concerto grosso in G minor, known commonly as the “Christmas Concerto”. The Balsom Ensemble, accompanying the “Queen of trumpet” (Hamburger Abendblatt), consists of “splendid musicians of historical performance practice” (Die Welt), all hand-picked by Balsom.

Production: A production of SalveTV for ZDF in co-production with UNITEL

Title: Lang Lang - New York Rhapsody

Number: 9932

Year of Production: 2016

Length: 01:21:00 01:00:00 Soloists: Lang Lang, Rufus Wainwright, Suzanne Vega, Kurt Elling, Lisa Fischer, Andra Day, Lindsey Stirling, Sean Jones, Regina Spector

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Lang Lang‘s „New York Rhapsody“ is a love letter to the city he considers his adoptive home, set to the music that helped make this city so famous and performed at one of New York‘s most iconic venues, Lincoln Center. The one-night-only show embraces a wide range of musical styles and voices capturing New York‘s magic, from Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, and Danny Elfman to Lou Reed, Alicia Keys, and Don Henley, including a rare performance of the original 1924 jazz band arrangement of George Gershwin‘s "Rhapsody in Blue". Joining Lang Lang are celebrated artists such as Rufus Wainwright, Suzanne Vega, and Jerry Douglas, and rising stars including Grammynominated singer Andra Day, genre-bending violinist Lindsey Stirling, and Grammy-winning trumpeter Sean Jones, in addition to a 30-piece orchestra with musical direction by David Lai.

Production: Sony Music, PBS Year of Production: 2016 Title: Tango under the Stars at the Hollywood Bowl Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Gustavo Dudamel Los Angeles Philharmonic 81'

Number: 9925

Soloists: Ángel Romero

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Gustavo Dudamel accents the colors, rhythms, and passion of music by leading composers from Argentina in this invigorating evening under the stars. Featuring music by Astor Piazolla, Alberto Ginastera and the world premiere of Lalo Schifrins "Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra", played by Ángel Romero. PROGRAM: PIAZZOLLA: A selection of Tangos; SCHIFRIN: Concierto de la Amistad (world premiere); VILLA-LOBOS: „The Little Train of Caipria” from Bachianas Brasileiras No. 2.

Production: BFMI in co-production with ZDF/Arte and PBS/WNET

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Concert / Orchestral Music Number: A055506060000

Year of Production: 2016 Title: The Complete Mozart Violin Concertos Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Valery Gergiev, Münchner Philharmoniker, Mariinsky approx. Lorenz NasturicaOrchestra 02:30:00 Herschcowici

Soloists: Vilde Frang, Sergej Dogadin, Alexandra Conunova, Yu-Chien Tseng, Daniel Lozakovich

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On the occasion of the MPHIL 360° festival, Valery Gergiev brings together at the Philharmonie im Gasteig the Münchner Philharmoniker, the Mariinski Orchestra and five highly promising young violin talents: Vilde Frang, Sergej Dogadin, Alexander Conunova, Yu-Chien Tseng and Daniel Lozakovich. Together they perform all five of Mozart’s violin concertos. An impressive encounter of excellent musicians, who “show off in questions of virtuosity” (Süddeutsche Zeitung). Once again, “Musicmaniac” Gergiev’s motto is “‘Think Big!’ Success proves him right” (Münchner Merkur).

Production: Telmondis and Medici.tv in cooperation with UNITEL

Number: A835500080000

Year of Production: 2016 Title: West-Eastern Divan Orchestra at Teatro Colón - A Tango Evening Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Daniel Barenboim West-Eastern Divan Orchestra 01:05:00

Soloists: Michael Barenboim (violin)

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On the occasion of the "Festival de Música y Reflexión" at the Teatro Colón, Daniel Barenboim and his West Eastern Divan Orchestra celebrate the centennials of two extraordinary Argentinian musicians in 2016: Alberto Ginastera, eminent creator of modern classical music interfused with folkloristic elements, and Horacio Salgán, whose voice was distinctive in the development of Argentine tango during the 20th century. Barenboim and the WEDO present with “solidity and agility” Ginastera’s Violin Concerto as well as three tango compositions by Salgán. “It was the most particular concert of those Daniel Barenboim and the WEDO had programmed” (La Nación).

Production: WEDO, UNITEL

Number: A025501470000

Year of Production: 2015 Title: John Wilson at the BBC Proms - Tribute to Leonard Bernstein Conductor: Orchestra: Length: John Wilson John Wilson Orchestra 01:47:00

Soloists: Louise Dearman, Lucy Schaufer, Scarlett Strallen, Julian Ovenden, Maida Vale Singers

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John Wilson and his orchestra are an annual Proms highlight, bringing the glitz and glamour of oldtime stage and screen to the Royal Albert Hall. The performance this year is all about Leonard Bernstein – America’s multitalented conductor, pianist and composer. He reinvented the musical with the anger, energy and feral beauty of West Side Story, his updated take on Romeo and Juliet. A starry cast of soloists including Proms favourite Julian Ovenden and the West End’s Louise Dearman join the John Wilson Orchestra and Maida Vale Singers for a tribute to the composer that includes Bernstein’s biggest hits as well as a selection of rarities.

Production: BBC in association with John Wilson Orchestra and UNITEL CLASSICA

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Concert / Orchestral Music Number: A865500210000

Year of Production: 2015 Title: RCO: Nelsons conducts Sibelius with Anne-Sophie Mutter Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Andris Nelsons Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra 01:43:00

Soloists: Anne-Sophie Mutter

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The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra is going on tour with star violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter and guest conductor Andris Nelsons. The Sibelius Violin Concerto is no less a challenge – the fiery music, full of dramatic twists and turns, lets Anne-Sophie Mutter show off her most virtuosic side. Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony is also fiery and dramatic, and is the third in Nelsons’s Shostakovich series with the RCO. This symphony wasthe first sign of life from the tormented Russian composer following Stalin’s death. The music seethes with fury at brutal oppression, but hope can also be heard in the score. The terrifying second movement is considered to be a caricature portrait of Stalin. In the third and last movement, the composer finally triumphs over the dictator.

Production: RCO and UNITEL CLASSICA

Number: A055504580000

Title: Anne-Sophie Mutter - The Club Concert

Year of Production: 2015

Length: 01:09:00 00:56:00 Soloists: Lambert Orkis, Mutter's Virtuosi and harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani

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Virtuoso violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter created a sensation night at Berlin’s Neue Heimat venue, recreating the impact of her legendary 2013 Yellow Lounge appearance, when she attracted one of the biggest crowds in the history of Deutsche Grammophon’s ground-breaking “classical-goesclubbing” series. Now she’s pushing the electric atmosphere to the limit by making the first-ever Yellow Lounge recording. “Yellow Lounge is a unique concept”, said Mutter after her performance, “it brings the world’s greatest music to an audience that might not otherwise get to hear it, in intimate settings that really bring performers and listeners close together.” On stage with Mutter were her longtime accompanist Lambert Orkis, the Mutter Virtuosi – the hand-picked ensemble of young alumni of the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation – and harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani. The programme spanned three centuries of classical music – from Johann Sebastian Bach and Antonio Vivaldi (Four Seasons) to George Gershwin and John Williams.

