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      • Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic at the Waldbühne

        Berliner Philharmoniker, Simon Rattle (Conductor); Magdalena Kožená (mezzo-soprano); George Gershwin (1898 - 1937); Cuban Overture; Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924); Pavane; Joseph Canteloube de Malaret (1879 - 1957); Chants d'Auvergne (Selection); Aram Khachaturian (1903 - 1978); Suite from Gayaneh; Ottorino Respighi (1879 - 1936); Pini di Roma; Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643); Si dolce il momento; Edward Elgar (1857 - 1934); Pomp and Circumstance, op. 39: March no 1; John Philip Sousa (1854 - 1932); The Liberty Bell; Paul Licke (1866 - 1946); Berliner Luft; Recorded on June 24, 2018 at the Waldbühne, Berlin; TV Director, Henning Kasten (104 min)

      • InterMezzo

        (31 min)

      • La Clemenza di Tito by Mozart at the Glyndebourne Festival

        La Clemenza di Tito; Opera seria in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791); Libretto by Pietro Metastasio; First performance in Prague, National Theatre, 6 September 1791; The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Robin Ticciati (Conductor); The Glyndebourne Chorus; Claus Guth (Stage Direction); Christian Schmidt (Sets), Olaf Winter (Lighting), Ronny Dietrich (Dramaturgy); Richard Croft (Tito); Alice Coote (Vitellia); Anna Stéphany (Sesto); Joélle Harvey (Servilia); Michéle Losier (Annio); Clive Bayley (Publio); Recorded on July 31 & August 3, 2017 at the Glyndebourne Festival; Directed by François Roussillon; 14.06.2020 (138 min)

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        (38 min)

      • Rhoda Scott's Lady Quartet + Special Guest Bernard Purdie - Jazz á vienne

        Lady Quartet; Rhoda Scott (organ), Airelle Besson (trumpet), Lisa Cat-Berro (saxophone alto), Géraldine Laurent (saxophone alto); Sophie Alour (Saxophone tenor); Julie Saury (drums); Special guest; Bernard Purdie (drums); Since 2004, the organist Rhoda Scott has been at the helm (sparked by an idea from Jazz á Vienne) of the torrid and well-named Lady Quartet, in the company of her Amazons Lisa Cat-Berro, Julie Saury and Sophie Alour. As euphoric and punchy as her young companions in the heat of the action, Rhoda Scott is one of the few still to use the pedals on her Hammond organ. Hence her nickname, 'the barefoot organist' (or 'the absolute toe' in the words of Luigi Trussardi!). After helping to raise the temperature in French jazz venues for the past 50 years, Lady Scott will be celebrating her eightieth birthday this year. She'll be blowing out the boogie candles and setting the gospel cake and soulful chorus on fire. The organist is the daughter of a travelling pastor from New Jersey and grew up in religious communities. She graduated with a master's degree from the Manhattan School of Music and set off for France to complete her studies with Nadia Boulanger. Back in New York, she began by playing with Count Basie. But then she decided to try her luck in Paris, where she arrived right in the month of May 1968. Featuring original compositions and covers ranging from Trenet to Wayne Shorter, 'We Free Queens' (2017), with the title proudly adapted from 'We Free Kings' by Roland Kirk, was recorded live. For Vienne a Lady All-Stars is billed, with Airelle Besson (trumpet), Géraldine Laurent (tenor saxophone) and Anne Pacéo (drums), plus the drummer Bernard Purdie. Recorded on July 3, 2018 at the Festival Jazz á Vienne; TV Director, Fabien Raymond (59 min)

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        (60 min)

      • La Damnation de Faust de Berlioz par Les Siécles et François-Xavier Roth

        Les Siécles, François-Xavier Roth (Conductor); Chœur Marguerite Louise; Gaétan Jarry (Chorus Master); Mathias Vidal (tenor) (Faust); Anna Caterina Antonacci (mezzo-soprano) (Marguerite); Nicolas Courjal (bass) (Méphistophélés); Thibault de Damas d'Anlezy (bass) (Brander); Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869); La Damnation de Faust; Légende dramatique in four parts; Libretto by Hector Berlioz and Almire Gandonniére after Gérard de Nerval's translation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 'Faust'; First performance in Paris, Opéra-Comique, 6 December 1846; Recorded on 6 November 2018 at the Opéra Royal, Château de Versailles; Directed by Frédéric Caillierez (127 min)

