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avantpremière 2009<br />
activity report 2008
www.avro.nl<br />
Over Two Centuries<br />
Of Excellence<br />
120 YEARS ROYAL CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA<br />
85 YEARS AVRO BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION<br />
AVRO Sales<br />
P.O. Box 2 | 1200 JA Hilversum | The Netherlands<br />
Telephone: +31 (0)35 67 17 558 | Fax: +31 (0)35 67 17 322<br />
E-mail: sales@avro.nl
contents<br />
4 PROGRAMME SCHEDULE<br />
5 COMPANIES A – Z WITH SCREENING DAY<br />
6 SCREENINGS AVANT PREMIÈRE 2009<br />
115 IMZ ACTIVITY REPORT 2008<br />
124 IMZ PROFILE & BOARD<br />
125 SCHEDULE OF IMZ EVENTS<br />
126 IMZ MEMBER ORGANISATIONS<br />
INDICES<br />
128 Titles<br />
130 Directors<br />
130 Choreographers<br />
<strong>Avant</strong> <strong>Première</strong> 2009 catalogue is published by<br />
IMZ International Music + Media Centre<br />
Stiftgasse 29<br />
A 1070 Vienna<br />
T +43 (0)1 889 03 15<br />
F +43 (0)1 889 03 15 77<br />
office@imz.at<br />
www.imz.at<br />
Editor responsible<br />
Franz Patay, Secretary General IMZ<br />
Editor in Chief<br />
Konstantin Petrowsky<br />
Editorial team<br />
Kurt Danner<br />
Marion Forster<br />
Ruth Pfletschinger<br />
IMZ team<br />
Kurt Danner<br />
Marion Mangeng<br />
Franz Patay<br />
Konstantin Petrowsky<br />
Ruth Pfletschinger<br />
Alexander Roch<br />
Mayte Serrano<br />
Florian Schrittwieser<br />
Sebastian Schrittwieser<br />
avantpremière 2009<br />
Design Dechant Grafische Arbeiten<br />
Production AgensKetterl, Vienna<br />
INCLUDING<br />
IMZ ACTIVITY REPORT<br />
2008<br />
COMPANIES PRESENTING SCREENINGS<br />
11 3sat, Germany<br />
13 ARTE Deutschland, Germany<br />
15 Arte France, France<br />
18 Arthaus Musik GmbH, Germany<br />
21 AVRO Broadcasting Association, The Netherlands<br />
23 BBC Classical Music Television, UK<br />
28 BBC Cymru Wales, UK<br />
33 Bel Air Media, France<br />
35 Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images GmbH, Austria<br />
37 C Major Entertainment GmbH, Germany<br />
43 Clasart Classic, Germany<br />
44 CLC Productions, France<br />
46 Croatian Television, Croatia<br />
48 Czech Television, Czech Republic<br />
49 Danish Broadcasting Corporation, Denmark<br />
50 DCD Rights, UK<br />
113 EarthSync, India<br />
52 Electric Sky, UK<br />
53 EuroArts Music International GmbH, Germany<br />
57 Europe Images International, France<br />
59 finkernagel & lück medienproduktion GbR, Germany<br />
59 France 2, France<br />
60 François Roussillon et Associés, France<br />
62 GATEWAY4M – more fine music & media, Germany<br />
62 Hungarian Television, Hungary<br />
64 Idéale Audience, France<br />
67 LGM, France<br />
69 LOFT music, Germany<br />
70 Medici Arts, Germany<br />
72 Nederlandse Programma Stichting (NPS),<br />
The Netherlands<br />
75 NHK Japan Broadcasting Corporation, Japan<br />
75 NRK Norwegian Broadcasting Corp., Norway<br />
77 Opernhaus Zürich, Switzerland<br />
78 ORF Austrian Broadcasting Corporation, Austria<br />
80 P.O.P.1, UK<br />
81 Pars Media, Germany<br />
81 Peter Rosen Productions, Inc., USA<br />
82 Poorhouse International Ltd., UK<br />
85 RAI Trade, Italy<br />
87 Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, UK<br />
88 RTBF - Belgian TV, Belgium<br />
89 RTV Slovenija, Slovenia<br />
91 San Francisco Symphony, USA<br />
92 Schweizer Fernsehen, Switzerland<br />
93 sounding images, Germany<br />
95 Spectra International Distribution, Canada<br />
96 SVT Sveriges Television, Sweden<br />
97 Telmondis, France<br />
98 Thirteen, USA<br />
101 TSI – Televisione svizzera di lingua italiana,<br />
Switzerland<br />
102 TVP Kultura, Poland<br />
103 Unitel GmbH & Co. KG, Germany<br />
107 Wunderlich Medien GbR, Germany<br />
108 YLE, Finland<br />
109 ZDF German Televison, Germany<br />
111 ZDFtheaterkanal, Germany
SPECIAL SCREENINGS SPECIAL SCREENINGS SPECIAL SCREENINGS<br />
PROGRAMME SCHEDULE<br />
9.00<br />
10.00<br />
11.00<br />
13.00<br />
18. 01.2009 19. 01.2009 20. 01.2009 21. 01.2009<br />
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday<br />
14.00 14h30<br />
Stand IMZ R 31.44<br />
IMZ Opening Cocktail<br />
15.00<br />
16.00<br />
17.00<br />
18.00<br />
19.00<br />
20.00<br />
15h00 – 16h30<br />
Salle I & J<br />
<strong>Avant</strong> <strong>Première</strong> Screenings<br />
16h30 – 17h15<br />
Salle I & J<br />
Unitel<br />
Das Rheingold from the<br />
Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia<br />
17h45 – 18h30<br />
Salle I & J<br />
ORF<br />
Dying in Love and Beauty –<br />
The Making of La Bohème<br />
18h30 – 19h30<br />
Salle I & J<br />
TVP<br />
Seven Gates of Jerusalem<br />
9h30 – 14h10<br />
Salle I & J<br />
<strong>Avant</strong> <strong>Première</strong> Screenings<br />
11h30 – 13h00<br />
Auditorium H<br />
Conference<br />
Jazz Publishing<br />
in the Digital Age<br />
14h30 – 16h00<br />
Auditorium H<br />
Conference<br />
Grand Rights and<br />
Copyright Issues<br />
16h15 – 17h30<br />
Salle I & J<br />
Ideale Audience<br />
Arturo Toscanini in<br />
his own words<br />
17h30 – 18h30<br />
Salle I & J<br />
YLE<br />
Jamming the Past<br />
18h30 – 19h30<br />
Salle I & J<br />
WDR<br />
Michael’s Journey<br />
around the World<br />
9h30 – 13h20<br />
Salle I & J<br />
<strong>Avant</strong> <strong>Première</strong> Screenings<br />
11h30 – 13h00<br />
Auditorium H<br />
Conference<br />
How can Jazz survive<br />
in the new media jungle?<br />
13h30 – 15h00<br />
Salle J<br />
IMZ General Assembly<br />
14h30 – 16h00<br />
Auditorium H<br />
Conference<br />
Media and Opera –<br />
A successful Partnership<br />
16h30 – 17h30<br />
Salle I & J<br />
EuroArts<br />
El Sistema<br />
17h30 – 18h30<br />
Salle I & J<br />
Clasart Classic<br />
Jonas Kaufmann – A Perfectly<br />
Normal Hero/Carmen<br />
18h30 – 19h30<br />
Salle I & J<br />
Czech TV<br />
Magdalena<br />
20h00 – 22h00<br />
Théâtre Debussy<br />
MIDEM Classical Awards<br />
9h30 – 13h30<br />
Salle I & J<br />
<strong>Avant</strong> <strong>Première</strong> Screenings<br />
14h30 – 16h00<br />
Auditorium H<br />
Conference<br />
Video Platforms on the<br />
Internet and Social Media<br />
16h30 – 17h30<br />
Salle I & J<br />
TVP Kultura<br />
The Table<br />
17h30 – 18h30<br />
Salle I & J<br />
EarthSync<br />
Laya Project
a-z<br />
COMPANIES<br />
#<br />
TUE 20 3sat, Germany<br />
a<br />
WED 21 ARTE Deutschland, Germany<br />
TUE 20 ARTE France, France<br />
WED 21 Arthaus Musik GmbH, Germany<br />
WED 21 AVRO Broadcasting Association, The Netherlands<br />
b<br />
TUE 20 BBC Classical Music Television, UK<br />
TUE 20 BBC Cymru Wales, UK<br />
MON 19 Bel Air Media, France<br />
WED 21 Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images GmbH, Austria<br />
c<br />
MON 19 C Major Entertainment GmbH, Germany<br />
TUE 20 Clasart Classic, Germany<br />
SUN 18 CLC Productions, France<br />
WED 21 Croatian Television, Croatia<br />
MON 19 Czech Television, Czech Republic<br />
d<br />
SUN 18 Danish Broadcasting Corporation, Denmark<br />
MON 19 DCD Rights, UK<br />
e<br />
WED 21 EarthSync, India<br />
SUN 18 Electric Sky, UK<br />
TUE 20 EuroArts Music International GmbH, Germany<br />
SUN 18 Europe Images International, France<br />
f<br />
MON 19 finkernagel & lück medienproduktion GbR, Germany<br />
WED 21 France 2, France<br />
WED 21 François Roussillon et Associés, France<br />
g<br />
WED 21 GATEWAY4M – more fine music & media, Germany<br />
h<br />
MON 19 Hungarian Television, Hungary<br />
i<br />
MON 19 Idéale Audience, France<br />
l<br />
TUE 20 LGM, France<br />
WED 21 LOFT music, Germany<br />
m<br />
WED 21 Medici Arts, Germany<br />
n<br />
MON 19 Nederlandse Programma Stichting (NPS),<br />
The Netherlands<br />
SUN 18 NHK Japan Broadcasting Corporation, Japan<br />
SUN 18 NRK Norwegian Broadcasting Corp., Norway<br />
o<br />
WED 21 Opernhaus Zürich, Switzerland<br />
MON 19 ORF Austrian Broadcasting Corporation, Austria<br />
p<br />
TUE 20 P.O.P.1, UK<br />
SUN 18 Pars Media, Germany<br />
TUE 20 Peter Rosen Productions, Inc., USA<br />
WED 21 Poorhouse International Ltd., UK<br />
r<br />
MON 19 RAI Trade, Italy<br />
WED 21 Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, UK<br />
MON 19 RTBF - Belgian TV, Belgium<br />
MON 19 RTV Slovenija, Slovenia<br />
s<br />
TUE 20 San Francisco Symphony, USA<br />
MON 19 Schweizer Fernsehen, Switzerland<br />
MON 19 sounding images, Germany<br />
SUN 18 Spectra International Distribution, Canada<br />
TUE 20 SVT Sveriges Television, Sweden<br />
t<br />
WED 21 Telmondis, France<br />
MON 19 Thirteen, USA<br />
TUE 20 TSI – Televisione svizzera di lingua italiana,<br />
Switzerland<br />
TUE 20 TVP Kultura, Poland<br />
u<br />
TUE 20 Unitel GmbH & Co. KG, Germany<br />
w<br />
TUE 20 Wunderlich Medien GbR, Germany<br />
y<br />
MON 19 YLE, Finland<br />
z<br />
MON 19 ZDF German Televison, Germany<br />
TUE 20 ZDF Theaterkanal, Germany<br />
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SCREENINGS<br />
avantpremière 2009<br />
SUNDAY, 18 January MONDAY, 19 January<br />
CLC Productions, France<br />
Luisa Miller<br />
Martha Argerich and Akiko Ebi<br />
Seicento Icons<br />
Yaron Herman Trio<br />
Danish Broadcasting Corporation, Denmark<br />
Adam Fischer – The Conductor,<br />
the Orchestra and Mozart<br />
The Band and the Three Nordic Voices<br />
The Copenhagen Ring<br />
Electric Sky, UK<br />
Hansel and Gretel<br />
Strictly Bolshoi<br />
Europe Images International, France<br />
A Midsummer Night’s Dream<br />
Cadmus & Hermione<br />
In the Footsteps of Chopin<br />
Opera Stars Perform the Lamenti<br />
Rudolf Nureyev, Celestial Attraction<br />
The Cure – Live in Paris 2008<br />
NHK Japan Broadcasting Corporation, Japan<br />
Different Trains<br />
NHK Music Festival 2008<br />
Seiji Ozawa: Eugene Onegin<br />
NRK Norwegian Broadcasting Corp., Norway<br />
Dark Night of the Soul<br />
Fabio Biondi and Stavanger<br />
Symphony Orchestra<br />
Get the Money and Play – One Year Inside<br />
an Orchestra<br />
New Cello Concerto for Truls Mørk<br />
Opening Gala of the new Opera House<br />
in Oslo, Norway<br />
tenThing brass ensemble<br />
Pars Media, Germany<br />
In Tempus Praesens<br />
Not Just One Truth – Pierre-Laurent Aimard<br />
Spectra International Distribution, Canada<br />
Chapeau Mr. Cohen<br />
Death in Venice<br />
La Chambre Blanche<br />
Zappa plays Zappa<br />
6 avantpremière2009 Bel Air Media, France<br />
Belshazzar<br />
Eugene Onegin<br />
Orpheus and Eurydice<br />
Spartacus<br />
Tchaikovsky Gala<br />
Turangalîla Symphony<br />
C Major Entertainment GmbH, Germany<br />
Adam Green plays Avo Session<br />
Amy MacDonald plays Avo Session<br />
Cecilia Bartoli – Malibran Rediscovered<br />
Cecilia Bartoli – The Barcelona Concert<br />
Cyndi Lauper plays Avo Sessio<br />
Doktor Faust<br />
Edita Gruberova – The Art of Bel Canto<br />
Gary Moore plays Avo Session<br />
I Lombardi alla prima crociata<br />
Jethro Tull plays Avo Session<br />
Julia Fischer – Violin and Piano<br />
Luisa Miller<br />
Messa da Requiem<br />
Michael Bolton plays Avo Session<br />
Patricia Kaas plays Avo Session<br />
Roger Hodgson plays Avo Session<br />
Sunshine Superman –<br />
The Journey of Donovan<br />
Till Brönner plays Avo Session<br />
Zucchero plays Avo Session<br />
Czech Television, Czech Republic<br />
David Doružka – Josefine Lindstrand<br />
Quartet<br />
In Search of Gustav Brom<br />
Jaroslav Ježek<br />
Magdalena<br />
Visegrad Baroque Orchestra<br />
DCD Rights, UK<br />
Legends: Roy Orbison<br />
Lines in the Landscape<br />
Nigel Kennedy: Blue Note Sessions<br />
Nigel Kennedy: Polish Spirit<br />
Quest for the Lost Ark<br />
Sarah Brightman: Symphony in Vienna<br />
Stairway to Heaven<br />
The Emperor’s Secret Garden<br />
The Human Camera<br />
Viva La Diva<br />
finkernagel & lück medienproduktion GbR,<br />
Germany<br />
Gidon Kremer and Martha Argerich<br />
at the Berliner Philharmonie<br />
Nadja Michael – The Art of Transformation
Hungarian Television, Hungary<br />
Fidelio<br />
How the Opera Festival Was Made<br />
Raoul<br />
Road to Music – A series of the<br />
pianist Gergely Bogányi<br />
The Crucible<br />
The Rape of Lucretia<br />
The Vampire<br />
Idéale Audience, France<br />
Arturo Toscanini In His Own Words<br />
Classic Archive<br />
Pierre Boulez – The Firebird at The Louvre<br />
Museum<br />
Pierre Boulez Presents The Firebird<br />
Piotr Anderszewski, Recital in Warsaw<br />
Spinosi Records Vivaldi<br />
Swing, Sing & Think: David Fray Records<br />
Johann Sebastian Bach<br />
The Berlin Philharmonic at the 60th edition<br />
of the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence<br />
The Cunning Little Vixen<br />
The Paris Opera Ballet<br />
Verbier Festival 2008<br />
Zaïde<br />
Nederlandse Programma Stichting (NPS),<br />
The Netherlands<br />
Dutch Final Eurovision Young Musicians<br />
2008<br />
Gala of Dutch Dance 2008<br />
Marco Polo<br />
North Sea Jazz Festival 2008<br />
NPS Matinee<br />
Olivier Messiaen – Saint Francis of Assisi<br />
Pinkpop 2008<br />
Queens’s Day Concert 2008<br />
Richard Wagner – Lohengrin<br />
The Abduction from the Seraglio<br />
Top 2000 A Go Go<br />
Wings of Wax<br />
Within Temptation<br />
ORF Austrian Broadcasting Corporation,<br />
Austria<br />
A Summer Night’s Gala at Grafenegg<br />
Anything new about Haydn?<br />
Dying in Love and Beauty – The Making<br />
of La Bohème<br />
Irmingard – Salzburg Festival 2008<br />
Karajan Memorial Concert on the Occasion<br />
of his 100th Birthday<br />
Romeo and Juliet<br />
The Importance Of Being Music –<br />
The Composer Georg F. Haas<br />
The Vienna Boys’ Choir – Distant Roads<br />
RAI Trade, Italy<br />
Edgar<br />
Ernani<br />
Il Turco in Italia<br />
La gazza ladra<br />
Lady Macbeth from Msensk<br />
Medea<br />
Orfeo<br />
Rigoletto<br />
Thaïs<br />
The Puritans<br />
Viaggio à Reims<br />
RTBF – Belgian TV, Belgium<br />
Chris Joris & Bob Stewart Rainbow Band<br />
Concert Mendelssohn, Mozart and<br />
Schumann<br />
Gamba Recital by the Ricercar Consort<br />
Portrait of Augustin Dumay<br />
Queen Elisabeth Competition<br />
Toots Thielemans, a Jazz Legend<br />
RTV Slovenija, Slovenia<br />
Deav Premal & Miten with Manose<br />
Man of Hearken<br />
Operatic Aria / Saša Cano<br />
Our little company marches/50 Years Of The<br />
RTVS Children and Youth Choir<br />
Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra<br />
to Celebrate Centenary<br />
Swan Lake<br />
The 8th Gala Evening of New Ballet<br />
Choreographies<br />
Schweizer Fernsehen, Switzerland<br />
Celtic Frost – A Dying God<br />
Charlie Haden – Rambling Boy<br />
Echoes of Home<br />
Going Against Fate<br />
Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison<br />
La Traviata at Zurich Main Station<br />
SCREENINGS<br />
sounding images, Germany<br />
András Schiff at the Teatro Olimpico<br />
Anja Silja – A Life of Song<br />
Kinshasa Symphony – Black Africa’s one<br />
and only classical orchestra<br />
Truls Mørk plays Chopin and Dvorák<br />
Thirteen, USA<br />
Carnegie Hall Opening Night 2008:<br />
A Celebration of Leonard Bernstein<br />
Chess in Concert<br />
Harlem in Montmartre: A Paris Jazz Story<br />
Hitman: David Foster & Friends<br />
Jerome Robbins: Something to<br />
Dance About<br />
Joan Baez<br />
Lights Up: In the Heights on Broadway<br />
Patti Smith: Dream of Life<br />
Salome<br />
The Music Instinct: Science and Song<br />
You Cannot Start Without Me:<br />
Valery Gergiev: Maestro<br />
YLE, Finland<br />
Jamming The Past<br />
Let's Make A Choir!<br />
The Season Ticket<br />
ZDF German Televison, Germany<br />
Domingo, Netrebko and Villazón –<br />
A Midsummer Night's Music from Vienna<br />
Echo der Stars<br />
Festive Advent Music from Dresden<br />
Götz Alsmann’s Nightmusic<br />
Karajan – Beauty as I see it<br />
The Berlin Philharmonic’s New Year’s<br />
Eve Concert<br />
Villazón singing Handel<br />
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SCREENINGS<br />
TUESDAY, 20 January<br />
3sat, Germany<br />
Francis Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmélites<br />
Generation Classic. Made in Germany<br />
Kiss me, Kate ...<br />
Lang Lang plays Tan Dun (Piano Festival<br />
Ruhr 2008)<br />
Marco Goecke: The Nutcracker<br />
Metro Music. Sounds of the Unterground<br />
Popkomm 08<br />
Arte France, France<br />
A Season of Operas<br />
Desperately Seeking Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui<br />
Georges Prêtre<br />
Israël Galvan, the Andalusian accent<br />
Ivry Gitlis, the violinist without borders<br />
Leon Fleisher, recital for two hands<br />
Maguy Marin<br />
Mahler, with measured steps<br />
Marius and Fanny<br />
Mr. Brown<br />
Piotr Anderszewski, Unquiet traveller<br />
Stravinsky Ballets<br />
BBC Classical Music Television, UK<br />
A Gothic Revolution<br />
Bach and the Lutheran Legacy<br />
Barenboim & West Eastern Divan<br />
BatonCamp<br />
Boulez & the BBC Symphony Orchestra<br />
Choral<br />
Folk Day<br />
Last Night of the Proms<br />
Nigel Kennedy: Classical and Jazz<br />
Opera<br />
Orchestra<br />
Orchestral Classics<br />
Palestrina and the Popes<br />
Tallis, Byrd and the Tudors<br />
The Passions of Vaughan Williams<br />
The Winner’s Finale Live<br />
Wayne McGregor's Infra<br />
World Music Celebration<br />
BBC Cymru Wales, UK<br />
BBC Proms in the Park 2008 Highlights<br />
BBC Radio 3 Choir of the Year 2008<br />
BBC Young Musician 2008:<br />
30th Anniversary<br />
BBC Young Musician 2008: Brass<br />
BBC Young Musician 2008: Concerto Final<br />
BBC Young Musician 2008: Grand Final<br />
BBC Young Musician 2008: Keyboard<br />
BBC Young Musician 2008: Percussion<br />
BBC Young Musician 2008: Strings<br />
BBC Young Musician 2008: Woodwind<br />
Bryn Terfel Closer to Home<br />
8<br />
avantpremière 2009<br />
avantpremière 2009<br />
Bryn Terfel’s Opera Night<br />
Cambridge Folk Festival 2008: Martha<br />
Wainwright featuring Devon Sproule<br />
Cambridge Folk Festival 2008: Seth<br />
Lakeman featuring Noah and the Whale<br />
Cambridge Folk Festival 2008:<br />
The Imagined Village<br />
Doctor Who at the Proms<br />
John Barrowman ‘Live’ at the<br />
Faenol Festival<br />
Nana Mouskouri –<br />
The White Rose of Athens<br />
Nana Mouskouri at the BBC<br />
Quincy Jones: The Many Lives of Q (Part 1)<br />
Quincy Jones: The Many Lives of Q (Part 2)<br />
The Andrews Sisters:<br />
Queens of the Music Machines<br />
The Beverley Sisters - Tickled Pink<br />
Clasart Classic, Germany<br />
Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 –<br />
The Cleveland Orchestra<br />
Carmen<br />
Christmas in Vienna<br />
Clari<br />
Genoveva<br />
Jonas Kaufmann – A perfectly normal hero<br />
EuroArts Music International GmbH,<br />
Germany<br />
Americans in Pyongyang<br />
Bach Motets<br />
Discovering Masterpieces of Classical<br />
Music<br />
El Sistema<br />
Europa Konzert 2008 from Moscow<br />
Goldberg Variations, Evgeni Koroliov<br />
Jerusalem International Chamber Music<br />
Festival<br />
Lucerne Festival 2008 – Russian Night<br />
New Year’s Concert from São Paulo<br />
Rigoletto<br />
Rossini: Messe solennelle<br />
The Lucerne Festival Academy –<br />
Glimpses of Pierre Boulez’ Workshop for<br />
the Future of Music<br />
The New York Philharmonic in Pyongyang<br />
The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra & Daniel<br />
Barenboim in Ravello<br />
Waldbühne 2008 – Los Ritmos de la Noche<br />
LGM, France<br />
Bluebeard’s Castle<br />
Daniele Gatti conducts Orchestre National<br />
de France<br />
La Dame aux Camélias<br />
Mahler’s Symphony No.8:<br />
Symphony of A Thousand<br />
Music and Time on Paper<br />
Rubato ma glissando<br />
P.O.P.1, UK<br />
Papa Haydn<br />
Peter Rosen Productions, Inc., USA<br />
Garrison Keillor: The Man on the Radio<br />
in the Red Shoes<br />
Gordon Getty: The Musical Curse<br />
Leonard Bernstein Reflections<br />
Shadows in Paradise<br />
San Francisco Symphony, USA<br />
A Celebration of Leonard Bernstein:<br />
Carnegie Hall Opening Night 2008<br />
Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique<br />
Charles Ives: Holidays Symphony<br />
Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique in Concert<br />
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5<br />
SVT Sveriges Television, Sweden<br />
Esa-Pekka Salonen & Friends<br />
God in Disguise<br />
Holocene<br />
Hotel Opera<br />
If only Bach had a clarinet<br />
Jukkas Yoiks<br />
Tan Dun – The Hunan Sculptor Of Sounds<br />
The Voice of Orpheus<br />
Winter Festival in Dalecarlia<br />
TSI - Televisione svizzera di lingua italiana,<br />
Switzerland<br />
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina:<br />
Missa Gabriel Archangelus<br />
La Serva Padrona<br />
Recital Hana Kotkovà - Simon Mulligan<br />
TVP Kultura, Poland<br />
Handel’s Music at the Wratislavia Cantans<br />
Festival<br />
Sinfonia Iuventus in Concert<br />
The Table<br />
The Young Polish Jazz
Unitel GmbH & Co. KG, Germany<br />
Anne-Sophie Mutter – Encounters<br />
with Mendelssohn<br />
Bayreuth – From Myth to Modernity<br />
Christian Thielemann conducts<br />
Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4<br />
Das Rheingold<br />
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg<br />
Die Walküre<br />
Don Giovanni<br />
Johannes Moser – Juraj Valcuha:<br />
Wagner, Pfitzner, Strauss<br />
Lang Lang at Schönbrunn<br />
Monteverdi – From the Basilica of<br />
Saint Denis<br />
Salzburg Festival – Opening Concert<br />
The Gambler<br />
Wunderlich Medien GbR, Germany<br />
Lisa Della Casa – Love of a Diva<br />
Robert Stolz – Music of<br />
Reconciliation<br />
ZDF Theaterkanal, Germany<br />
Annette's DaschSalon:<br />
Moonlit Night<br />
Choreographic <strong>Avant</strong>-garde – selfportraits<br />
of seven choreographers<br />
Cloud Gate Company – between<br />
two worlds<br />
I’m not alone<br />
Kung Fu – Monastery and Modern<br />
Dance Theatre – The Choreographer<br />
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui<br />
Masterpieces of Mankind –<br />
The Snow Lion’s Mask<br />
Popkomm 08<br />
The most beautiful operas of all<br />
times<br />
WEDNESDAY, 21 January<br />
ARTE Deutschland, Germany<br />
A Mendelssohn Jubilee Year Celebration<br />
with Anne-Sophie Mutter<br />
Anne-Sophie Mutter – Portrait of a<br />
global success<br />
Benjamin Britten: Billy Budd<br />
Giacomo Puccini: Turandot<br />
Karlheinz Stockhausen:<br />
Music for a New World<br />
Salsa in Salzburg<br />
Simone Kermes – The voice of baroque<br />
and Le Musiche Nove<br />
Tropicana – The cabaret of dreams<br />
Urban Ballet – Dance in August 2008<br />
Arthaus Musik GmbH, Germany<br />
Barockstar – George Frideric Handel<br />
Hansel und Gretel<br />
Ice and Steel<br />
Manon Lescaut<br />
Nyman in Progress<br />
Tristan and Isolde<br />
Wagner: Tannhäuser<br />
Werther<br />
AVRO Broadcasting Association,<br />
The Netherlands<br />
120 years of Royal Concertgebouw<br />
Orchestra – Part 1<br />
120 years of Royal Concertgebouw<br />
Orchestra – Part 2<br />
Christmas Matinée 2008<br />
Haitink conducts the Royal Concertgebouw<br />
Orchestra: Schubert<br />
Haitink conducts the Royal Concertgebouw<br />
Orchestra: Wagner<br />
Prinsengracht Concert 2008<br />
Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images GmbH,<br />
Austria<br />
Helmut Lachenmann: Phonetic Actions<br />
Idomeneo<br />
Joseph Haydn Unveiled<br />
Mozart 22 – The Documentaries<br />
Mozart Week 2008: Mozart Concert in E<br />
flat-Major for Two Pianos and Orchestra<br />
Nine Days in the Life of Benjamin Schmid<br />
Salzburg Festival 2008: Otello<br />
The School of Listening<br />
Thomas Hampson – Schumann Recital<br />
Triple Concerto – Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra<br />
of Venezuela and Gustavo Dudamel<br />
Young Singers Project<br />
Croatian Television, Croatia<br />
Bareza in Chemnitz<br />
Cinkuši<br />
Croatian Music at the Riva dei Schiavoni<br />
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir<br />
and Paul Hillier in Zadar<br />
Haydn and Croatian Music Heritage<br />
Inva Mula in Samobor<br />
Julian Rachlin and Friends in Dubrovnik<br />
Martina Filjak – A Portrait<br />
Three Reflections about Death<br />
To play, to sing, to dance<br />
EarthSync, India<br />
Laya Project<br />
Voice Over The Bridge<br />
France 2, France<br />
A choir in Bondy<br />
At the heart of the orchestra<br />
Mikhail Rudy – a Romantic Pianist<br />
Military Fantasy<br />
Nathalie Dessay, Paris – New York<br />
Presto<br />
Tandem<br />
The Keys To The Orchestra<br />
François Roussillon et Associés, France<br />
Armide<br />
Discovering an Opera: The Fly<br />
Faust<br />
Raymonda<br />
The Coronation of Poppea<br />
SCREENINGS<br />
GATEWAY4M - more fine music & media<br />
GmbH & Co. KG, Germany<br />
Blue Notes from Scandinavia<br />
LOFT music, Germany<br />
Aimez-vous Brahms? – Gerhard Oppitz<br />
and the German Piano School<br />
Into The Cold Dawn<br />
La Voce in Bellezza<br />
Medici Arts, Germany<br />
Claude Chalhoub: Singing on the Violin<br />
Frank Peter Zimmermann: Bach Sonatas<br />
Franz Schubert – Die schöne Müllerin<br />
Masters of American Music<br />
Popgalerie<br />
Salute Petra – Celebrating the Life of<br />
Luciano Pavarotti<br />
Opernhaus Zürich, Switzerland<br />
Bernard Haitink rehearses Richard<br />
Wagner’s »Parsifal«<br />
Christoph von Dohnànyi rehearses Richard<br />
Strauss’s »Ariadne auf Naxos«<br />
Fidelio<br />
Nikolaus Harnoncourt rehearses Wolfgang<br />
Amadeus Mozart’s »The Magic Flute«<br />
Poorhouse International Ltd., UK<br />
Broadway Goes Hollywood<br />
Castor et Pollux<br />
Leon Fleisher – Recital for Two Hands<br />
Marcia Haydée – The Best is Still to Come!<br />
Pinocchio’s Adventures<br />
Tamerlano<br />
Tannhäuser – The Revolutionary<br />
The Buskaid Soweto String Ensemble<br />
Un Ballo in Maschera<br />
Yondering<br />
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, UK<br />
Don Carlos<br />
Don Giovanni<br />
Hansel and Gretel<br />
Manon<br />
Salome<br />
Telmondis, France<br />
Triade<br />
Tribute to Jerome Robbins<br />
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FRANCIS POULENC: DIALOGUES<br />
001DES CARMÉLITES<br />
GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY ZDF/3sat (Germany) TV DIRECTOR Andreas Morell<br />
CAMERA Volker Schmidt EDITOR Dirk Schreier DURATION 176' 43"<br />
PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED 20.01.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical<br />
music COMPOSER Francis Poulenc CONDUCTOR Simone Young<br />
ORCHESTRA Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg (Germany)<br />
STAGE DIRECTOR Nikolaus Lehnhoff<br />
Brinkhoff/Mögenburg, Hamburg<br />
Francis Poulenc’s opera »Dialogues des Carmélites« is<br />
based on a historic moment. Accused of having instigated<br />
a counterrevolutionary conspiracy, 16 nuns of<br />
the order of the Carmelites were executed in the turmoil<br />
of the French Revolution. The opera’s 16 tableaux<br />
are reflexions: on the trust in God, on the fulfilment of<br />
duties. The overall theme, however, that holds the plot<br />
in its grip is anxiety. With their staging set in rigorous<br />
black and white, immersed in gauzy lighting, director<br />
Nikolaus Lehnhoff and set designer Raimund Bauer<br />
have achieved a translation of Poulenc’s »Dialogues<br />
des Carmélites« into a fascinating timelessness.<br />
GENERATION CLASSIC. MADE IN<br />
002GERMANY GENRE Documentary: Music STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
ZDF/3sat (Germany) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY AVE, Berlin (Germany)<br />
DURATION 45' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
Holger Jacoby<br />
They are young, they are stars – they are »made in<br />
Germany«. Trained in Germany, the »New Generation<br />
Classic« brings a fresh young sincerity into the music.<br />
Many of the musicians also live in Germany – the<br />
world’s largest and liveliest classical market. From<br />
here, they launch their international careers. Their<br />
biggest asset: enthusiasm. The series in six parts presents<br />
the following outstanding young artists: Martin<br />
Grubinger (percussion), Koryun Asatryan (saxophone),<br />
Lisa Batiashvili (violin), Claudio Bohorquez (cello),<br />
Martin Stadtfeld (piano) and Katja Wünsche (ballet).<br />
KISS ME, KATE ... 003 GENRE Relay of: Musical, on location STATUS completed PRODUCTION<br />
COMPANY ZDF/3sat (Germany) TV DIRECTOR Andreas Morell<br />
CAMERA Volker Schmidt EDITOR Jana Schneider DURATION 162' 53"<br />
PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED 31.05.2008 COMPOSER Cole Porter<br />
CONDUCTOR Koen Schoots ORCHESTRA Orchester der Komischen<br />
Oper Berlin (Germany) STAGE DIRECTOR Barrie Kosky<br />
(c) Monika Rittershaus<br />
»Kiss me, Kate…« was not only one of the greatest<br />
Broadway successes of all times, but also developed<br />
into one of the most essential plays of the musical<br />
genre. With »Wunderbar« and »Too darn hot« it contains<br />
some of the most famous Porter songs. Dancing<br />
cowboys and drag queens abound in Barrie Kosky’s<br />
shameless entertaining outing of Cole Porter’s evergreen.<br />
Some of the most amazing theatre clichés are<br />
added and presented: from the promiscuous ensemble<br />
to gambling and alcoholism up to implications with<br />
racketeers; in the centre the wonderful Dagmar Manzel<br />
as Lilli Vanessi. It is her manic energy and eccentric<br />
charisma that drive the show. She is the guarantor for<br />
the speedy side of this fantastic backstage comedy.<br />
LANG LANG PLAYS TAN DUN<br />
004(PIANO FESTIVAL RUHR 2008)<br />
GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, on location STATUS<br />
completed PRODUCTION COMPANY ZDF/3sat (Germany) TV DIRECTOR<br />
Georg Wübbolt CAMERA Volker Schmidt EDITOR Uli Peschke<br />
DURATION 104' 51" PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED 11.07.2008<br />
MUSICAL STYLE Classical music COMPOSER Tan Dun CONDUCTOR Tan Dun<br />
ORCHESTRA WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln (Germany) SOLOIST<br />
Lang Lang<br />
Nana Watanabe<br />
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Tan Dun and Lang Lang are two names that represent<br />
China’s cultural side everywhere in the world. With<br />
three separate works, Tan Dun gives insight into his<br />
musical thoughts, which combine different influences<br />
of Western and Eastern culture. His latest composition<br />
– a work commissioned by the New York Philharmonic<br />
Orchestra and premiered in April 2008 – has its European<br />
premiere at the Piano Festival Ruhr. Soloist of the<br />
concerto for piano, percussion and orchestra is the<br />
Chinese piano star Lang Lang.<br />
MARCO GOECKE: THE NUTCRACKER<br />
005 GENRE Relay of: Dance, on location STATUS completed PRODUCTION<br />
COMPANY ZDF/3sat (Germany) TV DIRECTOR Andreas Morell CAMERA<br />
Thomas Gutberlet EDITOR Janine Dauterich DURATION 73' 57"<br />
PRODUCTION YEAR 2007 RECORDED 10.12.2007 MUSICAL STYLE Classical<br />
music COMPOSER Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky DANCE STYLE Classical<br />
ballet CHOREOGRAPHY BY Marco Goecke DANCE COMPANY Stuttgart<br />
Ballet (Germany)<br />
Ballett Stuttgart<br />
Marco Goecke, house choreographer of the Stuttgart<br />
Ballet since September 2005, is celebrated for his inventive<br />
dance language. With his interpretation of the<br />
classic ballet »The Nutcracker«, he presents his modern<br />
view on Petipa’s and Tchaikovsky’s work. Instead<br />
of a colourful ballet Goecke unfolds an empire of darkness<br />
with a subtle magical world. With Klara he creates<br />
a figure of extraordinary character and strength. In her<br />
life, there is no separation between reality and fiction.<br />
In the leading roles of the 21 dancers of the Stuttgart<br />
Ballet: Elena Tentschikowa, Roland Havlica, William<br />
Moore and Stefan Stewart.<br />
006 METRO MUSIC. SOUNDS OF<br />
THE UNTERGROUND<br />
GENRE Documentary: Music STATUS in progress PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
ZDF/3sat (Germany) TV DIRECTOR Carmen Eckardt CAMERA Gerardo<br />
Milsztein EDITOR Jean-Marc Lesguillonns DURATION 57' 48"<br />
PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 MUSICAL STYLE World music<br />
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An underground labyrinth of 350 stations and 14<br />
train lines, the Parisian Metro is also the world’s<br />
largest concert hall: Every day, the endless corridors<br />
are flooded by an audience of five million people.<br />
For over a hundred years, musicians have been<br />
using the Metro as a podium. In the very bowels<br />
of the earth, you meet all colours of music: classical<br />
chamber music, complete orchestras as well as a<br />
traditional Japanese Koto player. »Metro Music«<br />
takes us down into that microcosm, deep into the<br />
hustle and bustle of rush hours. With their stories,<br />
the musicians invite us to see their workplace and<br />
take in the sounds from underground<br />
POPKOMM 08 007 GENRE Relay of: Ensemble/band appearance, Live recording<br />
STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY ZDF/3sat/theaterkanal<br />
(Germany) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY Circle Entertainment (Germany)<br />
ASS. PRODUCTION COMPANY MBTV (Germany) TV DIRECTOR Olaf Böhler<br />
CAMERA Bernd Udo Herzmann DURATION 340' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008<br />
RECORDED 10.10.2008<br />
Coralie Clément<br />
»Popkomm 08« is an exceptional concert marathon –<br />
nine concerts in a row on two channels: 3sat and ZDF<br />
theaterkanal present a remarkable line-up live from<br />
Berlin’s Popkomm Festival, one of the world’s major<br />
showcase festivals. Katrin Bauerfeind hosts the night<br />
at Berlin’s Kulturbrauerei with live performances by<br />
»French Connection & Guests": The first ladies of<br />
French songwriting Françoiz Breut, Coralie Clément<br />
and Marie Modiano are joined by the Berlin-based<br />
alternative rock band Super700 and the Taksim Trio<br />
from Turkey, the Popkomm’s partner country in 2008.<br />
»Popkomm 08« – that’s eight hours of extraordinary<br />
Popkomm festival coverage across two channels.
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A MENDELSSOHN JUBILEE YEAR<br />
008CELEBRATION WITH ANNE-SOPHIE<br />
MUTTER<br />
GENRE Relay of: Instrumental recital, Live recording STATUS<br />
completed PRODUCTION COMPANY Unitel (Germany) CO-PRODUCTION<br />
COMPANY ZDF (Germany) ASS. PRODUCTION COMPANY ARTE (Germany)<br />
PRODUCER Magdalena Herbst, Anca-Monica Pandelea TV DIRECTOR<br />
Agnes Méth DURATION 43' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Germany<br />
MUSICAL STYLE Classical music DISTRIBUTION TV EuroArts (Germany)<br />
To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Felix<br />
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Anne-Sophie Mutter will<br />
record the complete works of the German composer.<br />
In March 2008 Anne-Sophie Mutter was awarded the<br />
Mendelssohn prize of the city of Leipzig. In the course<br />
of the award ceremony she gave two concerts performing<br />
the works of Mendelssohn in the Gewandhaus in<br />
Leipzig, where Mendelssohn worked as music director<br />
for many years. Anne-Sophie Mutter is accompanied<br />
by the Gewandhaus orchestra directed by Kurt Masur.<br />
Extracts from the Sonata for Violin and Piano complete<br />
the programme. The piano is played by André Previn.<br />
009 ANNE-SOPHIE MUTTER – PORTRAIT<br />
OF A GLOBAL SUCCESS<br />
GENRE Documentary: Music, on location STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY DM Film und TV Produktion on behalf of<br />
NDR and ARTE (Germany) TV DIRECTOR Ralf Pleger CAMERA Frank<br />
Bergfeld EDITOR Stephan Haase AUTHOR Ralf Pleger DURATION 52'<br />
24" PRODUCTION YEAR 2007 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE<br />
Double concerto for violin, Doublebass and Orchestra COMPOSER<br />
André Previn ORCHESTRA Boston Symphony Orchestra (USA)<br />
SOLOIST Anne-Sophie Mutter, Roman Patkoló PIECE Concerto for<br />
two violins and Orchestra, d minor COMPOSER Johann Sebastian<br />
Bach SOLOIST Anne-Sophie Mutter, Ye-Eun Choi PIECE Sonata<br />
for violin and piano, B flat major COMPOSER Wolfgang Amadeus<br />
Mozart ORCHESTRA Trondheim Soloists (Norway) SOLOIST Anne-<br />
Sophie Mutter SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV<br />
German United (Germany) DVD DISTRIBUTION DM Film und TV<br />
Produktion (Germany)<br />
Anne-Sophie Mutter is one of the most famous exponents<br />
of classical music. Born in Germany in 1963,<br />
she studied the violin and piano and was discovered in<br />
1976 by Herbert von Karajan – the start of her unparalleled<br />
and enduring global career. We follow a year in<br />
the life of Anne-Sophie Mutter as she goes about her<br />
work, a year that takes in Boston, Paris, Lucerne,<br />
Frankfurt and Basel. Viewers will not only learn about<br />
the artist, her exciting work and enthralling concerts,<br />
they will also get to know her extraordinary personality.<br />
BENJAMIN BRITTEN: BILLY BUDD<br />
010 GENRE Relay of: Opera, on location STATUS completed PRODUCTION<br />
COMPANY Hessischer Rundfunk (Germany) EXECUTIVE PRODUCER<br />
Hartmuth Niemczik TV DIRECTOR Michael Ciniselli CAMERA Andreas<br />
Nitsch, Reinhard Burgheim, Christine Kaltenschnee, Jürgen<br />
Künzig, Frank Schwarz, Gunder Stegner EDITOR Franziska<br />
Kutschera AUTHOR Michael Ciniselli DURATION 50' 40" PRODUCTION<br />
YEAR 2007 MUSICAL STYLE Contemporary music PIECE Billy Budd<br />
COMPOSER Benjamin Britten CONDUCTOR Paul Daniel ORCHESTRA<br />
Frankfurter Museumsorchester (Germany) CHOIR Chor der Oper<br />
Frankfurt (Germany) SOLOIST John Mark Ainsley, Peter Mattei,<br />
Clive Bayley CHOREOGRAPHY BY Richard Jones COSTUMES Antony<br />
McDonald STAGE DIRECTOR Antony McDonald SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
DigiBeta/Stereo<br />
In »Billy Budd«, Benjamin Britten recounts the famous<br />
story of Hermann Melville in an exciting opera, the<br />
premiere of which was held on 1 December 1951 at<br />
the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London.<br />
»Billy Budd« is the story of the tragic relationship<br />
between the young sailor Billy and his captain Vere.<br />
In the fearful atmosphere of the most brutal military<br />
drill, the conscripted sailor becomes woven into an<br />
intrigue. Stuttering and vulnerable, he cannot help<br />
himself but kill the armourer Claggart. For such a<br />
crime, the captain will have to order the death penalty,<br />
well knowing that in doing so, an innocent man is<br />
being condemned.<br />
GIACOMO PUCCINI: TURANDOT<br />
011 GENRE Relay of: Opera, on location STATUS completed PRODUCTION<br />
COMPANY Unitel (Germany) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY ZDF (Germany)<br />
ASS. PRODUCTION COMPANY ARTE (Germany) PRODUCER Magdalena<br />
Herbst, Matrin Schneider TV DIRECTOR Tiziano Mancini DURATION<br />
118' 26" PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE<br />
Turandot COMPOSER Giacomo Puccini SOLOIST Maria Guleghina,<br />
Alexánder Tsimbaliuk, Marco Berti, Alexia Voulgaridou SOURCE<br />
VIDEO/AUDIO Produced in HDTV DISTRIBUTION TV C Major (Germany)<br />
The moving fairy tale of the beautiful and cruel<br />
Chinese princess Turandot was the ideal subject<br />
for Puccini: great emotions contrasting with the grotesquely<br />
funny scenes of the three fawning courtiers,<br />
and, of course, the aria »Nessun dorma«, which<br />
makes Prince Calaf a dream role for every tenor.<br />
The Palau de les Arts in Spain’s Valencia, designed<br />
by Santiago Calatrava, is one of the world’s most<br />
spectacular opera houses. Chinese star director Chen<br />
Kaige (best known for »Farewell my Concubine«) used<br />
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elaborate historical costumes and magnificent buildings,<br />
both handmade in China, to create a setting as<br />
authentic as it is impressive.<br />
KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN:<br />
012MUSIC FOR A NEW WORLD<br />
GENRE Documentary: Music STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
nb Media (Germany) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY ZDF (Germany)<br />
ASS. PRODUCTION COMPANY ARTE (Germany) PRODUCER Christopher<br />
Janssen AUTHOR Norbert Busè, Thomas von Steinaecker DURATION<br />
52' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music DISTRIBUTION<br />
TV nb Media (Germany)<br />
His name is a synonym for the »new music«, with<br />
which composers after World War II sought to break<br />
with prevailing music traditions. Stockhausen, who<br />
died in late 2007, thought of a composer as a researcher<br />
looking for the hidden cosmic structures<br />
of music. His consistent use of modern technology<br />
made him the sound-defining artist of new music as<br />
well as an icon of his time. The film focuses on the<br />
most creative period in the composer’s career – from<br />
the early 1950s to the late 1960s. It tells the touching<br />
story of a man, whose aim it was to let the music<br />
contribute to a new and better world.<br />
SALSA IN SALZBURG<br />
013 GENRE Documentary: Music STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
Unitel (Germany) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY ZDF (Germany) ASS.<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY ARTE (Germany) PRODUCER Martin Schneider,<br />
Bernhard Fleischer TV DIRECTOR Martin Schneider, Agnes Méth<br />
CAMERA Chris Weisz EDITOR Janine Dauterich DURATION 93' 30"<br />
PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music CONDUCTOR<br />
Gustavo Dudamel ORCHESTRA Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra<br />
of Venezuela (Venezuela) SOLOIST Martha Argerich, Renaud<br />
Capuçon, Gautier Capuçon DISTRIBUTION TV C Major (Germany)<br />
The classical music scene has not seen such emotion<br />
and passion since Leonard Bernstein’s days. Gustavo<br />
Dudamel and his Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of<br />
Venezuela get even the most conservative concert hall<br />
audiences ecstatic and enthusiastic. The »Phenomenon<br />
Dudamel« came to visit the Salzburg Festival last<br />
summer and as »Orchestra in Residence« spiced up<br />
the traditional music life in Mozart’s city. Impressions<br />
from the orchestra's tour, concert clips (with »Pictures<br />
at an Exhibition« and Beethoven’s Triple Concerto) and<br />
workshops (with Dudamel and Nikolaus Harnoncourt)<br />
prove how this young orchestra from the allegedly<br />
»third world« turns the European classical music<br />
scene upside down.<br />
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014BAROQUE AND LE MUSICHE NOVE<br />
GENRE Relay of: Vocal recital, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Südwestrundfunk (Germany) PRODUCER Norbert<br />
Waldmann TV DIRECTOR Torben Schmidt EDITOR Harald Letfuß<br />
DURATION 43' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Rokokotheater<br />
Schwetzinger Schloss, 15.05.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
COMPOSER Antonio Vivaldi, Tommaso Albinoni CONDUCTOR Claudio<br />
Osele ORCHESTRA Musiche Nove (Italy) SOLOIST Simone Kermes<br />
SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Stereo<br />
Harald Letfuß<br />
Simone Kermes is Germany’s soprano answer to<br />
Cecilia Bartoli. Her bel canto repertory is, above all,<br />
the music of the 18th century: Händel and Bach,<br />
Vivaldi and Purcell, Mozart and Haydn. During the<br />
»Schwetzinger Festspiele 2008« at the baroque theatre<br />
in the castle of Schwetzingen, Simone Kermes was<br />
accompanied by the instrumental group Musiche Nove<br />
under the direction of Claudio Osele, playing with<br />
historical instruments. Excerpts from operas of Vivaldi,<br />
Porpora and Leonardo Leo will be heard in addition to<br />
instrumental pieces from Albinoni and Vivaldi.<br />
TROPICANA – THE CABARET OF<br />
015DREAMS GENRE Documentary: Other STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
ZDF ARTE/Xenophile Media (Germany) PRODUCER Wolfgang<br />
Bergmann EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Thomas Wallner, Patrick Crowe,<br />
Keith Clarkson ASSOCIATED PRODUCER Sara Kushner, Jochen<br />
Beckmann TV DIRECTOR Thomas Wallner CAMERA Jochen Beckmann<br />
EDITOR Ricardo Acosta DURATION 52' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED<br />
Cuba SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo<br />
The »Tropicana«, Cuba’s equivalent to the Moulin<br />
Rouge, is a national monument that throughout the<br />
country's turbulent history has retained its reputation<br />
as one of the legendary cabarets of the world. Every<br />
year in late summer, over 600 young people between<br />
the ages of 16 to 26 from all over Cuba line up at the<br />
Tropicana hoping to be dancing on its stage one day.<br />
Tropicana profiles the struggle of young people as they<br />
endure a gruelling year of training in the Tropicana<br />
dance school – all united by a single dream of dance<br />
and fame.
URBAN BALLET – DANCE IN AUGUST<br />
0162008 GENRE Documentary: Dance STATUS in progress PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
ZDF ARTE/nachtaktivfilm (Germany) PRODUCER Dieter Schneider<br />
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Brigitte Kramer TV DIRECTOR Brigitte Kramer, Jörg<br />
Jeshel CAMERA Michael Boomers, Jörg Jeshel EDITOR Stéphan<br />
Talneau DURATION 52' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Berlin DANCE<br />
STYLE Contemporary dance SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo<br />
This entertaining dance film features more than ten<br />
international dance ensembles. Film and dance are<br />
however leaving the usual premises of theatres and<br />
performance venues. Filmmakers Brigitte Kramer and<br />
Jörg Jeshel confront the dancers and the city: on pulsing<br />
bridges, in quiet parks and on urban rooftops, the<br />
wide range of modern dance – from avantgarde to<br />
contemporary ballet, from comedy to tragedy – is presented.<br />
International choreographers show their work<br />
in »Tanz im August«, a vivid summer dance festival<br />
held in Berlin.<br />
Arte France<br />
A SEASON OF OPERAS<br />
017 GENRE Documentary: Music STATUS in progress PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
Les films d'ici (France) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY ARTE France<br />
(France) ASS. PRODUCTION COMPANY Opéra de Paris (France) PRODUCER<br />
Agathe Berman EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Agathe Berman TV DIRECTOR<br />
Richard Copans CAMERA Richard Copans EDITOR Catherine Gouze<br />
AUTHOR Richard Copans DURATION 90' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 MUSICAL<br />
STYLE Classical music PIECE Parsifal COMPOSER Richard Wagner<br />
CONDUCTOR Hartmut Haenchen ORCHESTRA Opéra de Paris (France)<br />
CHOIR Opéra de Paris (France) CHOREOGRAPHY BY Saar Magal<br />
COSTUMES Malgorzata Szczesniak LIBRETTO Richard Wagner MUSICAL<br />
STYLE Classical music PIECE Wozzeck COMPOSER Alban Berg<br />
CONDUCTOR Sylvain Cambreling ORCHESTRA Opéra de Paris (France)<br />
CHOIR Opéra de Paris (France) COSTUMES Anna Viebrock LIBRETTO<br />
Alban Berg MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE The marriage of<br />
Figaro COMPOSER Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart CONDUCTOR Sylvain<br />
Cambreling ORCHESTRA Opéra de Paris (France) CHOIR Opéra de<br />
Paris (France) CHOREOGRAPHY BY Thomas Stache COSTUMES Anna<br />
Viebrock LIBRETTO Lorenzo da Ponte SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO Stereo<br />
Paris, the Bastille Square, the Opera: the world’s<br />
largest opera house. A huge factory for creating emotion<br />
but, deep down, what for? What kind of energies<br />
work together to run a house of this size? What fuels<br />
the policy of creation, renewal of productions and the<br />
search for new audiences? On the one hand, the work<br />
of the production teams (artists and technicians), who<br />
are preparing »Parsifal«, »Wozzeck« and »The Marriage<br />
of Figaro«. On the other, it’s about planning,<br />
marketing, pricing, etc. and balancing the books. This<br />
is not an idealised vision of a creative space but the<br />
portrait of a community at work, governed by a policy<br />
that attempts to get a grip on its times and the future<br />
world.<br />
DESPERATELY SEEKING SIDI LARBI<br />
018CHERKAOUI GENRE Documentary: Dance STATUS in progress PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
Bel Air Media (France) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY ARTE France<br />
(France) PRODUCER François Duplat EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Patricia<br />
Houtart TV DIRECTOR Don Kent CAMERA Don Kent EDITOR André<br />
Gaultier AUTHOR Christian Dumais-Lvowski DURATION 0' 52"<br />
PRODUCTION YEAR 2009 RECORDED Antwerp (Belgium), Shaolin<br />
(China), Madras (India), Calvi (Corsica) DANCE STYLE<br />
Contemporary dance SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Stereo<br />
Koen Broos<br />
What do we really know about this 30-year-old artist<br />
who has triumphed in all the major modern dance<br />
venues in less than a decade? Don Kent and Christian<br />
Dumais-Lvowski propose to work from four places<br />
that play an important role in Larbi Cherkaoui’s life:<br />
Belgium, China, Corsica and India. The idea is not to<br />
follow Larbi to four different choreographic workshops<br />
but to visit – or revisit – with him these places of reflexion,<br />
inspiration and knowledge transfer. We don’t<br />
only wish to visit the physical places but more importantly<br />
to explore their inner world as defined by Larbi<br />
Cherkaoui himself in his book »Pèlerinage sur soi<br />
(Pilgrimage to the self )«. Published by Editions<br />
Actes-Sud, Le Souffle de l’esprit collection<br />
GEORGES PRÊTRE<br />
019 GENRE Documentary: Music STATUS in progress PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
Zeta Productions (France) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY ARTE France<br />
(France) PRODUCER Miriana Bojic Walter EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Miriana<br />
Bojic Walter TV DIRECTOR Claire Alby DURATION 52' PRODUCTION YEAR<br />
2008 RECORDED France and Austria MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
CONDUCTOR Georges Prêtre<br />
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Georges Prêtre was chosen by the musicians of the<br />
world’s most famous orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic,<br />
to conduct the New Year’s concert in January<br />
2008. He is the first French conductor to have had<br />
the honour of conducting this concert, broadcast in<br />
54 countries across the globe. George Prêtre was the<br />
favourite conductor of Francis Poulenc and Maria<br />
Callas. Despite being widely recognised by his colleagues<br />
(Sir Beecham, Karajan …), there is no biography<br />
of the maestro. This film will try to remedy this<br />
deficit. We will follow him from his private working<br />
methods amongst nature and in the official rehearsals<br />
to witness the amazing metamorphosis of an orchestral<br />
score under the direction of this great music<br />
director.<br />
ISRAËL GALVAN, THE ANDALUSIAN<br />
020ACCENT GENRE Documentary: Portrait STATUS in progress PRODUCTION<br />
COMPANY Les films d'ici (France) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY ARTE France<br />
(France), A TICO 7 (Spain) ASS. PRODUCTION COMPANY A negro<br />
producciones (Spain) PRODUCER Agathe Berman EXECUTIVE PRODUCER<br />
Agathe Berman ASSOCIATED PRODUCER Chema Blanco TV DIRECTOR<br />
Maria Reggiani CAMERA Ned Burgess EDITOR Laure Blancherie<br />
AUTHOR Maria Reggiani DURATION 0' 58" PRODUCTION YEAR 2009 DANCE<br />
STYLE Contemporary dance CHOREOGRAPHY BY Galvan Israël DANCE<br />
COMPANY Compania Israël Galvan (Spain) STAGE DIRECTOR Belen<br />
Candil<br />
Israël Galvan dreamt of being a soccer player but his<br />
parents were flamenco dancers in Seville. He has become<br />
a supreme dancer and an incredible choreographer<br />
– a new master. This film focuses on his<br />
inspiration and his innovations: a journey through a<br />
new alphabet of the body; a totally new yet brilliantly<br />
recognisable alphabet.<br />
021 IVRY GITLIS, THE VIOLINIST<br />
WITHOUT BORDERS<br />
GENRE Documentary: Portrait STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
Classifilms (France) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY Ina (France) ASS.<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY ARTE France (France) PRODUCER Christian<br />
Labrande ASSOCIATED PRODUCER Lise Lemeunier TV DIRECTOR Sandra<br />
Joxe CAMERA Ivan Kozelka EDITOR Thimoty Miller AUTHOR Christian<br />
Labrande DURATION 60' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED France,<br />
Israël SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO Stereo<br />
16 avantpremière2009 This film is not just the portrait of a musician; it is a<br />
film about a unique and outspoken individual. During<br />
a visit to Israel for a series of energetic master classes<br />
at the Jerusalem Music Center, Ivry Gitlis visits key<br />
places of his childhood, from the Dead Sea to Haifa,<br />
and the port of Jaffa. In his musical road movie,<br />
Ivry Gitlis, who feels at home »everywhere and ...<br />
now-here«, revisits his past: his childhood on Mount-<br />
Carmel, his beginnings as a child prodigy, the moment<br />
when he was wrenched way from his fatherland and<br />
his father, the crossing of the Mediterranean, his<br />
European exile and the beginnings of a remarkable<br />
international career.<br />
LEON FLEISHER, RECITAL<br />
022FOR TWO HANDS<br />
GENRE Relay of: Instrumental recital, Studio production<br />
STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY Les Films d’Ici (France)<br />
CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY ARTE France (France) PRODUCER Serge Lalou<br />
TV DIRECTOR Mark Kidel CAMERA Ned Burgess, Raphaël O'Byrne,<br />
Marine Tadié DURATION 43' DURATION 2 48' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008<br />
RECORDED Fondation Singer-Polignac in Paris MUSICAL STYLE Classical<br />
music COMPOSER Franz Schubert, Frédéric Chopin, Maurice Ravel,<br />
Claude Debussy SOLOIST Leon Fleisher DISTRIBUTION TV Les Films<br />
d’Ici (France)<br />
Leon Fleisher is one of the greatest pianists of our<br />
time. For a major part of his life he was unable to<br />
use his right hand, and the tragic circumstances in<br />
which this injury cut short a brilliant career and led<br />
to his rebirth as one of the world’s top high-level piano<br />
teachers and an interpreter of the left hand keyboard<br />
repertoire was the subject of Mark Kidel’s award-winning<br />
documentary. Now Leon Fleisher has recovered<br />
the use of both hands and recorded a couple of highly<br />
praised CD’s. Filmed in a beautiful salon of the Fondation<br />
Singer-Polignac in Paris – a large room in which<br />
Stravinsky, Ravel and others played –, Leon Fleisher<br />
presents works by Bach, Schubert, Chopin, Ravel and<br />
Debussy.