Production: DEF Media on behalf of ZDF in co-production with Deutsche Grammophon

Number: A045500500000

Year of Production: 2015 Title: Muti conducts Brahms and Tchaikovsky – with Anne-Sophie Mutter Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Riccardo Muti Wiener Philharmoniker 01:37:00

Soloists: Anne-Sophie Mutter

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One thing you can rely on is the Salzburg Festival always offering compelling couplings of artistic personalities: in this case star violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter and Maestro Riccardo Muti. Exactly 30 years to the day since Mutter first performed Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto at the festival, Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece is back on the programme. Mutter’s playing is stupendous, she succeeds in a way that draws astonishment. In Brahms’s Symphony No. 2, the veteran conductor Muti “lets the string and wind groups demonstrate in exemplary manner how it can sound when all the musicians are in perfect harmony with one another.” (Salzburger Nachrichten)

Production: UNITEL, ORF, NHK, BR, Wiener Philharmoniker, Salzburg Festival

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Concert / Chamber Music Number: A07050006

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Year of Production: 2017 Title: Pierre Hantaï and Skip Sempé play Rameau’s “Symphonies for two harpsichords” (shot in UHD/4k) Length: approx. 01:10:00

At the Chikurin Banquet Hall of Tokyo’s famous Gajoeng Hotel, Pierre Hantaï and Skip Sempé present their successful chamber music programme of Rameau’s “Symphonies for two Harpsichords”. It comprises transcriptions compiled from nine different works, among them Rameau’s first opera Hippolyte et Aricie, as well as Dardanus, Les Indes galantes, and the composer’s instrumental masterwork Pièces de clavecin en concert. Hantaï and Sempé, two artists situated at the forefront of today’s musical personalities in Renaissance and Baroque music create a stunning atmosphere in this private recital. Recorded in the picturesque surrounding of extravagant Japanese-style murals and artworks preserved from the old Gajoen buildings – which used to be one of Japan’s first wedding complexes back in the 1930s –, this concert is a pleasure for both the eye and the ear.

Production: NHK in cooperation with Unitel

Number: A055507040000

Year of Production: 2017 Title: The Belcea Quartet performs Haydn, Ligeti & Dvořák (shot in UHD/4k)

Length: 01:24:00

Soloists: Belcea Quartet

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The Belcea Quartet, one of the world’s leading chamber music ensembles, lights up the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin with their exciting programme consisting of three string quartets from three different centuries. The hall with its perfect acoustics specifically caters to the needs of performers of chamber music and provides an intimate setting for the multinational quartet, here beautifully captured on film. Haydn’s String Quartet in D Major is followed by Ligeti’s String Quartet No. 1 and an atmospheric rendition of Dvořák’s so-called “American Quartet”. The musicians’ journey through the history of string quartets is rounded off by the encore “O Albion”, the sixth movement of contemporary English composer Thomas Adès’s String Quartet Op. 12 “Arcadiana”. “The Belcea Quartet searches and finds the essence of this music” (Der Tagesspiegel).

Production: UNITEL and Heliox Films in co-production with Belcea Quartet in association withBoulez Saal and Classicall.tv with the support of CNC

Number: A055507950000

Year of Production: 2017 Title: The Christmas Tree Concert - Martha Argerich & Daniel Barenboim (shot in UHD/4k) Length: approx. 01:45:00

Soloists: Martha Argerich, Daniel Barenboim

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Long-time artistic partners and close friends Martha Argerich and Daniel Barenboim bring their extraordinary artistry to the Pierre Boulez Saal in a piano duo recital, which features Bizet’s charming "Jeux d’enfants" alongside Ravel’s work for four hands "Ma Mère l’Oye" and Liszt’s rarely heard "Weihnachtsbaum suite", an arrangement of Christmas carols written for his granddaughter. When Argerich and Barenboim invite the children in the audience to sit on the floor around the piano for their performance of Weihnachtsbaum, it is in the spirit of Christmas, when families come together, and reminiscent of the work’s premiere: First performed in a Rome hotel room on Christmas Day 1881 by Liszt’s granddaughter Daniela, the suite of 12 pieces brought the composer a family reunion with his beloved daughter and granddaughter.

Production: Salve TV, Unitel

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Concert / Chamber Music Number: A055506900000

Year of Production: 2017 Title: András Schiff - Lecture Concert Goldberg Variations

Length: approx. 02:20:00

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One of the most important Bach interpreters of our time dedicates himself to a work that is one of the most fascinating compositions of the entire pre-Classical era: In this lecture concert Sir András Schiff takes the audience on a journey to discover Bach’s Goldberg Variations in word and sound. Originally published as “Aria with various alterations”, the 30 variations have become an epitome of the Baroque period. Pianist Schiff “is a gifted teacher” (Süddeutsche Zeitung), guiding the audience on his excursion that takes him “from serenity to serenity, with highpoints and pauses for contemplation along the way.” (The Arts Desk) How Schiff commands the smallerscale architectures is just as impressive as his mastery of the whole 30-variation span … its cogency and integrityare peerless … A spellbinding account of the Goldberg Variations!” (The Guardian). Only Concert version available: appr. 60 mins A055506910000

Production: UNITEL in cooperation with Pierre Boulez Saal

Number: A02050116

Year of Production: 2017 Title: András Schiff – The Well-Tempered Clavier (Part I)

Length: 01:51:00

Soloists: András Schiff

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Bach specialist Sir András Schiff returns to the BBC Proms in a Piano recital performing Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier (Part I). Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier represents one of Western music’s greatest achievements. Described as the ‘Old Testament’ of the keyboard repertoire, it represents a wealth of musical invention, ingenuity and delight. A supreme technical challenge for any performer, they also offer an astonishing experience for every listener – especially when they are played with the mastery and sensitivity of András Schiff.

