Returning to Australia for Vivid LIVE in 2023, master singer-songwriter José González celebrated the 20th anniversary of the album that launched him, 2003’s indie folk classic, Veneer. A sublime take on the singer-songwriter sound, Veneer is more than just a classic of introspective folk pop – it’s become part of the fabric of modern life. To celebrate the anniversary of his breakthrough record, the virtuoso guitarist returned to the Sydney Opera House for three Australian exclusive solo shows, performing the songs from Veneer – and more than a few other classics.
The evocative music of Claude Debussy has been described as the foundation of modern music. But how did the composer come to develop his unique style? On this video, maestro Francois-Xavier Roth and the London Symphony Orchestra present the UK premiere of a previously lost work by the young Debussy, alongside some of his earliest inspirations. Debussy's newly discovered Premiére Suite gives a rare insight into the mind of a young composer on the cusp of innovation. It's a work filled with Romantic and Eastern influences and glimpses of the unexpected harmonies that came to define Debussy's work. Paired alongside the composer's role models - from Wagner's powerful intertwining motifs, the abundant Spanish influences in Lalo's rarely-heard Cello Concerto performed here by Edgar Moreau, and Massenet's majestic Le Cid - Francois-Xavier Roth gives a fresh perspective on the much-loved composer.
With this performance of the Missa solemnis Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Honorary Guest Conductor of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, once more attained the status of a living legend, due mostly to his wide-ranging expertise of music from the Baroque and Classical era. The highly acclaimed soloists are Marlis Petersen (Soprano), twice the singer of the year by the renowned Opernwelt magazine, Elisabeth Kulman (Alto), Werner Güra (Tenor), winner of the BBC Music Magazine Award for the best vocal performance, and Gerald Finley (Bass), Grammy-Awardwinner for the best opera recording. They are accompanied by the famous Netherlands Radio Choir.
Like many of John Adams’ operas, Doctor Atomic is based on recent world historical events—here, the effusive Robert Oppenheimer, “father of the atomic bomb,” anxiously awaits the bomb’s first test in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Adams adapted the work into a symphony, comprising its three main acts. In the second half of the program, Adams conducts his 2015 violin concerto, Scheherazade.2, which restages the tale of the One Thousand and One Nights heroine as a strong woman navigating a patriarchial society, incarnated by the solo violin part. The work was composed specifically for Canadian-American virtuoso Leila Josefowicz and co-commissioned by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, who perform it to perfection. The evening then closes out with Tromba Lontana, an orchestral fanfare written to mark the 150th anniversary of Texas’s independence from Mexico in 1836.
Mozart’s Requiem – his final and unfinished masterpiece – is an extraordinary work. Discover the piece at the Salzburg Festival in the hands of conductor Teodor Currentzis, the ensemble musicAeterna, Anna Prohaska (soprano), Katharina Magiera (contralto), Mauro Peter (tenor), and Tareq Nazmi (bass). Few musical works are as steeped in legend as Mozart’s Requiem in D minor, K. 626. Commissioned anonymously by the eccentric count Franz von Walsegg, the funereal oeuvre would become Mozart’s last: when he died on December 5, 1791, only the Requiem aeternam and Kyrie movements were fully composed and orchestrated. Completed by other composers (Mozart’s student Franz Xaver Süssmayer in particular) using Mozart’s sketches and notes, the resulting work weaves the emotions we associate with death into a timeless musical exploration of every human being’s destiny, and constitutes a powerful final testament to its creator’s genius.
In the ancient theater of Delphi, against the backdrop of the ruins of the Temple of Apollo, musicAeterna, conducted by Teodor Currentzis, performs Ludwig van Beethoven’s 7th Symphony, in conjunction with a new choreography by Sasha Waltz and her company.
A documentary that explores the challenges that a life in music can bring.
John Eliot Gardiner goes in search of Bach the man and the musician. The famous portrait of Bach portrays a grumpy 62-year-old man in a wig and formal coat, yet his greatest works were composed 20 years earlier in an almost unrivalled blaze of creativity. We reveal a complex and passionate artist; a warm and convivial family man at the same time a rebellious spirit struggling with the hierarchies of state and church who wrote timeless music that is today known world-wide. Gardiner undertakes a 'Bach Tour' of Germany, and sifts the relatively few clues we have - some newly-found. Most of all, he uses the music to reveal the real Bach.
Set 1: Good Times(Sam Cooke cover) Big River(Johnny Cash cover) (tour debut) Friend of the Devil(Grateful Dead cover) They Love Each Other(Jerry Garcia cover) Black-Throated Wind(Bob Weir song) (tour debut) Big Railroad Blues(Cannon’s Jug Stompers cover) Dark Star(Grateful Dead cover) (verse 1) Johnny B. Goode(Chuck Berry cover) (tour debut) Set 2: Eyes of the World(Grateful Dead cover) (> 'Dark Star' verse 2) Fire on the Mountain(Grateful Dead cover) Shakedown Street(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Drums(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Space(Grateful Dead cover) (>) The Eleven(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Death Don't Have No Mercy(Reverend Gary Davis cover) (>) Going Down the Road Feeling Bad([traditional] cover) Encore: Knockin' on Heaven's Door(Bob Dylan cover) (Bobby on acoustic guitar) (tour debut)
Milan Zelenka hraje Milana Tesaře
The making of Elvis Presley's famous live TV concert and the chaotic behind the scenes. It was the most-watched television event of the year with nearly half of the audience tuned in to watch Presley perform in his iconic black leather suit.