MAGUY MARIN 023 GENRE Documentary: Portrait STATUS in progress PRODUCTION<br />
COMPANY Camera Lucida Productions (France) PRODUCER Jean-<br />
Stéphane Michaux EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Julie Charrier TV DIRECTOR<br />
Marie-Hélène Rebois CAMERA Sara Cornu EDITOR Jocelyne Ruiz<br />
AUTHOR Marie-Hélène Rebois DURATION 90' PRODUCTION YEAR 2009<br />
RECORDED Paris et Lyon PIECE Umwelt, Ha ha!, Ça quand même,<br />
Grosse Fuge, Turba DANCE STYLE Contemporary dance CHOREO-<br />
GRAPHY BY Maguy Marin DANCE COMPANY Compagnie Maguy Marin,<br />
Centre Chorégraphique National de Rillieux La Pape (France)<br />
STAGE DIRECTOR Maguy Marin SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD DISTRIBUTION TV<br />
ARTE France (France)<br />
Maguy Marin, a woman of conviction, free and passionate,<br />
is a choreographer who dares express with<br />
force and clarity, sometimes with outrageousness and<br />
incitement, in order for her audience to understand her<br />
clearly. »Maguy Marin, la danse cachée« leads us into<br />
her world. Through her latest five plays, »Umwelt«,<br />
»Ha Ha!«, »Ça quand même«, »Turba« and »Grosse<br />
Fuge« (all created since she moved into the centre of<br />
Rillieux la Pape’s housing projects in Lyon’s suburbs),<br />
we can see how she advances and how she resists,<br />
how her work is traversed by the world surrounding it,<br />
in a never-ending interior/exterior movement.<br />
MAHLER, WITH MEASURED STEPS<br />
024 GENRE Documentary: Music STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
13 Production (France) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY ARTE France<br />
(France) PRODUCER Paul Saadoun EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Paul Saadoun<br />
TV DIRECTOR Pierre-Henry Salfati CAMERA Sébastien Saadoun EDITOR<br />
Fanny Piquet AUTHOR Christian Labrande, Pierre-Henry Salfaty<br />
SETS Clémentine Marchand LIGHT DESIGN Sébastien Saadoun<br />
DURATION 58' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
PIECE Symphony No. 5 COMPOSER Gustav Mahler SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
HD/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV ARTE France Distribution (France)<br />
HOMEVIDEO DISTRIBUTION ARTE France Distribution (France) DVD<br />
DISTRIBUTION ARTE France Distribution (France)<br />
»With measured steps« is the tempo indication<br />
Mahler wrote on the score at the beginning of the first<br />
movement of his Fifth Symphony, a monumental funeral<br />
march. A military parade with measured steps …<br />
Mahler fled the family home, driven away because he<br />
could no longer bear to see the terrible beatings his<br />
father gave his mother. This trauma was so painful<br />
that Mahler finally mentioned it to Freud, with whom<br />
he had a memorable encounter. The two took a walk<br />
together one day in August 1910, a long stroll … with<br />
measured steps. We will be returning to this event<br />
again and again as a reference, a journey in the form<br />
of a session between two great minds.<br />
MARIUS AND FANNY<br />
025 GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY A Prime Group (France), Opéra de Marseille<br />
(France), Ville de Marseille (France) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY ARTE<br />
France (France) PRODUCER Vladimir Cosma, Dominique Ambiel<br />
TV DIRECTOR Gilles Amado DURATION 157' PRODUCTION YEAR 2007<br />
RECORDED Opéra de Marseille PIECE Marius and Fanny COMPOSER<br />
Vladimir Cosma CONDUCTOR Jacques Lacombe ORCHESTRA Orchestre<br />
de l’Opéra de Marseille (France) CHOIR Choeur de l’Opéra de<br />
Marseille (France) SOLOIST Angela Gheorghiu, Roberto Alagna,<br />
Jean-Philippe Lafont, Marc Barrard COSTUMES Christian Gasc<br />
STAGE DIRECTOR Jean-Louis Grinda<br />
Christian Dresse<br />
Vladimir Cosma, the great composer of scores for<br />
many of France’s most popular films, wrote an opera<br />
inspired by one of the best known pieces of French literature:<br />
Marcel Pagnol’s trilogy »Marius, Fanny and<br />
César«. His opera, »Marius and Fanny«, set in the old<br />
harbour of Marseille, is interpreted by the star couple<br />
Angela Gheorgiu and Roberta Alagna.<br />
MR. BROWN 026 GENRE Documentary: Portrait STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
Morgane Production (France) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY ARTE France<br />
(France) TV DIRECTOR Philip Priestley CAMERA Philip Priestley AUTHOR<br />
Philippe Manoeuvre DURATION 57' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED<br />
USA SOLOIST James Brown DISTRIBUTION TV ARTE France Distribution<br />
(France)<br />
Michael Ochs Archives/Corbis<br />
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The life and work of James Brown, giant of soul,<br />
father of funk, fabulous dancer and tireless showman.<br />
Philippe Manoeuvre and Philip Priestley propose an<br />
intense and intimate portrait of the author of »Sex<br />
Machine« who died on 25 December 2006.<br />
PIOTR ANDERSZEWSKI, UNQUIET<br />
027TRAVELLER GENRE Documentary: Portrait STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
ARTE France (France), Idéale Audience (France), Telewizja<br />
Polska (Poland) ASS. PRODUCTION COMPANY Polish Film Institute<br />
(Poland), SVT (Sweden), RTSI (Switzerland) EXECUTIVE PRODUCER<br />
Hélène Le Coeur, Marianna Rowinska-Dassier TV DIRECTOR Bruno<br />
Monsaingeon CAMERA Adam Rozanski DURATION 90' PRODUCTION<br />
YEAR 2008 RECORDED Poland, Hungary, Portugal MUSICAL STYLE<br />
Classical music COMPOSER Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van<br />
Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Robert Schumann,<br />
Johannes Brahms, Karol Szymanowski SOLOIST Piotr<br />
Anderszewski DISTRIBUTION TV Idéale Audience International<br />
(France) DVD DISTRIBUTION Idéale Audience International (France)<br />
Grzegorz Press – Idéale Audience<br />
Everything about Piotr Anderszewski is extraordinary,<br />
above and beyond the norm, not abnormal, but, you<br />
might say, spontaneously, »normally« beyond the<br />
norm, beginning, of course, with his musical talent.<br />
He is now recognised almost universally as one of the<br />
best pianists of our time, but he is first and foremost<br />
a musician, as if he had transcended the medium he<br />
uses to give vent to his musical expression. His primary<br />
interest lies not in the piano, nor in piano music,<br />
but in music itself, and, wherever possible, music that<br />
is not continually striving to flaunt the resources of the<br />
instrument which lends itself so often to extravagance.<br />
The film is constructed around a journey through<br />
Poland and Hungary and various other European<br />
places (London, Bremen, Lisbon).<br />
STRAVINSKY BALLETS<br />
028 GENRE Relay of: Dance, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Bel Air Media (France) PRODUCER François<br />
Duplat TV DIRECTOR Denis Caïozzi CAMERA Cécile Trelluyer EDITOR<br />
Arnaud Petitet DURATION 108' 35" PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED<br />
Théâtre de Mariinsky de Saint-Petersbourg, 20.06.2008 MUSICAL<br />
STYLE Classical music COMPOSER Igor Stravinsky CONDUCTOR Valery<br />
Gergiev ORCHESTRA Orchestre du Théâtre Mariinsky (Russia)<br />
DANCE The Firebird, The Rite of spring, The wedding DANCE STYLE<br />
Classical ballet DANCE COMPANY Ballet du Théâtre Mariinsky<br />
(Russia) SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV ARTE France<br />
Distribution (France)<br />
18 avantpremière2009 Valentin Baranovsky<br />
This programme is like a tribute to Igor Stravinsky,<br />
a native of Saint Petersburg. It is constructed around<br />
three ballets: »The Rite of Spring«, »The Wedding«<br />
and »The Firebird«.<br />
Arthaus Musik GmbH<br />
BAROCKSTAR – GEORGE FRIDERIC<br />
029HANDEL GENRE Documentary: Portrait, on location STATUS in progress<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY RM Arts (Germany) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
digital Images (Germany) PRODUCER Torsten Boennhoff,<br />
Ulrich Meyszies TV DIRECTOR Ulrich Meyszies CAMERA Matthias<br />
Papenmeier, Henning Bruemmer DURATION 58' DURATION2 45'<br />
PRODUCTION YEAR 2009 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music COMPOSER George<br />
Frideric Handel SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby surround 5.1<br />
DISTRIBUTION TV C-Major Entertainment (Germany) DVD DISTRIBUTION<br />
Arthaus Musik (Germany)<br />
George Frideric Handel was the first star composer.<br />
His operas and oratorios made him famous around the<br />
world. "Barockstar" tells the story of Handel's life as<br />
he journeyed through baroque Europe, leaving Germany<br />
for Italy and experiencing Florence, Rome and<br />
Venice, before arriving in London to begin the career<br />
that would bring him a worldwide reputation. The film<br />
shows the original locations in Halle, Rome, Venice,<br />
Florence and London that Handel himself visited. Stars<br />
and specialists in today's baroque music scene and<br />
descendants of Handel's friends and sponsors talk<br />
about their encounters with the maestro and his work.<br />
HANSEL AND GRETEL<br />
030 GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY RM Arts (Germany) PRODUCER Torsten Bönnhoff,<br />
Erwin Stürzer EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Rainer Mockert TV DIRECTOR Brooks<br />
Riley EDITOR Brooks Riley SETS Stefan Rieckhoff DURATION 98'<br />
PRODUCTION YEAR 2007 RECORDED Anhaltisches Theater Dessau<br />
MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE Hansel and Gretel COMPOSER<br />
Engelbert Humperndinck CONDUCTOR Markus Frank ORCHESTRA<br />
Anhaltische Philharmonie Dessau (Germany) CHOIR Children<br />
Chorus of the Anhaltisches Theater Dessau (Germany)<br />
SOLOIST Sabine Noack, Cornelia Marschall, Ludmil Kuntschew<br />
COSTUMES Stefan Rieckhoff LIBRETTO Adelheid Wette STAGE DIRECTOR<br />
Johannes Felsenstein SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby surround 5.1<br />
DISTRIBUTION TV C Major Entertainment (Germany) HOMEVIDEO<br />
DISTRIBUTION Arthaus Musik (Germany) DVD DISTRIBUTION Arthaus<br />
Musik (Germany)
Arthaus Musik<br />
»Hansel and Gretel« is a fairy-tale opera (Märchenspiel)<br />
by Engelbert Humperdinck to a libretto by his<br />
sister Adelheid Wette. The form in which the story is<br />
used in the opera derives from the collection of Ludwig<br />
Bechstein. The thoroughly happy ending introduces<br />
a significant variation to the familiar version of the<br />
brothers J. and W. Grimm. Press quote: »Markus L.<br />
Frank and the Anhalt Philharmonic bring out the truly<br />
magical yearning in Humperdinck’s music so beautifully<br />
that this alone should be enough to draw audiences<br />
to the Anhalt Theatre.« (Mitteldeutsche Zeitung)<br />
ICE AND STEEL 032 GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY RM Arts (Germany) PRODUCER Torsten Bönnhoff,<br />
Erwin Stürzer EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Rainer Mockert TV DIRECTOR<br />
Brooks Riley EDITOR Brooks Riley SETS Johann Jörg DURATION 96'<br />
PRODUCTION YEAR 2007 RECORDED Saarländisches Staatstheater MUSICAL<br />
STYLE Classical music PIECE Ice and Steel COMPOSER Vladimir<br />
Deshevov CONDUCTOR Will Humburg ORCHESTRA Saarländisches<br />
Staatsorchester (Germany) CHOIR Chorus of the Saarländisches<br />
Staatstheater (Germany) SOLOIST Yevgeny Taruntsuv, Anna<br />
Toneeva CHOREOGRAPHY BY Fabian Posca COSTUMES Nicola Reichert<br />
LIBRETTO Boris Lavrenjov STAGE DIRECTOR Immo Karaman SOURCE<br />
VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby surround 5.1 DISTRIBUTION TV C Major<br />
Entertainment (Germany) HOMEVIDEO DISTRIBUTION Arthaus Musik<br />
(Germany) DVD DISTRIBUTION Arthaus Musik (Germany)<br />
Arthaus Musik<br />
World premiere recording: »Ice and Steel« – a unique<br />
historical witness During the 1920s, Vladimir Deshevov<br />
(1889-1955) was regarded as one of the most<br />
promising young Soviet composers. In 1929 came<br />
Deshevov’s best-known composition: »Ice and Steel«.<br />
Although Deshevov was one of the chief proponents<br />
of the left-wing musical avant-garde in the 1920s and<br />
explicitly came out in favour of critical appropriation<br />
of elements from Western modernism, he was not subjected<br />
to direct ideological attacks during the Stalinist<br />
era. Press quote: »The last notes had hardly died away<br />
before someone called out 'Bravo!' – and he was right.<br />
This production of 'Ice and Steel' is magnificent.«<br />
(SR 2 KulturRadio)<br />
MANON LESCAUT<br />
032 GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY RM Arts (Germany) PRODUCER Torsten Bönnhoff,<br />
Erwin Stürzer EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Patrick Buttmann TV DIRECTOR<br />
Patrick Buttmann CAMERA Günther Euringer EDITOR Patrick<br />
Buttmann SETS Dieter Richter DURATION 120' PRODUCTION YEAR 2007<br />
RECORDED Chemnitz Opera House MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
PIECE Manon Lescaut COMPOSER Giacomo Puccini CONDUCTOR Frank<br />
Beermann ORCHESTRA Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie (Germany)<br />
CHOIR Chorus of the Chemnitz Opera (Germany) SOLOIST Astrid<br />
Weber, Heiko Trinsinger, Zurab Zurabishvili COSTUMES Renate<br />
Schmitzer STAGE DIRECTOR Ansgar Weigner SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
HD/Dolby surround 5.1 DISTRIBUTION TV C Major Entertainment<br />
(Germany) HOMEVIDEO DISTRIBUTION Arthaus Musik (Germany)<br />
DVD DISTRIBUTION Arthaus Musik (Germany)<br />
Arthaus Musik<br />
»Manon Lescaut«, Puccini’s first major success, is<br />
a work of impassioned emotions based on the 18thcentury<br />
novel by Abbé Prévost, depicting the doomed<br />
infatuation of Chevalier des Grieux for beautiful, funloving<br />
Manon. Puccini clothes the story in warmly<br />
passionate music that makes a direct appeal to the<br />
listener’s emotions. None of Puccini’s other world<br />
successes were received on their first nights as rapturously<br />
as »Manon Lescaut«. The production at the<br />
Chemnitz Opera House was hailed as »a magnificent<br />
event« and »moments we go to the opera for«. Press<br />
quotes: »A magnificent event!« (Opernglas); »A really<br />
powerful scene [...] just before the end. These are the<br />
moments we go to the opera for.« (Deutschlandradio<br />
Kultur); »Astrid Weber as Manon is first class!«<br />
(Opernwelt)<br />
NYMAN IN PROGRESS<br />
033 GENRE Documentary: Portrait, on location STATUS in progress<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY RM Arts (Germany) PRODUCER Oliver Becker<br />
TV DIRECTOR Silvia Beck CAMERA Markus Winterbauer AUTHOR Silvia<br />
Beck DURATION 0' 58" DURATION2 0' 45" PRODUCTION YEAR 2009<br />
MUSICAL STYLE Contemporary music SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby<br />
surround 5.1 DISTRIBUTION TV C Major Entertainment (Germany)<br />
HOMEVIDEO DISTRIBUTION Arthaus Musik (Germany) DVD DISTRIBUTION<br />
Arthaus Musik (Germany)<br />
Michael Nyman is a restless soul, always searching.<br />
Thoughts, sounds, coincidences, visuals, curios,<br />
stories and challenges – Nyman collects and assembles<br />
everything and anything. It seems as if only<br />
his minimalist compositions are able to give structure<br />
to the disquiet of his internal world. Starting with the<br />
celebrations for his 65th birthday in March 2009, this<br />
film shows one of the great composers of our time in<br />
all his diversity and endless energy. The chapters of<br />
this film accompany Nyman on the journey from his<br />
home in London through Europe, Russia, Mexico,<br />
China and beyond.<br />
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TRISTAN UND ISOLDE<br />
GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY RM Arts (Germany) PRODUCER Torsten Bönnhoff,<br />
Erwin Stürzer EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Rainer Mockert TV DIRECTOR Brooks<br />
Riley EDITOR Brooks Riley SETS Stefan Rieckhoff DURATION 224'<br />
PRODUCTION YEAR 2007 RECORDED Anhaltisches Theater Dessau<br />
MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE Tristan und Isolde COMPOSER<br />
Richard Wagner CONDUCTOR Golo Berg ORCHESTRA Anhaltische<br />
Philharmonie Dessau (Germany) CHOIR Male Chorus of the<br />
Anhaltisches Theater Dessau (Germany) SOLOIST Richard<br />
Decker, Marek Wojciechowski, Iordanka Derilova COSTUMES<br />
Stefan Rieckhoff LIBRETTO Richard Wagner STAGE DIRECTOR<br />
Johannes Felsenstein SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby surround 5.1<br />
DISTRIBUTION TV C Major Entertainment (Germany) HOMEVIDEO<br />
DISTRIBUTION Arthaus Musik (Germany) DVD DISTRIBUTION Arthaus<br />
Musik (Germany)<br />
Arthaus Musik<br />
Of all operas, perhaps the one that least needs<br />
ingenious extramusical assistance is »Tristan«,<br />
this aurally erotic work that speaks so vividly to the<br />
listener’s inner eye. Wagner’s score is simply more<br />
illustrative and sensuously pictorial than any series<br />
of stage pictures could be. Golo Berg’s sensuous<br />
conducting of the Dessau Philharmonic continually<br />
presses that truth home. He leads the orchestra in a<br />
lithe and propulsive performance that shows unusual<br />
consideration for the wonderful voices of the singers.<br />
»The cheering was loud and prolonged … This Dessau<br />
Tristan is a musical gem and makes for a superb<br />
evening.« (MDR)<br />
WAGNER: TANNHÄUSER<br />
035 GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY RM Arts (Germany) PRODUCER Torsten Bönnhoff,<br />
Erwin Stürzer EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Patrick Buttmann TV DIRECTOR<br />
Patrick Buttmann CAMERA Mark Förster EDITOR Patrick Buttmann<br />
SETS Raimund Bauer LIGHT DESIGN Duane Schuler DURATION 205'<br />
PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Festspielhaus Baden-Baden MUSICAL<br />
STYLE Classical music PIECE Tannhäuser COMPOSER Richard Wagner<br />
CONDUCTOR Philippe Jordan ORCHESTRA Deutsches Symphonie-<br />
Orchester Berlin (Germany) CHOIR Philharmonia Chor Wien<br />
(Austria) SOLOIST Robert Gambill, Camilla Nylund, Roman<br />
Trekel, Waltraud Meier, Stephen Milling CHOREOGRAPHY BY Amir<br />
Hosseinpour, Jonathan Lunn DANCE COMPANY Ballet Dancers<br />
from Amsterdam (The Netherlands) COSTUMES Andrea Schmidt-<br />
Futterer STAGE DIRECTOR Nikolaus Lehnhoff SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
HD/Dolby surround 5.1 DISTRIBUTION TV Poorhouse International<br />
(UK) HOMEVIDEO DISTRIBUTION Arthaus Musik (Germany) DVD<br />
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Arthaus Musik (Germany)<br />
20 avantpremière2009 Arthaus Musik<br />
Nikolaus Lehnoff’s »Tannhäuser« production, recorded<br />
at Baden-Baden, is based on Wagner’s Paris<br />
version with an extended Venusberg and a ballet very<br />
surprisingly choreographed. The minimalist staging<br />
and Raimund Bauer’s ingenious sets make this<br />
»Tannhäuser« an opera for our time. The cast including<br />
Camilla Nylund, Waltraud Meier, Robert Gambill<br />
Stephen Milling and Roman Trekel is hard to match<br />
these days. Press quotes: »Baden-Baden successfully<br />
attacks Bayreuth with Tannhäuser … A noble feast of<br />
voices … There is no crisis of Wagner singers!« (FAZ);<br />
»The DSO Berlin outdid itself under Philippe Jordan …<br />
Camilla Nylund excelled as the chaste Elisabeth, and<br />
Waltraud Meier, a musician with deep reserves of force<br />
and a gift for madness, was the perfect Venus.«<br />
(New York Times)<br />
036 WERTHER<br />
GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY RM Arts (Germany) PRODUCER Torsten Bönnhoff,<br />
Erwin Stürzer EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Rainer Mockert TV DIRECTOR Brooks<br />
Riley EDITOR Brooks Riley SETS Christian Floeren DURATION 140'<br />
PRODUCTION YEAR 2007 RECORDED Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe<br />
MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE Werther COMPOSER Jules<br />
Massenet CONDUCTOR Daniel Carlberg ORCHESTRA Badische<br />
Staatskapelle (Germany) CHOIR Children Chorus of the<br />
Helmholtz-Gymnasium (Germany) SOLOIST Keith Ikaia-Purdy,<br />
Armin Kolarczyk, Silvia Hablowetz COSTUMES Ute Frühling<br />
ORIGINAL TEXT Johann Wolfgang von Goethe STAGE DIRECTOR Robert<br />
Tannenbaum SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby surround 5.1<br />
DISTRIBUTION TV C Major Entertainment (Germany) HOMEVIDEO<br />
DISTRIBUTION Arthaus Musik (Germany) DVD DISTRIBUTION Arthaus<br />
Musik (Germany)<br />
Arthaus Musik<br />
Jules Massenet (1842 – 1912) turned Goethe’s famous<br />
tale of the tragic love of Werther and Charlotte into one<br />
of the most richly melodic and moving of all French<br />
operas. It was first performed at Vienna’s Hofoper on<br />
16 February 1892. The music of Werther is full of sublime<br />
characterisation, its beguiling melodies revealing<br />
profound insights into the complex states of mind of<br />
the protagonists. Without ignoring his debt to Richard<br />
Wagner, Massenet’s score follows firmly in the tradition<br />
of Georges Bizet. It is generally regarded as the<br />
composer’s masterpiece.
AVRO Broadcasting<br />
Association<br />
120 YEARS OF ROYAL CONCERT-<br />
037GEBOUW ORCHESTRA – PART 1<br />
GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording STATUS<br />
completed PRODUCTION COMPANY AVRO Broadcasting Association<br />
(Netherlands) PRODUCER Linda de Vos, Ronald Kok EXECUTIVE<br />
PRODUCER Anne-Jean van Grinsven TV DIRECTOR Hans Hulscher<br />
EDITOR Peter Rump DURATION 75' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED<br />
Concertgebouw Amsterdam, 24.10.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical<br />
music PIECE Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 37 COMPOSER Ludwig<br />
van Beethoven CONDUCTOR Mariss Jansons ORCHESTRA Royal<br />
Concertgebouw Orchestra (Netherlands) SOLOIST Mitsuko<br />
Uchida MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE Una voce poco fa –<br />
The barber of Seville COMPOSER Gioacchino Rossini CONDUCTOR<br />
Mariss Jansons ORCHESTRA Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra<br />
(Netherlands) SOLOIST Tania Kross MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
PIECE Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks COMPOSER Richard Strauss<br />
CONDUCTOR Mariss Jansons ORCHESTRA Royal Concertgebouw<br />
Orchestra (Netherlands) MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE<br />
Hungarian dance COMPOSER Johannes Brahms, Albert Parlow<br />
CONDUCTOR Mariss Jansons ORCHESTRA Royal Concertgebouw<br />
Orchestra (Netherlands) SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo<br />
DISTRIBUTION TV AVRO Broadcasting Association (Netherlands)<br />
First part of the festive concert celebrating 120 years<br />
of Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Chief conductor<br />
Mariss Jansons and soloists Mitsuko Uchida (piano)<br />
and Tania Kross (mezzo-soprano).<br />
120 YEARS OF ROYAL CONCERT-<br />
038GEBOUW ORCHESTRA – PART 2<br />
GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording STATUS<br />
in progress PRODUCTION COMPANY AVRO Broadcasting Association<br />
(Netherlands) PRODUCER Linda de Vos, Ronald Kok EXECUTIVE<br />
PRODUCER Anne-Jean van Grinsven TV DIRECTOR Hans Hulscher<br />
EDITOR Peter Rump DURATION 75' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED<br />
Concertgebouw Amsterdam, 24.10.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical<br />
music PIECE Egmont Ouverture COMPOSER Ludwig van Beethoven<br />
CONDUCTOR Mariss Jansons ORCHESTRA Royal Concertgebouw<br />
Orchestra (Netherlands) MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE<br />
Seven Spanish folksongs COMPOSER Manuel de Falla CONDUCTOR<br />
Mariss Jansons ORCHESTRA Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra<br />
(Netherlands) MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE Azerbaijan love<br />
song COMPOSER Luciano Berio CONDUCTOR Mariss Jansons ORCHESTRA<br />
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (Netherlands) SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
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(Netherlands)<br />
Simon van Boxtel<br />
Second part of the festive concert celebrating 120 years<br />
of Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.<br />
CHRISTMAS MATINÉE 2008<br />
039 GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording STATUS<br />
in progress PRODUCTION COMPANY AVRO Broadcasting Association<br />
(Netherlands) PRODUCER Linda de Vos, Ronald Kok, Hanneke<br />
Janssen EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Anne-Jean van Grinsven TV DIRECTOR<br />
Hans Hulscher EDITOR Peter Rump DURATION 67' PRODUCTION YEAR<br />
2008 RECORDED Concertgebouw Amsterdam, 25.12.2008 MUSICAL<br />
STYLE Classical music PIECE William Tell (Overture) COMPOSER<br />
Gioacchino Rossini CONDUCTOR Mariss Jansons ORCHESTRA Royal<br />
Concertgebouw Orchestra (Netherlands) MUSICAL STYLE Classical<br />
music PIECE The clemency of Titus (Parto, Parto, Ma Tu Ben<br />
Mio) COMPOSER Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart SOLOIST Elina Garanca<br />
MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE The barber of Seville (Una<br />
voce poco fa) COMPOSER Gioacchino Rossini CONDUCTOR Mariss<br />
Jansons ORCHESTRA Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra<br />
(Netherlands) SOLOIST Elina Garanca MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
PIECE The Force of Destiny (Overture) COMPOSER Giuseppe Verdi<br />
CONDUCTOR Mariss Jansons ORCHESTRA Royal Concertgebouw<br />
Orchestra (Netherlands) MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE<br />
Carmen (Seguidilla, Habanera, Chanson Bohème) COMPOSER<br />
Georges Bizet SOLOIST Elina Garanca MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
PIECE La Revoltosa (Prelude) COMPOSER Ruperto Chapí CONDUCTOR<br />
Mariss Jansons ORCHESTRA Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra<br />
(Netherlands) MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE Die Fledermaus<br />
(Overture) COMPOSER Johann Strauß jr. SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
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(Netherlands)<br />
Kasskara/DG<br />
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a AVRO BROADCASTING – BBC CLASSICAL<br />
Relay of the traditional matinée concert on Christmas<br />
Day by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. The conductor<br />
is Mariss Jansons and this year’s soloist is the<br />
Latvian mezzo-soprano Elina Garanca.<br />
HAITINK CONDUCTS THE ROYAL<br />
040CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA:<br />
SCHUBERT<br />
GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording STATUS<br />
in progress PRODUCTION COMPANY AVRO Broadcasting Association<br />
(Netherlands) PRODUCER Linda de Vos, Ronald Kok EXECUTIVE<br />
PRODUCER Anne-Jean van Grinsven TV DIRECTOR Hans Hulscher<br />
EDITOR Peter Rump DURATION 40' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED<br />
Concertgebouw Amsterdam, 20.02.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical<br />
music PIECE Symphony No. 8 in B minor: The Unfinished<br />
COMPOSER Franz Schubert CONDUCTOR Bernard Haitink ORCHESTRA<br />
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (Netherlands) SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
DigiBeta/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV AVRO Broadcasting Association<br />
(Netherlands)<br />
Snowdon/EMI Classics<br />
Never before has an »Unfinished« been as complete<br />
as Schubert’s. The two existing parts are so progressive<br />
for their time that it will forever be a mystery why<br />
the composer got stuck in the scherzo.<br />
HAITINK CONDUCTS THE ROYAL<br />
041CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA:<br />
WAGNER<br />
GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording STATUS<br />
in progress PRODUCTION COMPANY AVRO Broadcasting Association<br />
(Netherlands) PRODUCER Linda de Vos, Ronald Kok EXECUTIVE<br />
PRODUCER Anne-Jean van Grinsven TV DIRECTOR Hans Hulscher<br />
EDITOR Peter Rump DURATION 70' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED<br />
Concertgebouw Amsterdam, 20.02.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical<br />
music PIECE The Valkyrie – Act 1 COMPOSER Richard Wagner<br />
CONDUCTOR Bernard Haitink ORCHESTRA Royal Concertgebouw<br />
Orchestra (Netherlands) SOLOIST Eva-Maria Westbroek, Clifton<br />
Forbis, John Tomlinson SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo<br />
DISTRIBUTION TV AVRO Broadcasting Association (Netherlands)<br />
22 avantpremière2009 Certainly, no one has ever accused Wagner of lacking<br />
courage. With his music drama »Die Walküre«, he<br />
came very close indeed to creating his ideal »artwork<br />
of the future«. This programme features Dutch opera<br />
sensation Eva-Maria Westbroek in the role of Sieglinde.<br />
PRINSENGRACHT CONCERT 2008<br />
042 GENRE Relay of: Instrumental recital, on location STATUS<br />
completed PRODUCTION COMPANY AVRO Broadcasting Association<br />
(Netherlands) PRODUCER Ronald Kok, Anja Zegwaard, Esther<br />
van Blankenstein EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Jose van der Mark TV DIRECTOR<br />
Guus Verstraete Jr. DURATION 55' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED<br />
23.08.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE Gypsy Airs,<br />
op. 20 COMPOSER Pablo de Sarasate ORCHESTRA Amsterdam<br />
Sinfonietta (Netherlands) SOLOIST Sarah Chang MUSICAL STYLE<br />
Classical music PIECE Passacaglia COMPOSER George Frederic<br />
Handel, Johan Halvorsen SOLOIST Sarah Chang, Gregor Horsch<br />
MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE String Sextet in D Minor<br />
COMPOSER Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ORCHESTRA Amsterdam<br />
Simfonietta (Netherlands) SOLOIST Sarah Chang MUSICAL STYLE<br />
Classical music PIECE The four Seasons: Concerto No.4 in F<br />
Minor, Op.8, RV 297 – Winter COMPOSER Antonio Vivaldi<br />
ORCHESTRA Amsterdam Sinfonietta (Netherlands) SOLOIST Sarah<br />
Chang MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE The four Seasons:<br />
Concerto No.2 in G Minor, Op. 8, RV 315 – Summer COMPOSER<br />
Antonio Vivaldi ORCHESTRA Amsterdam Simfonietta (Netherlands)<br />
SOLOIST Sarah Chang MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE Air<br />
COMPOSER Johann Sebastian Bach ORCHESTRA Amsterdam<br />
Simfonietta (Netherlands) SOLOIST Sarah Chang MUSICAL STYLE<br />
Contemporary music PIECE On the canals of Amsterdam<br />
COMPOSER Pieter Goemans ORCHESTRA Amsterdam Simfonietta<br />
(Netherlands) SOLOIST Sarah Chang SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
DigiBeta/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV AVRO Broadcasting Association<br />
(Netherlands)
The 27th edition of the traditional and famous<br />
Prinsengracht Concert in 2008 featured Sarah<br />
Chang. Chang, of Korean heritage, was born in<br />
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Min-Soo Chang, her<br />
father, is a violinist and Myoung Jun Chang, her<br />
mother, a composer. She has collaborated with<br />
most major orchestras, including the New York<br />
Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the<br />
Chicago Symphony, the Boston Symphony, the<br />
Cleveland Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic,<br />
the Vienna Philharmonic, the principal London<br />
orchestras, and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra<br />
of Amsterdam<br />
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BBC Classical Music<br />
Television<br />
A GOTHIC REVOLUTION<br />
043 SERIES Sacred Music GENRE Documentary: Music, on location<br />
STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY BBC Classical Music TV<br />
(UK) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY BBC, The Open University (UK)<br />
PRODUCER Andy King-Dabbs, Helen Mansfield (Series Producer),<br />
Raphael Mouterde EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Peter Maniura, Catherine<br />
McCarthy TV DIRECTOR Andy King-Dabbs CAMERA John-Martin White<br />
EDITOR Ged Murphy DURATION 58' 43" PRODUCTION YEAR 2007 RECORDED<br />
UK, France MUSICAL STYLE Early music PIECE Viderunt Omnes;<br />
Organum Duplum; Vitus Abit Littera; Sederunt Principes;<br />
a.o. CONDUCTOR Harry Christophers ORCHESTRA The Sixteen (UK)<br />
CHOIR The Sixteen (UK) SOLOIST Mark Dobell, Simon Berridge,<br />
Eamonn Dougan, Jonathan Arnold SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/<br />
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Acclaimed actor and former chorister Simon Russell<br />
Beale explores the flowering of Western sacred music<br />
in a four-part documentary series. In this opening programme,<br />
Simon begins his journey at Notre Dame in<br />
Paris, where an enigmatic medieval music manuscript<br />
provides the key to the early development of polyphony,<br />
music of »many voices«. Featuring music<br />
performed by members of the award-winning choir<br />
»The Sixteen« conducted by Harry Christophers.<br />
BACH AND THE LUTHERAN LEGACY<br />
044 SERIES Sacred Music GENRE Documentary: Music, on location<br />
STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY BBC Classical Music TV (UK)<br />
CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY BBC The Open University (UK) PRODUCER<br />
Helen Mansfield (Series Producer), Andy Robbins EXECUTIVE<br />
PRODUCER Catherine McCarthy, Peter Maniura TV DIRECTOR Andy<br />
Robbins CAMERA Robin Fox EDITOR Sam Edmonds DURATION 59'<br />
PRODUCTION YEAR 2007 RECORDED UK, Germany MUSICAL STYLE Early<br />
music PIECE Jesu Joy Man’s Desiring COMPOSER Johann Sebastian<br />
Bach CONDUCTOR Harry Christophers ORCHESTRA The Sixteen<br />
(UK) CHOIR The Sixteen (UK) SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo<br />
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(UK)<br />
Chris Christodoulou<br />
Simon Russell-Beale’s travels bring him to Germany,<br />
where Martin Luther’s Protestant Reformation led to a<br />
musical revolution and ultimately to the glorious works<br />
of Johann Sebastian Bach. Luther, a Catholic monk<br />
who was also a composer, had a profound effect on<br />
the development of sacred music. He re-defined the<br />
role of congregational singing and the use of the organ<br />
in services. Crucially he also developed the hugely<br />
important tradition of singing in the vernacular, which<br />
would characterise protestant worship for the next<br />
500 years.<br />
BARENBOIM & WEST EASTERN<br />
045DIVAN SERIES Proms on FOUR GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert,<br />
Live recording STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY BBC Classical<br />
Music TV (UK) PRODUCER Deborah Cowan EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Sue<br />
Judd TV DIRECTOR Rodney Greenberg CAMERA Vince Spooner LIGHT<br />
DESIGN Bernie Davis DURATION 145' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED<br />
Royal Albert Hall, 14.08.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE<br />
Sinfonia concertante in B flat major, for Oboe, Bassoon, Violin<br />
and Cello COMPOSER Joseph Haydn CONDUCTOR Daniel Barenboim<br />
ORCHESTRA West-Eastern Divan Orchestra (Middle East) SOLOIST<br />
Ramon Ortega Quero, Mor Biron, Guy Braunstein, Hassan<br />
Moataz El Molla PIECE Schoenberg's Variations for Orchestra<br />
COMPOSER Arnold Schoenberg PIECE Symphony No. 4 in E minor<br />
COMPOSER Johannes Brahms SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo<br />
DISTRIBUTION TV BBC Worldwide (UK) THEATRICAL DISTRIBUTION BBC<br />
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Daniel Barenboim conducts the West-Eastern Divan<br />
Orchestra, originally formed as a one-off experiment<br />
in 1999 to bring together Arab and Israeli musicians.<br />
Tonight they perform Haydn’s Sinfonia Concertante for<br />
Oboe, Bassoon, Violin and Cello, Schoenberg’s Variations<br />
for Orchestra and Brahms Symphony Number 4<br />
in E minor. Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch.<br />
046 BATONCAMP<br />
SERIES Maestro GENRE Documentary: Music, on location STATUS<br />
completed PRODUCTION COMPANY BBC Classical Music TV (UK)<br />
PRODUCER Chris Brogden, Craig Blackhurst, Tory Jones EXECUTIVE<br />
PRODUCER Celina Parker, Oliver MacFarlane (Series Editor)<br />
ASSOCIATED PRODUCER Nazleen Karim, Paul Buller TV DIRECTOR Craig<br />
Blackhurst CAMERA Joe Warburton EDITOR Gary Hewson SETS Chris<br />
Webster LIGHT DESIGN Dave Davy DURATION 88' 08" PRODUCTION YEAR<br />
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BBC CLASSICAL<br />
2008 RECORDED Clarendon Muse, Watford, UK MUSICAL STYLE<br />
Classical music COMPOSER Ludwig Beethoven, Johann Strauss,<br />
Georges Bizet, Edward Grieg CONDUCTOR Sir Roger Norrington,<br />
Simone Young ORCHESTRA BBC Concert Orchestra (UK) COSTUMES<br />
Sarah Fry SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV BBC<br />
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Music Consultant: Peter Stark; Music<br />
Associate: Richard Balcombe<br />
Mark Allan<br />
Eight famous amateurs, with a passion for classical<br />
music, do battle for the chance to conduct the BBC<br />
Concert Orchestra in front of a live audience of 30,000<br />
at BBC Proms in the Park as part of the Last Night of<br />
the Proms. Actors Jane Asher and David Soul, Drum<br />
n'Bass star Goldie, Blur bassist Alex James, broadcasters<br />
Katie Derham and Peter Snow, and comedians Sue<br />
Perkins and Bradley Walsh compete to be the Maestro.<br />
Presenter Clive Anderson takes us on a fascinating,<br />
surprising and thrilling journey into the heart of music<br />
making.<br />
BOULEZ & THE BBC SYMPHONY<br />
047ORCHESTRA SERIES Proms on FOUR GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert,<br />
Live recording STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY BBC Classical<br />
Music TV (UK) PRODUCER Deborah Cowan EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Sue<br />
Judd TV DIRECTOR David Stevens CAMERA Vince Spooner LIGHT DESIGN<br />
Bernie Davis DURATION 132' 35" PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED<br />
Royal Albert Hall, 15.08.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE<br />
Capriccio; Glagolitic Mass; Sinfonietta COMPOSER Leoš Janácek<br />
CONDUCTOR Pierre Boulez ORCHESTRA BBC Symphony Orchestra (UK)<br />
CHOIR BBC Symphony Chorus (UK), London Symphony Chorus<br />
(UK) SOLOIST Simon Preston, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet SOURCE<br />
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Pierre Boulez conducts two of Janácek’s greatest nontheatrical<br />
works, Sinfonietta and the Glagolitic Mass,<br />
and the quirky Capriccio for Piano (left hand only).<br />
Organist Simon Preston and pianist Jean-Efflam<br />
Bavouzet join the massed forces of the BBC Symphony<br />
Chorus, the London Symphony Chorus and the<br />
BBC Symphony Orchestra.<br />
24 avantpremière2009 048 CHORAL<br />
SERIES Maestro GENRE Studio production STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY BBC Classical Music TV (UK) PRODUCER Chris<br />
Brogden (Series Producer), Craig Blackhurst, Deborah Koby,<br />
Tory Jones (Celebrity Producer) EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Celina Parker,<br />
Oliver Macfarlane (Series Editor) ASSOCIATED PRODUCER Mish Mayer,<br />
Nazleen Karim TV DIRECTOR Chris Power CAMERA Nigel Saunders<br />
EDITOR Leigh Brzeski, David Jackson SETS Chris Webster LIGHT<br />
DESIGN Dave Davey DURATION 59' 03" PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED<br />
Studio 1, BBC TV Centre, 25.08.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical<br />
music PIECE Carmina Burana; Confutatis (Requiem); Dies Irae<br />
(Requiem) COMPOSER Michael Tippett, Giuseppe Verdi, Wolfgang<br />
Amadeus Mozart, George Frideric Handel, Alexander Borodin<br />
CONDUCTOR Sue Perkins ORCHESTRA BBC Concert Orchestra (UK)<br />
CHOIR BBC Symphony Chorus (UK) COSTUMES Sarah Fry SOURCE<br />
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MULTIMEDIA DISTRIBUTION BBC Worldwide (UK) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION<br />
Music consultant: Peter Stark; Music Advisor: Richard<br />
Balcombe<br />
Mark Allan<br />
Clive Anderson hosts Maestro’s second studio<br />
challenge as six famous amateur conductors go head<br />
to head. This week the challenge is choral music as<br />
they conduct the BBC Concert Orchestra and the BBC<br />
Symphony Chorus. They perform in front of a panel of<br />
internationally renowned judges before they face the<br />
orchestra vote and one will leave the competition for<br />
good.<br />
FOLK DAY 049 SERIES Proms on FOUR GENRE Relay of: Ensemble/band<br />
appearance, Live recording STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
BBC Classical Music TV (UK) PRODUCER Deborah Cowan<br />
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Sue Judd TV DIRECTOR Richard Valentine CAMERA<br />
Neil McClintock LIGHT DESIGN Bernie Davis DURATION 117' 27"<br />
PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Royal Albert Hall PIECE Dog & Gun;<br />
Searching for Lambs; Three Black Feathers; Little Musgrave;<br />
Come Down COMPOSER Bella Hardy, Martin Simpson ORCHESTRA<br />
Bellowhead (UK) SOLOIST Bella Hardy, Martin Simpson, Corrina<br />
Hewat, Chris Sherburn SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo<br />
DISTRIBUTION TV BBC Worldwide (UK) THEATRICAL DISTRIBUTION BBC<br />
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New to the Proms, Folk Day celebrates the diversity<br />
and influence of folk music, culminating in this live<br />
Prom featuring artists who are continuing to revive<br />
and re-interpret the traditions of folk music, including<br />
23-year-old Bella Hardy, guitarist Martin Simpson and<br />
the boisterous 11-piece big band Bellowhead, who between<br />
them won three Radio 2 Folk Awards this year.
LAST NIGHT OF THE PROMS<br />
050 SERIES BBC Proms 2008 GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral<br />
concert, Live recording STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY BBC<br />
Classical Music TV (UK) PRODUCER Jonathan Haswell EXECUTIVE<br />
PRODUCER Peter Maniura TV DIRECTOR Matt Woodward CAMERA Vince<br />
Spooner EDITOR Dave Packham LIGHT DESIGN Bernie Davis DURATION<br />
70' DURATION2 71' 03" PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Royal Albert<br />
Hall, 13.09.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE The Creatures<br />
of Prometheus; Tannhaeuser; Tosca; a.o. COMPOSER Ludwig<br />
van Beethoven, Richard Wagner, Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe<br />
Verdi, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Anna Meredith, Henry Wood,<br />
Thomas Arne, Edward Elgar, Hubert Parry CONDUCTOR Sir Roger<br />
Norrington ORCHESTRA BBC Symphony Orchestra (UK) CHOIR BBC<br />
Symphony Chorus (UK), BBC Singers (UK) SOLOIST Bryn Terfel,<br />
Helene Grimaud, Anna Leese, Sophie Bevan, Cora Burggraaf,<br />
Nathan Vale, Joshua Ellicott, Jonathan Lemalu SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
HD/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV BBC Worldwide (UK) THEATRICAL<br />
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DISTRIBUTION BBC Worldwide (UK)<br />
Live from the Royal Albert Hall the final concert of the<br />
BBC Proms season introduced by Clive Anderson with<br />
Suzy Klein. More than 40 years since his Proms debut,<br />
Sir Roger Norrington makes his first appearance on<br />
the Last Night conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra.<br />
He is joined by two outstanding soloists, bassbaritone<br />
Bryn Terfel, and pianist Hélène Grimaud,<br />
to perform works by Puccini, Verdi, Wagner and Beethoven.<br />
Joining Clive Anderson during the interval<br />
will be the winner of BBC2’s conducting competition<br />
Maestro, fresh from their prize performance at Proms<br />
in the Park in London’s Hyde Park.<br />
NIGEL KENNEDY:<br />
051CLASSICAL AND JAZZ<br />
SERIES BBC Proms 2008 GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral<br />
concert, on location STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY BBC<br />
Classical Music TV (UK) PRODUCER Ian Russell EXECUTIVE PRODUCER<br />
Sue Judd TV DIRECTOR Matt Woodward CAMERA James Day EDITOR<br />
Dave Rutter LIGHT DESIGN Bernie Davis DURATION 103' 46"<br />
PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Royal Albert Hall, 19.07.2008<br />
MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE Violin Concerto; Nice Bottle<br />
of Beaujolais; Hills of Saturn; COMPOSER Edward Elgar CONDUCTOR<br />
Paul Daniel ORCHESTRA BBC Concert Orchestra (UK) SOLOIST<br />
Nigel Kennedy, Tomasz Grzegorski, Piotr Wylezol, Adam<br />
Kowalewski, Pawel Dobrowolski, Xantone Blacq PIECE Carnivore<br />
of the Animals SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV BBC<br />
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Worldwide (UK) MULTIMEDIA DISTRIBUTION BBC Worldwide (UK)<br />
We celebrate violinist Nigel Kennedy’s Return to<br />
the Proms after an absence of 21 years. As well as the<br />
work that first put him on the musical map – Elgar’s<br />
Violin Concerto, described by Nigel as a 'Monster' –<br />
he also performs his own compositions, with some of<br />
Poland’s finest Jazz musicians in the Nigel Kennedy<br />
Quintet. Paul Daniel conducts the BBC Concert<br />
Orchestra. Presented by Charles Hazlewood and<br />
Suzy Klein.<br />
052 OPERA<br />
SERIES Maestro GENRE Studio production STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY BBC Classical Music TV (UK) PRODUCER Chris<br />
Brogden (Series Producer), Craig Blackhurst (TV Producer),<br />
Deborah Koby (Studio Producer), Tory Jones (Celebrity<br />
Producer) EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Celina Parker, Oliver Macfarlane<br />
(Series Editor) TV DIRECTOR Chris Power CAMERA Nigel Saunders<br />
EDITOR Leigh Brzeski, David Jackson SETS Chris Webster LIGHT<br />
DESIGN Dave Davey DURATION 59' 22" PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED<br />
Studio 1, BBC TV Centre, 01.09.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical<br />
music PIECE Diverse COMPOSER Giacomo Puccini, George<br />
Gershwin, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart CONDUCTOR Simone<br />
Young ORCHESTRA BBC Concert Orchestra (UK) SOLOIST Alfie<br />
Boe, Rebecca Evans COSTUMES Sarah Fry SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
HD/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV BBC Worldwide (UK) THEATRICAL<br />
DISTRIBUTION BBC Worldwide (UK) HOMEVIDEO DISTRIBUTION BBC<br />
Worldwide (UK) DVD DISTRIBUTION BBC Worldwide (UK)<br />
MULTIMEDIA DISTRIBUTION BBC Worldwide (UK) MUSIC CONSULTANT<br />
Peter Stark MUSIC ADVISOR Richard Balcombe<br />
Mark Allan<br />
Clive Anderson hosts Maestro’s next studio challenge<br />
as five famous amateurs with a passion for classical<br />
music do battle with their batons conducting the BBC<br />
Concert Orchestra. In the fourth round of this knockout<br />
competition the students step up to the podium to<br />
conduct a programme of popular operatic arias sung<br />
by soloists Alfie Boe and Rebecca Evans in front of the<br />
panel of expert judges – conductors Sir Roger Norrington<br />
and Simone Young, double bassist Dominic Seldis,<br />
composer and cellist Zoe Martlew. They must then<br />
face the orchestra vote to decide who leaves the competition<br />
for good.<br />
053 ORCHESTRA<br />
SERIES Maestro GENRE Studio production STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY BBC Classical Music TV (UK) PRODUCER Chris<br />
Brogden (Series Producer), Craig Blackhurst (TV Producer),<br />
Deborah Koby (Studio Producer), Tory Jones (Celebrity<br />
Producer) EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Celina Parker, Oliver Macfarlane<br />
(Series Editor) TV DIRECTOR Chris Power CAMERA Nigel Saunders<br />
EDITOR Leigh Brzeski, David Jackson SETS Chris Webster LIGHT<br />
DESIGN Dave Davey DURATION 90' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED<br />
Studio 1, BBC TV Centre, 09.09.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical<br />
music COMPOSER Max Bruch, Edward Elgar, Sergei Rachmaninov,<br />
Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, Igor Stravinsky,<br />
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Gioacchino Rossini CONDUCTOR<br />
Sir Roger Norrington, Maxim Vengerov ORCHESTRA BBC Concert<br />
Orchestra (UK) SOLOIST Nikolai Demidenko, Tasmin Little,<br />
Natalie Clein COSTUMES Sarah Fry PIECE Violin Concerto No. 1<br />
in G Minor, Cello Concerto in E minor, Piano Concerto SOURCE<br />
VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV BBC Worldwide (UK)<br />
THEATRICAL DISTRIBUTION BBC Worldwide (UK) HOMEVIDEO DISTRIBUTION<br />
BBC Worldwide (UK) DVD DISTRIBUTION BBC Worldwide (UK)<br />
MULTIMEDIA DISTRIBUTION BBC Worldwide (UK) MUSIC CONSULTANT<br />
Peter Stark MUSIC ADVISOR Richard Balcombe<br />
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BBC CLASSICAL<br />
Clive Anderson presents the live grand final of Maestro.<br />
The three remaining student conductors must<br />
conduct a concerto with world renowned soloists –<br />
violonist Tasmin Little, cellist Natalie Clein and pianist<br />
Nikolai Demidenko as well as a piece of orchestral<br />
music of their own choosing. The judges – Sir Roger<br />
Norrington, Dominic Seldis, Zoe Martlew and guest<br />
judge, international violin virtuso Maxim Vengerov –<br />
will rate their performances before the BBC Concert<br />
Orchestra votes one student out. The remaining two<br />
contestants will both conduct the 1st movement of<br />
Beethoven’s 5th Symphony. The phone lines will then<br />
open for the public to decide who will be the ultimate<br />
Maestro.<br />
ORCHESTRAL CLASSICS<br />
054 SERIES Maestro GENRE Live recording STATUS completed PRODUCTION<br />
COMPANY BBC Classical Music TV (UK) PRODUCER Chris Brogden<br />
(Series Producer), Craig Blackhurst, Deborah Koby, Tory Jones<br />
(Celebrity Producer) EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Celina Parker, Oliver<br />
Macfarlane (Series Editor) ASSOCIATED PRODUCER Mish Mayer,<br />
Nazleen Karim TV DIRECTOR Chris Power CAMERA Nigel Saunders<br />
EDITOR Leigh Brzeski, Niall Brown SETS Chris Webster LIGHT DESIGN<br />
Dave Davey DURATION 59' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Studio 1<br />
BBC TV Centre, 19.08.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE<br />
The Simpsons Theme; Sorcerer's Apprentice; Ride of the<br />
Valkyries; Mambo Symphony COMPOSER Samuel Barber, Aram<br />
Khachaturian, Leonard Bernstein, Pietro Mascagni, Richard<br />
Wagner, Danny Elfman, Paul Dukas ORCHESTRA BBC Concert<br />
Orchestra (UK) COSTUMES Sarah Fry SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Stereo<br />
DISTRIBUTION TV BBC Worldwide (UK) THEATRICAL DISTRIBUTION BBC<br />
Worldwide (UK) HOMEVIDEO DISTRIBUTION BBC Worldwide (UK)<br />
DVD DISTRIBUTION BBC Worldwide (UK) MULTIMEDIA DISTRIBUTION<br />
BBC Worldwide (UK) MUSIC CONSULTANT Peter Stark MUSIC ADVISOR<br />
Richard Balcombe<br />
Mark Allan<br />
26 avantpremière2009 Clive Anderson hosts Maestro's first live studio challenge<br />
as seven famous amateurs with a passion for<br />
classical music do battle with their batons conducting<br />
the BBC Concert Orchestra. In the second round of<br />
this knock-out competition the students step up to the<br />
podium to conduct music for film and television in<br />
front of the panel of expert judges – conductors Sir<br />
Roger Norrington and Simone Young, double bassist<br />
Dominic Seldis, composer and cellist Zoe Martlew –<br />
before the orchestra votes and one of the students<br />
leaves the competition for good.<br />
PALESTRINA AND THE POPES<br />
055 SERIES Sacred Music GENRE Documentary: Music, on location<br />
STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY BBC Classical Music TV<br />
(UK) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY BBC The Open University (UK)<br />
PRODUCER Helen Mansfield (Series Producer), Andy Robbins<br />
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Catherine McCarthy, Peter Maniura TV DIRECTOR<br />
Andy Robbins CAMERA Robin Fox, Sam Edmonds EDITOR Darren<br />
Jonusas DURATION 58' 36" PRODUCTION YEAR 2007 RECORDED UK, Italy<br />
MUSICAL STYLE Early music PIECE Missa Papae Marcelli COMPOSER<br />
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina CONDUCTOR Harry Christophers<br />
ORCHESTRA The Sixteen (UK) CHOIR The Sixteen (UK) SOURCE<br />
VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV BBC The Open<br />
University (UK) THEATRICAL DISTRIBUTION BBC The Open University<br />
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Chris Christodoulou<br />
Simon Russell-Beale travels to Rome to investigate<br />
how the music of the Vatican powered the Renaissance.<br />
For the Catholic Church music was an important<br />
symbol of its power but at the start of the<br />
sixteenth century the sacred music available for<br />
its liturgy and worship was essentially that of the<br />
Middle Ages. In Rome Simon discovers the life<br />
and work of the man who transformed medieval<br />
polyphony into something that could match the<br />
expectations of his employers, the powerful Renaissance<br />
popes: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.<br />
TALLIS, BYRD AND THE TUDORS<br />
056 SERIES Sacred Music GENRE Documentary: Music, on location<br />
STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY BBC Classical Music TV (UK)<br />
CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY BBC The Open University (UK) PRODUCER<br />
Helen Mansfield (Series Producer), Andy King-Dabbs EXECUTIVE<br />
PRODUCER Catherine McCarthy, Peter Maniura TV DIRECTOR Andy<br />
King-Dabbs CAMERA John-Martin White, Luke Finn, Francis<br />
Miles, Kevin Lee Brown EDITOR Ged Murphy DURATION 58' 59"<br />
PRODUCTION YEAR 2007 RECORDED UK MUSICAL STYLE Early music PIECE<br />
Libera me Domine de Morte Aeterna; Lustorum Animae
COMPOSER Thomas Tallis, William Bryd CONDUCTOR Harry<br />
Christophers ORCHESTRA The Sixteen (UK) CHOIR The Sixteen (UK)<br />
SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV BBC The Open<br />
University (UK) THEATRICAL DISTRIBUTION BBC The Open University<br />
(UK) HOMEVIDEO DISTRIBUTION BBC The Open University (UK) DVD<br />
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BBC The Open University (UK)<br />
Simon Russell-Beale travels to sixteenth-century England<br />
– a country in turmoil as a succession of Monarchs<br />
change the national religion and Roman Catholic<br />
worship is driven under ground. Through a succession<br />
of period documents and manuscripts Simon tells the<br />
story of Thomas Tallis and his younger colleague<br />
William Byrd, the composers at the centre of England’s<br />
own musical Renaissance in the Tudor Age. He discovers<br />
the uncertainties of the life of a church musician in<br />
the sixteenth century, subject to numerous shifts of<br />
religious doctrine and worship from one monarch to<br />
the next.<br />
THE PASSIONS OF VAUGHAN<br />
057WILLIAMS GENRE Documentary: Music, on location STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Crux Productions Ltd. (UK), Firefly Film and<br />
Television Productions Ltd. (UK) EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Magnus<br />
Temple ASSOCIATED PRODUCER Caroline Page TV DIRECTOR John Bridcut<br />
CAMERA Dirk Nel, Jonathan Partridge, Colin Rogal EDITOR Andrew<br />
Elliott, Samuel Santana AUTHOR John Bridcut DURATION 90'<br />
PRODUCTION YEAR 2007 RECORDED UK MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
PIECE Symphonies Nos. 8 & 9; Rondel; Down Ampney; A Sea<br />
Symphony; Fantasia COMPOSER Ralph Vaughan Williams CONDUCTOR<br />
Maya Iwabuchi (Leader), James Burton ORCHESTRA Philharmonia<br />
Orchestra (UK), Schola Cantorum of Oxford (UK) SOLOIST<br />
Ruth Peel, David Owen Norris SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Stereo<br />
DISTRIBUTION TV Crux Productions Ltd. (UK) THEATRICAL DISTRIBUTION<br />
Crux Productions Ltd. (UK) HOMEVIDEO DISTRIBUTION Crux<br />
Productions Ltd. (UK) DVD DISTRIBUTION Crux Productions Ltd.<br />
(UK) MULTIMEDIA DISTRIBUTION Crux Productions Ltd. (UK)<br />
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Narrator John Bridcut<br />
Fifty years after his death, this musical and psychological<br />
portrait of Ralph Vaughan Williams explores the<br />
passions that drove the giant of 20th-century English<br />
music. It tracks the enormous musical range of an<br />
energetic, red-blooded composer whose output extends<br />
well beyond the delicate pastoralism associated<br />
with his perhaps most famous piece, »The Lark<br />
Ascending«.<br />
THE WINNER’S FINALE LIVE<br />
058 SERIES Maestro GENRE Live recording STATUS completed PRODUCTION<br />
COMPANY BBC Classical Music TV (UK) PRODUCER Chris Brogden<br />
(Series Producer), Craig Blackhurst (TV Producer), Deborah<br />
Koby (Studio Producer), Tory Jones (Celebrity Producer)<br />
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Celina Parker, Oliver Macfarlane (Series Editor)<br />
TV DIRECTOR Peter Maniura (Studio Director), Ian Russell (Proms<br />
in the Park Director) CAMERA Nigel Saunders EDITOR Leigh<br />
Brzeski, David Jackson DURATION 30' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED<br />
Hyde Park, London, 13.09.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
PIECE The Impossible Dream (Man of La Mancha); Pomp<br />
& Circumstance, March No. 4; I Vespri Siciliani (Overture)<br />
COMPOSER Leigh Mitch, Edward Elgar, Verdi Giuseppe, Igor<br />
Stravinsky CONDUCTOR Sue Perkins ORCHESTRA BBC Concert<br />
Orchestra (UK) SOLOIST Lesley Garrett COSTUMES Sarah Fry<br />
SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV BBC Worldwide (UK)<br />
THEATRICAL DISTRIBUTION BBC Worldwide (UK) HOMEVIDEO DISTRIBUTION<br />
BBC Worldwide (UK) DVD DISTRIBUTION BBC Worldwide (UK)<br />
MULTIMEDIA DISTRIBUTION BBC Worldwide (UK) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION<br />
Music consultant: Peter Stark; Music advisor: Richard<br />
Balcombe,<br />
Photographer: Mark Allan<br />
Clive Anderson presents the climax of the Maestro<br />
series as the winning student performs at Proms<br />
in the Park on the Last Night of the Proms. After<br />
weeks of hard work the Maestro winner will be on<br />
stage in London’s Hyde Park to conduct the BBC<br />
Concert Orchestra and soloist Lesley Garrett live in<br />
front of an audience of thirty thousand people as well<br />
as the millions watching and listening on radio and TV.<br />
WAYNE MCGREGOR'S INFRA<br />
059 SERIES Royal Ballet World Premiere GENRE Documentary: Dance,<br />
on location STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY BBC Classical<br />
Music TV (UK) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY Royal Opera House (UK)<br />
PRODUCER Dominic Best EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Oliver Macfarlane<br />
TV DIRECTOR Jonathan Haswell CAMERA Michael O'Halloran EDITOR<br />
Joe Walker DURATION 59' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED UK COMPOSER<br />
Max Richter DANCE Infra DANCE STYLE Modern dance DANCE COMPANY<br />
Royal Ballet (UK) SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV<br />
Royal Opera House (UK) THEATRICAL DISTRIBUTION Royal Opera<br />
House (UK) HOMEVIDEO DISTRIBUTION Royal Opera House (UK)<br />
DVD DISTRIBUTION Royal Opera House (UK) MULTIMEDIA DISTRIBUTION<br />
Royal Opera House (UK)<br />
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BBC CLASSICAL – BBC CYMRU WALES<br />
Wayne McGregor, one of the most exciting choreographers<br />
today, premieres his major new work »Infra«<br />
for the Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House, Covent<br />
Garden. The climax of the programme is a complete<br />
performance of McGregor’s new piece, which is a<br />
collaboration with the artist Julian Opie, working in<br />
the theatre for the first time, and the composer Max<br />
Richter. In a revealing look at how the three major<br />
artistic personalities worked together, BBC cameras<br />
were given exclusive access to the creative process<br />
and rehearsal of this exciting new piece of modern<br />
dance. The programme is introduced by Martha<br />
Kearney at Covent Garden.<br />
WORLD MUSIC CELEBRATION<br />
060 SERIES Proms on FOUR GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert,<br />
on location STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY BBC Classical<br />
Music TV (UK) PRODUCER Deborah Cowan EXECUTIVE PRODUCER<br />
Sue Judd TV DIRECTOR Richard Valentine CAMERA Neil McClintock,<br />
Vince Spooner EDITOR David Packham LIGHT DESIGN Bernie Davis<br />
DURATION 178' 17" PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Royal Albert Hall,<br />
30.07.2008 MUSICAL STYLE World music SOLOIST Mayra Andrade,<br />
Son de la Frontera, Sa Dingding, Justin Adams, Juldeh<br />
Camara, Bassekou Kouyate, Ngoni Ba SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
DigiBeta/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV BBC Worldwide (UK) THEATRICAL<br />
DISTRIBUTION BBC Worldwide (UK) HOMEVIDEO DISTRIBUTION BBC<br />
Worldwide (UK) DVD DISTRIBUTION BBC Worldwide (UK) MULTIMEDIA<br />
DISTRIBUTION BBC Worldwide (UK)<br />
The Proms welcomes for the first time the winners of<br />
the Radio 3 Awards for World Music, reflecting a kaleidoscopic<br />
range of cultural traditions. Music includes<br />
Cape Verdean songs from newcomer Mayra Andrade<br />
Malian, lute music from Bassekou Kouyate, flamenco<br />
fusion from Son de la Frontera, Justin Adams’s desert<br />
blues and Sa Ding Ding’s Chinese electronica – some<br />
of the most exciting sounds from across the planet.<br />
Presented by Verity Sharp.<br />
BBC Cymru Wales<br />
BBC PROMS IN THE PARK 2008<br />
061HIGHLIGHTS GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording STATUS<br />
completed PRODUCTION COMPANY BBC Cymru Wales (UK) PRODUCER<br />
Rhian Williams EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Paul Bullock TV DIRECTOR Rhodri<br />
Huw CAMERA Mike Goodman EDITOR Tim Sanders SETS Eryl Ellis<br />
LIGHT DESIGN Martyn Rourke DURATION 40' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008<br />
MUSICAL STYLE Classical music SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo<br />
DISTRIBUTION TV BBC Worldwide (UK)<br />
Singleton Park becomes the Bay of Naples for a<br />
night as the sixth BBC Proms in the Park from<br />
Swansea celebrates the highlights of an evening of<br />
28 avantpremière2009 Italian music and Neapolitan song. Join presenters<br />
Gethin Jones and Elin Manahan Thomas, soprano<br />
Rebecca Evans and tenor Alfie Boe, the BBC National<br />
Orchestra and Chorus of Wales with conductor<br />
David Charles Abell for the traditional last night<br />
celebrations.<br />
062BBC RADIO 3 CHOIR OF THE<br />
YEAR 2008<br />
GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording STATUS<br />
in progress PRODUCTION COMPANY BBC Cymru Wales (UK) PRODUCER<br />
Rhian Williams EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Paul Bullock TV DIRECTOR Rhodri<br />
Huw CAMERA Paul Freeman EDITOR Dylan Goch SETS Venita<br />
Gribble LIGHT DESIGN Mark Henderson DURATION 89' PRODUCTION YEAR<br />
2008 RECORDED Royal Festival Hall, 07.12.2008 MUSICAL STYLE<br />
Contemporary music SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo<br />
DISTRIBUTION TV BBC Worldwide (UK)<br />
BBC Radio 3 Choir of the Year is the UK’s largest<br />
amateur choral competition and after months of fierce<br />
competition between more than 200 singing groups,<br />
involving over 5,000 singers, the competition reaches<br />
its climax as the remaining six choirs compete for the<br />
ultimate victory at London’s Royal Festival Hall.<br />
Presented by Aled Jones and Josie D’Arby, with a<br />
special guest appearance from »Last Choir Standing«<br />
winners, Only Men Aloud!<br />
BBC YOUNG MUSICIAN OF THE<br />
063YEAR 2008: 30TH ANNIVERSARY<br />
SERIES BBC Young Musician of the Year 2008 GENRE<br />
Documentary: Music, on location STATUS completed PRODUCTION<br />
COMPANY BBC Cymru Wales (UK) PRODUCER Victoria Bell EXECUTIVE<br />
PRODUCER Tina Fletcher TV DIRECTOR Victoria Bell DURATION 59' 02"<br />
PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
DigiBeta/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV BBC Worldwide (UK)<br />
The concept was simple: young, British and outrageously<br />
talented. Since 1978 thousands of young<br />
people from all over Great Britain have entered the<br />
BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition. This<br />
programme looks back and celebrates »Young Musician«<br />
in this, its 30th year, and features many past<br />
winners, as well as former judges, runners-up and<br />
commentators; who all help to tell the story of young<br />
British musicians bidding to win the coveted title and<br />
join a very select club. The programme also acts as a<br />
»curtain raiser« for the 2008 competition.<br />
BBC YOUNG MUSICIAN OF THE<br />
064YEAR 2008: BRASS<br />
SERIES BBC Young Musician of the Year 2008 GENRE Documentary:<br />
Music, on location STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY BBC<br />
Cymru Wales (UK) PRODUCER Heidi Williams EXECUTIVE PRODUCER<br />
Tina Fletcher TV DIRECTOR Heidi Williams DURATION 59' 07"<br />
PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV BBC Worldwide (UK)
Tonight four of the UK’s most talented brass players<br />