Production: BBC, UNITEL

Number: A055506580000

Year of Production: 2017 Title: Daniel Barenboim: The Complete Schubert Sonatas (shot in UHD/4k)

Length: 05:55:00

Soloists: Daniel Barenboim

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As part of the opening festival of the new Pierre Boulez Concert Hall, star pianist Daniel Barenboim performs Schubert‘s complete piano sonatas in Berlin. In each of the four recitals, Barenboim offers a journey through Schubert’s creative life, from the youthful sonatas of the earlier years to the great masterworks written during his final months. Universally recognized as supreme expressions of the Romantic spirit, these works, ignored after the composer’s death for more than a century, today stand at the centre of the repertoire, side by side with the piano works of Beethoven, Schubert’s admired predecessor and contemporary. Concert 1: 83'; Concert 2: 97'; Concert 3: 88'; Concert 4: 87'

Production: Heliox Films, UNITEL in cooperation with Boulez Saal in association with medici.tv and with the support of CNC

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Concert / Chamber Music Number: A055506960000

Year of Production: 2017 Title: Hélène Grimaud - "Woodlands and beyond…"

Length: 01:00:00

Soloists: Hélène Grimaud (piano), Mat Hennek (photography)

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»Nature is the origin of everything« – French pianist Hélène Grimaud is a firm believer of this. Together with her partner, photographer Mat Hennek, she performs a multimedia concert project with works by Romantic and Impressionist composers, accompanied by Hennek’s photo series »Woodlands«. In Woodlands, Mat Hennek presents genuine portraits of trees, the results of numerous hikes through various forests in Europe and the USA. Hennek sets out to discover extraordinary places in remote and often difficult to access areas, traveling on the road beyond human civilization for days.

Production: UNITELA production of Camera Lucida, Unitel and Medici

Number: A015500740000

Year of Production: 2017 Title: Quatuor Diotima - Bela Bartók's Complete String Quartets (shot in UHD/4k)

Length: 02:49:00

Soloists: Quatuor Diotima

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Founded in 1996, the Diotima Quartet is as interested in the grand classical repertoire as it is in contemporary composers. What binds their multiple yearnings together is an urgent need for renewal. Just like the Quatuor, Bartók constantly pursued his search for renewal, drawing on traditional popular music to give birth to a unique style of art music. One century after Beethoven, Bartók's string quartets has made him one of the masters of the genre. The six string quartets marked Bartók’s life between 1908 and 1939, revealing the composer’s stylistic evolution in perpetual becoming. From the first post-romantic quartet to the sixth, a farewell song before the exile to the United States, this corpus also reflects the transformations of a tormented century.

Production: Heliox Films, UNITEL and Classicall TV / M_Media and with the support of CNC

Number: A055506140000

Year of Production: 2016 Title: Prokofiev - The Complete Piano Sonatas Vol. 1-4

Length: approx. 03:10:00

Soloists: Dmitry Masleev, George Li, Lukas Geniušas, Sergej Redkin

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On the occasion of Sergej Prokofiev’s 125th birthday, building on the success of the 2015 Prokofiev marathon, which featured all Piano Concertos of the Russian composer, Prokofiev specialist Valery Gergiev presented two concerts at the MPHIL 360° festival containing Prokofiev's complete piano sonatas as well as selected sonatas by Italian composer Domenico Scarlatti. Four emerging, prizewinning piano talents from Russia and the USA were invited: Dmitry Masleev, George Li, Lukas Geniušas and Sergej Redkin. A “cunning and excentric” show, “brilliantly played” by the pianists (Süddeutsche Zeitung). PROGRAM: Vol. 1 (A 055 50614 0000, appr. 35'): Prokofiev Sonatas No. 1, No. 2 & No. 3 and Scarlatti Sonata K. 141 - Dmitry Masleev; Vol. 2 (Cat. no. A 055 50615 0000, appr. 50'): Prokofiev Sonatas No. 4 & No. 6 and Scarlatti Sonata K. 380 - George Li; Vol. 3 (A 055 50616 0000, appr. 45'): Prokofiev Sonatas No. 5 & No. 7 and Scarlatti Sonata K. 450 - Lukas Geniušas; Vol. 4 (A 055 50617 0000, appr. 60'): Prokofiev Sonatas No. 8 & No. 9 and Scarlatti Sonata K. 193 - Sergej Redkin

Production: Telmondis, Medici.tv, UNITEL

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Concert / Chamber Music Number: A865500280000

Year of Production: 2016 Title: Kit Armstrong - Bach’s Goldberg Variations and its predecessors

Length: approx. 02:20:00

Soloists: Kit Armstrong

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“Armstrong’s phenomenal recital was so exceptional that every attempt to describe it falls short” (NRC). When Kit Armstrong performed at Amsterdam’s hallowed Concertgebouw for the first time, he mesmerized his audience with Bach’s monumental Goldberg Variations. By combining them with earlier polyphonic variation masterpieces by William Byrd, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck and John Bull, in the present program he is shedding a new light on Bach’s masterpiece. When Kit Armstrong was only 14, the Los Angeles-born musical prodigy overcame his mentor Alfred Brendel’s reluctance to take on pupils. Brendel said: “He played so beautifully that I thought to myself, ‘I have to make time for him.’” Soon Armstrong was winning international prizes both as pianist and as composer and was appearing at some of the world’s foremost venues.

Production: UNITEL, Concertgebouw Year of Production: 2016 Title: Midori plays Bach in Köthen: The Partitas and Sonatas for Solo Violin (shot in UHD/4k) Length: 02:32:00

Number: 9896

Soloists: Midori

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Midori’s recent interpretation of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for violin solo has earned her many accolades by audiences and the media worldwide. In August 2016, Midori performed these pieces, known as one of the most challenging for any violinist, for an audio-visual recording at the Castle of Köthen (Schloss Köthen), where Bach served as Court Chapel Master between 1717 an 1723. There, the precise, light but nevertheless emphatic playing by Midori unfurled a unique world of sound that maybe Bach himself had imagined while composing these polyphonic masterpieces. PROGRAM: J.S. Bach: Partitas and Sonatas for Solo Violin BWV 1001 1006

Production: Accentus Music

Number: A835500090000

Year of Production: 2016 Title: Martha Argerich & Daniel Barenboim - Piano Duos at the Teatro Colón III

Length: 01:49:00

Soloists: Martha Argerich, Daniel Barenboim

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In order to continue their incredibly successful piano duos series, Daniel Barenboim and Martha Argerich return to the stage of beautiful Teatro Colón at their hometown Buenos Aires, putting the “city in a state of emergency” (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) with a fulminant concert evening. Argerich and Barenboim perform Johannes Brahms’ Variations On A Theme by Haydn, Arnold Schönberg’s Five pieces for Orchestra in Anton Webern’s arrangement for two pianos and Franz Liszt’s Concerto Pathétique. “An unforgettable concert […] Words were not needed. Barenboim and Argerich met again doing what they can do best and what they do in the best way it can possibly be done in this world” (La Nación).