Live recordings of the Speed metal band Hirax
Set 1: Feel Like a Stranger(Grateful Dead cover) Franklin's Tower(Grateful Dead cover) (John Mayer on vocals) Mama Tried(Merle Haggard cover) Alabama Getaway(Grateful Dead cover) (John Mayer on vocals) Dear Mr. Fantasy(Traffic cover) (John and Bob shared vocals) (>) Hey Jude(The Beatles cover) (Coda) (everyone on vocals) Truckin'(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Deal(Jerry Garcia cover) (John Mayer on vocals) Set 2: Scarlet Begonias(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Fire on the Mountain(Grateful Dead cover) (Oteil on vocals) Estimated Prophet(Grateful Dead cover) (with 'Get Up, Stand Up' by The Wailers tease) (>) Eyes of the World(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Drums(Grateful Dead cover) (with Oteil) (>) Space(Grateful Dead cover) (>) All Blues(Miles Davis cover) (>) Cumberland Blues(Grateful Dead cover) (Bob and John shared vocals) (>) All Along the Watchtower(Bob Dylan cover) Morning Dew(Bonnie Dobson cover) Encore: Brokedown Palace(Grateful Dead cover) (Bob and John shared vocals)
Set 1: Samson and Delilah([traditional] cover) Cold Rain and Snow(Obray Ramsey cover) Jack Straw(Grateful Dead cover) Althea(Grateful Dead cover) Comes a Time(Jerry Garcia cover) Mr. Charlie(Grateful Dead cover) He's Gone(Grateful Dead cover) Going Down the Road Feeling Bad([traditional] cover) Set 2: They Love Each Other(Jerry Garcia cover) Playing in the Band(Bob Weir song) Help on the Way(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Slipknot!(Grateful Dead cover) Fire on the Mountain(Grateful Dead cover) Drums(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Space(Grateful Dead cover) (> 'Playing in the Band' reprise) The Other One(Grateful Dead cover) (verse 2) Standing on the Moon(Grateful Dead cover) Not Fade Away(The Crickets cover) Encore: The Weight(The Band cover) Ripple(Grateful Dead cover)
Set 1: Shakedown Street(Grateful Dead cover) (Bob and John shared vocals) (>) Bertha(Grateful Dead cover) (John and Bob shared vocals) (>) Ramble On Rose(Grateful Dead cover) It Hurts Me Too(Tampa Red cover) (John Mayer on vocals) Dancing in the Street(Martha Reeves and the Vandellas cover) (John and Bob shared vocals) Althea(Grateful Dead cover) (John Mayer on vocals) Let It Grow(Grateful Dead cover) Set 2: China Cat Sunflower(Grateful Dead cover) (>) I Know You Rider([traditional] cover) St. Stephen(Grateful Dead cover) (Bob and John shared vocals) (>) Uncle John's Band(Grateful Dead cover) (John and Bob shared vocals) (>) Drums(Grateful Dead cover) (with Joe Russo) (with Oteil) (>) Space(Grateful Dead cover) (>) The Eleven(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Stella Blue(Grateful Dead cover) (>) U.S. Blues(Grateful Dead cover) (Bob and John shared vocals) Black Muddy River(Grateful Dead cover) (John Mayer on vocals)
A doctor with a talent for playing the piano finds artistic inspiration in hospital patients and composes her last melody.
Hololive's first-ever English branch concert, bringing together fans across the world for a stage where every English Talent is given a chance to shine! In addition, there are plenty of surprise guests and songs that will make this concert span across the generations and boundaries of all Hololive Talents! This concert is presented in full 3D Augmented Reality as it previously was during Hololive 4th Fes. 2023. Special guest singers from the Japan and Indonesia Hololive branches include Hoshimachi Suisei, Tokino Sora, Houshou Marine, Moona Hoshinova, Ayunda Risu, and Pavolia Reine! Held at the YouTube Theater in Inglewood, California on July 2nd, 2023, and streamed online via SPWN.
The 1987 Glyndebourne production of Ravel's L'enfant et les sortilèges, designed by Maurice Sendak and directed by Frank Corsaro.
Although he is unanimously credited with having democratised opera, making it accessible to the greatest number, focus is rarely put on the strategy he devised and implemented in order to carry out his actions, nor what his actions reveal of the man and artist, and of the resulting metamorphosis from opera singer to pop artist. Through this angle, this film sets out to pay tribute to the man who summed up his credo, obsession and life’s work, in the following way: “They led the public to believe that classical music belonged to a restricted elite. I was the way to prove to the world that was wrong.
Set against the backdrop of a 1960s jungle seaport in tropical Australia and the rich concert halls of wintry Vienna, talented eighteen year old pianist Paul Crabbe moves to an exotic outpost of far Northern Australia. There, he is forced to study under the only piano teacher his father can find – the eccentric, enigmatic Herr Keller, a Viennese refugee with a shadowed past. Living above a dilapidated hotel in the dripping heat of this seaport, Keller is known to the locals as 'Maestro', a broken, elegant drunkard. But who is he? Does he come from a lineage of great European pianists, or is he a fraud?