battle it out to win their category final and a place in<br />
the Grand Final in the Wales Millennium Centre.<br />
The finalists include a twelve-year-old trombone<br />
player who is the youngest musician remaining in<br />
the competition.<br />
BBC YOUNG MUSICIAN OF THE<br />
065YEAR 2008: CONCERTO FINAL<br />
SERIES BBC Young Musician of the Year 2008 GENRE Relay of:<br />
Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY BBC Cymru Wales (UK) PRODUCER Steve<br />
Crabtree EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Tina Fletcher TV DIRECTOR Rhian<br />
Williams CAMERA Mike Goodman DURATION 125' 05" PRODUCTION<br />
YEAR 2008 RECORDED Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff MUSICAL<br />
STYLE Classical music CONDUCTOR Thierry Fischer ORCHESTRA BBC<br />
National Orchestra of Wales (UK) SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO Stereo<br />
DISTRIBUTION TV BBC Worldwide (UK)<br />
The BBC Young Musician of the Year is the most<br />
established and prestigious contest for young classical<br />
performers in Britain today. In 2008 the competition<br />
celebrated its 30th anniversary with the Concerto Final<br />
– the first of two nights of competition – held at the<br />
iconic Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff. Five exc<br />
eptionally talented musicians perform a concerto of<br />
their choice with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales,<br />
under the baton of Thierry Fischer in front of an audience<br />
and panel of expert judges, Ben Foster, Catrin<br />
Finch, Paul Daniel, Nicola Benedetti and Richard<br />
Morrison, for the coveted title of BBC Young Musician<br />
of the Year 2008.<br />
BBC YOUNG MUSICIAN OF THE<br />
066YEAR 2008: GRAND FINAL<br />
SERIES BBC Young Musician of the Year 2008 GENRE Relay of:<br />
Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY BBC Cymru Wales (UK) PRODUCER Steve<br />
Crabtree EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Tina Fletcher TV DIRECTOR Rhodri<br />
Huw CAMERA Mike Goodman DURATION 120' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008<br />
SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV BBC Worldwide (UK)<br />
The BBC Young Musician of the Year is the most<br />
established and prestigious contest for young classical<br />
performers in Britain today. In 2008 the competition<br />
cele- brated its 30th anniversary with the Grand Final<br />
held at the iconic Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff.<br />
Five exceptionally talented musicians perform with the<br />
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, under the baton of<br />
Thierry Fischer in front of an audience and panel of<br />
expert judges, Ben Foster, Catrin Finch, Paul Daniel,<br />
Nicola Benedetti and Richard Morrison, for the coveted<br />
title of BBC Young Musician of the Year 2008.<br />
BBC YOUNG MUSICIAN OF THE<br />
067YEAR 2008: KEYBOARD<br />
SERIES BBC Young Musician of the Year 2008 GENRE Documentary:<br />
Music, on location STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY BBC<br />
Cymru Wales (UK) PRODUCER Paul Bernays EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Tina<br />
Fletcher TV DIRECTOR Tina Fletcher DURATION 58' 30" PRODUCTION YEAR<br />
2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO Stereo<br />
DISTRIBUTION TV BBC Worldwide (UK)<br />
In the final programme of the series, four pianists<br />
battle it out for the last remaining place in this year’s<br />
BBC Young Musician Competition. The boys are brilliant<br />
musicians, but a hand-picked panel of judges can<br />
pick only one to play in the Grand Final this Sunday.<br />
BBC YOUNG MUSICIAN OF THE<br />
068YEAR 2008: PERCUSSION<br />
SERIES BBC Young Musician of the Year 2008 GENRE Documentary:<br />
Music, on location STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY BBC<br />
Cymru Wales (UK) PRODUCER Martyn Stevens EXECUTIVE PRODUCER<br />
Tina Fletcher TV DIRECTOR Martyn Stevens CAMERA Martyn Stevens<br />
DURATION 58' 58" PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV BBC Worldwide (UK)<br />
This weekend sees the Grand Final of this year’s<br />
BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition at Wales’<br />
Millennium Centre. In tonight’s programme, four of<br />
the country’s top young percussionists battle it out<br />
for a place in the final.<br />
BBC YOUNG MUSICIAN OF<br />
069THE YEAR 2008: STRINGS<br />
SERIES BBC Young Musician of the Year 2008 GENRE Documentary:<br />
Music, on location STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY BBC<br />
Cymru Wales (UK) PRODUCER Martyn Stevens EXECUTIVE PRODUCER<br />
Tina Fletcher TV DIRECTOR Martyn Stevens CAMERA Martyn Stevens<br />
DURATION 58' 27" PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV BBC Worldwide (UK)<br />
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Tonight a guitarist, harpist, cellist and a violinist go<br />
head to head in the strings category final. Specialist<br />
judges can pick just one to go forward to the Grand<br />
Final and there’s a split decision in the judging room.<br />
BBC YOUNG MUSICIAN OF THE<br />
070YEAR 2008: WOODWIND<br />
SERIES BBC Young Musician of the Year 2008 GENRE Documentary:<br />
Music, on location STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY BBC<br />
Cymru Wales (UK) PRODUCER Paul Bernays EXECUTIVE PRODUCER<br />
Tina Fletcher TV DIRECTOR Paul Bernays DURATION 58' 27" PRODUCTION<br />
YEAR 2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
DigiBeta/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV BBC Worldwide (UK)<br />
In the first of five programmes we meet the four<br />
surviving woodwind competitors from this year’s<br />
BBC Young Musician Competition as they battle it<br />
out for a place in the Grand Final.<br />
BRYN TERFEL CLOSER TO HOME<br />
071 GENRE Documentary: Music, on location STATUS in progress<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY BBC Cymru Wales (UK) PRODUCER Iwan Russell-<br />
Jones EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Ceri Sherlock TV DIRECTOR Iwan Russell-<br />
Jones CAMERA Rob McDougall DURATION 59' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008<br />
RECORDED North Wales MUSICAL STYLE Contemporary music SOURCE<br />
VIDEO/AUDIO Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV BBC Worldwide (UK)<br />
Bryn Terfel celebrates his home patch, its glorious<br />
mountains and rugged seascape, its slate quarries<br />
and its little curiosities. This is Bryn as you have never<br />
seen him, in some familiar and some unfamiliar landscapes.<br />
He encounters stories and characters that<br />
30 avantpremière2009 inspire him, making the programme an insight into<br />
the music, places and people that make him tick.<br />
The music follows on as a natural continuation of<br />
his thoughts and findings, with songs and arias that<br />
are mostly in his repertoire and well known to his<br />
audience.<br />
BRYN TERFEL’S OPERA NIGHT<br />
072 SERIES Bryn Terfel – Faenol Festival 2008 GENRE Relay of:<br />
Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY BBC Cymru Wales (UK) PRODUCER Medwyn Parri<br />
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Ceri Sherlock TV DIRECTOR Rhodri Huw DURATION<br />
59' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Faenol, North Wales MUSICAL<br />
STYLE Classical music DISTRIBUTION TV BBC Worldwide (UK)<br />
Bryn Terfel Faenol Festival, now in its ninth year with<br />
Diana Damrau, Johan Botha and Nadia Krasteva.<br />
Classic arias in a spectacular setting. Diana Damrau<br />
dazzling with her Queen of the Night and Juliette,<br />
Johan Botha in Puccini and Verdi, and Nadia Krasteva<br />
in a fabulous new discovery. For aficionados and<br />
popular opera lovers alike.<br />
CAMBRIDGE FOLK FESTIVAL 2008:<br />
073MARTHA WAINWRIGHT FEATURING<br />
DEVON SPROULE<br />
SERIES Cambridge Folk Festival 2008 GENRE Relay of: Vocal recital,<br />
Live recording STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY Smooth<br />
Operations (UK) PRODUCER Mike Kaufman EXECUTIVE PRODUCER John<br />
Leonard TV DIRECTOR Janet Fraser-Crook DURATION 29' 15" PRODUCTION<br />
YEAR 2008 MUSICAL STYLE Contemporary music ORCHESTRA Martha<br />
Wainwright featuring Devon Sproule (UK) SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV BBC Worldwide (UK)<br />
Broadcaster and folk enthusiast Mark Radcliffe presented<br />
coverage of the 2008 Cambridge Folk Festival,<br />
featuring the top artists from the world of folk, roots<br />
and acoustic music, both live in concert from the main<br />
stage and in exclusive backstage performances. Over<br />
three programmes, BBC Four covered 5 of the most<br />
exciting and sexy new acts the genre has to offer:<br />
Mercury Prize nominee, singer and fiddle-player Seth
Lakeman; chart successes Noah & The Whale; angstridden<br />
folk-pop singer-songwriter Martha Wainwright;<br />
quirky guitarist and songwriter Devon Sproule and<br />
the multi-cultural musical melting pot, The Imagined<br />
Village. The beautiful grounds of Cherry Hinton Hall<br />
provided the backdrop to several intimate sessions<br />
and interviews as well as capturing the atmosphere<br />
of this most eclectic and friendly festival.<br />
CAMBRIDGE FOLK FESTIVAL 2008:<br />
074SETH LAKEMAN FEATURING<br />
NOAH AND THE WHALE<br />
SERIES Cambridge Folk Festival 2008 GENRE Relay of: Vocal recital,<br />
Live recording STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY Smooth<br />
Operations (UK) PRODUCER Mike Kaufman EXECUTIVE PRODUCER John<br />
Leonard TV DIRECTOR Janet Fraser-Crook DURATION 29' 15" PRODUCTION<br />
YEAR 2008 RECORDED Cambridge MUSICAL STYLE Contemporary music<br />
ORCHESTRA Seth Lakeman featuring Noah and the Whale (UK)<br />
DISTRIBUTION TV BBC Worldwide (UK)<br />
Broadcaster and folk enthusiast Mark Radcliffe presented<br />
coverage of the 2008 Cambridge Folk Festival,<br />
featuring the top artists from the world of folk, roots<br />
and acoustic music, both live in concert from the main<br />
stage and in exclusive backstage performances. Over<br />
three programmes, BBC Four covered 5 of the most<br />
exciting and sexy new acts the genre has to offer:<br />
Mercury Prize nominee, singer and fiddle-player Seth<br />
Lakeman; chart successes Noah & The Whale; angstridden<br />
folk-pop singer-songwriter Martha Wainwright;<br />
quirky guitarist and songwriter Devon Sproule and<br />
the multi-cultural musical melting pot, The Imagined<br />
Village. The beautiful grounds of Cherry Hinton Hall<br />
provided the backdrop to several intimate sessions<br />
and interviews as well as capturing the atmosphere<br />
of this most eclectic and friendly festival.<br />
CAMBRIDGE FOLK FESTIVAL 2008:<br />
075THE IMAGINED VILLAGE<br />
SERIES Cambridge Folk Festival 2008 GENRE Relay of: Ensemble/<br />
band appearance, Live recording STATUS completed PRODUCTION<br />
COMPANY Smooth Operations (UK) PRODUCER Mike Kaufman<br />
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER John Leonard TV DIRECTOR Janet Fraser-Crook<br />
DURATION 29' 20" PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Cambridge MUSICAL<br />
STYLE Contemporary music ORCHESTRA The Imagined Village (UK)<br />
SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV BBC Worldwide (UK)<br />
Broadcaster and folk enthusiast Mark Radcliffe presented<br />
coverage of the 2008 Cambridge Folk Festival,<br />
featuring the top artists from the world of folk, roots<br />
and acoustic music, both live in concert from the main<br />
stage and in exclusive backstage performances. Over<br />
three programmes, BBC Four covered 5 of the most<br />
exciting and sexy new acts the genre has to offer:<br />
Mercury Prize nominee, singer and fiddle-player Seth<br />
Lakeman; chart successes Noah & The Whale; angstridden<br />
folk-pop singer-songwriter Martha Wainwright;<br />
quirky guitarist and songwriter Devon Sproule and the<br />
multi-cultural musical melting pot, The Imagined<br />
Village. The beautiful grounds of Cherry Hinton Hall<br />
provided the backdrop to several intimate sessions<br />
and interviews as well as capturing the atmosphere<br />
of this most eclectic and friendly festival.<br />
DOCTOR WHO AT THE PROMS<br />
076 GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording STATUS<br />
completed PRODUCTION COMPANY BBC Cymru Wales (UK) PRODUCER<br />
Paul Bullock EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Julie Gardiner TV DIRECTOR Rhodri<br />
Huw CAMERA Vince Spooner EDITOR Dylan Goch SETS Eryl Ellis<br />
LIGHT DESIGN Bernie Davis DURATION 59' 06" PRODUCTION YEAR 2008<br />
RECORDED Royal Albert Hall, 27.07.2008 PIECE Music from the<br />
Doctor Who Television Series COMPOSER Murray Gold CONDUCTOR<br />
Ben Foster ORCHESTRA BBC Philharmonic Orchestra (UK)<br />
CHOREOGRAPHY BY Denni Sayers SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Stereo<br />
DISTRIBUTION TV BBC Worldwide (UK)<br />
The 2008 BBC Proms season includes a musical<br />
odyssey through time and space as the »Tardis«<br />
materialises in the Royal Albert Hall for the first ever<br />
»Doctor Who« Prom. Hosted by Freema Agyeman<br />
(who plays the Doctor's assistant Martha Jones) and<br />
featuring Murray Gold’s celebrated music for the<br />
television series, a specially filmed scene written by<br />
Russell T. Davies and starring David Tennent, and<br />
a host of monsters including the Doctor’s oldest<br />
enemies – the Daleks and Cybermen.<br />
JOHN BARROWMAN »LIVE« AT THE<br />
077FAENOL FESTIVAL<br />
GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording STATUS<br />
completed PRODUCTION COMPANY BBC Cymru Wales (UK) PRODUCER<br />
Medwyn Parri EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Ceri Sherlock TV DIRECTOR Rhodri<br />
Huw DURATION 59' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 MUSICAL STYLE Contemporary<br />
music DISTRIBUTION TV BBC Worldwide (UK)<br />
Showman, singer and actor John Barrowman, in<br />
a night of pure entertainment with Jodie Prenger,<br />
Daniel Boys and Shan Cothi. Songs from the shows<br />
and popular musical numbers with a song and a<br />
dance. »The Man from La Mancha«, »I won’t<br />
send Roses«, »Friendship«, »Bring in the Clouds«,<br />
»Gethsemane«. Full sassy orchestra with gloss and<br />
sheen – under stars in the shadow of Snowdon.<br />
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NANA MOUSKOURI – THE WHITE<br />
078ROSE OF ATHENS<br />
SERIES Legends GENRE Documentary: Portrait, on location STATUS<br />
completed PRODUCTION COMPANY BBC Cymru Wales (UK) PRODUCER<br />
Heidi Williams EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Paul Bullock TV DIRECTOR Heidi<br />
Williams CAMERA Tudor Evans, Matthew Harrisson EDITOR Steve<br />
Phillips DURATION 59' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 MUSICAL STYLE<br />
Contemporary music SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo<br />
DISTRIBUTION TV BBC Worldwide (UK)<br />
In a career that has spanned five decades, Nana<br />
Mouskouri – known as the White Rose of Athens – is<br />
one of the best-selling female artists of all time. Celebrating<br />
74-year-old Mouskouri’s illustrious career, this<br />
BBC FOUR Legends documentary features a revealing<br />
interview with Nana herself, rare archive footage and<br />
fascinating interviews with family and friends, including<br />
international stars such as Harry Belafonte, Julio<br />
Iglesias and Charles Aznavour. There’s also footage<br />
from this July’s farewell concert in her hometown of<br />
Athens which, following a four-year-long world tour,<br />
marked her final retirement from performing.<br />
NANA MOUSKOURI AT THE BBC<br />
079 GENRE For the camera: Music video clip, Studio production<br />
STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY BBC Cymru Wales (UK)<br />
PRODUCER Megan Pinches EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Ryan Minchin DURATION<br />
59' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 MUSICAL STYLE Contemporary music SOURCE<br />
VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Mono DISTRIBUTION TV BBC Worldwide (UK)<br />
A compilation of Nana Mouskouri’s performance<br />
moments from the BBC archive.<br />
QUINCY JONES: THE MANY LIVES<br />
080OF Q (PART 1 OF 2)<br />
SERIES Legends GENRE Documentary: Portrait, on location STATUS<br />
completed PRODUCTION COMPANY BBC Cymru Wales (UK) PRODUCER<br />
Deborah Perkin EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Paul Bullock TV DIRECTOR<br />
Deborah Perkin EDITOR Keith Ware DURATION 59' 01" PRODUCTION<br />
YEAR 2008 MUSICAL STYLE Contemporary music SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV BBC Worldwide (UK) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION<br />
Contributors include Quincy himself, brother Richard, Harry<br />
Belafonte, Michel Legrand, Herbie Hancock, Michael Caine,<br />
jazz photographer Herman Leonard, children Martina and<br />
Quincy Jones III, former wife Peggy Lipton.<br />
32 avantpremière2009 Quincy Jones, the American jazz musician, composer,<br />
arranger, record producer and entrepreneur, celebrated<br />
his 75th birthday in March 2008. In a career spanning<br />
six decades he’s won more Grammy awards than any<br />
other artist and was officially recognised as a Living<br />
Legend in 1999. His list of other honours includes an<br />
Emmy for his work on the seminal American television<br />
series »Roots« and an Oscar for his humanitarian<br />
work. This two-part documentary celebrates the life<br />
and career of the man who helped make Michael Jackson<br />
the king of pop, arranged Frank Sinatra’s »Fly Me<br />
To The Moon«, wrote the score for »The Italian Job«,<br />
produced the world’s top selling album and single, and<br />
helped launch the careers of Oprah Winfrey and Will<br />
Smith.<br />
QUINCY JONES: THE MANY LIVES<br />
081OF Q (PART 2 OF 2)<br />
SERIES Legends GENRE Documentary: Portrait, on location STATUS<br />
completed PRODUCTION COMPANY BBC Cymru Wales (UK) PRODUCER<br />
Deborah Perkin EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Paul Bullock TV DIRECTOR<br />
Deborah Perkin EDITOR Keith Ware DURATION 59' 03" PRODUCTION<br />
YEAR 2008 MUSICAL STYLE Contemporary music DISTRIBUTION TV BBC<br />
Worldwide (UK) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Contributors include<br />
Quincy himself, Lionel Richie, Phil Collins, Bob Geldof,<br />
Bernard Sumner, Patti Austin, the major players on Thriller –<br />
Rod Temperton (British songwriter), Bruce Swedien (recording<br />
engineer), Steve Lukather (guitarist) and daughter Kidada.<br />
BBC Four’s celebration of the life and career of Quincy<br />
Jones continues, featuring a wide ranging interview<br />
with Jones in which he talks candidly about his life and<br />
work. This second programme, »From The King Of<br />
Pop To Hip Hop: 1975 – 2008« charts Quincy’s recovery<br />
from a brain anyeurism and how he went on to<br />
produce the biggest selling album of all time – Michael<br />
Jackson’s »Thriller«. Quincy also produced and conducted<br />
1985s »We Are The World« – the American<br />
music industry’s response to the Ethiopian famine.<br />
That same year he ventured into new territory, turning<br />
Hollywood producer for »The Color Purple«.<br />
THE ANDREWS SISTERS: QUEENS<br />
082OF THE MUSIC MACHINES<br />
SERIES Legends GENRE Documentary: Portrait, on location STATUS<br />
completed PRODUCTION COMPANY BBC Cymru Wales (UK) PRODUCER<br />
Rhodri Huw EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Paul Bullock TV DIRECTOR Rhodri<br />
Huw CAMERA Jon Wood EDITOR Dylan Goch DURATION 59' PRODUCTION<br />
YEAR 2008 MUSICAL STYLE Jazz SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo
The Andrews Sisters were one of the greatest girl<br />
groups of all time, earning fifteen gold records and<br />
selling a hundred million discs during the 1930s and<br />
1940s. The girls appeared in seventeen Hollywood<br />
movies and entertained hundreds of thousands of<br />
troops during World War II. This moving film traces<br />
Patty, Maxene and LaVerne’s journey from a poor<br />
Minneapolis background to international fame.<br />
THE BEVERLEY SISTERS –<br />
083TICKLED PINK<br />
GENRE Documentary: Portrait, on location STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY BBC Cymru Wales (UK) PRODUCER Ailsa Jenkins<br />
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Paul Bullock TV DIRECTOR Ailsa Jenkins CAMERA Paul<br />
Hodgson-Hutton EDITOR Mike Crawford DURATION 59' PRODUCTION<br />
YEAR 2008 MUSICAL STYLE Contemporary music SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV BBC Worldwide (UK)<br />
A sixty-minute biographical documentary on The Beverley<br />
Sisters which charts their journey from the East<br />
End of London in the 1920s, to become the first stars<br />
to be made by British television, when it re-launched<br />
after the Second World War. Although Joy, Teddie and<br />
Babs are remembered for their sweet image, they had<br />
several battles behind the scenes about sexy costumes<br />
and saucy lyrics, many of which were banned as they<br />
were considered too risqué for post-war Britain.<br />
Bel Air Media<br />
084 BELSHAZZAR<br />
GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Bel Air Media (France) PRODUCER François<br />
Duplat TV DIRECTOR Don Kent LIGHT DESIGN Olaf Freese DURATION<br />
155' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Festival d'Aix-en-Provence,<br />
23.07.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE Belshazzar<br />
COMPOSER George Frideric Handel CONDUCTOR René Jacobs ORCHESTRA<br />
Akademie für alte Musik Berlin (Germany) CHOIR<br />
RIAS – Kammerchor (Germany) CHOREOGRAPHY BY Roland<br />
Aeschlimann COSTUMES Bettina Walter LIBRETTO Charles Jennens<br />
STAGE DIRECTOR Christof Nel SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Stereo<br />
After the destruction of Jerusalem and the imprisonment<br />
of the Israelites, the prophet Daniel predicts the<br />
decline of Nabuchodonosor’s empire. Indeed, his successor<br />
thinks only of pleasure. While Cyrus the Great’s<br />
Persian armies gather at the walls of Babylon, Belshazzar<br />
is feasting using the sacred vessels of the Jews.<br />
On the palace wall the divine maxim »Mané, Thécel,<br />
Pharès« appears, which only the captured prophet is<br />
able to translate as »weighed in the balance and found<br />
wanting«. One of the aims of occidental theatre is to<br />
question history and Haendel succeeds in this with<br />
this oratorio.<br />
EUGENE ONEGIN 085 GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Bel Air Media (France) PRODUCER François<br />
Duplat TV DIRECTOR Chloé Perlemuter LIGHT DESIGN Gleb Filshtinsky<br />
DURATION 195' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Opera Garnier Paris<br />
MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE Eugene Onegin COMPOSER Piotr<br />
Ilyitch Tchaikovsky CONDUCTOR Alexander Verdernikov ORCHESTRA<br />
Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra (Russia) CHOIR Bolshoi Theatre<br />
Chorus (Russia) COSTUMES Maria Danilova LIBRETTO Konstantin<br />
Shilovsky ORIGINAL TEXT Alexander Pushkin STAGE DIRECTOR Dmitri<br />
Tcherniakov SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby surround 5.1<br />
Lensky, a neighbour of the Larins and Olga’s bridegroom,<br />
unexpectedly brings his friend Onegin, recently<br />
arrived from the capital, to visit them. The unknown<br />
guest causes a kerfuffle in the daily routine of the Larin<br />
household: no one hides their interest in him. Onegin<br />
has doubts in the wisdom of his friend's choice. The<br />
meeting with Onegin has made a deep impression on<br />
Tatiana...<br />
ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE<br />
086 GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Bel Air Media (France) PRODUCER François<br />
Duplat TV DIRECTOR Vincent Bataillon SETS Rolf Borzik LIGHT DESIGN<br />
Rolf Borzik DURATION 110' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Opera<br />
Garnier Paris, 16.02.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
PIECE Orpheus and Eurydice COMPOSER Christoph Willibald Gluck<br />
CONDUCTOR Thomas Hengelbrock ORCHESTRA Balthasar-Neumann-<br />
Ensemble (Germany) CHOIR Balthasar-Neumann-Chor (Germany)<br />
DANCE STYLE Classical ballet CHOREOGRAPHY BY Pina Bausch COSTUMES<br />
Rolf Borzik LIBRETTO Ranieri de’ Calzabigi STAGE DIRECTOR Pina<br />
Bausch SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Stereo<br />
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»Orpheus and Eurydice« is an opera composed by<br />
Christoph Willibald Gluck based on the myth of<br />
Orpheus, set to a libretto by Ranieri de' Calzabigi.<br />
It belongs to the genre of the azione teatrale, meaning<br />
an opera on a mythological subject with choruses and<br />
dancing. The piece was first performed in Vienna in<br />
1762. »Orfeo ed Euridice« is the first of Gluck’s<br />
»reform« operas, in which he attempted to replace<br />
the abstruse plots and overly complex music of opera<br />
seria with a »noble simplicity« in both the music and<br />
the drama. Although originally set to an Italian libretto,<br />
»Orfeo ed Euridice« owes much to the genre of French<br />
opera, particularly in its use of accompanied recitative<br />
and a general absence of vocal virtuosity.<br />
087 SPARTACUS<br />
GENRE Relay of: Dance, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Bel Air Media (France) PRODUCER François<br />
Duplat TV DIRECTOR Ross MacGibbon DURATION 127' PRODUCTION YEAR<br />
2008 RECORDED Opéra Garnier Paris MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
PIECE Spartacus COMPOSER Aram Ilyich Khatchaturian CONDUCTOR<br />
Pavel Klinichev ORCHESTRA Orchestre Colonne (France) SOLOIST<br />
Carlos Acosta DANCE STYLE Classical ballet CHOREOGRAPHY BY Iouri<br />
Grigorovitch DANCE COMPANY Bolshoi Ballet (Russia) COSTUMES<br />
Simon Virsaladze SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby surround 5.1<br />
DVD DISTRIBUTION Decca (UK)<br />
In the first century BC, powerful Rome conquers new<br />
territories and peoples. Having seized a large amount<br />
of spoils of war and slaves with another victory, the<br />
legions of Roman Consul Crassus are returning to<br />
Rome. Among the enchained slaves are the Thracian<br />
king Spartacus and his wife Phrygia. The loving<br />
married couple is separated. Phrygia, now a slave,<br />
is forced to become one of Crassus’s concubines;<br />
Spartacus becomes a gladiator destined to die in a lifedeath<br />
fight to the amusement of the Roman nobles.<br />
Rebellious and freedom-loving Spartacus calls upon<br />
the slaves to revolt.<br />
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088 GENRE Relay of: Dance, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Bel Air Media (France) PRODUCER François<br />
Duplat TV DIRECTOR Denis Caïozzi DURATION 85' PRODUCTION YEAR<br />
2008 RECORDED Milano, Italy, 31.12.2007 MUSICAL STYLE Classical<br />
music COMPOSER Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky CONDUCTOR David<br />
Coleman ORCHESTRA Orchestra Teatro alla Scala (Italy) SOLOIST<br />
Roberto Bolle DANCE Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, The<br />
Nutcracker DANCE STYLE Classical ballet DANCE COMPANY Ballet<br />
Teatro alla Scala (Italy) SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby surround 5.1<br />
A showcase of virtuosity not to be missed,<br />
presented by the resident stars of La Scala and a<br />
handful of international guest artists. Following on<br />
from the earlier themed ballet evenings, dedicated<br />
to individual great composers, the year ends with<br />
a Tchaikovsky Gala. Some of the most exacting and<br />
demanding moments from »Swan Lake«, »Sleeping<br />
Beauty« and »The Nutcracker« are to be presented,<br />
showing to great effect the prowess of the corps<br />
de ballet and stars alike: Roberto Bolle and Polina<br />
Semionova, principal of the Berlin Staatsballett,<br />
already applauded at La Scala during the Gala des<br />
Étoiles. And also from Berlin, the principal couple,<br />
Nadja Saidakova and Ronald Savkovic, in their<br />
very first appearance on the Scala stage.<br />
TURANGALÎLA SYMPHONY<br />
089 GENRE Relay of: Instrumental recital, Live recording STATUS in<br />
progress PRODUCTION COMPANY Bel Air Media (France) PRODUCER<br />
François Duplat TV DIRECTOR Andy Sommer DURATION 83' PRODUCTION<br />
YEAR 2008 RECORDED Paris, 03.10.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Contemporary<br />
music PIECE Turangalîla Symphony COMPOSER Olivier Messiaen<br />
CONDUCTOR Myung-Whun Chung ORCHESTRA Orchestre Philharmonique<br />
de Radio France (France) SOLOIST Roger Muraro,<br />
Valérie Hartmann-Claverie SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby<br />
surround 5.1<br />
The Turangalîla Symphony is the most important orchestral<br />
piece written by Olivier Messiaen. Composed<br />
between 1946 and 1948 on a commission by Serge<br />
Koussevitzky for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, it<br />
premiered on 2 December 1949 under the direction of<br />
Leonard Bernstein, with Yvonne Loriod on the piano<br />
and Ginette Martenot playing the ondes Martenot.<br />
The title is derived from two Sanskrit words meaning<br />
»love song and hymn of joy, time, movement, rhythm,<br />
life and death« (Olivier Messiaen).
Bernhard Fleischer<br />
Moving Images GmbH<br />
HELMUT LACHENMANN:<br />
090PHONETIC ACTIONS<br />
GENRE Documentary: Music, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images GmbH<br />
(Austria) PRODUCER Bernhard Fleischer TV DIRECTOR Caroline Siegers<br />
DURATION 60' PRODUCTION YEAR 2007 MUSICAL STYLE Contemporary<br />
music<br />
The film team joins the recording sessions of the<br />
Stadler Quartett playing string quartets by Helmut<br />
Lachenmann from three different decades: – 1st String<br />
Quartet, »Gran Torso«, 1972 – 2nd String Quartet,<br />
»Reigen seliger Geister« (Dance of the Blessed Spirits),<br />
1989 – 3rd String Quartet, »Grido«, 2001 While<br />
the string quartets will be filmed for the camera, the<br />
accompanying documentary depicts the rehearsals and<br />
recording sessions, which are led by Helmut Lachenmann<br />
himself and which give an insight into the<br />
details the composer is emphasising on and how he<br />
guides the musicians through the interpretive process.<br />
091 IDOMENEO<br />
GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images GmbH<br />
(Austria) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY Unitel (Germany), Bayerischer<br />
Rundfunk (Germany) PRODUCER Bernhard Fleischer TV DIRECTOR<br />
Brian Large DURATION 175' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 MUSICAL STYLE<br />
Classical music PIECE Idomeneo COMPOSER Wolfgang Amadeus<br />
Mozart CONDUCTOR Kent Nagano STAGE DIRECTOR Dieter Dorn<br />
The very first performance of Mozart’s »Idomeneo«<br />
took place at the Cuvilliés Theatre (named after its<br />
constructor) in 1781. With the re-opening of the rococo<br />
theatre after its refurbishment, the opera now returns<br />
to its original stage. »Idomeneo« tells of a horrible<br />
conflict: rescued from drowning at sea, Idomeneo<br />
vows to sacrifice the first man he sees on shore. But<br />
this man is Idamante, his own son. Will the father<br />
really kill his son for Poseidon? Dieter Dorn, a wellproven<br />
director of Mozart operas, stages the composer’s<br />
early but musically forward-looking opera.<br />
On the rostrum: Kent Nagano, who conducts a superb<br />
cast.<br />
JOSEPH HAYDN UNVEILED<br />
092 GENRE Documentary: Portrait, on location STATUS in progress<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images GmbH<br />
(Austria) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY ZDF (Germany) PRODUCER Bernhard<br />
Fleischer TV DIRECTOR Nele Münchmeyer DURATION 52' PRODUCTION<br />
YEAR 2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
Commemorating the 200th anniversary of Joseph<br />
Haydn’s death, the aim of this film is to show the composer<br />
without resorting to popular clichés. The image<br />
of a demure »Papa Haydn«, living a healthy family life<br />
in a financially secure environment as a court musician,<br />
and thus playing it safe by composing easy listening<br />
music for his principal Esterházy, is simply far from<br />
the truth. A number of reputable musicologists, together<br />
with highly dedicated Haydn musicians such as<br />
Sir Roger Norrington, Thomas Quasthoff and Annette<br />
Dasch, seek to trace out the hidden genius behind<br />
bold musical inventions.<br />
MOZART 22 – THE DOCUMENTARIES<br />
093 GENRE Documentary: Music, on location STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images GmbH<br />
(Austria) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY Unitel (Germany) PRODUCER<br />
Bernhard Fleischer TV DIRECTOR Carl Plötzeneder DURATION 60'<br />
PRODUCTION YEAR 2007 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
»Mozart 22« is an undertaking of utterly unique<br />
dimensions: the presentation of Mozart’s complete<br />
stage works within the six-week Salzburg Festival season<br />
of 2006. The documentary series (20 x 60 min.)<br />
captures the entire kaleidoscope of this undertaking:<br />
each film contains extensive footage from the live performances,<br />
excerpts from rehearsals, interviews with<br />
the artists and background reports that shed light on<br />
the interpretative concepts of the performances and<br />
stage productions. The documentary aims to go beyond<br />
the making-of-film approach and to reveal the<br />
musical development of the composer in a historical<br />
context as well as the fascination he still exerts.<br />
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MOZART WEEK 2008: MOZART<br />
094CONCERT IN E FLAT MAJOR FOR<br />
TWO PIANOS AND ORCHESTRA<br />
GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording STATUS<br />
completed PRODUCTION COMPANY Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images<br />
GmbH (Austria) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY ZDF/ARTE (Germany)<br />
PRODUCER Bernhard Fleischer TV DIRECTOR Andreas Sommer DURATION<br />
42' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Salzburg MUSICAL STYLE Classical<br />
music PIECE Concert in E flat-Major for Two Pianos and<br />
Orchestra COMPOSER Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart CONDUCTOR<br />
Jonathan Nott ORCHESTRA Camerata Salzburg (Austria) SOLOIST<br />
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Tamara Stefanovich<br />
Pierre-Laurent Aimard is one of the leading intepreters<br />
of contemporary piano music, but he is also the ideal<br />
pianist for Mozart. During the 2008 Mozart Week in<br />
Salzburg he was one of the artists in residence to<br />
per-form Mozart, Staud and von Webern. Tamara<br />
Stefan-ovich was his wonderful partner on the second<br />
piano, with Jonathan Nott conducting a superb<br />
Camerata Salzburg.<br />
NINE DAYS IN THE LIFE OF<br />
095BENJAMIN SCHMID<br />
GENRE Documentary: Portrait, on location STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images GmbH<br />
(Austria) PRODUCER Bernhard Fleischer TV DIRECTOR Carl<br />
Plötzeneder DURATION 52' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008<br />
The filmmaker accompanies Salzburg violinist<br />
Benjamin Schmid during a nine-day concert trip<br />
to different places across Europe, shooting all of<br />
his concerts, rehearsals, work and strategy talks,<br />
his travel activities and even a master class in between<br />
this tour the force. Benjamin Schmid, a highly<br />
acclaimed interpreter of classical music, reveals his<br />
passion and talent for jazz and shows how much<br />
strain a musician’s daily life is exposed to during<br />
such a tour. Also part of the team: Bertrand de Billy<br />
and Daniel Raiskin.<br />
096 SALZBURG FESTIVAL 2008: OTELLO<br />
GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images GmbH<br />
(Austria) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY Unitel (Germany), ZDF-3Sat<br />
(Germany) PRODUCER Bernhard Fleischer TV DIRECTOR Peter<br />
Schönhofer DURATION 150' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Salzburg<br />
MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE Otello COMPOSER Giuseppe Verdi<br />
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of the most destructive and negative of human<br />
emotions: jealousy and envy. The three main protagonists<br />
of the tragedy are all excluded from this society:<br />
Otello is foreign, black, marked out by his cultural, linguistic,<br />
religious and regional origins; Jago is not a nobleman;<br />
Desdemona has betrayed her noble family and<br />
cut herself off by marrying against her father’s wishes.<br />
Cassio, by contrast, is a firm part of the establishment.<br />
Such a society is a fertile breeding ground for the pernicious<br />
virus of jealousy – especially when the subject<br />
is a man who is an outsider.<br />
THE SCHOOL OF LISTENING<br />
097 GENRE Documentary: Music, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images GmbH<br />
(Austria) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY Unitel (Germany), ZDF/ARTE<br />
(Germany) PRODUCER Bernhard Fleischer TV DIRECTOR Christian<br />
Kurt Weisz DURATION 90' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Salzburg<br />
MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
The two-part documentary on the »School of Listening«<br />
series from the 2008 Salzburg Festival season<br />
accompanies Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Gustavo<br />
Dudamel as they share their different – and sometimes<br />
quite unusual – approaches to musical interpretation<br />
with the audience by discussing and rehearsing music.<br />
The young and wonderfully talented musicians of the<br />
Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela translate<br />
the Maestro’s ideas into reality with Ludwig van<br />
Beethoven's Fifth Symphony as well as Gustav<br />
Mahler’s First Symphony during their very successful<br />
residency at the Salzburg Festival 2008.<br />
THOMAS HAMPSON – SCHUMANN<br />
098RECITAL GENRE Relay of: Vocal recital, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images GmbH<br />
(Austria) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY Unitel (Germany), Bayerischer<br />
Rundfunk (Germany) PRODUCER Bernhard Fleischer TV DIRECTOR<br />
Christian Kurt Weisz DURATION 80' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED<br />
Prinzregententheater Munich MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
SOLOIST Thomas Hampson, Wolfram Rieger
From the Prinzregententheater in Munich. Thomas<br />
Hampson is accompanied by pianist Wolfram Rieger:<br />
Circle of Songs Op. 35 (Justinus Kerner). The music<br />
by Robert Schumann comprises 20 songs and<br />
singings from the lyrical intermezzo in the Book<br />
of Songs for one singing voice and the pianoforte.<br />
Poems by Heinrich Heine, music by Robert<br />
Schumann.<br />
TRIPLE CONCERTO WITH THE SIMÓN<br />
099BOLÍVAR YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF<br />
VENEZUELA AND GUSTAVO DUDAMEL<br />
GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording STATUS<br />
completed PRODUCTION COMPANY Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images<br />
GmbH (Austria) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY Unitel (Germany) ASS.<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY ZDF/Arte (Germany) PRODUCER Bernhard<br />
Fleischer TV DIRECTOR Agnes Méth DURATION 70' PRODUCTION YEAR<br />
2008 RECORDED Salzburg Festival MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
The orchestra and Gustavo Dudamel perform the<br />
Triple Concerto for Piano, Violin, Violoncello and<br />
Orchestra in C, Op. 56 by Ludwig van Beethoven,<br />
with Martha Argerich (piano), Renaud Capuçon<br />
(violin), Gautier Capuçon (violoncello) and Modest<br />
Musorgsky’s »Pictures from an Exhibition« during<br />
the 2008 Salzburg Festival.<br />
100 YOUNG SINGERS PROJECT<br />
GENRE Documentary: Music, on location STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images GmbH<br />
(Austria) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY Unitel (Germany) PRODUCER<br />
Bernhard Fleischer TV DIRECTOR Carl Plötzeneder DURATION 60'<br />
PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Salzburg Festival<br />
Starting in the summer of 2008, the Salzburg Festival<br />
hosts a Young Singers Project directed by Michael<br />
Schade and Barbara Bonney. The two artists have<br />
invited young, highly talented professional singers to<br />
join the programme. Eleven singers from around the<br />
world were selected from over 200 applicants, following<br />
auditions in New York, London, Toronto and<br />
Salzburg. The film accompanies them during rehearsal<br />
sessions and workshops (e.g. on interpretation, stage<br />
performance) with renowned artists such as Christa<br />
Ludwig, Thomas Quasthoff and Malcolm Martineau.<br />
The final gala concert – one of this season’s festival<br />
highlights – provided the young singers with the<br />
opportunity to present their remarkable skills to the<br />
public.<br />
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ADAM GREEN PLAYS AVO SESSION<br />
101 GENRE Relay of: Ensemble/band appearance, Live recording<br />
STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY Avo Session Basel<br />
(Switzerland) TV DIRECTOR Rolli Bärlocher DURATION 60' PRODUCTION<br />
YEAR 2008 RECORDED Festsaal Messe Basel, 12.11.2008 SOURCE<br />
VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV C Major Entertainment<br />
GmbH (Germany)<br />
Green attended Emerson College for one semester in<br />
1998 before leaving to concentrate on his music, going<br />
on to co-found the group The Moldy Peaches with<br />
Kimya Dawson. In 2004 The Moldy Peaches went on<br />
hiatus and both Green and Dawson embarked on solo<br />
careers. His latest album »Sixes & Sevens« was released<br />
in March 2008. Tracks include »Morning After<br />
Midnight«, »Twee Twee Dee«, and »Drowning Head<br />
First«, the latter a duet between Green and his girlfriend.<br />
In January 2008, The Moldy Peaches began enjoying<br />
a resurgence in popularity, due to their music<br />
being included in the hit indie film »Juno«. The soundtrack<br />
album debuted at number one on the Billboard<br />
album chart in its third week of release.<br />
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AMY MACDONALD PLAYS<br />
102AVO SESSION<br />
GENRE Relay of: Ensemble/band appearance, Live recording<br />
STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY Avo Session Basel<br />
(Switzerland) TV DIRECTOR Rolli Bärlocher DURATION 60' PRODUCTION<br />
YEAR 2008 RECORDED Festsaal Messe Basel, 12.11.2008 SOURCE<br />
VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta DISTRIBUTION TV C Major Entertainment GmbH<br />
(Germany)<br />
The Scottish teen sensation singer-songwriter Amy<br />
Macdonald started to play her father’s guitar after<br />
being inspired by Travis at the T in the Park Festival<br />
in 2000. Two years later she was playing her first onstage<br />
acoustic gig. She has also appeared as a musical<br />
performing guest on several popular British and foreign<br />
shows such as The Album Chart Show, Loose<br />
Women, Friday Night Project, Taratata (France) and<br />
This Morning, and played at music festivals such as<br />
Glastonbury, Hyde Park, T in the Park, and V Festival.<br />
In July 2007, at just 20, she released her debut album,<br />
»This Is The Life«, which has now been sold in over<br />
one million copies. Her surprising singing voice has<br />
been compared to that of Cranberries’ Dolores<br />
O’Riordan.<br />
CECILIA BARTOLI – MALIBRAN<br />
103REDISCOVERED GENRE Documentary: Music STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
Lotus Film GmbH (Austria) TV DIRECTOR Michael Sturminger<br />
DURATION 52' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV C Major<br />
Entertainment GmbH (Germany)<br />
Cecilia Bartoli celebrates the 200th anniversary of the<br />
birth of Maria Malibran with her personal tribute to<br />
the female superstar, one of the most famous opera<br />
singers of the 19th century. Maria Malibran was the<br />
first woman to rival the operatic heroes of the 17th and<br />
18th centuries, the castrati. Her extensive, exceptionally<br />
varied repertoire also demanded a range of emotional<br />
and dramatic expressiveness to which only an<br />
outstanding talent such as Cecilia Bartoli could do<br />
justice.<br />
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104CONCERT GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording STATUS<br />
completed PRODUCTION COMPANY Film & Co (Germany) TV DIRECTOR<br />
Michael Sturminger DURATION 43' DURATION2 58' PRODUCTION YEAR 2007<br />
RECORDED Palau de la Música Catalana MUSICAL STYLE Classical<br />
music CONDUCTOR Ada Pesch ORCHESTRA Orchestra La Scintilla<br />
(Spain) SOLOIST Cecilia Bartoli SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Dolby<br />
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Cecilia Bartoli celebrates the 200th anniversary of the<br />
birth of Maria Malibran with her personal tribute to<br />
the female superstar, one of the most famous opera<br />
singers of the 19th century. Maria Malibran was the<br />
first woman to rival the operatic heroes of the 17th and<br />
18th centuries, the castrati. Her extensive, exceptionally<br />
varied repertoire also demanded a range of emotional<br />
and dramatic expressiveness to which only an<br />
outstanding talent such as Cecilia Bartoli could do<br />
justice. »The Barcelona Concert«, performed in the<br />
stunning Palau de la Musica Catalana, features the<br />
concert from the ongoing »Maria« album tour »La<br />
Rivoluzione Romantica«.<br />
CYNDI LAUPER PLAYS AVO SESSION<br />
105 GENRE Relay of: Ensemble/band appearance, Live recording<br />
STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY Avo Session Basel<br />
(Switzerland) TV DIRECTOR Rolli Bärlocher DURATION 60' PRODUCTION<br />
YEAR 2008 RECORDED Festsaal Messe Basel, 31.10.2008 SOURCE<br />
VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV C Major Entertainment<br />
GmbH (Germany)<br />
Cyndi Lauper, American Emmy and Grammy awardwinning<br />
singer, songwriter and actress in film, television<br />
and theatre burst onto the world stage as the<br />
quintessential girl who wants to have fun. After more<br />
than 20 sterling years and global record sales in excess<br />
of 25 million, she has proven that she has the heart<br />
and soul to keep her legion of fans compelled by her<br />
every creative move. With her newly minted collection,<br />
»Bring Ya To The Brink«, Cyndi firmly asserts her<br />
position as one of the most beguiling, innovative and<br />
downright exciting recording artists of this – and or<br />
other – generation.
DOKTOR FAUST 106 GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Unitel Classica (Germany) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
Opernhaus Zürich (Switzerland) TV DIRECTOR Felix Breisach<br />
DURATION 170' PRODUCTION YEAR 2007 RECORDED Opernhaus Zürich<br />
MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE Doktor Faust COMPOSER Ferruccio<br />
Busoni CONDUCTOR Philippe Jordan ORCHESTRA Orchester der Oper<br />
Zürich (Switzerland) CHOIR Chor der Oper Zürich (Switzerland)<br />
SOLOIST Thomas Hampson, Günther Groissböck, Gregory Kunde,<br />
Reinaldo Macias, Sandra Trattnigg, Martin Zysset LIBRETTO<br />
Ferruccio Busoni STAGE DIRECTOR Klaus Michael Grüber SOURCE<br />
VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby surround 5.1 DISTRIBUTION TV C Major<br />
Entertainment GmbH (Germany)<br />
Suzanne Schwiertz<br />
Ferruccio Busoni (1866–1924) was a man of many contradictions:<br />
an Italian who considered himself German;<br />
a virtuoso pianist who preferred to compose; an eloquent<br />
theorist and intellectual who produced highly<br />
emotional music such as the opera »Doktor Faust«.<br />
In fact, he seemed predestined to write an opera on<br />
the contradictory and complex figure of Faust. Like<br />
Goethe’s hero, Busoni’s is also an eternal seeker; but<br />
he is also a magician who conjures up various biblical<br />
figures to seduce a duchess on her wedding day; and<br />
a man besotted with beauty who wants to possess<br />
it in the form of Helen of Troy. The opera unfolds a<br />
panorama of murder, tragedy, defeat and, ultimately,<br />
redemption in the form of a young man, Faust’s sole<br />
positive legacy.<br />
EDITA GRUBEROVA – THE ART OF<br />
107BEL CANTO<br />
GENRE Documentary: Music STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
Unitel Classica (Germany) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY Sounding<br />
Images (Germany), ZDF (Germany), ARTE (Germany), SF –<br />
Schweizer Fernsehen (Switzerland), ORF (Austria) TV DIRECTOR<br />
Stefan Pannen, Claus Wischmann DURATION 54' PRODUCTION YEAR<br />
2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby<br />
surround 5.1 DISTRIBUTION TV C Major Entertainment GmbH<br />
(Germany)<br />
sounding images GmbH<br />
She is the world’s most famous bel canto soprano<br />
today. And, at an age when most singers are giving<br />
their farewell performances, she tackles new roles and<br />
continues to electrify her audiences with her crystalclear<br />
cascades of musical pearls: Edita Gruberova,<br />
prima donna assoluta of the bel canto community.<br />
GARY MOORE PLAYS AVO SESSION<br />
108 GENRE Relay of: Ensemble/band appearance, Live recording<br />
STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY Avo Session Basel<br />
(Switzerland) TV DIRECTOR Rolli Bärlocher DURATION 60' PRODUCTION<br />
YEAR 2008 RECORDED Festsaal Messe Basel, 13.11.2008 SOURCE<br />
VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV C Major Entertainment<br />
GmbH (Germany)<br />
Gary Moore is acknowledged as one of the finest<br />
musicians that the British Isles have ever produced.<br />
In a career that dates back to the 1960s, there are few<br />
musical genres that he has not turned his adroit musical<br />
hand to, and has graced the line-ups ever several<br />
notable rock bands, Thin Lizzy, Colosseum II and Skid<br />
Row to name but three. With his latest studio album<br />
»Close As You Get«, Gary continues in a direction not<br />
too dissimilar from Old, New, Ballads, Blues. Mixing<br />
original tunes with some interesting Blues covers that<br />
Gary has rediscovered, »Close As You Get« shows<br />
Moore's exceptional talent as a guitarist and is destined<br />
to be one of the finest blues and guitar albums<br />
of the last years.<br />
I LOMBARDI ALLA PRIMA CROCIATA<br />
109 GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Unitel Classica (Germany) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
Teatro di San Carlo (Italy) TV DIRECTOR Tiziano Mancini DURATION<br />
140' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Teatro di San Carlo MUSICAL<br />
STYLE Classical music PIECE I Lombardi alla prima crociata<br />
COMPOSER Giuseppe Verdi CONDUCTOR Pier Giorgio Morandi<br />
ORCHESTRA Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo (Italy) CHOIR Coro<br />
del Teatro di San Carlo (Italy) SOLOIST Tito Beltran, Ruggero<br />
Raimondi, Maria Cioppi, Dimitra Theodossiou, Luca Casalin,<br />
Fabio Sartori, Adelina Scarabelli LIBRETTO Temistocle Solera STAGE<br />
DIRECTOR Giancarlo Cobelli SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby surround<br />
5.1 DISTRIBUTION TV C Major Entertainment GmbH (Germany)<br />
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Luciano Romano<br />
The opera relates the conflict between Christians and<br />
Muslims at the time of the Crusades, but treats both<br />
sides with certain ambivalence and features a romance<br />
between the Christian Giselda and the Muslim Oronte.<br />
In spite of the work's powerful choruses interspersed<br />
with solo arias and ensembles, »I Lombardi« has<br />
never achieved the prominence of Verdi’s most popular<br />
operas. The production from the Teatro di San Carlo<br />
of Naples is dominated by the formidable voices of<br />
Ruggero Raimondi as Pagano, a Muslim who helps the<br />
Crusaders, and Dimitra Theodossiou as Giselda, the<br />
Christian maiden captured by the Sultan of Antioch,<br />
and who falls in love with his son Oronte.<br />
JETHRO TULL PLAYS AVO SESSION<br />
110 GENRE Relay of: Ensemble/band appearance, Live recording<br />
STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY Avo Session Basel<br />
(Switzerland) TV DIRECTOR Rolli Bärlocher DURATION 60' PRODUCTION<br />
YEAR 2008 RECORDED Festsaal Messe Basel, 15.11.2008 SOURCE<br />
VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV C Major Entertainment<br />
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Formed in 1968, the music of Jethro Tull is marked by<br />
the distinctive vocal style and lead flute work of front<br />
man Ian Anderson. Initially playing blues rock with an<br />
experimental flavour, they have, over the years, incorporated<br />
elements of classical, folk and »ethnic« music,<br />
jazz and art rock. With 60 million albums sold and<br />
over 2500 concerts played in 40 countries, the band<br />
continue to record and perform, typically 100 shows to<br />
around 300,000 people each year throughout all the<br />
major rock and roll territories of the world. At AVO<br />
Session they play their most popular songs including<br />
the mega hit »Locomotive Breath«.<br />
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111 GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording<br />
STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY Unitel Classica (Germany)<br />
TV DIRECTOR Andreas Morell DURATION 90' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008<br />
RECORDED Alte Oper Frankfurt MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE<br />
Don Juan, op. 20 COMPOSER Richard Strauss CONDUCTOR Matthias<br />
Pintscher ORCHESTRA Junge Deutsche Philharmonie (Germany)<br />
MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE Concerto for Violin and<br />
Orchestra No. 3 B minor, op. 61 COMPOSER Camille Saint-Saëns<br />
CONDUCTOR Matthias Pintscher ORCHESTRA Junge Deutsche<br />
Philharmonie (Germany) SOLOIST Julia Fischer MUSICAL STYLE<br />
Classical music PIECE Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in<br />
a Minor, op. 16 COMPOSER Edvard Grieg CONDUCTOR Matthias<br />
Pintscher ORCHESTRA Junge Deutsche Philharmonie (Germany)<br />
SOLOIST Julia Fischer MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE<br />
Rosenkavalier-Suite COMPOSER Richard Strauss CONDUCTOR Matthias<br />
Pintscher ORCHESTRA Junge Deutsche Philharmonie (Germany)<br />
SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD DISTRIBUTION TV C Major Entertainment GmbH<br />
(Germany)<br />
If you’re going to emulate great musicians from the<br />
past, you could do worse than choose Bach and<br />
Mozart. Maybe this crossed Julia Fischer’s mind when<br />
she was planning her January 2008 concert with<br />
the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie under Matthias<br />
Pintscher. For the renowned violinist, named »Artist<br />
of the Year« in 2007 by the U.K.’s Gramophone<br />
magazine, did exactly as Bach and Mozart did: she<br />
appeared in public as a soloist on two completely<br />
different instruments, the violin and the piano.<br />
LUISA MILLER 112 GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Unitel Classica (Germany) TV DIRECTOR Andrea<br />
Dorigo DURATION 145' PRODUCTION YEAR 2007 RECORDED Teatro Regio<br />
di Parma MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE Luisa Miller COMPOSER<br />
Giuseppe Verdi CONDUCTOR Donato Renzetti ORCHESTRA Orchestra<br />
del Teatro Regio di Parma (Italy) CHOIR Coro del Teatro Regio<br />
di Parma (Italy) SOLOIST Mario Luperi, Marcelo Álvarez,<br />
Francesca Franci, Rafael Siwek, Leo Nucci, Fiorenza Cedolins,<br />
Katarina Nikolic, Angelo Villari LIBRETTO Salvatore Cammarano<br />
ORIGINAL TEXT Friedrich Schiller STAGE DIRECTOR Denis Krief SOURCE<br />
VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby surround 5.1 DISTRIBUTION TV C Major<br />
Entertainment GmbH (Germany)<br />
Roberto Ricci
Hailed as his first mature masterpiece, Verdi’s 1849<br />
opera »Luisa Miller« leaves the world of Bellini and<br />
Donizetti behind and opens the door to the realism of<br />
the three following operas, »Rigoletto«, »La Traviata«<br />
and »Il Trovatore«. And even though it has not become<br />
a repertoire work like its successors, the work’s ensemble<br />
scenes and fluid dramaturgy have an electrifying<br />
impact on all Verdi lovers. The conflicts at the<br />
heart of the drama, based on Schiller’s »Kabale und<br />
Liebe«, are treated with a forward-looking psychological<br />
refinement: the conflicts between the two fathers<br />
and their children as well as between two very different<br />
social classes.<br />
MESSA DA REQUIEM<br />
113 GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording<br />
STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY Unitel Classica (Germany)<br />
CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY Fondazione Symphonica Toscanini (Italy),<br />
ZDF/ARTE (Germany) TV DIRECTOR Tiziano Mancini DURATION 96'<br />
02" PRODUCTION YEAR 2007 RECORDED The Basilica of San Marco<br />
Venice MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE Messa da Requiem<br />
COMPOSER Giuseppe Verdi CONDUCTOR Lorin Maazel ORCHESTRA<br />
Orchestra Symphonica Toscanini (Italy) CHOIR Chorus of the<br />
Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Italy) SOLOIST Norma Fantini,<br />
Anna Smirnova, Francesco Meli, Rafal Siwek SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
HD/Dolby surround 5.1 DISTRIBUTION TV C Major Entertainment<br />
GmbH (Germany)<br />
Interpress Photo<br />
Celebrated conductor Lorin Maazel, a young orchestra<br />
of outstanding musicians, four high-calibre soloists<br />
and one of the great choral works of musical literature<br />
– this alone would make this live recording of Verdi’s<br />
Requiem a stand-out document of filmed music. But<br />
there is more: the venue of this grandiose performance,<br />
the Basilica of San Marco in Venice, with its<br />
shimmering golden Byzantine mosaics framed by<br />
mighty pillars and arches. Modelled on Constantine<br />
the Great’s Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople,<br />
the 11th-century basilica has been the workplace<br />
of many a great musician in the past, such as<br />
Claudio Monteverdi, Adrian Willaert and Giovanni<br />
Gabrieli.<br />
MICHAEL BOLTON PLAYS<br />
114AVO SESSION<br />
GENRE Relay of: Ensemble/band appearance, Live recording<br />
STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY Avo Session Basel<br />
(Switzerland) TV DIRECTOR Rolli Bärlocher DURATION 60' PRODUCTION<br />
YEAR 2008 RECORDED Festssaal Messe Basel, 16.11.2008 SOURCE<br />
VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV C Major Entertainment<br />
GmbH (Germany)<br />
If you made a list of performers who have sold more<br />
than 53 million records, won multiple Grammy trophies<br />
for Best Male Vocalist and countless other honours,<br />
earned a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame and<br />
sold out arenas worldwide, the American singer-songwriter<br />
Michael Bolton would be on that list. But if<br />
you tallied all the artists who've sung with Luciano<br />
Pavarotti and Ray Charles, written songs with Bob<br />
Dylan, penned hits for Barbra Streisand and KISS,<br />
played guitar with B.B. King and been sampled on<br />
a track by hip-hop superstar Kanye West (featuring<br />
megastar Jay-Z), Michael Bolton would be the only<br />
name on that list.<br />
PATRICIA KAAS PLAYS AVO SESSION<br />
115 GENRE Relay of: Ensemble/band appearance, Live recording<br />
STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY Avo Session Basel<br />
(Switzerland) TV DIRECTOR Rolli Bärlocher DURATION 60' PRODUCTION<br />
YEAR 2008 RECORDED Festsaal Messe Basel, 10.11.2008 SOURCE<br />
VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV C Major Entertainment<br />
(Germany)<br />
Patricia Kaas is one of the most successful Frenchspeaking<br />
singers in the world. Stylistically her music is<br />
not classical chanson but closer to a mixture of pop<br />
music, jazz and chanson. Since the appearance of her<br />
debut album »Mademoiselle Chante« in 1988, Kaas<br />
has sold more than 17 million records worldwide.<br />
She had her greatest success in countries such as<br />
Germany, Switzerland, Holland, Belgium, Canada,<br />
Sweden, Russia, Finland and Korea with her third<br />
album »Je te dis vous«, which reached 11th and 2nd<br />
place in the German charts. A significant ingredient of<br />
her successful formula is her impressive stage presence;<br />
Kaas is almost constantly on tour internationally.<br />
In 2002 Kaas had her film debut in »And now ... Ladies<br />
and Gentlemen« beside Jeremy Irons.<br />
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ROGER HODGSON PLAYS<br />
116AVO SESSION<br />
GENRE Relay of: Ensemble/band appearance, Live recording<br />
STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY Avo Session Basel<br />
(Switzerland) TV DIRECTOR Rolli Bärlocher DURATION 60' PRODUCTION<br />
YEAR 2008 RECORDED Festsaal Messe Basel, 31.10.2008 SOURCE<br />
VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV C Major Entertainment<br />
GmbH (Germany)<br />
Roger Hodgson has been recognised as one of the<br />
most gifted composers, song writers and lyricists of<br />
our time. As the legendary voice of Supertramp and<br />
composer of the band’s greatest hits, he gave us »Give<br />
a Little Bit«, »The Logical Song«, »Dreamer«, »Take<br />
the Long Way Home«, »Breakfast In America«, »It’s<br />
Raining Again«, »School«, and »Fools Overture« and<br />
so many others that have become the soundtrack of<br />
our lives. His trademark of setting beautiful introspective<br />
lyrics to upbeat melodies resonated and found its<br />
way into the hearts and minds of cultures around the<br />
world. His songs have remarkably stood the test of<br />
time and earned Roger and Supertramp an adoring<br />
worldwide following.<br />
SUNSHINE SUPERMAN –<br />
117THE JOURNEY OF DONOVAN<br />
GENRE Documentary: Music STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
DoRo Productions (Austria) TV DIRECTOR Hannes Rossacher<br />
DURATION 120' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/<br />
Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV C Major Entertainment GmbH (Germany)<br />
Over the last three years, Hannes Rossacher from<br />
DoRo Productions has filmed Donovan at all the<br />
locations that have had the highest significance in this<br />
extraordinary singer-songwriter’s life, weaving together<br />
a comprehensive documentary about the life and work<br />
of Donovan, packed with personal views and peppered<br />
with lots of exciting archive material and concert highlights<br />
spanning four decades of musical magic.<br />
42 avantpremière2009 TILL BRÖNNER PLAYS AVO SESSION<br />
118 GENRE Relay of: Ensemble/band appearance, Live recording<br />
STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY Avo Session Basel<br />
(Switzerland) TV DIRECTOR Rolli Bärlocher DURATION 60' PRODUCTION<br />
YEAR 2008 RECORDED Festsaal Messe Basel, 16.11.2008 MUSICAL STYLE<br />
Jazz SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV C Major<br />
Entertainment GmbH (Germany)<br />
The German jazz musician Till Brönner has a unique<br />
jazz approach influenced by bebop and fusion jazz but<br />
also modern pop music, movie soundtracks (especially<br />
old German movies), country music and even German<br />
pop songs. In 2007 he won the »Echo Award« in Jazz<br />
Production. In March 2007 he produced »The Jazz<br />
Album« for legendary classical singer Thomas Quasthoff,<br />
featuring pianist Alan Broadbent and drummer<br />
Peter Erskine. The album won the »Echo Award« in<br />
the classical music category and is nominated for a<br />
Grammy in 2008. His new album, RIO, featuring guest<br />
vocalists Vanessa da Mata, Kurt Elling, Melody Gardot,<br />
Annie Lennox, Aimee Mann, Sergio Mendes, Milton<br />
Nascimento & Luciana Souza, was produced by<br />
Grammy-winner Larry Klein in Rio de Janeiro and<br />
Los Angeles.<br />
ZUCCHERO PLAYS AVO SESSION<br />
119 GENRE Relay of: Ensemble/band appearance, Live recording<br />
STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY Avo Session Basel (Germany)<br />
TV DIRECTOR Rolli Bärlocher DURATION 60' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008<br />
RECORDED Festsaal Messe Basel, 07.11.2008 SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
DigiBeta/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV C Major Entertainment GmbH<br />
(Germany)<br />
Zucchero, meaning »sugar«, has been his nickname<br />
from a very young age, and was given to him by an<br />
elementary school teacher. His music is largely inspired<br />
by gospel, blues and rock music, and alternates<br />
between ballads and more rhythmic boogie-like pieces.<br />
His album »Fly«, released in September 2006, has<br />
been followed by a world tour, playing more than 150<br />
concerts all over Europe, Canada, USA and Latin America.<br />
He was highly acclaimed by both audience and<br />
critics, playing in legendary places like the Opera in<br />
Paris, the arena in Verona, Carnegie Hall in New York<br />
and the House of Blues in Los Angeles.