Production: UNITEL

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Concert / Chamber Music Year of Production: 2015 Title: Khatia Buniatishvili in Kiev: Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition

Number: 9915

Length: 01:00:00 00:45:00 Soloists: Khatia Buniatishvili

Content:

Khatia Bunitishvili is making a guest appearance at the International Center of Culture and Arts in Kiev. The programme is the piano suite PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION, that was written by Mussorgsky in honour of his deceased friend, the architect Victor Hartmann. Originally composed by Modest Mussorgsky for solo piano, the suite comprises 10 pictures by Hartmann illustrated in separated movements and connected by the Promenade theme that depicts an imaginary tour of an art collection. The final movement depicts an architectural design for Kiev, The Bogatyr Gates. Buniatishvilis musical promenade reveals an extraordinary thrilling interpretation, accompanied by impressions of Kiev’s cultural life including visits at artists friends and the current mayor of Kiev, the former heavyweight champion, Vitali Klitschko.

Production: BFMI, ZDF/Arte and Sony Classical

Number: 9909

Title: Lang Lang in Versailles (shot in UHD/4k)

Year of Production: 2015

Length: 01:40:00 00:43:00 Soloists: Lang Lang

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Lang Lang & Chopin have long been a winning combination - already celebrated worldwide for his Chopin interpretation, Lang Lang selects the four virtuosic and well known “Scherzi” to display his interpretative ability and renowned technical command, as well as the rarer performed Tchaikovsky “The Seasons”. Filmed at the legendary Hall of Mirrors (Galerie des Glaces) in the Palace of Versailles “Château de Versailles”.PROGRAM: Four Scherzos by Frédéric Chopin, The Seasons, Op. 37b by P.I. Tchaikovsky

Production: Bel Air Media Year of Production: 2013 Title: Lang Lang at the Royal Albert Hall (shot in UHD/4k)

Number: 9714

Length: 01:24:00

Soloists: Lang Lang

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When going on sale in November 2012, tickets for classical pianist Lang Lang’s solo recital at the Royal Albert Hall on November 15th 2013 were sold out within 48 hours: a record for a recital by any classical musician at the venue in recent times. We’re delighted to be able to preserve his performance for the screen, so his many fans also have a chance to experience the programme: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 5 in G major, KV 283 - Piano Sonata No. 4 in E flat major, KV 282 - Piano Sonata No. 8 in A minor, KV 310 - Frédéric Chopin: Ballade No. 1 Op 23 in G minor - Ballade No. 2 Op 38 in F Major - Ballade No. 3 Op 47 in A flat - Ballade No. 4 Op 52 in F minor. The word's first 4K classical music production.

Production: BFMI, ZDF/3sat and Sony Classical

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Documentary / Classical Music Number: 9960

Title: 2Cellos - 2Faces

Year of Production: 2018

Length: 00:53:00 Director: Ali Jones

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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 known as 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 from different 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 Year of Production: 2018 Title: 48 hours Georgia - Khatia Buniatishvili and Zubin Mehta

Number: 9959

Length: 00:52:00 Director: 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 under the open skies of Tsinandali – a brand new concert place, built up to the very last minute.

Production: Sounding Images, WDR / ARTE

Title: Alondra... ¡La maestra! de la Parra

Number: 9947

Year of Production: 2018

Length: 00:56:00 Director: Christian Berger

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.

Production: BFMI in co-production with Deutsche Welle and Dorn Music

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Documentary / Classical Music Number: A00050047

Title: Arnold Schönberg – Who I am

Year of Production: 2017

Length: 00:57:00 Director: Paolo Faroni, 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 musicologist Hartmut 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 its time, but is now regarded as a pioneer of today’s music.

Production: Classica Italia HD in cooperation with Unitel

Number: 9955

Title: Lucas Debargue - To the Music

Length: 01:24:00 00:52:00

Director: Martin Mirabel

Content:

Year of Production: 2018

For one 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 Year of Production: 2018 Title: Magic Moments of Music - Maria Callas & Tosca

Number: 9584

Length: 00:52:00 Director: Holger Preusse

Content:

Milestone events in music are those rare occasions when suddenly everything gels: great artistry, unique circumstances, and the magic that outlives the moment. This series is dedicated to stellar musical events that gripped the whole world and thanks to film and television have remained unforgettable till today. The stuff that legends are made of, moments when history pauses to marvel at itself. Each episode is dedicated to a milestone event of this kind. Contemporary archive material brings the period in question back to life. Unpublished recordings from behind the scenes and present-day interviews with contemporary witnesses and musicians open up new perspectives, delve down into the depths, and rekindle the emotion. Vol. 1: Maria Callas & Tosca features the famous 1964 performance of Puccini's Tosca at London's Royal Opera House whose 2nd act marks one of the very rare video documents of Maria Callas' stage performances. Also available: Maria Callas sings Tosca, Act II: No. 9585

Production: ZDF Arte, sounding images, C Major

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Documentary / Classical Music Year of Production: 2018 Title: Music, War and Revolution - Music in the Time of the Great War

Number: 9528

Length: 00:55:00 Director: Andreas Morell

Content:

When the First World War broke out in 1914, the musical world did not remain unaffected. Artists inevitably became involved, either as soldiers at the front or as composers of patriotic music or musical memorials to a lost world. The three-part documentary series investigates the (un)known, overt and hidden connections between music, war and revolution. The first part focuses on the enthusiasm for the war in the musical world: when musicians and composers became fervent patriots and soldiers. How did the composers and musicians such as Alban Berg, Arnold Schoenberg, Maurice Ravel and Béla Bartók handle these times of war? How did their experiences at the battlefront affect their composing? What do the compositions reveal of this era and its spirit, believes and artistic changes of this age? The documentary combines important historical locations in the lives of the composers and musicians: such as the original battlefront of Verdun with the Voie Sacrée and the old Vienna with the Wiener Musikverein. AVAILABLE August 2018

Production: Accentus Music, WDR, in association with ARTE, supported by Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung Year of Production: 2018 Title: Music, War and Revolution - Silenced: Composers in Revolutionary Russia

Number: 9529

Length: 00:55:00 Director: Anne-Kathrin Peitz

Content:

The fates of young rebels such as Arthur Lourié, Nikolai Roslavets, Alexander Mosolov or Leon Theremin reveal much about the once hopeful and tragic entanglement with art and politics to which so many artists fell victim during the First World War, the October Revolution and the early Soviet Union’s cultural life. “Silenced”, the 2nd part rediscovers the long-banished and forgotten Russian composers of the early twentieth century who flirted with futurism, wrote the first twelve-tone chord of musical history or invented the first electronic musical instrument. “Silenced” sheds light upon their tragic stories and their exceptional music. Musicologists, composers, descendants, and musicians illuminate the composers’ fates from their perspective and establish both cultural references as well as the historical and political context. AVAILABLE August 2018

