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Modigliani Quartet plays Mozart, Shostakovich and Schumann
Quatuor Modigliani; Philippe Bernhard (Violin), Loic Rio (Violin), Laurent Marfaing (Viola), François Kieffer (Cello); Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791); String Quartet No.15 in D minor, K.421; Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 - 1975); String Quartet No. 1 in C major, Op. 49; Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856); String Quartet No. 3 in A major, Op. 41 No. 3; Recorded in January 2016 at the Philharmonie 2, Cité de la Musique, Salle de Concerts, Paris; Directed by par Franck Chaudemanche (78 min)
Puccini's Madama Butterfly at the Glyndebourne Festival
Madama Butterfly; 'Tragedia giapponese' by Giacomo Puccini (1858 - 1924); Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica after David Belasco's play 'Madame Butterfly'; First performance in Milan, Teatro alla Scala, 17 February 1904; London Philharmonic Orchestra, Omer Meir Wellber (Conductor); The Glyndebourne Chorus; Nicholas Jenkins (Chorus master); Annilese Miskimmon (Stage Direction); Nicky Shaw (Sets), Mark Jonathan (Lighting), Kally Lloyd Jones (Choreography), Ian William Galloway (Video); Olga Busuioc (Cio-Cio-San); Joshua Guerrero (Pinkerton); Michael Sumuel (Sharpless); Carlo Bosi (Goro); Simon Mechlinski (Prince Yamadori); Oleg Budaratskiy (The Bonze); Adam Marsden (Yakuside); Ida Ränzlöv (Kate Pinkerton); Elizabeth DeShong (Suzuki); Michael Mofidian (Imperial Commissioner); Jake Muffett (The Official Registrar); Jennifer Witton (The Cousin); Scott Sendall (The Aunt); Beatrix Prawanna/Rupert Wade (Dolore); Record 17 & 21 June 2018, Glyndebourne Festival; Directed by François Roussillon (140 min)
Erik Truffaz - Estreilla Besson - Piano Lille Festival
Erik Truffaz, Trumpet; Estreilla Besson, Piano; Playlist; - Ganga Aarti (E. Truffaz); - Ombres et lumiére (E. Truffaz); - Avant l'aube (E. Truffaz); - SO (E. Truffaz); - Betty (E. Truffaz); - Falling stars 2 (E. Truffaz); - Yasmina (E. Truffaz); Recorded on June 11 & 12, 2020 at the Piano Festival de Lille; TV Director, Nicolas Foulon (58 min)
InterMezzo
(60 min)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Thomas Hengelbrock: Schubert, Mozart
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Thomas Hengelbrock (Conductor); Balthasar-Neumann-Chor; Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828); Stabat Mater D.383; Symphony no. 8 in B minor, D. 759 'Unfinished'; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791); Requiem KV 626; Recorded at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam on March 24th 2017; TV Director, Dick Kuijs (91 min)
Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra: Symphonies No.6 & 7 by Prokofiev
Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, Valery Gergiev (Conductor); Alexander Ramm (cello); Sergei Prokofiev (1891 - 1953); Symphony no. 6, op 111; Sinfonia Concertante op 125; Symphony no. 7 op 131; Recorded on April 24th 2016 at the Mariinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg; TV direction by François-René Martin (119 min)
InterMezzo
(22 min)
Lionel Bringuier and the Tonhalle Orchestra: Stravinsky and Dorman
Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Lionel Bringuier (Conductor); Martin Grubinger (Percussions); Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971); The Rite of Spring; Avner Dorman (b. 1975); Frozen in Time; Recorded on September 14, 2016 at the Tonhalle, Zürich; Directed by Sébastien Glas (74 min)
The Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne and Christoph Eschenbach: Haydn, Schumann
Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Christoph Eschenbach (Conductor); Christopher Park (piano); Joseph Haydn (1732-1809); Symphony no 92 in G major, 'Oxford'; Robert Schumann (1810 -1856); Piano Concerto in A minor, op. 54; Introduction and Allegro appassionato (Konzertstück) in G major, op. 92; Joseph Haydn; Symphony no 104 in D major, 'London'; Recorded at the Salle Métropole, Lausanne, 11 September 2018 (110 min)
