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Mendelssohn's Symphonies nos.2 & 3 by Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor); RIAS Kammerchor; Karina Gauvin (soprano), Regula Mühlemann (soprano), Daniel Behle (tenor); Felix Mendelssohn; Symphony no 3 'Scottish'; Symphony no 2 'Hymn of Praise'; Recorded on February the 20th, 2016 at the Philharmonie 1 of Paris - Grande Salle; TV director, Don Kent (116 min)
InterMezzo
(18 min)
Béla Fleck & the Flecktones - Festival international de jazz de Montréal
Béla Fleck & the Flecktones; Béla Fleck (Banjo); Victor Wooten (Bass guitar); Futureman (Percussions); Howard Levy (Harmonica); Banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck and his supremely talented Flecktones-Victor Wooten, Futureman and Howard Levy-are globally renowned for their magisterial performances and musical potpourri seasoned with bluegrass, African music, electric blues and Eastern European folk. Eight years after their last Festival visit, they finally make a highly anticipated return. Unmissable. Live from the Montreal Jazz Festival, Maisonneuve Theater; TV Director, Mathieu Mastin (100 min)
Youn Sun Nah - Festival international de jazz de Montréal
Youn Sun Nah, Festival International de Jazz de Montréal; youn Sun Nah, voice; Jamie Saft, piano and keyboards; Clifton Hyde, guitar TBC and acoustic bass; Dan Rieser, drums; YSN was born and raised in Seoul in a family captivated by the voice; her father is a choir conductor and her mother is a; musical actress. The year after that, she's invited by the Korean Symphony Orchestra to sing gospels. She makes her first; steps on record and on stage. Following that experience, she's noticed and hired in musicals. Her appearances are rewarded; and new opportunities lead her to make choices: a career is opening to her but she's not convinced to be on the right track. She finally decides to go back to school to study music and singing. Francophile, amateur of chanson, she settles down in; Paris during the fall 1995. She registers at the National Institute of Music in Beauvais, at the Conservatory of Nadia and Lili; Boulanger and at the CIM, school of jazz and current music. It is in that school that the epiphany happens. During 6 full seasons, her voice and her personality have impacted and touched the hearts all over the globe. About 500; concerts between 2009 and 2015, most of them sold-out, 3 albums and 2 of them gold records in France and Germany; (Same girl & Lento, ACT). Throughout this time she has received many distinctions from her peers (Académie du Jazz in; France, Echo Jazz in Germany, Korean Music Award in Korea) and appeared at the 2014 Winter Olympics' closing; ceremony. In May 2017, YSN release a new album: She Moves On. She'll be on tour during the whole season of 2017-2018. Recorded on 2017, June 28th at the Monument National, Montreal International Jazz Festival; TV Director, Mathieu Mastin (62 min)
Edmar Castadena - Festival International de Jazz de Montréal
Edmar Castadena at the International Jazz Festival of Montréal 2016; As an out-of-the-ordinary harpist, and one of the most creative musicians of the Big Apple, Edmar Castadena possesses the polyvalence and the enchanting charisma to draw his instrument into the light, which is pretty rare in the world of jazz and improvised music. Performing on the most prestigious stages of the world, Edmar Castadena 's body and his Colombian harp seems to make only one, shaping incredible detailed rhythm by unheard nuances, thus rivaling with the greatest flamenco guitarists. Edmar Castadena's last album 'Double Portion' (with Miguel Zenon, the cuban pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaban and the mandolinist Hamilton de Holanda) draws the fans and critics' attention, Recorded on June 30th at the Théâtre Maisonneuve, Montréal; TV direction by Mathieu Mastin (45 min)
