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• Lohengrin

  Richard Wagner

  Year: 2017

  Runtime: 3 hr 35 min

  Lohengrin is a Romantic opera in three acts composed and written by Richard Wagner, first performed in 1850. The opera has inspired other works of art. King Ludwig II of Bavaria named his fairy-tale castle "New Swan Castle", or "Neuschwanstein", after the Swan Knight. It was King Ludwig's patronage that later gave Wagner the means and opportunity to compose, build a theatre for, and stage his epic cycle The Ring of the Nibelung.
  The most popular and recognizable part of the opera is the Bridal Chorus, better known as "Here Comes the Bride", often played as a processional at weddings in the West.

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• Live at Carnegie Hall, NY

  The Cleveland Orchestra Franz Welser-Möst

  Year: 2010

  Runtime: 1 hr 16 min

  The magic of Mozart takes center stage as pianist Leif Ove Andsnes and soprano Dorothea Röschmann join Franz Welser-Möst and The Cleveland Orchestra for an evening of Viennese favorites.
  The program includes Mozart's beloved “Piano Concerto No. 17, K. 453”, performed by acclaimed pianist and Multi-Grammy Award winner Leif Ove Andsnes, who is rapidly becoming known for his Mozart interpretations, and selections from the composer's opera “Le Nozze di Figaro” with soprano Dorothea Röschmann; the “Light Cavalry Overture” by Franz von Suppé; and to cap off the evening, “Artist's Life,” “Annen-Polka”, and the Overture to “Die Fledermaus” by the Waltz King, Johann Strauss Jr.
  Long considered one of America’s great orchestras, The Cleveland Orchestra stands today among the world’s most-revered symphonic ensembles.

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• Live from Berlin

  Daniel Barenboim & West-Eastern Divan Orchestra

  Year: 2006

  Runtime: 1 hr 59 min

  A miracle, one would in light of the middle East conflicts believe: the worldwide respected West Eastern Divan Orchestra is made up of young musicians from countries that are engaged in war. The orchestra with youngsters from Israel, Palestine, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, and Spain was formed in 1999 in Weimar. In the following years there have been concerts among others in Berlin, Seville, Rabat, and in summer of 2005 even in Ramallah - a hotspot in the middle east conflict.
  
  A highlight of the summer tour 2006 was the performance of Beethoven's 9th Symphony conducted by Daniel Barenboim featuring star singers including Anglika Denoke and Burkhardt Fritz as well as Waltraud Meier and René Pape. The proceeds from this benefit concert will go to the Fundacion Barenboilm-Said and their music education programs in the Palestinian territories.

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• Together For The Children Of Bosnia

  Luciano Pavarotti & Friends

  Year: 1996

  Runtime: 1 hr 31 min

  World-renowned tenor Luciano Pavarotti lends his beautifully powerful voice to a good cause, as he and some of his most talented friends get together in support of the displaced children of war torn Bosnia. With famous musicians like soft pop crooner Michael Bolton, Duran Duran's Simon Le Bon, Irish folk stars the Chieftains, and U2's Bono and The Edge at his side, Pavorotti gives heartfelt performances all the way through this 80 minute event. Much of the proceeds from this video's sale will be donated to War Child's Mostar Music Centre.

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• Live at the Royal Albert Hall

  Lang Lang

  Year: 2012

  Runtime: 2 hr 3 min

  In November 2013, Lang Lang returned to London's legendary Royal Albert Hall for two recitals - finishing a celebrated Mozart and Chopin programme with no fewer than 8 encores. This film captures the complete recital.

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• Waldbühne 2006- Thousand and One Nights

  Berliner Philharmonic Orchestra

  Year: 2012

  Runtime: 1 hr 52 min

  The Waldbühne in Berlin, one of the most appealing outdoor amphitheatres on the European continent, is the home of the Berliner Philharmoniker's summer concerts. With over 22.000 in attendance, they are some of the most popular classical music concerts in the world. This year the outstanding orchestra under the baton of Neeme Järvi take us on a trip to arabian "Thousand and One Nights", with soloist Janine Jansen, a rising star who quickly gained the reputation of one of the foremost young violinists on the international concert stages.

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• Nabucco

  Giuseppe Verdi

  Year: 2007

  Runtime: 2 hr 4 min

  Giuseppe Verdi - Nabucco movie was released Sep 25, 2007 by the Naxos studio. Igor Morosow, Bruno Ribeiro, and Gabriella Morigi star in this Festival St. Giuseppe Verdi - Nabucco movie Margarethen production of the Verdi opera with Ernst Maerzendorfer conducting the Europasymphony Orchestra & Chorus, 2007.
  
  Robert Herzl directs this 2007 performance of Verdi's biblical opera NABUCCO, with Enrst Märzendorfer conducting the Europasymphony and Arad State Philharmonic Chorus Giuseppe Verdi - Nabucco video.

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• Live At the Acropolis

  Yanni

  Year: 2017

  Runtime: 1 hr 41 min

  On September 25, 1993, beneath the glow of the Parthenon, an audience assembled to witness Yanni’s extraordinary homecoming. Live At The Acropolis features the acclaimed composer’s most timeless works brought to life with a full band and orchestra.

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• Tristan and Isolde

  Wagner

  Year: 2016

  Runtime: 4 hr 9 min

  Wagner's supporters say that he took music to new heights of expression here; his detractors say it's the death-knell for melody and structure. It's four hours of aching yearning that does not rest until the last few minutes of the opera.

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• Summer Night Concert 2016

  Semyon Bychkov

  Year: 2016

  Runtime: 1 hr 24 min

  At the Summer Night Concert, the Vienna Philharmonic play open-air in Schönbrunn Palace park and to the familiar high standard. What is unusual is that they play this concert, held each year since 2004, with free admission: it is a way for the famous ensemble to give around 100,000 visitors and the global TV audience a special experience.

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• Hollywood In Vienna The World Of James Horner

  David Newman

  Year: 2016

  Runtime: 1 hr 33 min

  "Hollywood in Vienna: The World of James Horner" was created by Sandra Tomek. The live performance includes music from his favourite movies Titanic, Brave Heart, A Beautiful Mind and many more.

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• Dudamel conducts the Verdi Requiem at the Hollywood Bowl 2013

  Gustavo Dudamel

  Year: 2013

  Runtime: 1 hr 38 min

  Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Philharmonic accent the colours, rhythms, and passion of music by leading composers from Argentina in this invigorating evening at the Hollywood Bowl. Master of the Tango Nuevo, Astor Piazzolla’s four tangos feature on stage the dance company Tango Buenos Aires, known worldwide as the most authentic and uncompromising representative of the tango. Alberto Ginastera, one of the most important twentieth century classical composers of the Americas and Piazzolla´s first teacher, is also represented on this brand new release from C Major Entertainment, along with Lalo Schifrin, whom, beside his concert music, is the composer of the famous scores of Mission Impossible and Dirty Harry. His Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra, a world-premiere recording, is composed for Ángel Romero, an iconic master of the classical guitar.

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  Gustavo Dudamel

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• Ballet's Greatest Hits

  Various Artists

  Year: 2013

  Runtime: 1 hr 38 min

  Presented by Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP), the world’s largest dance education initiative, and subject of the award-winning ballet documentary “First Position,” “Ballet’s Greatest Hits” presents a one-of-a-kind glimpse of ballet from today and yesterday. The film is hosted by “American Idol” and “So You Think You Can Dance” Executive Producer, Nigel Lythgoe, and stars leading figures from the world of ballet. Dancers such as Stella Abrera, Isabella Boylston, Skylar Brandt, Marcelo Gomes, Veronika Part and Hee Seo from American Ballet Theatre, Taras Domitro and Maria Kochetkova of San Francisco Ballet, New York City Ballet favorites Ashley Bouder and Daniel Ulbricht, Matthew Golding of Dutch National Ballet, Alejandro Virelles of Boston Ballet and Greta Hodgkinson of National Ballet of Canada perform iconic roles from the classical repertoire including Swan Lake, Nutcracker, Giselle, Flames of Paris and Don Quixote. Audiences will gain special insight from backstage interviews with the performers and ballet luminaries such as Alexei Ratmansky, Angel Corella, Benjamin Millepied, Edward Villella, Jose Manuel Carreño, Mathieu and Denys Ganio, Matthew Bourne, Susan Jaffe and many others. See them dance, hear them talk and feel their passion in a unique dialogue between ballet’s history and its present.