InterMezzo
(20 min)
Emmanuelle Haim and Le Concert d'Astrée in Versailles: Rameau, Mondonville, Campra
Le Concert d'Astrée, Emmanuelle Haim (Conductor); Marie Perbost (Dessus), Samuel Boden (Haute-contre), Zachary Wilder (Taille), Victor Sicard (Basse-taille); Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764); In convertendo Dominus; Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville (1711-1772); In exitu Israël; André Campra (1660-1744); Messe de Requiem; Recorded at the Chapelle Royale, Château de Versailles, 20 November 2019; TV Director, Olivier Simonnet (96 min)
Modigliani Quartet plays Mozart, Shostakovich and Schumann
Quatuor Modigliani; Philippe Bernhard (Violin), Loic Rio (Violin), Laurent Marfaing (Viola), François Kieffer (Cello); Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791); String Quartet No.15 in D minor, K.421; Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 - 1975); String Quartet No. 1 in C major, Op. 49; Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856); String Quartet No. 3 in A major, Op. 41 No. 3; Recorded in January 2016 at the Philharmonie 2, Cité de la Musique, Salle de Concerts, Paris; Directed by par Franck Chaudemanche (78 min)
InterMezzo
(24 min)
Robert Glasper Trio - Melbourne International Jazz Festival
Robert Glasper Trio at the Melbourne International Jazz Festival 2016; Robert Glapser, piano; Vicente Archer, bass; Damion Reid, batterie; Recorded around Nat King Cole's Steinway at Capital records in Hollywood, the Robert Glasper Trio's latest album 'Covered' reimagines the music of Glasper's idols and peers, including Kendrick Lamar, Radiohead and Joni Mitchell. Experience the evolution of jazz first-hand, in this up-close encounter with modern jazz royalty. Recorded on June 4th 2016 at the Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne; TV direction by Mathieu Mastin (56 min)
Esperanza Spalding: Emily's D + Evolution - Melbourne International Jazz Festival
Esperanza Spalding: Emily's D + Evolution at the Melbourne Jazz Festival 2016; Esperanza Spalding, bass / vocals; Matt Steven, guitar; Justin Tyson, drums; Emily Elbert, vocals; Originally conceived the day before her birthday -during a 'sleepless night of full moon inspiration'- Emily's D+Evolution will perform all-new material that Spalding says 'unfolds as live musical vignettes.'; 'Emily is my middle name and I'm using this fresh persona as my inner navigator. This project is about going back and reclaiming un-cultivated curiosity, and using it as a compass to move forward and expand' says Spalding. 'My hope for this group is to create a world around each song... We will be staging the songs as much as we play them, using characters, video and the movement of our bodies.'; Emily's D+Evolution is opening Melbourne Jazz Festival 2016 in the Forum. Recorded on June 3rd 2016 at the Forum Melbourne; TV direction by Mathieu Mastin (71 min)
Lionel Loueke and the Vampires - Melbourne International Jazz Festival
Lionel Loueke and the Vampires at Melbourne International Jazz Festival 2016; Lionel Koueke, guitar; Nick Barbett, trumpet; Jeremy Rose, saxophones / bass clarinet; Jonathan Zwartz, bass; Danny Fischer, drums; Guitarist Lionel Loueke has enjoyed a meteoric rise in the jazz world, collaborating with seminal jazz figures including Wayne Shorter, Esperanza Spalding and Herbie Hancock, who has praised Loueke as a 'musical painter'. Sydney's The Vampires are renowned for their blend of soulful jazz, old-school reggae, exotic Balkan melodies and all-out funk-laden Afrobeat. Their risk-taking improvisational style and exhilarating interplay meet Loueke's musical mastery and deep knowledge of African folk forms in a must-see collaboration. Recorded on June 4th 2016 at the Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne; TV direction by Mathieu Mastin (58 min)
Benvenuto Cellini by Berlioz at De Nationale Opera Amsterdam