      • Victor Julien-Laferriére and Jonas Vitaud at the Fondation Louis Vuittton: Rachmaninov, Denisov, Shostakovich

        Victor Julien-Laferriére (cello), Jonas Vitaud (piano); Sergei Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943); Cello Sonata op.19; Edison Denisov (1929 - 1996); Variations on theme by Schubert; Dmitri Chostakovitch (1906 - 1975); Cello Sonata op.40; Enregistré á la Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, le 29 novembre 2019 (92 min)

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        (8 min)

      • Moment musical - Daniel & Michael Barenboim at the Boulez Saal: Mozart violin sonata K 526 and Variations K 360

        Daniel Barenboim (piano), Michael Barenboim (violin); Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791); 6 Variations on 'Hélas, j'ai perdu mon amant', K.360/374b; Violin Sonata in A major, K.526; Recorded at the Pierre Boulez Saal, Berlin, 17 April 2020 (35 min)

      • John Eliot Gardiner and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique: Berlioz

        Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Sir John Eliot Gardiner (Conductor); Lucile Richardot (mezzo-soprano); Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869); Le Corsaire, overture; La Mort de Cléopâtre; Les Troyens: Chasse royale et Orage, Didon Aria; Symphonie fantastique, op. 14; Recorded on 21 October 2018 at the Opéra Royal, Château de Versailles; TV Director, Stéphan Aubé (107 min)

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        (60 min)

      • Tugan Sokhiev and the Berlin Philharmonic at the Waldbühne

        Berliner Philharmoniker, Tugan Sokhiev (conductor); Marianne Crebassa (mezzo-soprano); Sergei Prokofiev (1891 - 1953); Lieutenant Kije Suite, op. 60; Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937); Shéhérazade, song cycle after Tristan Klingsor; Sergei Prokofiev; Romeo and Juliet, ballet, op. 64 (arranged in the form of a suite by Tugan Sokhiev); Recorded at the Waldbühne, Berlin, 29 June 2019; TV Director, Henning Kasten (99 min)

      • Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic at the Waldbühne

        Berliner Philharmoniker, Simon Rattle (Conductor); Magdalena Kožená (mezzo-soprano); George Gershwin (1898 - 1937); Cuban Overture; Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924); Pavane; Joseph Canteloube de Malaret (1879 - 1957); Chants d'Auvergne (Selection); Aram Khachaturian (1903 - 1978); Suite from Gayaneh; Ottorino Respighi (1879 - 1936); Pini di Roma; Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643); Si dolce il momento; Edward Elgar (1857 - 1934); Pomp and Circumstance, op. 39: March no 1; John Philip Sousa (1854 - 1932); The Liberty Bell; Paul Licke (1866 - 1946); Berliner Luft; Recorded on June 24, 2018 at the Waldbühne, Berlin; TV Director, Henning Kasten (104 min)

      • InterMezzo

        (4 min)

      • Yaron Herman Trio - Jazz á Vienne

        Yaron Herman trio; Yaron Herman, Piano, KIeyboard; Bastien Burger, Bass, Vocal, Keyboard; Ziv Ravitz, drums, electronics; Everyday, his duo with Ziv Ravitz in 2015 and first album for Blue Note, the first disc with songs, felt like a comeback for Yaron Herman. The French-Israeli's latest album, 'Y', is a real melting pot of all his influences. His inspirations are explored with pure elegance be they jazz, post-rock or electro by Sufjan Stevens, Steve Reich or Keith Jarrett. Better still, instead of covering mainstream songs like he used to (from Britney Spears to Radiohead), he's made his own songs with or without vocals, words or choruses. Perhaps we have the Arles Photography Festival (2015) to thank for that along with his encounter with Matthieu Chedid (singer on Saisons Contradictoires), friendship with the bassist from The Do Bastien Burger (co-producer on the album) and his discovery of the young French electro-pop producer Dream Koala (guest on Solaire). Yaron Herman is definitely back. Recorded on 2017, July 4th at the Jazz Festival in Vienne; TV Director, Fabien Raymond 20.06.2020 (61 min)