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• Discovering Masterpieces of Classical Music - Ravel - Bolero

  Maurice Ravel

  Year: 2016

  Runtime: 25 min

  The “Bolero”, originally composed as a ballet, is Maurice Ravel's most successful work at all. The world famous melody of the “Bolero” has been featured in popular music, motion pictures and even video games. Pianist and writer Paul Roberts vividly explains the music and its structure and also lets the audience know why Ravel was a stringent critic of his own work.

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• Berliner Philharmoniker: Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

  Various Artists

  Year: 2016

  Runtime: 43 min

  Recorded live in Rome at Santa Cecilia and at Philharmonie Berlin.
  La Repubblica called it: 'The most wonderful symphonic cycle of the past decade.
  The Beethoven Symphonies mark the high-light of Abbado's relationship with the Berliner
  Philharmoniker and his 12 years as chief conductor.
  "Abbado lets loose all the conflicting elements of Beethoven's cosmos - nothing works anymore, the music threatens to explode once and for all, deliverance has to come from somewhere. A powerful moment of unsparing analysis of Beethoven and his own self...” Süddeutsche Zeitung

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• New Year's Concert 2013

  Franz Welser

  Year: 2013

  Runtime: 2 hr 39 min

  Since 1939, The Vienna Philharmonic's New Year's Concert has become a tradition and the world's most famous classical music event. For the second time in three years,celebrated conductor Franz Welser-Most returns to the podium for this extraordinary event. Welser-Most is the music director of The Cleveland Orchestra,General Music Director of the Vienna State Opera and has been nominated for two Grammy Awards.
  
  The Vienna New Year's Concert is unique and has often been imitated, but not equaled, with a live broadcast on television in over 70 countries around the world with over 40 million viewers

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• Live at the Red Butte Garden

  The Piano Guys

  Year: 2013

  Runtime: 1 hr

  The outdoor concert special from the remarkable classical/pop music stylists filmed at stunning Red Butte Garden in Utah, as seen on Public Television PLUS three bonus performances.

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• Berliner Philharmoniker The Singapore Concert

  Sir Simon Rattle

  Year: 2010

  Runtime: 1 hr 44 min

  The tour of the Berliner Philharmoniker and their musical director Sir Simon Rattle in 2010 concluded in Singapore – their only stopover in Asia for the very first time.
  Described by many as the finest orchestra in the world, the Berliner Philharmoniker present Mahler’s First Symphony – a unique and breath-taking experience in the spectacular Esplanade Theatres on the Bay in Singapore.
  Mahler’s first symphony, originally bynamed as “Titan”, lures the audience into a great symphonic world of sounds. The orchestra is visualized as the sounding body, musical structures intertwine and music becomes visible. The capture of space in the image complies with Mahler’s aesthetic of composition, its natural sounds and the diverse levels of different musical styles.

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• Mahler - Symphony No. 1/Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No. 3

  Claudio Abbado

  Year: 2009

  Runtime: 1 hr 33 min

  Claudio Abbado: Mahler - Symphony No. 1/Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No. 3 movie was released Jul 27, 2010 by the Euroarts studio. This classical music performance release features the opening concert of the 2009 Lucerne Festival. Claudio Abbado: Mahler - Symphony No. 1/Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No. 3 video Claudio Abbado leads the Lucerne Festival Orchestra in interpretations of Sergey Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No.3 in C Major, Op. 26 and Gustav Mahler's Symphony No.1 in D Major, 'Titan'. World-renowned concert pianist Yuja Wang performs on the Prokofiev. Claudio Abbado: Mahler - Symphony No. 1/Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No. 3 film Claudio Abbado conducts the Lucerne Festival Orchestra with pianist Yuja Wang in works by Mahler and Prokofiev, summer 2009.

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• Not this World

  Murray Perahia

  Year: 2010

  Runtime: 52 min

  In February 1977, Murray Perahia made his debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker with Mozart’s C minor piano concerto, conducted by Riccardo Muti. “A first-class soloist was introduced to us, with fantastic musicianship and a highly sensitive touch,” as the press wrote. Many wonderful performances with the Berliner Philharmoniker were to follow. And so it was only logical that the orchestra invited him, as Pianist in Residence, to give a series of joint concerts this current season. In this documentary by Holger Preusse and Claus Wischmann, you can now get to know this exceptional artist better.
  
  Perahia’s now legendary status means that he is often regarded as someone who is somewhat removed from normal life – which corresponds to the title of the documentary “Not of this world”. But it is only Perahia’s playing, with its otherworldly beauty, that seems to be beyond all earthly limitations. As this film shows, the artist engages in all facets of life as well as his work. In interviews on tour and in his Swiss vacation home, he talks about the works in his repertoire, and how he develops his interpretations. We experience him as an inspirational teacher, at work in the recording studio and, of course, at rehearsals and in concert. Perahia also discusses the injury to his hand, which has repeatedly forced to stop playing for periods of time – a terrible experience for a pianist. But Perahia has even come to terms with this difficult situation and has reached some surprising insights: “What seemed like a curse actually turned into a blessing, because it gave me a lot of time to think about music and to listen to it more. And so I felt I was actually growing as a musician, even though I was not playing.”

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• Live in Vienna (Part 1)

  Lang Lang

  Year: 2009

  Runtime: 1 hr

  Filmed live in Vienna s legendary Musikverein concert hall, this release represents Lang Lang s second live recorded recital to date after the best-selling Live at Carnegie Hall in 2004, which marked his international breakthrough as a recording artist.
  
  The program for his Sony debut features Lang Lang s first-ever recording of Beethoven sonatas: The famous Appassionata , a milestone in the piano literature, is paired with the composer s youthful C major Sonata op. 2, no. 3. Virtuosity of a different order is displayed in Albéniz s impressionistic memories of his native Spain in Book 1 of Iberia. The program closes with one of Prokofiev s explosive War Sonatas, the revolutionary Seventh Sonata. Finally, to celebrate the Chopin Bicentennial we hear three encores of this Polish genius s most popular works: the Aeolian Harp Etude, the Heroic Polonaise in A flat major, and the sparkling Grande Valse Brillante No. 2.
  

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• A Mozart Celebration from Berlin

  Various Artists

  Year: 2012

  Runtime: 1 hr 31 min

  In the words of Ben Fong-Torres:
  The soloists—violinist Nikolaj Znaider, soprano Sylvia Schwarts (who’s Spanish, btw), baritone Thomas Quasthoff and double bassist Christof Anacker, are glorious, and are handsomely rewarded with multiple curtain calls. From the overture—“La clemenmza di Tito” through “Symphonie No. 40 in G minor, K.550,” Amadeus’ pieces are masterfully performed.
  
  Performed in the grandeur of Berlin's foremost opera house, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, the Mozart Celebration is dedicated to the life's work of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. This one-time-only gala concert features exuberant Mozart pieces, performed by some of the world’s leading singers and musicians.

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  Various Artists

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• Mozart: The Great Mass

  Uwe Scholz

  Year: 2005

  Runtime: 2 hr 16 min

  Uwe Scholz, ballet director in Leipzig, was hailed as one of the most brilliant choreographic minds of his generation when he died in November 2004 at the early age of 45. His ballet “The Great Mass” is one of the most impressive works of this important neoclassical Choreographer - a requiem, a choreographic revelation and certainly his grand legacy to the Leipzig ballet. The full length Choreography, here recorded at the Leipzig Opera in a performance in June 2005, takes its name from Mozart's famous unfinished Mass in C minor. It absorbs the structure of the liturgy of the mass and adds other works by Mozart as well as passages of Gregorian chant, and sequences from contemporary music by György Kurtág, Thomas Jahn and Arvo Pärt and readings of poems by Paul Celan. Internationally famous soloists from the Leipzig Ballet, among them Kiyoko Kimura, Christoph Böhm and Oksana Kulchytska, take on the leading roles and the staging proves the ensemble to be one of the best ballet companies worldwide.

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  Uwe Scholz

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• The Pyongyang Concert

  The New York Philharmonic & Lorin Maazel

  Year: 2008

  Runtime: 1 hr 47 min

  On February 26, 2008, the world watched as the New York Philharmonic gave the first performance by an American orchestra in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Those lucky enough to be present will never forget that historic evening, when people from two long-divided nations were united through the beauty and power of music. By the end of the final encore, both the audience and the musicians onstage stood waving to each other in a new-found spirit of understanding. We are honored and pleased that through this DVD we can share this transformative experience with new audiences for years to come -- New York Philharmonic President, Zarin Mehta. Hundreds of millions watched the historic concert on television, now exclusively on DVD: the New York Philharmonic concert in Pyongyang.
  Music became diplomacy when this courageous musical project united Americans and North Koreans.
  The musicians went from strength to strength in a beautiful program which illustrated the
  excellency of the orchestra, and Lorin Maazel once more proved his reputation as one of the best contemporary conductors.

