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InterMezzo
(106 min)
Alexei Volodin plays the piano concertos by Chopin
Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, Valery Gergiev (Conductor); Alexei Volodin (piano); Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov; The Golden Cockerel, Suite; Tsar Saltan, suite; Frédéric Chopin; Piano Concerto no. 1 in E minor, op. 11; Piano Concerto no. 2 in F minor, op. 21; Recorded at the Mariinsky Theatre II on December the 23th, 2014; Directed by Vincent Massip (124 min)
InterMezzo
(53 min)
D. Holland, Z. Hussain & C. Potter | Jazz in Marciac
Zakir Hussain (tabla); Chris Potter (saxophone); Dave Holland (double bass); The Indian composer and percussionist Zakir Hussain is THE tabla player of his generation. The tabla is a percussion instrument from the north of India which does indeed give rhythm to the musician's compositions as much when he is performing solo as here when he is accompanied by the bass player Dave Holland or the tenor saxophonist Chris Potter. Considered as a national treasure in India, this artist accrues performances with no less than 150 concerts per year and a career which began at 12 years of age! Perhaps the most impressive virtuoso of the tenor saxophone according to Michel Contat of Télérama, Chris Potter comes from the generation of saxophonists who came to the fore during the course of the 1990's alongside Joshua Redman, James Carter, Chris Cheek and Seamus Blake. Very quickly, this native of Chicago attracted attention because of his succulent tenor sound and a very personal manner of constructing his solos, imposing himself as a reference amongst his peers. Dave Holland's class! This majestic double bass with a round sound. A self-taught double bass player whose atypical manner of playing and magnificent sound were quickly noticed by a certain Miles Davis. A great composer as well. A great leader too.Together with Miles Davis, Chick Corea, Stan Getz or heading up his own groups, the Brit could never be happy with the minimum. Recorded at Jazz in Marciac Festival (Circus top), on July 28, 2018; TV Director, Jean-Marc Birraux (59 min)
InterMezzo
(58 min)
Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence
Ariadne auf Naxos; Opera in 1 act preceded with a prologue; Richard Strauss (Music); Hugo von Hofmannsthal (Libretto); Orchestre de Paris; Marc Albrecht (conductor ); Katie Mitchell (Staging ); Martin Crimp (Dramaturgy ); Chloe Lamford (Sets ); Sarah Blenkinsop (Costumes ); James Farncombe (Lighting ); With; (The Prima donna / Ariadne) Lise Davidsen - (The tenor / Bacchus) Eric Cutler - (Zerbinetta) Sabine Devieilhe - (The Composer) Angela Brower - (Harlequin) Huw Montague Rendall - (Brighella) Jonathan Abernethy - (Scaramouche) Emilio Pons - (Truffaldino) David Shipley - (naiad) Beate Mordal - (Dryad) Andrea Hill - (Echo) Elena Galitskaya - (The Music Master) Josef Wagner - (The Dancing Master) Rupert Charlesworth - (An officer) Petter Moen - (A Wig-Maker) Jean-Gabriel Saint Martin - (Le Buttler) Maik Solbach - (A Lackey) Sava Vemić - (The richest man in Vienna) Paul Herwig - (His wife) Julia Wieninger; Recorded on July 2 & 11, 2018 at the Théâtre de l'Archevéché, Festival International d'Art Lyrique d'Aix-en-Provence; TV Director, Corentin Leconte (132 min)
InterMezzo
(106 min)
Avishai Cohen quartet - D'jazz Nevers