China Moses - Alfa Jazz Fest
China Moses; China Moses, vocals; Luigi Grasso, saxophone, keyboard; Joe Armon Jones, piano; Neil Charles, bass; Marijus Aleksa, drums; China Moses is an outstanding American vocalist and the daughter of the famous jazz singer Dee Dee Bridgewater (the headliner at the fourth Alfa Jazz Fest) and Gilbert Moses. She was born in Los Angeles and later moved to Paris. She released her first single, 'Time' (1996), at the age of 16. Her first albums brought her success and fame in France on the soul and pop scene. In addition to her career as a singer and backing vocalist, she also works as a host at Radio Nova and MTV in France. In 2008, she launched her own production company, MadeInChina Productions. In 2009, she released an album called This One's for Dinah (Blue Note France), a tribute to Dinah Washington. Her next album, Crazy Blues, was named by British newspaper The Times as one of the top 100 albums of 2013. At the end of March 2017, she released her long-awaited new album, Nightintales. China co-hosted and sang at the first UNESCO International Jazz Day in Paris, and she also often performs concerts for US UNESCO. Recorded on 2017, June 25th at the Alfa Jazz Fest, Ukraine; TV Director, Amos Rozenberg (61 min)
InterMezzo
(14 min)
Seong-Jin Cho at the Verbier Festival: Debussy, Schumann, Chopin
Seong-Jin Cho (piano); Claude Debussy (1862-1918); Images, Books 1 & 2; Robert Schumann (1810-1856); Fantasiestücke op.12; Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849); Piano Sonata no 3 in B minor op.58; Franz Liszt (1811-1886); Etude d'exécution transcendante No.10; Recorded 23 July 2018 at the Verbier Festival; TV Director, Pierre-Martin Juban (90 min)
Evgeny Kissin at the Verbier Festival: Chopin, Schumann, Debussy, Scriabin
Evgeny Kissin (piano); Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849); Three Nocturnes; Robert Schumann (1810-1856); Piano Sonata no 3 in F minor op.14; Claude Debussy (1862-1918); Eight Preludes; Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915); Piano Sonata no 4 in F sharp major op.30; Claude Debussy (1862-1918); Golliwog's cakewalk; Recorded 22 July 2018 at the Verbier Festival; TV Director, Pierre-Martin Juban (78 min)
InterMezzo
(20 min)
The Bronze Horseman - Mariinsky Theater Ballet
The Bronze Horseman; Ballet in three acts; Choreography by Rostislav Zakharov and Yuri Smekalov; Music by Reinhold Gliere; Libretto by Pyotr Abolimov, after a poem by Alexander Pushkin; Mariinsky Orchestra and Chorus; Valery Gergiev, musical director and conductor; Andrei Sevbo, production designer; Tatiana Noginova, costume; Alexander Naumov, lights; Alexander Logvinov, video graphics designer; Wth; Vladimir Shklyarov, Eugene; Viktoria Tereshkina, Parasha; Vladimir Ponomarev, Peter I; Ivan Oskorbin, Ibrahim the Blackmoor; Yekaterina Kondaurova, the Queen of the Ball; Sofia Ivanova-Skoblikova, Columbine; Vasily Tkachenko, Harlequin; Grigory Popov, Balakirev the Jester; Valeria Karpina, Parasha's mother; Recorded at the Théâtre Mariinsky II on June 15th and 17th 2016; TV direction by Louise Narboni (130 min)
Giselle at the Mariinsky Theater
Giselle; Ballet in two acts; Choreography by Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot and Marius Petipa; Libretto by Vernoy de St-Georges, Théophile Gautier and Jean Coralli; Music by Adolphe Adam; Mariinsky Orchestra and Chorus; Valery Ovsyanikov, musical director and conductor; Igor Ivanov, sets design; Irina Press, costume; Yuri Slonimsky, production reconstruction Consultant; With; Diana Vishneva, Giselle; Mathieu GANIO (Etoile, Opéra national de Paris), Count Albrecht; Igor Kolb, Hans; Yekaterina Ivannikova, Myrtha; Renata Shakirova and Philipp Stepin, Classical duet; Recorded on July 11th and 13th 2016 at the Mariinsky Theater, Saint Petersburg; TV direction by Olivier Simmonet (110 min)
InterMezzo