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  The New York Philharmonic & Lorin Maazel

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• The London Philharmonic Orchestra

  Vladimir Jurowski

  Year: 2006

  Runtime: 1 hr 52 min

  This film documents Jurowski's first appearance as principle conductor of the London Philharmonic in 2007, which was also the first filmed concert from the newly restored Royal Festival Hall. They perform works by Wagner, Berg, and Mahler with soloists Dav
  
  Jurowski leads a program of modernism and its antecedents. His way with Wagner's Prelude to "Parsifal" is so voluptuously patient that it seems drug-enhanced. Mahler's early cantata "Das Klagende Lied," with good solo singers, sounds aptly like modernism itching to get out of its Romantic clothes. The fever dreams of Alban Berg's Three Orchestral Pieces come alive with rich playing and mellow surround sound. Although from 1914, Berg's Expressionistic intricacies still demanded 75 percent of Jurowski's rehearsal time. He reveals this in a 50-minute interview in which he also lays out his philosophies for a 21st-century orchestra with charismatic warmth.

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  Vladimir Jurowski

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• Europakonzert 2006 from Prague

  Daniel Barenboim And Radek Baborák

  Year: 2005

  Runtime: 1 hr 38 min

  Europa-Konzert from Prague movie was released Aug 28, 2012 by the Euroarts studio. For over 20 years, the world-renowned Berlin Philharmonic have celebrated their founding on May 1 with the annual Europa Konzart. Europa-Konzert from Prague movie The 2006 event was an all-Mozart program featuring Daniel Barenboim in his familiar dual role as both solist and conductor. Europa-Konzert from Prague video Sparkling high definition Blu-ray brings the gorgeous Theatre of the Estates in Prague to life, highlighting this historic venue in its timely finery - attired to evoke the 1787 premiere of Don Giovanni, conducted by Mozart himself.

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  Daniel Barenboim And Radek Baborák

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• Un Ballo in Maschera Act I

  Giuseppe Verdi

  Year: 1989

  Runtime: 52 min

  The outstanding production of Verdi’s Masked Ball at the Salzburg Festivals 1989 and 1990 was Herbert von Karajan’s legacy to the Festival. Supported by a cast of superlative actor-singers in opulent scenery, Sir George Solti agreed to conduct the opera at short notice after Karajan’s unexpected death in 1989. The production had been expected to be a highlight in Karajan’s series of Verdi operas at Salzburg. Karajan’s celebrated ability to unite a cultivated sound with dramatic effects was known to create extraordinary and highly acclaimed opera events. For Un ballo in maschera Karajan planned something unusual: He would not set the opera in colonial Massachusetts, as the censors had forced Verdi to do when he was composing the work, but in Stockholm in the 1790s at the court of King Gustav III of Sweden, as Verdi had originally conceived his work. Together with the film director John Schlesinger and his stage team, Karajan developed a concept that promised theatrical splendour equal to the musical excellence that the conductor and the handpicked cast of singers would surely provide in collaboration with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. But this was not to be: stage rehearsals had already begun for the opening performance of the 1989 festival when Karajan died on 16 July. Therefore it was extraordinarily lucky that a conductor of Sir Georg Solti’s standing, was prepared to undertake the task just a week before the premiere, and with the whole world watching. He and the staging by Hollywood film director John Schlesinger was acclaimed by audience and press alike.

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  Giuseppe Verdi

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• Mahler Symphony No. 6

  Claudio Abbado

  Year: 2002

  Runtime: 1 hr 29 min

  An invisible thread runs between Claudio Abbado and the Second Symphony, "Resurrection" by Mahler. It is with this work that he made his debut with the London Symphony Orchestra and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Vienna in Salzburg at the age of thirty-two and it is this symphony he decides to conduct in August 2003 in Lucerne, with the new orchestra that he helped revive, the Lucerne Festival Orchestra.

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• Mahler Symphony No. 9

  Claudio Abbado

  Year: 2004

  Runtime: 1 hr 23 min

  This very Italian conductor, born in Milan in 1933, who was for fifteen years the director of the Scala trained in Vienna with Hans Swarowsky is extremely familiar with the culture of Central Europe, of its literature and its fine arts. It is with the Second symphony by Mahler that he chooses to make his debut, at thirty-two, with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Vienna. The Youth Orchestra he founded in 1986 bears the name of Gustav Mahler. Since then, Abbado continues to exhale the complex beauty of the Viennese composers’ symphonies in all the concert halls of the world.
  
  That evening in April 2004 at the Saint Cecilia Academy in Rome, it is with the very same Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra that he conducts Mahler’s last symphony that went unfinished, the Ninth Symphony. Composed in 1909, it was premiered in 912 by Bruno Walter, who was a close friend of the composer and whom Abbado heard conduct in Vienna… In this absolute masterpiece of a symphonic work, Claudio Abbado, one with his orchestra, delivers a very moving interpretation which rises like the most beautiful prayer.

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  Claudio Abbado

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• Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.5

  Daniel Barenboim

  Year: 2007

  Runtime: 44 min

  In November 2007, Daniel Barenboim completed a cycle of Beethoven's piano concertos. Recorded live at the prestigious Klavier-Festival Ruhr in May 2007, this DVD recording reflects both a very individual and special reading of Beethoven’s music and the artist’s life-long dedication to the composer. Daniel Barenboim is one of the most prolific and high-profile artists performing on international stages today and Beethoven’s masterpieces have been a key part of his repertoire throughout his career, both as conductor and as pianist. Beethoven himself was a keyboard virtuoso of almost awesome abilities who created a sensation wherever he played. It is no wonder, therefore, that the piano was central to Beethoven’s overall output. Daniel Barenboim, artistic personality and former wunderkind, long an essential part of the international musical scene both on the conductor’s podium and at the piano, is the perfect match for this demanding music.

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• Discovering Masterpieces Of Classical Music - Claude Debussy

  various Artists

  Year: 2006

  Runtime: 28 min

  Debussy’s La Mer is a masterpiece of suggestion and subtlety in its rich depiction of the ocean. Several authors have claimed that La Mer sounds like nothing before it. As a specialist in French Impressionism, the British pianist and writer Paul Roberts - also known from the BBC television series Play It Again - introduces Debussy’s work with great passion to the viewers.

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• The 12 Cellists - The 40th Anniversary Concert

  Various Artists

  Year: 2012

  Runtime: 1 hr 54 min

  Live recording from the Philharmonie, Berlin, 9th May 2012

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• The Ghosts of Christmas Eve

  Trans-Siberian Orchestra

  Year: 2000

  Runtime: 46 min

  TSO's THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS EVE - is a unique fantasy trip through the magic of Christmas. Narrated by award-winning actor Ossie Davis, the production takes us on a journey of a runaway little girl's decision to return to her family after she enters a rundown theater for shelter and encounters an old caretaker who guides her on her journey. This magical story - which features appearances from Atlantic recording artists Jewel and Michael Crawford - was filmed entirely on location at the newly refurbished and historic Loews Jersey Theatre in Jersey City, New Jersey, and includes performances of such tracks as "O Come All Ye Faithful," "Good King Joy," "Christmas Canon," "Music Box Blues," "Promises To Keep," and "This Christmas Day,".

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• Live with Orchestra and Special Guests

  Chris Botti

  Year: 2015

  Runtime: 2 hr 26 min

  December 2005. Los Angeles, California. Trumpeter Chris Botti, on the heels of his break-through gold certified album "When I Fall In Love", and the record-breaking follow up "To Love Again", plays two triumphant shows at the Wilshire Theatre backed by a full orchestra and his virtuosic band. Playing repertoire mostly culled from these two hit albums, Chris is joined onstage by some of the world's most accomplished singers and musicians (in order of appearance) Sting, Jill Scott, Paula Cole, Burt Bacharach, Renee Olstead, Paul Buchanan and Gladys Knight.

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• Ballet on Ice: Sleeping Beauty 2004

  Various Artists

  Year: 2004

  Runtime: 1 hr 48 min

  The award-winning Imperial Ice Stars are 26 Olympic, World, European and National Championship skaters, who jointly hold over 250 competition medals, performing theatrical ice skating on a frozen theatre stage. The Imperial Ice Stars have received five-star praise from critics and standing ovations from audiences at some of the world's most prestigious venues - London’s Royal Albert Hall and Sadler's Wells, Singapore's Esplanade Theatre, Montreal's Place des Arts and Cape Town's Artscape. This stunning performance, filmed at the Melbourne Theatre Company in Australia, offers a new look on the secular tale of Sleeping beauty, with the original music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893).