Clasart Classic<br />
BRUCKNER: SYMPHONY NO. 7 –<br />
120THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA<br />
GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording STATUS<br />
completed PRODUCTION COMPANY Clasart Classic (Germany)<br />
CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY NHK (Japan), ORF (Austria) PRODUCER<br />
Herbert Kloiber TV DIRECTOR Bill Cosel DURATION 65' PRODUCTION YEAR<br />
2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE Symphony No. 7<br />
COMPOSER Anton Bruckner CONDUCTOR Franz Welser-Möst ORCHESTRA<br />
The Cleveland Orchestra (USA) SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby<br />
surround 5.1 DISTRIBUTION TV Clasart Classic (Germany) THEATRICAL<br />
DISTRIBUTION Clasart Classic (Germany) MULTIMEDIA DISTRIBUTION<br />
Clasart Classic (Germany)<br />
With this recording of Anton Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony,<br />
Clasart continues its Bruckner cycle with the<br />
Cleveland Orchestra under its principal conductor<br />
Franz Welser-Möst. Following the recording of the Fifth<br />
at the exuberantly baroque monastery of St. Florian<br />
near Linz, Austria, and of the Ninth in Vienna’s majestic<br />
Musikverein, the orchestra returns to its home turf,<br />
the Severance Hall in Cleveland, for the recording of<br />
the Seventh. This hall, an eclectic yet elegant mix of art<br />
deco, art nouveau, classicism, Egyptian revival and<br />
modernism was inaugurated in 1931 and is still hailed<br />
today as one of the world’s most beautiful concert<br />
halls.<br />
121 CARMEN<br />
GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Opera House Zurich (Switzerland), Clasart<br />
Classic (Germany) PRODUCER Alexander Pereira, Herbert Kloiber<br />
TV DIRECTOR Felix Breisach SETS Volker Hintermeier DURATION 170'<br />
PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Opera House Zurich MUSICAL STYLE<br />
Classical music COMPOSER Georges Bizet CONDUCTOR Franz Welser-<br />
Möst ORCHESTRA Opera House Zurich (Switzerland) SOLOIST<br />
Vesselina Kasarova, Jonas Kaufmann, Michele Pertusi COSTUMES<br />
Su Bühler STAGE DIRECTOR Matthias Hartmann SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
HD/Dolby surround 5.1 DISTRIBUTION TV Clasart Classic (Germany)<br />
THEATRICAL DISTRIBUTION Clasart Classic (Germany) MULTIMEDIA<br />
DISTRIBUTION Clasart Classic (Germany)<br />
Suzanne Schwiertz<br />
This production, which Matthias Hartmann staged far<br />
away from all folkloristic tradition, brings the highly<br />
anticipated debut of Vesselina Kasarova as Carmen.<br />
Having sung all the big arias and duets in concerts,<br />
she considers the role not so much a challenge for her<br />
voice as for her acting. She wants to break the cliché of<br />
Carmen being an erotic super woman as she was so<br />
often portrayed in the past. She refers to the intimacy<br />
of Bizet's music and to the complexity of the score.<br />
Her Don José is Jonas Kaufmann, certainly the hottest<br />
tenor at the moment.<br />
CHRISTMAS IN VIENNA<br />
122 GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording STATUS<br />
completed PRODUCTION COMPANY ORF (Austria), Felix Breisach<br />
Medienwerkstatt (Austria) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY Clasart Classic<br />
(Germany) TV DIRECTOR Felix Breisach DURATION 90' PRODUCTION YEAR<br />
2008 RECORDED Wiener Konzerthaus MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
COMPOSER Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, George Frideric Handel,<br />
Johann Sebastian Bach CONDUCTOR Karel Mark Chichon ORCHESTRA<br />
Wiener Symphoniker (Austria) CHOIR Wiener Sängerknaben<br />
(Austria) SOLOIST Elina Garanca, Juan Diego Flórez, Genia<br />
Kühmeier, Paul Armin Edelmann SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby<br />
surround 5.1 DISTRIBUTION TV Clasart Classic (Germany) THEATRICAL<br />
DISTRIBUTION Clasart Classic (Germany) MULTIMEDIA DISTRIBUTION<br />
Clasart Classic (Germany)<br />
In addition to many traditional Christmas carols, the<br />
soloists and the Vienna Boys Choir also perform a<br />
variety of popular classics such as the Bach-Gounod<br />
»Ave Maria« as well as »The trumpet shall sound«<br />
and the »Hallelujah« from Haendel's »Messiah«.<br />
Catalan, Peruvian and American Christmas carols and<br />
songs add an international note to the programme,<br />
which also features a delightful collection of Old Viennese<br />
Christmas melodies. Sacred music is also written<br />
large in this concert, with Mascagni’s »Ave Maria«,<br />
Rossini’s »Petite Messe Solennelle« (Domine Deus),<br />
Saint-Saëns’s »Panis Angelicus« and the »Gloria«<br />
from Schubert's Mass in G major D. 167.<br />
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123 CLARI<br />
GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Opera House Zurich (Switzerland), Opera<br />
House Zurich (Switzerland) PRODUCER Alexander Pereira, Herbert<br />
Kloiber TV DIRECTOR Felix Breisach SETS Christian Fenouillat<br />
DURATION 150' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
COMPOSER Jacques Fromental Halévy CONDUCTOR Adam Fischer<br />
ORCHESTRA „La Scintilla“ (Switzerland) SOLOIST Cecilia Bartoli,<br />
John Osborn, Carlos Chausson COSTUMES Agostino Cavalca<br />
STAGE DIRECTOR Moshe Leiser, Patrice Caurier SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
HD/Dolby surround 5.1 DISTRIBUTION TV Clasart Classic (Germany)<br />
THEATRICAL DISTRIBUTION Clasart Classic (Germany) MULTIMEDIA<br />
DISTRIBUTION Clasart Classic (Germany)<br />
Suzanne Schwiertz<br />
»One must not only have heard La Bartoli here, how –<br />
rarely following the tenets of an elegant and pure vocal<br />
culture – she warbles, chirps and trills, spins out delicate<br />
piani, yodels wildly through nearly three octaves,<br />
and unites in one singer a beast of prey and a purring<br />
kitten. One must also have seen how she teeters demurely<br />
through the salon of the noble art collector as<br />
a goggle-eyed country belle, how she (almost) lets herself<br />
be ravished on the lemon yellow sofa, and how,<br />
when spurned, she climbs a red plastic King Kong and<br />
later wanders through the emergency room as a parttime<br />
demented fury.« (Die Welt, 23 May 2008)<br />
124 GENOVEVA<br />
GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Opera House Zurich (Switzerland)<br />
CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY Clasart Classic (Germany) PRODUCER Alexander<br />
Pereira, Herbert Kloiber TV DIRECTOR Felix Breisach SETS Rolf<br />
Glittenberg DURATION 146' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Opera<br />
House Zurich MUSICAL STYLE Classical music COMPOSER Robert<br />
Schumann CONDUCTOR Nikolaus Harnoncourt ORCHESTRA Orchestra<br />
of the Opera House Zurich (Switzerland) SOLOIST Juliane Banse,<br />
Shawn Matthey, Martin Ganter COSTUMES Heidi Hackl STAGE<br />
DIRECTOR Martin Kusej SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby surround 5.1<br />
DISTRIBUTION TV Clasart Classic (Germany) THEATRICAL DISTRIBUTION<br />
Clasart Classic (Germany) MULTIMEDIA DISTRIBUTION Clasart Classic<br />
(Germany)<br />
Suzanne Schwiertz<br />
44 avantpremière2009 Robert Schumann composed only one opera, »Genoveva«.<br />
Written in Dresden in 1847/48, the work takes<br />
its cue from the operas of Weber and, above all, those<br />
of Wagner. For Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Schumann's<br />
work is nothing less than a »re-invention of the<br />
opera«. An ardent defender of the work, the venerable<br />
conductor recorded it in 1997 and, with director Martin<br />
Kušej, presented his first stage production of the piece<br />
at the Zurich Opera in February 2008. With the committed<br />
Zurich ensemble fulfilling his every wish, he<br />
shows how radical and unconventional Schumann's<br />
operatic vision was.<br />
JONAS KAUFMANN – A PERFECTLY<br />
125NORMAL HERO<br />
GENRE Documentary: Portrait STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
Wunderlich Medien (Germany) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY SWR<br />
(Germany), SF (Switzerland) ASS. PRODUCTION COMPANY Clasart<br />
Classic (Germany) PRODUCER Barbara Wunderlich TV DIRECTOR<br />
Thomas Voigt, Wolfgang Wunderlich DURATION 43' 20" DURATION2<br />
28' 55" PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music SOURCE<br />
VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV Clasart Classic<br />
(Germany) THEATRICAL DISTRIBUTION Clasart Classic (Germany)<br />
MULTIMEDIA DISTRIBUTION Clasart Classic (Germany)<br />
Decca/Uli Webber<br />
Jonas Kaufmann: a gift to the opera world, a tenor who<br />
can truly and credibly portray a young lover with his<br />
looks and his voice. He is the first German tenor in<br />
generations to bear comparison with the great tenors<br />
of the past and present, likely to have a lengthy international<br />
career ahead of him. This film is neither a<br />
classical artist’s portrait nor a glossy, down-home look<br />
at the man behind the artist, but the document of a<br />
singer's path toward professional and artistic fulfilment.<br />
A path marked by difficult moments as well as<br />
great leaps and bounds. »Kaufmann looks every inch<br />
the romantic hero, and you could listen to his warm,<br />
characterful singing all day long.« (Sunday Telegraph)<br />
CLC Productions<br />
LUISA MILLER 126 GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY CLC Productions (France) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
Opéra National de Paris (France) PRODUCER CLC Productions<br />
France ASSOCIATED PRODUCER France 3 (France) TV DIRECTOR Andy<br />
Sommer CAMERA Ali Boudjaoui, Jean-Pierre Chevallier, Fabrice<br />
Varisot LIGHT DESIGN Joël Hourbeigt DURATION 145' PRODUCTION YEAR<br />
2008 RECORDED Opéra National de Paris, 29.02.2008 MUSICAL STYLE<br />
Classical music COMPOSER Giuseppe Verdi ORCHESTRA Orchestre de<br />
l’Opéra National de Paris (France) CHOIR Chœurs de l’Opéra<br />
national de Paris (France) SOLOIST Ana Maria Martínez, Ramon
Vargas, Andrzej Dobber, Kwangchul Youn, Maria José Montiel,<br />
Elisa Cenni, Vincent Morell, Alexander Vinogradov COSTUMES<br />
William Orlandi LIBRETTO Salvatore Cammarano ORIGINAL TEXT<br />
Salvatore Cammarano STAGE DIRECTOR Gilbert Deflo SOURCE<br />
VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV CLC Productions<br />
(France)<br />
CLC<br />
The story of Luisa and Rodolfo – the 19th-century<br />
Romeo and Juliet – is that of an idyll shattered by class<br />
differences in a climate of hypocrisy and corruption.<br />
Luisa, daughter of the retired soldier Miller, is the<br />
victim of the machinations of the courtier Wurm and<br />
Rodolfo’s father Count Walter. The scheming of this<br />
habitually malevolent pair leads to the death of the<br />
innocent lovers, but those who outlive them will pay<br />
the price in the form of political and social anathema.<br />
In this intimist work based on a play by Schiller, the<br />
German Shakespeare, Verdi aims for simplicity in his<br />
treatment of the relationships between the characters<br />
and dramatic plausibility obtained through<br />
musical restraint.<br />
MARTHA ARGERICH AND AKIKO EBI<br />
127 GENRE Relay of: Chamber music, Live recording STATUS in<br />
progress PRODUCTION COMPANY CLC Productions (France) CO-PRODUC-<br />
TION COMPANY TV8 Mont Blanc (France) ASS. PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
Mezzo (France), Piano à Lyon (France) PRODUCER Daniel<br />
Charrier TV DIRECTOR François Goetghebeur CAMERA Thierry<br />
Houlette DURATION 90' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Salle<br />
Molière, Lyon, France, 23.10.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
COMPOSER Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Maurice Ravel, Sergei<br />
Rachmaninov SOLOIST Martha Argerich, Akiko Ebi SOURCE<br />
VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo<br />
Piano à Lyon<br />
A true myth and a piano legend in her lifetime, Martha<br />
Argerich shares the bill with her friend Akiko Ebi (a<br />
pupil of Aldo Ciccolini and winner of the Chopin and<br />
Marguerite Long competitions) to bring us a two-piano<br />
recital. Some repertoire essentials – from Mozart to<br />
Rachmaninoff, plus Maurice Ravel’s »La Valse« – are<br />
on the menu of this exceptional concert.<br />
SEICENTO ICONS 128 GENRE Relay of: Vocal recital, Live recording STATUS in progress<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY CLC Productions (France) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
Centre culturel d'Ambronay (France), Arpeggiata (France), Tv8<br />
Mont Blanc (France) ASS. PRODUCTION COMPANY France 2 (France),<br />
Mezzo (France) PRODUCER Daniel Charrier TV DIRECTOR Olivier<br />
Simonnet CAMERA Alexis Kavyrchine DURATION 80' PRODUCTION YEAR<br />
2008 RECORDED Ambronay Festival, France, 17.10.2008 MUSICAL<br />
STYLE Classical music SOLOIST Philippe Jaroussky SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
DigiBeta/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV CLC Productions (France)<br />
Christina Pluhar and her L’Arpeggiata ensemble weave<br />
a subtle thread through periods and styles in a fresh<br />
look at traditional Mexican, Portuguese and Spanish<br />
baroque repertoires. Counter tenor Philippe Jaroussky<br />
(winner of Victoires de la Musique in 2004, 2007 and<br />
2008) joins them on their voyage into the »Seicento«,<br />
or 17th century, of Italian sacred music that saw the<br />
birth of Opera and the taste for full-throated sweet,<br />
tender, uplifting, castrati voices. Singing the soul of<br />
baroque can find no better ambassadors.<br />
YARON HERMAN TRIO<br />
129 GENRE Relay of: Ensemble/band appearance, Live recording<br />
STATUS in progress PRODUCTION COMPANY CLC Productions (France)<br />
CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY TL7 (France), Clermont <strong>Première</strong> (France)<br />
ASS. PRODUCTION COMPANY Rhino Jazz Festival (France) PRODUCER Daniel<br />
Charrier TV DIRECTOR Yves Faure CAMERA Stéphane Cholet DURATION<br />
60' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Rhino Jazz Festival, 09.10.<br />
2008 MUSICAL STYLE Jazz COMPOSER Yaron Herman SOLOIST Yaron<br />
Herman, Matt Brewer, Mark Mondésir SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
DigiBeta/Stereo<br />
Philippe Favier<br />
He was the instrumental discovery at the 2008<br />
Victoires du Jazz. When 27-year-old Yaron Herman<br />
plays, something invisible happens. This young<br />
Israeli pianist astonishes everyone and is talked about<br />
and admired for his maturity, talent and passion after<br />
a mere 11 years at the keyboard. As Miles Davis producer<br />
George Avakian put it, »Yaron is the real thing«.<br />
Brought together for the prodigy’s second album, the<br />
happy trio draws its inspiration from the spirit of the<br />
times, as evidenced by a very novel rendering of<br />
Britney Spears’s »Toxic«.<br />
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Croatian Television<br />
BAREZA IN CHEMNITZ<br />
130 GENRE Documentary: Portrait, on location STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Croatian Radiotelevision (Croatia) TV DIRECTOR<br />
Danko Volaric EDITOR Annamaria Doricich DURATION 45' PRODUCTION<br />
YEAR 2008 RECORDED Chemnitz<br />
For six years, Chemnitz, formerly known as Karl-Marx-<br />
Stadt, was home to Croatian conductor Nikša Bareza,<br />
chief conductor of the Croatian Radio-Television Symphony<br />
Orchestra, renowned from Venice to Hamburg,<br />
from Vienna to Moscow. In Chemnitz he was music<br />
director of the Robert Schumann Philharmonic. This<br />
programme is a portrait of the great conductor pictured<br />
through solitary score study in his apartment,<br />
rehearsals with the orchestra, talks with orchestral<br />
musicians and thoughts about music which bring into<br />
focus, unusual for an interpreter, the work instead of<br />
its rendition.<br />
131 CINKUŠI<br />
GENRE Documentary: Portrait, on location STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Croatian Television (Croatia) TV DIRECTOR Liljana<br />
Šišmanovic EDITOR Liljana Šišmanovic DURATION 30' PRODUCTION YEAR<br />
2008 MUSICAL STYLE Ethnic music<br />
Music is the principal medium through which Cinkuši<br />
express their ideas and outlooks on the world surrounding<br />
them. The main fundament they use is an<br />
abundance of rich Croatian folklore treasury and,<br />
above all, the musical tradition of the Kajkavian-spoken<br />
region into which they interpolate their authorial<br />
approach and literary paragons, even clichés that<br />
evoke collective emotionality. Thanks to the enormous<br />
vigour, sincerity and immediacy present in this company<br />
since it was formed during the mid-nineties,<br />
Cinkuši has managed to endure regardless of everchanging<br />
trends.<br />
132 CROATIAN MUSIC AT THE RIVA<br />
DEI SCHIAVONI<br />
GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording STATUS<br />
completed PRODUCTION COMPANY Croatian Television (Croatia)<br />
TV DIRECTOR Danko Volaric EDITOR Ivana Kocelj DURATION 60'<br />
DURATION2 60' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Šibenik, Split,<br />
30.09.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Early music COMPOSER Julije Skjavetic,<br />
Ivan Lukacic, Ivan Šibencanin, Tomaso Cecchini, Andrea<br />
Gabrielli CONDUCTOR Tonci Bilic ORCHESTRA Croatian Radiotelevision<br />
Choir (Croatia)<br />
46 avantpremière2009 For a few centuries, the eastern Adriatic coast was occupied<br />
by the Venetian Republic. Music and musicians<br />
took advantage of this inauspicious historical circumstance.<br />
Many Renaissance and early baroque composers<br />
were educated in Venice, worked in Venetian<br />
churches and had their music sheets printed in Venice.<br />
Their music hence became a part of numerous European<br />
anthologies and they themselves became known<br />
all over Europe. The cycle of concerts performed by the<br />
Croatian Radio-Television Choir and chief conductor<br />
Tonci Bilic presents the very best of Croatian music<br />
from the 16th and 17th centuries at the place of its<br />
origin: the cathedrals in Šibenik and Split.<br />
ESTONIAN PHILHARMONIC CHAMBER<br />
133CHOIR AND PAUL HILLIER IN ZADAR<br />
GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording STATUS<br />
completed PRODUCTION COMPANY Croatian Television (Croatia)<br />
TV DIRECTOR Mladen Šimunov EDITOR Ivana Kocelj DURATION 90'<br />
PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Zadar MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
CONDUCTOR Paul Hillier CHOIR Estonian Philharmonic Chamber<br />
Choir (Estonia)<br />
One of the best choirs in the world, Grammy-awarded<br />
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, and former<br />
chief conductor Paul Hillier proved their virtue of<br />
perfection at the Musical Evening festival in St. Donat<br />
in Zadar. In the beautiful and acoustic ambience of<br />
the Renaissance Franciscan cloister on a warm evening<br />
in July, EPCC sung repertoire written by their compatriots,<br />
including Arvo Pärt and Rachmaninoff’s<br />
»All Night Vigil«.<br />
HAYDN AND CROATIAN MUSIC<br />
134HERITAGE GENRE Documentary: Music, on location STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Croatian Television (Croatia) TV DIRECTOR Tihana<br />
Kopsa CAMERA Siniša Galar EDITOR Ljiljana Šišmanovic DURATION 55'<br />
PRODUCTION YEAR 2008<br />
The premise for the story about Haydn and Croats is<br />
the musical, spiritual and geographical link between<br />
the great composer and Gradisce Croats. Several musicology<br />
studies have been written on Haydn inspired by<br />
the folk music of the multi-ethnic surroundings he was<br />
living in, and the topic has been tackled by music theory<br />
scholars like Dr. Bencic, Franjo Kuhac, Sir William<br />
Henry Hadow and others. The music segment of the<br />
movie is based on selected examples of Haydn’s usage<br />
of Croatian tunes, supported by explanations supplied<br />
by music theoreticians.
INVA MULA IN SAMOBOR<br />
135 GENRE Relay of: Chamber music, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Croatian Television (Croatia) TV DIRECTOR Dražen<br />
Sirišcevic DURATION 90' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Franciscan<br />
Church in Samobor, 20.09.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Early music<br />
COMPOSER George Frideric Handel, Antonio Vivaldi CONDUCTOR Ivan<br />
Repušic ORCHESTRA Varaždin Chamber Ensemble (Croatia) SOLOIST<br />
Inva Mula SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta<br />
Famous Plavalaguna from Besson’s movie, great<br />
soprano Inva Mula seems to be in love with Croatia.<br />
She is often a guest in Zagreb, Dubrovnik, etc., but<br />
one of her performances is specially worth mentioning:<br />
her concert in a little town near the capital called<br />
Samobor. With the Varaždin Chamber Orchestra and<br />
young conductor Ivan Repušic, she sung something<br />
she usually performs rarely: baroque arias.<br />
JULIAN RACHLIN AND FRIENDS<br />
136IN DUBROVNIK<br />
GENRE Relay of: Chamber music, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Croatian Television (Croatia) TV DIRECTOR Zvonko<br />
Ilijic EDITOR Annamaria Doricich DURATION 105' PRODUCTION YEAR<br />
2008 RECORDED Rector's Palace in Dubrovnik, 03.09.2008 MUSICAL<br />
STYLE Classical music COMPOSER Sergei Rachmaninov, Franz<br />
Schubert, Krzysztof Penderecki<br />
For eight years in a row, violinist Julian Rachlin has<br />
been gathering his friends, first-rate musicians from<br />
all over the world, to participate in one of the most<br />
beautiful ambience festivals in the world. In the historic<br />
town of Dubrovnik superb concerts of fervent<br />
chamber performances are held in front of a full<br />
auditorium. This year’s composer in residence, with<br />
numerous pieces performed in the festival programme,<br />
was legendary Krzysztof Penderecki, who personally<br />
attended the festival.<br />
137 MARTINA FILJAK – A PORTRAIT<br />
GENRE Documentary: Portrait, on location STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Croatian Television (Croatia) DURATION 30'<br />
PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 SOLOIST Martine Filjak<br />
The most successful Croatian pianist of the young<br />
generation has received more than 20 awards at home<br />
and abroad and has been praised by critics all over the<br />
world. She is not just an extraordinary pianist, but also<br />
an interesting young woman. Part of her professional<br />
and private life she has shared with the television<br />
audience.<br />
THREE REFLECTIONS ABOUT DEATH<br />
138 GENRE Documentary: Music, on location STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Croatian Television (Croatia) TV DIRECTOR Zoran<br />
Sudar EDITOR Annamaria Doricich DURATION 55' PRODUCTION YEAR<br />
2008 RECORDED Zagreb MUSICAL STYLE Classical music COMPOSER<br />
Giacomo Puccini<br />
On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Giacomo<br />
Puccini's birth, Croatia’s National Theatre in Zagreb<br />
produced three one-act operas: »Il Tabarro«, »Gianni<br />
Schicchi« and »Suor Angelica«. The entire company<br />
took part in the performance conducted by Ivo<br />
Lipanovic and staged by distinguished French director<br />
Arnauda Bernarda. The documentary reconstructs the<br />
development of the opera performance from the very<br />
first rehearsals and follows efforts of all members<br />
involved to a superb result.<br />
TO PLAY, TO SING, TO DANCE<br />
139 GENRE Documentary: Other, on location STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Croatian Television (Croatia) TV DIRECTOR Vlatka<br />
Vorkapic CAMERA Branko Cahun EDITOR Aleksej Pavlovsky DURATION<br />
30' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 MUSICAL STYLE Ethnic music<br />
In the region of Labin in the eastern part of Istria,<br />
»sos« means to play, »kantat« means to sing and<br />
»toncat« means to dance. The local folk festival<br />
La-binske konti has been held for forty years. Thanks<br />
to this festival, the music and dance heritage lives<br />
life to the full. The documentary introduces people<br />
of all generations who preserve and develop their<br />
heritage proving it is still »in«.<br />
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DAVID DORUŽKA – JOSEFINE<br />
140LINDSTRAND QUARTET<br />
GENRE Documentary: Music, on location STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Czech Television (Czech Republic) PRODUCER<br />
Pavlina Hobzova EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Marie Kucerova TV DIRECTOR<br />
Pavel Jirásek CAMERA Petr Vejslík EDITOR Pavel Stríbrný DURATION 52'<br />
10" PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Czech Republic, Brno MUSICAL<br />
STYLE Contemporary music ORCHESTRA David Doružka – Josefine<br />
Lindstrand Quartet (CZ/SWE/PL) SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
DigiBeta/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV Telexport CT (Czech Republic)<br />
David Doružka is one of the best jazz guitar players<br />
and composers in the Czech Republic. His mature<br />
style has not only been recognised in Europe but also<br />
in the US, where he studied composition and improvisation<br />
at Berklee College of Music. After graduating<br />
from Berklee, he left for New York City, where he<br />
recorded his first CD, »Hidden Paths«, awarded with<br />
many prizes. Since moving back to Europe at the end<br />
of 2003, Doružka has been mostly performing with<br />
his own trio and working in the quartet with Swedish<br />
singer Josefine Lindstrand, who is also featured on<br />
Django Bates’s last CD »You Live and Learn<br />
(Apparently)«.<br />
IN SEARCH OF GUSTAV BROM<br />
141 GENRE Documentary: Portrait, on location STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Czech Television (Czech Republic) PRODUCER<br />
Pavel Plešák EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Marie Kucerová TV DIRECTOR Pavel<br />
Jirásek CAMERA Petr Vejslík EDITOR Pavel Stríbrný AUTHOR Pavel<br />
Jirásek, Vladimír Strakoš DURATION 57' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008<br />
RECORDED Czech Republic, Slovakia (Prague, Brno, Ostrava,<br />
Bratislava) MUSICAL STYLE Jazz CONDUCTOR Gustav Brom ORCHESTRA<br />
The Gustav Brom Orchestra (Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia)<br />
SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta DISTRIBUTION TV Telexport CT (Czech<br />
Republic)<br />
48 avantpremière2009 In search of the highly fascinating life of the most<br />
famous jazz leader in Czechoslovakian history, we have<br />
decided to »hit the road« with the TV crew, so no particular<br />
detail in the fantastic mosaic of Gustav Brom’s<br />
story would remain unspoken. His band was rated one<br />
of the world’s top ten big bands by American experts.<br />
The greatest stars of jazz, such as Maynard Fergusson,<br />
Dizzy Gillespie, Diana Ross or Bill Ramsey, joined the<br />
band on stage. Since June 1940 Gustav Brom’s big<br />
band’s name has appeared on more than 576 music<br />
records, of both local and foreign origin.<br />
JAROSLAV JEŽEK 142 GENRE Documentary: Portrait STATUS in progress PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
Czech Television (Czech Republic) PRODUCER Viktor Pruša<br />
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Jirí Merunka TV DIRECTOR Aleš Kisil CAMERA Marek<br />
Diviš EDITOR Ondrej Šrámek AUTHOR Aleš Kisil SETS Vítezslav<br />
Fejlek DURATION 57' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical<br />
music COMPOSER Jaroslav Ježek COSTUMES Katarína Hollá SOURCE<br />
VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV Telexport CT (Czech<br />
Republic)<br />
Jaroslav Ježek was one of the most talented Czech<br />
composers of the first half of the 20th century. He<br />
studied at Prague Conservatory, where he was influenced<br />
by jazz. After his studies he composed music<br />
for Prague’s avant-garde Liberation theatre as well as<br />
film music. Together with his friends and co-authors<br />
of the famous interwar avant-garde he fled from Hitler<br />
to the USA, where he died on 1 January 1942. The<br />
biographical document intends to also include his<br />
work from the classical music era. What makes this<br />
production so special is that it features authentic<br />
testimonies of the author, his friends and relatives.<br />
143 MAGDALENA<br />
GENRE Documentary: Portrait, on location STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Czech Television (Czech Republic) CO-PRODUCTION<br />
COMPANY C.E.M.A. – Central European Music Agency (Czech<br />
Republic) PRODUCER Pavel Plešák EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Marie Kucerová<br />
ASSOCIATED PRODUCER David Dittrich TV DIRECTOR Ondrej Havelka<br />
CAMERA Kristián Hynek DURATION 52' 53" PRODUCTION YEAR 2008<br />
RECORDED Czech Republic, France, Netherlands, Germany MUSICAL<br />
STYLE Early music SOLOIST Magdalena Kožená SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
DigiBeta/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV C.E.M.A. – Central European<br />
Music Agency (Czech Repulbic)
A musical portrait of Magdalena Kožená, in which this<br />
charismatic singer tells the story of her life from the<br />
dreams of a little girl to the real life of a singing star.<br />
A self-ironic curriculum vitae in the style of a baroque<br />
recitative, alternating with authentic interviews that<br />
take place behind the scenes at major venues and at<br />
home. Her enchanting singing resounds in a number<br />
of specially filmed arias/mini-stories set to the music<br />
of Bizet, Haendel, Bach and Britten.<br />
VISEGRAD BAROQUE ORCHESTRA<br />
144 GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording STATUS<br />
completed PRODUCTION COMPANY Czech Television (Czech Republic)<br />
CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY C.E.M.A. – Central European Music Agency<br />
(Czech Republic) PRODUCER Pavel Plešák EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Marie<br />
Kucerová ASSOCIATED PRODUCER David Dittrich TV DIRECTOR Tomáš<br />
Šimerda CAMERA Jirí Kovár EDITOR Jaroslav Rasocha DURATION<br />
65' 13" PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Chateau Hall Mikulov,<br />
Czech Republic, 11.06.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE<br />
Morning Symphony COMPOSER Joseph Haydn CONDUCTOR Jos van<br />
Immerseel ORCHESTRA Visegrad Baroque Orchestra (Czech<br />
Republic) MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE Clarinet Concerto<br />
B-major COMPOSER Jan Václav Stamic CONDUCTOR Jos van<br />
Immerseel ORCHESTRA Visegrad Baroque Orchestra (Czech<br />
Republic) SOLOIST Christian Leitherer MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
PIECE Concerto for Hammerklavier B-major COMPOSER Josef<br />
Antonín Štepán CONDUCTOR Jos van Immerseel ORCHESTRA Visegrad<br />
Baroque Orchestra (Czech Republic) SOLOIST Barbara Maria<br />
Willi SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV C.E.M.A. –<br />
Central European Music Agency (Czech Republic)<br />
Joseph Haydn, an Austrian composer in the service of<br />
Hungarian nobility; Stamic, a Czech composer who<br />
founded a new musical style in Mannheim, Germany;<br />
and Czech pianist Štepán from Kopidlno at the imperial<br />
court in Vienna. Maybe we have to acknowledge<br />
the fact that international cooperation in music and<br />
culture before the internet era and the European Union<br />
worked at least as well as in times of supersonic airplanes.<br />
The Visegrad programme of the Concentus<br />
Moraviae 2008 International Music Festival was<br />
rehearsed by the characteristically Central European<br />
Visegrad Baroque Orchestra and conductor Jos<br />
van Immerseel, together with clarinettist Christian<br />
Leitherer and Barbara Maria Willi at the harpsichord,<br />
in the Great Hall of Mikulov Chateau.<br />
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Corporation<br />
ADAM FISCHER – THE CONDUCTOR,<br />
145THE ORCHESTRA AND MOZART<br />
GENRE Documentary: Portrait, Studio production STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Danish Boradcasting (DR) (Denmark) PRODUCER<br />
Karl Bjerre Skibsted TV DIRECTOR Karl Bjerre Skibsted DURATION 45'<br />
PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Copenhagen MUSICAL STYLE Classical<br />
music COMPOSER Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart CONDUCTOR Adam<br />
Fischer SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta DISTRIBUTION TV DR International<br />
Sales (Denmark)<br />
This is a portrait of Adam Fischer – and it’s also a film<br />
about the music of Mozart, because Mozart is his<br />
favourite composer. We follow him during a week in<br />
Copenhagen, where he is recording Mozart’s 25th symphony<br />
with the Danish National Chamber Orchestra,<br />
which he has been conducting since 1998 and with<br />
which he is recording the complete Mozart symphonies.<br />
Adam describes the world of Mozart; what<br />
kind of emotions and stories he wants to express with<br />
this music and how he works with the orchestra to<br />
make these emotions come alive. In the film we see<br />
Adam and the orchestra playing the four movements<br />
of the 25th symphony, with special light and camera<br />
effects for every movement.<br />
THE BAND AND THE THREE<br />
146NORDIC VOICES<br />
GENRE Relay of: Ensemble/band appearance, Studio production<br />
STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY Danish Boradcasting (DR)<br />
(Denmark) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY SunScreen Production<br />
(Denmark) PRODUCER Kristian Foldager TV DIRECTOR Kristian<br />
Foldager DURATION 58' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Copenhagen,<br />
Norway, and Sweden MUSICAL STYLE Jazz CONDUCTOR Nikolaj<br />
Bentzon ORCHESTRA DR Big Band (Denmark) SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
DigiBeta DISTRIBUTION TV DR International Sales (Denmark)<br />
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The band is the Danish Radio Big Band, or DR Big<br />
Band, a band with both deeply experienced musicians<br />
and youthful enthusiasm. The Nordic Voices are some<br />
of the best in their field. Norway's Silje Neergaard,<br />
Rigmor Gustavsson from Sweden and Cæcilie Norby<br />
from Denmark first meet in a studio. They are joined<br />
by the band – and voilà: sweet, swinging music.<br />
THE COPENHAGEN RING<br />
147 GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Cubus Film (Denmark) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
Royal Danish Opera (Denmark) PRODUCER Uffe Borgwardt<br />
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Peter Borgwardt TV DIRECTOR Uffe Borgwardt<br />
DURATION 880' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Copenhagen Royal<br />
Opera MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE Das Rheingold, Die<br />
Walküre, Siegfried, Götterdämmerung COMPOSER Richard Wagner<br />
CONDUCTOR Michael Schønwandt ORCHESTRA Royal Danish Orchestra<br />
(DK) CHOIR Chorus of the Royal Danish Opera (DK) STAGE<br />
DIRECTOR Kasper Bech Holten SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo<br />
DISTRIBUTION TV Cubus Film, www.cubusfilm.dk (Denmark) DVD<br />
DISTRIBUTION Decca (UK)<br />
This is a recording of the much acclaimed and spectacular<br />
»Copenhagen Ring« by director Kasper Bech<br />
Holten. By setting each of the four operas in a pivotal<br />
decade of the twentieth century, the story of Brünhilde<br />
becomes also a history of the modern age and the<br />
ideologies and conflicts that tore it apart. A cast of<br />
outstanding singers and the breathtaking technical<br />
facilities of the new Copenhagen Opera House make<br />
it a staggering operatic event and a landmark staging<br />
of »The Ring«.<br />
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LEGENDS: ROY ORBISON<br />
148 GENRE Documentary: Music, on location STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Iambic Productions (United Kingdom)<br />
DURATION 58' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008<br />
Roy Orbison was the best singer in the world. That’s<br />
what Elvis Presley said and he should know. To mark<br />
the twentieth anniversary of Orbison’s death, this film<br />
will celebrate the extraordinary talent of »The Big O«.<br />
Produced for BBC Four’s »Legend« strand this film<br />
will chart Orbison’s career from the sell-out tour with<br />
The Beatles that sky-rocketed him to international<br />
superstardom, right up to the collaboration with lifelong<br />
friend George Harrison on the Traveling Wilburys<br />
project.<br />
LINES IN THE LANDSCAPE<br />
149 GENRE Documentary: Other, on location STATUS in progress<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Prospect Pictures (United Kingdom)<br />
DURATION 180' PRODUCTION YEAR 2009<br />
This series of films depicts six very different poems<br />
from six different places in the British Isles. Each film<br />
tells the story of a poem – where it comes from, how<br />
it works and the nature and reach of its influence and<br />
legacy. Presenter Owen Sheers passionately believes<br />
that poems, and particularly poems of place, not only<br />
affect us as individuals, but can have the power to<br />
mark and define a collective experience – our identities,<br />
our country, our land.<br />
NIGEL KENNEDY: BLUE NOTE<br />
150SESSIONS GENRE Relay of: Instrumental recital, Live recording STATUS<br />
completed PRODUCTION COMPANY EMI Classics (United Kingdom)<br />
DURATION 103' PRODUCTION YEAR 2007<br />
Nigel Kennedy follows up his successful »Blue Note<br />
Sessions« album release with this new jazz concert.<br />
In 2007 Nigel brought his own Polish Jazz Quintet,<br />
NKQ, to Paris for a show at the New Morning Club,<br />
Paris. The concert captures Kennedy’s unique take on<br />
some of the most legendary jazz numbers of all times,<br />
including Lonnie Liston Smith’s »Expansions«, »The<br />
Sidewinder« by Lee Morgan and Kenny Burrell’s<br />
»Midnight Blue« alongside his own original tunes.<br />
All the jazz numbers are given the incomparable Nigel<br />
Kennedy electric violin treatment with some stunning<br />
solos from members of his band.
NIGEL KENNEDY: POLISH SPIRIT<br />
151 GENRE Relay of: Instrumental recital, Live recording STATUS<br />
completed PRODUCTION COMPANY EMI Classics (United Kingdom)<br />
DURATION 90' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008<br />
For over 25 years, Nigel Kennedy has been acknowledged<br />
as one of the world’s leading violin virtuosos<br />
and is one of the most important violinists Britain has<br />
ever produced. His virtuosic technique, unique talent<br />
and mass appeal have brought fresh perspectives to<br />
both the classical and contemporary repertoire. He is<br />
the best selling classical violinist worldwide. He has<br />
dedicated his latest recording to forgotten romantic<br />
concertos by the Polish composers Emil Mlynarski and<br />
Mieczyslaw Karlowicz. »Polish Spirit« captures<br />
Kennedy’s incandescent performances with the Polish<br />
Chamber Orchestra and conductor Jacek Kaspszyk.<br />
Karlowicz’s violin concerto is a rarity even in Poland,<br />
and Mlynarski’s second violin concerto is virtually unknown.<br />
QUEST FOR THE LOST ARK<br />
152 GENRE Documentary: Historical, on location STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY September Films (United Kingdom) DURATION<br />
90' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008<br />
The real Indiana Jones. In this fascinating and<br />
prestigious documentary we meet Professor Tudor<br />
Parfitt, hailed as »the real Indiana Jones« and follow<br />
his quest across two continents to find the lost Ark of<br />
the Covenant, the magical artefact shrouded by mystery,<br />
intrigue and conspiracy, which disappeared from<br />
the temple in Jerusalem containing the tablets of the<br />
law sacred to Judaism, Christianity and Islam. So,<br />
could one man have located this coveted treasure?<br />
153 SARAH BRIGHTMAN:<br />
SYMPHONY IN VIENNA<br />
GENRE Relay of: Vocal recital, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Two Hands Entertainment (USA) DURATION 58'<br />
PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
Filmed at the magnificent St. Stephen's Cathedral in<br />
Vienna, this spectacular show features the singer’s<br />
best-loved hits and selections from her latest CD<br />
release »Symphony«. From the classic beauty of her<br />
worldwide smash »Time to Say Goodbye« to the<br />
Gothic tempestuousness of »Fleurs du Mal«.<br />
STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN<br />
154 GENRE Documentary: Other, on location STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY West Park Pictures (United Kingdom)<br />
DURATION 53' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008<br />
»Stairway to Heaven« is the story of an ancient and<br />
sublime work of sacred art, whose loss not only shook<br />
the art world, but triggered the shocking realisation<br />
that traditional Islamic knowledge and skills have all<br />
but vanished. Shot in London, Amman, Aleppo,<br />
Granada and Cairo, »Stairway to Heaven« chronicles<br />
the race to recreate the Saladin minibar and its final<br />
restoration in the Al-Asqa mosque in Jerusalem.<br />
THE EMPEROR'S SECRET GARDEN<br />
155 GENRE Documentary: Historical, on location STATUS in progress<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY West Park Pictures (United Kingdom)<br />
DURATION 56' PRODUCTION YEAR 2009<br />
Beijing’s Forbidden City is known throughout the<br />
world as an icon of Chinese history, evolving over the<br />
centuries as a symbol of the glory and grandeur of its<br />
ruling elite. Yet in one corner stands a more intimate<br />
group of buildings and gardens – one that has lain<br />
unused and virtually untouched for more than 200<br />
years. This film charts the authentic restoration of<br />
the buildings and gardens.<br />
THE HUMAN CAMERA<br />
156 GENRE Documentary: Portrait, on location STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY September Films (United Kingdom)<br />
DURATION 59' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008<br />
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Stephen Wiltshire is one of Britain’s most prolific and<br />
talented young artists. He is also autistic. This film<br />
follows Stephen as he faces his greatest challenge yet<br />
– to draw, from memory, the largest ever panoramic<br />
view of London to be put on public display.<br />
VIVA LA DIVA 157 GENRE Relay of: Musical, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Warner Music Entertainment (United<br />
Kingdom) DURATION 59' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008<br />
Stepping out of their respective comfort zones in<br />
a »fusion of song and dance«, Darcey Bussell and<br />
Katherine Jenkins unveil their hybrid stage show,<br />
»Viva La Diva«. A sleek, two-tiered fantasy set<br />
conjures the golden age of luxury shape, style, art<br />
deco and is extravagently costumed.<br />
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Electric Sky<br />
HANSEL AND GRETEL<br />
158 GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Glyndebourne Opera House (UK) ASS.<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Brighton TV (UK) PRODUCER Nicholas Hudson<br />
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER David Pounds TV DIRECTOR Laurent Pelly SETS<br />
Barbara de Limburg Stirum LIGHT DESIGN Joël Adam DURATION 115'<br />
PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Glyndebourne Opera House, UK,<br />
01.08.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE Hansel and Gretel<br />
COMPOSER Engelbert Humperdinck CONDUCTOR Kazushi Ono, Peter<br />
Tomek ORCHESTRA London Philharmonic Orchestra (UK) CHOIR<br />
The Glyndebourne Chorus (UK), The Trinity Boys Choir (UK)<br />
SOLOIST Jennifer Holloway, Adriana Kucerova, Irmgard Vilsmaier<br />
COSTUMES Laurent Pelly LIBRETTO Adelheid Wette SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
HD/Dolby surround 5.1 DISTRIBUTION TV Electric Sky (UK)<br />
HOMEVIDEO DISTRIBUTION Electric Sky (UK) DVD DISTRIBUTION Electric<br />
Sky (UK)<br />
52<br />
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Recorded in August 2008 at the world-famous<br />
Glyndebourne Opera House this extraordinary<br />
performance of Humperdinck’s first opera, »Hänsel<br />
und Gretel« is a joy to behold for opera fans of all<br />
ages and is a Christmas favourite around the world.<br />
Based on the Brothers Grimm 19th-century fairytale<br />
and described by Richard Strauss as »a masterpiece of<br />
the highest quality«, the opera combines romanticism,<br />
lyricism and exuberant playfulness in a vibrantly rich<br />
orchestration that is clearly influenced by the music<br />
of Brahms and Wagner.<br />
STRICTLY BOLSHOI<br />
159 GENRE Documentary: Dance STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
Ballet Boyz Productions Ltd. (UK) PRODUCER Michael Nunn,<br />
William Trevitt EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Dennis Marks TV DIRECTOR Oliver<br />
Manzi CAMERA Yuri Labygin, Dimitry Aleinikov, Mikhail<br />
Prisiazhniuk, Vladimir Dereviankin EDITOR Zak Simoncelli, Carlo<br />
Pisani, William Trevitt SETS Adrianne Lobel LIGHT DESIGN Mary<br />
Louise Geiger DURATION 50' DURATION2 25' PRODUCTION YEAR 2007<br />
RECORDED Moscow, St. Petersburg and London MUSICAL STYLE<br />
Classical music PIECE Symphony No.3 COMPOSER Arvo Pärt<br />
CONDUCTOR Igor Dronov ORCHESTRA Orchestra of the Bolshoi<br />
Theatre of Russia (Russia) DANCE STYLE Classical ballet<br />
CHOREOGRAPHY BY Christopher Wheeldon DANCE COMPANY Bolshoi Ballet<br />
(Russia) COSTUMES Paul Gregory Tazewell SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
DigiBeta/Dolby surround 5.1 DISTRIBUTION TV Electric Sky (UK)<br />
This intimate and thrilling one-off film follows the<br />
world’s most sought-after ballet choreographer,<br />
Christopher Wheeldon, as he becomes the first<br />
Englishman to be invited to create a new work for<br />
Moscow’s prestigious Bolshoi Ballet. »Strictly<br />
Bolshoi« is truly entertaining. Conceived and shot by<br />
the infamous Ballet Boyz (former Royal Ballet stars,<br />
Michael Nunn & William Trevitt), they take the viewer<br />
on a compelling journey through the trials and tribulations<br />
of the creative process. We follow talented<br />
choreographer Christopher Wheeldon as he battles<br />
with the temperament of the Bolshoi ballet dancers,<br />
having to deal with their egos and amusing tantrums<br />
along the way.