Production: Accentus Music, WDR, in association with ARTE, supported by Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung Year of Production: 2018 Title: Music, War and Revolution: Power of Music – Music of Power

Number: 9530

Length: 00:56:00 Director: Maria Stodtmeier, Isa Willinger

Content:

Beginning with what led to this great human tragedy, each episode addresses different perspectives of the relationship between war and politics. The great seminal catastrophe of 1914 was not merely a historical upheaval for politics and society. Music had also lost ist political innocence. But can music really be political? Already in the 19th century, an increasing number of composers and musicians had started to adopt political agendas and to this day many musicians position themselves politically. Power and Music embarks on a search for the political aspects of music, combining historical examples with the present. The film itself thus deals with various standpoints of music’s political moments and starts a dialogue with renowned artists such as conductor Valery Gergiev, Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Montero or the German-British cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, one of the last survivors of the Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz. AVAILABLE August 2018

Production: Accentus Music, WDR, in association with ARTE, supported by Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung

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Documentary / Classical Music Number: 9958

Title: Mythos Carmen

Year of Production: 2018

Length: 00:43:00 Director: Lena Kupatz, Axel Brüggemann

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 issues of 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 operas were written, and with a répétiteur, allowing the film to move through our present times emotionally guided by the opera.

Production: Signed Media, ZDF/arte

Number: A05050580

Title: Birgit Nilsson - A league of her own

Year of Production: 2018

Director: Thomas Voigt, Wolfgang Wunderlich Soloists: Plácido Domingo, Otto Schenk, James Levine, Nina Stemme, Jonas Kaufmann

Content:

Length: 01:30:00 01:00:00

An intimate portrait of Birgit Nilsson (1918–2005) on the occasion of her centennial on 18th May 2018: The Swedish soprano had an incredible technique and was the world’s leading dramatic soprano between 1955 and 1975. Rare TV and archive footage shows Nilsson at work, and is complemented by interviews with Plácido Domingo, Otto Schenk, James Levine, Nina Stemme, Jonas Kaufmann and many others. The film reveals a sensitive woman behind the honest, down to earth, quick-witted artist, who had “a voice like fire and ice” (Sir Antonio Pappano). The documentary was shot at the farm in Bastad/ Sweden, where Nilsson grew up and spent the summers until the end of her life, at the Royal Opera in Stockholm, where the legendary Wagnerian singer made her operatic debut in 1946, and in places like the Bayreuth Festival, the Wiener Staatsoper and the Metropolitan Opera in New York, where Nilsson was the star and box office draw.

Production: Unitel Year of Production: 2017 Title: ONE, TWO, THREE! – The “Waltz Factory” Strauss & Sons

Number: 9954

Director: Eric Schulz

Content:

Length: 01:07:00 00:48:00

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, all musicians 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

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Documentary / Classical Music Number: A05050439

Title: Barenboim or The Power of Music

Year of Production: 2017

Length: approx. 01:00:00

Director: Sabine Scharnagl

Soloists: Martha Argerich, Zubin Mehta, Waltraud Meier, Michael Barenboim, Wim Wenders

Content:

In honour of the 75th birthday of Daniel Barenboim, one of the most renowned conductors and pianists of our times, the first all-embracing portrait of this outstanding musical personality has been created. The documentary accompanies Maestro Barenboim in his eventful working life and at the same time gives a detailed review of Barenboim’s long musical career, from its beginnings until today. Shot at Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, Ramallah, Munich, Berlin and London, the movie captures rehearsals and performances of Barenboim and his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra at the Teatro Colón and the Waldbühne Berlin, and looks behind the scenes of two milestone events in 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. Several interviews with long-term companions of the thoroughbred musician – among them Martha Argerich, Zubin Mehta, Waltraud Meier, his son Michael Barenboim and director Wim Wenders – give very personal insights into the experiences they shared with Daniel Barenboim throughout the years.

Production: A production of BR, RBB and Unitel

Number: A04550078

Title: Karajan – The Maestro and his Festival

Year of Production: 2017

Length: 00:52:00 Director: 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 coproduction with the Eliette und Herbert von Karajan Institut, ORF, UNITEL in cooperation with Deutsche Grammophon, Salzburg Easter Festival

Number: 9594

Title: Loud, Hard, Magical – The Sound Of Finland

Year of Production: 2017

Length: 00:52:00 Director: 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

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Documentary / Classical Music Number: A05550815

Title: Marcia Haydée - The Seduction of Dance

Year of Production: 2017

Length: 00:45:00 Director: 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

Number: A05050588

Year of Production: 2017 Title: Of Miracles and Superheroes - Documentary on the Stuttgart Ballet

Length: 01:30:00 Director: 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 Year of Production: 2017 Title: A New Chopin - Daniil Trifonov & Mikhail Pletnev

Number: 9946

Length: 00:52:00 Director: Christian Berger

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

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Documentary / Classical Music Number: 9961

Title: Regina Resnik: New York Original

Year of Production: 2017

Length: 01:03:00 Director: Michael Davis, 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: A00050060

Title: Saimir Pirgu – My Truth in Music

Year of Production: 2017

Length: 00:55:00 Director: Paolo Aleotti, Paola Nessi Soloists: Saimir Pirgu

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, and features interviews with top names of the contemporary music world: James Conlon, Paolo Gavazzeni, Dominique Meyer, Ferzan Ozpetek and Nicoletta Mantovani.

Production: SPM in association with Unitel

Number: A05550705

Title: Short Rides with John Adams

Year of Production: 2017

Length: 00:45:00 Director: Daniel Finkernagel, 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 Leila Josefowicz (“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

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Documentary / Classical Music Number: A05550619

Year of Production: 2017 Title: The Elbphilharmonie â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Hamburgs new Landmark

Length: 00:53:00 Director: Thorsten Mack, 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: NDR Year of Production: 2017 Title: John Williams & Steven Spielberg - The Adventure Continues

Number: 9583

Length: 00:26:00 Director: 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 the Lost Ark to the moving themes for Schindlerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 Year of Production: 1991 Title: Soldiers of Music: Rostropovich Returns to Russia

Number: 9581

Length: 01:28:00 Director: Albert Maysles, Bob Eisenhardt, Susan Froemke, Peter Gelb

Content:

Documentary showing the return to his native Russia of Mstislav Rostropovitch, includes extensive performance footage and coverage of political and personal matters for the cellist. This film is an account, in cinema verite style, of what happened when Rostropovich, along with his wife, the renowned soprano Galina Vishnevskaya, returned to the country that had stripped them of all rights to perform, demolishing their careers because they had dared to shelter and defend Solzhenitsyn. ACCOLADES: Jury Prize, Montreal; Emmy Award

Production: Maysles Films, Sony Classical

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Documentary / Classical Music Number: A055505940000

Title: Beethoven - The Myth: His Life in 6 Sonatas

Year of Production: 2016

Length: 6 x 30'

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

Number: 9924

Title: Currentzis - The Classical Rebel

Year of Production: 2016

Length: 00:52:00 Director: 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 jour¬nalism and a 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: A05050300

Title: Anne-Sophie Mutter - A Celebration

Year of Production: 2016

Length: 00:52:00 Director: 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 the artistic dayto-day-life of an international star.