(8 min)
Béla Fleck & the Flecktones - Festival international de jazz de Montréal
Béla Fleck & the Flecktones; Béla Fleck (Banjo); Victor Wooten (Bass guitar); Futureman (Percussions); Howard Levy (Harmonica); Banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck and his supremely talented Flecktones-Victor Wooten, Futureman and Howard Levy-are globally renowned for their magisterial performances and musical potpourri seasoned with bluegrass, African music, electric blues and Eastern European folk. Eight years after their last Festival visit, they finally make a highly anticipated return. Unmissable. Live from the Montreal Jazz Festival, Maisonneuve Theater; TV Director, Mathieu Mastin (100 min)
Youn Sun Nah - Festival international de jazz de Montréal
Youn Sun Nah, Festival International de Jazz de Montréal; youn Sun Nah, voice; Jamie Saft, piano and keyboards; Clifton Hyde, guitar TBC and acoustic bass; Dan Rieser, drums; YSN was born and raised in Seoul in a family captivated by the voice; her father is a choir conductor and her mother is a; musical actress. The year after that, she's invited by the Korean Symphony Orchestra to sing gospels. She makes her first; steps on record and on stage. Following that experience, she's noticed and hired in musicals. Her appearances are rewarded; and new opportunities lead her to make choices: a career is opening to her but she's not convinced to be on the right track. She finally decides to go back to school to study music and singing. Francophile, amateur of chanson, she settles down in; Paris during the fall 1995. She registers at the National Institute of Music in Beauvais, at the Conservatory of Nadia and Lili; Boulanger and at the CIM, school of jazz and current music. It is in that school that the epiphany happens. During 6 full seasons, her voice and her personality have impacted and touched the hearts all over the globe. About 500; concerts between 2009 and 2015, most of them sold-out, 3 albums and 2 of them gold records in France and Germany; (Same girl & Lento, ACT). Throughout this time she has received many distinctions from her peers (Académie du Jazz in; France, Echo Jazz in Germany, Korean Music Award in Korea) and appeared at the 2014 Winter Olympics' closing; ceremony. In May 2017, YSN release a new album: She Moves On. She'll be on tour during the whole season of 2017-2018. Recorded on 2017, June 28th at the Monument National, Montreal International Jazz Festival; TV Director, Mathieu Mastin (62 min)
Edmar Castadena - Festival International de Jazz de Montréal
Edmar Castadena at the International Jazz Festival of Montréal 2016; As an out-of-the-ordinary harpist, and one of the most creative musicians of the Big Apple, Edmar Castadena possesses the polyvalence and the enchanting charisma to draw his instrument into the light, which is pretty rare in the world of jazz and improvised music. Performing on the most prestigious stages of the world, Edmar Castadena 's body and his Colombian harp seems to make only one, shaping incredible detailed rhythm by unheard nuances, thus rivaling with the greatest flamenco guitarists. Edmar Castadena's last album 'Double Portion' (with Miguel Zenon, the cuban pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaban and the mandolinist Hamilton de Holanda) draws the fans and critics' attention, Recorded on June 30th at the Théâtre Maisonneuve, Montréal; TV direction by Mathieu Mastin (45 min)
The Flying Dutchman by Wagner at the Teatro Real de Madrid
Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman), romantic opera in three acts by Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883); Libretto by Richard Wagner after Heinrich Heine's 'Aus den Memoiren des Herren von Schnabelewopski'; First performance in Dresden, Königliches Sächsisches Hostheater, 2 January 1843; Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid, Pablo Heras-Casado (Conductor); Andrés Máspero (Chorus Master); Alex Ollé (La fura dels Baus) (Stage Direction); Alfons Flores (Sets), Josep Abril (Costumes), Urs Schönebaum (Lighting), Franc Aleu (Video); Samuel Youn (The Dutchman); Kwangchul Youn (Daland); Ingela Brimberg (Senta); Nikolai Schukoff (Erik); Kai Rüütel (Mary); Recorded on December 23, 2016 at the Teatro Real de Madrid (139 min)
InterMezzo
(98 min)
Varvara Nepomnyashchaya and the Orchestre National de Lille: Rachmaninov Piano concertos Nos. 2 & 4
Orchestre National de Lille, Yaron Traub (Conductor); Varvara Nepomnyashchaya (piano); Sergei Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943); Piano Concerto no 2 in C minor, Op. 18; Piano Concerto no 4 in G minor, Op. 40; Recorded at the Nouveau Siécle, Lille, 7 February 2019; TV Director, Nicolas Foulon (72 min)
The Orchestre National de Lille plays Berlioz, Parra, Khachaturian and Stravinsky
Orchestre national de Lille; Nemanja Radulovic (violin); Jean-Claude Casadesus (Conductor); Hector Berlioz; Benvenuto Cellini, Overture; Alexandre Bloch (Conductor); Hector Parra; InFALL; Aram Khachaturian; Violin Concerto in D minor; Igor Stravinsky; Firebird, ballet; Recorded on 29 & 30 September at the Nouveau Siécle, Lille; Directed by Nicolas Foulon (117 min)
InterMezzo
(48 min)
The Orchestre National de Lille and Alexandre Bloch: Mozart, Mahler
Orchestre National de Lille, Alexandre Bloch (Conductor); Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 -1791); Le Nozze di Figaro, overture K. 492; Gustav Mahler (1860 - 1911); Symphony no 1 in D major 'Titan'; Recorded at the Nouveau Siécle, Lille, 1 February 2019; TV Director, Frédéric Caillierez (64 min)
Varvara Nepomnyashchaya and the Orchestre National de Lille: Rachmaninov Piano concertos Nos. 1 & 3
Orchestre National de Lille, Yaron Traub (Conductor); Varvara Nepomnyashchaya (piano); Sergei Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943); Piano Concerto no 1 in F-sharp minor, Op. 1; Piano Concerto no 3 in D minor, Op. 30; Recorded at the Nouveau Siécle, Lille, 8 February 2019; TV Director, Nicolas Foulon (83 min)
InterMezzo
(26 min)
Brian Browne Trio - Upstairs, Montreal
Brian Browne Trio @ 'Upstairs'; Brian Browne, piano; Al Bourgeois, drums; Michel Donato, bass; Brian Browne; The Summer Knows (Summer of '42), solo - Michel Legrand; Baubles Bangles and Beads (Duo) - Robert Wright & George Forrest; Trio; Poinciana - Nat Simon; Drown in my Own Tears - Henry Bernard; How High the Moon - Morgan Lewis; Skating in Central Park - Bill Evans; Sugar Ray - Brian Browne; Georgia on my Mind - Hoagy Carmichael; Just the Way You Are - standard; Django - John Lewis; Girl Talk - Neil Hefti; Scarborough Fair - standard; Happy Little Mothers - Brian Browne; Willow Weep for Me - Ann Ronell; If I Should Lose You - Ralph Rainger; Blue Browne - Brian Browne; Recorded on April 18th 2015 @ Upstairs, Montreal; TV Director, Julien Condemine (62 min)
InterMezzo
(56 min)
Hamlet by Ambroise Thomas at the Opéra-Comique
Hamlet; Opéra in five acts by Ambroise Thomas (1811 - 1896); Libretto by Michel Carré and Jules Barbier after William Shakespeare; First performance in Paris, Opéra, 9 March 1868; Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Louis Langrée (Conductor); Les Eléments, Joël Suhubiette (Chorus Master); Cyril Teste (Stage Direction); Ramy Fischler (Sets), Isabelle Deffin (Costumes), Leila Adham (Dramaturgy), Julien Boizard (Lighting), Nicolas Dorémus, Mehdi Toutain-Lopez (Video); Stéphane Degout (Hamlet); Sabine Devieilhe (Ophélie); Laurent Alvaro (Claudius); Sylvie Brunet-Grupposo (Gertrude); Julien Behr (Laërte); Jérôme Varnier (Le Spectre); Kevin Amiel (Marcellus, 2éme Fossoyeur); Yoann Dubruque (Horatio, 1er Fossoyeur); Nicolas Legoux (Polonius); Recorded 19 and 21 December 2018 at the Opéra-Comique, Paris; Directed by François Roussillon (171 min)