EuroArts Music<br />
International GmbH<br />
AMERICANS IN PYONGYANG<br />
160 GENRE Documentary: Music, on location STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY EuroArts Music International (Germany)<br />
PRODUCER Paul Smaczny EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Paul Smaczny, Thomas<br />
Baer TV DIRECTOR Ayelet Heller CAMERA Michael Boomers EDITOR<br />
Steffen Herrmann DURATION 53' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED<br />
North Korea MUSICAL STYLE Classical music CONDUCTOR Lorin<br />
Maazel ORCHESTRA New York Philharmonic (USA) SOURCE<br />
VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV EuroArts Music International<br />
(Germany) DVD DISTRIBUTION EuroArts Music International<br />
(Germany) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Concert: 107', Documentary: 52'<br />
Chris Lee<br />
In the summer of 2007 the New York Philharmonic<br />
received an invitation that was unprecedented in the<br />
orchestra’s history. North Korea, the world’s most isolated<br />
and secluded country and technically at war with<br />
the United States, invited the orchestra to play in the<br />
capital of Pyongyang. Just a few months later, two hundred<br />
orchestra members and more than one hundred<br />
journalists disembarked from a chartered plane at<br />
Pyongyang's deserted airport. They were about to<br />
experience a historic moment, the first-ever performance<br />
by an American orchestra in the Democratic<br />
People’s Republic of Korea. The film »Americans in<br />
Pyongyang« accompanies the orchestra members on<br />
their historic trip to Pyongyang in February 2008.<br />
161 BACH MOTETS<br />
GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording STATUS<br />
completed PRODUCTION COMPANY EuroArts Music International<br />
(Germany) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY RBB/ARTE (Germany) PRODUCER<br />
Paul Smaczny TV DIRECTOR Elisabeth Malzer CAMERA Stephan<br />
Langstädtler EDITOR Peter Klum DURATION 90' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008<br />
RECORDED Gethsemanekriche, Berlin MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
PIECE „Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf«, Motet BWV 226<br />
COMPOSER Johann Sebastian Bach CONDUCTOR Hans-Christoph<br />
Rademann ORCHESTRA Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin (Germany)<br />
CHOIR RIAS Kammerchor (Germany) SOLOIST Stephanie<br />
Petitlaurent, Waltraud Heinrich, Susanne Langner, Volker Arndt,<br />
Christian Mücke, Ingolf Horenburg MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
PIECE Sinfonia from Cantata BWV 146 MUSICAL STYLE Classical<br />
music PIECE „Ich lasse dich nicht, du segnest mich denn«,<br />
BWV Anh. 159 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE Concerto from<br />
Cantata BWV 35 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE „Jesu, meine<br />
Freude«, BWV 227 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE Sinfonia<br />
from Cantata BWV 188 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE<br />
„Fürchte dich nicht, ich bin bei dir«, BWV 228 MUSICAL STYLE<br />
Classical music PIECE Sinfonia from Cantata BWV 169 MUSICAL<br />
STYLE Classical music PIECE „Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied«,<br />
BWV 225 SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV EuroArts<br />
Music International (Germany)<br />
EuroArts<br />
This festive concert from the Gethsemane Church in<br />
Berlin marks the 60th anniversary of the RIAS Chamber<br />
Choir. Under the baton of the new chief conductor<br />
Hans-Christoph Rademann, the RIAS Chamber Choir<br />
and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin are performing<br />
famous motets by Johann Sebastian Bach, interspersed<br />
with some fine instrumental works of the<br />
composer. Founded in 1948, the choir today enjoys a<br />
worldwide reputation as one of the best ensembles<br />
of its kind.<br />
DISCOVERING MASTERPIECES<br />
162OF CLASSICAL MUSIC<br />
GENRE Documentary: Music STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
EuroArts Music International (Germany) PRODUCER Günter Atteln<br />
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Paul Smaczny TV DIRECTOR Günter Atteln,<br />
Angelika Stiehler, Anna Schmidt DURATION 27' PRODUCTION YEAR<br />
2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music COMPOSER Johann Sebastian<br />
Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven,<br />
Joseph Haydn, Franz Schubert, Hector Berlioz, Antonín<br />
Dvorák, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Gustav Mahler, Claude<br />
Debussy, Igor Stravinsky, Béla Bartók, Richard Strauss, Maurice<br />
Ravel, Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Johannes Brahms, Anton<br />
Bruckner, Robert Schumann SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo<br />
DISTRIBUTION TV EuroArts Music International (Germany) HOMEVIDEO<br />
DISTRIBUTION EuroArts Music International (Germany) DVD<br />
DISTRIBUTION EuroArts Music International (Germany) ADDITIONAL<br />
INFORMATION 20 episodes à 27 minutes<br />
The series »Discovering Masterpieces of Classical<br />
Music« is an informative and entertaining audio-visual<br />
concert guide which analyses some of the most important<br />
symphonic works in music history. 20 famous<br />
masterpieces from the standard repertoire of the greatest<br />
international orchestras are brought closer to the<br />
viewer through first-class concert broadcasts in a<br />
timely visual style. Each of the 20 episodes offers an<br />
introduction to the origins of each work and its musical<br />
structure. The viewer is guided through the pieces<br />
by prominent interpreters, conductors and musicologists<br />
providing expert insights into each work.<br />
Featured among others are Daniel Barenboim, Claudio<br />
Abbado, Pierre Boulez, Mariss Jansons, Martha<br />
Argerich, Berlin Philharmonic, Lucerne Festival<br />
Orchestra and Vienna Philharmonic.<br />
EL SISTEMA 163 GENRE Documentary: Music, on location STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY EuroArts Music International (Germany)<br />
CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY ARTE France (France), NHK (Japan), SF<br />
(Switzerland) ASS. PRODUCTION COMPANY FESNOJIV (Venzuela), SVT<br />
(Sweden), Knowledge Network (Canada), YLE (Finland), ETV<br />
(Estonia), MDM (Germany) PRODUCER Paul Smaczny TV DIRECTOR<br />
Paul Smaczny, Maria Stodtmeier CAMERA Michael Boomers,<br />
Christian Scholz EDITOR Steffen Herrmann DURATION 90'<br />
Duration260' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Venezuela MUSICAL<br />
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STYLE Classical music SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV<br />
EuroArts Music International (Germany) DVD DISTRIBUTION<br />
EuroArts Music International (Germany) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION<br />
DVD release in 2009<br />
Luis Cobelo<br />
»El Sistema« is a network of children’s and youth<br />
orchestras, music centres and workshops in<br />
Venezuela, in which more than 265,000 children and<br />
young people are currently learning to play an instrument.<br />
It was set up over thirty years ago by José<br />
Antonio Abreu, who was driven by the utopian vision<br />
of a better future. In the dangerous and povertystricken<br />
shanty towns of Caracas, Abreu lifts children<br />
out of poverty through music, changing both people<br />
and structures. The story, which has all the makings of<br />
a fairytale, is the extraordinary account of a vision that<br />
has become reality. www.el-sistema-film.com<br />
EUROPA KONZERT 2008<br />
164FROM MOSCOW<br />
GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording STATUS<br />
completed PRODUCTION COMPANY EuroArts Music International<br />
(Germany) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY RBB (Germany), NHK (Japan),<br />
TV-Kultura (Russia), CCTV (China) ASS. PRODUCTION COMPANY Czech<br />
TV (Czech Republic), Mezzo (France), RTVE (Spain), YLE<br />
(Finland) PRODUCER Paul Smaczny TV DIRECTOR Michael Beyer<br />
CAMERA Nyika Jancsò EDITOR Peter Klum DURATION 79' PRODUCTION YEAR<br />
2008 RECORDED Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Moscow, 01.05.2008<br />
MUSICAL STYLE Contemporary music PIECE Symphony in Three<br />
Movements COMPOSER Igor Stravinsky CONDUCTOR Sir Simon Rattle<br />
ORCHESTRA Berliner Philharmoniker (Germany) MUSICAL STYLE<br />
Classical music PIECE Concerto for Violin No.1, op. 26 COMPOSER<br />
Max Bruch CONDUCTOR Sir Simon Rattle ORCHESTRA Berliner<br />
Philharmoniker (Germany) SOLOIST Vadim Repin MUSICAL STYLE<br />
Classical music PIECE Symphony No. 7 COMPOSER Ludwig van<br />
Beethoven CONDUCTOR Sir Simon Rattle ORCHESTRA Berliner<br />
Philharmoniker (Germany) SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Stereo<br />
DISTRIBUTION TV EuroArts Music International (Germany)<br />
EuroArts<br />
54 avantpremière2009 This year’s »Europa Konzert« took place in Moscow’s<br />
famous Tchaikovsky Conservatory. The Berlin Philharmonic<br />
under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle presented<br />
an outstanding concert with works by Stravinsky,<br />
Bruch and Beethoven. The highlight of this evening<br />
was one of the most fascinating artists of our day,<br />
Russian violinist Vadim Repin.<br />
GOLDBERG VARIATIONS,<br />
165EVGENI KOROLIOV<br />
GENRE Relay of: Instrumental recital, Live recording STATUS<br />
completed PRODUCTION COMPANY EuroArts Music International<br />
(Germany) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY NHK (Japan) PRODUCER Frank<br />
Gerdes EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Paul Smaczny TV DIRECTOR Michael Beyer<br />
CAMERA Andrej Nikolay EDITOR Uli Peschke DURATION 87' 50"<br />
PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Gewandhaus, Leipzig MUSICAL STYLE<br />
Classical music PIECE Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 COMPOSER<br />
Johann Sebastian Bach SOLOIST Evgeni Koroliov SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
HD/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV EuroArts Music International<br />
(Germany) DVD DISTRIBUTION EuroArts Music International<br />
(Germany)<br />
Gert Mothes<br />
Evgeni Koroliov, born in Moscow in 1949, is a<br />
consummate artist, and he convinces his listeners<br />
through an enormous spiritual understanding of<br />
Bach’s Goldberg Variations. In cooperation with the<br />
Bachfest Leipzig, EuroArts has produced a recording<br />
of an exciting recital with this extra-ordinary phenomenon<br />
on the international piano scene – the best way<br />
to experience a famous yet demanding and certainly<br />
immensely important work by Bach.<br />
JERUSALEM INTERNATIONAL<br />
166CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL<br />
GENRE Relay of: Chamber music, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY EuroArts Music International (Germany)<br />
CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY ARTE France (France) PRODUCER Paul Smaczny<br />
TV DIRECTOR Andy Sommer CAMERA Nyika Jancsò EDITOR Toby<br />
Trotter DURATION 57' 26" DURATION 2 114' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008<br />
RECORDED YMCA, Jerusalem MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE<br />
Fantasiestücke op. 73; Piano Quintet in E flat Major, op. 44<br />
COMPOSER Robert Schumann PIECE Quartet for Clarinet, Violin,<br />
Cello & Piano; Kleine Kammermusik, op. 24 No. 2 COMPOSER<br />
Paul Hindemith PIECE Esprit Rude / Esprit Doux for Flute &<br />
Clarinet; 3 Pieces from Eight Pieces for F COMPOSER Elliott Carter<br />
PIECE Divertimento in B flat Major COMPOSER Michael Haydn<br />
PIECE Piano Trio in G Major, KV 564; Andante & Variations<br />
in G Major, KV 501 COMPOSER Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart PIECE<br />
Variations on a Theme by Haydn, op. 56b; String Sextet No. 1<br />
in B flat Major, op COMPOSER Johannes Brahms PIECE Four Pieces<br />
for Piano, Viola & Clarinet, op. 70 COMPOSER Max Bruch PIECE<br />
Serenade for Flute and String trio COMPOSER Ben Haim SOLOIST
Elena Bashkirova, Kirill Gerstein, Guy Braunstein, Michael<br />
Barenboim, Frans Helmerson, Madeleine Carruzzo SOURCE<br />
VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV EuroArts Music International<br />
(Germany) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION DVD Release in 2009<br />
EuroArts<br />
The 11th Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival,<br />
under its musical director Elena Bashkirova, gives<br />
audiences the rare opportunity to listen to a remarkable<br />
gathering of distinguished international and<br />
Israeli musicians.<br />
LUCERNE FESTIVAL 2008 –<br />
167RUSSIAN NIGHT<br />
GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording STATUS<br />
completed PRODUCTION COMPANY EuroArts Music International<br />
(Germany) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY ARTE France (France), SRG<br />
SSR Bern (Switzerland), SF (Switzerland), Lucerne Festival<br />
(Switzerland) PRODUCER Paul Smaczny TV DIRECTOR Michael Beyer<br />
CAMERA Andrej Nikolay EDITOR Steffen Herrmann DURATION 100'<br />
PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED KKL, Lucerne MUSICAL STYLE Classical<br />
music PIECE The Tempest, op. 18 COMPOSER Piotr Ilyich<br />
Tchaikovsky MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE Piano Concerto<br />
No. 2 in C minor, op. 18 COMPOSER Sergej Rachmaninov SOLOIST<br />
Hélène Grimaud MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE The Firebird<br />
COMPOSER Igor Stravinsky CONDUCTOR Claudio Abbado ORCHESTRA<br />
Lucerne Festival Orchestra (Switzerland) SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
HD/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV EuroArts Music International<br />
(Germany)<br />
Priska Ketterer<br />
The Lucerne Festival Orchestra and Claudio Abbado<br />
performed a Russian night at Lucerne. Tchaikovsky’s<br />
symphonic poem »The Tempest« is based on Shakespeare’s<br />
famous play and shares many similarities in<br />
its musical structure with Tchaikovsky’s better known<br />
»Romeo and Juliet« overture. The famous French-<br />
American pianist Hélène Grimaud performed Rachmaninov’s<br />
widely known Piano Concerto No. 2, which<br />
premiered in 1901 and which has not lost any of its<br />
fascination to musicians and audiences alike. When<br />
28-year-old Stravinsky was assigned to compose a<br />
ballet, he had no way of knowing that »The Firebird«<br />
would be his »breakthrough piece«. Prepared by<br />
EuroArts, this film shows one of the major nights of<br />
this year’s Lucerne Festival with Abbado’s handpicked<br />
orchestra and one of the most exciting pianists of<br />
our time.<br />
NEW YEAR’S CONCERT FROM<br />
168SÃO PAULO<br />
GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording STATUS<br />
completed PRODUCTION COMPANY EuroArts Music International<br />
(Germany) PRODUCER Paul Smaczny TV DIRECTOR Andreas Morell<br />
DURATION 105' PRODUCTION YEAR 2009 RECORDED Sala São Paulo, Brazil,<br />
31.12.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE Works by Heitor<br />
Villa-Lobos, Astor Piazzolla, Alberto Ginastera, a. o. CONDUCTOR<br />
John Neschling ORCHESTRA Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de<br />
São Paulo (Brazil), Banda Mantiqueira (Brazil) CHOIR Coro da<br />
Oseso (Brazil) SOLOIST Mônica Salmaso SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
HD/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV EuroArts Music International<br />
(Germany) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION DVD release in 2009<br />
The year 2009 will be welcomed by an exceptional<br />
concert from Brazil: at Sala São Paulo the Orquestra<br />
Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo will celebrate the<br />
New Year under the baton of charismatic Maestro John<br />
Neschling. This live broadcast from Sala São Paulo<br />
invites European TV viewers to join the musical party.<br />
The concert presents an electrifying selection of Brazilian<br />
and Latin American classics, including works by<br />
Heitor Villa-Lobos, João Bosco and Astor Piazzolla.<br />
The Banda Mantiqueira and singer Mônica Salmaso<br />
complement the show.<br />
169 RIGOLETTO<br />
GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY EuroArts Music International (Germany)<br />
CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY MDR/ARTE (Germany) PRODUCER Paul<br />
Smaczny TV DIRECTOR Andreas Morell CAMERA Günter Euringer<br />
EDITOR Cetin Tutak DURATION 120' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED<br />
Semperoper, Dresden MUSICAL STYLE Classical music COMPOSER<br />
Giuseppe Verdi CONDUCTOR Fabio Luisi ORCHESTRA Sächsische<br />
Staatskapelle Dresden (Germany) CHOIR Male Singers of the<br />
Dresden State Opera Choir (Germany) SOLOIST Juan Diego<br />
Flórez, Željko Lucic, Diana Damrau, Markus Marquardt<br />
STAGE DIRECTOR Nikolaus Lehnhoff SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Stereo<br />
DISTRIBUTION TV EuroArts Music International (Germany)<br />
One of the world’s leading stage directors, Nikolaus<br />
Lehnhoff has presented an outstanding new production<br />
of Giuseppe Verdi’s popular opera »Rigoletto«.<br />
With international stars like Juan Diego Flórez and<br />
Diana Damrau and directed by the new chief conductor<br />
Fabio Luisi, this opera production demonstrates a<br />
convincing and highly qualified musical standard.<br />
A wonderfully timeless event, which took place in the<br />
marvellous atmosphere of Dresden’s Semperoper.<br />
ROSSINI: MESSE SOLENNELLE<br />
170 GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording STATUS<br />
completed PRODUCTION COMPANY EuroArts Music International<br />
(Germany) PRODUCER Paul Smaczny TV DIRECTOR Michael Beyer<br />
CAMERA Nyika Jancsò DURATION 85' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED<br />
Gewandhaus, Leipzig, 07.11.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
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PIECE Messe solennelle COMPOSER Gioacchino Rossini CONDUCTOR<br />
Riccardo Chailly ORCHESTRA Gewandhausorchester Leipzig<br />
(Germany) CHOIR GewandhausChor (Germany) SOLOIST<br />
Alexandrina Pendatchanska, Carmen Oprisanu, Stefano Secco,<br />
Mirco Palazzi SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV<br />
EuroArts Music International (Germany)<br />
Gioachino Rossini’s »Petite Messe Solennelle« was<br />
written in 1863, »the last«, the composer called it, of<br />
his »pêchés de vieillesse« (sins of old age). For its first<br />
performance (1864) Rossini arranged the work with<br />
only two pianos and harmonium. Partly for fear that<br />
it would be done anyway after his death, Rossini discreetly<br />
orchestrated the »Petite Messe Solennelle«<br />
during 1866 – 67, without losing its candor and subtlety.<br />
The resulting version had its first public performance<br />
on 28 February 1869, three months after the<br />
composer's death.<br />
THE LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY –<br />
171GLIMPSES OF PIERRE BOULEZ’<br />
WORKSHOP FOR THE FUTURE OF MUSIC<br />
GENRE Documentary: Music, on location STATUS in progress<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY EuroArts Music International (Germany)<br />
PRODUCER Paul Smaczny, Günter Atteln TV DIRECTOR Günter Atteln,<br />
Angelika Stiehler DURATION 60' DURATION 2 90' PRODUCTION YEAR<br />
2009 RECORDED KKL Lucerne; IRCAM, Paris MUSICAL STYLE<br />
Contemporary music CONDUCTOR Pierre Boulez SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
HD/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV EuroArts Music International<br />
(Germany) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Delivery: End of 2009<br />
Every summer for the last four years, highly gifted<br />
young musicians from all over the world have come<br />
together for intensive rehearsal weeks at the Lucerne<br />
Festival Academy. The results are presented in a number<br />
of concerts representing the culmination of what<br />
is probably the leading workshop for contemporary<br />
music. The documentary »The Lucerne Festival Academy<br />
– Glimpses of Pierre Boulez’ Workshop for the<br />
Future of Music« (work in progress) adopts the perspective<br />
of the participating conductors, composers<br />
and musicians to get across what is so special about<br />
this summer academy, marked above all by the personality<br />
of its founder, Pierre Boulez.<br />
172 THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC<br />
IN PYONGYANG<br />
GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording STATUS<br />
completed PRODUCTION COMPANY EuroArts Music International<br />
(Germany) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY ARTE France (France) ASS.<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY WNET, New York (USA), MBC (South Korea),<br />
SMG (China) PRODUCER Paul Smaczny EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Paul<br />
Smaczny, Thomas Baer TV DIRECTOR Michael Beyer CAMERA Nyika<br />
Jancsò EDITOR Steffen Herrmann DURATION 107' PRODUCTION YEAR<br />
2008 RECORDED East Pyongyang Grand Theatre, North Korea<br />
MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE Arirang COMPOSER Traditional<br />
Composer PIECE Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin COMPOSER<br />
56 avantpremière2009 Richard Wagner PIECE Symphony No. 9 in E minor, op. 95<br />
COMPOSER Antonín Dvorák PIECE An American in Paris COMPOSER<br />
George Gershwin CONDUCTOR Lorin Maazel ORCHESTRA The New<br />
York Philharmonic (USA) SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Stereo<br />
DISTRIBUTION TV EuroArts Music International (Germany) DVD<br />
DISTRIBUTION EuroArts Music International (Germany) ADDITIONAL<br />
INFORMATION Also available on BluRay<br />
Chris Lee<br />
The concert was the ultimate highlight of the<br />
New York Philharmonic’s trip to North Korea’s<br />
capital Pyongyang: when Lorin Maazel raised his<br />
baton for Arirang, a lilting folk song emblematic of<br />
the North and South Korean people, some audience<br />
members were obviously misty-eyed. The North Korean<br />
audience was on its feet, applauding and waving<br />
to the musicians. The concert in Pyongyang was certainly<br />
an impressive event. The orchestra under Lorin<br />
Maazel opened with the national anthems of North<br />
Korea and the United States, leading on to Wagner’s<br />
Prelude to Act III of »Lohengrin«, Dvorák’s Symphony<br />
No. 9 and Gershwin’s »An American in Paris«.<br />
THE WEST-EASTERN DIVAN<br />
173ORCHESTRA & DANIEL BARENBOIM<br />
IN RAVELLO<br />
GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording STATUS<br />
completed PRODUCTION COMPANY EuroArts Music International<br />
(Germany) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY ZDF/ARTE (Germany),<br />
Barenboim Said Foundation (Andalusia) PRODUCER Paul Smaczny<br />
TV DIRECTOR Michael Beyer CAMERA Nyika Jancsò EDITOR Cetin Tutak<br />
DURATION 100' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Ravello, Italy MUSICAL<br />
STYLE Classical music PIECE The Mastersingers of Nuremberg,<br />
Overture; Tristan und Isolde, Prelude and Love-Death, The<br />
Valkyrie Act I COMPOSER Richard Wagner CONDUCTOR Daniel<br />
Barenboim ORCHESTRA West-Eastern Divan Orchestra (Israel,<br />
Palestine) SOLOIST Waltraud Meier, Simon O'Neill, John<br />
Tomlinson SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV EuroArts<br />
Music International (Germany)<br />
EuroArts<br />
In 2008 the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra played<br />
at the Ravello Festival located at the picturesque<br />
Amalfi coast. Conducted by Daniel Barenboim, the<br />
concert was dedicated to Richard Wagner: the young<br />
musicians played the »Meistersinger« Overture,<br />
Prelude and »Liebestod« from »Tristan und Isolde«
(with Waltraud Meier) and Act I from »Die Walküre«.<br />
The WEDO is not only a musical project; it is also a<br />
forum for cross-cultural dialogue among the musicians<br />
and with the audience. This production transports the<br />
unmistakable atmosphere of an orchestra that aims to<br />
put music in the forefront of their vision of a democratic<br />
and civilised life.<br />
WALDBÜHNE 2008 – LOS RITMOS<br />
174DE LA NOCHE<br />
GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording STATUS<br />
completed PRODUCTION COMPANY EuroArts Music International<br />
(Germany) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY NHK (Japan), CCTV (China)<br />
ASS. PRODUCTION COMPANY Mezzo (France), YLE (Finland) PRODUCER<br />
Paul Smaczny TV DIRECTOR Henning Kasten CAMERA Stephan<br />
Langstädtler EDITOR Martin Hoffmann DURATION 105' PRODUCTION<br />
YEAR 2008 RECORDED Waldbühne Berlin MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
PIECE Sinfonia India COMPOSER Carlos Chávez MUSICAL STYLE Classical<br />
music PIECE Siete canciones populares españolas COMPOSER<br />
Manuel de Falla PIECE Sensemayá COMPOSER Silvestre Revueltas<br />
PIECE Bachianas Brasileiras Nr.5 COMPOSER Heitor Villa-Lobos PIECE<br />
Estancia, op. 8 COMPOSER Alberto Ginastera PIECE Danzón No. 2<br />
COMPOSER Arturo Márquez CONDUCTOR Gustavo Dudamel ORCHESTRA<br />
Berliner Philharmoniker (Germany) SOLOIST Ana María Martínez<br />
SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV EuroArts Music<br />
International (Germany)<br />
Eva Kinader<br />
The Waldbühne in Berlin, one of the most appealing<br />
outdoor amphitheatres on the European continent,<br />
hosts the Berlin Philharmonic’s summer concerts.<br />
With an audience of over 20,000 people, they are<br />
among the most popular classical music concerts<br />
in the world. The charismatic Latin American conductor<br />
Gustavo Dudamel made his debut with the Berlin<br />
Philharmonic, paying exceptional homage to his home<br />
country.<br />
Europe Images International<br />
175 A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM<br />
GENRE Relay of: Dance, Studio production STATUS in progress<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo (Monaco)<br />
CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY NHK (Japan) TV DIRECTOR Jean-Christophe<br />
Maillot CAMERA Gilles Papain AUTHOR William Shakespeare<br />
LIGHT DESIGN Dominique Drillot DURATION 105' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008<br />
MUSICAL STYLE Classical music COMPOSER Felix Mendelssohn-<br />
Bartholdy, Daniel Teruggi, Bertrand Maillot CONDUCTOR Nicolas<br />
Brochot ORCHESTRA Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra<br />
(Monaco) CHOIR Monte-Carlo Opera Choir (Monaco) SOLOIST<br />
Bernice Coppieters DANCE STYLE Contemporary dance CHOREOGRAPHY<br />
BY Jean-Christophe Maillot DANCE COMPANY Les Ballets de Monte-<br />
Carlo (Monaco) COSTUMES Philippe Guillotel STAGE DIRECTOR Ernest<br />
Pignon-Ernest SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD DISTRIBUTION TV Europe Images<br />
International (France) HOMEVIDEO DISTRIBUTION Europe Images<br />
International (France)<br />
Marie Laure Briane<br />
A dream-like comedy surfing on the wings of the maddest<br />
desires. For the amateurs of parallel worlds, those<br />
who like to flirt with the improbable and glide balanced<br />
on the frontiers of dreams. Jean-Christophe Maillot<br />
activates his three imaginary forces: theatre, music<br />
and dance for an orchestra, in an enchanting disorder.<br />
Tender, mischievous, ingenuous, dazzling, earthy or<br />
serious – three generations of dancers represent a<br />
human microcosm that gets entangled with humour<br />
and grace in the net of its impulses. Fairy, animal,<br />
dancer … what if it were all man?<br />
CADMUS & HERMIONE<br />
176 GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Admiral Lda (France), Alpha Productions<br />
(France) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY Opera Comique (France), France 2<br />
(France) PRODUCER Odile Carlotti, Frederic Allain TV DIRECTOR<br />
Martin Fraudreau CAMERA Eric Genillier EDITOR Christelle Dewinter<br />
LIGHT DESIGN Christophe Naillet DURATION 122' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008<br />
RECORDED Opera Comique France, 21.01.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical<br />
music COMPOSER Jean-Baptiste Lully CONDUCTOR Vincent Dumestre<br />
ORCHESTRA Orchestre du Poème Harmonique (France) CHOIR<br />
Choeur du Poème Harmonique (France) SOLOIST Andre Morsch,<br />
Claire Lefilliatre CHOREOGRAPHY BY Gudrun Skamletz DANCE COMPANY<br />
Le Poème Harmonique (France) COSTUMES Alain Blanchot<br />
LIBRETTO Philippe Quinault STAGE DIRECTOR Benjamin Lazar SOURCE<br />
VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby surround 5.1 DISTRIBUTION TV Europe Images<br />
International (France)<br />
First performed in 1673, Jean-Baptiste Lully’s »Cadmus<br />
et Hermione« is a groundbreaking work that established<br />
a whole new musical genre: the French lyric<br />
tragedy. Based on Ovid’s »Metamorphoses«, the opera<br />
tells the tale of the legendary founder of Thebes, who<br />
does battle with giants and dragons to rescue the<br />
daughter of Ares and Aphrodite. An ambitious new<br />
production of this historic work by French opera company<br />
Le Poème Harmonique is filmed live on stage.<br />
Shot from every angle by seven different cameras,<br />
all the beauty and drama of the stage production is<br />
elegantly captured and preserved.<br />
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IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF CHOPIN<br />
177 GENRE Documentary: Music STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
eclectic production (France) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY France 5<br />
(France) PRODUCER Jean-Luc Orabona TV DIRECTOR Valerie Exposito<br />
EDITOR Pascal Latil, Janis Jones AUTHOR Valerie Exposito, Alain<br />
Duault DURATION 364' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
DigiBeta/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV Europe Images International<br />
(France) HOMEVIDEO DISTRIBUTION Europe Images International<br />
(France)<br />
Warsaw, Saint Petersburg, Vienna, Paris, Milan, Venice<br />
… This seven-part series criss-crosses the continent in<br />
the footsteps of seven of the world’s greatest classical<br />
music composers (Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Verdi,<br />
Beethoven, Vivaldi, Puccini and Bizet). At each stop,<br />
a musician or historian serves as our guide to the<br />
great composers’ public and private lives. Seven<br />
different directors blend interviews with narration,<br />
archive materials and musical sequences to paint<br />
five intimate portraits.<br />
OPERA STARS PERFORM<br />
178THE LAMENTI<br />
GENRE Documentary: Music, Studio production STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Viva Press (France), EMI (France) TV DIRECTOR<br />
Claire Duguet DURATION 52' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
HD DISTRIBUTION TV Europe Images International (France)<br />
Simon Fowler licensed to Virgin Classics<br />
In a little known chapel in Paris's 14th arrondissement,<br />
far from the famous international stages, a strange<br />
ballet is enacted. The great names of opera succeed<br />
each other to sing the Lamenti (Italian baroque arias)<br />
by the masters of the genre. They perform under the<br />
direction of Emmanuelle Haïm. Rolando Villazón,<br />
Nathalie Dessay, Véronique Gens, Philippe Jaroussky,<br />
Joyce DiDonato, Marie-Nicole Crémieux, Patrizia Ciofi<br />
and Laurent Naouri have all lined up in support of the<br />
call made by the president of EMI/Virgin Classics,<br />
Alain Lanceron, to record this exceptional CD.<br />
58 avantpremière2009 RUDOLF NUREYEV, CELESTIAL<br />
179ATTRACTION GENRE Documentary: Dance, Studio production STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Les films figures libres (France) CO-PRODUCTION<br />
COMPANY France 2 (France) TV DIRECTOR Sonia Paramo EDITOR Patrick<br />
Lauze AUTHOR Sonia Paramo DURATION 52' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008<br />
SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV Europe Images<br />
International (France) HOMEVIDEO DISTRIBUTION Europe Images<br />
International (France)<br />
Nureyev Foundation<br />
Born on the Trans-Siberian express train, Rudolf<br />
Nureyev never stopped moving in his meteoric rise<br />
to become the most brightly shining star of the ballet<br />
universe. From commanding the stage of the Paris<br />
Opera to cavorting with Miss Piggy on the Muppet<br />
Show, Nureyev’s charisma and virtuoso talent brought<br />
a new, modern dimension to classical dance. Fifteen<br />
years after his life was prematurely claimed by AIDS,<br />
we take a retrospective look at the great artist, his life<br />
and his body of work – in all its grace, passion, excess<br />
and drama. Through interviews, archive footage, reenactments<br />
and original dance sequences, the film will<br />
recreate the key moments of Nureyev’s life and shine<br />
a light on his unparalleled talent.<br />
THE CURE – LIVE IN PARIS 2008<br />
180 GENRE Relay of: Musical, Live recording STATUS in progress<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Sombrero & Co (France), Lost music Ltd.<br />
(France) ASS. PRODUCTION COMPANY Virgin 17 (France) PRODUCER Patrick<br />
Villeneuve TV DIRECTOR Laurent Hasse, Thierry Villeneuve DURATION<br />
90' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Palais omnisports de Bercy,<br />
France, 12.03.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Contemporary music SOURCE<br />
VIDEO/AUDIO HD DISTRIBUTION TV Europe Images International<br />
(France)
Sombreo & Co<br />
Live concert at Bercy, France, on 12 March, 2008.<br />
A 30-year career, several million albums sold, concerts<br />
all over the world … Is it still necessary to introduce<br />
one of the greatest bands of all times, The Cure?<br />
For this concert, The Cure, with the mythical line-up,<br />
Robert Smith, Simon Gallup, Porl Thompson and<br />
Jason Cooper, played the songs that contributed to<br />
their success, but also performed exclusively new<br />
titles from their forthcoming album.<br />
f<br />
finkernagel & lück<br />
medienproduktion GbR<br />
GIDON KREMER AND MARTHA<br />
181ARGERICH AT THE BERLINER<br />
PHILHARMONIE<br />
GENRE Documentary: Music, on location STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY finkernagel & lück medienproduktion GbR<br />
(Germany) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY ZDF (Germany), ARTE<br />
(Germany), EuroArts Music International GmbH (Germany),<br />
Gidon Kremer (Germany) EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Christopher Janssen<br />
TV DIRECTOR Daniel Finkernagel, Alexander Lück CAMERA Boris<br />
Fromageot EDITOR Uli Peschke DURATION 45' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008<br />
MUSICAL STYLE Classical music SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo<br />
DISTRIBUTION TV finkernagel & lück medienproduktion GbR<br />
(Germany), ZDF (Germany), EuroArts Music International<br />
GmbH (Germany)<br />
Boris Fromageot<br />
»We are not a couple in the traditional sense. And<br />
that is exactly what is so paradoxical – that a musical<br />
couple can become even more intimate with one<br />
another than a couple in love.« This is how Gidon<br />
Kremer describes his long partnership with Martha<br />
Argerich. In 2008, these two exceptional musicians<br />
set out on tour performing solos and duets by Bartok<br />
and Schumann. The last of the concert series at the<br />
Philharmonie in Berlin was recorded for this film,<br />
featuring a rare solo performance by Martha Argerich.<br />
A concert film with personal and moving comments<br />
by Gidon Kremer.<br />
NADJA MICHAEL – THE ART OF<br />
182TRANSFORMATION GENRE Documentary: Music, on location STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY finkernagel & lück medienproduktion GbR<br />
(Germany) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY RBB (Germany), ARTE<br />
(Germany) EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Dorothea Diekmann TV DIRECTOR<br />
Daniel Finkernagel, Alexander Lück CAMERA Günther Uttendorfer<br />
EDITOR Uli Peschke DURATION 45' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 MUSICAL STYLE<br />
Classical music SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV<br />
finkernagel & lück medienproduktion GbR (Germany), RBB<br />
(Germany)<br />
Sascha Kramer<br />
She is one of the most exceptionally gifted actresses<br />
and transformational artists opera has to offer. Her<br />
preferred roles are strong women with the willpower<br />
and strength to change the world. The film portrays<br />
these strengths along with backstage footage and<br />
scenes from the production of »Medea« in Brussels<br />
and Kupfer’s »Salome« in Berlin. The film revolves<br />
around a staged lieder recital, »Orlando«. Michael<br />
takes the audience on a journey that spans time, space<br />
and gender alike. From her initial appearance in full<br />
baroque dress to her grand finale as Mahler’s Wayfarer,<br />
she explores the limits of the art of transformation.<br />
France 2<br />
A CHOIR IN BONDY<br />
183 GENRE Documentary: Music, Studio production STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Compagnie des Phares et Balises (France)<br />
AUTHOR Juan Gélas DURATION 26' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED<br />
Bondy MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
For a year, Morgan, the young choirmaster of the prestigious<br />
»Maitrise de Radio France« has set up a class<br />
of choral singing in a school in Bondy in the suburbs<br />
of Paris. The children of this educational priority zone<br />
have never had the opportunity to strive for excellence.<br />
Rehearsing and performing before a large audience,<br />
the apprentice singers learn the pleasure and requirements<br />
to find a musical repertoire that is different<br />
from what they hear at home and take us behind the<br />
scenes of this artistic practice.<br />
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AT THE HEART OF THE ORCHESTRA<br />
184 GENRE Documentary: Music, Studio production STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Kuiv Production (France) AUTHOR Richard Bois<br />
DURATION 26' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
CONDUCTOR Jean Claude Cassadessus<br />
Prestigious conductor Jean Claude Cassadessus is also<br />
known for bringing music to unusual places. Performing<br />
in prisons, hospitals or for children, the National<br />
Orchestra of Lille has become known for its unorthodox<br />
concerts. In this film, the camera is set up amidst<br />
the orchestra, alongside executives from Auchan,<br />
who are spellbound by the words of the maestro talking<br />
about his work. Presenting an amazing mixture of<br />
genres and worlds, this unique approach allows viewers<br />
to grasp the responsibility of the conductor’s<br />
profession and to enjoy the music of Prokofiev not<br />
from the auditorium but from amidst the musicians<br />
in stereo and in colour.<br />
MIKHAIL RUDY – A ROMANTIC<br />
185PIANIST GENRE Documentary: Music, Studio production STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Camera Lucida Productions (France) DURATION<br />
60' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
Mikhail Rudy, one of the greatest pianists of our time,<br />
reminds us of the young Horowitz: a marathon virtuoso<br />
capable of playing all that is difficult, brilliantly<br />
and unrivalled. An undisputed champion of Russian<br />
masterpieces (Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky and<br />
Prokofiev), he has also become a major interpreter<br />
of the Romantic repertoire (Schubert, Chopin and<br />
Schumann). Seeking to break the image of the classical<br />
musician, he turned to other forms of entertainment<br />
(world tour of »The Pianist« and concerts merging jazz<br />
and classical music with Misha Alperin).<br />
MILITARY FANTASY<br />
186 GENRE Documentary: Music, Studio production STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Act4 Productions (France) DURATION 52'<br />
PRODUCTION YEAR 2008<br />
»Military Fantasy« is the story of the orchestra<br />
musicians of the Republican Guard. They are artists,<br />
all lovers of music but also gendarmes subjected to the<br />
rigorous obligations of the military. This documentary<br />
gives us an insight into their daily lives.<br />
NATHALIE DESSAY, PARIS –<br />
187NEW YORK<br />
GENRE Documentary: Music, Studio production STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Camera Lucida Productions (France) PRODUCER<br />
Jean-Stéphane Michaux DURATION 80' PRODUCTION YEAR 2007 MUSICAL<br />
STYLE Classical music<br />
Eve Ruggieri sets off to meet Natalie Dessay between<br />
New York and Paris in an exceptional documentary<br />
filmed from September 2007 to September 2008 by<br />
Israeli director Esti. During one year, the director<br />
shared the intimacy of the famous soprano between<br />
New York and Paris, an opportunity for viewers to<br />
discover or rediscover a highly talented artist, a lively<br />
personality, full of humour …<br />
60 avantpremière2009 188 PRESTO<br />
GENRE For the camera: Music video clip, Studio production<br />
STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY Calicot Productions (France)<br />
PRODUCER Lemeunier Lise DURATION 2' 20" PRODUCTION YEAR 2008<br />
MUSICAL STYLE Classical music CONDUCTOR François-Xavier Roth<br />
ORCHESTRA Les siècles (France)<br />
Presto is a short programme on classical music aimed<br />
at a large audience, broadcast twice a week on France<br />
2. We want to show the general public how easy it is<br />
to love classical music, as it is part of our cultural<br />
heritage.<br />
189 TANDEM<br />
GENRE Relay of: Musical, Studio production STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Act4 Productions (France) PRODUCER Jacques<br />
Clement DURATION 135' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 CONDUCTOR Myung-<br />
Whun Chung ORCHESTRA Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio<br />
France (France)<br />
This new get-together, presented by Christophe<br />
Hondelatte, revolves around two personalities of two<br />
generations and different worlds, who, through a programming<br />
entirely of their choice, let us discover their<br />
artistic and cultural references. It is their turn to each<br />
invite ten personalities or artists, who give the viewers<br />
an idea of their tastes and inspirations, as well as their<br />
friends and favourites. But they also meet with people<br />
they admire, whether publicly known or unknown. Tandem<br />
is a show about freedom, sharing and conviviality.<br />
THE KEYS TO THE ORCHESTRA<br />
190 GENRE Relay of: Ensemble/band appearance, Studio production<br />
STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY Camera Lucida Productions<br />
(France) PRODUCER François Bertrand EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Jean-<br />
Stephane Michaud DURATION 100' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED<br />
Salle Pleyel MUSICAL STYLE Classical music COMPOSER Béla Bartók<br />
CONDUCTOR Myung-Whun Chung ORCHESTRA Orchestre Philharmonique<br />
de Radio France (France)<br />
Scores under his arm, metaphors in his pocket, with<br />
drums and trumpets beside him, Jean-François Zygel<br />
sets up his music lesson and his grand black piano on<br />
stage. As usual, this famous pianist-improviser unveils<br />
the keys to a work of a composer: Béla Bartók (1881–<br />
1945), Concerto for Orchestra, interpreted by the Philharmonic<br />
Orchestra of Radio France conducted by<br />
Myung-Whun Chung.<br />
François Roussillon<br />
et Associés<br />
191 ARMIDE<br />
GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS in progress<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY François Roussillon et Associés (France)<br />
CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY Théâtre des Champs-Elysées (France), Les<br />
Arts Florissants (France) ASS. PRODUCTION COMPANY France 2 (France)<br />
PRODUCER Toni Hajal TV DIRECTOR François Roussillon DURATION 155'<br />
PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Théâtre des Champs-Elysées MUSICAL<br />
STYLE Classical music PIECE Armide COMPOSER Jean-Baptiste Lully<br />
CONDUCTOR William Christie ORCHESTRA Les Arts Florissants (France)<br />
CHOIR Les Arts Florissants (France) SOLOIST Stéphanie D’Oustrac,
Paul Agnew, Laurent Naouri CHOREOGRAPHY BY Jean-Claude Gallotta<br />
LIBRETTO Philippe Quinault STAGE DIRECTOR Robert Carsen SOURCE<br />
VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby surround 5.1 DISTRIBUTION TV François<br />
Roussillon et Associés (France)<br />
Eric Mahoudeau<br />
After the legendary resurrection of »Atys«, William<br />
Christie returns to Lully with »Armide«, the emblematic<br />
masterpiece of the »tragédie en musique«, considered<br />
the most powerful and violent love story ever told<br />
in an opera. The sorceress Armide falls in love at first<br />
sight with the crusading knight Renaud, while she is<br />
on a mission to destroy him. Reason never prevails in<br />
such a situation, and the work explores her devastating<br />
passion as it turns into poisonous love ultimately<br />
leading to madness and death. The dreamlike production<br />
created by Robert Carsen – with the collaboration<br />
of choreographer Jean-Claude Gallotta – demonstrates<br />
once again his talent for reflecting the most sincere<br />
human feelings, the essence of one of Lully’s most<br />
psychologically compelling creations.<br />
DISCOVERING AN OPERA:<br />
192THE FLY<br />
GENRE Documentary: Music, Live recording STATUS in progress<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY François Roussillon et Associés (France)<br />
CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY ARTE France (France) PRODUCER Toni Hajal<br />
TV DIRECTOR François Roussillon DURATION 60' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008<br />
RECORDED Théâtre du Châtelet MUSICAL STYLE Contemporary music<br />
PIECE The Fly COMPOSER Howard Shore CONDUCTOR Plácido Domingo<br />
LIBRETTO David Henry Hwang STAGE DIRECTOR David Cronenberg<br />
SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV François Roussillon<br />
et Associés (France)<br />
Marie Noelle Robert<br />
An award-winning dream team consisting of composer<br />
Howard Shore, director David Cronenberg and playwright<br />
David Henry Hwang presents an intriguing<br />
opera, »The Fly«, bringing a cult classic to life, under<br />
the baton of Plácido Domingo. The documentary<br />
explores the different aspects linked to this world<br />
creation opera: historical context, interviews with the<br />
artistic team, the opera’s storyline and the film<br />
»The Fly« dated 1986, which has inspired it, and<br />
also includes several large sequences of the stage<br />
production.<br />
193 FAUST<br />
GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY François Roussillon et Associés (France)<br />
CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY Chorégies d'Orange (France) ASS. PRODUCTION<br />
COMPANY France 2 (France) PRODUCER Toni Hajal TV DIRECTOR François<br />
Roussillon DURATION 180' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Chorégies<br />
d'Orange MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE Faust COMPOSER<br />
Charles Gounod CONDUCTOR Michel Plasson ORCHESTRA Orchestre<br />
Philharmonique de Radio France (France) CHOIR Choeurs des<br />
Opéras de Région (France) SOLOIST Roberto Alagna, Inva Mula,<br />
René Pape STAGE DIRECTOR Nicolas Joel SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby<br />
surround 5.1 DISTRIBUTION TV François Roussillon et Associés<br />
(France)<br />
Eric Mahoudeau<br />
Charles Gounod’s successful opera »Faust«, produced<br />
in the spectacular Orange Roman amphitheatre, was<br />
the lyric summer event of 2008. Roberto Alagna led<br />
a cast including major artists such as Inva Mula and<br />
René Pape in a production staged by the next director<br />
of the National Opera of Paris, Nicolas Joel, under the<br />
baton of maestro Michel Plasson.<br />
194 RAYMONDA<br />
GENRE Relay of: Dance, Live recording STATUS in progress<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY François Roussillon et Associés (France)<br />
ASS. PRODUCTION COMPANY France 3 (France) PRODUCER Toni Hajal<br />
TV DIRECTOR François Roussillon DURATION 150' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008<br />
RECORDED Opéra national de Paris – Palais Garnier MUSICAL STYLE<br />
Classical music PIECE Raymonda COMPOSER Alexander Glazunov<br />
CONDUCTOR Kevin Rhodes ORCHESTRA Orchestre Colonne (France)<br />
DANCE STYLE Classical ballet CHOREOGRAPHY BY Rudolf Nureyev DANCE<br />
COMPANY Paris Opera Ballet (France) LIBRETTO Marius Petipa, Lydie<br />
Pachkoff SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby surround 5.1 DISTRIBUTION TV<br />
François Roussillon et Associés (France)<br />
The last ballet to be choreographed by Petipa, »Raymonda«<br />
takes place in medieval Hungary, wherea jealous<br />
Saracen threatens the nuptials between the titular<br />
heroine and her knight. Love triumphs, of course,<br />
allowing the flimsy plot to be blotted out of memory<br />
by a wedding celebration full of rousing Hungarian<br />
national dances as well as brilliant classical variations<br />
that elegantly echo their emphatic footwork and robust<br />
pride. Nureyev staged his definitive version for the<br />
opening of the 1983-1984 season of the Paris Opera<br />
Ballet and chose to follow Petipa’s argument without<br />
seeking to make any particular psychological interpretations.<br />
His choreography and the flamboyant scenery<br />
and costumes bring a touch of oriental seduction to<br />
this fabulous blend of exoticism and history.<br />
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THE CORONATION OF POPPEA<br />
195 GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY François Roussillon et Associés (France)<br />
CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY Glyndebourne Festival (United Kingdom)<br />
ASS. PRODUCTION COMPANY France 3 (France) PRODUCER Toni Hajal<br />
TV DIRECTOR François Roussillon DURATION 195' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008<br />
RECORDED Glyndebourne Festival MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
PIECE The Coronation of Poppea COMPOSER Claudio Monteverdi<br />
CONDUCTOR Emmanuelle Haïm ORCHESTRA Orchestra of the Age<br />
of Enlightenment (United Kingdom) SOLOIST Danielle de Niese,<br />
Alice Coote LIBRETTO Gian Francesco Busenello STAGE DIRECTOR<br />
Robert Carsen SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby surround 5.1<br />
DISTRIBUTION TV François Roussillon et Associés (France)<br />
From the 1960s, the prestigious setting of the<br />
Glyndebourne Festival is one of the places that helped<br />
put Monteverdi’s last opera »L’incoronazione di Poppea«<br />
back on the operatic map and form part of the<br />
baroque revolution. The third Glyndebourne production<br />
of Monteverdi’s masterpiece explores with a rare<br />
cuteness the destructive power of lust and lies. The<br />
plot, by librettist Busenello, is suggested in the prologue<br />
with the apparent triumph of Love over Virtue<br />
and Fortune. Love, reflected by Nerone’s blind infatuation<br />
for the amoral and relentlessly ambitious Poppea,<br />
gis powerfully illustrated in the most beautiful love<br />
duets ever written in an opera.<br />
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BLUE NOTES FROM SCANDINAVIA<br />
196 GENRE Documentary: Music, on location STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY GATEWAY4M – more fine music & media<br />
GmbH & Co. KG (Germany) PRODUCER Peter Will TV DIRECTOR<br />
Michael Stockmann AUTHOR Michael Stockmann DURATION 58'<br />
PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 MUSICAL STYLE Jazz SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
DigiBeta/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV GATEWAY4M – more fine music<br />
& media GmbH & Co. KG (Germany) DVD DISTRIBUTION<br />
GATEWAY4M – more fine music & media GmbH & Co KG<br />
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62 avantpremière2009 Scandinavian jazz symbolises the beat of our time.<br />
This documentary shows the unique development<br />
of this phenomenon, captured, for example, at one<br />
of the best festivals of the 2006/2007 season, the<br />
Punkt Festival. Featuring: N. P. Molvaer, B. Wesseltoft,<br />
R. Bakken, S. Slettahjel, N. Landgren, A. Garbarek,<br />
J. Hassel and many others.<br />
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Hungarian Television<br />
197 FIDELIO<br />
GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Hungarian Television (Hungary) CO-PRODUCTION<br />
COMPANY Hungarian State Opera House (Hungary) PRODUCER<br />
Tunde Horvath TV DIRECTOR Andras Komlos DURATION 116' 50"<br />
PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Hungarian State Opera House,<br />
05.10.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music COMPOSER Ludwig van<br />
Beethoven CONDUCTOR Adam Fischer ORCHESTRA Orchestra of<br />
Hungarian State Opera House (Hungary) CHOIR Choir of<br />
Hungarian State Opera House (Hungary) SOLOIST Tunde<br />
Szaboki, Thomas Moser, Friedmann Kunder, Gabor Bretz,<br />
Bela Perencz, Zita Varadi, Attila Fekete COSTUMES Mari Benedek<br />
STAGE DIRECTOR Balazs Kovalik SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo<br />
This time the final 1814 variant of the piece would<br />
be staged, but the order of scenes would be altered<br />
and the Leonora Overture would also be performed<br />
between Scenes 2 and 3. According to Director Balázs<br />
Kovalik, this performance would be far more surrealistic<br />
than the original one, yet more understandable to<br />
our contemporaries. It offers an opportunity for the<br />
director to present the spirit of the piece, and particularly<br />
Beethoven’s faith in the idea of freedom in an<br />
avant-garde manner (as the scenes take place in a<br />
stylised space).<br />
HOW THE OPERA FESTIVAL<br />
198WAS MADE<br />
GENRE Documentary: Music, on location STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Hungarian Television (Hungary) PRODUCER Tünde<br />
Horváth TV DIRECTOR András Komlós CAMERA Tibor Klöpfer EDITOR<br />
Csaba Veréb DURATION 25' RECORDED Szeged MUSICAL STYLE Classical<br />
music SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo<br />
Five performances, five different companies, 20 competition<br />
participants and an international jury for a<br />
two-week competition – this was the Mezzo Opera<br />
Festival in Szeged, which was not only a significant<br />
musical enterprise but also one of television. The film<br />
presents the preparations, allowing viewers to look<br />
behind the scenes, get acquainted with the stage<br />
directors’ concepts and with some singers and obtain<br />
a small panorama of contemporary opera performance.
199 RAOUL<br />
GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Theater Bremen (Germany) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
Hungarian Television (Hungary) PRODUCER Tünde Horváth<br />
TV DIRECTOR András Komlós DURATION 110' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008<br />
RECORDED Szeged Opera House MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
COMPOSER Gershon Kingsley, Michael Kunze CONDUCTOR Márton<br />
Terts ORCHESTRA Szeged Symphony Orchestra (Hungary) SOLOIST<br />
Marcin Habela, Violaine Kiefer, László Beöthy-Kiss, Achim<br />
Rikus, Can Tufan, Robert Neil Lichtenberger, Allan Parkes<br />
CHOREOGRAPHY BY Jacqueline Davenport COSTUMES Ildikó Debreczeni<br />
STAGE DIRECTOR Julia Haebler SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo<br />
The opera’s plot is based on true events. When Raoul<br />
Wallenberg learns of Eichmann’s mass murders, he decides<br />
to travel to Budapest and help the victims. Knowing<br />
the German attitude towards governmental papers,<br />
he gets Swedish papers for the Jews. Among the saved<br />
people there is a couple. Their struggle for a life with<br />
dignity is an additional part of the plot. As Wallenberg<br />
fights Eichmann, some people believe that he is collaborating<br />
with the Nazis to make a profit for the Swedish<br />
banking dynasty whose name he bears. The Soviets<br />
think that he is an American spy. Raoul, at the last<br />
minute before the Germans leave, finds an unexpected<br />
ally who helps him stop the final mass murder.<br />
ROAD TO MUSIC – A SERIES OF<br />
200THE PIANIST GERGELY BOGÁNYI<br />
GENRE Documentary: Music STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
Hungarian Television (Hungary) PRODUCER Tünde Horváth<br />
TV DIRECTOR András Komlós CAMERA András Szobrász DURATION 300'<br />
PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED 20.10.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical<br />
music COMPOSER Franz Liszt SOLOIST Gergely Bogányi SOURCE<br />
VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV Hungarian Television<br />
(Hungary)<br />
The art of Franz Liszt is the focus of the concert<br />
series. The programmes of four of the six concerts<br />
contain pieces by Liszt, testifying to the extraordinary<br />
intellectual and artistic qualities of the master. Gergely<br />
Bogányi does not give a regular analysis of the history<br />
of music, but his personal ideas are sure to bring the<br />
audience, young and old alike, closer to music.<br />
THE CRUCIBLE 201 GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Dicapo Opera Theatre (USA) CO-PRODUCTION<br />
COMPANY Hungarian Television (Hungary) PRODUCER Tünde Horváth<br />
TV DIRECTOR András Komlós DURATION 110' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008<br />
RECORDED Szeged Opera House MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
COMPOSER Robert Ward CONDUCTOR Pacien Mazzagatti ORCHESTRA<br />
Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra (Hungary) SOLOIST Zeffin Quinn<br />
Hollis, Lisa Chavez, Marie-Adeline Henry, Michael Bracegirdle,<br />
David Gagnon, Cecilia Whitney, Nicole Farbes Lyons COSTUMES<br />
John Farrell LIBRETTO Arthur Miller STAGE DIRECTOR Róbert Alföldi<br />
SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo<br />
Róbert Alföldi: »I have always been interested in, but<br />
have not been able to get closer to, the fundamental<br />
human attribute of why our childish curiosity fades<br />
away towards something that is different from what<br />
we think or represent. Why it is not interesting or<br />
attractive, instead of why it causes in us such anger,<br />
cowardly accusations and aggression. And why it is<br />
often mixed in with God, why do we hold God up in<br />
front of us, why do we denigrate God. And if he is God,<br />
why does he pass unnoticed … because he passes …«<br />
THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA<br />
202 GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Panstwowa Opera Baltycka Gdansk (Poland)<br />
CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY Hungarian Television (Hungary) PRODUCER<br />
Tünde Horváth TV DIRECTOR András Komlós DURATION 116'<br />
PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Szeged Opera House MUSICAL STYLE<br />
Classical music COMPOSER Benjamin Britten CONDUCTOR José Maria<br />
Florencio ORCHESTRA Szeged Symphony Orchestra (Hungary)<br />
SOLOIST Bartek Misiuda, Wiard Witholt, Janja Vuletic COSTUMES<br />
Edit Zeke LIBRETTO Ronald Duncan ORIGINAL TEXT André Obey<br />
STAGE DIRECTOR Péter Telihay SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo<br />
»It’s raining, the wind is blowing, we are not swarming<br />
and killing each other, so where there is a little scandal,<br />
there’s nothing, so we are drinking and nowhere is<br />
there a woman who has not been seduced, or who can<br />
be seduced. Lucretia is sitting on her huge sofa with<br />
naked back, waiting, and she is longing, loving and<br />
faithful...She loves her husband well. She loves herself.<br />
She doesn’t watch television, doesn’t read Cosmopolitan,<br />
or the Financial Times and she doesn’t have a<br />
psychiatrist. The world is at war. Lucretia is at peace.<br />
That’s why she has to die. She’s devoted to peace.«<br />
(Péter Telihay)<br />
THE VAMPIRE 203 GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Opéra de Rennes (France) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
Hungarian Television (Hungary) PRODUCER Tünde Horváth<br />
TV DIRECTOR András Komlós DURATION 142' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008<br />
RECORDED Szeged Opera House MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
COMPOSER Heinrich Marschner CONDUCTOR Olari Elts ORCHESTRA<br />
Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra (Hungary) SOLOIST Helen<br />
Kearns, Vanessa Le Charlés, Marc Haffner, Christophe Fel,<br />
Francois Piolino CHOREOGRAPHY BY András Szöllosi COSTUMES Judit<br />
Gombár LIBRETTO Wilhelm August Wohlbrück STAGE DIRECTOR<br />
Zoltán Balázs SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo<br />
Based on the Dr. John W. Polidori short story of<br />
the same title, Marschner’s opera has the Gothic<br />
atmosphere of the »night of Frankenstein«. The richly<br />
flowing and extremely sensitive music raises the<br />
special atmosphere of the novel and embraces the<br />
prota-gonist of the story, Lord Ruthven the vampire,<br />
in a romantic way. Outside the world of the living and<br />
of the dead, he is searching for his place, time and,<br />
mostly, for himself in his victims. That is why it’s inevitable<br />
to entirely identify him as the victim. A direct<br />
result is self-destruction. That is why it’s inevitable<br />
for him to identify with the role of the victim.<br />
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Idéale Audience<br />
ARTURO TOSCANINI IN HIS<br />
204OWN WORDS<br />
GENRE Documentary: Music, Studio production STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Idéale Audience (France) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
Foundry Films (Canada) ASS. PRODUCTION COMPANY ARTE France<br />
(France), BBC Wales (UK), BR Bayerischer Rundfunk<br />
(Germany), Bravo (Canada), ARTV (Canada), Canadian<br />
Television Fund (Canada), NRK (Norway), Radiotelevisione<br />
svizzera di lingua italiana (Switzerland) PRODUCER Hélène Le<br />
Coeur ASSOCIATED PRODUCER Daniel Iron TV DIRECTOR Larry Weinstein<br />
EDITOR Robert Schwartz AUTHOR Harvey Sachs, Larry Weinstein<br />
DURATION 70' DURATION 2 59' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 MUSICAL STYLE<br />
Classical music COMPOSER Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes<br />
Brahms, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Giacomo Puccini,<br />
Gioacchino Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Wagner SOURCE<br />
VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV Medici Arts (France-<br />
Germany) DVD DISTRIBUTION Medici Arts (France-Germany)<br />
Idéale Audience<br />
The film will feature actors who will play Arturo<br />
Toscanini, his son Walter and a few other visitors who<br />
prompt the Maestro to recount his remarkable life.<br />
These conversations – based on unpublished hours<br />
of conversations recorded by his grandson during<br />
the last years of his life – will be illustrated by use of<br />
Toscanini’s actual home movies filmed from 1932 to<br />
1957, newsreels and archival footage as well as use of<br />
the NBC concerts 1948 – 52. Some original filming on<br />
location will fill out the visualization of Toscanini’s<br />
words.<br />
CLASSIC ARCHIVE<br />
205 GENRE Documentary: Music, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Idéale Audience (France) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
ARTE France (France), Mezzo (France) PRODUCER Pierre-Martin<br />
Juban TV DIRECTOR Pierre-Martin Juban EDITOR Sebastien Glas<br />
DURATION 52' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
COMPOSER Bach/Busoni, Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy, Mozart,<br />
Pärt, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, SOLOIST Pierre Boulez, Gyorgy<br />
Cziffra, Samson François, Eugene Istomin, Ivry Gitlis,<br />
Sviatoslav Richter, Leonard Rose, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf,<br />
Viktoria Postnikova, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, Isaac Stern,<br />
Alexis Weissenberg SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo, 12<br />
programmes of 52 minutes each DISTRIBUTION TV Medici Arts<br />
(France-Germany) DVD DISTRIBUTION Medici Arts (France-Germany)<br />
64 avantpremière2009 Gérard Proust<br />
This new series of »Classic Archive« presents live<br />
performances filmed at the Proms in London, where<br />
Pierre Boulez and Gennadi Rozhdestvensky delivered<br />
fiery renditions of works by Debussy, Shostakovich,<br />
Rachmaninov (with Viktoria Postnikova on the piano)<br />
or Arvo Pärt. At the BBC studios in 1962, Cziffra<br />
displayed a high-powered virtuoso recital (including<br />
a stupendous improvisation) while the legendary Istomin-Stern-Rose<br />
trio was filmed by French television<br />
on the occasion of the Beethoven bicentennial in 1970<br />
(»Archduke« trio). The series also features a lieder<br />
recital by Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Mozart, Schubert,<br />
Wolf, Strauss) and the legendary film of Stravinsky’s<br />
»Petrushka« with pianist Alexis Weissenberg.<br />
PIERRE BOULEZ – THE FIREBIRD<br />
206AT THE LOUVRE MUSEUM<br />
GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording STATUS<br />
completed PRODUCTION COMPANY Idéale Audience (France) CO-<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY France 3 (France) ASS. PRODUCTION COMPANY France 5<br />
(France) PRODUCER Pierre-Martin Juban TV DIRECTOR Andy Sommer<br />
LIGHT DESIGN Christophe Graillot DURATION 52' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008<br />
MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE The Firebird COMPOSER Igor<br />
Stravinsky CONDUCTOR Pierre Boulez ORCHESTRA Orchestre de Paris<br />
(France) SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV Medici Arts<br />
(France-Germany) DVD DISTRIBUTION Medici Arts (France-Germany)<br />
Philippe Gontier<br />
Composer and conductor Pierre Boulez is particularly<br />
famed for his polished interpretations of twentiethcentury<br />
classics in general and Stravinsky in particular.<br />
Clarity, precision, rhythmic agility and a respect for the<br />
composers' intentions as notated in the musical score<br />
are the hallmarks of his conducting style. This live performance,<br />
filmed in December 2008, beneath the Pyramid<br />
of the Louvre Museum, was the culminating point<br />
of a »Boulez cycle« at the Louvre. An audience of 2000<br />
music-lovers attended this performance of Stravinsky’s<br />
»Firebird« by the Orchestre de Paris conducted by<br />
Pierre Boulez in a rare and spectacular setting.
PIERRE BOULEZ PRESENTS<br />
207THE FIREBIRD<br />
GENRE Documentary: Music, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Idéale Audience (France) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
France 3 (France), ARTE France (France) PRODUCER Pierre-Martin<br />
Juban TV DIRECTOR Andy Sommer DURATION 52' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008<br />
RECORDED 01.12.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE The<br />
Firebird COMPOSER Igor Stravinsky CONDUCTOR Pierre Boulez<br />
ORCHESTRA Orchestre de Paris (France) SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
DigiBeta/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV Medici Arts (France-Germany)<br />
DVD DISTRIBUTION Medici Arts (France-Germany)<br />
Philippe Gontier<br />
Conceived by Pierre Boulez and Hélène Jarry, this introduction<br />
to Stravinsky’s »Firebird« was presented to<br />
an audience of high-school students at the Salle Pleyel<br />
in Paris. This analysis of Stravinsky’s composition is<br />
enhanced by visual and musical illustrations by the<br />
Orchestre de Paris. Pierre Boulez reminds the audience<br />
of the context in which the work was created and<br />
the association between Diaghilev and Igor Stravinsky.<br />
Pierre Boulez explores the score, underlining the<br />
melodic (intervals, chromatism) and rhythmic material<br />
that Stravinsky developed for the ballet. He emphasises<br />
the »special effects« (orientalism, musical<br />
motives) Stravinsky used for this fairy tale.<br />
PIOTR ANDERSZEWSKI, RECITAL<br />
208IN WARSAW<br />
GENRE Relay of: Instrumental recital, Live recording STATUS<br />
completed PRODUCTION COMPANY Idéale Audience (France) CO-<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY ARTE France (France) PRODUCER Hélène le Coeur<br />
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Claire Lion TV DIRECTOR Bruno Monsaingeon<br />
CAMERA Adam Bajerski, Tomasz Naumiuk, Artur Sienicki, Rafal<br />
Wroblewski EDITOR Nicolas Guerin AUTHOR Bruno Monsaigeon<br />
DURATION 88' DURATION 2 42' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Warsaw<br />
Philharmonique Hall, 19.12.2007 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
COMPOSER Robert Schumann, Johann Sebastian Bach, Karol<br />
Szymanowski SOLOIST Piotr Anderszewski DISTRIBUTION TV Medici<br />
Arts (France-Germany) DVD DISTRIBUTION Virgin Classics (France)<br />
Idéale Audience<br />
Polish-Hungarian pianist Piotr Anderszewski is a tremendous<br />
international favourite for his strong-minded<br />
and deep-thinking interpretations. On the 19th of<br />
December he performed two of Bach’s partitas at<br />
Warsaw’s Philharmonic Hall and completed the programme<br />
with works by Szymanowski and Schumann.<br />
SPINOSI RECORDS VIVALDI<br />
209 GENRE Documentary: Music, Studio production STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Idéale Audience (France) PRODUCER Pierre-Olivier<br />
Bardet EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Pierre-Olivier Bardet TV DIRECTOR Gérald<br />
Caillat CAMERA Etienne Carton de Grammont LIGHT DESIGN Etienne<br />
Carton de Grammont DURATION 52' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 MUSICAL<br />
STYLE Classical music PIECE Orlando Furioso (Recorded June<br />
2004); La Fida Ninfa (Recorded 2008) COMPOSER Antonio Vivaldi<br />
CONDUCTOR Jean-Christophe Spinosi ORCHESTRA Ensemble Matheus<br />
(France) SOLOIST Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Philippe Jarrousky,<br />
Sandrine Piau, Veronica Cangemi, Jennifer Larmore SOURCE<br />
VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo<br />
Idéale Audience<br />
This film offers the privilege of penetrating the secrets<br />
of the closed world of a sound studio during the<br />
recording of two masterpieces by Vivaldi, »Orlando<br />
Furioso« and »La Fida Ninfa«. It is exceptional to be a<br />
witness to the unique emotions shared by singers and<br />
musicians as they risk an interpretation destined to<br />
become a landmark. We are given a ringside seat to<br />
appreciate the fiery passion of Maestro Spinosi and<br />
experience the vocal prowess of a whole host of prestigious<br />
performers, Sandrine Piau, Veronica Cangemi,<br />
Marie-Nicole Lémieux, Jennifer Larmore and Philippe<br />
Jaroussky. A festival of vocal pyrotechnics!<br />
SWING, SING & THINK: DAVID FRAY<br />
210RECORDS JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH<br />
GENRE Documentary: Other, Studio production STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Idéale Audience (France) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
ARTE France (France) ASS. PRODUCTION COMPANY Mezzo (France)<br />
PRODUCER Hélène le Coeur TV DIRECTOR Bruno Monsaingeon<br />
EDITOR Nicolas Guerin AUTHOR Bruno Monsaingeon DURATION 95'<br />
DURATION2 52' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
PIECE Piano Concertos COMPOSER Johann Sebastian Bach CONDUCTOR<br />
David Fray ORCHESTRA Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen<br />
(Germany) SOLOIST David Fray SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby<br />
surround 5.1 DISTRIBUTION TV Medici Arts (France-Germany)<br />
DVD DISTRIBUTION Virgin Classics (France) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION<br />
Duration 3:43'<br />
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Julia Baier<br />
In January 2008 David Fray recorded his second disc,<br />
in which he directed the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie<br />
Bremen from the piano, with a programme<br />
comprising four piano concertos by Bach. One of the<br />
main problems for the present-day performer is that<br />
they have been »touched« by Glenn Gould; this<br />
»rascal Gould, who has stamped his indelible mark on<br />
them«, as David Fray puts it. But Bach’s music is so<br />
rich that there remain numerous exciting options for<br />
the performer’s imagination – assuming that he has<br />
any – and David Fray’s imagination happens to be one<br />
of his most striking characteristics.<br />
THE BERLIN PHILHARMONIC AT<br />
211THE 60TH EDITION OF THE<br />
FESTIVAL D’AIX-EN-PROVENCE<br />
GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording<br />
STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY Idéale Audience (France)<br />
CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY Festival d’Aix-en-Provence (France)<br />
ASS. PRODUCTION COMPANY France 3 (France) PRODUCER Pierre-Olivier<br />
Bardet EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Claire Lion TV DIRECTOR Denis Caïozzi<br />
EDITOR Patrick Faradji DURATION 102' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED<br />
Festival d’Aix en Provence – Grand théâtre de Provence,<br />
30.06.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE Symphony No. 3<br />
in F major, op. 90 COMPOSER Johannes Brahms CONDUCTOR Sir<br />
Simon Rattle ORCHESTRA Berliner Philharmoniker Orchestra<br />
(Germany) PIECE Concerto for piano and orchestra COMPOSER<br />
Antonin Dvoràk SOLOIST Andràs Schiff PIECE The Miraculous<br />
Mandarin, Orchestra Suite op. 19 COMPOSER Béla Bartók SOURCE<br />
VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV Medici Arts (France-<br />
Germany)<br />
Elizabeth Carecchio<br />
Simon Rattle conducts the Berlin Philharmonic<br />
Orchestra at the 60th edition of the Festival d’Aixen-Provence.<br />
Three major pieces are interpreted:<br />
the Symphony No.3 in F major, Op. 90 by Johannes<br />
Brahms; Andràs Schiff joins the orchestra for the<br />
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra by Antonin Dvoràk;<br />
and a wonderful end with »The Miraculous Mandarin«,<br />
Orchestra Suite Op. 19 by Béla Bartók.<br />
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212 GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS in progress<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Idéale Audience (France) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
France 2 (France), Opéra National de Paris (France), NHK<br />
(Japan) PRODUCER Françoise Gazio TV DIRECTOR Don Kent DURATION<br />
95' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Opéra Bastille Paris,<br />
04.11.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music COMPOSER Leoš Janácek<br />
CONDUCTOR Dennis Russell Davies ORCHESTRA Opéra National de<br />
Paris (France) CHOIR Opéra National de Paris (France) SOLOIST<br />
Elena Tsallagova, Jukka Rasilainen, Michèle Lagrange, David<br />
Kuebler, Roland Bracht, Paul Gay, Hannah Esther Minutillo<br />
COSTUMES Elizabeth Neumuller LIBRETTO Leoš Janácek STAGE DIRECTOR<br />
André Engel SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV Medici<br />
Arts (France-Germany) DVD DISTRIBUTION Medici Arts (France-<br />
Germany) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION 23 & 29 October 2008<br />
B.Uhlig / Opera National de Paris<br />
Elusive and always insolently free, even when the<br />
forester chains her up and the schoolmaster in his<br />
inevitable cups believes he is pursuing Terynka, this<br />
little vixen is a will-o'-the-wisp whose flashing russet,<br />
wherever it blazes, revives the smart of their ancient<br />
desires and departed loves in the hearts of men. In a<br />
community living as close to the natural state and its<br />
prodigies as it is imaginable to be, no other creature<br />
better personifies the life-force which demands that we<br />
accept the implacable cycle of Nature, encompassed<br />
between the extremities of birth and death.<br />
THE PARIS OPERA BALLET<br />
213 GENRE Documentary: Dance, on location STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Idéale Audience (France) ASS. PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
Zipporah Films (USA), Opéra National de Paris (France),<br />
TPS/Planete/PBS/YLE/The Florence Gould Foundation/Pershing<br />
Fund PRODUCER Françoise Gazio, Pierre-Olivier Bardet TV DIRECTOR<br />
Frederick Wiseman CAMERA Johan Davis EDITOR Frederick<br />
Wiseman, Valery Pico-Levy DURATION 155' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008<br />
RECORDED Paris Opera DANCE STYLE Classical ballet DANCE STYLE<br />
Contemporary dance SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO Film 16 mm/Stereo<br />
DISTRIBUTION TV Medici Arts (France-Germany) THEATRICAL DISTRIBUTION<br />
Sophie Dulac Distribution (France) DVD DISTRIBUTION Medici Arts<br />
(France-Germany)<br />
Idéale Audience<br />
The Paris Opera ballet is one of the world’s great ballet<br />
companies. Frederick Wiseman has filmed all the aspects<br />
of the work and life of this cultural institutional
monument. By filming daily courses, repetitions and<br />
performances, Frederick Wiseman will highlight the<br />
French school of ballet known for its emphasis on<br />
rigorous attention to technical perfection and precision<br />
of movement. This new opus is part of Wiseman’s<br />
long working method, a craftsman approach to filmmaking<br />
entirely shaped by his own aim: that of listening<br />
to the institution as it »speaks«, trying to identify<br />
the rule it lives by.<br />
VERBIER FESTIVAL 2008<br />
214 GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording<br />
STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY Idéale Audience (France)<br />
CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY ARTE France (France) PRODUCER Pierre-Olivier<br />
Bardet, Pierre-Martin Juban, Hervé Boissière TV DIRECTOR Louise<br />
Narboni, Sébastien Glas, Myriam Hoyer LIGHT DESIGN Martial<br />
Barrault DURATION 52' DURATION 2 43' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED<br />
Verbier Festival, Switzerland MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
COMPOSER Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven,<br />
Johannes Brahms, Max Bruch, Frédéric Chopin, Ernst von<br />
Dohnanyi, Leoš Janácek, György Ligeti, Franz Liszt, Felix<br />
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Sergei Rachmaninov, Wolfgang<br />
Amadeus Mozart, Edvard Grieg, Sergei Prokofiev, Maurice<br />
Ravel, Alexander Scriabin, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann,<br />
Dmitri Shostakovich, Richard Wagner CONDUCTOR Manfred<br />
Honeck, Gabor Takacs-Nagy SOLOIST Martha Argerich, Joshua<br />
Bell, Yuri Bashmet, Mischa Maisky, Boris Berezovsky, Nikolai<br />
Lugansky, Yuja Wang, Alisa Weilerstein, Jonathan Gilad, Jean-<br />
Frédéric Neuburger, Nicholas Angelich, Julian Rachlin,<br />
Lawrence Power, Martin Fröst, David Guerrier, Menahem<br />
Pressler, Salvatore Accardo, Antoine Tamestit, Gautier Capuçon,<br />
Ebene Quartet SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV Medici Arts<br />
(France-Germany) DVD DISTRIBUTION Medici Arts (France-Germany)<br />
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Also programms of 10x52' and 2x43'<br />
Verbier Festival 2008<br />
For its 15th anniversary, the Verbier Festival has once<br />
again brought together the most prestigious artists in<br />
classical music. This series of TV programmes presents<br />
the very best of the 28 concerts webcast between<br />
17 July and 3 August 2008 on www.medici.tv. As ever,<br />
the musical encounters gathers established musicians<br />
such as Martha Argerich, Joshua Bell, Mischa Maisky,<br />
Boris Berezovsky and rising stars such the Ebene<br />
Quartet, Yuja Wang or Jean-Frédéric Neuburger.<br />
215 ZAÏDE<br />
GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS in progress<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Idéale Audience (France) ASS. PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
France 3 (France), Festival d'Aix-en-Provence (France), Mezzo<br />
(France) PRODUCER Pierre-Olivier Bardet EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Claire<br />
Lion TV DIRECTOR Peter Sellars LIGHT DESIGN James F. Ingalls<br />
DURATION 108' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
PIECE Zaide COMPOSER Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart CONDUCTOR Louis<br />
Langrée ORCHESTRA Camerata Salzburg (Austria) CHOIR Ibn<br />
Zaydoun (France – Congo Kinshasa) SOLOIST Ekaterina Lekhina,<br />
Sean Panikkar, Alfred Walker, Russell Thomas, Morris Robinson<br />
COSTUMES Gabriel Berry LIBRETTO Johannes Andreas Schachtner<br />
STAGE DIRECTOR Peter Sellars SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby surround<br />
5.1 DISTRIBUTION TV Medici Arts (France-Germany)<br />
Elisabeth Carecchio<br />
»Because luck and glory smile on you, you misjudge<br />
your brothers.« Allazim, Act II, Scene 7. How can a<br />
spirit remain free when the individual is oppressed?<br />
Will Zaïde overcome her slavery through resignation<br />
or revolt? This is the only opera Mozart composed on<br />
his own initiative and not as a commission. Hence its<br />
comparative incompleteness, its posthumous production<br />
and its rarity. For this very reason, Zaïde is a<br />
visionary work. Intended by Mozart to found the<br />
German Enlightenment, it showed occidental theatre<br />
the domineering power of romantic sentiment.<br />
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BLUEBEARD'S CASTLE<br />
216 GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY LGM (France) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY Opéra<br />
National de Paris (France) ASS. PRODUCTION COMPANY France 3<br />
(France) PRODUCER Yves Rolland TV DIRECTOR Thomas Grimm EDITOR<br />
Patrick Faradji DURATION 62' PRODUCTION YEAR 2007 RECORDED Opéra<br />
national de Paris – Palais Garnier, 13.02.2007 MUSICAL STYLE<br />
Classical music PIECE Bluebeard's Castle COMPOSER Béla Bartók<br />
CONDUCTOR Gustav Kuhn ORCHESTRA Orchestre de l'Opéra National<br />
de Paris (France) SOLOIST Willard White, Béatrice Uria-Monzon<br />
COSTUMES Jaume Plensa LIBRETTO Béla Balázs STAGE DIRECTOR Alex<br />
Ollé, Carlos Padrissa SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Stereo<br />
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»Bluebeard’s Castle« is the only opera by Bartók,<br />
written in 1911, that is based on a libretto by Belá<br />
Balázs, adapted from a tale by Perrault. Balázs transformed<br />
the original narrative into something dark,<br />
massive and indistinct, primarily focusing on the<br />
loving couple. The work can also be read as a<br />
metaphor for the solitude of man. The work shows<br />
an impressive economy of means and efficiency in its<br />
musical plan. Every »door« conceals a musical image<br />
of strong suggestive power. Bartók shows boldness<br />
in the orchestral sound, which is free from any harmonious<br />
or melodic constraint.<br />
DANIELE GATTI CONDUCTS<br />
217ORCHESTRE NATIONAL DE FRANCE<br />
GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording STATUS<br />
in progress PRODUCTION COMPANY LGM (France) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
Orchestre National de France (France) ASS. PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
France 3 (France) PRODUCER Pierre Moitron TV DIRECTOR Andy<br />
Sommer LIGHT DESIGN Martial Barrault DURATION 80' PRODUCTION YEAR<br />
2008 RECORDED Théâtre des Champs Elysées, 18.09.2008 MUSICAL<br />
STYLE Classical music PIECE Prélude à l'après-midi d'un Faune, La<br />
Mer COMPOSER Claude Debussy CONDUCTOR Daniele Gatti ORCHESTRA<br />
Orchestre National de France (France) MUSICAL STYLE Classical<br />
music PIECE Un Sourire COMPOSER Olivier Messiaen MUSICAL STYLE<br />
Classical music PIECE Le Sacre du Printemps COMPOSER Igor<br />
Stravinsky SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Stereo<br />
Pascal Gely<br />
The first concert of Maestro Daniele Gatti as musical<br />
director of the Orchestre National de France.<br />
218 LA DAME AUX CAMÉLIAS<br />
GENRE Relay of: Dance, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY LGM (France) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY Opéra<br />
National de Paris (France) ASS. PRODUCTION COMPANY France 3<br />
(France) PRODUCER Jean-Baptiste Dupont TV DIRECTOR Thomas<br />
Grimm CAMERA Pierre Dupouey EDITOR Richard Poisson SETS<br />
Jurgen Rose LIGHT DESIGN Rolf Warter DURATION 130' PRODUCTION<br />
YEAR 2008 RECORDED Opéra National de Paris – Palais Garnier,<br />
08.07.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music COMPOSER Frédéric<br />
Chopin CONDUCTOR Michael Schmidtsdorff ORCHESTRA Orchestre<br />
de l'Opéra National de Paris (France) SOLOIST Agnès Letestu,<br />
Stéphane Bullion, Michaël Denard, Delphine Moussin, José<br />
Martinez DANCE STYLE Classical ballet CHOREOGRAPHY BY John<br />
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COSTUMES Jürgen Rose STAGE DIRECTOR John Neumeier SOURCE<br />
VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby surround 5.1 DISTRIBUTION TV Poorhouse<br />
International (UK) DVD DISTRIBUTION Opus Arte (UK)<br />
Michel Lidvac<br />
Marguerite Gautier, a renowned Parisian courtesan,<br />
falls in love with Armand Duval. The father of the latter<br />
forces the young lady to break with his son so as to not<br />
compromise the honour and the future of the family.<br />
Marguerite pretends to have fallen out of love in order<br />
to distance herself from Armand and returns to her life<br />
of loose morals. But suffering from tuberculosis, she<br />
dies at the age of 23. In her personal diary, her lover<br />
discovers too late all the love she bore for him.<br />
MAHLER’S SYMPHONY NO. 8 –<br />
219SYMPHONY OF A THOUSAND<br />
GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording STATUS<br />
completed PRODUCTION COMPANY LGM (France) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
Orchestre de Paris (France), Sipas Productions (France)<br />
ASS. PRODUCTION COMPANY ARTE France (France), France 2 (France),<br />
Mezzo (France) PRODUCER Jean-Baptiste Dupont EXECUTIVE PRODUCER<br />
Pierre Moitron TV DIRECTOR François Goetghebeur EDITOR Richard<br />
Poisson DURATION 90' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Palais<br />
Omnisports de Paris Bercy, 05.03.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical<br />
music COMPOSER Gustav Mahler CONDUCTOR Christoph Eschenbach<br />
ORCHESTRA Orchestre de Paris (France) CHOIR Orchestre de Paris<br />
(France), Wiener Singverein (Austria), London Symphony<br />
Chorus (UK), Maîtrise de Radio France (France) SOLOIST Twyla<br />
Robinson, Erin Wall, Marisol Montalvo, Nora Gubisch, Annette<br />
Jahns, Nikolai Schukoff, Franco Pomponi, Denis Sedov, Roland<br />
Daugareil SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV Poorhouse<br />
International (UK)<br />
Cosimo Mirco Magliocca<br />
The Symphony No. 8 is also known as the »Symphony<br />
of a Thousand«, due to the huge number of performers<br />
Mahler required for the last work he ever conducted.<br />
In this choral symphony, Mahler returns to the<br />
concept of sound as a bearer of ideas and affirms and<br />
deepens the Christian experience of faith which he<br />
combines with the Goethean image of the feminine as<br />
a redemptive aspect of God.