      • Guillaume Perret - Jazz á Vienne

        Guillaume Perret; Guillaume Perret, saxophone, machines; The saxophonist from Annecy (born in 1980) racked up the pressure on the contemporary jazz scene (from 2009) with his group The Electric Epic. Three years later and John Zorn himself described it as 'a whirlwind of emotion' and released the extravert, panoramic and electric fusion on his Tzadik record label. It was an explosion of sound with funky beats and quirky harmonies blending metal, electro, Africa, psychedelia and the hot wind of free style. After two incredible albums with Electric Epic, Guillaume Perret is going it alone with his new album Free (2016). Perret's sense of solitude is comparable to Deleuze's opening to Mille Plateaux: 'Since there were many of all of us, there were already too many people.' You can spot the almost symphonic ramped-up saxophone and the deafening rhythmic loops that make Guillaume Perret multiple, all-encompassing and so spectacular. Recorded on 2017, July 13th at the Jazz Festival in Vienne; TV Director, Nicolas Micha (74 min)

      • Ambrose Akinmusire Quartet - Jazz á Vienne

        Ambrose Akinmusire Quartet; Ambrose Akinmusire (trumpet); Sam Harris (piano), Harish Raghavan (bass guitar), Justin Brown (drums); This young trumpet player (aged 36), an American of Nigerian heritage, has an impeccable background (from Berkeley High School to the first prize in the Thelonious Monk competition in 2007), but is much more than an impressive academic CV. He aims to create a personal world 'dedicated to beauty'. Akinmusire was born and raised in Oakland, California and first attracted the attention of the saxophonist Steve Coleman, who asked him to join Five Elements. Ambrose Akinmusire was then 19. He released his first album, 'Prelude (To Cora)', and moved to New York, where he played with Vijay Iyer, Aaron Parks, Esperanza Spalding and Jason Moran. In 2010, he worked with Terri Lyne Carrington, Ron Carter, Wallace Roney, Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter. Everyone could see that this creative and surprising trumpet player would be a name to watch in contemporary jazz. This view was shared by the Blue Note label, who signed him up. The albums 'When the Heart Emerges Glistening' and 'The Imagined Savior is Far Easier to Paint' were released in 2011 and 2014. The artist draws his landscapes, visions, ideas and states of mind - pure grace! Akinmusire explores the two sides of his temperament: introspection and lyrical ebullience. In summer 2017, he released 'A Rift in Decorum - Live at the Village Vanguard', a double CD recorded at the legendary club in New York, featuring 16 new compositions in two wide-ranging sets, in defiance of gravity. Recorded on July 9, at the Festival Jazz á Vienne; TV Director, Fabien Raymon (60 min)

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        (38 min)

      • Lully's Phaéton at the Opéra Royal de Versailles

        Phaéton; 'Tragédie en musique' in a prologue and five acts by Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632 - 1687); Libretto by Philippe Quinault after Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'; First performance in Versailles, 6 January 1683; Le Poéme Harmonique, musicAeterna, Vincent Dumestre (Conductor); Benjamin Lazar (Stage Direction); Mathieu Lorry-Dupuy (Sets), Alain Blanchot (Costumes), François Menou (Lighting); Mathias Vidal (Phaéton); Éva Zaicik (Lybie); Victoire Bunel (Théone); Lisandro Abadie (Saturne / Epaphus / Jupiter); Cyril Auvity (Triton / le Soleil / la Déesse de la Terre); Léa Trommenschlager (Climéne); Viktor Shapovalov (Protée / le Roi tributaire); Elizaveta Sveshnikova (Astrée / une Heure du jour); Aleksandre Egorov (Mérops); Alfiya Khamidullina (Une Heure du jour); Recorded at the Opéra Royal, Château de Versailles, 2 June 2018; Directed by Corentin Leconte (154 min)

