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      • InterMezzo

        (74 min)

      • Gautier Capuçon and Frank Braley play Beethoven at the Philharmonie de Paris

        Gautier Capuçon (Cello), Frank Braley (piano); Ludwig van Beethoven; Sonata for cello and piano no. 4 in C major, op. 102 no. 1; Sonata for cello and piano no. 2 in G minor op. 5 no. 2; 7 Variations on 'Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen', WoO 46; Sonata for cello and piano no. 5 in D major, op. 102 no. 2; Recorded on October 17th 2016 at the Philharmonie de Paris; Directed by Don Kent (88 min)

      • Julia Fischer, Lionel Bringuier and the Tonhalle Orchestra: Sibelius, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven

        Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Lionel Bringuier (Conductor); Julia Fischer (violin); Jean Sibelius; Finlandia op. 26; Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky, Romeo and Juliet (overture-fantasia); Ludwig van Beethoven; Concerto for violin and orchestra in D major, op. 61; Recorded on 12 June, 2015, at the Tonhalle, Zurich; Directed by Sébastien Glas (86 min)

      • Yom 'Back to the Klezmer' - Banlieues Bleues

        Like David Krakauer, the intrepid clarinettist navigates with ease between the acoustic tradition and more electric experiments. With his new quartet, he declares his love for klezmer music. YOM CLARINETS, MAXIME ZAMPIERI TAPAN, DARIO IVKOVIC ACCORDEON, BENOÎT GIFFARD TROMBONE AND TUBA (51 min)

      • InterMezzo

        (60 min)

      • Nutcracker by Kader Belarbi, Ballet du Capitole

        Casse-Noisette (The Nutcracker); Choreography by Kader Belarbi; Ballet in two acts; Ivan Vsevolojski et Marius Petipa, libretto; After Histoire d'un Casse-Noisette, adapted by Alexandre Dumas; from Nutcracker and The Mouse King by E. T. A. Hoffmann; Piotr Ilitch Tchaikovski, music; Ballet du Capitole; Kader Belarbi, direction; Orchestre national du Capitole; Koen Kessels, conductor; Maîtrise du Capitole; Alfonso Caiani, chorus master; Anthony Rouchier, composition and arrangements; Kader Belarbi, choreographye and staging; Antoine Fontaine, sets; Lola Sergent, sets assistant; Philippe Guillotel, costume; Hervé Gary, lighting; With; (Nutcracker) Ramiro Gómez Samón; (Drosselmeyer) Rouslan Savdenov; (The Ultimate Supervision) Alexandra Surodeeva; (Marie) Natalia de Froberville; Recorded on December 27 and 29, 2017 at the Théâtre du Capitole; TV Director, Luc Riolon (105 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

        (62 min)

      • Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno by Haendel at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence

        Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno; Oratorio en two parts by Georg Friedrich Haendel (1685 - 1759); Libretto by cardinal Benedetto Pamphili; First performance in Rome, 1707; Le Concert d'Astrée, Emmanuelle Haim (Conductor); Krzysztof Warlikowski (Stage Direction); Malgorzata Szczesniak (Sets & Costumes), Christian Longchamp (Dramaturgy), Felice Ross (Lighting), Claude Bardouil (Choreography), Denis Guéguin (Video); Sabine Devieilhe (Bellezza); Franco Fagioli (Piacere); Sara Mingardo (Disinganno); Michael Spyres (Tempo); Live from the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence; TV direction by Stéphane Metge (137 min)

      • InterMezzo

        (70 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

        (26 min)

      • Joyce DiDonato sings La Donna del Lago by Rossini at the Metropolitan Opera

        La Donna del Lago; Opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini (1792 - 1868); Libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola based on Sir Walter Scott's 'The Lady of the Lake'; First performance in Naples, Teatro San Carlo, October 24, 1819; The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus, Michele Mariotti (Conductor); Donald Palumbo (Chorus Master); Paul Curran (Stage Direction); Kevin Knight (Sets & Costumes), Duane Schuler (Lighting), Driscoll Otto (Projection); Joyce DiDonato (Elena); Juan Diego Flórez (Giacomo V); Daniela Barcellona (Malcolm); Eduardo Valdes (Serano); Oren Gradus (Duglas d'Angus); John Osborn (Rodrigo Di Dhu); Olga Makarina (Albina); Gregory Schmidt (Bertram); Recorded at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, in 2015; Directed by Gary Halvorson (164 min)

      • InterMezzo

        (74 min)

      • Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra: Debussy and Mussorgsky

        Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, Valery Gergiev (conductor); Claude Debussy; La Mer; Prélude á l'aprés-midi d'un faune; Modest Mussorgsky; Pictures at an exposition; Recorded on December 8, 2014 at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, Moscow; Directed by Don Kent (73 min)

      • Casals Quartet plays Schubert, Shostakovich and Beethoven

        Casals Quartet; Vera Martínez Mehner (Violin), Abel Tomás (Violin), Jonathan Brown (Viola), Arnau Tomás; (Cello); Franz Schubert; String quartet no. 12 in C minor, D. 703 'Quartettsatz'; Dmitri Shostakovich; String quartet no. 6 in G major op. 101; Ludwig van Beethoven; String quartet no. 8 in E minor, op. 59 no. 2 ''Razumovsky''; Recorded in January 2016 at the Philharmonie 2, Cité de la Musique, Salle de Concerts, Paris; Directed by par Franck Chaudemanche (71 min)

      • InterMezzo

        (90 min)

      • Chris Cheek at Zinc Bar (New York)

        Chris Cheek; Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Chris Cheek began playing the alto sax at the age of 12. Thanks to a strong public school music program and a highly supportive family, Chris had good educational and performance experiences from the very beginning. While attending Webster University, Chris played with a variety of local Jazz and Blues bands including legendary saxophonist Willie Akins' group and the Bob Kuban Brass. Chris went to Boston in 1988 to attend Berklee College of music where he studied with Herb Pomeroy, Joe Viola and Hal Crook. Chris moved to New York in 1992 and since then has toured and recorded with Paul Motian, Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra, The Bloomdaddies, and the Orquestra de Jazz de Matosinhos. Chris has also played with Bill Frisell, Brian Blade, Lee Konitz, Carla Bley, Tom Harrell, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Frank Carlberg, Eliot Zigmund, Brad Mehldau, Kurt Rosenwinkel and many others! Chris also plays with the Brooklyn Boogaloo Blowout, Rudder, Steve Swallow's Quintet and Guillermo Klein's 'Los Guachos'. In addition to appearing on numerous CD's as a sideman, Chris has recorded 4 albums as a leader for Fresh Sound Records. He currently resides in Brooklyn, NY. (59 min)

      • Andy Bey at Zinc Bar (New York)

        Andy Bey (piano and voice) solo at Zinc Bar (57 min)

      • Frank Lacy Quartet at Zinc Bar (New York)

        Frank Lacy Sextet; Frank Lacy is one of the great talents of the generation that hit New York in the late 70's. Widely know as a sideman with such big figures as Lester Bowie, David Murray and Roy Hargrove, as well as Art Blakey's music director, Frank's own music is a fresh and personal distillation of his unique experiences. (56 min)

      • Norma Winstone - EFG London Jazz Festival

        NORMA WINSTONE TRIO & EMILY REMEMBERED LIVE AT THE EFG LONDON JAZZ FESTIVAL; Since emerging on the London jazz scene in 1966 with an engagement at Ronnie Scott's Club, Norma Winstone has worked with many of the innovators on the British and European scene. Her unique voice could be said to define an entire era of British and European Jazz, from re-inventions of The Great American Songbook to more abstract excursions into vocal timbre. She recorded five albums for the iconic German record label ECM with the group Azimuth, with John Taylor and Kenny Wheeler. Her own album for ECM, Somewhere Called Home with John Taylor and saxophonist/clarinettist Tony Coe, has become a classic vocal album, and her latest album Dance without Answer was released on ECM in 2013. (57 min)

      • InterMezzo

        (60 min)

      • Nicholas Angelich at La Grange de Meslay: Chopin, Schumann, Liszt

        Nicholas Angelich (piano); Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849); Nocturne op. 55 No. 2 in E-flat major; Étude Op. 10, No. 10 in A-flat major; Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856); Kreisleriana opus 16; Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886); Sonata in B minor S. 178; Frédéric Chopin; Mazurka in G sharp minor Op.33 No.1; Mazurka in F minor Op.63 No.2; Recorded on June 25th 2016 at the Grange de Meslay, Fetes Musicales en Touraine; TV direction by François-René Martin (95 min)

      • Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Bartók with the Orchestre de Paris

        Orchestre de Paris, Esa-Pekka Salonen (Conductor); Katia et Marielle Labéque (pianos); Béla Bartók; Dance Suite, Sz 77; Concerto for two pianos, percussion and orchestra; Concerto for orchestra, Sz 116; Recorded on 21 October 2015 at the Philharmonie de Paris; TV Director, Jean-Pierre Loisil (87 min)