MUSIC AND TIME ON PAPER<br />
220 GENRE Documentary: Music, Studio production STATUS in progress<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY LGM (France) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY Pandore<br />
(France) PRODUCER Jean-Baptiste Dupont EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Yan<br />
Proefrock ASSOCIATED PRODUCER Yan Proefrock TV DIRECTOR Yan<br />
Proefroek AUTHOR Joséphine Markovits DURATION 3' PRODUCTION YEAR<br />
2008 RECORDED 07.10.2008 COMPOSER Wolfgang Rihm, Liza Lim,<br />
Olga Neuwirth, Pascal Dusapin, Gerard Pesson, Hugues<br />
Dufourt SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Stereo ADDITIONAL INFORMATION<br />
Duration: 8 x 3'<br />
We aim, in a few minutes, to provide revealing,<br />
personal and musical portraits of today’s composers of<br />
all generations. In a general, overall framework divided<br />
into three segments: 1) The composer defines himself<br />
while being interviewed by a journalist/musicologist<br />
(Eric Denut); 2) On-screen projection of a score, formal<br />
information: instrumentation, form; 3) One minute of<br />
music to listen to, following the score. No images of<br />
musicians, only the score with markings to follow. The<br />
musical excerpt and its score are chosen by the guest<br />
composer. The texture of the score, its graphics and<br />
the framing of the composer give each film its unique<br />
character and identity.<br />
RUBATO MA GLISSANDO<br />
221 GENRE Studio production STATUS in progress PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
LGM (France) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY Festival d'Automne à Paris<br />
(France) ASS. PRODUCTION COMPANY Mezzo (France) PRODUCER Pierre<br />
Moitron TV DIRECTOR Yan Proefrock AUTHOR Gérard Pesson,<br />
Annette Messager DURATION 22' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED<br />
Chapelle des Recollets Paris, 26.09.2008 MUSICAL STYLE<br />
Contemporary music COMPOSER Gérard Pesson SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
DigiBeta/Stereo<br />
Raphaël Pierre<br />
Composer Gérard Pesson joined forces with artist<br />
Annette Messager, whose work is similarly delicate<br />
and unadorned. Together they have created an installation<br />
in the Récollets chapel and garden – a living,<br />
musical tableau.<br />
LOFT music<br />
AIMEZ-VOUS BRAHMS? –<br />
222GERHARD OPPITZ AND THE<br />
GERMAN PIANO SCHOOL<br />
GENRE Documentary: Music, on location STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY LOFT music (Germany) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
BR – Bayerischer Rundfunk (Germany) PRODUCER Manfred Frei<br />
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Manfred Frei TV DIRECTOR Michael Beyer CAMERA<br />
Amadeus Hiller AUTHOR Michael Beyer DURATION 45' PRODUCTION YEAR<br />
2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music SOLOIST Gerhard Oppitz,<br />
Wilhelm Kempff, Claudio Arrau SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby<br />
surround 5.1<br />
This documentary sets out in search of clues to the<br />
classical piano tradition in Germany. Guided by the<br />
professional explanations of Joachim Kaiser, it deals<br />
with the tradition’s stylistic and artistic characteristics.<br />
Gerhard Oppitz, »the great silent master from<br />
Munich«, is a worthy representative. With Wilhelm<br />
Kempff he learnt to understand playing the piano as<br />
philosophizing with notes. His teacher became his<br />
mentor, and the relationship between teacher and<br />
student finally turned into a great friendship. In the<br />
centre of this essay is Johannes Brahms, who like<br />
no other German composer linked classicism and<br />
romanticism, even leaping into modern styles.<br />
INTO THE COLD DAWN<br />
223 GENRE Documentary: Other, on location STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY LOFT music (Germany) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
ZDF/3sat (Germany), rostrot medien (Germany), avindependents<br />
(Germany) PRODUCER Manfred Frei EXECUTIVE PRODUCER<br />
Manfred Frei TV DIRECTOR Oliver Becker, Katharina Bruner<br />
CAMERA Jörg Jeshel EDITOR Bernd Euscher AUTHOR Oliver Becker,<br />
Katharina Bruner, Dietrich Mack SETS Katharina Bruner DURATION<br />
80' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Moscow, Paris, Berlin MUSICAL<br />
STYLE Classical music COMPOSER Dmitri Shostakovich SOURCE<br />
VIDEO/AUDIO HD<br />
Oliver Becker<br />
The film »Into The Cold Dawn« recounts the life of the<br />
composer Dmitri Shostakovich from the perspective<br />
of a film director, played by Armin Mueller-Stahl, who<br />
is shooting a movie about Shostakovich. In 1961 the<br />
song »Into The Cold Dawn«, composed by Shostakovich<br />
for the film »Der Gegenplan« and sung by Yuri<br />
Gagarin, was the first music in space. The director<br />
shifts through scenes from feature films for which<br />
Shostakovich wrote the music during the rule of Stalin.<br />
The director meets and interviews family members<br />
and companions of the composer. Key moments of<br />
Shostakovich’s life are re-enacted with marionette<br />
puppets.<br />
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LA VOCE IN BELLEZZA<br />
224 GENRE Documentary: Music, on location STATUS in progress<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY LOFT music (Germany) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
SF – Schweizer Fernsehen (Switzerland), unico film und<br />
projektrealisation (Switzerland) PRODUCER Manfred Frei EXECUTIVE<br />
PRODUCER Manfred Frei ASSOCIATED PRODUCER Nico Gutmann<br />
TV DIRECTOR Sabine Gisiger AUTHOR Sabine Gisiger DURATION 60'<br />
PRODUCTION YEAR 2009 RECORDED Zurich, Dresden MUSICAL STYLE<br />
Classical music SOLOIST Francisco Araiza SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD<br />
The Zurich Opera operates an international opera<br />
studio, which each year allows 20 young singers from<br />
all over the world to fine-tune their skills to become<br />
qualified performers. This is a pool of young talents<br />
for the Zurich State Opera as well as many other opera<br />
houses. The artistic coach is the Mexican tenor<br />
Francisco Araiza. For 15 years he has been one of the<br />
leading tenors on the world¹s opera stages. His enormous<br />
experience coupled with his highly sensitive and<br />
motivating practice makes Francisco Araiza the ideal<br />
mentor to the young highflyers in the IOS Zurich.<br />
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CLAUDE CHALHOUB:<br />
225SINGING ON THE VIOLIN<br />
GENRE Documentary: Portrait, on location STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Circles Filmproduktion GmbH (Germany)<br />
CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY Carpe diem Film and TV Produktion GmbH<br />
(Germany) TV DIRECTOR Boris Penth DURATION 52' PRODUCTION YEAR<br />
2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music SOLOIST Claude Chalhoub<br />
SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV Medici Arts (Germany)<br />
Thomas Schloemann<br />
This film essay focuses on the music of Claude<br />
Chalhoub, a highly gifted violinist and composer from<br />
Lebanon, who was classically trained at the Royal<br />
College of Music in London, which helps him combine<br />
his Eastern roots with a deep understanding of Western<br />
classical music. Various recordings of live performances<br />
reveal his charisma as performer on stage. In<br />
addition to his concerts, the film also offers other documentary<br />
and »experimental« elements – impressions<br />
of Chalhoub’s hometown Beirut, his private passion<br />
for cars, scenes with his family, Chalhoub while composing<br />
and teaching at the American University of<br />
Beirut, pictures of Beirut, abstract colour schemes and<br />
scenes of nature.<br />
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226BACH SONATAS<br />
GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording<br />
STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY Medici Arts (Germany)<br />
ASS. PRODUCTION COMPANY NIGHTFROG GmbH (Germany) PRODUCER<br />
Benedict Mirow TV DIRECTOR Benedict Mirow DURATION 155'<br />
PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Polling, Germany MUSICAL STYLE<br />
Classical music PIECE Sonata I in B minor BWV 1014; Sonata<br />
II in A Major BWV 1015; COMPOSER Johann Sebastian Bach<br />
SOLOIST Frank Peter Zimmermann, Enrico Pace PIECE Sonata III<br />
in E Major BWV 1016; Sonata IV in C minor BWV 1017;<br />
Sonata V in F minor BWV 1018; Sonata VI in G Major BWV<br />
1019. SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby surround 5.1 DISTRIBUTION TV<br />
Medici Arts (Germany) HOMEVIDEO DISTRIBUTION Medici Arts<br />
(Germany) DVD DISTRIBUTION Medici Arts (Germany) ADDITIONAL<br />
INFORMATION Concert 95' + Documentary 60', DVD release in<br />
2009<br />
Medici Arts<br />
Movies are the resolution of a conflict between light<br />
and shadows. Light reveals truth and shadows obscure<br />
it, with a broad base of tonality in between. These six<br />
Bach sonatas have been recorded in one of Germany’s<br />
most beautiful baroque halls in Polling (300 years old).<br />
Produced on HDTV, this documentary focuses on high<br />
visual aesthetics, showing the timeless struggle between<br />
light and shadow, using directional light to<br />
create the powerful warmth of the sun shining through<br />
the ancient windows. This documentary will centre<br />
on the recording: What does Bach mean to these two<br />
artists? What are their thoughts on playing old German<br />
music? What does the old and very special violin mean<br />
to Frank Peter Zimmermann?<br />
FRANZ SCHUBERT – DIE SCHÖNE<br />
227MÜLLERIN GENRE Relay of: Vocal recital, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Kultur. Medien. Konzepte (Germany)<br />
CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY Medici Arts (Germany) PRODUCER Wolf<br />
Seesemann TV DIRECTOR Wolf Seesemann CAMERA Volker Gläser<br />
EDITOR Volker Gläser DURATION 77' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED<br />
Liederhalle, Mozartsaal MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE<br />
Die schöne Müllerin COMPOSER Franz Schubert SOLOIST Christoph<br />
Prégardien, Michael Gees SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Stereo<br />
DISTRIBUTION TV Medici Arts (Germany) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION<br />
From the Music Festival Stuttgart
Rosa Frank<br />
Christoph Prégardien and Michael Gees are, beyond<br />
the shadow of a doubt, among the greatest interpreters<br />
of Schubert’s song cycle »Die schöne Müllerin«.<br />
The cycle deals with a period in the life of a young<br />
miller lad as he wanders along a stream in search of<br />
work; he meets a mill-girl and falls in love with her;<br />
then loses her to another man and, in deep despair,<br />
drowns himself in the millstream. »Die schöne Müllerin«<br />
– consisting of twenty songs – is an amazing<br />
compendium of the human psych which deals with the<br />
miller’s emotions as he finds, and then loses, his love.<br />
MASTERS OF AMERICAN MUSIC<br />
228 GENRE Documentary: Music STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
Toby Byron / Multiprises (USA) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY Sony Video<br />
Software (USA), Pioneer Laserdisc (Japan), CBS Music Video<br />
Enterprises (USA), VPI-Videfilm Producers International Ltd.<br />
(USA) ASS. PRODUCTION COMPANY Taurus Film Munich (Germany),<br />
Video Arts Japan (Japan), Thirteen/WNET (USA) PRODUCER Toby<br />
Byron, Richard Saylor, Kirk d' Amico TV DIRECTOR Matthew Seig,<br />
Toby Byron, Yvonne Smith DURATION 60' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008<br />
MUSICAL STYLE Jazz SOLOIST Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, Billie<br />
Holiday, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Ray Charles, Sarah<br />
Vaughan SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV Medici Arts<br />
(Germany) DVD DISTRIBUTION Medici Arts (Germany) ADDITIONAL<br />
INFORMATION DVD Release in 2009<br />
Toby Byron<br />
»Masters of American Music« is a series of ten films<br />
featuring some of the most fascinating artists in<br />
American jazz, musicians of the calibre of Louis Armstrong,<br />
Count Basie, Tony Bennett, Ray Charles, John<br />
Coltrane, Miles Davies, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald,<br />
Dizzy Gillespie, Billie Holiday, BB King, Wynton<br />
Marsalis, Carmen McRae, Charles Mingus, Thelonious<br />
Monk, Charlie Parker, Billy Taylor and Sarah Vaughan.<br />
This series offers insights into the world of American<br />
jazz, drawing on electrifying performances, unparalleled<br />
archive footage and seminal interviews with the<br />
world’s most dynamic and imaginative artists. Both<br />
the video and audio content has been restored and<br />
remastered in accordance with state-of-the-art specifications,<br />
employing award-winning tools exclusively for<br />
this production.<br />
229 POPGALERIE<br />
GENRE Documentary: Music STATUS in progress PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
Medici Arts (Germany) PRODUCER Hannes Rossacher DURATION 60'<br />
PRODUCTION YEAR 2009<br />
Medici Arts and Hannes Rossacher (former DoRo) are<br />
intending to revive one of the most prestigious and<br />
complete portrait series of rock and pop ever made.<br />
»Popgalerie« includes portraits of every pop or rock<br />
star who made it in the 1980s and 1990s – from<br />
Michael Jackson to Madonna, from KISS to the Beastie<br />
Boys, from Santana to Janis Joplin. The episodes will<br />
be updated with new interviews and parts missing<br />
from today’s view.<br />
SALUTE PETRA – CELEBRATING<br />
230THE LIFE OF LUCIANO PAVAROTTI<br />
GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording STATUS<br />
completed PRODUCTION COMPANY Harvey Goldsmith CBE (UK),<br />
Ignition Music & Entertainment (UK) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
Mediaset (Italy) PRODUCER Dan Atkins TV DIRECTOR David Barnard<br />
DURATION 120' DURATION2 90' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Petra,<br />
Jordan PIECE Works by Rossini, Puccini, Gershwin, Bach,<br />
Copland, Leoncavallo, a.o. CONDUCTOR Eugene Kohn ORCHESTRA<br />
The Prague Philharmonia (Czech Republic) SOLOIST Plácido<br />
Domingo, José Carreras, Andrea Bocelli, Jovanotti, Sting, a.o.<br />
SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV Medici Arts (Germany)<br />
Chris Jackson<br />
Top artists from the worlds of classical and popular<br />
music will perform on Pavarotti’s birthday (12 October)<br />
in remembrance of his great talent. The proceeds of<br />
the concert will support joint projects of the UN High<br />
Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and the UN World<br />
Food Programme (WFP) in Afghanistan. This tribute<br />
was the idea of Nicoletta Mantovani, Pavarotti’s widow<br />
and HRH Princess Haya, the late King Hussein’s<br />
daughter, who is also a UN Messenger of Peace and<br />
who knew the Maestro well through their shared<br />
involvement in the equestrian world as well as his<br />
friendship with her late father.<br />
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Nederlandse<br />
Programma Stichting (NPS)<br />
DUTCH FINAL EUROVISION YOUNG<br />
231MUSICIANS 2008<br />
GENRE Studio production STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
Nederlandse Programma Stichting (NPS) (The Netherlands)<br />
PRODUCER Karin Elzendoorn TV DIRECTOR Edith Ruyg DURATION 81' 31"<br />
PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED studio MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta<br />
Dutch final of the 2008 Eurovision Young Musicians<br />
competition. Five talented candidates compete with<br />
each other in order to represent the Netherlands<br />
during the Eurovision Young Musicians competiton<br />
held in Vienna in May 2008.<br />
GALA OF DUTCH DANCE 2008<br />
232 GENRE Relay of: Dance, on location STATUS completed PRODUCTION<br />
COMPANY Nederlandse Programma Stichting (The Netherlands)<br />
CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY Stichting Nederlandse Dansdagen (The<br />
Netherlands) PRODUCER Iet Hagen, Rinus Stroes TV DIRECTOR<br />
Alex Bordewijk DURATION 55' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Theater<br />
aan't Vrijthof, Maastricht DANCE STYLE Contemporary dance<br />
CHOREOGRAPHY BY Krzysztof Pastor, Nils Christe STAGE DIRECTOR Joost<br />
van Krieken, Peggy Olislaegers SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta<br />
Abridged version of the annual Gala van de Nederlandse<br />
Dans. The highlight of the evening will be the<br />
announcement and presentation of the Swan Awards<br />
for best dance performance and best dance production.<br />
In addition to the award ceremony, the gala<br />
brings lots of dance. This year’s edition features special<br />
performances by two world-class companies: the<br />
Dutch National Ballet (performing highlights of the<br />
full-length ballet »Don Giovanni«, choreographed by<br />
Krzystof Pastor) and introdans (Symphony in Three<br />
Movements, choreographed by Nils Christe).<br />
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MARCO POLO 233 GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Nederlandse Programma Stichting (NPS)<br />
(The Netherlands) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY De Nederlandse Opera<br />
(The Netherlands) PRODUCER Coby Van Dijck TV DIRECTOR Misjel<br />
Vermeiren CAMERA Simon Aarden EDITOR Peter Rump DURATION<br />
110' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Muziektheater Amsterdam<br />
MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE Marco Polo – An Opera<br />
Within An Opera COMPOSER Tan Dun CONDUCTOR Tan Dun<br />
ORCHESTRA Nederlands Kamerorkest (The Netherlands) CHOIR<br />
Koor van de Nederlandse Opera (The Netherlands) SOLOIST<br />
Charles Workman, Sarah Castle, Stephen Richardson COSTUMES<br />
Angelo Figus LIBRETTO Paul Griffiths STAGE DIRECTOR Pierre Audi<br />
SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta<br />
Clärchen and Matthias Baus<br />
The Nederlandse Opera presents »Marco Polo«, an<br />
opera within an opera, by famous Chinese composer<br />
Tan Dun. Tan Dun portrays Marco Polo’s expedition<br />
to the Far East as a journey of both inner and physical<br />
discoveries. He divides the title role into two figures,<br />
Marco and Polo. Both serve to draw lessons for the<br />
future, based on the past, via the present. The opera<br />
can also be seen as the compositional journey of the<br />
composer himself, as a blend of western avantgarde<br />
and oriental traditions. TV director Misjel Vermeiren<br />
produced the opera for television.<br />
NORTH SEA JAZZ FESTIVAL 2008<br />
234 GENRE Relay of: Ensemble/band appearance, on location STATUS<br />
completed PRODUCTION COMPANY Nederlandse Programma Stichting<br />
(NPS) (The Netherlands) PRODUCER Mirjam van Rijn EXECUTIVE<br />
PRODUCER Wijnand Honig TV DIRECTOR Eduard Huis in 't Veld, Frank<br />
Alsema, Merel de Geus DURATION 300' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008<br />
RECORDED Ahoy Rotterdam MUSICAL STYLE Jazz SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
DigiBeta<br />
Yearly registration of a world-famous jazz festival: the<br />
North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam. In addition to<br />
concert registrations, the programme also features interviews<br />
and short biographical reports on the artists.<br />
235 NPS MATINEE<br />
GENRE Documentary: Music, on location STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Nederlandse Programma Stichting (NPS)<br />
(The Netherlands) PRODUCER Taco Lindenkamp TV DIRECTOR Joost<br />
van Krieken, Joost Honselaar, Tatjana Mirkovic DURATION 40'<br />
PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music COMPOSER Georg<br />
Gebel, Jean Sibelius, Dmitri Shostakovich SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
DigiBeta
A weekly series which is part of the popular Dutch<br />
concert series »Zaterdag Matinee« in the Concertgebouw<br />
in Amsterdam. Featuring a programme<br />
about composer Georg Gebel and his rediscovered<br />
»Johannes Passion«, a documentary about Finnish<br />
composer Jean Sibelius and a programme featuring<br />
violinist Sergei Khachatryan playing Shostakovich’s<br />
Violin Concerto No.1.<br />
OLIVIER MESSIAEN – SAINT<br />
236FRANCIS OF ASSISI<br />
GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Nederlandse Programma Stichting (NPS)<br />
(The Netherlands) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY De Nederlandse Opera<br />
(The Netherlands) PRODUCER Karin Elzendoorn TV DIRECTOR Misjel<br />
Vermeiren CAMERA Simon Aarden EDITOR Peter Rump DURATION<br />
256' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Muziektheater Amsterdam<br />
MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE Saint Francis of Assisi COMPOSER<br />
Olivier Messiaen CONDUCTOR Ingo Metzmacher ORCHESTRA Het<br />
Residentie Orkest (The Netherlands) CHOIR Koor van de<br />
Nederlandse Opera (The Netherlands) SOLOIST Rod Gilvry,<br />
Camilla Tilling COSTUMES Angelo Figus LIBRETTO Olivier Messiaen<br />
STAGE DIRECTOR Pierre Audi SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta<br />
Ruth Walz<br />
Olivier Messiaen’s tremendous opera on the life of<br />
St. Francis of Assisi is very different from conventional<br />
opera. Messiaen himself wrote its libretto, and the<br />
appearance of the angel, the healing of the leper and<br />
St. Francis’ preaching to the birds are the key scenes<br />
of the opera and also its highlights. Its length (4hrs 16<br />
min) is demanding on the performers. The Residentie<br />
Orkest, a superb (sometimes wordless) singing chorus<br />
of the Nederlandse Opera, and a beautiful cast of<br />
soloists all under the magnificent conducting of Ingo<br />
Metzmacher make this opera directed by Pierre Audi<br />
a stunning experience.<br />
PINKPOP 2008 237 GENRE Relay of: Ensemble/band appearance, on location<br />
STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY Nederlandse Programma<br />
Stichting (The Netherlands) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY VARA (The<br />
Netherlands), VPRO (The Netherlands) PRODUCER Iet Hagen,<br />
Rinus Stroes EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Wijnand Honig TV DIRECTOR Diverse<br />
Diverse DURATION 300' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Landgraaf,<br />
The Netherlands SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta<br />
Jean Pierre Heijmans<br />
Yearly registration of the greatest Dutch rock festival:<br />
Pinkpop (concert relays and interviews).<br />
QUEENS'S DAY CONCERT 2008<br />
238 GENRE Documentary: Music, on location STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Nederlandse Programma Stichting (NPS)<br />
(The Netherlands) PRODUCER Iet Hagen TV DIRECTOR Jellie Dekker<br />
DURATION 40' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED The Hague SOURCE<br />
VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta<br />
In 2008 the annual Queen’s Day Concert was held<br />
at Noordeinde Palace in The Hague with music performed<br />
by ninety young singers of the Kinderkoor<br />
Academie Nederland (Dutch Children's Choir Academy).<br />
Their repertoire varies from early Renaissance<br />
music to contemporary music.<br />
RICHARD WAGNER – LOHENGRIN<br />
239 GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording STATUS<br />
completed PRODUCTION COMPANY Nederlandse Programma Stichting<br />
(NPS) (The Netherlands) PRODUCER Michiel Hobbelink TV DIRECTOR<br />
Joost Honselaar CAMERA Simon Aarden EDITOR Ronald de Beer<br />
DURATION 218' 35" PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Concertgebouw<br />
Amsterdam, 02.02.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE<br />
Lohengrin COMPOSER Richard Wagner CONDUCTOR Jaap van Zweden<br />
ORCHESTRA Radio Filharmonisch Orkest (The Netherlands)<br />
CHOIR Groot Omroepkoor (The Netherlands) SOLOIST Anne<br />
Schwanewilms, Klaus Florian Vogt, Eike Wilm Schulte LIBRETTO<br />
Richard Wagner SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta<br />
Concert registration of Richard Wagner’s most<br />
popular opera »Lohengrin« in a non-staged performance<br />
by the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest, the Groot<br />
Omroepkoor and excellent soloists such as Anne<br />
Schwanewilms (Elsa) and Klaus Florian Vogt (Lohengrin),<br />
successfully conducted by Jaap van Zweden.<br />
Part of the Dutch concert series Zaterdag Matinee in<br />
the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.<br />
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THE ABDUCTION FROM THE<br />
240SERAGLIO GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Nederlandse Programma Stichting (The<br />
Netherlands) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY De Nederlandse Opera<br />
(The Netherlands) PRODUCER Coby van Dijck TV DIRECTOR Misjel<br />
Vermeiren CAMERA Simon Aarden EDITOR Peter Rump DURATION<br />
174' 11" PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Muziektheater Amsterdam<br />
MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE The Abduction from the<br />
Seraglio COMPOSER Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart CONDUCTOR<br />
Constantinos Carydis ORCHESTRA Nederlands Kamer Orkest<br />
(The Netherlands) CHOIR Koor van de Nederlandse Opera (The<br />
Netherlands) SOLOIST Laura Aikin, Edgaras Montvidas, Kurt Rydl,<br />
Mojca Erdmann COSTUMES Nina van Mechow LIBRETTO Christoph<br />
Friedrich Bretzner STAGE DIRECTOR Johan Simons SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
DigiBeta<br />
Monika Rittershaus<br />
The Nederlandse Opera presents Mozart’s »The Abduction<br />
from the Seraglio«. A commission for a new<br />
singspiel was a chance for Mozart to free himself from<br />
the straitjacket of rigid rules of style and fixed formal<br />
templates. His characters would be people of flesh and<br />
blood and not simply puppets obeying the will of fate:<br />
people who act as free individuals and who struggle<br />
with conflicts that are the result of their own actions.<br />
Stage directed by Johan Simons.<br />
TOP 2000 A GO GO<br />
241 GENRE Studio production STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
Nederlandse Programma Stichting (The Netherlands) PRODUCER<br />
Michiel Hobbelink EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Wijnand Honig TV DIRECTOR<br />
Siebe de Steenwinkel, Arjan Vlakveld, Dirk Jan Roeleven<br />
DURATION 50' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED NPS Studio Hilversum<br />
SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta<br />
Wim Kluver<br />
Due to the huge success of the Golden Oldies list,<br />
the Top 2000 on Dutch Radio 2, this special television<br />
version was produced. The focus lies on the stories<br />
behind the hits and artists. Host Matthijs van Nieuwkerk<br />
talks with musicians and fans.<br />
74 avantpremière2009 WINGS OF WAX 242 GENRE Relay of: Dance, on location STATUS completed PRODUCTION<br />
COMPANY Nederlandse Programma Stichting (NPS) (The<br />
Netherlands) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY Nederlands Dans Theater<br />
(The Netherlands) PRODUCER André Teelen TV DIRECTOR Hans<br />
Hulscher DURATION 26' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 PIECE Wings of<br />
Wax COMPOSER Heinrich von Biber, John Cage, Philip Glass,<br />
Johann Sebastian Bach DANCE STYLE Modern dance CHOREOGRAPHY<br />
BY Jirí Kylián DANCE COMPANY Nederlands Dans Theater (The<br />
Netherlands) COSTUMES Joke Visser SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta<br />
Jan Bos<br />
»Wings of Wax« by Kylián is a must-see! This choreography<br />
opens with a fascinating dramatic image: a<br />
bare tree, hanging crown downwards with its roots in<br />
the air above the stage. Around it, a low-slung spotlight<br />
traces a huge circle. The dancers, in tight dark<br />
costumes, emerge out of the black background only<br />
to be absorbed back into it again. Jirí Kylián has succeeded<br />
in creating a work of great beauty and expressiveness.<br />
He shows he can do magic with movements.<br />
Never predictable, never forced, his movements are<br />
nevertheless so complicated that the eye can hardly<br />
follow all that is happening.<br />
WITHIN TEMPTATION<br />
243 GENRE Documentary: Music, on location STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Nederlandse Programma Stichting (NPS)<br />
(The Netherlands) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY AT Productions (The<br />
Netherlands) PRODUCER Colette Melsen, Mandy Kuster EXECUTIVE<br />
PRODUCER Wijnand Honig TV DIRECTOR Suzanna Noort CAMERA<br />
Robbert-Jan van der Does EDITOR Pierre van Ierland, Jan Gitsels,<br />
Suzanna Noort DURATION 53' 52" PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 SOURCE<br />
VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta<br />
Hans Verleur<br />
Documentary/concert registration on Within Temptation<br />
and their Black Symphony. Within Temptation is<br />
an international well known Dutch symphonic rock<br />
band. In March of this year the band performed with
the Dutch Metropole Orchestra in a spectacular show.<br />
The documentary portrays the band during rehearsals,<br />
at their home and during the hours before the concert.<br />
NHK Japan<br />
Broadcasting Corporation<br />
DIFFERENT TRAINS<br />
244 GENRE Studio production STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
NHK – Japan Broadcasting Corporation (Japan) PRODUCER<br />
Kazuaki Sasai EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Akira Sugiura ASSOCIATED PRODUCER<br />
Masayuki Ikeno TV DIRECTOR Takuo Kohno DURATION 55' PRODUCTION<br />
YEAR 2008 RECORDED NHK Studio 101, 25.02.2008 MUSICAL STYLE<br />
Contemporary music PIECE Different Trains COMPOSER Steve Reich<br />
ORCHESTRA String quartet ARCO (Japan) SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD<br />
»Different Trains« was composed in 1988 by an<br />
American composer, Steve Reich. At its own studio,<br />
NHK for the first time recorded this innovative piece<br />
composed of the performance of a string quartet and<br />
»words« pre-recorded by the composer himself. The<br />
»words« synchronized with the music are shown on<br />
the set at the back of the quartet reflecting the image<br />
of Auschwitz with the visual presentation of Reich’s<br />
thoughts on the piece.<br />
NHK MUSIC FESTIVAL 2008<br />
245 GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording<br />
STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY NHK – Japan Broadcasting<br />
Corporation (Japan) PRODUCER Kazuaki Sasai EXECUTIVE PRODUCER<br />
Akira Sugiura TV DIRECTOR Yoko Ishida DURATION 100' PRODUCTION YEAR<br />
2008 RECORDED NHK Hall, 08.12.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical<br />
music PIECE Violin Concerto D minor, op.47 COMPOSER Jean<br />
Sibelius CONDUCTOR Vladimir Ashkenazy ORCHESTRA Philharmonia<br />
Orchestra (UK) SOLOIST Akiko Suwanai SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
HD/Dolby surround 5.1<br />
NHK started the »NHK Music Festival« in 2003<br />
to commemorate the 50th anniversary of TV broadcasting<br />
in Japan and the 30th anniversary of the<br />
NHK Hall Foundation. During the sixth festival in<br />
2008, four violin concertos were performed by four<br />
orchestras at the NHK Hall, themed »Fascinating<br />
Violin – Concerto of Soul«. In the Philharmonic<br />
Orchestra concert conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy,<br />
they presented works by Sibelius in a beautiful and<br />
dynamic performance including the Violin Concerto<br />
in D minor featuring Akiko Suwanai.<br />
SEIJI OZAWA: EUGENE ONEGIN<br />
246 GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY NHK – Japan Broadcasting Corporation<br />
(Japan) PRODUCER Kazunori Sasaki EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Akira Sugiura<br />
TV DIRECTOR Junya Yagi DURATION 207' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED<br />
Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, 15.04.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
PIECE Eugene Onegin COMPOSER Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky CONDUCTOR<br />
Seiji Ozawa ORCHESTRA Tokyo Opera Nomori Orchestra (Japan)<br />
CHOIR Tokyo Opera Nomori Choir (Japan) SOLOIST Irina Mataeva<br />
SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Stereo<br />
Tokyo Opera Nomori started in Tokyo in 2005 with<br />
the aim to offer culture and music from Tokyo to the<br />
rest of the world. In the fourth festival in 2008, Tchaikovsky’s<br />
»Eugene Onegin« was performed in a coproduction<br />
with the Vienna State Opera. The Tokyo<br />
Opera Nonomori Orchestra and Choir performed for<br />
this festival under the baton of Seiji Ozawa. NHK<br />
recorded this event in a modern and poetic production<br />
directed by German Falk Richter.<br />
NRK Norwegian<br />
Broadcasting Corp.<br />
DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL<br />
247 GENRE Relay of: Dance, Studio production STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY NRK – Music Department (Norway) EXECUTIVE<br />
PRODUCER Arild Erikstad TV DIRECTOR Erik Conders CAMERA Per<br />
Hauger, Hilde Malme, Leif Ove Bergundhaugen LIGHT DESIGN<br />
Stefan Dombek, Jan Slåttum, Tom Sundli DURATION 17' PRODUCTION<br />
YEAR 2008 RECORDED Dansens Hus Oslo, 15.06.2008 MUSICAL STYLE<br />
Early music COMPOSER Alfred Schnittke, Michael Nyman, Henry<br />
Purcell DANCE STYLE Contemporary dance CHOREOGRAPHY BY Katrine<br />
Bølstad DANCE COMPANY Katrine Bølstad Company (Norway)<br />
COSTUMES Katrine Bølstad SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo<br />
DISTRIBUTION TV NRK Music dep. (Norway)<br />
Tor G Stenersen<br />
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Modern dance based on old, well-known religious<br />
mysticism. The young choreographer Katrine Bølstad<br />
is working with break dancers in electric boogie style –<br />
creating a unique emotional language never seen<br />
before.<br />
FABIO BIONDI AND STAVANGER<br />
248SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA<br />
GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording STATUS<br />
in progress PRODUCTION COMPANY NRK (Norway) EXECUTIVE PRODUCER<br />
Kerstin Asplund TV DIRECTOR Erik Conders PRODUCTION YEAR 2008<br />
RECORDED St. Petri Church, Stavanger, 14.12.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Early<br />
music CONDUCTOR Fabio Biondi ORCHESTRA Stavanger Symphony<br />
Orchestra (Norway) SOLOIST Fabio Biondi, Alexei Ogrintchouk,<br />
Vidar Austvik SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV<br />
NRK (Norway)<br />
The world-famous violinist and conductor Fabio Biondi<br />
started his engagement as artistic director of Early<br />
Music for the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra in<br />
August 2006. In this programme we present one of<br />
the most interesting orchestras in Norway today in a<br />
recording of a baroque concert at St. Petri Church with<br />
music by Telemann, Händel, Marcello and Bach, and<br />
in various interviews. A creative orchestra based in<br />
Norway’s oil capital.<br />
GET THE MONEY AND PLAY –<br />
249ONE YEAR INSIDE AN ORCHESTRA<br />
GENRE Documentary: Music STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
NRK (Norway) EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Bjørn Hulleberg TV DIRECTOR<br />
Jan Palmers CAMERA Bjørn Molstad EDITOR Hasse Søderstrøm<br />
DURATION 50' 30" PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
PIECE Violin Concerto; Symphony No. 36 COMPOSER Jean Sibelius,<br />
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jarle G. Storløkken CONDUCTOR Rolf<br />
Gupta ORCHESTRA Norwegian Radio Orchestra (Norway) SOURCE<br />
VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV NordicWorld AS<br />
(Norway)<br />
Well! This orchestra makes no money anymore! Then<br />
your time is limited here! I’ll die for music, someone<br />
cried out! The orchestra hired a new conductor and a<br />
marketing director. But did that help? They are on the<br />
verge of a steep hill downwards, and moments from<br />
losing their jobs … Did they ever succeed? A film team<br />
follows the life of an orchestra from the inside to present<br />
this extraordinary documentary. Winner of Prix<br />
Italia 2008 Arts Documentary.<br />
250 NEW CELLO CONCERTO FOR<br />
TRULS MØRK<br />
GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording STATUS<br />
completed PRODUCTION COMPANY NRK (Norway) EXECUTIVE PRODUCER<br />
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DURATION 40' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Oslo Concert Hall,<br />
06.11.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Contemporary music PIECE A journey<br />
through three valleys COMPOSER Lasse Thoresen CONDUCTOR Jukka-<br />
Pekka Saraste ORCHESTRA Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra (Norway)<br />
SOLOIST Truls Mørk SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV<br />
Nrk (Norway)<br />
Morten Krogvold<br />
The Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra commissioned this<br />
new cello concerto by Lasse Thoresen many years ago,<br />
but finally – in November 2008 – the world premier<br />
was performed at Oslo Concert House with Truls<br />
Mørk as soloist and Jukka Pekka Saraste conducting.<br />
A symphonic concerto in three movements called<br />
»A journey through three valleys«.<br />
OPENING GALA OF THE NEW<br />
251OPERA HOUSE IN OSLO, NORWAY<br />
GENRE Live recording STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY NRK<br />
(Norwway) EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Anne Røthing TV DIRECTOR Torstein<br />
Vegheim CAMERA Pål Andresen EDITOR Øistein Hovlandsdal<br />
AUTHOR Bentein Baardson SETS Ingeborg Kvamme LIGHT DESIGN<br />
Mikki Kunttu DURATION 58' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED The<br />
Norwegian Opera and Ballet, 12.04.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical<br />
music DANCE STYLE Modern dance STAGE DIRECTOR Bentein Baardson<br />
SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV NRK (Norway)<br />
On Saturday, 12 April, the new spectacular opera<br />
house in Oslo opened. NRK organised a special gala<br />
evening with international guests, new commissioned<br />
ballets, pre-recorded clips, humour and numerous<br />
celebrities. It was a feast for the ears and eyes. NRK<br />
provided a one-hour compilation programme for the<br />
international market with short highlights from this<br />
great event – excerpts from the performances of Maria<br />
Guleghina, Anja Harteros, Solveig Kringelborn, René<br />
Pape and many more. The National Ballet performed<br />
works by Kylian, Lightfoot/Leon and Wheeldon.<br />
TENTHING BRASS ENSEMBLE<br />
252 GENRE For the camera: Music video clip, on location STATUS<br />
completed PRODUCTION COMPANY NRK (Norway) EXECUTIVE PRODUCER<br />
Anne Røthing TV DIRECTOR Torstein Vegheim DURATION 6' 50"<br />
PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Oslo, Norway MUSICAL STYLE Classical<br />
music PIECE Short Suite from Carmen COMPOSER Georges Bizet<br />
ORCHESTRA tenThing brassensemble (Norway) SOLOIST Tine Thing<br />
Helseth SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV NRK<br />
(Norway)
Espen Nersveen<br />
tenThing was founded in the spring of 2007; the ensemble’s<br />
artistic director is Tine Thing Helseth. Tine<br />
had a huge breakthrough in May 2006, when she was<br />
awarded second prize in the Eurovision Young Musicians<br />
Competition 2006. The fact that a large share of<br />
the young, up-and-coming brass players in Norway at<br />
present are women gave birth to the idea of starting a<br />
strictly female ten-piece brass ensemble residing at a<br />
high level both on a national and international scale.<br />
o<br />
Opernhaus Zürich<br />
BERNARD HAITINK REHEARSES<br />
253RICHARD WAGNER’S »PARSIFAL«<br />
AT ZURICH OPERA HOUSE<br />
GENRE Documentary: Portrait, Live recording STATUS in progress<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Opernhaus Zürich (Switzerland) TV DIRECTOR<br />
Timo Schlüssel, Felix Breisach DURATION 0' 52" MUSICAL STYLE<br />
Classical music COMPOSER Richard Wagner CONDUCTOR Bernard<br />
Haitink ORCHESTRA Orchestra of the Zurich Opera House<br />
(Switzerland) SOLOIST Christopher Ventris, Yvonne Naef,<br />
Michael Volle, Matti Salminen SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Stereo<br />
Clive Barda<br />
Bernard Haitink: »They’re all in fortissimo – four bars.<br />
And then there’s a forte in the woodwind. The difference<br />
between fortissimo and then forte and then<br />
diminuendo – that wonderful transition. And suddenly<br />
the harp is there. That could be a little more sensitive,<br />
and also more ‘sensual’. You’re no longer sacred at<br />
this point. You’re really … you know what I mean!«<br />
Experience universal, enthralling insights into a great<br />
maestro’s sensitive work with the orchestra and<br />
singers at Zurich Opera. Bernard Haitink: »No, no,<br />
no cuts. Sorry."<br />
CHRISTOPH VON DOHNÀNYI<br />
254REHEARSES STRAUSS’S »ARIADNE<br />
AUF NAXOS” AT ZURICH OPERA HOUSE<br />
GENRE Documentary: Portrait, Live recording STATUS in progress<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Opernhaus Zürich (Switzerland) TV DIRECTOR<br />
Timo Schlüssel, Felix Breisach DURATION 0' 52" PRODUCTION YEAR<br />
2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE Ariadne auf Naxos<br />
COMPOSER Richard Strauss CONDUCTOR Christoph von Dohnànyi<br />
ORCHESTRA Orchestra of the Zurich Opera House (Switzerland)<br />
SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Stereo<br />
Christoph von Dohnànyi: »I’m for music you can listen<br />
to. And I’m prepared to talk about it afterwards. But<br />
first, I want something to surprise me. And I’m willing<br />
to open my ears, without thinking I should be able to<br />
warble along with it. That’s simply never been a priority<br />
in music. It should make an impression, and people<br />
should be overcome by that impression.« How does<br />
a great maestro rehearse a work? A glimpse behind<br />
the scenes in the everyday working life of the theatre.<br />
At first hand, unembellished, thrilling. Christoph von<br />
Dohnànyi: humorous and direct. Christoph von<br />
Dohnànyi: »Do it to me! Or I’ll do it to you! However<br />
you do it, do it fast!"<br />
255 FIDELIO<br />
GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS in progress<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Opernhaus Zürich (Switzerland) TV DIRECTOR<br />
Felix Breisach DURATION 135' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 MUSICAL STYLE<br />
Classical music COMPOSER Ludwig van Beethoven CONDUCTOR<br />
Bernard Haitink ORCHESTRA Orchestra of the Zurich Opera<br />
House (Switzerland) CHOIR Chorus of the Zurich Opera House<br />
(Switzerland) SOLOIST Kresimir Strazanac, Lucio Gallo, Roberto<br />
Saccà, Melanie Diener, Alfred Muff, Sandra Trattnigg, Christoph<br />
Strehl, Boguslaw Bidzinski, Morgan Moody COSTUMES Ezio<br />
Toffolutti STAGE DIRECTOR Katharina Thalbach SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
HD/Dolby surround 5.1<br />
Suzanne Schwiertz<br />
»This opera will earn me a martyr’s crown, «Beethoven<br />
lamented over »Fidelio«, and presenting the<br />
ideas of the French Revolution – Liberty, Equality and<br />
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Fraternity – in dramatic musical form on stage demanded<br />
well-nigh Herculean efforts of him. In her<br />
realistic staging of the piece, German actress Katharina<br />
Thalbach has lovingly integrated elaborated<br />
details while preserving the work’s ambivalence and<br />
dramatic inconsistencies – transcending all periods<br />
and all emotional moods of the individual figures.<br />
Bernhard Haitink has created magical moments at<br />
the rostrum of the Zurich Opera Orchestra, greeted<br />
by audiences with ovations.<br />
NIKOLAUS HARNONCOURT<br />
256REHEARSES MOZART’S »THE MAGIC<br />
FLUTE« AT ZURICH OPERA HOUSE<br />
GENRE Documentary: Portrait, Live recording STATUS in progress<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Opernhaus Zürich (Switzerland) TV DIRECTOR<br />
Timo Schlüssel, Felix Breisach DURATION 0' 52" PRODUCTION YEAR<br />
2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE The Magic Flute<br />
COMPOSER Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart CONDUCTOR Nikolaus<br />
Harnoncourt ORCHESTRA Orchestra of the Zurich Opera House<br />
(Switzerland) SOLOIST Julia Kleiter, Elena Mosuc, Eva Liebau,<br />
Christoph Strehl, Ruben Drole, Matti Salminen, Rudolf<br />
Schasching SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Stereo<br />
Emmanuel Ammon<br />
Nikolaus Harnoncourt: »If I opt for a tempo that I’m<br />
convinced is Mozart’s tempo, then I can already be<br />
sure today that certain people will react as if I always<br />
do everything differently. But once such a reading of a<br />
work has asserted itself, you can’t revert to inaccurate<br />
listening habits. Over the past 50 years I’ve discovered<br />
a great many things that people have always initially<br />
resisted, and now they’re all doing them – some in an<br />
even more extreme way than me.« This documentary<br />
provides a direct insight into the work of a great maestro<br />
with the orchestra and singers at Zurich Opera<br />
House. What is the message of the »Magic Flute«?<br />
Nikolaus Harnoncourt: »Love, love, love.«<br />
ORF Austrian<br />
Broadcasting Corporation<br />
257 A SUMMER NIGHT'S GALA<br />
AT GRAFENEGG<br />
GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording STATUS<br />
in progress PRODUCTION COMPANY ORF (Austria) PRODUCER Michael<br />
Heinzl EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Heidelinde Rudy TV DIRECTOR Heidelinde<br />
Haschek DURATION 80' 20" PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED<br />
Grafenegg Castle, Lower Austria, 20.06.2008 MUSICAL STYLE<br />
Classical music COMPOSER Pablo Sarasate, George Gershwin,<br />
Edvard Elgar, Franz Lehar, Antonio Vivaldi CONDUCTOR Andrés<br />
Orozco-Estrada ORCHESTRA Niederösterreichisches Tonkünstler<br />
Orchester (Austria) SOLOIST Katia and Marielle Labeque, Sarah<br />
Chang, Michael Schade SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby surround<br />
5.1 DISTRIBUTION TV ORF (Austria)<br />
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In 2007 Austria got a new summer festival that became<br />
famous immediately: founded and supervised by<br />
Austrian star pianist Rudolf Buchbinder, the festival is<br />
held at a newly erected concert hall in the gardens of<br />
Grafenegg Castle. This year’s open-air live coverage<br />
presented star guests such as Katia and Marielle<br />
Labeque, young violinist Sarah Chang and tenorissimo<br />
Michael Schade. Within a comprehensive programme<br />
featuring music by Lehàr, Saint-Saens, Sarasate, Elgar,<br />
and many others, the soloists were accompanied by<br />
the Tonkünstler Orchestra Lower Austria, directed<br />
by Andrés Orozco-Estrada.<br />
ANYTHING NEW ABOUT HAYDN?<br />
258 GENRE Documentary: Music STATUS in progress PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
ORF (Austria), Felix Breisach Medienwerkstatt (Austria)<br />
CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY SWR (Germany) ASS. PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
Ministry for Culture, Education and Science (Austria) PRODUCER<br />
Michael Heinzl, Felix Breisach EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Karin Veitl<br />
TV DIRECTOR Herbert Eisenschenk CAMERA Herbert Senegacnik<br />
EDITOR Tanja Lesowsky AUTHOR Herbert Eisenschenk PRODUCTION<br />
YEAR 2009 RECORDED Eisenstadt, Vienna, Wieselburg, Fertöd a.o.<br />
MUSICAL STYLE Classical music COMPOSER Joseph Haydn CONDUCTOR<br />
Adam Fischer ORCHESTRA Philharmonia Quartet (Austria),<br />
Österreichisch-Ungarische Philarmonie (Austria/Hungary)<br />
SOLOIST Pieter Wispelwey, Michael Brüssing, Wolfgang Dimetrik<br />
SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV ORF (Austria)<br />
Herbert Eisenschenk<br />
This year is going to commemorate the bicentenary of<br />
Joseph Haydn’s death. With different documentaries<br />
and live transmissions, the Austrian television will<br />
be focusing on the life and works of this illustrious<br />
Austrian composer. Whatever is known nowadays<br />
about »classical music«, »symphony«, »string quartet«<br />
or »piano sonata« has its origin in Haydn’s outstanding<br />
musical creativity. The documentary film<br />
»Anything new about Haydn?« tries to reveal the<br />
fascinating world of the Austrian composer at authentic<br />
places. With Nikolaus Paryla (narrator), Adam<br />
Fischer (conductor), Michael Brüssing (baritone), Peter<br />
Wispelwey (cello), the Philharmonia Quartet, etc.
DYING IN LOVE AND BEAUTY –<br />
259THE MAKING OF LA BOHÈME<br />
GENRE Documentary: Music STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
ORF (Austria) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY UNITEL (Germany), ZDF<br />
(Germany) PRODUCER Jutta Kittner EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Martin Traxl<br />
TV DIRECTOR Gabriele Flossmann, Klaus Hundsbichler CAMERA<br />
Christoph Engel EDITOR Klaus Hundsbichler DURATION 45'<br />
PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Rosenhügel Studios Wien MUSICAL<br />
STYLE Classical music COMPOSER Giacomo Puccini SOURCE VIDEO/<br />
AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo<br />
ORF<br />
For the new film version of Puccini’s opera »La Bohème«,<br />
director Robert Dornhelm and his stars, the<br />
dream team Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazón,<br />
provided an entertaining look behind the scenes. The<br />
more the opera was developing its tragic story on the<br />
set, the more fun the actors were having backstage.<br />
From the first scene until the end several weeks after,<br />
a special camera team followed the different steps of<br />
the »La Bohème« film team in a renowned film studio<br />
in Vienna.<br />
IRMINGARD – SALZBURG FESTIVAL<br />
2602008 GENRE Relay of: Ensemble/band appearance, Live recording<br />
STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY ORF Salzburg (Austria)<br />
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Siegbert Stronegger TV DIRECTOR Kurt Liewehr<br />
DURATION 103' 30" PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Salzburg Festival<br />
2008 MUSICAL STYLE Contemporary music COMPOSER Mnozil Brass<br />
ORCHESTRA Mnozil Brass (Austria) LIBRETTO Bernd Jeschek STAGE<br />
DIRECTOR Bernd Jeschek SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo<br />
DISTRIBUTION TV ORF (Austria)<br />
ORF<br />
After the smashing success of their operetta »The<br />
Trojan Boat« at the Ruhr Triennial 2005, Mnozil Brass<br />
and Bernd Jeschek have written their first music<br />
theatre project. Bertl, a beautiful prince from Melk, is<br />
struck by Cupid’s arrow and falls in love with Irmingard,<br />
the emperor’s granddaughter. However, she disdains<br />
the handsome prince, which makes the emperor,<br />
who is longing to retire, so angry that he throws her<br />
into the darkest dungeon of his prison. Bertl is consumed<br />
by longing for her, and she also suspects that<br />
she might not have made the smartest move. Between<br />
classical opera sounds and tango, theatre and entertainment,<br />
Mnozil Brass have created a vibrating show<br />
at the highest musical level.<br />
KARAJAN MEMORIAL CONCERT ON<br />
261THE OCCASION OF HIS 100TH<br />
BIRTHDAY<br />
GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording STATUS<br />
completed PRODUCTION COMPANY UNITEL Classica (Germany), ORF<br />
(Austria) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY ZDF (Germany) ASS. PRODUCTION<br />
COMPANY ARTE (France) PRODUCER Ernst Buchrucker, Michael<br />
Heinzl EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Sandra Marchart TV DIRECTOR Agnes<br />
Meth DURATION 113' 57" PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Grosser<br />
Musikvereinssaal Wien MUSICAL STYLE Classical music COMPOSER<br />
Ludwig van Beethoven, Piotr I. Tchaikovsky, Johann Sebastian<br />
Bach CONDUCTOR Seiji Ozawa ORCHESTRA Berlin Philharmonic<br />
Orchestra (Germany) SOLOIST Anne-Sophie Mutter SOURCE<br />
VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby surround 5.1 DISTRIBUTION TV UNITEL Classica<br />
(Germany)<br />
ORF<br />
The Golden Hall of Vienna’s Musikverein was the<br />
dazzling venue for the live recording of one of four<br />
concerts performed by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra<br />
under Seiji Ozawa and featuring Anne-Sophie<br />
Mutter. Playing Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, Mutter’s<br />
perfor-mance glows with a high sensuality and ethereal<br />
beauty, like in her encore of Bach’s Sarabande in D<br />
minor. Tchaikovsky’s »Pathétique« is given a powerful,<br />
full-bodied account under Seiji Ozawa. It is a concert<br />
that commemorates Herbert von Karajan in a supremely<br />
moving manner.<br />
ROMEO AND JULIET<br />
262 GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY ORF (Austria), UNITEL (Germany) CO-<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY UNITEL Classica (Germany) ASS. PRODUCTION<br />
COMPANY Salzburg Festival Foundation (Austria) PRODUCER Michael<br />
Heinzl, Magdalena Herbst EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Heidelinde Rudy<br />
TV DIRECTOR Brian Large DURATION 162' 25" PRODUCTION YEAR 2008<br />
RECORDED Felsenreitschule Salzburg, 02.08.2008 MUSICAL STYLE<br />
Classical music COMPOSER Charles Gounod CONDUCTOR Yannick<br />
Nézet-Séguin ORCHESTRA Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg<br />
(Austria) CHOIR Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor<br />
(Austria) SOLOIST Nino Machaidze, Rolando Villazòn, Michail<br />
Petrenko, Russel Braun COSTUMES Catherine Zuber STAGE DIRECTOR<br />
Bartlett Sher SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby surround 5.1<br />
DISTRIBUTION TV UNITEL Classica (Germany)<br />
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ORF<br />
Taking Netrebko’s place as Julia, Georgian soprano<br />
Nino Machaidze, who looks a bit like Angelina Jolie,<br />
was confronted with the expectations of being Salzburg’s<br />
new prima donna. And the 25-year-old soprano<br />
has brilliantly succeeded in living up to these expectations.<br />
The new production of the Salzburg Festival<br />
2008, conducted by Canadian Yannick Nezet-Seguin<br />
and staged by US director Bartlett Sher, also stars<br />
Mexican tenor Rolando Villazón and Russian bass<br />
Mikhail Petrenko.<br />
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING MUSIC<br />
263– THE COMPOSER GEORG F. HAAS<br />
GENRE Documentary: Music STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
ORF (Austria) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY Felix Breisach Medienwerkstatt<br />
(Austria) PRODUCER Jutta Kittner, Felix Breisach EXECUTIVE<br />
PRODUCER Sharon Nuni TV DIRECTOR Barbara Pichler-Hausegger<br />
DURATION 31' 53" PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Paris, Vienna<br />
SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV ORF (Austria)<br />
ORF<br />
»Melancholy« was the title of Georg F. Haas’s last<br />
opera, commissioned by the modern art and music<br />
festival Steirischer Hebst and premiered last June in<br />
Paris. Melancholy is also a kind of feeling to which the<br />
Austrian composer attaches a lot of importance in his<br />
life and creative work. Nevertheless, he is living his<br />
own »utopia«, always longing and searching for a<br />
better world. He has not found the true centre of his<br />
existence yet. His music, however, is performed worldwide.<br />
The film is a journey into the secret world of a<br />
fine artist.<br />
264 THE VIENNA BOYS’ CHOIR –<br />
DISTANT ROADS<br />
GENRE Documentary: Music STATUS in progress PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
Faudon Movies (Austria) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY ORF (Austria)<br />
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Heidelinde Rudy TV DIRECTOR Curd Faudon<br />
DURATION 52' DURATION2 90' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Vienna,<br />
Turkey, Asia CHOIR Vienna Boys' Choir (Austria) SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
HD/Dolby surround 5.1 DISTRIBUTION TV ORF (Austria)<br />
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P.O.P.1<br />
Internationally acclaimed filmmaker Curd Faudon<br />
brings to life a never-before-seen, intimate view of the<br />
Vienna Boys’ Choir, one of the most famous choirs in<br />
the world. In a combination of fly-on-the-wall documentary<br />
and cinematic elements, this multi-layered<br />
feature film embarks on a journey around the world.<br />
It takes the choir, for the first time, to the Silk Road,<br />
where the boys have been invited to perform their children’s<br />
opera based on original songs from the historical<br />
area between Turkey and China. The boys’ daily life<br />
between school and rehearsing with famous conductors<br />
such as Riccardo Muti is also part of the film as<br />
well as their history since Maximilian I.<br />
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PAPA HAYDN 265 GENRE Documentary: Music, on location STATUS in progress<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY P.O.P.1 (Wales, UK) PRODUCER Rhian Davies<br />
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Robert Nicholls TV DIRECTOR Dafydd Rhys CAMERA<br />
Stephen Hart EDITOR Alun Morris Jones DURATION 48' PRODUCTION<br />
YEAR 2008 RECORDED 05.09.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
COMPOSER Joseph Haydn CONDUCTOR John Hugh Thomas ORCHESTRA<br />
Vale of Glamorgan Ensemble/Haydn Trio Eisenstadt (Wales,<br />
UK/Austria) CHOIR Swansea Bach Choir (Wales) SOLOIST Elin<br />
Manahan Thomas SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Stereo<br />
Soprano Elin Manahan Thomas presents a musical<br />
profile on the life and some of the works of Joseph<br />
Haydn. This beautifully shot music documentary features<br />
Vienna and the Esterhazy Palace in Eisenstadt<br />
with exclusive music footage from Haydn Halle. Elin is<br />
supported by the Swansea Bach Choir for the following<br />
works from »The Creation«: Die Schoepfung/The<br />
Creation, Mit Staunen sieht das Wunderwerk/The<br />
marv'lous work beholds amazed, Nun beut die Flur<br />
das frische Gruen/With verdure clad the fields appear,<br />
Die Himmel erzaehlen die Ehre Gottes/The Heavens<br />
are telling the glory of God. She also performs some<br />
of Joseph Haydn’s arrangements of Welsh folk tunes<br />
with the Haydn Trio Eisenstadt.
