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• Diva Of Dance

  Maya Plisseskaya

  Year: 2006

  Runtime: 51 min

  These filmed excerpts at the Bolshoi Theatre between 1945 and 1977 bear witness to the unique and eternal art of the prima ballerina assoluta Maya Plisetskaya: unique because of the height of her jumps, the incredible fluidity of her arms and the longevity of her career (she was born on 1925 and danced until she was seventy). Unique also because, like Maria Callas, another prima diva assoluta, she was able to reconcile the most amazing technique with the most dramatic expression; her dancing is intelligent.

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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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• Discovering Masterpieces Of Classical Music - Antonin Dvorák - Symphony No. 9, "From the New World"

  various Artists

  Year: 2001

  Runtime: 27 min

  Discovering Masterpieces of Classical Music - Antonin Dvorak movie was released Jul 31, 2007 by the Naxos studio. Claudio Abbado conducts the Berlin Philharmonic. Discovering Masterpieces of Classical Music - Antonin Dvorak video Dvorak expert Michael Beckerman provides an outstanding documentary introduction to one of the most colorful masterpieces of the Romantic repertory.
  
  Claudio Abbado conducts the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in this 2002 performance of Dvorak's Symphony No.9, "From the New World." It was recorded live at Palermo's Teatro Massimo. Discovering Masterpieces of Classical Music - Antonin Dvorak film.
  

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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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• 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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• Hearing the Silence

  Claudio Abbado

  Year: 2005

  Runtime: 60 min

  An original portrait sketched under the sign of the German poet Holderin - the actor Bruno Ganz recites on of his poems at the beginning of the film. Claudio Abbado is sparing in his words although he is generous in his emotions. That is what makes this documentary special: Abbado talks about his illness (he was operated on for cancer in 2001) and the revolution this illness caused in his life, he shares a little of his private life and talks about his work as a conductor.
  
  We also see him at the age of 35, in 1965, in an interview he gave in Vienna just after directing the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in Bruckner’s First Symphony. We also find out that he and his companion Zubin Meha sang in the choirs of Musikverein under the direction of Bruno Walter, Herbert von Karajan, Hermann Scherchen and Joseph Krips solely for the purpose of attending the rehearsals of these legendary conductors.
  
  Many interviews of orchestra musicians, namely those from Berlin who talk about his departure in 2002, provide us with a clearer picture of his personality. As for the testimonial of is friend Bruno Ganz, it gives us a very personal insight into this exceptional being.

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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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• 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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• Maria Callas - Life And Art

  Maria Callas

  Year: 1998

  Runtime: 1 hr 15 min

  Maria Callas - Life And Art is a brilliant documentary of opera diva Maria Callas. The documentary ncludes extensive interviews with her friends and colleagues, as well as priceless performance footage.

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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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• Discovering Masterpieces Of Classical Music - Johannes Brahms - Violin Concerto in D major

  Various Artists

  Year: 2002

  Runtime: 27 min

  This classical concert finds the legendary violinist Gil Shaham joining forces with The Berliner Philharmoniker and conductor Claudio Abbado, in an interpretation of Johannes Brahms's 1878 Violin Concerto Discovering Masterpieces of Classical Music: Johannes Brahms - Violin Concerto review. The event in question was filmed live at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, on May 1, 2002 Discovering Masterpieces of Classical Music: Johannes Brahms - Violin Concerto film.
  

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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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  Discovering Masterpieces Of Classical Music - Hector Berlioz

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• Discovering Masterpieces Of Classical Music - Béla Bartók

  Various Artists

  Year: 2007

  Runtime: 28 min

  Discovering Masterpieces of Classical Music - Bela Bartok movie was released Oct 30, 2007 by the Naxos studio. Pierre Boulez conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in performance and documentary.
  
  Pierre Boulez discusses the qualities that make Bela Bartok's "Concerto for Orchestra great, and then conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in a performance of the modernist landmark Discovering Masterpieces of Classical Music - Bela Bartok video.
  