Avishai Cohen quartet @ D'Jazz Nevers; Avishai Cohen, trumpet; Yonathan Avisahi, piano; Yoni Zelnik, bass; Jonathan Black, drums; Dream Like a child, Into the Silence; Quiescence; Behind the broken glass; Bill Evans has two incarnations, as a pianist and a saxophonist. So has Avishai Cohen, a bass player and, tonight, a trumpeter. His musical friendships are long standing. For a decade now, he has been playing with pianist Yonathan Avishai, and hooked up with Nasheet Waits as soon as he arrived in New York from Israel in the 90's. His beard may be on the wild side, but his sound on the trumpet is one of the purest you can hear today. His first album for ECM, 'Into the Silence', was composed six months after Cohen's father died. 'Into the Silence' is about absence, a pregnant silence, deeply intimate, which does not preclude a sense of revolt, rich with vital energy. On four consecutive years, Cohen was voted 'Rising Star' in the 'trumpeter' category by DownBeat, the reference American jazz magazine. An absolute must. Recorded on November 11th at the festival D'Jazz Nevers (Nevers, France) - (Maison de la Culture, Philippe Genty hall); TV Director, Samuel Thiebaut (56 min)
Magnetic Ensemble - D'Jazz Nevers
Magnetic Ensemble @ D'Jazz Nevers; Antonin Leymarie, artistic direction, composition, drums; Benjamin Flament, treated metallic percussions, vibraphone; Sylvain Lemetre, digital and orchestral percussions; Linda Olah, voice; Fabrizio Rat, prepared piano; Adrien Spirli, bass synthesizer; Adrian'Aladin' Bourget, sound designer; Thomas Veyssiére, scenoraphy, lights; Guest; François Corneloup, saxophone; In my heart (Antonin Leymarie); Victory (Antonin Leymarie, Marine Pellegrini); S'abaisse (Antonin Leymarie); Butterfly (Antonin Leymarie); La Fabuleuse (Antonin Leymarie); Dancing Alone (Antonin Leymarie); What to you call a birthday party that doesn't end on the dance floor? A fiasco! No danger of this with the Magnetic Ensemble. They turned the Maison de la Culture into a proper dance floor. No beatbox for Antonin Leymarie's quintet. Why use one when you can do so much better yourself? Techno has not been very popular with jazzmen, largely for its lack of flexibility (a rigid tempo, a uniformity of sound). The Magnetic Ensemble picks up the challenge and demonstrates brilliantly that techno can be human, very human. Prepare yourself for a technoid trance, slow, progressive, polyrhythmic, irresistible, wild, frenzied. This music is made for movement! Recorded on November 12th at the festival D'Jazz Nevers (Nevers, France) - (Maison de la Culture, hall); TV Director, Samuel Thiebaut (50 min)
Soundprints feat. Joe Lovano & Dave Douglas - Roma Jazz Festival
SOUND PRINTS; Joe Lovano, saxophones; Dave Douglas, trumpet; Lawrence Fields, piano; Linda Oh, double bass; Joey Baron, drums. Joe Lovano and Dave Douglas are two one-of-a-kind world-class saxophonist and trumpeter. They both possess very strong personalities that produce vital and elegant music marked by virtuoso pieces that nonetheless sound very new and expressive, while at the same time displaying strong ties to the whole jazz tradition. This outstanding duo will pay an enthusiastic and fascinating tribute to Wayne Shorter, great composer and undisputed genius of the saxophone. Lovano and Douglas will bring to the stage some of Shorter's compositions that they have exclusively arranged for this project, as well as original songs. The result is a musical wonder, in which sounds from the past meet both the present and the future. The extravagant quality of their jazz will surprise you for its complexity, sophistication, but also for its emotional drive. Auditorium Parco della Musica - Rome (56 min)
InterMezzo
(30 min)
Valery Gergiev conducts Samson et Dalila by Saint-Säens
Samson et Dalila, opera in three acts by Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921); Libretto by Ferdinand Lemaire. First performance in Weimar, Grossherzogliches Theater, 2 December 1877; Mariinski Theatre Orchestra & Chorus, Valery Gergiev (Conductor); Andrei Petrenko (Chorus Master); Yannis Kokkos (Stage Director, Sets); Yannis Kokkos, Paola Mariani (Costumes), Anne Blancard (Dramaturgy), Michael Bauer (Lighting), Maxim Petrov (Choreography), Eric Duranteau (Video); Ekaterina Semenchuk (Dalila); Gregory Kunde (Samson); Roman Burdenko (Le Grand Pretre de Dagon); Mikhail Petrenko (Abimélech); Recorded on 25 Mai & 2 June 2016 at the Mariinsky (Saint Petersburg); Directed by Louise Narboni (132 min)
InterMezzo
(76 min)