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• Discovering Masterpieces of Classical Music - Mahler - Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor

  Various Artists

  Year: 2012

  Runtime: 26 min

  The Symphony No. 5 by Gustav Mahler is arguably the best known Mahler symphony. The musical canvas and emotional scope of the work are huge. Herbert von Karajan said once that when you hear Mahler's Fifth, “you forget that time has passed. A great performance of the Fifth is a transforming experience.” The English lecturer and musician Jeremy Barham introduces the work at the piano and reflects on the secrets of the composition.

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• Verdi: Don Carlo

  Antonio Pappano

  Year: 2013

  Runtime: 3 hr 55 min

  Giuseppe Verdi's late opera Don Carlo delivers all the big topics while the ultra-simple décor in Peter Stein's production provides a spartan counterpoint to the dramatic action. With star tenor Jonas Kaufmann in the title role.

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• Hans Van Manen Festival

  Various Artists

  Year: 2016

  Runtime: 1 hr 30 min

  The Hans van Manen Festival was staged by The Dutch National Ballet to celebrate the work of choreographer Hans van Manen for his 75th birthday. International guest artists from companies such as the Kirov Ballet, and Nederlands Dans Theater, joined Dutch National Ballet to perform some of van Manen's most celebrated ballets.
  This gala event includes stunning performances from internationally renowned ballerinas Uliana Lopatkina, Lucia Lacarra and the brightest stars of Dutch dance including Larissa Lezhnina and Igone de Jongh of Dutch National Ballet and the young talent of Nederlands Dans Theater. Recorded at Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam, with behind the scenes footage and interviews.

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• Mozart Piano Concerto No. 22 - Barenboim and the Berliner Philharmoniker

  Various Artists

  Year: 2011

  Runtime: 36 min

  Live recording from the Siemens-Villa, Berlin, 1986 – 1989

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• A Dance Drama

  Nureyev

  Year: 2010

  Runtime: 47 min

  Nureyev is a unique dance drama created especially for television exploring the life of the great Russian dancer, Rudolph Nureyev, who defected to the West at the height of the Cold War in 1961. Integrating original choreography created for the screen and dramatic monologues, the film presents a multi-faceted dramatic portrait of one of the seminal performing arts figures of our time. There are the images of the young boy, born in poverty in Russia's Ural region; the late but promising start at the Kirov ballet school; the highly publicized defection to the west at a Paris airport in 1961; the celebrated partnership with the Royal Ballet's Margot Fonteyn; and finally succumbing to death brought on by the HIV virus at the age of 54 in 1993. Along the way, he changed the way the male dancer was presented on stage, transforming him from a prop to an equal performing partner, though with a fury, energy and sexuality never before seen.

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• Caballé - beyond the music

  Various Artists

  Year: 2002

  Runtime: 1 hr 39 min

  A documentary feature film about one of the most important voices in history. This film accompanies Montserrat Caballé on a trip through the most significant cities, historical performances and audio recordings of her life, including testimonies of those who, through a professional or personal relationship, can help us understanding Montserrat, the person and Caballé, the diva.
  This film is a complex and passionate portrait of a woman who can only be described as a myth. Yet our objective is to get the truth which lies beyond the myth of this extraordinary performer – her sensitivity and vitality underscore her uncontested place as one of the greatest communicators of the Twentieth Century. The film unveils the human side of her personality as well as pay homage to her stunnung career.
  Her ability to reach millions of devoted fans is not so much a result of her superb technical abilities and apparently limitless endurance, but mainly due to her ability to express her most sincere and deepest feelings.
  While a composer may have created a masterwork, it is up to the interpreter to communicate the composer’s emotions to the public, to share their fears and moments of joy together. It is only from a deep understanding of the human condition that one can move so many millions of people for as long as Montserrat Caballé has done.

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• Live At The Quick

  Béla Fleck and The Flecktones

  Year: 2000

  Runtime: 2 hr 5 min

  Recorded in the summer of 2000, Béla Fleck & The Flecktones’ Live At The Quick features an expanded version of the bluegrass-fusion band’s lineup, featuring guest artists from the band’s eighth album, Outbound.

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• Discovering Masterpieces Of Classical Music - Johann-Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concertos

  Discovering Masterpieces Of Classical Music

  Year: 2007

  Runtime: 29 min

  Experience and enjoy, in a completely new way, the great works of classical music, from the Baroque to the modern period, thanks to a new series of audio-visual concert guides, "Masterpieces of Classical Music".
  The six Brandenburg Concertos by Johann-Sebastian Bach rank among the undisputed favorites of all baroque fans. They have become a firm fixture in music education and an integral part of our international musical heritage. So what’s their secret? The internationally acclaimed pianist and Bach expert Robert Levin (tbc) provides an answer

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• Mahler: Symphony No.8

  Gustavo Dudamel

  Year: 2012

  Runtime: 1 hr 30 min

  Seen in hundreds of theatres across North and South America, this is the emotionally charged culmination of Gustavo Dudamel's 2012 Mahler cycles in Los Angeles and Caracas: Mahler's Symphony No. 8, the "Symphony of a Thousand" - 1400 American and Venezuelan performers assembled for a once-in-a-generation event and one of the most ambitious live recordings ever made. "This was not just a grand performance, it was a communal one. The chorus, which included 400 children who sang from memory, was simply indescribable as the many became one. The soloists also flourished in these remarkable surroundings" (Los Angeles Times).

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• Symphony No. 5 in C Minor - The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

  Gustav Mahler

  Year: 1995

  Runtime: 1 hr 22 min

  After the two famous Mahler festivals in 1920 and 1995, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam, presents a special two-season Mahler series, which includes Mahler’s ten large-scale symphonies, performed in chronological order by the world’s greatest orchestra under the direction of great conductors – all brought to life in the wonderful acoustics of the Main Hall of the Concertgebouw.

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• Kremerata

  various artists

  Year: 2015

  Runtime: 1 hr 27 min

  Gidon Kremer is, and has always been, one of the most headstrong and original artists in the music business and he was once hailed by Herbert von Karajan as the world’s best violinist. He celebrated his 60th birthday in 2007 and he has always kept himself young musically with his spontaneity and a readiness to take risks. In his artistic development over the past 25 years, Kremer often found himself functioning as a crossover figure as he discovered fresh routes through well-trodden paths in music. It was in this spirit, that his fine young ensemble Kremerata Baltica, which he founded by bringing together young musicians from the Baltic states, presents music by Mahler, Shostakovish, Sibelius, Sallinen, Piazzola, Rota and a cycle called “Sempre Primavera” compiled by himself.

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• Barenboim - Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 4

  Various Artists

  Year: 2011

  Runtime: 31 min

  Live recording from the Palais Lobkowitz, Palais Kinsky, Palais Rasumowsky and Schloss Hetzendorf, Vienna, 1983/84

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• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Symphony No. 41 "Jupiter"

  Discovering Masterpieces Of Classical Music

  Year: 2005

  Runtime: 27 min

  A completely new way of experiencing and enjoying the great works of music from the Baroque to the modern period – thanks to a new series of audio-visual concert guides, Masterpieces of Classical Music. Each release includes extensive documentation and a complete performance of the work or works in question.
  
  Famous masterpieces from the standard repertoire of the greatest international orchestras are brought closer to the viewer through first class concert broadcasts (Berliner Philharmoniker, Wiener Philharmoniker, Gewandhaus Orchester…) in a timely visual style.
  
  The “Jupiter” Symphony is regarded as a milestone not only in Mozart’s symphonic output but, on a more general level, in the development of the Classical symphony.
  
  The distinguished conductor Hartmut Haenchen explains how Mozart pulled out all the stops as a composer, revealing not just boldness but sheer genius, too.

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• Live at Loreley

  Placido Domingo

  Year: 2013

  Runtime: 45 min

  Placido Domingo performing on the spectacular stage near the famous Loreley rock! He is joined by the two sopranos Angel Blue, who has been described by Placido as ‘the next Leontyne Price’, and Micaëla Oeste, who was a member of the ‘Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist’ program with Washington National Opera, where she triumphed after stepping in mid-performance as Ophelie in Hamlet.

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• Awakening

  Jackie Evancho

  Year: 2015

  Runtime: 1 hr 14 min

  Awakening, Live in Concert is a new concert film from angelic Jackie Evancho featuring songs from her latest CD, Awakening. With music drawn from the best-known pieces from the classical canon, Broadway, uplifting sacred music and pop songs, Jackie s astoundingly beautiful voice soars at the magnificent Longwood Gardens Open Air Theatre. Longwood Gardens is over 1,000 acres of gardens, woodlands and meadows in Pennsylvania s Brandywine Creek Valley, Jackie s home state. In addition to her on-stage performance, Jackie performs at various stunning locations throughout the Garden such as the Chimes Tower and the spectacular Main Fountain.