Production: ZDF/arte and UNITEL CLASSICA

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Documentary / Classical Music Number: A05550523

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 with his Berliner Philharmoniker. In this documentary Rattle presents us his approach to the cycle with extended explanations on the piano, we see him rehearsing with the orchestra resulting in the first 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 Year of Production: 2016 Title: Maestras - The Long Journey of Women to the Podium

Number: 9898

Length: 00:53:00 Director: Günter Atteln, Maria Stodtmeier Soloists: Featuring 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, the first 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 in September 2016, 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.

Production: Accentus Music in co-production with SRF

Number: 9921

Title: Gozo - One Island, Two Opera Houses

Year of Production: 2016

Length: 00:52:00 Director: 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 only trouble is, there is no love lost between the two houses. But there is one thing they do have to share: the orchestra. In the middle of the fray we find Maltese star tenor Joseph Calleja. As a teenager he earned his singing 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

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Documentary / Classical Music Number: 9931

Title: Olga Peretyatko - My Love for Rossini

Year of Production: 2016

Length: 00:58:00

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

Year of Production: 2016 Title: Good Thoughts, Good Word, Good Deeds - The Conductor Zubin Mehta

Length: 01:29:00 00:59:00

Director: Bettina Ehrhardt and Renate Matuschka

Content:

2016, Zubin Mehta, one of the most charismatic conductors of our time, turns 80 years old. Reason enough to dignify the Maestro with a cinematic portrait! Zubin Mehta, a citizen of the world, unites many different cultures in his person: Indian culture and Parsi spirituality, Vienna as his “musical homeland”, as he calls it, Asian, European and American lifestyles and sound tradition. Filmmakers Bettina Ehrhardt and Renate Matuschka create a tender homage to Zubin Mehta, who is Music Director for Life of the Israel Philharmonic as well as the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Conductor Laureate of the 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: 9913

Title: Leonard Bernstein - Larger than Life

Year of Production: 2015

Length: 00:52:00 Director: Georg Wübbolt Soloists: Stephen Sondheim, Jamie, Alexander and Nina Bernstein, Sir Peter Jonas, Kent Nagano, Marin Alsop, Christoph Eschenbach and many others

Content:

Leonard Bernstein was America’s ambassador to the world of music and one of the most influential musicians of the last century. An influential teacher, a brilliant conductor, 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, covers the whole spectrum of Bernstein’s life: From his world famous TV series Young People’s Concerts to the recording of his Mahler cycle, from West Side Story to Chichester Psalms. The film includes interviews with Bernstein’s children and friends and companions such as Stephen Sondheim, Kent Nagano and Christoph Eschenbach.

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Documentary / Classical Music Year of Production: 1990 Title: Abbado in Berlin – The First Year Orchestra: Length: Berliner Philharmoniker 01:00:00

Number: 9868

Director: Bob Eisenhardt, Susan Froemke, Peter Gelb

Content:

The vote was over, and a decision had been made: Claudio Abbado became 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.

Production: CAMI in cooperation with Channel 4, DG, La Sept, NOS, ORF, RAI 1, Thirteen/WNET, ZDF

Title: Classical Music for Everyone?

Number: 9575

Year of Production: 2015

Length: 00:52:00 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 its peak in the 1990s with the overwhelming success of the “Three Tenors.” This documentary 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, ARTE

Number: 9155

Title: Eras of Music History

Year of Production: 2015

Length: 4 x 90' / 8 x 45'

Director:

Axel Brüggemann, Dag Freyer, Nicole Kraack, Lena Kupatz Soloists: Daniel Hope, Philippe Jaroussky, Emmanuelle Haim, Simone Kermes, Rolando Villazón, Anna Netrebko, Giuliano Carmigniola, Diana Damrau, Lang Lang, Christian Thielemann, Teodor Currentzis, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Thomas Hampson, Jonas Kaufmann

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, Modern Times – 4x90’ or 8x45’)

Production: Signed Media, C Major Entertainment in coproduction with ZDF/ARTE, ORF, NRK

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Documentary / Classical Music Number: 9865

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 of a 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: Accentus Music in Co-production with ERR and WDR/Arte

Number: 9157

Title: Through The Eyes Of Yuja

Year of Production: 2015

Length: 00:48:00 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 SRF and Deutsche Grammophon

Number: A94550002

Title: Anna Netrebko - Anna The Great

Year of Production: 2014

Length: 00:42:00 Director: Dmitry Sapun

Content:

A fine new portrait about one of today's most radiant opera stars: Anna Netrebko featured in interviews and performance excerpts.

Production: Fourstudio

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Documentary / Classical Music Year of Production: 2014 Title: Jonas Kaufmann - You Mean The World To Me - Documentary

Number: 9160

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 Jonas Kaufmann’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", Cat.No. 9151 (70')

Production: BFMI co-production with ZDF / Arte and Sony Classical Year of Production: 2014 Title: Lang Lang & Nikolaus Harnoncourt: Mission Mozart Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Nikolaus Harnoncourt Wiener Philharmoniker 00:52:00

Number: 9741

Director: Christian Berger Soloists: Lang Lang

Content:

Also featured are a rare archive of Georg Solti with Richard Strauss (1949), Solti's 80th birthday concert at Buckingham Palace (1992) with additional ttention 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 co-production with ZDF/ARTE, Sony Classical International and Deutsche Welle

Title: Lang Lang - The Highest Level

Number: 9740

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 a league 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 the film 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. 2 and Sergei Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3.

Production: BFMI with C Major Entertainment and Sony Classical International in association with DW-TV

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Documentary / Classical Music Number: 9344

Title: Anna Netrebko: The Woman and 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 - remastered in a new HD version - 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, ORF, SF DRS, YLE & ZDF/Arte

Number: 9854

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

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Special Number: A035051240000

Content:

Title: Leonard Bernstein: Young People's Concerts - 2nd Season Conductor: Orchestra: Leonard Bernstein New York Philharmonic

Length: 27 x 55'

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 …).