Tetzlaff Quartet plays Mozart, Shostakovich and Sibelius
Tetzlaff Quartet; Christian Tetzlaff (Violin), Elisabeth Kufferath (Violin), Hanna Weinmeister (Viola), Tanja Tetzlaff (Cello); Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791); String Quartet No.16 in E-flat major, K.428; Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 - 1975); String quartet no. 11 in F major, op. 122; Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957); String Quartet 'Voces intimae', Op.56; Recorded in January 2016 at the Philharmonie 2, Cité de la Musique, Salle de Concerts, Paris; Directed by par Franck Chaudemanche (80 min)
Music and Dance for a While with l'Arpeggiata
L'Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar (Conductor); Céline Scheen (Soprano), Vincenzo Capezzuto (alto); Mei Hon Lin Dance Company; Dirk Hofacker (Sets & Costumes); Music and Dance for a While; Improvisations on Henry Purcell, G.F. Händel, Claudio Monteverdi. Georg Friedrich Händel / Improvisation / arr. C. Pluhar: Sinfonia - Arrival of the Queen of Sheba; Henry Purcell / Improvisation / arr. C. Pluhar: Strike the viol (Céline Scheen); Georg Friedrich Händel / Improvisation: Lascio ch'io pianga; Henry Purcell / Improvisation / arr. C. Pluhar: `Twas within a furlong (Vincenzo Capezzuto); Claudio Monteverdi: Pur ti miro (Céline Scheen, Vincenzo Capezzuto); Traditional (Venezuela): El curruchá (Vincenzo Capezzuto, Céline Scheen); Claudio Monteverdi: Lamento della Ninfa (Céline Scheen); Traditional (Sicily) / arr. C. Pluhar: Silenziu d'amuri (Vincenzo Capezzuto); Georg Friedrich Händel / Improvisation / arr. C. Pluhar: Sinfonia - Alcina; Henry Purcell / Improvisation / arr. C. Pluhar: Music for a while (Céline Scheen); Traditional (Salento): Pizzica di San Vito (Vincenzo Capezzuto); Traditional (Bulgaria): Bucimis; Giovanni Felice Sances: Stabat Mater (Céline Scheen); Improvisation: Hasapiko; Traditional (Italy): Tarantella del Gargano (Vincenzo Capezzuto); Traditional (Mexico) / arr. C. Pluhar: La Llorona (Vincenzo Capezzuto); Henry Purcell / Improvisation / arr. C. Pluhar: When I am laid (Céline Scheen); Improvisation: Canario; Maurizio Cazzati / arr. C. Pluhar: Ciaccona; Girolamo Kapsberger: Toccata L'Arpeggiata; Traditional (Italy) / arr. Christina Pluhar: Ninna, nanna sopra la Romanesca (Vincenzo Capezzuto, Céline Scheen); Georg Friedrich Händel / Improvisation / arr. C. Pluhar: O sleep, why thost thou leave me (Céline Scheen); Recorded on November 6, 2017 at the Landestheater Linz, Austria; Directed by Sonia Paramo (100 min)
InterMezzo
(58 min)
Lac by Jean-Christophe Maillot, Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo
Lac (Lake); Choreographer, Jean-Claude Maillot; Music, P.I. Tchaikovsky; Additional music, Bertrand Maillot; Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra; Conductor, Nicolas Brochot; Scenography, Ernest Pignon-Ernest; Costume, Philippe Guillotel; Dramaturgy, Jean Rouaud; Lights: Jean-Claude Maillot and Samuel Thery; Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo; Directed by Denis Caiozzi; Recorded at the Grimaldi Forum in Monte-Carlo in January 2013 (93 min)
White Darkness de N. Duato, The Lavender Follies de J. Hernandez, Ballet de Monte-Carlo
White Darkness; Choreography by Nacho Duato; Music by Karl Jenkins ( Adiemus variatons, string quartet N°2); The Lavender Follies; Choreography by Joseph Hernandez; Music by Johannes Till; Wth; The Ballets de Monte Carlo, and; Asier Edeso, April Ball, Francesco Mariottini, Maude Sabourin, Kaori Tajima, Taisha Barton- Rowledge, Benjamin Stone, Simone Tribuna, Alvaro Prieto, Lennart Radtke, Anna Blackwell... Recorded on July 28 & 29, 2018 at the Monte-Carlo Opera, Garnier Hall; TV Director, Andreas Morell (74 min)
InterMezzo
(60 min)
Massenet's Cendrillon at the Glyndebourne Festival