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• Ballet on Ice: Sleeping Beauty 2013

  Various Artists

  Year: 2013

  Runtime: 1 hr 36 min

  Set to the magnificent compositions of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, The Sleeping Beauty on Ice retells the classic fairytale love story through sublime world class skating, breathtaking high speed lifts and throws, awe-inspiring aerial gymnastics and fire effects in a choreography by the award-winning Tony Mercer, all in the enchanting setting of a theater stage. Performed by a cast of world class ice skaters, holding more than 300 competition medals between them, this wintery spin on one of the most famous fairytales of all time enchants with creative and powerful story-telling, sumptuous sets, spectacular special effects and opulent costumes. Recorded 2013 at the Teatro Montecasino in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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• Discovering Masterpieces of Classical Music - Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 5 in E minor, op. 64:

  Various Artists

  Year: 2012

  Runtime: 30 min

  The Symphony No. 5 in E minor by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was composed between May and August
  
  1888. It was first performed, under Tchaikovsky's own baton, in St Petersburg on November 6, 1888.
  
  While composing the symphony, Tchaikovsky constantly doubted his powers of composition.
  
  However, after a performance of the symphony in Hamburg the composer wrote: "I no longer have a
  
  bad opinion of the symphony, and like it once more!" Constantin Floros, one of Germanys most
  
  renowned musicologists and Tchaikovsky experts, works out the interesting connection between
  
  Tchaikovsky’s work and his biography.

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• Zubin Mehta & Wiener Philharmoniker: Neujahrskonzert - New Year's Concert 2015

  Zubin Mehta

  Year: 2014

  Runtime: 2 hr 30 min

  This classical concert captures Zubin Mehta leading the Vienna Philharmonic through a number of selections from Johann Strauss, Johann Strauss II, Josef Srauss, and Eduard Strauss.

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• Making Of Piano Perfection in 3D

  Lang Lang

  Year: 2016

  Runtime: 12 min

  Lang Lang at Berghain – Piano in perfection in the third dimension! Legendary pianist Lang Lang performs Beethoven, Chopin, Albéniz, and Prokofiev in his very unique way. In personal interviews, he explains his access to the new technology and their connection to classical music. Original and extraordinary – these words describe both the artist and the setting of the shooting: the Berghain in Berlin, one of the most famous clubs all over the world.

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• Mozart Piano Concerto No. 23 - Barenboim and the Berliner Philharmoniker

  Various Artists

  Year: 1986

  Runtime: 28 min

  Live recording from the Siemens-Villa, Berlin, 1986 – 1989

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• The Art of Baroque Dance - Folies D'espagne from Page to Stage

  Various Artists

  Year: 2006

  Runtime: 42 min

  The Art of Baroque Dance examines 17th century Baroque dance from the sophisticated era of King Louis XIV. It explores the creative process and offers valuable insights into researching, reconstructing, re-creating, and performing a Baroque dance.

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• Fiction

  Le Quatuor Ebène

  Year: 2010

  Runtime: 1 hr 22 min

  These four French musicians of Quatuor Ebène are perhaps the most creative ensemble on the international chamber music scene today. No other quartet moves with such ease and enthusiasm between different styles.
  With classical soprano Natalie Dessay, jazz singer Stacey Kent and drummer Richard Héry, the multi- award winning Ebène Quartet revisits jazz, pop and rock standards, often used as movie soundtracks. In this live concert in the famed Folies Bergère music hall in Paris, they perform - and sing - their own arrangement of Misirlou (Pulp Fiction), Somewhere over the rainbow (Wizard of Oz), Streets of Philadelphia, Corcovado... and many more!

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• Berliner Philharmoniker: Beethoven: Symphony No. 1

  Various Artists

  Year: 2012

  Runtime: 30 min

  Recorded live in Rome at Santa Cecilia and at Philharmonie Berlin.
  La Repubblica called it: 'The most wonderful symphonic cycle of the past decade.'
  The Beethoven Symphonies mark the high-light of Abbado's relationship with the Berliner
  Philharmoniker and his 12 years as chief conductor.
  “Abbado lets loose all the conflicting elements of Beethoven's cosmos - nothing works anymore, the music threatens to explode once and for all, deliverance has to come from somewhere. A
  powerful moment of unsparing analysis of Beethoven and his own self...” Süddeutsche Zeitung

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• Discovering Masterpieces Of Classical Music - Richard Strauss

  various Artists

  Year: 1998

  Runtime: 30 min

  Recorded live at the Semperoper, Dresden, 22 September 1998
  A completely new way of experiencing and enjoying the great works of music from the Baroque to the modern period – thanks to a new series of audio-visual concert guides, Masterpieces of Classical Music. Each release includes extensive documentation and a complete performance of the work or works in question
  
  Famous masterpieces from the standard repertoire of the greatest international orchestras are brought closer to the viewer through first class concert broadcasts (Berliner Philharmoniker, Wiener Philharmoniker, Gewandhaus Orchester…) in a timely visual style
  
  The well-known music journalist Habakuk Traber shows how the great tone painter and unrivalled master in the art of instrumentation produced a fascinating synthesis of symphony and programme music

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• The Russian Journey

  Glenn Gould

  Year: 2013

  Runtime: 56 min

  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. This is the story that Glenn Gould in Russia tells by revealing documents from the Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs that had remained classified for years. Witness accounts from musicians such as Ashkenazy and Rostropovitch, parts of the original recordings of Gould’s concerts in Moscow and Leningrad, as well as a recording that had never been released before of his lecture-recital in Leningrad make this an invaluable documentary revealing an aspect of Glenn Gould’s artistry that few people are aware of.

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• The Goat Rodeo Sessions Live

  Yo Yo Ma

  Year: 2015

  Runtime: 56 min

  The Goat Rodeo Sessions Live brings cellist Yo-Yo Ma, fiddler Stuart Duncan, bassist Edgar Meyer and mandolinist Chris Thile together for a one-night only concert filmed at the House Of Blues in Boston, MA.

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• Si Ce Soir

  Patrick Bruel

  Year: 2017

  Runtime: 1 hr 59 min

  Actor and singer Patrick Bruel was one of France's biggest stars during the '90s, first making his name as a teen idol and leading a return to traditional French chanson in the new millennium. Bruel was born Patrick Benguigui in Tlemcen, Algeria, on May 14, 1959. His father abandoned the family when Patrick was only a year old, and in 1962, after Algeria won its independence, his mother moved to France, settling in the Paris suburb of Argenteuil. A fine soccer player in his youth, Patrick first settled on the idea of being a singer after seeing Michel Sardou perform in 1975. As luck would have it, acting would bring him his first success; first-time director Alexandre Arcady ran an ad seeking a young man with a French-Algerian (or "pied-noir" in French slang) accent for his film Le Coup de Sirocco. Benguigui (as he was still called) responded and won the part. The following year, he spent some time in New York City, where he met Gérard Presgurvic, later to become his primary songwriter.
  
  Returning to Paris, Bruel appeared in several films, television shows, and plays, and cut his first single, "Vide," in 1982. It failed to attract much attention, but his next effort, "Marre Cette Nana-là" ("Enough of That Chick"), was a substantial hit in 1984. A follow-up, "Comment Ça Va Pour Vous" ("How's It Going for You"), also found success in 1985. Bruel released his debut album, De Face, in 1986, but it failed to live up to expectations and didn't sell particularly well. After several more film appearances and a live recording made at the Olympia, Bruel recorded a second studio album, Alors Regarde, in 1989. Paced by the smash hit "Casser la Voix" ("To Break the Voice"), the album made Bruel a superstar in Europe and Canada, and would eventually go on to sell over three million copies. Bruel embarked on a sold-out tour; throngs of screaming teenage girls packed his concerts, leading the French media to dub the phenomenon "Bruelmania" (though some critics harbored reservations about his musical talent). A second live album, Si Ce Soir, was culled from the tour.

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• The First 50 Years

  Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

  Year: 1996

  Runtime: 1 hr 1 min

  A documentary on the 50 years' history of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

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• Bayreuth Festival - Wagner: Die Walküre

  Richard Wagner

  Year: 2017

  Runtime: 3 hr 59 min

  Conducted by Daniel Barenboim and directed by Harry Kupfer, Wagner's 'Der Ring des Nibelungen' has never been better realised on film than in this legendary production from the Bayreuth Festival, recorded in 1992. An allegory on the struggle for ultimate power, the 'Ring' consists of four epic dramas. The second of these is 'Die Walküre', which focuses on Wotan, the ruler of the gods, whose ill-fated attempts to recover the ring drive much of the plot; his mortal son Siegmund and daughter Sieglinde; and his Valkyrie daughter Brünnhilde, who supports Siegmund, with tragic consequences. Cast includes Poul Elming (Siegmund), Nadine Secunde (Sieglinde), John Tomlinson (Wotan) and Anne Evans (Brünnhilde) with the Orchester der Bayreuther.