Pars Media<br />
IN TEMPUS PRAESENS<br />
266 GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording STATUS<br />
completed PRODUCTION COMPANY SF Schweizer Fernsehen<br />
(Switzerland) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY PARS MEDIA (Germany)<br />
PRODUCER Thomas Beck, Marieke Schroeder, Jan Schmidt-Garre<br />
TV DIRECTOR Jan Schmidt-Garre CAMERA Thomas Bresinsky EDITOR<br />
Gaby Kull-Neujahr DURATION 35' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED<br />
Lucerne, 30.08.2007 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE In<br />
Tempus Praesens COMPOSER Sofia Gubaidulina CONDUCTOR Sir<br />
Simon Rattle ORCHESTRA Berlin Philharmonic (Germany) SOLOIST<br />
Anne-Sophie Mutter SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby surround 5.1<br />
In 2007 Sofia Gubaidulina’s second violin concerto<br />
»In Tempus Praesens« was first performed at the<br />
Lucerne Festival. The concerto was commissioned<br />
by Paul Sacher and dedicated to Anne-Sophie<br />
Mutter. In the meantime, the piece has been played<br />
by many orchestras and has been highly acclaimed<br />
worldwide as one of the most important contemporary<br />
pieces for the violin.<br />
NOT JUST ONE TRUTH –<br />
267PIERRE-LAURENT AIMARD<br />
SERIES Legato – the world of the piano GENRE Documentary:<br />
Portrait, on location STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY PARS<br />
MEDIA (Germany) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY EuroArts (Germany)<br />
PRODUCER Jan Schmidt-Garre, Marieke Schroeder ASSOCIATED PRODUCER<br />
Bernd Hellthaler TV DIRECTOR Jan Schmidt-Garre CAMERA Thomas<br />
Bresinsky EDITOR Gaby Kull-Neujahr AUTHOR Jan Schmidt-Garre<br />
DURATION 175' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED New York, Boston,<br />
Munich MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE Die Kunst der Fuge;<br />
Sonata Op. 110 COMPOSER Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van<br />
Beethoven, Elliott Carter SOLOIST Pierre-Laurent Aimard SOURCE<br />
VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby surround 5.1 DISTRIBUTION TV EuroArts<br />
(Germany) THEATRICAL DISTRIBUTION EuroArts (Germany) HOMEVIDEO<br />
DISTRIBUTION EuroArts (Germany) DVD DISTRIBUTION EuroArts<br />
(Germany) MULTIMEDIA DISTRIBUTION EuroArts (Germany)<br />
Portrait of pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard. He meets<br />
Elliott Carter (*1908) in New York. They rehearse a new<br />
piece. Aimard goes to Harvard to work with Bach<br />
scholar Christoph Wolff on »The Art of the Fugue«.<br />
Finally, the concert in Munich is being prepared, posing<br />
new challenges to the Bavarian piano technician.<br />
The programme features a portrait (30 min), a concert<br />
(75 min) and an interview (70 min).<br />
Peter Rosen Productions, Inc.<br />
GARRISON KEILLOR: THE MAN ON<br />
268THE RADIO IN THE RED SHOES<br />
GENRE Documentary: Music, on location STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Peter Rosen Productions, Inc. (USA) CO-<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Educational Broadcasting Company Channel 13<br />
NY (USA) ASS. PRODUCTION COMPANY Independent Television Service<br />
(ITVS) (USA) PRODUCER Peter Rosen EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Susan Lacy,<br />
Sally Joe Fifer TV DIRECTOR Peter Rosen CAMERA Joel Shapiro, Peter<br />
Rosen EDITOR Peter Rosen, Robert Jorreson AUTHOR Garrison<br />
Keillor DURATION 87' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Throughout<br />
USA, 01.01.2007 PIECE Various ORCHESTRA Guys All-Star Shoe<br />
Band (USA) SOLOIST Garrison Keillor SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Stereo<br />
DISTRIBUTION TV PBS (USA) THEATRICAL DISTRIBUTION International Film<br />
Circuit (USA) HOMEVIDEO DISTRIBUTION New Video (USA) DVD<br />
DISTRIBUTION New Video (USA)<br />
Peter Rosen Productions, Inc.<br />
America’s foremost humorist and commentator,<br />
Garrison Keillor, takes his skits and jokes, music and<br />
monologues across the country in his traveling radio<br />
show, spinning his stories into American gold. This<br />
free form, intimate look at the private man in the public<br />
spotlight goes behind the scenes of America’s most<br />
popular radio show, »A Prairie Home Companion«,<br />
and inside the imagination of the man who created it.<br />
GORDON GETTY: 269THE MUSICAL CURSE<br />
GENRE Documentary: Music, on location STATUS in progress<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Peter Rosen Productions, Inc. (USA) PRODUCER<br />
Peter Rosen EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Dale Caro ASSOCIATED PRODUCER<br />
Thomas Halaczinsky TV DIRECTOR Peter Rosen CAMERA Robert<br />
Elfstrom EDITOR Thomas Halaczynsky DURATION 52' PRODUCTION YEAR<br />
2008 RECORDED Mexico, Russia, Italy, USA, 01.01.2007 MUSICAL<br />
STYLE Contemporary music COMPOSER Gordon Getty CONDUCTOR<br />
Mikhail Pletnev ORCHESTRA Russian National Orchestra (Russia)<br />
SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Stereo<br />
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Peter Rosen Productions, Inc.<br />
Deaths, suicides, overdoses, kidnapping, extreme<br />
wealth, AIDS ... Gordon Getty has seen the lot. How<br />
did it affect his music? A son of the oil magnate J Paul<br />
Getty. Although he thinks that he would have become<br />
a composer no matter what, Getty credits his wealth<br />
for giving him the unrestricted liberty to compose. Yet<br />
he credits his passion for music for lifting the curse of<br />
his family's inherited wealth and for letting him avoid<br />
all the trappings of money. »I have ideals. And if you<br />
have ideals, and the ideal is something bigger than you<br />
– music is something bigger than me – it’s a mountain<br />
I’m trying to climb. Then you might escape the curse.«<br />
LEONARD BERNSTEIN REFLECTIONS<br />
270 GENRE Documentary: Music, on location STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Peter Rosen Productions, Inc. (USA) PRODUCER<br />
Peter Rosen EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Timothy White TV DIRECTOR Peter<br />
Rosen CAMERA Peter Rosen, Chuck Clifton EDITOR Peter Rosen<br />
AUTHOR Leonard Bernstein DURATION 54' PRODUCTION YEAR 1977<br />
RECORDED Tel Aviv, New York MUSICAL STYLE Classical music COMPOSER<br />
Leonard Bernstein CONDUCTOR Leonard Bernstein ORCHESTRA Israel<br />
Philharmonic Orchetsra (Israel) CHOIR Rinat and Jerusalem<br />
Academy Choirs (Israel) SOLOIST Leonard Bernstein SOURCE<br />
VIDEO/AUDIO Film 16 mm/Stereo ADDITIONAL INFORMATION 2008<br />
Remastered version of 1978 film<br />
Now released in the United States for the first time<br />
since its production 30 years ago, this rare film stands<br />
alone amongst the many other Bernstein biography<br />
and concert programs. Intimate, strikingly honest,<br />
talking directly to the camera, Bernstein reveals stories<br />
never heard before about his childhood and early years<br />
in Boston, his musical growth at Harvard and at the<br />
Curtis Institute, and the influence of great masters like<br />
Reiner, Mitropoulis, and Koussevitsky. He shares his<br />
feelings on the nature of the creative process and the<br />
joy of music, set against the backdrop of a trip to his<br />
beloved Israel to celebrate the 30th anniversary of his<br />
first appearance there.<br />
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271 GENRE Documentary: Historical, on location STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Peter Rosen Productions, Inc. (USA) CO-<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY WDR (Germany) ASS. PRODUCTION COMPANY KCET<br />
Los Angeles Public Television (USA) PRODUCER Peter Rosen<br />
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Lothar Mattner ASSOCIATED PRODUCER Sara Lukinson<br />
TV DIRECTOR Peter Rosen CAMERA Joel Shapiro EDITOR Hilan Warshaw<br />
AUTHOR Sara Lukinson DURATION 54' PRODUCTION YEAR 2007 RECORDED<br />
Los Angeles, New York, 01.01.2007 MUSICAL STYLE Contemporary<br />
music PIECE Various COMPOSER Arnold Schoenberg, Hanns Eisler,<br />
Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Richard Hofmann, Ernst Krenek<br />
ORCHESTRA Ensemble Recherche (Germany) SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
DV/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV PBS (USA), Arte (France-Germany)<br />
HOMEVIDEO DISTRIBUTION Kultur (USA) DVD DISTRIBUTION Kultur (USA)<br />
Akademie der Künste<br />
Combining interviews with rare archival footage,<br />
»Shadows in Paradise« portrays the vibrant atmosphere<br />
of the Los Angeles German-speaking exile community<br />
during the 1930s and 1940s, revealing their<br />
struggles, frustrations and accomplishments. By 1939,<br />
30,000 intellectuals and radicals were exiled from Europe;<br />
eighty percent of which were Jewish. The events<br />
of WWII forced many of the greatest minds of the 20th<br />
century into exile in the United States. The scores of<br />
émigrés who settled in Southern California, such as<br />
composers Arnold Schoenberg, Erich Wolfgang Korngold,<br />
Ernst Krenek, Erich Zeisl, and Walter Arlen, writers<br />
Thomas Mann and Bertolt Brecht, and director<br />
Fritz Lang, briefly transformed the area into one of the<br />
capitals of world culture and profoundly altered the<br />
horizons of American music, literature and the arts.<br />
Poorhouse International Ltd.<br />
BROADWAY GOES HOLLYWOOD<br />
272 GENRE Documentary: Music STATUS in progress PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
Wichita Films (France) TV DIRECTOR Clara Kuperberg AUTHOR Clara<br />
Kuperberg DURATION 52' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
DigiBeta/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV Poorhouse International (United<br />
Kingdom)
Musical comedy is a typical American form of entertainment<br />
dealing with burning issues of the American<br />
society from slavery (»Show Boat«) to depression<br />
(»Annie«) and World War II (»Cabaret«) to Vietnam<br />
War (»Hair«). Clara Kuperberg has had the good luck<br />
to obtain in-depth interviews with Cyd Charisse and<br />
Hermes Pan, two of the leading exponents of the<br />
genre. Clips from major musical comedies underpin<br />
what Cyd Charisse (»Singin’ in the Rain«) and Hermes<br />
Pan (choreographer for Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers,<br />
Cyd Charisse and Michael Jackson) have to say.<br />
CASTOR ET POLLUX<br />
273 GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Opus Arte (United Kingdom) TV DIRECTOR Misjel<br />
Vermeiren SETS Patrick Kinmonth DURATION 155' PRODUCTION YEAR<br />
2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music COMPOSER Jean-Philippe<br />
Rameau CONDUCTOR Christophe Rousset ORCHESTRA Les Talens<br />
Lyriques (France) CHOIR Chorus of the Nederlandse Opera<br />
(Netherlands) SOLOIST Anna Maria Panzarella, Finnur<br />
Bjarnasson, Henk Neven CHOREOGRAPHY BY Amir Hosseinpour<br />
STAGE DIRECTOR Pierre Audi SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby surround 5.1<br />
DISTRIBUTION TV Poorhouse International (United Kingdom)<br />
Arguably Rameau’s finest creation in the tragédie<br />
lyrique style. The libretto is based on mythology<br />
and focuses on the unusual theme of self-sacrificing<br />
love between Castor, who is mortal, and his immortal<br />
brother, Pollux. The strikingly luminous sets depict<br />
a stylized version of the constellation and give this<br />
production a wonderful 21st-century baroque look.<br />
LEON FLEISHER – RECITAL FOR<br />
274TWO HANDS<br />
GENRE Relay of: Instrumental recital, Live recording STATUS<br />
completed PRODUCTION COMPANY Les Films d'ici (France)<br />
CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY ARTE (France) TV DIRECTOR Mark Kidel<br />
AUTHOR Mark Kidel DURATION 48' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED<br />
Fondation Singer Polignac, Paris COMPOSER Johann Sebastian<br />
Bach, Frédéric Chopin, Maurice Ravel SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
DigiBeta/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV Poorhouse International<br />
(United Kingdom)<br />
Leon Fleisher is one of the greatest pianists of our<br />
time. For a major part of his life he was unable to use<br />
his right hand, and the tragic circumstances in which<br />
this injury cut short a brilliant career and led to his<br />
rebirth as one of the world’s top high-level piano<br />
teachers and an interpreter of the left-hand keyboard<br />
repertoire was the subject of Mark Kidel’s award-winning<br />
documentary. Now Leon Fleisher has recovered<br />
the use of both hands and recorded a couple of highly<br />
praised CD’s. Filmed in a beautiful salon of the Fondation<br />
Singer-Polignac in Paris – a large room in which<br />
Stravinsky, Ravel and others played –, Leon Fleisher<br />
presents works by Bach, Schubert, Chopin, Ravel and<br />
Debussy.<br />
MARCIA HAYDÉE – THE BEST<br />
275IS STILL TO COME!<br />
GENRE Documentary: Dance STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
Moving Angel (Germany) TV DIRECTOR Jean-Christophe Blavier<br />
AUTHOR Jean-Christophe Blavier DURATION 45' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008<br />
SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta DISTRIBUTION TV Poorhouse International<br />
(United Kingdom)<br />
Marcia Haydée was an exceptional dancer and one of<br />
the greatest ballerinas of our time. When dancing with<br />
the Stuttgart Ballet she inspired choreographers such<br />
as John Cranco, Maurice Béjart and John Neumeier.<br />
Since 2004 she is director of the ballet in Santiago de<br />
Chile. In this portrait her colleague and friend Jean<br />
Christophe Blavier takes her to the barren Atacama<br />
desert, which Marcia Haydée had always wanted to<br />
visit. There she reminisces about her life. Clips of the<br />
greatest performances and from her work in Chile<br />
round off this first in-depth profile.<br />
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PINOCCHIO'S ADVENTURES<br />
276 GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Opus Arte (United Kingdom) TV DIRECTOR<br />
Thomas Grimm DURATION 150' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 MUSICAL STYLE<br />
Classical music COMPOSER Jonathan Dove SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD<br />
DISTRIBUTION TV Poorhouse International Ltd. (United Kingdom)<br />
DVD DISTRIBUTION Opus Arte (United Kingdom)<br />
Jonathan Dove has already made himself a name in<br />
opera, not least with the successful airport comedy<br />
»Flight« at Glyndebourne. Together with librettist<br />
Alasdair Middleton he created a wonderful holiday<br />
piece for young and old based on Collodi’s world hit.<br />
277 TAMERLANO<br />
GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Opus Arte (United Kingdom) TV DIRECTOR<br />
Graham Vick SETS Richard Hudson DURATION 240' PRODUCTION YEAR<br />
2008 RECORDED Teatro Real Madrid MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
COMPOSER George Frideric Handel CONDUCTOR Paul McCreesh<br />
ORCHESTRA Teatro Real Resident Orchestra (Spain) SOLOIST Plácido<br />
Domingo, Monica Bacelli SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby surround<br />
5.1 DISTRIBUTION TV Poorhouse International (United Kingdom)<br />
In the heyday of the castrati, Haendel composed<br />
»Tamerlano« for Francesco Boresini, who was the first<br />
great Italian tenor to visit London. Teatro Real’s new<br />
recording is just in time for the Haendel celebrations<br />
of 2009, featuring Plácido Domingo in splendid voice,<br />
having recently added the part of Bajazet to his amazing<br />
repertoire of some 126 roles.<br />
TANNHÄUSER – THE<br />
278REVOLUTIONARY GENRE Documentary: Music, Studio production STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY RM Creative (Germany) TV DIRECTOR Reiner E.<br />
Moritz DURATION 58' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Festspielhaus<br />
Baden-Baden MUSICAL STYLE Classical music COMPOSER Richard<br />
Wagner CONDUCTOR Philippe Jordan ORCHESTRA Deutsches<br />
Symphonieorchester (Germany) SOLOIST Waltraud Meier, Camilla<br />
Nylund, Robert Gambill STAGE DIRECTOR Nikolaus Lehnhoff<br />
DISTRIBUTION TV Poorhouse International Ltd. (UK) DVD DISTRIBUTION<br />
Arthaus Musik (Germany)<br />
84 avantpremière2009 Andrea Kremper<br />
After the highly successful »Parsifal«, »Lohengrin«<br />
and »Tristan und Isolde«, Nikolaus Lehnhoff has now<br />
staged »Tannhäuser« as a coproduction between De<br />
Nederlandse Opera and Festspielhaus Baden-Baden.<br />
The superlative cast includes Waltraud Meier, Camilla<br />
Nylund, Robert Gambill, Roman Trekel and Stephen<br />
Milling. As Lehnhoff puts it himself in the accompanying<br />
documentary, »Tannhäuser is the classic case of<br />
an existential outlaw who is perceived by society as a<br />
provocation and menace«.<br />
THE BUSKAID SOWETO STRING<br />
279ENSEMBLE IN CONCERT<br />
GENRE Relay of: Instrumental recital, Live recording STATUS<br />
completed PRODUCTION COMPANY Calliope Media (United Kingdom)<br />
TV DIRECTOR Mark Kidel DURATION 70' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED<br />
Cité de la Musique, Paris MUSICAL STYLE Classical music COMPOSER<br />
Edvard Grieg, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Bela Bartók<br />
ORCHESTRA The Buskaid String Ensemble (South Africa) DANCE STYLE<br />
Ethnic dance SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV<br />
Poorhouse International (United Kingdom)<br />
When most of the filming for the documentary<br />
»Soweto Strings« had been completed, director Mark<br />
Kidel recorded a very successful concert at Cité de la<br />
Musique in Paris with the Buskaid Soweto String<br />
Ensemble, which is an excellent companion piece to<br />
the documentary, showing off the African musicians<br />
and dancers at their best. The music ranges from<br />
Grieg to Rameau, Bartók and Mozart and to evergreens<br />
such as »Fever« and »Georgia«.<br />
UN BALLO IN MASCHERA<br />
280 GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Opus Arte (United Kingdom) TV DIRECTOR Angel<br />
Luis Ramirez DURATION 140' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Teatro<br />
Real Madrid MUSICAL STYLE Classical music COMPOSER Giuseppe<br />
Verdi CONDUCTOR Jesus Lopez Cobos ORCHESTRA Orchestra of<br />
Teatro Real Madrid (Spain) CHOIR Chorus of Teatro Real Madrid<br />
(Spain) SOLOIST Marcelo Álvarez, Violeta Urmana, Carlos Àlvarez<br />
STAGE DIRECTOR Mario Martone SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby<br />
surround 5.1 DISTRIBUTION TV Poorhouse International (United<br />
Kingdom)
This new production from the Teatro Real in Madrid is<br />
set by its well-known Italian cinema and stage director<br />
Mario Martone in 19th-century Boston and unites a<br />
stunning cast of Verdi singers. This is also the first coproduction<br />
of the Spanish opera house with the Royal<br />
Opera House Covent Garden, which was available in<br />
cinemas live.<br />
281 YONDERING<br />
GENRE Relay of: Dance, Studio production STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Prix de Lausanne (Switzerland) TV DIRECTOR<br />
Thomas Grimm DURATION 32' 30" PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED<br />
Beaulieu Theatre Lausanne COMPOSER Stephen C. Foster DANCE<br />
STYLE Contemporary dance CHOREOGRAPHY BY John Neumeier<br />
COSTUMES John Neumeier SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta DISTRIBUTION<br />
TV Poorhouse International (United Kingdom)<br />
This ballet is the result of an invitation to John Neumeier<br />
for the creation of a work for the students of<br />
the National Ballet School of Canada. It was inspired<br />
by the wonderful songs of the 19th-century American<br />
composer Stephen C. Foster, recorded in a new interpretation<br />
by Thomas Hampson. »Yondering« was<br />
performed by students of the Hamburg Ballet,<br />
Canada’s National Ballet Schools and Ecole de Danse<br />
de l’Opéra National de Paris, at the Beaulieu Theatre,<br />
Lausanne, Switzerland in February 2008.<br />
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282 EDGAR<br />
GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Rai Trade (Italy) DURATION 149' PRODUCTION YEAR<br />
2008 RECORDED Teatro Regio, Torino, 25.06.2008 MUSICAL STYLE<br />
Classical music COMPOSER Giacomo Puccini ORCHESTRA Orchestra<br />
and Choir of Teatro Regio (Italy) CHOIR Children's Choir of<br />
Teatro Regio and Conservatorio (Italy) SOLOIST Josè Cura,<br />
Amarilli Nizza COSTUMES Maurizio Balo' STAGE DIRECTOR Lorenzo<br />
Mariani SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby surround 5.1 DISTRIBUTION TV<br />
Rai Trade (Italy) THEATRICAL DISTRIBUTION Rai Trade (Italy)<br />
The version of »Edgar« that is being staged at Teatro<br />
Regio is the contemporary première of the original<br />
version in four acts, reconstructed by Linda Fairtile<br />
for Casa Ricordi with the supervision of Gabriele Dotto<br />
and Claudio Toscani.<br />
283 ERNANI<br />
GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS in progress<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Rai Trade (Italy) RECORDED Teatro Municipale<br />
di Piacenza MUSICAL STYLE Classical music COMPOSER Giuseppe<br />
Verdi CONDUCTOR Giampaolo Bisanti ORCHESTRA Orchestra regionale<br />
dell'Emilia Romagna (Italy) SOLOIST Luca Salsi, Elia Fabbian,<br />
Fabio Sartori COSTUMES Massimo Gasparon LIBRETTO Francesco<br />
Maria Piave SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO Dolby surround 5.1 DISTRIBUTION TV<br />
Rai Trade (Italy)<br />
The bandit. In Spain and Aachen in 1519. Don Carlo<br />
is King of Spain and Ernani is planning a revolt to dethrone<br />
him. The lad is in love with Elvira and, to meet<br />
her, goes disguised to the de Sila family castle, where<br />
she lives. Elvira also loves Ernani, but she has been<br />
promised to the old count, Don Ruy.<br />
IL TURCO IN ITALIA<br />
284 GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS in progress<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Rai Trade (Italy) PRODUCTION YEAR 2009 RECORDED<br />
Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
COMPOSER Gioacchino Rossini CONDUCTOR Bruno Campanella<br />
SOLOIST Simone Alaimo, Cinzia Forte, Bruno de Simone COSTUMES<br />
Santuzza Calì LIBRETTO Felice Romani DISTRIBUTION TV Rai Trade<br />
(Italy)<br />
By the sea shore near Naples. A poet (baritone) is<br />
searching for a plot for a drama buffo. He meets a<br />
band of Gypsies, including the beautiful but unhappy<br />
Zaida (mezzo-soprano) and her confidant Albazar<br />
(tenor). Perhaps the Gypsies can provide some ideas?<br />
The poet's friend, the obstinate and sometimes foolish<br />
Geronio (bass), is looking for a fortune teller to advise<br />
him on his marital problems, but the Gypsies tease<br />
him. Zaida tells the poet that she is from a Turkish<br />
harem. She and her master prince Selim were in love,<br />
but jealous rivals accused her of infidelity and she had<br />
to flee for her life, accompanied by Albazar. Nevertheless,<br />
she still loves only one man and that man is<br />
Selim.<br />
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LA GAZZA LADRA<br />
285 GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS in progress<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Rai Trade (Italy) PRODUCTION YEAR 2009 RECORDED<br />
Teatro Comunale di Bologna MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
COMPOSER Gioacchino Rossini CONDUCTOR Michele Mariotti ORCHESTRA<br />
Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna (Italy) SOLOIST Paolo<br />
Bordogna, Kleopatra Nasiou, Laurence Brownlee COSTUMES Carla<br />
Teti SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO Dolby surround 5.1 DISTRIBUTION TV Rai Trade<br />
(Italy)<br />
Ninetta hopes to marry Giannetto, who is returning<br />
from war. She tries to shelter her father Fernando Villabella,<br />
who has deserted from the army, and is troubled<br />
by the attentions of the mayor, Gottardo. A missing<br />
spoon and the evidence of Isacco, the pedlar, who has<br />
bought a piece of silver from Ninetta to raise money<br />
for her father, lead to her accusation and imprisonment.<br />
She is tried and found guilty, to be saved from<br />
death at the last minute by the discovery of the thief,<br />
the titular thieving magpie.<br />
LADY MACBETH FROM MSENSK<br />
286 GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Rai Trade S.p.A. (Italy) DURATION 170' 05"<br />
PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Teatro Comunale, Florence,<br />
21.06.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music COMPOSER Dmitrij<br />
Shostakovich CONDUCTOR James Colon ORCHESTRA Orchestra and<br />
Choir of Maggio Musicale FIorentino (Italy) SOLOIST Vladimir<br />
Vaneev, Vsevolod Grivnov COSTUMES David Borovsky STAGE DIRECTOR<br />
Lev Dodin SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD DISTRIBUTION TV Rai Trade (Italy)<br />
THEATRICAL DISTRIBUTION Rai Trade (Italy)<br />
An attractive performance magnificently conducted<br />
by a great conductor: James Colon.<br />
287 MEDEA<br />
GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Rai Trade (Italy) DURATION 160' 06" PRODUCTION<br />
YEAR 2008 RECORDED Teatro Regio, Torino, 05.10.2008 MUSICAL STYLE<br />
Classical music COMPOSER Luigi Cherubini CONDUCTOR Evelio Pidò<br />
ORCHESTRA Orchestra and Choir Teatro Regio Torino (Italy)<br />
CHOIR Choir Teatro Regio Torino (Italy) SOLOIST Anna Caterina<br />
Antonacci, Giuseppe Filianoti LIBRETTO François-Benoît Hoffmann<br />
STAGE DIRECTOR Hugo de Ana SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby surround<br />
5.1 DISTRIBUTION TV Rai Trade (Italy) THEATRICAL DISTRIBUTION Rai Trade<br />
(Italy)<br />
A beautiful performance of the famous opera in three<br />
acts composed by Luigi Cherubini.<br />
288 ORFEO<br />
GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS in progress<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Rai Trade (Italy) PRODUCTION YEAR 2009 RECORDED<br />
Teatro alla Scala di Milano MUSICAL STYLE Classical music COMPOSER<br />
Claudio Monteverdi CONDUCTOR Rinaldo Alessandrini SOLOIST<br />
Georg Nigl, Roberta Invernizzi, Sara Mingardo COSTUMES Jacques<br />
Reynaud SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO Dolby surround 5.1 DISTRIBUTION TV Rai<br />
Trade (Italy)<br />
The plot is based on the ancient Greek myth of<br />
Orpheus, who attempts to rescue his dead lover<br />
Eurydice from Hades, the underworld.<br />
86 avantpremière2009 289 RIGOLETTO<br />
GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Rai Trade (Italy) DURATION 160' 09" PRODUCTION<br />
YEAR 2008 RECORDED Teatro Regio Parma, 06.10.2008 MUSICAL STYLE<br />
Classical music COMPOSER Giuseppe Verdi CONDUCTOR Massimo<br />
Zanetti ORCHESTRA Orchestra and Choir of the Teatro Regio<br />
Parma (Italy) SOLOIST Leo Nucci, Désirée Rancatore COSTUMES<br />
Pierluigi Samaritani STAGE DIRECTOR Stefano Vizioli SOURCE<br />
VIDEO/AUDIO Dolby surround 5.1 DISTRIBUTION TV Rai Trade (Italy)<br />
THEATRICAL DISTRIBUTION Rai Trade (Italy)<br />
A strong performance of Leo Nucci, the leading Verdi<br />
and Verismo baritone of our time.<br />
290 THAÏS<br />
GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS in progress<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Rai Trade (Italy) DURATION 160' 16" PRODUCTION<br />
YEAR 2008 RECORDED Teatro Regio Torino, 10.12.2008 MUSICAL STYLE<br />
Classical music COMPOSER Jules Massenet CONDUCTOR Gianandrea<br />
Noseda ORCHESTRA Orchestra of Teatro Regio Torino (Italy) CHOIR<br />
Choir of Teatro Regio Torino (Italy) SOLOIST Barbara Frittoli,<br />
Lado Ataneli COSTUMES Stefano Poda STAGE DIRECTOR Stefano Poda<br />
DISTRIBUTION TV Rai Trade (Italy) THEATRICAL DISTRIBUTION Rai Trade<br />
(Italy)<br />
Thaïs, an opera in three acts by Jules Massenet to<br />
a French libretto by Louis Gallet based on the novel<br />
of the same name by Anatole France. It was first<br />
performed at the Opéra de Paris on 16 March, 1894,<br />
starring the American soprano Sybil Sanderson, for<br />
whom Massenet had written the title role.<br />
THE PURITANS 291 GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS in progress<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Rai Trade (Italy) PRODUCTION YEAR 2009 RECORDED<br />
Teatro Comunale di Bologna MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
COMPOSER Vincenzo Bellini CONDUCTOR Michele Mariotti CHOIR<br />
Teatro Comunale di Bologna (Italy) SOLOIST Juan Diego Flórez,<br />
Ildebrando d' Arcangelo, Nino Machaidze STAGE DIRECTOR Pier Allì<br />
SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby surround 5.1 DISTRIBUTION TV Rai Trade<br />
(Italy) THEATRICAL DISTRIBUTION Rai Trade (Italy) DVD DISTRIBUTION<br />
Decca (United Kingdom)<br />
»The Puritans« is a historical opera in three acts composed<br />
by Vincenzo Bellini and first presented at the<br />
Théâtre Italien, Paris, 25 January, 1835, during the last<br />
year of the gifted composer’s life. The librettist was<br />
Count Pepoli.<br />
VIAGGIO À REIMS<br />
292 GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS in progress<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Rai Trade (Italy) PRODUCTION YEAR 2009 RECORDED<br />
Teatro alla Scala, Milano MUSICAL STYLE Classical music COMPOSER<br />
Gioacchino Rossini CONDUCTOR Ottavio Dantone SOLOIST Patrizia<br />
Ciofi, Daniela Barcellona COSTUMES Giovanna Buzzi STAGE DIRECTOR<br />
Luca Ronconi SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO Dolby surround 5.1 DISTRIBUTION TV<br />
Rai Trade (Italy) THEATRICAL DISTRIBUTION Rai Trade (Italy)<br />
In the heritage of La Scala there are masterpieces like<br />
»Il viaggio a Reims«, a wonderful idea to stage this<br />
opera as a tribute to a maestro of modern theatre:<br />
Luca Ronconi. Rossini’s opera is amongst his most<br />
visionary works. Ronconi’s production, with its screens<br />
and its »televised« theatre, is equally visionary. A cast<br />
with a »homogeneity in virtuosity«: Patrizia Ciofi,<br />
Daniela Barcellona, Carmela Remigio, Annick Massis,<br />
Dmitry Korchak, Nicola Ulivieri, Alistair Miles and<br />
Fabio Capitanucci.
Royal Opera House,<br />
Covent Garden<br />
DON CARLOS 293 GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Opus Arte (UK) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY Royal<br />
Opera House (UK) PRODUCER James Whitbourn EXECUTIVE PRODUCER<br />
Hans Petri TV DIRECTOR Robin Lough CAMERA David Gopsill EDITOR<br />
Steve Eveleigh DURATION 209' 42" PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED<br />
Royal Opera House Covent Garden, 11.06.2008 MUSICAL STYLE<br />
Classical music PIECE Don Carlos COMPOSER Giuseppe Verdi<br />
CONDUCTOR Antonio Pappano ORCHESTRA Royal Opera House (UK)<br />
CHOIR Royal Opera Chorus (UK) SOLOIST Rolando Villazón, Simon<br />
Keenlyside, Marina Poplavskaya STAGE DIRECTOR Nicholas Hytner<br />
SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV Electric Sky (UK)<br />
THEATRICAL DISTRIBUTION Opus Arte (UK) DVD DISTRIBUTION EMI (UK)<br />
MULTIMEDIA DISTRIBUTION Royal Opera House (UK)<br />
Catherine Ashmore<br />
The story of King Philip of Spain and his nephew Don<br />
Carlos in Verdi’s wonderful five-act opera. Themes of<br />
love and friendship weave throughout the story and<br />
Verdi’s magnificent opera is spellbinding as the fate<br />
of Don Carlos is set by his actions.<br />
DON GIOVANNI 294 GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Opus Arte (UK) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY Royal<br />
Opera House (UK) PRODUCER Ferenc van Damme EXECUTIVE<br />
PRODUCER Hans Petri TV DIRECTOR Robin Lough CAMERA David Gopsill<br />
EDITOR Steve Eveleigh DURATION 205' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED<br />
Royal Opera House Covent Garden, 08.09.2008 MUSICAL STYLE<br />
Classical music PIECE Don Giovanni COMPOSER Wolfgang Amadeus<br />
Mozart CONDUCTOR Sir Charles Mackerras ORCHESTRA Royal Opera<br />
House (UK) CHOIR Royal Opera House Chorus (UK) SOLOIST<br />
Simon Keenlyside, Joyce di Donato, Kyle Ketelsen STAGE DIRECTOR<br />
Francesco Zambello SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby surround 5.1<br />
DISTRIBUTION TV Electric Sky (UK) THEATRICAL DISTRIBUTION DigiScreen<br />
(Canada) DVD DISTRIBUTION Opus Arte (UK) MULTIMEDIA DISTRIBUTION<br />
Royal Opera House (UK)<br />
Catherine Ashmore<br />
The bad behaviour of the Don aided by his servant<br />
Leporello have all the girls looking for him. In the first<br />
scene he kills the father of one of his conquests and<br />
then leaves the body as he chases another girl. The<br />
philandering catches up with him and the figure of<br />
the father he killed summons Don Giovanni to have<br />
supper with him in hell. He does, but in this production<br />
he continues his philandering there.<br />
HANSEL AND GRETEL<br />
295 GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS in progress<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Royal Opera House (UK) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
Opus Arte (UK) ASS. PRODUCTION COMPANY BBC (UK) PRODUCER Angela<br />
Alvarez Rilla ASSOCIATED PRODUCER Oliver Macfarlane TV DIRECTOR Sue<br />
Judd CAMERA David Gopsill SETS Christian Fenouillat LIGHT DESIGN<br />
Christophe Forey DURATION 110' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED<br />
Royal Opera House Covent Garden, 16.12.2008 MUSICAL STYLE<br />
Classical music PIECE Hansel and Gretel COMPOSER Engelbert<br />
Humperdinck CONDUCTOR Colin Davis ORCHESTRA Royal Opera<br />
House (UK) CHOIR Royal Opera House Chours (UK) SOLOIST<br />
Angelika Kirchschlager, Diana Damrau, Anja Silja COSTUMES<br />
Agostino Cavalca STAGE DIRECTOR Moshe Leiser, Patrice Caurier<br />
SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby surround 5.1 DISTRIBUTION TV Opus Arte<br />
(UK) THEATRICAL DISTRIBUTION Opus Arte (UK) DVD DISTRIBUTION Opus<br />
Arte (UK) MULTIMEDIA DISTRIBUTION Royal Opera House (UK)<br />
The forest entices the hungry brother and sister<br />
searching for food. They come across a gingerbread<br />
house and the temptation is too great. It has dire consequences<br />
as the witch enjoys her captives. Eventually<br />
the witch gets a taste of her own culinary methods and<br />
the children are reunited with their parents.<br />
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296 MANON<br />
GENRE Relay of: Dance, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Opus Arte (UK) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY Royal<br />
Opera House (UK) ASS. PRODUCTION COMPANY NHK (Japan) PRODUCER<br />
Angela Alvarez Rilla EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Hans Petri TV DIRECTOR Ross<br />
Macgibbon CAMERA David Gopsill EDITOR Steve Eveleigh SETS<br />
Nicholas Georgiadis LIGHT DESIGN John B. Read DURATION 125' 20"<br />
PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Royal Opera House Covent Garden,<br />
01.11.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE Manon COMPOSER<br />
Jules Massenet CONDUCTOR Martin Yates ORCHESTRA Royal Opera<br />
House Orchestra (UK) SOLOIST Tamara Rojo, Carlos Acosta<br />
DANCE STYLE Classical ballet CHOREOGRAPHY BY Kenneth Macmillan<br />
DANCE COMPANY Royal Ballet (UK) COSTUMES Lorna Robinson STAGE<br />
DIRECTOR Monica Mason SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby surround 5.1<br />
DISTRIBUTION TV Electric Sky (UK) THEATRICAL DISTRIBUTION Opus Arte<br />
(UK) HOMEVIDEO DISTRIBUTION Decca (UK) DVD DISTRIBUTION Decca (UK)<br />
MULTIMEDIA DISTRIBUTION Royal Opera House (UK)<br />
Provost’s tale of love and greed is here given the ballet<br />
treatment in Kenneth Macmillan’s famous production<br />
starring two of the Royal Ballet’s top dancers. From<br />
meeting Des Grieux in the market place and living with<br />
him, the story of how easily Manon is tempted by<br />
money and jewels is told, and finally the lovers are<br />
united.<br />
297 SALOME<br />
GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Opus Arte (UK) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY Royal<br />
Opera House (UK) ASS. PRODUCTION COMPANY NHK (Japan) PRODUCER<br />
James Whitbourn EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Hans Petri TV DIRECTOR<br />
Jonathan Haswell CAMERA David Gopsill EDITOR Steve Eveleigh<br />
AUTHOR Oscar Wilde SETS Es Devlin LIGHT DESIGN Wolfgang Gobbel<br />
DURATION 110' 28" PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Royal Opera<br />
House Covent Garden, 06.03.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
PIECE Salome COMPOSER Richard Strauss CONDUCTOR Philippe Jordan<br />
ORCHESTRA Royal Opera House Orchestra (UK) SOLOIST Nadja<br />
Michael, Thomas Moser, Michael Volle CHOREOGRAPHY BY Andrew<br />
George COSTUMES Jane Hamilton ORIGINAL TEXT Oscar Wilde STAGE<br />
DIRECTOR David McVicar SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby surround 5.1<br />
DISTRIBUTION TV Electric Sky (UK) THEATRICAL DISTRIBUTION Opus Arte<br />
(UK) DVD DISTRIBUTION Opus Arte (UK) MULTIMEDIA DISTRIBUTION Royal<br />
Opera House (UK)<br />
Clive Barda<br />
88 avantpremière2009 David McVicar’s powerful 2008 production of Oscar<br />
Wilde’s bible-based drama takes the controversially<br />
disturbing film »Salò« as its visual reference, setting it<br />
in a debauched palace in Nazi Germany. Strauss’s ravishing<br />
and voluptuous score adds to the sexual<br />
alchemy conjured by an international cast led by Nadja<br />
Michael in the title role.<br />
RTBF – Belgian TV<br />
CHRIS JORIS & BOB STEWART<br />
298RAINBOW BAND<br />
GENRE Relay of: Instrumental recital, Live recording STATUS<br />
completed PRODUCTION COMPANY RTBF (Belgium) PRODUCER Philippe<br />
Longtain TV DIRECTOR Pierre Barré DURATION 52' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008<br />
RECORDED Liege Palais des Congres MUSICAL STYLE Jazz SOURCE<br />
VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta DISTRIBUTION TV RTBF (Belgium)<br />
The international festival »Jazz a Liege« presented<br />
24 different groups and artists in its 18th edition. This<br />
concert features percussionist Chris Joris with a Euro-<br />
Afro-American band with Bob Stewart (tu), Eric Person<br />
(as, ss, fl), Manolo Cabras (cb), Marek Patrman (dms)<br />
and Baba Sissoko (perc).<br />
CONCERT MENDELSSOHN,<br />
299MOZART AND SCHUMANN<br />
GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording STATUS<br />
completed PRODUCTION COMPANY RTBF (Belgium) CO-PRODUCTION<br />
COMPANY ARTE G.E.I.E. (France), Alfacam Group (Belgium)<br />
PRODUCER Benoît Jacques de Dixmude ASSOCIATED PRODUCER Jean<br />
Wittersheim, Simon Scales TV DIRECTOR Benoît Vlietinck DURATION<br />
42' DURATION 2 60' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED 02.11.2008<br />
MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE Ouverture COMPOSER Felix<br />
Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart<br />
CONDUCTOR Augustin Dumay ORCHESTRA Orchestre Royal de<br />
Chambre de Wallonie (Belgium) SOLOIST Maria Joao Pires,<br />
Augustin Dumay, Pavel Gosmiakov SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Stereo<br />
The Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie celebrates<br />
its 50th anniversary with a brilliant concert.
GAMBA RECITAL BY THE<br />
300RICERCAR CONSORT<br />
GENRE Relay of: Chamber music, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY RTBF (Belgium) PRODUCER Benoit Jacques de<br />
Dixmude TV DIRECTOR Pierre Barré DURATION 55' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008<br />
RECORDED Musée Arts Modernes – Liège, 20.09.2008 MUSICAL STYLE<br />
Classical music PIECE Baroque music for bass viol, harpsichord<br />
and theorbo COMPOSER François Couperin, Marin Marais, Jean-<br />
Philippe de Rameau, Louis Caix d'Hervelois, Robert de Visée<br />
CONDUCTOR Philippe Pierlot ORCHESTRA Ricercar Consort (Belgium)<br />
SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV RTBF (Belgium)<br />
A selection of pieces on the theme of nature featuring<br />
virtuoso gamba player Philippe Pierlot.<br />
PORTRAIT OF AUGUSTIN DUMAY<br />
301 GENRE Documentary: Portrait STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
Capricorn TV (Belgium) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY RTBF (Belgium)<br />
PRODUCER Marco Lintelo TV DIRECTOR Gerard Corbiau AUTHOR Gerard<br />
Corbiau DURATION 52' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical<br />
music SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO Beta SP/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV Capricorn<br />
TV (Belgium)<br />
In a constant concern of balancing the human as well<br />
as the musical approach, this documentary intends to<br />
show our admiration for someone Herbert von Karajan<br />
called »the tall Frenchman who has humour«. Virtuoso,<br />
soloist, orchestra conductor, musical director of<br />
various ensemble, well-listened educationalist, we<br />
have followed him throughout a few concerts he performed<br />
in 2008. We went to Sintra, Portugal, where<br />
he lives, in a wonderful estate facing the ocean. We<br />
met some of his friends (Jose van Dam, Piotr Anderszewski,<br />
Philip Catherine. And we shared with him his<br />
concern about the future of classical music. Essential<br />
question, an alarm bell.<br />
302 QUEEN ELISABETH COMPETITION<br />
GENRE Live recording STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY VRT<br />
(Belgium) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY RTBF (Belgium) PRODUCER Hugo<br />
Sledsens DURATION 59' 59" PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Brussels<br />
Palais des Beaux-Arts MUSICAL STYLE Classical music SOURCE<br />
VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo<br />
In 2008 the Queen Elisabeth Competition was<br />
dedicated to singing. It revealed another dozens of<br />
highly talented singers from all over the world. This<br />
year Szabolcs Brickner, a brilliant tenor from Hungary,<br />
won first prize.<br />
TOOTS THIELEMANS, A JAZZ<br />
303LEGEND GENRE Documentary: Portrait STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
Les Films de la Passerelle (Belgium) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY RTBF<br />
(Belgium), Alfacam Group (Belgium) PRODUCER Christine Pireaux<br />
TV DIRECTOR Pierre Barré, Thierry Loreau DURATION 55' PRODUCTION YEAR<br />
2008 MUSICAL STYLE Jazz SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta DISTRIBUTION TV<br />
Les Films de la Passerelle (Belgium)<br />
Toots certainly owes his popularity to his warm character<br />
and his love of life. He likes a good joke and his<br />
laugh sounds familiar all over the world. A self-made<br />
man, he achieved the American dream. He arrived<br />
penniless in the USA in 1952. Success came quickly<br />
and he played with Franck Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald and<br />
Miles Davis. He elevated the harmonica to the status<br />
of a real instrument. Most of all, Toots is popular for<br />
his music which has a nostalgic touch.<br />
RTV Slovenija<br />
DEAV PREMAL & MITEN WITH<br />
304MANOSE GENRE Relay of: Ensemble/band appearance, Live recording<br />
STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY TV Slovenija (Slovenija)<br />
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Danica Dolinar TV DIRECTOR Barbara Zemljic<br />
DURATION 70' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Ljubljana COMPOSER Deva<br />
Premal, Miten Miten SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo<br />
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RTV SLOVENIJA – SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY<br />
Deva and Miten’s music is an expression of spiritual<br />
devotion, through song and chant. The couple has<br />
been living and playing together since 1991, releasing a<br />
string of acclaimed CDs along the way. The openness<br />
and honesty with which they share their lives and their<br />
music has touched the hearts of thousands of seekers<br />
throughout the world. »Our music is born out of<br />
meditation and a celebration of life. It’s not a matter<br />
of entertaining people,« says Miten.<br />
MAN OF HEARKEN<br />
305 GENRE For the camera: Music video clip, on location STATUS<br />
completed PRODUCTION COMPANY TV Slovenija (Slovenija) PRODUCER<br />
Danica Dolinar TV DIRECTOR Miha Vipotnik CAMERA Miha Vipotnik<br />
EDITOR Andrej Modic AUTHOR Miha Vipotnik DURATION 19' 18"<br />
PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 COMPOSER Bor Turel SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
DigiBeta/Stereo<br />
The entire project could be described as a visual and<br />
sound composition, compounded on the television<br />
screen through various living and creative spaces.<br />
With the help of video documentation, details and<br />
mind concepts, the creator of the programme, Miha<br />
Vipotnik, wanted to show the changing areas of<br />
electro acoustics and the tele-visual laboratory of<br />
the future, where the composer Bor Turel creates and<br />
broadcasts his music in a constantly changing band<br />
of frequencies.<br />
OPERATIC ARIA/SAŠA CANO<br />
306 GENRE For the camera: Music video clip, on location STATUS<br />
completed PRODUCTION COMPANY TV Slovenija (Slovenija) EXECUTIVE<br />
PRODUCER Danica Dolinar TV DIRECTOR Amir Muratovic CAMERA Robert<br />
Baron AUTHOR Amir Muratovic MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
COMPOSER Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Richard Wagner, Piotr<br />
Ilyitch Tchaikovsky, Arrigo Boito CONDUCTOR Tomislav Facini<br />
ORCHESTRA Symophonics RTV Slovenija (Slovenija) SOLOIST Saša<br />
Cano SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV TV<br />
Slovenija (Slovenija)<br />
We broadcast an operatic aria of Slovenian opera<br />
singers in an attractive way for television with a variety<br />
of production approaches. We create an invaluable<br />
archive of today’s generation of Slovenian opera<br />
singers.<br />
OUR LITTLE COMPANY MARCHES/<br />
30750 YEARS OF THE RTVS CHILDREN<br />
AND YOUTH CHOIR<br />
GENRE Documentary: Music STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
TV Slovenija (Slovenija) EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Danica Dolinar TV<br />
DIRECTOR Dušan Moravec CAMERA Jure Nemec EDITOR Andrej Modic<br />
AUTHOR Danica Dolinar DURATION 54' 32" PRODUCTION YEAR 2008<br />
RECORDED Ljubljana PIECE Various Choir Music CHOIR RTVS<br />
Children and Youth Choir (Slovenija) SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
DigiBeta/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV TV Slovenija (Slovenija)<br />
90 avantpremière2009 In the chronicles of the origins of the RTVS Children<br />
and Youth Choir we can read: »We don’t know if anywhere<br />
else in the world almost one thousand children<br />
participated in an audition for a youth choir as was the<br />
case at the Slovene Radio Station in 1957.« Nevertheless,<br />
this mass participation wasn’t a coincidence ...<br />
In the 50 years of their existence, pre-school children<br />
and youth choirs have made more than 1000 recordings<br />
for Radio Slovenija. They also have participated in<br />
film projects, made numerous records, tapes and CDs<br />
and performed in various important vocal and instrumental<br />
or symphonic works and also collaborated in<br />
operas and ballet performances.<br />
SLOVENIAN PHILHARMONIC<br />
308ORCHESTRA TO CELEBRATE<br />
CENTENARY<br />
GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording STATUS<br />
completed PRODUCTION COMPANY TV Slovenija (Slovenija) PRODUCER<br />
Daniel Celarec EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Danica Dolinar TV DIRECTOR<br />
Jan Zakonjsek DURATION 77' 01" PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED<br />
Ljubljana, 21.06.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music CONDUCTOR<br />
George Pehlivanian ORCHESTRA Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra<br />
(Slovenija) SOLOIST Maksim Mrvica SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
DigiBeta/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV TV Slovenija (Slovenija)<br />
One hundred years have passed in 2008 since the<br />
establishing of the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra,<br />
the precursor of today’s national orchestra, the orchestra<br />
with the longest tradition in Slovenia. To celebrate<br />
its 100th anniversary, the Slovenian Philharmonic<br />
Orchestra played an open-air concert in Ljubljana. This<br />
evening’s special guest was Maksim Mrvica, a highly<br />
popular Croatian pianist in this part of Europe. We had<br />
a live transmission of this gala event. It was the first<br />
night in the summer of 2008 and it was spectacular.<br />
SWAN LAKE 309 GENRE Relay of: Dance, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY TV Slovenija (Slovenija) PRODUCER Danica<br />
Dolinar TV DIRECTOR Vojko Vidmar EDITOR Andrej Modic SETS<br />
Marija Levitska LIGHT DESIGN Andrej Hajdinjak DURATION 61' 42"<br />
PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Maribor MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
PIECE Swan Lake COMPOSER Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky CONDUCTOR<br />
Aleksej Baklan ORCHESTRA Orchestra of Slovenian National<br />
Opera and Ballet Maribor (Slovenija) SOLOIST Alenka Ribic<br />
Laufer, Anton Bogov DANCE Swan Lake DANCE STYLE Classical<br />
ballet CHOREOGRAPHY BY Viktor Litvinov COSTUMES Marija Levitska<br />
SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV TV Slovenija<br />
(Slovenija)
»Swan Lake« is one of the most popular romantic<br />
ballets, which even after 122 years since its premiere at<br />
the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow still packs opera and<br />
ballet houses worldwide. This time it will be the ballet<br />
ensemble of The Slovene National Opera and the Ballet<br />
Theatre Maribor, which will lead you toward the<br />
romantic world of love between prince Siegfried and<br />
Odette, a princess turned into a swan.<br />
THE 8TH GALA EVENING OF<br />
310NEW BALLET CHOREOGRAPHIES<br />
GENRE Relay of: Dance, Live recording STATUS in progress<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY TV Slovenija (Slovenija) EXECUTIVE PRODUCER<br />
Danica Dolinar TV DIRECTOR Vojko Vidmar EDITOR Milos MIlosevic<br />
AUTHOR Various SETS Various PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 PIECE Various<br />
SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV TV Slovenija<br />
(Slovenija)<br />
For the eighth time the Association of Ballet Artists<br />
of Slovenia, in co-operation with the Slovene national<br />
broadcaster Televizija Slovenija, has organised an<br />
evening of new ballet choreographies based on<br />
Slovene music. Young choreographers bring valuable<br />
freshness into the Slovene ballet and dance scene<br />
and provide for a pleasant surprise with their original<br />
vision of dance, through their distinctive life perspectives.<br />
s San Francisco Symphony<br />
A CELEBRATION OF LEONARD<br />
311BERNSTEIN: CARNEGIE HALL<br />
OPENING NIGHT 2008<br />
SERIES Great Performances GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral<br />
concert, Live recording STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
Thirteen/WNET (USA) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY Carnegie Hall<br />
Corporation (USA) ASS. PRODUCTION COMPANY San Francisco<br />
Symphony (USA) PRODUCER Mitch Owgang, John Walker<br />
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER David Horn TV DIRECTOR Gary Halvorson EDITOR<br />
Gary Bradley DURATION 84' 13" PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 MUSICAL STYLE<br />
Classical music PIECE West Side Story COMPOSER Leonard<br />
Bernstein CONDUCTOR Michael Tilson Thomas ORCHESTRA San<br />
Francisco Symphony (USA) MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE<br />
Meditation No. 1, from Mass COMPOSER Leonard Bernstein<br />
CONDUCTOR Michael Tilson Thomas ORCHESTRA San Francisco<br />
Symphony (USA) SOLOIST Yo-Yo Ma MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
PIECE What a Movie, from Trouble in Tahiti COMPOSER Leonard<br />
Bernstein CONDUCTOR Michael Tilson Thomas ORCHESTRA San<br />
Francisco Symphony (USA) SOLOIST Dawn Upshaw MUSICAL STYLE<br />
Classical music PIECE To What You Said, from Songfest COMPOSER<br />
Leonard Bernstein CONDUCTOR Michael Tilson Thomas ORCHESTRA<br />
San Francisco Symphony (USA) SOLOIST Thomas Hampson, Yo-<br />
Yo Ma SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby surround 5.1, DISTRIBUTION TV<br />
PBS (USA), American Public Television World Wide<br />
(International) HOMEVIDEO DISTRIBUTION Avie Records (UK),<br />
Harmonia Mundi USA (USA)<br />
This program is the first event in the Bernstein: The<br />
Best of All Possible Worlds Festival of fall 2008. This<br />
gala event taped live at Carnegie Hall features the<br />
songs and music of Leonard Bernstein.<br />
BERLIOZ SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE<br />
312 SERIES Keeping Score GENRE Documentary: Music, on location<br />
STATUS in progress PRODUCTION COMPANY San Francisco Symphony<br />
(USA) PRODUCER David Kennard, Joan Saffa EXECUTIVE PRODUCER<br />
Michael Tilson Thomas, John Kieser TV DIRECTOR David Kennard,<br />
Joan Saffa EDITOR Blair Gershkow DURATION 55' PRODUCTION YEAR<br />
2009 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE Symphonie Fantastique<br />
COMPOSER Hector Berlioz CONDUCTOR Michael Tilson Thomas<br />
ORCHESTRA San Francisco Symphony (USA) SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
HD/Dolby surround 5.1 DISTRIBUTION TV American Public<br />
Television World Wide (USA) HOMEVIDEO DISTRIBUTION Avie Records<br />
(UK) DVD DISTRIBUTION Harmonia Mundi USA (USA)<br />
Chris Wahlberg<br />
»Symphonie Fantastique« by Hector Berlioz! … Composed<br />
in Paris in the 1820s, it’s still the model of what<br />
a Romantic symphony should be … With overwhelming<br />
emotions and unabashed melodrama, it tells the<br />
story of an artist’s dream of a hopeless love, poured<br />
straight from the heart and soul of its composer,<br />
Hector Berlioz. »Keeping Score« is the San Francisco<br />
Symphony’s program designed to make classical<br />
music more accessible to people of all ages and<br />
musical backgrounds.<br />
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s SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY – SOUNDING IMAGES<br />
CHARLES IVES: 313HOLIDAYS SYMPHONY<br />
SERIES Keeping Score GENRE Documentary: Music, on location<br />
STATUS in progress PRODUCTION COMPANY San Francisco Symphony<br />
(USA) PRODUCER/DIRECTOR Joan Saffa, David Kennard EXECUTIVE<br />
PRODUCER Michael Tilson Thomas EXECUTIVE PRODUCER John Kieser<br />
CAMERA Michael Anderson, Boyd Estus, Bob ELfstrom EDITOR Blair<br />
Gershkow DURATION 55' 45" PRODUCTION YEAR 2009 RECORDED San<br />
Francisco, CA; New England (USA) MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
PIECE Holidays Symphony COMPOSER Charles Ives CONDUCTOR<br />
Michael Tilson Thomas ORCHESTRA San Francisco Symphony<br />
(USA) CHOIR San Francisco Symphony Chorus (USA) SOURCE<br />
VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby surround 5.1 DISTRIBUTION TV American Public<br />
Television World Wide (USA) HOMEVIDEO DISTRIBUTION Avie Records<br />
(UK), Harmonia Mundi USA (USA)<br />
A hundred years ago, composer Charles Ives created<br />
his »Holidays Symphony« – a haunting picture of New<br />
England … What is Ives telling us about childhood,<br />
memory and American values? Michael Tilson Thomas<br />
and the San Francisco Symphony explore this multilayered<br />
work.<br />
BERLIOZ SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE<br />
314IN CONCERT<br />
GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Studio production<br />
STATUS in progress PRODUCTION COMPANY San Francisco Symphony<br />
(USA) PRODUCER Michael Bronson, Elaine E. Warner EXECUTIVE<br />
PRODUCER Michael Tilson Thomas, John Kieser TV DIRECTOR Gary<br />
Halvorson EDITOR Gary Bradley LIGHT DESIGN Alan Adelman<br />
PRODUCTION YEAR 2009 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music CONDUCTOR<br />
Michael Tilson Thomas ORCHESTRA San Francisco Symphony<br />
(USA) SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby surround 5.1, DISTRIBUTION TV<br />
PBS (USA), American Public Television World Wide<br />
(International) HOMEVIDEO DISTRIBUTION Avie Records (UK),<br />
Harmonia Mundi USA (USA)<br />
Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony<br />
performs the work thatdefine the romantic<br />
sound, Symphonie Fantastique. Filmed live in concert.<br />
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH:<br />
315SYMPHONY NO. 5<br />
SERIES Keeping Score GENRE Documentary: Music, on location<br />
STATUS in progress PRODUCTION COMPANY San Francisco Symphony<br />
(USA) PRODUCER Joan Saffa, David Kennard EXECUTIVE PRODUCER<br />
Michael Tilson Thomas, John Kieser TV DIRECTOR Joan Saffa,<br />
David Kennard CAMERA Michael Anderson EDITOR Blair Gershkow<br />
DURATION 55' PRODUCTION YEAR 2009 RECORDED San Francisco, CA<br />
(USA).; St. Petersburg, (Russia) MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
PIECE Symphony No. 5 COMPOSER Dmitri Shostakovich CONDUCTOR<br />
Michael Tilson Thomas ORCHESTRA San Francisco Symphony<br />
(USA) SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby surround 5.1 DISTRIBUTION TV<br />
PBS (USA), American Public Television World Wide<br />
(International) HOMEVIDEO DISTRIBUTION Avie Records (UK),<br />
Harmonia Mundi USA (USA)<br />
From the depths of Soviet Russia in the 1930s comes<br />
the Fifth Symphony of Dmitri Shostakovich. What was<br />
the message of this enigmatic music? … A cry of<br />
protest …? Or a grudging endorsement of Stalin’s<br />
regime? Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco<br />
Symphony search for the true meaning of this enigmatic<br />
work.<br />
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CELTIC FROST – A DYING GOD<br />
316 GENRE Documentary: Music, on location STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY prêt-à-tourner Filmproduktion GmbH<br />
(Switzerland) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY SF – Schweizer Fernsehen<br />
(Switzerland) PRODUCER Lina Geissmann TV DIRECTOR Adrian<br />
Winkler CAMERA Eric Stitzel EDITOR Christian Müller AUTHOR<br />
Adrian Winkler DURATION 59' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 SOURCE VIDEO/<br />
AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo<br />
A journey into the heart of darkness – that is Adrian<br />
Winkler’s documentary »A Dying God« about one of<br />
the very few internationally acclaimed bands from<br />
Switzerland: Celtic Frost, the founders of death metal –<br />
the most extreme and hardest way to play rock music.<br />
»A Dying God« follows the band after its reunion in<br />
2007 during a world tour and discovers intimately the<br />
persons who stand behind hard riffs, satanistic verses<br />
and terrifying make-ups.<br />
CHARLIE HADEN – RAMBLING BOY<br />
317 GENRE Documentary: Music, on location STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY PiXiu Films (Switzerland) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
SF – Schweizer Fernsehen (Switzerland) PRODUCER Reto Caduff,<br />
Laurin Merz ASSOCIATED PRODUCER Thomas Beck TV DIRECTOR Reto<br />
Caduff CAMERA Daniel Pfisterer, Luke Geissbühler EDITOR Barbara<br />
Landi AUTHOR Reto Caduff DURATION 72' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008<br />
RECORDED Los Angeles, Paris, New York, Zurich MUSICAL STYLE Jazz<br />
»Rambling Boy« features the fascinating American<br />
musician, bandleader, composer, producer, educator,<br />
political activist and family man Charlie Haden.<br />
Throughout his career, Haden has constantly sought<br />
to transcend the boundaries of modern music. Widely<br />
considered to be among the greatest ever jazz bassists,<br />
Haden has contributed pivotal music to a stunning<br />
scope of genres: avant-garde, small group, big band,<br />
world music, folk and gospel, to name but a few.<br />
Haden’s deep resonance and rich melodicism helped<br />
Ornette Coleman introduce free jazz in the 1960s.<br />
And it is his collaboration with Coleman that has put<br />
Haden on the map ever since. In a career spanning<br />
five decades by now, Haden continues to create music<br />
that is at once revolutionary and uplifting.<br />
ECHOES OF HOME<br />
318 GENRE Documentary: Music, on location STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY MaxImage (Switzerland) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
SF – Schweizer Fernsehen (Switzerland) PRODUCER Cornelia<br />
Seitler ASSOCIATED PRODUCER Thomas Beck TV DIRECTOR Stefan<br />
Schwietert CAMERA Pio Corradi EDITOR Stephan Krumbiegel, Calle<br />
Overweg AUTHOR Stefan Schwietert DURATION 81' PRODUCTION YEAR<br />
2007 MUSICAL STYLE Ethnic music SOLOIST Arnold Alder, Christian<br />
Zehnder, Erika Stucky DANCE STYLE Modern dance SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
Film 35 mm/Dolby surround 5.1 DISTRIBUTION TV MaxImage<br />
(Switzerland)
What does a baby’s cry have in common with the echo<br />
of a mountain yodeler, and what connects the head<br />
tone of a Tuvin nomad with the stage show of a vocal<br />
artist? The answer is: the voice. Against a background<br />
of powerful alpine vistas and modern city landscapes,<br />
»Heimatklänge« enters the wondrous sonic world of<br />
three exceptional Swiss vocal artists. Their universe of<br />
sound extends far beyond what we would describe as<br />
singing. In their engagement with local and foreign<br />
traditions, the powerful mountain landscape becomes<br />
a stage as do the landscapes and sonic backdrops of<br />
modern life.<br />
GOING AGAINST FATE<br />
