Lucerne Festival 2011: Claudio Abbado conducts Bruckner's Symphony No. 5
Abbado Conducts Mahler No. 1 & Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3
Letters, Riddles and Writs is a one act opera for television by Michael Nyman broadcast in 1991.
Known for his mournful "Adagio for Strings," Samuel Barber was never quite fashionable. This acclaimed film is a probing exploration of his music and melancholia. Performance, oral history, musicology, and biography combine to explore the life and music of one of America’s greatest composers. Features Thomas Hampson, Leonard Slatkin, Marin Alsop and many more of the world's leading experts on Barber's music, with tributes from composers Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson and William Schuman. The film was broadcast on PBS, and screened at nine film festivals internationally, with three best-of awards. It was named a Recording of the Year 2017 by MusicWeb International.
The Nutcracker is Mikhail Baryshnikov's breathtaking and critcally acclaimed Emmy nominated production. The thisspectacular performance is danced by the magnificent team of Baryshnikov, one of the greatest classical dancers of the century, and Gelsey Kirkland, both chowcased at the peak of the their careers, with members of the American Ballet Theatre.
Geburtstagskonzert für Zubin Mehta zum 85. - Aus der Staatsoper Berlin
Two young but remarkably talented performers came together for a joint performance at the Czech Radio Ostrava recording studio. Two outstanding soloists, pianist Martin Kasík and violinist Jiří Vodička, come from the Moravian-Silesian Region, studied in Ostrava, and this time joined forces in a demanding program. Jiří Vodička is successfully conquering Czech, European, and Asian stages. He is a laureate of the Young Concert Artist competition in New York. He returned from the US in February this year, having gone there to compete on the recommendation of Martin Kasík...
Svatováclavský hudební festival
Třetí koncert na kurtech
A thoroughly researched biopic of Charles Ives, America's greatest and most innovative composer (and insurance executive), who combined strikingly futuristic experimentalism with gentle nostalgia. Includes narration taken directly from Ives's own writings, and reminiscence from those who knew him.
Lyrical biography of the classical composer, depicted as a romantic hero, an accursed artist.
Jenny is young. Her life is over. She killed someone. And she would do it again. When an 80-year-old piano teacher discovers the girl’s secret, her brutality and her dreams, she decides to transform her pupil into the musical wunderkind she once was.
A ruthless real estate agent discovers a passion for piano and auditions with help from a young virtuoso, but the pressures of his corrupt career threaten to derail his musical aspirations.
Le Concert de Paris 2024
The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other historic personalities, whose careers intersected with the growth of the Ricordi house. It beautifully draws the parallel between the great music of the composers, the historic and social upheavals of their times, as well as the "smaller stories" of the successive generations of Ricordi.
Chip Chip : Chopin par Desjardins
Live performance of Verdi's Missa da Requiem at the Edinburgh Festival in 1982. An all-star quartet of soloists under the baton of Claudio Abbado, recorded in high definition audio.
As celebrated conductor Lydia Tár starts rehearsals for a career-defining symphony, the consequences of her past choices begin to echo in the present.
After marrying her long lost love, a pianist finds the relationship threatened by a wealthy composer who is besotted with her.
Leonard Bernstein’s protégée Marin Alsop reveals how she smashed the glass ceiling to become an internationally renowned conductor.