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      • 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)

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        (72 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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        (9 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)

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        (55 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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        (91 min)

      • A Crystal Palace by George Balanchine - Opéra national de Paris

        A Crystal Palace; Choreography by George Balanchine; Music, Georges Bizet; Costume, Christian Lacroix; Leading dancers, Principal dancers and the corps de ballet; Opéra National de Paris Chorus and orchestra; Conductor, Philippe Jordan; Chorus master, Alessandro Di Stefano; Recorded on May 9th & 28th and June 3rd 2014 at the Opéra National de Paris Bastille; TV Director, François Goetghebeur (41 min)

      • Hommage á Jerome Robbins - Opéra national de Paris

        Tribute to Jerome Robbins; Les Etoiles, les Premiers Danseurs and the Corps de Ballet of the Opéra national de Paris; Opéra national de Paris orchestra; Valery Ovsyanikov, conductor; With the kind collaboration of Jean-Pierre Fröhlich; Fancy Free; Choreography, Jerome Robbins; Music, Leonard Bernstein; Sets, Oliver Stmith; Costume, Kermit Love; Light, Jennifer Tipton; With; Eleonora Abbagnato (Danseuse Etoile), Alice Renavand (Danseuse Etoile), Stéphane Bullion (Danseur Etoile), Karl Paquette (Danseur Etoile), François Alu (Premier Danseur), Aurélia Bellet, Alexandre Carniato; A suite of Dances; Choreography, Jerome Robbins; Music, Johann Sebastian Bach; Costume, Santo Loquasto; Light, Jennifer Tipton; Cello, Artist invited; Sonia Wieder-Atherton; Afternoon of a Faun; Choreographiy, Jerome Robbins; Music, Claude Debussy; Prélude á l'aprés-midi d'un faune (1894); Sets, Jean Rosenthal; Costume, Irene Sharaff; Light, Jennifer Tipton; With; The Nymph, Amandine Albisson (Danseuse Etoile); The Faun, Hugo Marchand (Danseur Etoile); Glass Pieces; Choreography, Jerome Robbins; Music, Philip Glass [Façades / Rubric extraits de Glassworks (1981) - Marche funébre extraite de l'opéra Aknaten (1983)]; Sets, Jerome Robbins et Ronal Bates; Costume, Ben Benson; Light, Jennifer Tipton; With; Sae Eun Park (Premiére Danseuse) - Florian Magnenet (Premier Danseur); and le Corps de Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris; Recorded on November 6 & 8, 2018 at the Opéra national de Paris, Palais Garnier; TV director, Vincent Bataillon (92 min)

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        (102 min)

      • Gretry's Richard Coeur de Lion at the Opéra Royal de Versailles

        Richard Coeur-de-lion; 'Comédie mise en musique' in three acts by André Grétry (1741 - 1813); Libretto by Michel-Jean Sedaine; First performance in Paris, Comédie-Italienne, 21 October 1784; Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet (Conductor); Le Ballet de l'Opéra Royal; Marshall Pynkoski (Stage Director); Jeannette Lajeunesse Zingg (Choreography), Antoine Fontaine (Sets), Camille Assaf (Costumes), Hervé Gary (Lighting); Rémy Mathieu (Blondel); Reinoud Van Mechelen (Richard); Melody Louledjian (Laurette); Marie Perbost (Antonio / La Comtesse); Geoffroy Buffiére (Sir Williams); Jean-Gabriel Saint-Martin (Urbain / Florestan / Mathurin); François Pardailhé (Guillot / Charles); Cécile Achille (Madame Mathurin); Charles Barbier (Sénéchal); Agathe Boudet (Colette); Virginie Lefévre (Béatrix); Recorded at the Opéra Royal, Château de Versailles, 12 October 2019; TV Director, Julien Condemine (87 min)

      • Les Siécles and François-Xavier Roth: Beethoven's Symphonies No.5 & 7

        Les Siécles, François-Xavier Roth (Conductor); Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827); Symphony no 5 in C minor, op. 67; Symphony no 7 in A major, op. 92; Recorded at the Opéra Royal, Versailles, 14 March 2020 (106 min)

      • Boubacar Traoré at the Paris Jazz Festival

        Boubacar Traoré live at the Paris Jazz Festival; Boubacar Traoré guitar, vocal; Vincent Bucher, harmonica; Babah Koné, calabash; TV director, Stéphane Jourdain; Recorded on July 11th 2015 at the Parc Floral de Vincennes (52 min)

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        (50 min)

      • Moment musical - Daniel Barenboim at the Boulez Saal: Chopin

        Daniel Barenboim (piano); Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849); Etudes, op. 25 (No. 1 in A flat major, No. 2 in F minor, No. 7 in C sharp minor); Etudes, op. 10 (n ° 4 in C sharp minor, n ° 6 in E flat minor, nº8 in F major); Nocturne, op. 15 No. 2 in F sharp major; Ballade No. 1 in G minor, op. 23; Recorded at the Pierre Boulez Saal, Berlin, 19 April 2020 (33 min)

      • The Tatarstan State Symphony Orchestra and Alexander Sladkovsky: Mozart, Mahler

        Tatarstan State Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Sladkovsky (Conductor); Philipp Kopachevsky (piano); Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791); Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 13 in C major, KV 415; Gustav Mahler (1860 - 1911); Symphony No. 9 in D major; Recorded at the Tchaikovsky Hall, Moscow, 29 October 2017; 16.06.2020 (115 min)