Number: A01050072

Year of Production: 2017 Title: Giovanni Maria Pagliardi: Caligula Orchestra: Conductor: Length: Vincent Dumestre Le Poème Harmonique 01:23:00

Director: 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? This Caligula 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

Year of Production: 2017 Title: Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf Conductor: Orchestra: Length: Valery Gergiev Mariinsky Orchestra 00:38:00

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 beautiful explanatory 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)

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INDEX

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Page

2Cellos - 2Faces 2Cellos at Sydney Opera House 3 Stars in Munich The 3 Tenors - Christmas Concert 1999 The 3 Tenors - The Birth of a Legend 48 hours Georgia - Khatia Buniatishvili and Zubin Mehta 80 Years Israel Philharmonic Orchestra - The Jubilee Concert A Abbado in Berlin - The First Year Alondra... ¡La maestra! de la Parra Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater András Schiff - Lecture concert Goldberg Variations András Schiff – The Well-Tempered Clavier (Part I) Andris Nelsons' Inaugural Concert - Gewandhausorchester Leipzig Anna Netrebko - Anna The Great Anna Netrebko: The Woman and The Voice Anna Netrebko & Yusif Eyvazov at the Waldbühne Berlin Anne-Sophie Mutter - A Celebration Anne-Sophie Mutter - The Club Concert Arnold Schönberg - Who I am B BABEL 7.16 (shot in UHD/4k) Bach, Christmas Oratorio - A Ballet by John Neumeier Bach, St. Matthew Passion Baden-Baden-Gala 2016 Barenboim condutcs Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 Barenboim conducts Bruckner Symphony No. 1-3 Barenboim conducts Strauss & Tchaikovsky Barenboim or The Power of Music Barenboim: The Complete Schubert Sonatas (shot in UHD/4k) Bartabas in Salzburg 2017 - Mozart: Requiem Bayreuth Festival: Wagner, Parsifal Bayreuth Festival: Wagner, Tristan und Isolde BBC Proms: Barenboim conducts Birtwistle and Elgar BBC Proms: First Night of the Proms BBC Proms: Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla conducts Beethoven, Stravinsky, Barry BBC Proms: Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla conducts Mozart & Tchaikovsky BBC Proms: Rattle conducts Mahler 7 BBC Proms: Rattle conducts Schönberg's Gurre Lieder BBC Proms: WEDO and Barenboim perform Widmann, Liszt, Wagner BBC Proms: John Wilson - George & Ira Gershwin Rediscovered BBC Proms: John Wilson - Tribute to Leonard Bernstein Beethoven - The Myth: His Life in 6 Sonatas Bernstein, A Quiet Place Bernstein, Mass (shot in UHD/4k) Blomstedt conducts Bach’s Mass in B Minor Blomstedt conducts Beethoven Blomstedt conducts Bruckner and Beethoven Blomstedt conducts Reger and Beethoven BPO: Dudamel conducts Dvorak & Adams BPO: Rattle conducts John Adams: The Gospel According to the Other Mary BPO: Rattle conducts The Beethoven Symphonies BR: Jansons conducts Mahler & Rachmaninov Bregenz Festival 2016: Faccio, Amleto (Hamlet) Bregenz Festival 2017: Bizet, Carmen Bregenz Festival 2017: Rossini, Mosè in Egitto C CARMEN.maquia and Club Havana Classical Music for Everyone? Currentzis - The Classical Rebel

9960 9942 9864 9579 9866 9959 9502

65 45 12 13 13 65 45

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9936 9575 9924

38 72 76

D Donizetti, Don Pasquale Donizetti, La Favorite Donizetti, Messa da Requiem E Elbphilharmonie Hamburg: The Opening Concert Eldbjørg Hemsing rediscovers Borgstrøm’s Violin Concerto (shot in UHD/4k) Ensemble Intercontemporain (shot in UHD/4k) Eras of Music History F Festive Advent Concert at the Frauenkirche Dresden 2016 Festive Advent Concert at the Frauenkirche Dresden 2017 Festive Gala from the Semperoper Dresden - 100th Anniversary of UFA Festive Re-Opening: Staatsoper Unter den Linden: Schumann, Scenes from Faust G Gabriela Montero plays her first Piano Concerto Gergiev conducts the complete Prokofiev Symphonies Giordano, Andrea Chenier Giovanni Maria Pagliardi: Caligula Glenn Gould - Russian Journey Good Thoughts, Good Word, Good Deeds - The Conductor Zubin Mehta Gounod, Roméo et Juliette Gozo - One Island, Two Opera Houses H Handel, Arminio Handel, Semele Handel, Xerxes/Serse Handel in Concert - Patrizia Ciofi & Donna Leon Harding conducts Elgar’s "The Dream of Gerontius" (shot in UHD/4k) Hélène Grimaud - "Woodlands and beyond…" Hollywood in Vienna 2017: A Tribute top Danny Elfman Hollywood in Vienna - A Tribute to Alexandre Desplat I Il Volo - Notte Magica "A Tribute To The Three Tenors" In dulci jubilo - Alison Balsom & The Balsom Ensemble J Janáček, The Cunning Little Vixen John Cranko's Onegin (shot in UHD/4k) John Cranko's Romeo and Juliet (shot in UHD/4k) John Williams & Steven Spielberg - The Adventure Continues Jonas Kaufmann - You Mean The World To Me - Documentary Jordi Savall - Jerusalem Joyce DiDonato sings In War and Peace: Harmony through Music Juan Diego Flórez sings Mozart K Karajan – The Maestro and his Festival Khatia Buniatishvili in Kiev: Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition Kit Armstrong - Bach’s Goldberg Variations and its predecessors