Benvenuto Cellini, opera in two acts by Hector Berlioz (1803 -1869); Libretto de Léon de Wailly and Auguste Barbier; First performance in Paris, Opéra, 10 September 1838; Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Mark Elder (Conductor); Chorus of the Dutch National Opera; Terry Gilliam (Stage Direction); John Osborn (Benvenuto Cellini); Maurizio Muraro (Giacomo Balducci); Laurent Naouri (Fieramosca); Orlin Anastassov (Le Pape Clement VII); Nicky Spence (Francesco); Scott Conner (Bernardino); André Morsch (Pompeo); Marcel Beekman (Le Cabaretier); Mariangela Sicilia (Teresa); Michéle Losier (Ascanio); Recorded on May 18, 2015 at De Nationale Opera, Amsterdam; Directed by François Roussillon (180 min)
Denis Matsuev at Zaryadye Park
(90 min)
Ivry Gitlis & Friends at the Philharmonie de Paris
Martha Argerich, Nicholas Angelich, Iddo Bar-Shai, Akane Sakai, Vahan Mardirossian, Itamar Golan, Natsuko Inoue (piano), Sergei Nakariakov (bugle); Renaud Capuçon, Mayu Kishima, Jean-Marc Phillips-Varjabédian, Thomas Lefort (violin); Quatuor Ébéne; Quatuor David Oistrakh; Sirba Octet; One yiddish song (arranged by Marc-Olivier Dupin for two pianos); Mein Shtetele Belz; Witold Lutosławski (1913-1994); Variations on a theme by Paganini; Claude Debussy (1862-1918); En blanc et noir; Béla Bartók (1881-1945); Romanian Folk Dances - excerpts; Ernest Chausson (1855-1899); Concert for Violin, Piano and String Quartet op. 21 (II. Sicilienne); Robert Schumann (1810-1856); Fantasiestücke Op. 73; Traditionnal; Tire l'aiguille; Bessarabye; Ukrainian Memory; Tum Balalaika / Roumania Roumania; Recorded at the Philharmonie de Paris, 7 January 2019; Tv Director, Sébastien Glas (75 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)
Michel Meis Quartet - Like a jazz machine
Michel Meis 4tet; Michel Meis, drums+ compositions; Cédric Hanriot, piano; Stephan Goldbach, double bass; Alisa Klein, trombone; Born in Luxembourg Michel Meis made his first experience with the drums at the early age of 7 at the Conservatory of Luxembourg, Luxembourg City. After finishing his diploma's in Chamber Music, Classical Percussion and Jazz drums in 2014 with the teachers Guy Frisch, Paul Mootz, Rainer Kind and Al Ginter, Michel entered the Jazz section of the 'Hochschule für Musik Saar' doing his Bachelor in Jazz drums. Since 2011, Michel is also a member of the Luxembourg Military Band and has played in several Jazz-clubs and festivals like the Hong Kong Jazz Festival, Beishan Jazz Festival, Sibiu Jazz Festival, Fete de la Musique Liege and the Brussels Jazz Marathon. Michel is a drummer with ' Everwaiting Serenade ', Dock in Absolute, Juan Gonzalez Trio. He also played drums for The Grund Club Voices and the Grund Club Quartet in 2015 and 2016. Their first record 'Lost in translation' will feature 7 original tunes and a cover of 'Heaven' by Depeche Mode. This album will be relased on January 2019, on Double Moon Records. Recorded on May 11, 2018 at the Grand Auditoire, Like a jazz machine festival, Dudalange, Luxembourg; TV Director, Samuel Thiebaut (57 min)
InterMezzo
(60 min)
Puccini's Tosca at the Salzburg Easter Festival
Tosca; Melodramma in three acts by Giacomo Puccini (1858 - 1924); Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica after Victorien Sardou's play 'La Tosca'; First performance in Rome, Teatro Costanzi,14 January 1900; Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann (Conductor); Salzburger Bachchor, Salzburger Festspiele und Theater Kinderchor; Alois Glaßner, Wolfgang Götz (Chorus master); Michael Sturminger (Stage Direction); Renate Martin, Andreas Donhauser (Sets, Costumes); Anja Harteros (Floria Tosca); Aleksandrs Antonenko (Mario Cavaradossi); Ludovic Tézier (Scarpia); Andrea Mastroni (Cesare Angelotti); Matteo Peirone (Il Sagrestano); Mikeldi Atxalandabaso (Spoletta); Rupert Grössinger (Sciarrone); Levente Páll (Un carceriere); Directed by Tiziano Mancini; Recorded at the Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg, 2018 (122 min)