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• Ballet on Ice: Swan Lake 2015

  Various Artists

  Year: 2014

  Runtime: 1 hr 38 min

  The Imperial Ice Stars are an ensemble of 24 world class skaters, holding more than 300 competition medals between them. Praised by critics and audiences alike, they never fail to enchant with creative and powerful story-telling, sumptuous sets, spectacular special effects and opulent costumes. Set to the original score of Tchaikovsky's masterpiece, the Imperial Ice Stars present their 2015 interpretation of Swan Lake on Ice, complete with an exhilarating choreography from leading ice director Tony Mercer. “Inspired by my research into Tchaikovsky’s original score and intentions for the story, I wanted to create a more realistic interpretation of this much-loved tale and transpose it onto ice, creating a new art form in the process – ice dance in a full theatrical setting,” the choreographer explains. “I always felt it was a natural fit, to have swans gliding on ice.”

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• Barenboim - Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 6

  Various Artists

  Year: 1983

  Runtime: 44 min

  Live recording from the Palais Lobkowitz, Palais Kinsky Palais Rasumowsky and Schloss Hetzendorf, Vienna, 1983/84

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• Franz Schubert - Symphony No. 7 in B minor "Unfinished"

  Discovering Masterpieces Of Classical Music

  Year: 2006

  Runtime: 28 min

  Experience and enjoy in a completely new way the great works of classical music, from the Baroque to the modern period, thanks to a series of 20 audio-visual concert guides, Discovering Masterpieces of Classical Music
  Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 8 in B minor, commonly known as the "Unfinished", was started in 1822 but left with only two movements complete even though Schubert would live for another six years. Since Schubert's death at the age of 31, the Unfinished Symphony has been a bit of a mystery, but research has shed new light on the composer's original intentions, as German author and musicologist Habakuk Traber knows.

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• Haydn - 7 Last Words

  Various Artists

  Year: 2011

  Runtime: 1 hr 8 min

  Haydn's Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross was recognised throughout Europe as a masterpiece when it was premiered in the church of Santa Cueva, Cadiz in 1796. Haydn himself thought it was the best piece of music he ever wrote, and it established his fame in Europe and beyond. Paradoxically, the first version for orchestra, the most famous in Haydn's era, is the least known today.
  Now, for the first time, the work has been recorded in its original setting using the original orchestral score, which has only been available in a modern edition since 1962. This historic television recording is performed by Le Concert des Nations under the baton of Jordi Savall, one of Europe’s leading exponents of period music. The performance is enhanced by specially shot footage from the Holy Week processions which take place in Cadiz every Easter.
  Shot in HD, in the setting where the work was commissioned, the city of Cádiz, the performance is available in two versions - music only, or also containing stunning images from the Holy Week processions in Cadiz & readings of the Seven Last Words by a priest.

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• Discovering Masterpieces of Classical Music - Bruckner - Symphony No. 8 in C minor: 1.Satz; 2.Satz;

  Various Artists

  Year: 2012

  Runtime: 30 min

  Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 8 in C minor is the last Symphony the composer completed. When
  
  Bruckner sent it in 1897 to Hermann Levi, the conductor who had lead his 7th to great success, he did
  
  not understand this very different work at all and utterly rejected it, almost driving Bruckner to suicide.
  
  But instead he set to work thoroughly revising the symphony and completed a new version in 1890.
  
  Habakuk Traber explains this masterpieces by introducing Bruckner’s personality and his unique style
  
  of composing.

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• Sensuality & Nationalism in Romantic Ballet

  Various Artists

  Year: 2016

  Runtime: 57 min

  Sensuality and Nationalism in Romantic Ballet shows facets of the 19th century Ballet that illustrate innovations beyond our common understanding of Ballet in this era. It offers a revolutionary focus highlighting the stories and characters of everyday people. This focus is inspired by a combination of dynamic influences from 'national dance'. The Ballet of this era transformed the aesthetics and technique of dance to become the vibrant link to the traditional dance form: classical ballet.

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• Mozart Piano Concerto No. 24 - Barenboim and the Berliner Philharmoniker

  Various Artists

  Year: 1986

  Runtime: 33 min

  Live recording from the Siemens-Villa, Berlin, 1986 – 1989

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• Baroque Dance Unmasked

  Various Artists

  Year: 2011

  Runtime: 48 min

  Baroque Dance Unmasked, Workshop to Performance, directed by Catherine Turocy, the renowned Artistic Director of The New York Baroque Dance Company provides a rare look at the artistic process of re-creating dance from a rich historic era. The film includes information about music, fencing, mask work, notation, costumes and the inner life of dance performers working in this dance style, and contains rare footage of Catherine discussing her unique approach to recovering period dance. It also includes music commentary by conductor/harpsichordist James Richman; historical fencing by Master teachers Ramon Martinez and Michael Hewer; mask work with Arne Zaslove; Feuillet notation with Italian early dance specialist Deda Cristina Colonna, as well as comments from performer/teacher perspectives covering choreography, castanets and costumes. The video also features brilliant performance excerpts which reveal the most important theatrical dance styles of the 18th century: the danse heroique, the demi-caractère, and the comic/grotesque style. The performance excerpts are from the dance-drama: “With Sword Drawn He Dances”. The dancers are in period costume and perform with an original instrument ensemble. This dance-drama was written and directed by Catherine Turocy and filmed by the Dance Collection of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts as part of the program: National Initiative to Preserve America’s Dance.

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• Waldbühne 2012

  Berliner Philharmoniker Andris Nelsons

  Year: 2011

  Runtime: 1 hr 41 min

  For 20 years now EuroArts has produced the annual summer concert of the Berliner Philharmoniker
  at one of the most appealing European outdoor amphitheatres - the Waldbühne in Berlin.
  Under the baton of the young Latvian conductor Andris Nelsons, together with the 1st concertmaster Daishin Kashimoto as a soloist, the Berliner Philharmoniker musically focus on Tchaikovsky.
  The charismatic conductor Nelsons has been Music Director of the City of the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra since 2008, enjoying a critically acclaimed first few seasons. Over the next seasons he will continue collaborations with the Berliner Philharmoniker, Wiener Philharmoniker, Het Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest, New York Philharmonic, and others.

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  Berliner Philharmoniker Andris Nelsons

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• Berliner Philharmoniker: Beethoven: Symphony No. 8

  Various Artists

  Year: 2012

  Runtime: 32 min

  Recorded live in Rome at Santa Cecilia and at Philharmonie Berlin
  La Repubblica called it: 'The most wonderful symphonic cycle of the past decade.'
  The Beethoven Symphonies mark the high-light of Abbado's relationship with the Berliner
  Philharmoniker and his 12 years as chief conductor.
  
  “Abbado lets loose all the conflicting elements of Beethoven's cosmos - nothing works anymore, the music threatens to explode once and for all, deliverance has to come from somewhere. A powerful moment of unsparing analysis of Beethoven and his own self...” Süddeutsche Zeitung

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• Discovering Masterpieces Of Classical Music - Hector Berlioz

  various Artists

  Year: 2006

  Runtime: 29 min

  Experience and enjoy, in a completely new way, the great works of classical music, from the Baroque to the modern period, thanks to a new series of audio-visual concert guides, "Masterpieces of Classical Music".
  Berlioz’ Fantastic Symphony is widely regarded as one of the most important and representative pieces of the early Romantic period. Leonard Bernstein once called it “the first musical expedition into psychedelia” because of its hallucinatory and dream-like nature. The German musicologist Wulf Konold describes the idea behind and the realization of this fascinating work.

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• They Came to Play

  Various Artists

  Year: 2008

  Runtime: 1 hr 31 min

  Chronicles the Fifth International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs, hosted by The Van Cliburn Foundation. Players from all over the world, ranging from self-taught to classically-trained, aged thirty-five to almost eighty, convene in Fort Worth, Texas for a week of intense competition, music and camaraderie. The film provides an intimate look into the lives of these colorful, multi-faceted competitors as they strive to balance the demands of work and family with their love of music. Years of dedicated preparation culminate in critical performances before a professional jury and discerning audience during three nerve-wracking elimination rounds.