      • InterMezzo

        (86 min)

      • John Eliot Gardiner conducts Berlioz's Benvenuto Cellini

        Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner (Conductor); Michael Spyres (tenor) (Benvenuto Cellini); Sophia Burgos (soprano) (Teresa); Maurizio Muraro (bass) (Giacomo Balducci); Lionel Lhote (baritone) (Fieramosca); Tareq Nazmi (bass) (Pape Clément); Adéle Charvet (mezzo-soprano) (Ascanio); Vincent Delhoume (tenor) (Francesco); Ashley Riches (baritone) (Bernardino); Hector Berlioz (1803-1869); Benvenuto Cellini; 'Opéra-comique' in two acts and four tableaux; Libretto by Léon de Wailly and Auguste Barbier; First performance in Paris, 1838. Recorded on 7 & 8 September 2019 at the Opéra Royal, Château de Versailles; TV Director, Sébastien Glas (173 min)

      • Ron Carter, Golden Striker Trio - Jazz á vienne

        Golden Striker Trio; Ronald L. Carter (bass guitar ); Russel L. Malone (guitar); Donald Vega (piano); A hugely talented double bassist, gifted with a remarkable sense of melody and widely recognised for the finesse and elegance of his playing style, the American Ron Carter is a living legend. A musician of genius, he started out playing with Gil Evans, Lena Horne, Bill Evans, B.B. King, Dexter Gordon, Wes Montgomery, Eric Dolphy and Bobby Timmons. He then went on to win fame alongside Cannonball Adderley and Thelonious Monk and, of course, from 1963 to 1968, in the famous quintet formed by Miles Davis. Closer to us in time, Ron Carter became a respected musical leader in his own right in the Golden Striker Trio with Russell Malone and Mulgrew Miller ('Golden Striker' album, 2003) and opted, like Ray Brown towards the end of his life, for the legendary trio of piano/guitar/bass, first used by Nat King Cole and Art Tatum. This classical tradition is fully assumed by Miles' former bassist. In concert, the emotion often reaches a climax with one of his favourite songs, the standard 'My Funny Valentine'. A native of Michigan (born in 1937), Ron Carter won a Grammy Award in 1998 for the instrumental 'Call Sheet Blues' from the soundtrack of the film 'Round Midnight'. In 2010, he was made a Commander in the Order of Arts and Letters in France. Last year, his virtuoso association with the accordionist Richard Galliano enjoyed great success in France. A musical sense forged with tungsten, like the strings on his bass, and with all his elegance and freshness intact, the legend is back. Recorded on July 5, at the Festival Jazz á Vienne; TV Director, Fabien Raymond 21.06.2020 (60 min)

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        (60 min)

      • The Magic Flute by Mozart at the Glyndebourne Festival

        Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute); Singspiel by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791); Libretto by Emmanuel Schikaneder; First performance in Vienna, Theater auf der Wieden, 30 September 1791; Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Ryan Wigglesworth (Conductor); The Glyndebourne Chorus; Barbe & Doucet (Stage Direction, Sets); Patrick Martel (Puppet Designer), Guy Simard (Lighting Designer); David Portillo (Tamino); Esther Dierkes (First Lady); Marta Fontanals-Simmons (Second Lady); Katharina Magiera (Third Lady); Björn Bürger (Papageno); Caroline Wettergreen (Queen of the Night); Jörg Schneider (Monostatos); Sofia Fomina (Pamina); Michael Kraus (Speaker); Brindley Sherratt (Sarastro); Thomas Atkins (Second Priest and First Man in Armour); Martin Snell (First Priest and Second Man in Armour); Alison Rose (Papagena); Puppeteers; Richard Booth, Mikey Brett, Ashleigh Cheadle, Jack Parker, Ben Thompson, Scarlet Wilderink; Recorded at the Glyndebourne Festival, 1 August 2019; Directed by François Roussillon (165 min)