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  Discovering Masterpieces Of Classical Music - Béla Bartók

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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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• 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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  Antonio Pappano

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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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• 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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  Gustavo Dudamel

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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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  Richard Wagner

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• Royal Philharmonic Opera: 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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• MINIDocs: 2 Tempos de um lugar - Episode 10

  Tempos de um Lugar

  Year: 2017

  Runtime: 23 min

  Dandara and Paulo Monarco, originally from different parts of Brazil, talk about their
  project ‘2 Tempos de um Lugar’ and the power music has to connect and transport.
  With each note they surprise us with the strength of their partnership.

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• Puccini: La Bohème

  Various Artists

  Year: 2011

  Runtime: 1 hr 5 min

  It seems hard to believe that even during the last century Puccini was greatly underrated by many as a classical composer and indeed his music was considered to be far too melodic. Fortunately today, Puccini's operas have found their rightful place in the repertoires of all the leading Opera companies around the world.
  This production of La Bohème remains true to the period and the libretto of the original score. Inva Mula and Aquiles Machado give masterful performances as Mimi and Rodolfo, as do Laura Giordano, Fabio Maria Capitanucci and, indeed, the rest of the cast, bringing the characters to life and doing full justice to Puccini's magnificent score.

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• Great Conversations in Music: The Composers

  Various Artists

  Year: 2002

  Runtime: 54 min

  The programs for "Great Conversations in Music" were created and hosted by the late Eugene Istomin (1925-2003), one of the world's most admired classical musicians. The four-part series was commissioned by the Library of Congress in 2001 and produced and directed by Peter Rosen of Peter Rosen Productions, Inc. Filmed between December 2001 and March 2003 at the Library of Congress and the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York, the television series spotlighted distinguished pianists, string players, composers and conductors and offered engaging and informative discussions led by Istomin on the state of the art of music. During his more than six decades as a world-class pianist, Eugene Istomin developed close friendships with nearly all of the great names in classical music; he drew on some of these in the closing years of his life to make this series of programs for the Library of Congress. Some of the treasures from the Library's collections sparked lively dialogues among the participants in this series concerning performance practice and pedagogy; the Library of Congress is home to the world's largest repository of music manuscripts and memorabilia, including manuscripts of Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Copland and Bloch. In this presentation composers Milton Babbit, Richard Danielpour, Lowell Liebermann, George Perle, Ned Rorem, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich join Istomin to discuss and argue about the strong feelings and controversies surrounding modern contemporary music and the challenges that programming their music presents. The composers talk about their lifelong struggles to achieve recognition, but express pride in their collective status as representatives of the avant-garde.

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• Great Conversations in Music: The Conductors

  Various Artists

  Year: 2004

  Runtime: 57 min

  Great Conversations In Music was created and hosted by the late Eugene Istomin (1925-2003), one of the world's most admired classical musicians. The four-part series was commissioned by the Library of Congress in 2001 and produced and directed by Peter Rosen of Peter Rosen Productions, Inc. Filmed between December 2001 and March 2003 at the Library of Congress and the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York, the television series spotlighted distinguished pianists, string players, composers and conductors and offered engaging and informative discussions led by Istomin on the state of the art of music. During his more than six decades as a world-class pianist, Eugene Istomin developed close friendships with nearly all of the great names in classical music; he drew on some of these in the closing years of his life to make this series of programs for the Library of Congress. Some of the treasures from the Library's collections sparked lively dialogues among the participants in this series concerning performance practice and pedagogy; the Library of Congress is home to the world's largest repository of music manuscripts and memorabilia, including manuscripts of Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Copland and Bloch.

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• Aram Khachaturian

  Aram Khachaturian

  Year: 2004

  Runtime: 1 hr 23 min

  This multi-part documentary is based on the memoirs of Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978). Rare archival materials have been gathered from Russian archives in Moscow and Armenia, family members have been interviewed on camera, and research is underway for a film that will be the first in the West to document the life and music of one of the world's most loved composers.
  
  Khachaturian was the President of the powerful Composer's Union of the Soviet Union, and as a communist party functionary wielded great influence over the course of Russian music. However, he was also a comrade and personal friend to the dissident composers of the time - Shostakovich, Prokofiev, and others.
  
  This film is about the fine line a man had to tread between being a loyal party functionary on the one hand, and a fighter for artistic freedom on the other.

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