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• Joni Mitchell’s The Fiddle and the Drum

  Alberta Ballet Company

  Year: 2012

  Runtime: 54 min

  Joni Mitchell's The Fiddle and The Drum explores Mitchell's life-long concerns about environmental neglect and the warring nature of mankind within a ballet performed to a select soundtrack of her eternal songs. The unique combinations of three art forms - music, dance and art - comprise an engaging spectacle that Joni calls "...the best project of her career."
  Legendary Canadian artist Joni Mitchell and internationally acclaimed choreographer Jean Grand-Maître of the Alberta Ballet Company are the co-creators of Joni Mitchell's The Fiddle and The Drum.

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  Alberta Ballet Company

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• The Ring of the Nibelung - Götterdämmerung - Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires

  Richard Wagner

  Year: 2016

  Runtime: 1 hr 23 min

  To honor Richard Wagner’s 200th birthday, Latin America’s famous opera house in Buenos Aires hosts a one-of-a-kind project: Performing Wagner’s powerful music drama “The Ring of the Nibelung” on stage in a single day. Stage Director Valentina Carrasco, who has worked with the award-winning Catalonian theatre group “La Fura dels Baus” for the past ten years, transposes the “Colón Ring” into the 1970s – the period of Argentina’s military dictatorship. Symbols of that age are seen on the costumes, while the characters also make references to the period in their behavior and gestures.

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• Elina Garanca, Matthew Polenzani, Mariusz Kwiec - Donizetti La Favorite

  Various Artists

  Year: 2016

  Runtime: 2 hr 37 min

  In the autumn of 2016 the Bavarian State Opera staged Donizetti’s La Favorite in the original French version, with Elīna Garanča making her debut in the title role in a staged production of this grand opéra. Director Amélie Niermeyer’s dense and minutely choreographed production had the intimacy of a chamber opera, the tiniest gestures shedding light on the action and allowing Niermeyer to bring out the opera’s feminist potential. Alongside the Fernand of Matthew Polenzani and the Alphonse of Mariusz Kwiecień, Elīna Garanča painted the portrait of a woman who, able to see through others’ motives, is overcome by disillusionment but who by controlling her two lovers succeeds in remaining their superior.

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  Elina Garanca, Matthew Polenzani, Mariusz Kwiec - Donizetti La Favorite

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• Barenboim - Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 7

  Various Artists

  Year: 2011

  Runtime: 26 min

  Live recording from the Palais Lobkowitz, Palais Kinsky, Palais Rasumowsky and Schloss Hetzendorf, Vienna, 1983/84.

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• Discovering Masterpieces Of Classical Music - Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 5

  various Artists

  Year: 2000

  Runtime: 27 min

  A completely new way of experiencing and enjoying the great works of music from the Baroque to the modern period – thanks to a new series of audio-visual concert guides, Masterpieces of Classical Music. Each release includes extensive documentation and a complete performance of the work or works in question.
  
  Famous masterpieces from the standard repertoire of the greatest international orchestras are brought closer to the viewer through first class concert broadcasts (Berliner Philharmoniker, Wiener Philharmoniker, Gewandhaus Orchester…) in a timely visual style.
  
  Claudio Abbado conducts the Berlin Philharmonic live at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Rome, 2001.

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• A Mexican Dream

  Rolando Villazon

  Year: 2010

  Runtime: 59 min

  The film opens with a ride across the Mexican metropolis, home to eighteen million, in one of the famous green Beetle taxis. This is where the tenor Rolando Villazón was born. With a gaze that is part Mr. Bean and part Latin lover, he has sung his way into the hearts of opera fans around the world. Before Villazón’s thoughts ever turned to the stage, he attended school like every other boy. Twenty years later, he is now returning to his alma mater, the German Alexander von Humboldt school in Mexico City. “Somehow it’s strange,” says Villazón, standing among the small boys in the school courtyard. “I was one of them, and now I realize that the child I was back then still exists today. And now I know that this child must always have been within me, because he is who I am now.”
  It is with a nearly childish delight that he cavorts about the stage today - for instance, in the legendary La Traviata production at the 2005 Salzburg Festival. He and Anna Netrebko rehearsed and played probably the most passionate and tragic couple in opera literature.
  The filmmakers Daniel Finkernagel and Alexander Lück accompanied the tenor for two years, making a documentary that does not follow a strict timeline, but moves between present and past when it suits the film’s thematic focus.
  The visit to Mexico arouses many memories, and Villazón talks about special moments in his past for the first time with the camera crew: his first dressing room, the small stage at the Theatro de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, where Rolando sang in his first competition, his first bout of nervousness, the seminary where Rolando worked as a history teacher for five years and even considered becoming a priest himself.
  In addition to revisiting the past, the film shows everyday moments in the life of a tenor who is in demand around the world: acclaimed performances at the Liceo Barcelona, intense rehearsals with Anna Netrebko for the Salzburg Traviata, and his breakthrough performance in 2005 as a marvelously suffering Don Jose at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin.
  A Mexican Dream tells the story of Rolando Villazón’s life, from his early years to his great successes. It is less a chronological biography than an exploration of the thoughts and feelings of one of the great singers of our time.

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• Claudio Abbado conducts the Berliner Philharmoniker: Tribute to Gustav Mahler

  Claudio Abbado

  Year: 2010

  Runtime: 1 hr 33 min

  Nearly 10 years after Maestro Claudio Abbado has left the Berliner Philharmoniker , he returns to honor one of the greatest composers of the 19th century : Gustav Mahler .
  During his tenure as Music Director of the Berliner Philharmoniker Abbado's Mahler interpretations aroused great sensation , and today he is one of the best interpreters of Mahler world . Along with the well-known Mahler singer Anne Sofie von Otter and the famous tenor Jonas Kaufmann ( Echo Klassik " ​​Singer of the Year " 2010) they honor the 100th anniversary of Gustav Mahler on 18 May.

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• Music of Strangers

  Yo-Yo Ma & Silk Road Ensemble

  Year: 2015

  Runtime: 1 hr 35 min

  Over the past 16 years, an extraordinary group of musicians has come together to celebrate the universal power of music. Named for the ancient trade route linking Asia, Africa and Europe, The Silk Road Ensemble, an international collective created by acclaimed cellist Yo-Yo Ma, exemplifies music’s ability to blur geographical boundaries, blend disparate cultures and inspire hope for both artists and audiences. "The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble", the latest film from the creators of the Oscar-winning documentary "20 Feet from Stardom" and the critically-hailed "Best of Enemies", follows an ever-changing lineup of performers drawn from the ensemble's more than 50 instrumentalists, vocalists, composers, arrangers, visual artists and storytellers as they gather in locations across the world, exploring the ways art can both preserve traditions and shape cultural evolution. Blending performance footage, personal interviews and archival film, director Morgan Neville and producer Caitrin Rogers focus on the journeys of a small group of Silk Road Ensemble mainstays from across the globe to create an intensely personal chronicle of passion, talent and sacrifice.

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• Verbier Festival 2011

  Various Artists

  Year: 2011

  Runtime: 1 hr 3 min

  The Verbier Festival is considered as one of the most important European festivals. Every July, the greatest names of classical music gather during two weeks, among the wonderful landscape of the Swiss Alps for an exceptional concert series.

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• Barenboim - Beethoven Piano Sonata No 6

  Various Artists

  Year: 2011

  Runtime: 13 min

  Live recording from the Palais Lobkowitz, Palais Kinsky, Palais Rasumowsky and Schloss Hetzendorf, Vienna, 1983/84

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• A Tango Night - Live from Buenos Aires

  Daniel Barenboim

  Year: 2006

  Runtime: 1 hr 36 min

  On December 31, 2006, Daniel Barenboim came to celebrate the New Year in the Argentinean capital of Buenos Aires in the country where he was born and where he lived for the first nine years of his life. For the pianist and conductor the tango comes naturally and it was with passion that he conducted a huge concert that evening dedicated to this genre across between dance and song. Created and developed in the poor neighbourhoods of Buenos Aires from 1870, the tango very soon became a part of Argentina’s national heritage.

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• In Confidence with Peter Ustinov

  Luciano Pavarotti

  Year: 1989

  Runtime: 50 min

  A unique conversational programme between Sir Peter Ustinov and Luciano Pavarotti during a few days spent together at Pavarotti’s home in Italy. With footage from performances in Central Park and Hyde Park, Luciano recounts his own life story to Sir Peter in this intimate programme.

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  Luciano Pavarotti

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• Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker

  Various Artists

  Year: 2016

  Runtime: 1 hr 44 min

  In this wonderfully traditional, Russian Nutcracker, performed by the Mariinsky Ballet, Tchaikovsky's glorious score is conducted by Valery Gergiev.

