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      • 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)

      • InterMezzo

        (54 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)

      • Valser choreography by Catherine Berbessou, Ballet du Capitole

        Valser; Choregography by Catherine Berbessou; For 8 dancers; Scenography and Lights, Marc Oliviero; Costume, Cidalia Da Costa; Soundtrack, Anita Praz; Music, Jean-Sébastien Bach, Les Maîtres-tambours du Burundi, Dario Moreno, Giú per la mala via (louange anonyme du XVe siécle) et divers compositeurs de tango; Ballet du Capitole - Direction, Kader Belarbi; With; Eukene Sagüés Abad, Demian Vargas, Juliette Thélin, Jérémy Leydier, Julie Loria, Nicolas Rombaut, Julie Charlet et Ramiro Gómez Samón. Recorded on January 13rd ans 14th 2017 at the Maison de la Danse de Lyon; TV Director, Denis Caiozzi (67 min)

      • InterMezzo

        (30 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)

      • 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

        (100 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)

      • InterMezzo

        (60 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

        (24 min)

      • Stanley Cowell Quartet at Zinc Bar (New York)

        STANLEY COWELL; Stanley Cowell: Piano; Tom DiCarlo - bass; Steve Williams - drums; Sunny Cowell - voice & strings; Stanley Cowell is Professor Emeritus of Jazz Piano at Rutgers-Mason Gross School of the Arts and a Steinway Artist. He performs professionally, nationally and internationally as solo pianist and in diverse ensemble formations from duos and orchestras in jazz venues and concert halls. He has an impressive list of recordings as a composer and pianist, having performed with artists Max Roach, Miles Davis, Charles Tolliver, Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins, The Piano Choir, Nasheet Waits, Roy Haynes, Art Pepper, Jimmy Heath, and many more. His formal training in music includes a bachelor's degree in music and an honorary doctorate from Oberlin Conservatory, a Master of Music from University of Michigan, study at the Mozarteum Akademie in Salzburg, Austria, and graduate work at Wichita State and University of Southern California. Recent compositions and/or performances include Asian Art Suite for Orchestra, Jazz Sextet & Asian Percussion with Toledo Symphony, solo concert at Billboard Tokyo. Recent CDs: Prayer For Peace, It's Time and Welcome To This New World (SteepleChase) (54 min)

      • InterMezzo

        (60 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)