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11 7 6 6

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20 20 20 7 8 62 48 56

9922 A055506040000

8 57

A04050061 A05050527 A05050435 9583 9160 9524 A935500200000 9962

21 32 33 72 78 49 8 7

A04550078 9915 A865500280000

69 64 63

L Le Ballet royal de la nuit Le Concert de Paris 2018 Le Concert de Paris 2017 Le Concert de Paris 2016 Le Concert de Paris 2015 Le Concert de Paris 2014 Le Concert de Paris 2013 Lang Lang & Nikolaus Harnoncourt: Mission Mozart Lang Lang at the Royal Albert Hall (shot in UHD/4k) Lang Lang in Versailles (shot in UHD/4k) Lang Lang - New York Rhapsody Lang Lang - The Highest Level Lehár, Das Land des Lächelns Leonard Bernstein - Larger than Life Leonard Bernstein: Young People's Concerts - 2nd Season Living with Beethoven - The 9 Symphonies with the BPO and Rattle Loud, Hard, Magical – The Sound Of Finland Lucas Debargue - To the Music Lucerne Festival 2016: Inaugural Concert of Riccardo Chailly - Mahler 8 Lucerne Festival 2016: Rattle conducts Berliner Philharmoniker Lucerne Festival 2017: Chailly conducts Tchaikovsky and Mendelssohn Lucerne Festival 2017: Long Yu conducts Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich Lucerne Festival 2017: Rattle conducts Haydn’s Schöpfung M Maestras - The Long Journey of Women to the Podium Magic Moments of Music - Maria Callas & Tosca Marcia Haydée - The Seduction of Dance Mariss Jansons and Daniel Barenboim perform Beethoven & Prokofiev Martha Argerich & Daniel Barenboim - Piano Duos at the Teatro Colón III Martinů Symphony Cycle: Martinů 4, Strauss Horn Concerto No 2 Massenet, Werther Messa da Requiem - Verdi’s Requiem Choreographed by Christian Spuck Midori plays Bach in Köthen: The Partitas and Sonatas for Solo Violin (shot Minkus, Nureyev’s: Don Quixote Monteverdi: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea Monteverdi: L'Orfeo Mozart, Die Zauberflöte Mozart, Don Giovanni Music, War and Revolution - Music in the Time of the Great War Music, War and Revolution - Silenced: Composers in Revolutionary Russia Music, War and Revolution: Power of Music – Music of Power Muti conducts Brahms and Tchaikovsky - with Anne-Sophie Mutter Mythos Carmen N Nelsons conducts Bruckner and Widman Nelsons conducts Gewandhausorchester: Dvorak Nelsons conducts Mozart and Tchaikovsky Nijinsky - A ballet by John Neumeier Nono, Prometeo (shot in UHD/ 4k) O Odeonsplatz Concert 2017: Gergiev & Wang Odeonsplatz Concert 2017: Honeck & Grubinger Of Miracles and Superheroes - Documenatry on the Stuttgart Ballet Olga Peretyatko - My Love for Rossini ONE, TWO, THREE! – The “Waltz Factory” Strauss & Sons Opening Concert of the Pierre Boulez Concert Hall (shot in UHD/4k)

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9526 9514 9527 9948 A00050059

40 50 41 34 23

A055506980000 A055506970000 A05050588 9931 9954 A055506120000

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P Pablo Picasso at Pompeii - Parade & Pulcinella (shot in UHD/4k) Paris: Daniel Harding - The Inaugural Concert: Schumann, Faust Paris: Harding conducts Berg and Mahler Paris: Harding conducts Schumann "Paradise and Peri" (shot in UHD/4k) Pierre Hantaï and Skip Sempé play Rameau’s “Symphonies for two Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf Prokofiev - The Complete Piano Sonatas Vol. 1-4 Puccini, La Bohème Puccini, Turandot (shot in UHD/4k) Q Quatuor Diotima - Bela Bartók's Complete String Quartets (shot in UHD/4k) R Rattle conduct Haydn and Bartok Rattle conducts Haydn "The Seasons" RCO: Bach, Christmas Oratorio (Part 4-6) RCO: Gatti conducts Beethoven & Brahms RCO: Gatti conducts a French Night RCO: Gatti conducts Haydn & Mahler RCO: Gatti conducts Mahler Symphony No. 2 RCO: Gatti conducts Wagner, Liszt and Berlioz RCO: Glanert, Requiem for Hieronymus Bosch RCO: Hengelbrock conducts Schubert "Unfinished" & Mozart Requiem RCO: Kerstmatinee 2017 - Bach: Mass in B minor RCO: Nelsons conducts Sibelius with Anne-Sophie Mutter RCO Opening Night 2016 - Daniele Gatti’s Inaugural Concert RCO Opening Night 2017: Hengelbrock conducts Mozart and Dvorak Red Ribbon Celebration Concert 2016 - Orpheus and Eurydice Regina Resnik: New York Original Respighi, La bella addormentata nel bosco (Sleeping Beauty) (shot in UHD/4k) Richard Siegal & Ballet of Difference (shot in UHD/4k) ROH: Adam, Giselle ROH: Anastasia ROH: Bellini, Norma ROH: Donizetti, Lucia di Lammermoor ROH: Liebermann, Frankenstein ROH: Mussorgsky, Boris Godunov ROH: Offenbach, Les Contes d'Hoffmann ROH: Puccini, La Bohème ROH: Puccini, Madama Butterfly ROH: Rachmaninov, Rhapsody & André Messager, The Two Pigeons ROH: Tchaikovsky, The Sleeping Beauty ROH: Tchaikovsky, The Nutcracker ROH: Verdi, Il Trovatore ROH: Verdi, Otello ROH: Woolf Works ROH: Yates, Elizabeth Rossini, Le Comte Ory Rossini, Otello (shot in UHD/4k)

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S Saimir Pirgu – My Truth in Music Salzburg Easter Festival 2018: Puccini, Tosca (shot in UHD/4k) Salzburg Easter Festival 2016: Verdi, Otello (shot in UHD/4k) Salzburg Easter Festival 2017: Wagner, Die Walküre (shot in UHD/4k) Salzburg Festival 2016: Gounod, Faust (shot in UHD/4k) Salzburg Festival 2016: Missa Salisburgensis Salzburg Festival 2016: Strauss, Die Liebe der Danae Salzburg Festival 2016: Yuja Wang and the Camerata Salzburg Salzburg Festival 2017: Lorenzo Viotti conducts Beethoven and Schumann Salzburg Festival 2017: Berg, Wozzeck (shot in UHD/4k) Salzburg Festival 2017: Mozart, La Clemenza di Tito Salzburg Festival 2017: Mozart Requiem Salzburg Festival 2017: Verdi, Aida Short Rides with John Adams Soldiers of Music: Rostropovich Returns to Russia Stars of Tomorrow presented by Rolando Villazón - Episodes 25-28 Swan Lake Reloaded - Tchaikovsky meets Streetdance T Tango under the Stars at the Hollywood Bowl Tchaikovsky, Pique Dame Tchaikovsky, Pique Dame The Belcea Quartet performs Haydn, Ligeti & Dvořák (shot in UHD/4k) The Complete Mozart Violin Concertos The Christmas Tree Concert - Martha Argerich & Daniel Barenboim (shot in The Deadly Sins - Angels and Demons in the works of Claudio Monteverdi (shot in The Elbphilharmonie – Hamburgs new Landmark The Lost Paradise - Arvo Pärt, Robert Wilson Through The Eyes Of Yuja A New Chopin - Daniil Trifonov & Mikhail Pletnev Trifonov plays Chopin V Veni Domine - Advent & Christmas at the Sistine Chapel (shot in UHD/4k) Verdi, Giovanna d'Arco (shot in UHD/4k) Verdi, I due Foscari (shot in UHD/4k) Verdi, La Traviata (Chorégies d'Orange) Verdi, Rigoletto Verdi, Un ballo in maschera (shot in UHD/4k) W Wagner, Lohengrin (shot in UHD/4k) Wagner, Tristan und Isolde West-Eastern Divan Orchestra at Teatro Colón - A Tango Evening

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