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• Mozart Piano Concerto No. 25 - Barenboim and the Berliner Philharmoniker

  Various Artists

  Year: 1986

  Runtime: 32 min

  Live recording from the Siemens-Villa, Berlin, 1986 – 1989

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  Mozart Piano Concerto No. 25 - Barenboim and the Berliner Philharmoniker

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• In Concert 1994

  The Three Tenors

  Year: 1994

  Runtime: 2 hr 53 min

  Legendary tenors José Carreras, Plàcido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti, together with conductor Zubin Mehta, celebrate the finale to soccer's 1994 World Cup with a live concert at Los Angeles' Dodger Stadium before an estimated worldwide audience of more than one billion viewers. With the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Los Angeles Music Center Opera Chorus the tenors perform a selection of operatic arias and international favourites specially orchestrated by composer/arranger Lalo Schifrin. The result is an outstanding event, featuring world-renowned performers who share a passion for opera and football. The Vision (The Making of) takes us behind the scenes to watch as the story of the concert unfolds. In this exclusive film we see the three tenors relaxing, rehearsing and in concert, performing the Brindisi and Granada. And then six weeks later in Los Angeles, they are captured at their final dress rehearsal before the momentous concert.

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• Berliner Philharmoniker: Beethoven: Symphony No. 9

  Various Artists

  Year: 2012

  Runtime: 1 hr 9 min

  Recorded live in Rome at Santa Cecilia and at Philharmonie Berlin.
  La Repubblica called it: 'The most wonderful symphonic cycle of the past decade.'
  The Beethoven Symphonies mark the high-light of Abbado's relationship with the Berliner
  Philharmoniker and his 12 years as chief conductor.
  “Abbado lets loose all the conflicting elements of Beethoven's cosmos - nothing works anymore, the music threatens to explode once and for all, deliverance has to come from somewhere. A
  powerful moment of unsparing analysis of Beethoven and his own self...” Süddeutsche Zeitung

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• The Road to Carnegie Hall

  Various Artists

  Year: 2010

  Runtime: 1 hr 7 min

  Fledgling musicians meet symphony's masters in this dramatic, behind-the-scenes look at a life-changing Carnegie Hall concert.

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• Dudamel & Hancock & LA Phil - Opening Concert (2011)

  Various Artists

  Year: 2016

  Runtime: 1 hr 16 min

  The Opening Night Gala 2011/2012 of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra features keyboard legend Herbie Hancock who joins Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Philharmonic for a high-spirited celebration of quintessential American composer George Gershwin. The concert begins with the iconic Tin Pan Alley composer’s Cuban Overture and his beloved An American In Paris. Then the multiple Grammy Award-winning pianist joins Dudamel and the LA Phil to perform arguably Gershwin’s most famous work, the jazz hued Rhapsody in Blue.

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• Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.1

  Various Artists

  Year: 2011

  Runtime: 41 min

  In time for his 65th birthday in 2007, Daniel Barenboim has completed a cycle of Beethoven's
  piano concertos. Recorded live at the prestigious Klavier-Festival Ruhr in May 2007, this
  recording reflects both a very individual and special reading of Beethoven’s music and the
  artist’s life-long dedication to the composer. Daniel Barenboim is one of the most prolific and
  high-profile artists performing on international stages today and Beethoven’s masterpieces
  have been a key part of his repertoire throughout his career, both as conductor and as pianist.
  Beethoven himself was a keyboard virtuoso of almost awesome abilities who created a
  sensation wherever he played. It is no wonder, therefore, that the piano was central to
  Beethoven’s overall output. Daniel Barenboim, artistic personality and former wunderkind,
  long an essential part of the international musical scene both on the conductor’s podium and
  at the piano, is the perfect match for this demanding music. Conducting and playing at the
  same time, Barenboim chose his orchestra of almost two decades, the Staatskapelle Berlin,
  which he has praised warmly for its exceptional, dark and warm sound. With a tradition
  reaching back to 1570, the Staatskapelle Berlin is one of the oldest orchestras in the world.
  Barenboim plays Beethoven brings together two musical masterminds.

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• Notte Magica: A Tribute to The Three Tenors

  Il Volo

  Year: 2016

  Runtime: 2 hr 1 min

  On July 7, 1990, a magical night took place in Rome: Jose 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. Twenty-six years later, worldwide platinum selling artists, Il Volo, pay tribute to the event and to the Three Maestri with their new album of a live concert event, Notte Magica A Tribute to The Three Tenors. The concert took place on July 1st 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. Although Il Volo were not yet born when The Three Tenors first performed, they grew up listening to them, being fascinated and inspired by their voices and legendary achievements. Now, Il Volo delivers this music to a younger audience so they can experience the same emotions from that long ago magical night.

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• Charity Concert for Japan

  Yutaka Sado

  Year: 2011

  Runtime: 1 hr 31 min

  With this concert Yutaka Sado makes his Philharmonic debut and will be the first Japanese to conduct the renowned orchestra since Seiji Ozawa several years ago.
  Critics have unanimously hailed Yutaka Sado as one of the most enthralling and charismatic conductors of the new generation. The long-time assistant of Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa was awarded the most important conductor’s prizes, e.g. the Premier Grand Prix at the 39th International Conducting Competition and the Grand Prix du Concours International L. Bernstein Jerusalem.

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• Berliner Philharmoniker: Beethoven: Symphony No. 2

  Various Artists

  Year: 2016

  Runtime: 38 min

  Recorded live in Rome at Santa Cecilia and at Philharmonie Berlin.
  La Repubblica called it: 'The most wonderful symphonic cycle of the past decade.'
  The Beethoven Symphonies mark the high-light of Abbado's relationship with the Berliner
  Philharmoniker and his 12 years as chief conductor.
  “Abbado lets loose all the conflicting elements of Beethoven's cosmos - nothing works anymore, the music threatens to explode once and for all, deliverance has to come from somewhere. A powerful moment of unsparing analysis of Beethoven and his own self...” Süddeutsche Zeitung.

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• Discovering Masterpieces Of Classical Music - Felix Mendelssohn - Concerto for Violine in E minor op

  various Artists

  Year: 1997

  Runtime: 26 min

  A completely new way of experiencing and enjoying the great works of music from the Baroque to the modern period – thanks to a new series of audio-visual concert guides, Masterpieces of Classical Music. Each release includes extensive documentation and a complete performance of the work or works in question.
  
  Famous masterpieces from the standard repertoire of the greatest international orchestras are brought closer to the viewer through first class concert broadcasts (Berliner Philharmoniker, Wiener Philharmoniker, Gewandhaus Orchester…) in a timely visual style.
  
  Recorded live at the Gewandhaus Leipzig, May 1997. This film includes extensive documentation and a complete performance of Frank Michael Erben with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig conducted by Kurt Masur.

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• St. Matthew's Passion

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Year: 1985

  Runtime: 1 hr 33 min

  Johann Sebastian Bach composed the St. John Passion in Cöthen during the winter of 1722/23. The text is drawn from chapters 18 and 19 of the Gospel according to St. John, and includes some excerpts from St. Mathew and additional text from a Passion poem by the Hamburg town councillor Barthold Heinrich Brockes. The composer led the first performance at the Good Friday services on 7 April 1724 at St. Nicholas Church in Leipzig, where he had since become municipal music director and cantor of the Thomasschule. This Passion is heard less often today than the St. Matthew Passion, perhaps because the St. John Passion is in some ways more raw and evokes the anguish of the Passion more painfully than the St. Matthew work. A musician’s musician, an occasional firebrand and a constant paradox – Nikolaus Harnoncourt (born in 1929) is one of the most profound and intriguing conductors of our time. Considered one of the world’s leading specialists of Baroque music, he has long since turned his attention to Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, and even to Jacques Offenbach and Johann Strauss. He spent many years as a cellist with the Wiener Symphoniker before founding the "Concentus Musicus Wien" with his wife Alice in 1953. It soon became one of the world’s most respected ensembles specializing in the performance of early music on original instruments. In the 1970s, Harnoncourt joined forces with Jean-Pierre Ponnelle to stage a series of Monteverdi operas at the Zurich Opera House. This universally acclaimed cycle contributed to a renaissance of Monteverdi’s music and set standards for early Baroque performance practice. He later began to turn his attention more and more to the music of Mozart, whom he considers "the most romantic of all composers". Harnoncourt did not make his official debut at the Salzburg Festival until 1992. He has been conducting there regularly since then and is a sought-after guest conductor of such reputable ensembles as the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonics, the Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.

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