Cendrillon; Conte de fées in four acts by Jules Massenet (1842 - 1912); Libretto by Henri Cain after Charles Perrault's fairy-tale; First performance in Paris, Opéra Comique, 24 May 1899; London Philharmonic Orchestra, John Wilson (Conductor); The Glyndebourne Chorus; Fiona Shaw (Stage Director); Jon Bausor (Set Designer), Nicky Gillibrand (Costume Designer), Anna Watson (Lighting Designer); Danielle de Niese (Cendrillon); Kate Lindsey (Le Prince Charmant); Nina Minasyan (La Fée); Lionel Lhote (Pandolfe); Agnes Zwierko (Madame de la Haltiére); Eduarda Melo (Noémie); Julie Pasturaud (Dorothée); Recorded at the Glyndebourne Festival, 30 June 2019 (150 min)
Erik Truffaz Quartet - Jazz sous les pommiers
Erik Truffaz 4tet - Jazz sous les pommiers Festival 35th edition; With; Erik Truffaz, trumpet; Marcello Giuliani, bass; BenoIt Corboz, keyboards; Arthur Hnatek, drums; Greatly appreciated for their memorable performances in Coutances, the quartet of Erik Truffaz is back with a new album called Doni Doni. Always composed of the bassist Marcello Giuliani, Benoit Corboz on the keyboards, the group draws new energy since the arrival of Arthur Hnatek, a young drummer from New York who officiates with Tigran Hamasyan. Their music, enriched with world influences, oscillates slightly between jazz and instrumental pop. Their stage performance style is marked by their great musical complicity and a widely shared with their audience pleasure. Recorded on May 5th 2016 at the Macel Helie Hall, Coutances; TV direction by Thierry Villeneuve (88 min)
InterMezzo
(31 min)
Tetzlaff Quartet plays Mozart, Shostakovich and Sibelius
Tetzlaff Quartet; Christian Tetzlaff (Violin), Elisabeth Kufferath (Violin), Hanna Weinmeister (Viola), Tanja Tetzlaff (Cello); Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791); String Quartet No.16 in E-flat major, K.428; Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 - 1975); String quartet no. 11 in F major, op. 122; Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957); String Quartet 'Voces intimae', Op.56; Recorded in January 2016 at the Philharmonie 2, Cité de la Musique, Salle de Concerts, Paris; Directed by par Franck Chaudemanche (80 min)
Music and Dance for a While with l'Arpeggiata
L'Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar (Conductor); Céline Scheen (Soprano), Vincenzo Capezzuto (alto); Mei Hon Lin Dance Company; Dirk Hofacker (Sets & Costumes); Music and Dance for a While; Improvisations on Henry Purcell, G.F. Händel, Claudio Monteverdi. Georg Friedrich Händel / Improvisation / arr. C. Pluhar: Sinfonia - Arrival of the Queen of Sheba; Henry Purcell / Improvisation / arr. C. Pluhar: Strike the viol (Céline Scheen); Georg Friedrich Händel / Improvisation: Lascio ch'io pianga; Henry Purcell / Improvisation / arr. C. Pluhar: `Twas within a furlong (Vincenzo Capezzuto); Claudio Monteverdi: Pur ti miro (Céline Scheen, Vincenzo Capezzuto); Traditional (Venezuela): El curruchá (Vincenzo Capezzuto, Céline Scheen); Claudio Monteverdi: Lamento della Ninfa (Céline Scheen); Traditional (Sicily) / arr. C. Pluhar: Silenziu d'amuri (Vincenzo Capezzuto); Georg Friedrich Händel / Improvisation / arr. C. Pluhar: Sinfonia - Alcina; Henry Purcell / Improvisation / arr. C. Pluhar: Music for a while (Céline Scheen); Traditional (Salento): Pizzica di San Vito (Vincenzo Capezzuto); Traditional (Bulgaria): Bucimis; Giovanni Felice Sances: Stabat Mater (Céline Scheen); Improvisation: Hasapiko; Traditional (Italy): Tarantella del Gargano (Vincenzo Capezzuto); Traditional (Mexico) / arr. C. Pluhar: La Llorona (Vincenzo Capezzuto); Henry Purcell / Improvisation / arr. C. Pluhar: When I am laid (Céline Scheen); Improvisation: Canario; Maurizio Cazzati / arr. C. Pluhar: Ciaccona; Girolamo Kapsberger: Toccata L'Arpeggiata; Traditional (Italy) / arr. Christina Pluhar: Ninna, nanna sopra la Romanesca (Vincenzo Capezzuto, Céline Scheen); Georg Friedrich Händel / Improvisation / arr. C. Pluhar: O sleep, why thost thou leave me (Céline Scheen); Recorded on November 6, 2017 at the Landestheater Linz, Austria; Directed by Sonia Paramo (100 min)