319 GENRE Documentary: Music, on location STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Turnus Film AG (Germany) CO-PRODUCTION<br />
COMPANY SF – Schweizer Fernsehen (Switzerland) PRODUCER<br />
Susann Henggeler TV DIRECTOR Viviane Blumenschein CAMERA<br />
Frank Griebe, Alberto Venzage EDITOR Cli Weiss AUTHOR Viviane<br />
Blumenschein DURATION 80' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Zurich<br />
MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE Symphony No. 6 COMPOSER<br />
Gustav Mahler CONDUCTOR David Zinman ORCHESTRA Tonhalle<br />
Orchester Zürich (Switzerland) SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo<br />
The documentary »Going Against Fate« follows the<br />
American conductor David Zinman and the Tonhalle<br />
Orchestra Zurich during rehearsals, concerts and the<br />
recording of Gustav Mahler’s Sixth Symphony. The<br />
central character of the film is the charismatic David<br />
Zinman, who takes us through the film, providing both<br />
content information and an emotional connecting<br />
thread. His narration of Mahler’s private life gives us<br />
insight into the emotional and musical world of the<br />
eminent composer. At the same time, we look behind<br />
the scenes and witness how conductor and orchestra<br />
interact on their journey towards the finished recording,<br />
as they unravel the secret of a musical masterpiece:<br />
the symphony.<br />
320 JOHNNY CASH AT FOLSOM PRISON<br />
GENRE Documentary: Music, on location STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Northern Light Productions (United States)<br />
CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY C-Films (Switzerland), SF – Schweizer<br />
Fernsehen (Switzerland) PRODUCER Michael Streissguth, Bestor<br />
Cram, Peter Reichenbach TV DIRECTOR Bestor Cram AUTHOR<br />
Michael Streissguth DURATION 80' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 COMPOSER<br />
Johnny Cash SOLOIST Johnny Cash<br />
»Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison remains one of the<br />
greatest live albums ever made,« wrote Richard Harrington<br />
of the Washington Post, echoing a widely held<br />
sentiment. The documentary endeavours to reveal the<br />
lesser-known Johnny Cash through an exciting, visually<br />
compelling examination of this historic concert in the<br />
context of 1968, a pivotal year in history. No motion<br />
pictures were taken at Folsom, but legendary photo-<br />
grapher Jim Marshall captured tension und exhilaration<br />
of that extraordinary performance in more than<br />
300 stills. A year later, Cash recreated the Folsom<br />
concert at San Quentin prison for a British television<br />
company. Each of these documentary archives will<br />
help to provide cinematic evidence and enrich the<br />
sheer joy of understanding what took place.<br />
LA TRAVIATA AT ZURICH<br />
321MAIN STATION<br />
GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY SF – Schweizer Fernsehen (Switzerland)<br />
CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY ARTE (France-Germany) ASS. PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
Zurich Opera House (Switzerland) PRODUCER Christian<br />
Eggenberger EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Thomas Beck TV DIRECTOR Felix<br />
Breisach CAMERA Peter Brawant EDITOR Christoph Hink DURATION<br />
150' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Zurich Main Station,<br />
30.09.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE La Traviata<br />
COMPOSER Giuseppe Verdi CONDUCTOR Paolo Carignani ORCHESTRA<br />
Orchestra of Zurich Opera House (Switzerland) CHOIR Choir<br />
of Zurich Opera House (Switzerland) SOLOIST Eva Mei, Vittorio<br />
Grigolo, Angelo Veccia LIBRETTO Francesco Maria Piave STAGE<br />
DIRECTOR Adrian Marthaler SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby surround<br />
5.1<br />
In September 2008 commuters at Switzerland’s<br />
busiest railway terminal in Zurich were surprised<br />
with a live performance of Verdi’s opera »La<br />
Traviata«. Zurich’s station remained open for<br />
business, while the soloists, the choir and the<br />
orchestra of Zurich’s opera house, conducted by<br />
Paolo Carignani, performed around the passengers.<br />
»La Traviata at Zurich Main Station« brought Verdi’s<br />
tragic love story to a daily stage and became the<br />
most successful culture programme ever produced<br />
by National Swiss Television. The cast features Eva<br />
Mei as Violetta, Vittorio Grigolo as Alfredo and<br />
Angelo Veccia as Germont.<br />
sounding images<br />
ANDRÁS SCHIFF AT THE TEATRO<br />
322OLIMPICO GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording STATUS<br />
completed PRODUCTION COMPANY sounding images (Germany)<br />
CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY EuroArts Music International (Germany)<br />
PRODUCER Holger Preusse TV DIRECTOR Claus Wischmann CAMERA<br />
Fariba Nilchian EDITOR Michaela Stasch DURATION 54'<br />
DURATION2 74' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Teatro Olimpico,<br />
Vicenza, Italy, 02.05.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE<br />
Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466 COMPOSER Wolfgang<br />
Amadeus Mozart CONDUCTOR András Schiff ORCHESTRA Cappella<br />
Andrea Barca MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE Overture to<br />
»Don Giovanni” COMPOSER Wolfang Amadeus Mozart CONDUCTOR<br />
András Schiff ORCHESTRA Cappella Andrea Barca MUSICAL STYLE<br />
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Classical music PIECE Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D<br />
minor, BWV 903 COMPOSER Johann Sebastian Bach SOLOIST András<br />
Schiff SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby surround 5.1 DISTRIBUTION TV<br />
Medici Arts (Germany) DVD DISTRIBUTION Medici Arts (Germany)<br />
András Schiff appears regularly with »his« Cappella<br />
Andrea Barca, conducting from the keyboard. One<br />
landmark in this partnership is the series of concerts<br />
at the Teatro Olimpico, Europe’s oldest existing<br />
theatre. Designed almost 450 years ago by Andrea<br />
Palladio, it is a very special setting for Mozart’s magnificent<br />
D minor Piano Concerto. Schiff precedes the<br />
work with the »Don Giovanni« overture, leading on<br />
into the concerto without a break. The performances<br />
are supplemented by interviews of András Schiff talking<br />
about his Cappella, the Piano Concerto and the<br />
Teatro Olimpico.<br />
ANJA SILJA – A LIFE OF SONG<br />
323 GENRE Documentary: Portrait, on location STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY sounding images (Germany) PRODUCER Stefan<br />
Pannen TV DIRECTOR Holger Preusse, Felix Schmidt CAMERA Svea<br />
Anderson EDITOR Ralf Stresse DURATION 52' 25" PRODUCTION YEAR<br />
2008 RECORDED Vienna, Paris, Budapest MUSICAL STYLE Classical<br />
music PIECE Jenufa, Katja Kabanova a.o. COMPOSER Leoš Janácek,<br />
a.o. SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Stereo<br />
Armin Bardel<br />
She was the youngest opera singer ever and has been<br />
on the operatic stage for almost 60 years. She still performs<br />
at the great opera houses of the world and has<br />
no intention of retiring. Anja Silja always relishes new<br />
challenges. Her first appearance at the Bayreuth Festival<br />
came before she was 20. At the age of 27 she decided<br />
she would never sing there again. Her youthful<br />
career was marked by scandals both on stage and in<br />
her private life with Wieland Wagner. The film observes<br />
the »vocal wonder« Anja Silja rehearsing for a number<br />
of recent appearances, including her first song recital<br />
after over 50 years as an opera singer. The beginning<br />
of a fourth career?<br />
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CLASSICAL ORCHESTRA<br />
GENRE Documentary: Music, on location STATUS in progress<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY sounding images (Germany) CO-PRODUCTION<br />
COMPANY Zorn Production International (France) PRODUCER Stefan<br />
Pannen TV DIRECTOR Claus Wischmann CAMERA Martin Baer EDITOR<br />
Peter Klum SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD<br />
Two hundred orchestral musicians playing Orff’s<br />
»Carmina Burana« in total darkness. A power cut only<br />
a few bars before the last section of the work. Problems<br />
like this are the least of the concerns besetting<br />
the »Kimbanguist Symphony Orchestra«. War is<br />
raging in the eastern part of Congo. In the fifteen years<br />
of its existence, the orchestra has survived two<br />
putsches and a war that has claimed millions of lives.<br />
For the musicians, interpreting the music of Mozart<br />
and Handel, sometimes on self-made instruments, is<br />
self-confirmation, artistic expression and a religious<br />
service all in one. The film homes in on their everyday<br />
lives and illustrates how an orchestra can survive in<br />
Kinshasa, Congo’s capital of eight million people.<br />
TRULS MØRK PLAYS CHOPIN<br />
325AND DVORÁK<br />
GENRE Documentary: Music, on location STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY sounding images (Germany) PRODUCER Holger<br />
Preusse, Claus Wischmann TV DIRECTOR Holger Preusse,<br />
Claus Wischmann CAMERA Fariba Nilchian, Svea Anderson,<br />
Boris Fromageot EDITOR Ralf Streese DURATION 43' DURATION 2 55'<br />
PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Bamberg, Oslo MUSICAL STYLE Classical<br />
music PIECE Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104 COMPOSER<br />
Antonin Dvorák CONDUCTOR Jonathan Nott ORCHESTRA Bamberg<br />
Symphony Orchestra (Germany) MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
PIECE Nocturne and Valse COMPOSER Frédéric Chopin SOURCE<br />
VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV C Major Entertainment<br />
(Germany)<br />
In the summer months, the Norwegian cellist Truls<br />
Mørk spends his free time at his seaside holiday home<br />
not far from Oslo. He explores the sea in his motor<br />
boat and goes for long walks in the austere coastal<br />
countryside, receptive to the sounds and colours he<br />
finds there. The film documents a visit to the winner of<br />
the Tchaikovsky Competition at his Scandinavian home<br />
from home and accompanies the former pupil of Heinrich<br />
Schiff on his outings. The central works featured
in the film are Dvorák’s Cello Concerto with the Bamberg<br />
Symphony Orchestra under Jonathan Nott and<br />
arrangements of nocturnes and waltzes by Chopin<br />
with Kathryn Stott on the piano.<br />
Spectra International<br />
Distribution<br />
CHAPEAU MR. COHEN<br />
326 GENRE Relay of: Vocal recital, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Amérimage-Spectra (Canada) PRODUCER Pierre L.<br />
Touchette, Alain Simard, Marie-Odile Demay EXECUTIVE PRODUCER<br />
Luc Châtelain TV DIRECTOR Jocelyn Barnabé DURATION 75' DURATION 2<br />
56' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Festival International de Jazz<br />
de Montréal, 26.06.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Contemporary music<br />
SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV Spectra International<br />
Distribution (Canada)<br />
In 2008, after a 15-year retirement from public performance<br />
– and after being inducted into the Rock and<br />
Roll Hall of Fame for ranking among the »highest and<br />
most influential echelon of songwriters« – he returned<br />
to the stage. The Montreal International Jazz Festival<br />
honoured the Montreal poet, singer-songwriter and<br />
cult figure Leonard Cohen with an extravaganza by a<br />
line-up of singers widely varied in cultural background<br />
and far-ranging in style and effect, amongst which<br />
features Katie Melua, Chris Botti and Adam Cohen.<br />
DEATH IN VENICE<br />
327 GENRE Documentary: Portrait, on location STATUS in progress<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Quiet Motion (Canada) PRODUCER Véronique<br />
Légaré, Roy Mathieu, Bilodeau Jacques TV DIRECTOR Mathieu Roy<br />
CAMERA Mario Janelle EDITOR Louis-Martin Paradis DURATION 90'<br />
PRODUCTION YEAR 2009 RECORDED Venice and Fazioli Workshop<br />
MUSICAL STYLE Classical music SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Stereo<br />
DISTRIBUTION TV Spectra International Distribution (Canada)<br />
Mario Janelle<br />
A feature-length documentary on music filmed in<br />
Venice, with pianist Louis Lortie, who performs and<br />
explains the idea behind his program entitled »Death<br />
in Venice«. The film follows Louis Lortie around Venice<br />
and shows how that city has acted as an inspiration for<br />
each of the composers included in his program. Paying<br />
lyrical homage to the mythical city, the film also traces<br />
the journey and evolution of the majestic Fazioli piano<br />
that Lortie can no longer do without.<br />
LA CHAMBRE BLANCHE<br />
328 GENRE For the camera: Screen choreography (with human<br />
participation), Studio production STATUS completed PRODUCTION<br />
COMPANY Amérimage-Spectra (Canada) PRODUCER Pierre L.Touchette,<br />
Alain Simard EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Luc Châtelain TV DIRECTOR Ginette<br />
Laurin, Philippe Baylaucq CAMERA Carlos Ferrand EDITOR<br />
Louise Côté DURATION 56' 30" PRODUCTION YEAR 2009 DANCE STYLE<br />
Contemporary dance CHOREOGRAPHY BY Ginette Laurin DANCE COMPANY<br />
O'Vertigo (Canada) SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV<br />
Spectra International Distribution (Canada)<br />
Yves Dubé<br />
La »Chambre Blanche« is a filmed choreographic work<br />
of Ginette Laurin, the world acclaimed choreographer<br />
and director of the dance company O’Vertigo. The film<br />
is composed in tableaux and takes place in a cold,<br />
clinical, closed space suggestive of a mental institute<br />
where the dancers are captive; being insane without<br />
knowing they are insane. Filmed to capture the oppressive<br />
architecture of the space and the inherent tension<br />
between the characters, »La Chambre Blanche« brings<br />
the viewer in touch with the unexpected twists and<br />
turns of the human soul.<br />
ZAPPA PLAYS ZAPPA<br />
329 GENRE Relay of: Vocal recital, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Strobosonic (Canada) PRODUCER Pierre<br />
Lamoureux, François Lamoureux TV DIRECTOR Pierre Lamoureux,<br />
François Lamoureux DURATION 56' 33" PRODUCTION YEAR 2007<br />
RECORDED Portland and Seattle MUSICAL STYLE Contemporary music<br />
SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby surround 5.1 DISTRIBUTION TV Spectra<br />
International Distribution (Canada)<br />
Considered by many to be a genius composer, guitarist<br />
and producer, Frank Zappa’s body of work is as vast as<br />
it is diverse. His untimely death in 1993 left legions of<br />
loyal fans missing his satirical flair and brilliant musicianship.<br />
A few years ago, Dweezil decided that his<br />
father’s music had been missing from the musical<br />
landscape for far too long and chose to dive headlong<br />
into the massive undertaking that became »Zappa<br />
plays Zappa«. Dweezil Zappa performs with a group<br />
of top-flight and renowned musicians and special<br />
guest Steve Vai.<br />
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SVT Sveriges Television<br />
ESA-PEKKA SALONEN & FRIENDS<br />
330 GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording STATUS<br />
completed PRODUCTION COMPANY SVT Swedish Television (Sweden)<br />
ASS. PRODUCTION COMPANY YLE (Finland), NRK (Norway) EXECUTIVE<br />
PRODUCER Camilla Lundberg TV DIRECTOR Bengt Wennehorst-<br />
Norrman SETS Susanne Beckman LIGHT DESIGN Bengt Svensson<br />
DURATION 60' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED 18.06.2008 CONDUCTOR<br />
Esa-Pekka Salonen ORCHESTRA Swedish Radio Symphony<br />
Orchestra (Sweden) CHOIR The Radio Choir (Sweden)<br />
Esa-Pekka Salonen<br />
Esa-Pekka Salonen chose to celebrate his 50th<br />
birthday with his musicians and singer friends in<br />
Stockholm. A gala concert in two parts starring Karita<br />
Mattila, Viktoria Mullova, Miah Persson, Håkan<br />
Hardenberger, Kari Kriikku, Roland Pöntinen and<br />
rock singer Eva Dahlgren.<br />
GOD IN DISGUISE<br />
331 GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Studio production<br />
STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY SVT Swedish Television<br />
(Sweden) EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Camilla Lundberg TV DIRECTOR Bengt<br />
Wennehorst-Norrman EDITOR Christer Ahlqvist DURATION 50'<br />
PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 MUSICAL STYLE Contemporary music PIECE God<br />
in disguise COMPOSER Lars-Erik Larsson CONDUCTOR Thomas<br />
Sondergaard ORCHESTRA Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra<br />
(Sweden) CHOIR The Radio Choir (Sweden) SOLOIST Elin Rombo,<br />
Jakob Högström<br />
Swedish Radio Choir performing God in disguise<br />
A beloved Swedish classic performed in the spectacular<br />
setting of a secular cathedral.<br />
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GENRE on location STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY SVT<br />
Swedish Television (Sweden) EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Erik Pauser,<br />
Camilla Lundberg TV DIRECTOR Lars Siltberg DURATION 52' PRODUCTION<br />
YEAR 2008 RECORDED The Arctic and The Berwald Hall, Stockholm<br />
MUSICAL STYLE Contemporary music PIECE Holocene COMPOSER Jonas<br />
Bohlin CONDUCTOR Esa-Pekka Salonen ORCHESTRA Swedish Radio<br />
Symphony orchestra (Sweden) CHOIR The Radio Choir (Sweden)<br />
SOLOIST Malena Ernman ORIGINAL TEXT Majgull Axelsson<br />
The <strong>Première</strong> of Holocene in the Berwald Hall<br />
Three artists – a composer, a video artist and a writer –<br />
meet at an icebreaker expedition to the North Pole and<br />
join forces in a dystopic oratorio, »Holocene«. An extraordinary,<br />
existential work about our future, vibrating<br />
of powerful and engaging imagination.<br />
HOTEL OPERA 333 GENRE Relay of: Opera, on location STATUS in progress PRODUCTION<br />
COMPANY SVT Swedish Television (Sweden) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
Royal Opera Academy, Stockholm (Sweden) PRODUCER Ditte Feuk<br />
TV DIRECTOR Mira Bartov, Elisabeth Linton, Helena Röhr, Ellen<br />
Lamm CAMERA Claes Gabrielsson EDITOR Christer Furubrand<br />
DURATION 60' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Stockholm Area,<br />
01.09.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music COMPOSER Charles<br />
Gounod, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, George Frideric Handel,<br />
Gioacchino Rossini CONDUCTOR Tobias Ringborg ORCHESTRA<br />
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra (Sweden) CHOIR Swedish<br />
Radio Choir (Sweden) SOLOIST Matilda Paulsson, Joa Helgesson,<br />
Mira Pyne DANCE STYLE Contemporary dance SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
HD/Dolby surround 5.1 DISTRIBUTION TV SVT Swedish Television<br />
(Sweden) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION First broadcast in Spring 2009<br />
At »Hotel Opera« we meet longing, playfulness and<br />
seduction. To classicals in a nice, contemporary setting<br />
– in an unexpected way. One hour of opera drama<br />
created for television and with young opera singers.<br />
Flirting in the bar. Desperation in Room No 34.<br />
Secrets on the third floor, in the corridor. And a knockout<br />
in the foyer.<br />
IF ONLY BACH HAD A CLARINET<br />
334 GENRE Relay of: Instrumental recital, Live recording STATUS<br />
completed PRODUCTION COMPANY SVT Swedish Television (Sweden)<br />
TV DIRECTOR Helén Elmquist DURATION 57' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008<br />
RECORDED Stockholm Concert Hall<br />
Creative clarinettist Martin Fröst in a choreographed<br />
concert with cellist Svante Henrysson and pianist<br />
Roland Pöntinen. A spectacular show around a Bach<br />
concept with contemporary contributions in musical<br />
and visual compositions.
JUKKAS YOIKS 335 GENRE Relay of: Ensemble/band appearance, on location STATUS<br />
completed PRODUCTION COMPANY SVT Swedish Television (Sweden)<br />
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Ola Vading DURATION 57' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008<br />
RECORDED Jukkasjärvi Church MUSICAL STYLE Ethnic music<br />
Yoik singers Sofia Jannok and Simon Marainen<br />
The Sami church in Jukkasjärvi is 400 years old and<br />
celebrates with contemporary yoiks and fiddles.<br />
A colourful concert composed by Gunnar Idenstam.<br />
TAN DUN – THE HUNAN SCULPTOR<br />
336OF SOUNDS<br />
GENRE Documentary: Music, on location STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY SVT Swedish Television (Sweden) EXECUTIVE<br />
PRODUCER Camilla Lundberg TV DIRECTOR Helén Elmquist DURATION 57'<br />
PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 MUSICAL STYLE Contemporary music<br />
From TEA at the Stockholm Concert Hall<br />
The annual Composer's Festival in Stockholm featured<br />
Tan Dun in 2007, including a full staging of his opera<br />
»Tea«. This film follows the extraordinary preparations<br />
for the Stockholm Philharmonic, including journeys to<br />
China. Tan Dun also appears as a conductor of his<br />
Water and Paper Concertos.<br />
THE VOICE OF ORPHEUS<br />
337 GENRE Documentary: Music, on location STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY SVT Swedish Television (Sweden) EXECUTIVE<br />
PRODUCER Camilla Lundberg TV DIRECTOR Sofia Nyblom EDITOR Maria<br />
Sleszynska DURATION 57' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 MUSICAL STYLE Early<br />
music<br />
Anne Sofie von Otter as Orpheé in Gluck's opera<br />
The Orpheus myth told by composers, singers and<br />
other artists from now and then. A special focus is on<br />
choreographer Mats Ek's debut as opera director and<br />
his two leading ladies as Orpheus: Anne Sofie von<br />
Otter and Anna Larsson.<br />
WINTER FESTIVAL IN DALECARLIA<br />
338 GENRE on location STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY SVT<br />
Swedish Television (Sweden) EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Johan Forssblad<br />
TV DIRECTOR Ulf Caresten DURATION 57' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 MUSICAL<br />
STYLE Classical music<br />
Violinist Janine Jansen, cellist Torleif Thedéen, trombonist<br />
Christian Lindberg, clarinettist Martin Fröst,<br />
and singers Barbara Hendricks and Anna Larsson all<br />
make music together in the romantic snowy settings<br />
in Dalecarlia.<br />
t<br />
Telmondis<br />
339 TRIADE<br />
GENRE Relay of: Dance, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Telmondis (France), Bel Air Media (France)<br />
CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY Opéra National de Paris (France),<br />
Euromedia (France), Mezzo (France) ASS. PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
France 2 (France) PRODUCER Antoine Perset, François Duplat,<br />
Denis Morliere, Emma Enjalbert TV DIRECTOR Vincent Bataillon<br />
EDITOR Bernard Emprin LIGHT DESIGN Patrice Besombes DURATION 20'<br />
PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Opéra National de Paris – Palais<br />
Garnier, 29.09.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Contemporary music COMPOSER<br />
Nico Muhly CONDUCTOR Koen Kessels SOLOIST Frédéric Lagnau,<br />
Bruno Flahou, Jean Raffard DANCE Triade DANCE STYLE Contemporary<br />
dance CHOREOGRAPHY BY Benjamin Millepied DANCE COMPANY<br />
Paris Opera Ballet (France) COSTUMES Benjamin Millepied SOURCE<br />
VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby surround 5.1 DISTRIBUTION TV Poorhouse<br />
International (Worldwide)<br />
Benjamin Millepied, who made his dance debut with<br />
Jerome Robbins in New York, dedicates his second<br />
creation for the Paris Opera Ballet, Triade, to the choreographer.<br />
»Dance is made of human relations,«<br />
Robbins used to say. A worthy heir to his master,<br />
Benjamin Millepied matches this credo through a<br />
fruitful dialogue with composer Nico Muhly.<br />
TRIBUTE TO JEROME ROBBINS<br />
340 GENRE Relay of: Dance, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Telmondis (France), Bel Air Media (France)<br />
CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY Opéra National de Paris (France),<br />
Euromedia (France), Mezzo (France) ASS. PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
France 2 (France) PRODUCER Antoine Perset, François Duplat,<br />
Denis Morliere TV DIRECTOR Vincent Bataillon EDITOR Bernard<br />
Emprin DURATION 75' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Opéra National<br />
de Paris – Palais Garnier, 29.09.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical<br />
music PIECE Piano Concerto in G major COMPOSER Maurice Ravel<br />
CONDUCTOR Koen Kessels ORCHESTRA Opéra National de Paris<br />
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(France) SOLOIST Marie-Agnès Gillot, Florian Magnenet DANCE<br />
En Sol DANCE STYLE Modern dance CHOREOGRAPHY BY Jerome Robbins<br />
DANCE COMPANY Paris Opera Ballet (France) COSTUMES Erté Erté<br />
MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE 4 Nocturnes for Piano COMPOSER<br />
Frédéric Chopin CONDUCTOR Koen Kessels ORCHESTRA Opéra<br />
National de Paris (France) SOLOIST Clairemarie Osta, Benjamin<br />
Pech, Agnès Letestu, Stéphane Bullion, Delphine Moussin,<br />
Nicolas Le Riche DANCE In The NIght DANCE STYLE Modern dance<br />
CHOREOGRAPHY BY Jerome Robbins DANCE COMPANY Paris Opera Ballet<br />
(France) COSTUMES Antony Dowell MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
PIECE Pieces for piano COMPOSER Frédéric Chopin CONDUCTOR Koen<br />
Kessels ORCHESTRA Opéra National de Paris (France) DANCE<br />
The Concert DANCE STYLE Modern dance CHOREOGRAPHY BY Jerome<br />
Robbins DANCE COMPANY Paris Opera Ballet (France) COSTUMES Irene<br />
Sharaff SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby surround 5.1 DISTRIBUTION TV<br />
Poorhouse International (Worldwide)<br />
Sébastien Mathe<br />
Thirteen<br />
Ten years after his death, the Paris Opera Ballet pays<br />
homage to the American choreographer, who considered<br />
the Paris Opera as his second home after the<br />
New York City Ballet. The three pieces (»En Sol«,<br />
»In The Night«, »The Concert«) not only illustrate the<br />
diversity of the choreographer’s repertoire and sources<br />
of inspiration, but also his love of music and his<br />
all-embracing attitude to the performing arts.<br />
341 CARNEGIE HALL OPENING<br />
NIGHT 2008: A CELEBRATION OF<br />
LEONARD BERNSTEIN<br />
SERIES Great Performances GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral<br />
concert, Live recording STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
Carnegie Hall (USA), Thirteen/WNET New York (USA) ASS.<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY San Francisco Symphony (USA) PRODUCER Mitch<br />
Owgang, John Walker EXECUTIVE PRODUCER David Horn TV DIRECTOR<br />
Gary Halvorson EDITOR Gary Bradley, Laura Young LIGHT DESIGN<br />
Alan Adelman DURATION 90' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED<br />
Carnegie Hall, New York, NY, 24.09.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical<br />
music PIECE Symphonic Dances from West Side Story COMPOSER<br />
Leonard Bernstein CONDUCTOR Michael Tilson Thomas ORCHESTRA<br />
San Francisco Symphony (USA) MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
PIECE Music from A Quiet Place COMPOSER Leonard Bernstein<br />
CONDUCTOR Michael Tilson Thomas ORCHESTRA San Francisco<br />
Symphony (USA) SOLOIST Dawn Upshaw, Thomas Hampson<br />
MUSICAL STYLE Contemporary music PIECE I Can Cook Too from On<br />
the Town COMPOSER Leonard Bernstein CONDUCTOR Michael Tilson<br />
Thomas ORCHESTRA San Francisco Symphony (USA) SOLOIST<br />
Christine Ebersole MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE Meditation<br />
No. 1 from Mass COMPOSER Leonard Bernstein CONDUCTOR Michael<br />
Tilson Thomas ORCHESTRA San Francisco Symphony (USA)<br />
SOLOIST Yo-Yo Ma MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE What a Movie<br />
from Trouble in Tahiti COMPOSER Leonard Bernstein CONDUCTOR<br />
Michael Tilson Thomas ORCHESTRA San Francisco Symphony<br />
(USA) MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE To What You Said...<br />
from Songfest COMPOSER Leonard Bernstein CONDUCTOR Michael<br />
98 avantpremière2009 Tilson Thomas ORCHESTRA San Francisco Symphony (USA)<br />
SOLOIST Thomas Hampson MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE<br />
Danzon from Fancy Free COMPOSER Leonard Bernstein CONDUCTOR<br />
Michael Tilson Thomas ORCHESTRA San Francisco Symphony<br />
(USA) MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE Gee, Officer Krupke<br />
from West Side Story COMPOSER Leonard Bernstein CONDUCTOR<br />
Michael Tilson Thomas ORCHESTRA San Francisco Symphony<br />
(USA) DANCE Gee, Officer Krupke DANCE STYLE Contemporary<br />
dance CHOREOGRAPHY BY Jeanne Slater MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
PIECE Ya Got Me from On the Town COMPOSER Leonard Bernstein<br />
CONDUCTOR Michael Tilson Thomas ORCHESTRA San Francisco<br />
Symphony (USA) SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby surround 5.1<br />
DISTRIBUTION TV Thirteen/WNET New York (USA) DVD DISTRIBUTION<br />
Carnegie Hall (USA)<br />
New York Philharmonic Archives; Background: Bjorg Magnea<br />
With August 25, 2008 marking Leonard Bernstein’s<br />
90th birthday, »Great Performances« returns to<br />
Carnegie Hall for an Opening Night gala concert<br />
celebrating the composer’s enduring contributions to<br />
American music. This concert features the acclaimed<br />
San Francisco Symphony under the baton of its music<br />
director, Michael Tilson Thomas, a close friend and<br />
colleague of Bernstein’s who ultimately succeeded him<br />
as conductor of the New York Philharmonic’s Young<br />
People’s Concerts on television. Also joining the<br />
festivities are soprano Dawn Upshaw, baritone<br />
Thomas Hampson, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and Tony Awardwinning<br />
Broadway star Christine Ebersole.<br />
CHESS IN CONCERT<br />
342(WORKING TITLE)<br />
SERIES Great Performances GENRE Relay of: Musical, on location<br />
STATUS in progress PRODUCTION COMPANY Thirteen/WNET New York<br />
(USA), Warner Strategic Marketing (USA) EXECUTIVE PRODUCER<br />
David Horn, John Beug TV DIRECTOR David Horn EDITOR Laura<br />
Young DURATION 150' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Royal Albert<br />
Hall, London, UK MUSICAL STYLE Contemporary music COMPOSER<br />
Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus SOLOIST Idina Menzel, Josh<br />
Groban, Adam Pascal LIBRETTO Tim Rice SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
HD/Dolby surround 5.1 DISTRIBUTION TV Thirteen/WNET New York<br />
(USA) HOMEVIDEO DISTRIBUTION Warner Strategic Marketing (USA)<br />
DVD DISTRIBUTION Warner Strategic Marketing (USA)<br />
Tristram Kenton
Before taking Broadway by storm with the jukebox hit<br />
»Mamma Mia«, ABBA’s Benny Andersson and Björn<br />
Ulvaeus teamed with lyricist Tim Rice (»Jesus Christ<br />
Superstar«, »Evita«) in 1986 to create an original<br />
musical, the cult favorite »Chess«. Set during the Cold<br />
War intrigue of international chess tournaments, the<br />
musical dramatizes the romantic checkmate between<br />
an American chess champion, his lover, and a Russian<br />
opponent secretly planning to defect to the West.<br />
Idina Menzel (»Wicked«, »Enchanted«), Adam Pascal<br />
(»Rent«), and pop superstar Josh Groban headline a<br />
concert production from London’s Royal Albert Hall,<br />
performing the captivating score that includes the Top<br />
40 single, »One Night in Bangkok« as well as other<br />
memorable songs like »Anthem« and »I Know Him<br />
So Well«.<br />
HARLEM IN MONTMARTRE:<br />
343A PARIS JAZZ STORY<br />
SERIES Great Performances GENRE Documentary: Music STATUS in<br />
progress PRODUCTION COMPANY Thirteen/WNET New York (USA),<br />
Vanguard Documentaries (USA), Idéale Audience (France)<br />
PRODUCER Margaret Smilow, Helene le Coeur, Charles Hobson<br />
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Margaret Smilow, Helene le Coeur, Charles<br />
Hobson ASSOCIATED PRODUCER Junko Tsunashima TV DIRECTOR Dante<br />
James, Olivier Simonnet CAMERA Dewald Aukema, Plourde<br />
Ludovic, Etienne Monier, Isabelle Freulat, Douglas Bergossi<br />
EDITOR Marian Hunter, Stephane Foucault, Damien Duflos de<br />
Saint Amand AUTHOR Henry Colomer SETS Claire Lacaze, Thierry<br />
Pitel LIGHT DESIGN Stephane Nigentz DURATION 60' PRODUCTION YEAR<br />
2008 MUSICAL STYLE Jazz PIECE Ain't We Got Fun SOLOIST Victor<br />
Goines, Brandon Lee, Michael Dease, Aaron Diehl, David<br />
Pulphus, Leon Anderson, Jr., Yorgui Loeffler, Gigi Loeffler,<br />
Romain Constant, Guillaume Singer, Sebastien Giradot PIECE<br />
Careless Love PIECE I'm Just Wild About Harry PIECE I Can't<br />
Give You Anything But Love PIECE Stardust PIECE It Don't Mean<br />
A Thing If It Ain't Got that Swing PIECE How High The<br />
Moon/Ornithology SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo DISTRIBUTION<br />
TV Thirteen/WNET New York (USA)<br />
»Harlem in Montmartre« tells the story of the jazz age<br />
in Paris between the First and Second World Wars, exploring<br />
a fascinating yet often neglected era in African-<br />
American cultural history. After peace was signed at<br />
Versailles, many black Americans remained in Europe<br />
rather than return to the brutal segregation and racism<br />
of America. Over the next two decades, they created<br />
an expatriate community of musicians, entertainers<br />
and entrepreneurs, primarily congregating in Paris’s<br />
hilly Montmartre neighborhood. Some achieved enduring<br />
fame, while others have faded into history. This<br />
remarkable documentary features footage of such<br />
key figures as James Reese Europe, Josephine Baker,<br />
Sidney Bechet, Bricktop, Eugene Bullard, Django<br />
Reinhardt, and many more.<br />
HITMAN: DAVID FOSTER & FRIENDS<br />
344 SERIES Great Performances GENRE Relay of: Vocal recital, on<br />
location STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY Chartmaker<br />
Records, Inc. (USA), Thirteen/WNET New York (USA), Align<br />
Entertainment Group LLC (USA) PRODUCER David Horn, Mitch<br />
Owgang EXECUTIVE PRODUCER David Foster, Marc Johnston, Mark<br />
T. Johnson, John Beug, Diarmuid Quinn, Tom Whalley, Bruce<br />
Gelb, Cary Krukowski, Sally Dewhurst TV DIRECTOR David Horn<br />
EDITOR Gary Bradley, Laura Young SETS Steve Bass LIGHT DESIGN<br />
Peter Morse DURATION 90' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Las<br />
Vegas, NV, USA MUSICAL STYLE Contemporary music COMPOSER<br />
David Foster SOLOIST David Foster, Andrea Bocelli, Josh Groban,<br />
Michael Bublé, Kenneth Edmonds, Boz Skaggs, Kenny G, Peter<br />
Cetera, Brian McKnight, Blake Shelton, Cheryl Lynn, Charice,<br />
Katharine McPhee, Andre Agassi, Celine Dion SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
HD/Dolby surround 5.1<br />
Karl Simone<br />
Legendary songwriter, producer, and maestro to the<br />
stars, David Foster has generated some of the world’s<br />
best-known popular music and collaborated with a<br />
veritable »Who’s Who« of superstars in a career that<br />
spans more than three decades. In celebration of his<br />
remarkable achievements – including 14 Grammy<br />
Awards and a host of other accolades – some of the<br />
biggest names in contemporary music gather for a<br />
one-night-only concert that brings down the house.<br />
JEROME ROBBINS:<br />
345SOMETHING TO DANCE ABOUT<br />
SERIES American Masters GENRE Documentary: Portrait STATUS<br />
completed PRODUCTION COMPANY Thirteen/WNET New York (USA),<br />
American Masters (USA) PRODUCER Judy Kinberg, Julie Sacks,<br />
Prudence Glass EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Susan Lacy TV DIRECTOR Judy<br />
Kinberg EDITOR Molly Bernstein, Girish Bhargava AUTHOR Amanda<br />
Vaill DURATION 120' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
HD/Stereo<br />
Frederic Ohringer<br />
In a life that inspired controversy, no one disputes the<br />
place that Jerome Robbins holds as the pre-eminent<br />
director/choreographer of American musical theater.<br />
He transformed Broadway shows and forged a career<br />
in ballet, first at American Ballet Theatre, then at New<br />
York City Ballet. This son of an immigrant deli owner,<br />
known for his often ruthless perfectionism, was<br />
dogged by his decision in 1953 to name names in his<br />
House Committee on Un-American Activities testimony.<br />
Nevertheless, he was respected for his unparalleled<br />
artistry. The program features excerpts from<br />
Robbins’s work, including rehearsal footage, and interviews<br />
with colleagues, such as Mikhail Baryshnikov,<br />
Suzanne Farrell and Chita Rivera.<br />
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JOAN BAEZ (WORKING TITLE)<br />
346 GENRE Documentary: Music STATUS in progress PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
Thirteen/WNET New York (USA), American Masters (USA)<br />
PRODUCER Mark Spector, Mary Wharton, Julie Sacks, Prudence<br />
Glass EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Susan Lacy TV DIRECTOR Mary Wharton<br />
EDITOR Kris Liem AUTHOR Mary Wharton DURATION 90' PRODUCTION<br />
YEAR 2008 MUSICAL STYLE Contemporary music COMPOSER Joan Baez<br />
SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV Thirteen/WNET<br />
New York (USA)<br />
Told often from her perspective, but supported by<br />
a rich performance and historical archive, the centerpiece<br />
of this film is Baez’ many years as a musician,<br />
her power as an artist, those who influenced her and<br />
those she influenced. The thread of the film is a series<br />
of pointed, intimate, unscripted conversations between<br />
Baez and those whose lives paralleled hers,<br />
revealing the details of her story organically and in<br />
context. With Bonnie Raitt, we see how a Quaker upbringing<br />
shaped their world views; with Vaclav Havel,<br />
we learn of their work with Amnesty International.<br />
LIGHTS UP: IN THE HEIGHTS ON<br />
347BROADWAY (WORKING TITLE)<br />
SERIES Great Performances GENRE Documentary: Music STATUS<br />
in progress PRODUCTION COMPANY Radical Media (USA),<br />
Thirteen/WNET New York (USA) EXECUTIVE PRODUCER David Horn<br />
DURATION 60' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Richard Rodgers<br />
Theatre, New York, NY MUSICAL STYLE Contemporary music PIECE<br />
In the Heights COMPOSER Lin-Manuel Miranda DANCE In the<br />
Heights DANCE STYLE Contemporary dance CHOREOGRAPHY BY Andy<br />
Blankenbuehler COSTUMES Paul Tazewell LIBRETTO Lin-Manuel<br />
Miranda ORIGINAL TEXT Quiara Alegria Hudes STAGE DIRECTOR<br />
Thomas Kail SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby surround 5.1<br />
Joan Marcus<br />
Beginning at a small, off-Broadway theater, a group<br />
of talented young artists led by composer-lyricist Lin-<br />
Manuel Miranda produced an original musical that<br />
some have called a modern day West Side Story – a<br />
Latin and Hip-Hop-infused musical odyssey telling the<br />
story of a neighborhood and the first-generation Americans<br />
who call it home. And yet, many in the show’s<br />
audiences have nothing to compare it to as it represents<br />
the first musical that they’ve journeyed below<br />
125th Street to see. Opening on Broadway in spring<br />
2008 and going on to win five Tony Awards – including<br />
Best New Musical – »In the Heights on Broadway«<br />
follows the cast and creative team as they embark on<br />
the greatest adventure of their young careers.<br />
348 PATTI SMITH: DREAM OF LIFE<br />
GENRE Documentary: Music STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
Thirteen/WNET New York (USA), Clean Socks (USA) PRODUCER<br />
Steven Sebring, Margaret Smilow, Scott Vogel EXECUTIVE PRODUCER<br />
Steven Sebring, Margaret Smilow ASSOCIATED PRODUCER Sonoko<br />
100 avantpremière2009 Aoyagi Leopold, Kristin Lovejoy, Junko Tsunashima TV DIRECTOR<br />
Steven Sebring CAMERA Phillip Hunt, Steven Sebring EDITOR<br />
Angelo Corrao, ACE, Lin Polito DURATION 109' PRODUCTION YEAR<br />
2008 MUSICAL STYLE Contemporary music SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
DigiBeta DISTRIBUTION TV Celluloid Dreams (USA) THEATRICAL<br />
DISTRIBUTION Celluloid Dreams (USA) HOMEVIDEO DISTRIBUTION Celluloid<br />
Dreams (USA) DVD DISTRIBUTION Celluloid Dreams (USA)<br />
Steven Sebring<br />
This full-length feature film, and the television version,<br />
is an exclusive with Patti Smith – musician, poet and<br />
artist whose career spans 25 years. Emerging in the<br />
1970s, Patti’s style fuses rock and poetry and places<br />
her in the pantheon of rock ‘n’ roll stars. The documentary<br />
is a loosely structured road movie that captures<br />
Patti’s personal and professional arc since 1975.<br />
More of a musical biographical poem than a »bio-pic«,<br />
the film traces Patti’s inner life through lyric images,<br />
interview segments and music interludes ranging from<br />
classics such as »Gloria« to the anthemic »People<br />
Have the Power«.<br />
349 SALOME<br />
SERIES Great Performances at the Met GENRE Relay of: Opera,<br />
Live recording STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY The<br />
Metropolitan Opera (USA) ASS. PRODUCTION COMPANY Thirteen/WNET<br />
New York (USA) PRODUCER Mia Bongiovanni, Elena Park, Louisa<br />
Briccetti, Victoria Warivonchik, Bill O'Donnell EXECUTIVE PRODUCER<br />
David Horn, Peter Gelb TV DIRECTOR Barbara Willis Sweete EDITOR<br />
Gary Bradley, Laura Young AUTHOR Matt Dobkin, Ellen Keel<br />
SETS Santo Loquasto LIGHT DESIGN James Ingalls DURATION 120'<br />
PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Metropolitan Opera, New York, NY,<br />
22.09.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE Salome COMPOSER<br />
Richard Strauss CONDUCTOR Patrick Summers ORCHESTRA<br />
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra (USA) SOLOIST Karita Mattila<br />
CHOREOGRAPHY BY Doug Varone COSTUMES Santo Loquasto LIBRETTO<br />
Richard Strauss ORIGINAL TEXT Oscar Wilde STAGE DIRECTOR Juergen<br />
Flimm SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby surround 5.1 DISTRIBUTION TV<br />
Metropolitan Opera (USA) THEATRICAL DISTRIBUTION Metropolitan<br />
Opera (USA)<br />
Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera<br />
Finnish soprano Karita Mattila reprises her acclaimed<br />
portrayal of the title role in Jürgen Flimm’s thrilling<br />
production of Strauss’s masterpiece.
THE MUSIC INSTINCT:<br />
350SCIENCE AND SONG<br />
GENRE Documentary: Music STATUS in progress PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
Mannes Productions, Inc. (USA), Thirteen/WNET New York<br />
(USA) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY ARTE (France), NDR (Netherlands),<br />
Australian Broadcasting Corporation (Australia), YLE (Finland)<br />
PRODUCER Elena Mannes, Margaret Smilow EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Elena<br />
Mannes, Margaret Smilow ASSOCIATED PRODUCER Junko Tsunashima,<br />
Kristin Lovejoy, Sonoko Aoyagi Leopold, Jessica Bari TV DIRECTOR<br />
Elena Mannes CAMERA David Aukema EDITOR Donna Marino<br />
DURATION 120' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta DISTRIBUTION TV Louise Rosen Ltd. (USA)<br />
»The Music Instinct: Science and Song« will explore<br />
how cutting-edge science is revealing startling new<br />
connections between music and the human mind and<br />
body, the natural world and the cosmos. This groundbreaking<br />
work is shedding new light on the way the<br />
brain works. And for the first time, there is hard scientific<br />
evidence that music can heal and it can make us<br />
smarter. Music changes the brain; it helps Parkinson’s<br />
disease patients walk and stroke patients speak;<br />
musical training for children is now proven to improve<br />
their linguistic skills. Narrated by Audra McDonald.<br />
YOU CANNOT START WITHOUT ME:<br />
351VALERY GERGIEV: MAESTRO<br />
GENRE Documentary: Portrait STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
Thirteen/WNET New York (USA) ASS. PRODUCTION COMPANY White<br />
Nights Foundation of America (USA) PRODUCER Margaret<br />
Smilow, Allan Miller, Sonoko Aoyagi Leopold EXECUTIVE PRODUCER<br />
Margaret Smilow, Doug Sheldon TV DIRECTOR Allan Miller CAMERA<br />
Miklos Jancso, Jean Marc Froment EDITOR Allan Miller DURATION<br />
94' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE Rite of<br />
Spring COMPOSER Igor Stravinsky CONDUCTOR Valery Gergiev<br />
ORCHESTRA London Symphony Orchestra (UK) MUSICAL STYLE<br />
Classical music PIECE Eugene Onegin COMPOSER Piotr Ilyitch<br />
Tchaikovsky CONDUCTOR Valery Gergiev ORCHESTRA Mariinsky Theatre<br />
Orchestra (Russia) SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby surround 5.1<br />
Matt Stuart Burns<br />
Russian dynamo Valery Gergiev – world-famous<br />
conductor and tireless promoter of his nation’s rich<br />
musical heritage – is the subject of this feature-length<br />
documentary. Constantly in motion with a schedule<br />
that would daunt most celebrity conductors, this film<br />
finds the artistic and general director of St. Petersburg’s<br />
legendary Mariinsky Theater in high spirits,<br />
particularly when discussing his favorite topic: the<br />
exhilaration of fine music making.<br />
TSI – Televisione<br />
svizzera di lingua italiana<br />
GIOVANNI PIERLUIGI DA<br />
352PALESTRINA: MISSA GABRIEL<br />
ARCHANGELUS<br />
GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Studio production<br />
STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY TSI – Televisione svizzera di<br />
lingua italiana (Switzerland) PRODUCER Renzo Rota TV DIRECTOR<br />
Mando Bernardinello EDITOR Marzio Bertoli LIGHT DESIGN Sergio<br />
Petrini DURATION 34' 50" PRODUCTION YEAR 2007 RECORDED Santuario<br />
S. Maria dei Miracoli, Morbio (Switzerland) MUSICAL STYLE<br />
Classical music PIECE Missa Gabriel Archangelus COMPOSER<br />
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina CHOIR Coro della Radio<br />
svizzera, Lugano (Switzerland) SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Stereo<br />
DISTRIBUTION TV TSI – Televisione svizzera di lingua italiana<br />
(Switzerland) HOMEVIDEO DISTRIBUTION TSI – Televisione svizzera di<br />
lingua italiana (Switzerland) DVD DISTRIBUTION TSI – Televisione<br />
svizzera di lingua italiana (Switzerland)<br />
TSI: Missa Gabriel Archangelus<br />
Last year the Swiss Radio Choir of Lugano conducted<br />
by Diego Fasolis undertook, perhaps somewhat idealistically,<br />
to record Palestrina’s »Opera Omnia« according<br />
to the new and revolutionary critical edition being<br />
published under the aegis of Italy’s Ministry of Cultural<br />
Heritage and Activities. To mark the first series of<br />
recordings, dedicated to »Missarum liber primus«, TSI<br />
produced a video – set in the sixteenth-century Santuario<br />
di S.Maria dei Miracoli at Morbio (in the Italianspeaking<br />
part of Switzerland) – of one of the most<br />
touching Missae composed by the absolute genius of<br />
Renaissance polyphony.<br />
LA SERVA PADRONA<br />
353 GENRE Relay of: Opera, Studio production STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY TSI – Televisione svizzera di lingua italiana<br />
(Switzerland) PRODUCER Renzo Rota TV DIRECTOR Mando<br />
Bernardinello CAMERA Sergio Petrini EDITOR Marzio Bertoli SETS<br />
Mario del Don LIGHT DESIGN Sergio Petrini DURATION 40' PRODUCTION<br />
YEAR 2008 RECORDED Teatro Sociale Bellinzona MUSICAL STYLE<br />
Classical music PIECE La Serva Padrona COMPOSER Giovanni<br />
Battista Pergolesi CONDUCTOR Diego Fasolis ORCHESTRA I Barocchisti<br />
(Switzerland) SOLOIST Sonya Yoncheva, Furio Zanasi, Roberto<br />
Carlos Gerbolès, Pablo Ariel Bursztyn COSTUMES Annabruna Gola<br />
SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV TSI – Televisione<br />
svizzera di lingua italiana (Switzerland) HOMEVIDEO DISTRIBUTION<br />
TSI – Televisione svizzera di lingua italiana (Switzerland)<br />
DVD DISTRIBUTION TSI – Televisione svizzera di lingua italiana<br />
(Switzerland)<br />
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TSI: La Serva Padrona<br />
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s masterpiece »La Serva<br />
Padrona« is widely recognised as the starting point for<br />
the glorious Italian music period which reached its<br />
apex with Rossini’s opera buffa. In 1733, Pergolesi<br />
wrote two short »intermezzos« to be performed during<br />
the intervals of a serious opera. Both present the<br />
stylistic features that have ensured the enduring<br />
worldwide success of this genre. First and foremost,<br />
the stylisation of characters borrowed from the commedia<br />
dell’arte: the old bachelor Uberto is obviously<br />
a Pantaloon; the maid Serpina is a Colombine;<br />
Vespone, the dumb character, is a Harlequin.<br />
RECITAL HANA KOTKOVÀ –<br />
354SIMON MULLIGAN<br />
GENRE Relay of: Instrumental recital, Studio production STATUS<br />
completed PRODUCTION COMPANY TSI – Televisione svizzera di<br />
lingua italiana (Switzerland) PRODUCER Renzo Rota TV DIRECTOR<br />
Mando Bernardinello EDITOR Marzio Bertoli LIGHT DESIGN Sergio<br />
Petrini DURATION 35' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Auditorio RSI,<br />
Lugano, 24.07.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music PIECE Sonata<br />
for Violin and Piano in B Major COMPOSER César Franck SOLOIST<br />
Hana Kotkovà, Simon Mulligan PIECE Sequenza VIII for Violin<br />
COMPOSER Luciano Berio SOLOIST Hana Kotkovà SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
HD/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV TSI – Televisione svizzera di lingua<br />
italiana (Switzerland)<br />
TSI: Hana Kotkovà; Simon Mulligan<br />
Young Moravian violinist Hana Kotkovà’s extraordinary<br />
recital of César Franck's famous Sonata in A major<br />
accompanied by pianist Simon Mulligan and her solo<br />
performance of Luciano Berio’s »Sequenza VIII« stand<br />
out among the chamber music productions put on by<br />
TSI. In »Sequenza VIII«, which is one of the most<br />
daring as well as the most spectacular pieces of<br />
contemporary music, the late great Italian composer<br />
explores the hidden possibilities of violin technique<br />
in order to transform them into sheer poetry.<br />
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HANDEL'S MUSIC AT THE<br />
355WRATISLAVIA CANTANS FESTIVAL<br />
GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording STATUS<br />
completed PRODUCTION COMPANY TVP Kultura (Poland) PRODUCER<br />
Katarzyna Kozlowska TV DIRECTOR Tomasz Motyl EDITOR Barbara<br />
Gola LIGHT DESIGN Adam Tyszka DURATION 64' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008<br />
MUSICAL STYLE Classical music COMPOSER George Frideric Handel<br />
CONDUCTOR Paul McCreesh ORCHESTRA Gabrieli Players (United<br />
Kingdom), Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra (Poland) SOLOIST Olga<br />
Pasichnyk, Daniel Taylor SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta<br />
An open-air concert during the 43rd International<br />
Festival Wratislavia Cantans, which was held in one<br />
of the most beautiful places in Wroclaw – Ostrów<br />
Tumski. The renowned Gabrieli Players together with<br />
the Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra conducted by Paul<br />
McCreesh played music by George Frideric Handel –<br />
his most popular works written especially for an outdoor<br />
event: »Water Music« and »Music for the Royal<br />
Fireworks«. Apart from instrumental pieces, opera<br />
arias and duets were also performed by Olga Pasichnyk<br />
(soprano) and Daniel Taylor (alto). Paul McCreesh<br />
has been the artistic director of Wratislavia Cantans<br />
since September 2005.<br />
SINFONIA IUVENTUS IN CONCERT<br />
356 GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording STATUS<br />
in progress PRODUCTION COMPANY TVP Kultura (Poland) PRODUCER<br />
Tomasz Kronenberg EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Robert Kamyk TV DIRECTOR<br />
Jozef Kowalewski EDITOR Barbara Gola LIGHT DESIGN Adam Tyszka<br />
DURATION 100' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED 27.11.2008 MUSICAL STYLE<br />
Classical music PIECE Concert overture COMPOSER Karol<br />
Szymanowski CONDUCTOR Eugene Tzigane ORCHESTRA Sinfonia<br />
Iuventus (Poland) PIECE The Firebird Suite (1919 version)<br />
COMPOSER Igor Stravinsky PIECE Symphony No.5 COMPOSER Piotr<br />
Ilyitch Tchaikovsky SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby surround 5.1<br />
New Polish orchestra Sinfonia Iuventus in concert.<br />
The initiative to establish this orchestra came from<br />
the eminent conductor Jerzy Semkow. Maestro<br />
Semkow, impressed with the professional level of<br />
students and graduates of the Academy of Music<br />
in Warsaw, asked the Academy to take care of its<br />
most talented graduates. This was the impulse that<br />
prompted the establishment of a youth symphony<br />
orchestra for the most gifted young musicians from<br />
all the musical academies in Poland. During its first<br />
televised concert, Sinfonia Iuventus was conducted<br />
by Eugene Tzigane, a promising young American<br />
conductor and winner of the 2007 International<br />
Grzegorz Fitelberg Competition for Conductors in<br />
Katowice. The programme: Karol Szymanowski:<br />
Concert Overture, Igor Stravinsky’s »The Firebird«<br />
Suite (1919 version), P. Tchaikovsky’s Symphony<br />
No. 5.
THE TABLE 357 GENRE Documentary: Music, on location STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Media Brigade (Poland) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
Hermetic Garage (Poland), TVP Kultura (Poland) PRODUCER<br />
Sylwester Banaszkiewicz, Marcin Kurek, Tomasz Sikora TV<br />
DIRECTOR Bartosz Blaschke CAMERA Bartosz Blaschke EDITOR Robert<br />
Polewski DURATION 56' 48" PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 PIECE The Table<br />
COMPOSER Pawel Czepulkowski, Michal Litwiniec, Marek<br />
Otwinowski, Igor Gawlikowski ORCHESTRA Karbido (Poland)<br />
DVD DISTRIBUTION Hermetic Garage (Poland) MULTIMEDIA DISTRIBUTION<br />
Hermetic Garage (Poland)<br />
»The Table« is a performance/music documentary<br />
about four men who play on tables. With sticks, bowls,<br />
knives, hands and a mixing desk, the Karbido Crew<br />
plays on a specially designed table – a wooden instrument<br />
with unique acoustic qualities. It’s a piece of<br />
furniture with soul, sensitive to the slightest touch<br />
and uniquely resonating. Their music has been played<br />
across six continents to great acclaim.<br />
THE YOUNG POLISH JAZZ<br />
358 GENRE Relay of: Ensemble/band appearance, Live recording<br />
STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY TVP Kultura (Poland)<br />
PRODUCER Miroslaw Lekowski TV DIRECTOR Waldemar Stronski EDITOR<br />
Beata Delida, Dorota Petrus LIGHT DESIGN Pawel Zaborowski<br />
DURATION 171' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 MUSICAL STYLE Jazz ORCHESTRA<br />
EMPE3 (Poland), Slawek Jaskulke TRIO (Poland), Pink Freud<br />
(Poland), Maciej Obara TRIO (Poland), Marcin Olak Trio<br />
(Poland) SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO Beta SP DISTRIBUTION TV Telewizja Polska<br />
SA (Poland)<br />
»The Young Polish Jazz« is a series of five concerts<br />
recorded during the Warsaw Summer Jazz Days 2008.<br />
The aim of this series is to present the most interesting<br />
jazz ensembles of the younger generation, such<br />
as EMPE3 – Mateusz Pospieszalski’s project based on<br />
jazz improvisation but enriched with electronic<br />
sounds; Pink Freud – their compositions are full of<br />
electronic sounds and crazy improvised solos; Slawek<br />
Jaskulke, one of the best Polish jazz pianists, who<br />
consequently deconstructs structural pianistic models<br />
and sonoristic standards; saxophonist Maciej Obara,<br />
whose style descends directly from John Coltrane;<br />
Marcin Olak Trio – the group combines jazz improvisation<br />
with contemporary chamber music, minimalism<br />
and sonorism.<br />
u<br />
Unitel GmbH & Co. KG<br />
ANNE-SOPHIE MUTTER –<br />
359ENCOUNTERS WITH MENDELSSOHN<br />
GENRE Documentary: Music STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
Unitel Classica (Germany), Deutsche Grammophon<br />
Gesellschaft (Germany) PRODUCER EuroArts TV DIRECTOR Agnes<br />
Méth DURATION 18' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical<br />
music SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby surround 5.1<br />
TV, THEATRICAL, HOMEVIDEO, DVD, MULTIMEDIA DISTRIBUTION C Major<br />
Entertainment GmbH (Germany)<br />
Harald Hoffmann / DG<br />
On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the birth<br />
of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in 2009, the great<br />
violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter takes a personal and<br />
revealing approach to the versatile composer. The film<br />
ac-companies her to Leipzig’s Mendelssohn Haus and<br />
Gewandhaus, where she performs the Violin Concerto<br />
with the Gewandhaus Orchestra under Kurt Masur.<br />
She discusses her affinity to Mendelssohn and explains<br />
what she particularly admires in the concerto,<br />
the piano trio and the sonata, which she performs with<br />
her chamber-music partners, Lynn Harrell and André<br />
Previn, who, along with Kurt Masur, are also interviewed<br />
for this documentary.<br />
BAYREUTH – FROM MYTH<br />
360TO MODERNITY<br />
GENRE Documentary: Music STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
Unitel Classica (Germany), Spiegel TV (Germany) CO-PRODUCTION<br />
COMPANY ZDF (Germany) ASS. PRODUCTION COMPANY ARTE (Germany)<br />
PRODUCER Spiegel TV Spiegel TV TV DIRECTOR Peter Siebenmorgen,<br />
Michael Kloft DURATION 90' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 MUSICAL STYLE<br />
Classical music SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby surround 5.1<br />
TV, THEATRICAL, HOMEVIDEO, DVD, MULTIMEDIA DISTRIBUTION C Major<br />
Entertainment GmbH (Germany)<br />
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Bayreuther Festspiele GmbH<br />
Nowhere in the world is the myth of Wagner as alive as<br />
in Bayreuth. Now that the composer’s grandson Wolfgang<br />
Wagner has stepped down from his post as head<br />
of Bayreuth’s Wagner Festival, a new era is beginning.<br />
This documentary analyses the past, present and<br />
future of the festival and provides rare insights from<br />
behind the scenes of the Bayreuth »workshop«, including<br />
a rehearsal of »Götterdämmerung« conducted<br />
by Christian Thielemann, a conversation with Wolfgang<br />
Wagner, rehearsals of the new production of<br />
»Parsifal« with director Stefan Herheim and conductor<br />
Daniele Gatti, and much more.<br />
CHRISTIAN THIELEMANN CONDUCTS<br />
361BRUCKNER’S SYMPHONY NO. 4<br />
GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral concert, Live recording<br />
STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY Unitel Classica (Germany)<br />
PRODUCER Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images TV DIRECTOR Agnes<br />
Méth DURATION 65' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Festspielhaus<br />
Baden-Baden MUSICAL STYLE Classical music COMPOSER Anton<br />
Bruckner CONDUCTOR Christian Thielemann ORCHESTRA Münchner<br />
Philharmoniker (Germany) SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby<br />
surround 5.1 TV, THEATRICAL, HOMEVIDEO, DVD AND MULTIMEDIA DISTRIBUTION<br />
C Major Entertainment GmbH (Germany)<br />
Andrea Kremper<br />
Bruckner originally wrote the Fourth Symphony in<br />
1874, but revised it thoroughly in 1880. This is the<br />
version, featured on this recording, of a concert held<br />
at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, which was greeted<br />
with storms of applause. Leading the Munich Philharmonic<br />
is its principal conductor Christian Thielemann,<br />
a maestro who is known and admired above all as a<br />
specialist of Romantic music. His interpretations of<br />
Wagner, Strauss and Bruckner have been setting<br />
standards for several years now.<br />
DAS RHEINGOLD 362 GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS completed PRODUCTION<br />
COMPANY Unitel Classica (Germany), Palau de les Arts (Spain)<br />
PRODUCER Metis Film TV DIRECTOR Tiziano Mancini DURATION 167'<br />
PRODUCTION YEAR 2007 RECORDED Palau de les Arts MUSICAL STYLE<br />
Classical music COMPOSER Richard Wagner CONDUCTOR Zubin<br />
Mehta ORCHESTRA Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana (Spain)<br />
104 avantpremière2009 SOLOIST Juha Uusitalo, Ilya Bannik, Germán Villar STAGE DIRECTOR<br />
La Fura dels Baus (Director: Carlos Padrissa) SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
HD/Dolby surround 5.1 TV, THEATRICAL, HOMEVIDEO, DVD AND MULTIMEDIA<br />
DISTRIBUTION C Major Entertainment GmbH (Germany)<br />
Palau de les Arts/Tato Baeza<br />
The Catalan city of Valencia is setting new accents in<br />
21st-century opera with its visually transfixing production<br />
of Wagner’s »Ring« staged by Carlus Padrissa and<br />
La Fura dels Baus. The Barcelona-based Fura blends<br />
music, dance, acrobatics and technology into unforgettable<br />
stage events of raw and captivating power. Wagner’s<br />
dream of a Gesamtkunstwerk becomes reality in<br />
this shape-shifting sequence of tableaux featuring 3D<br />
computer projections, organic structures built of performers<br />
and much more. Zubin Mehta leads worldclass<br />
singers Peter Seiffert, Petra-Maria Schnitzer and<br />
Matti Salminen, and promising young talents that include<br />
Jennifer Wilson (Brünnhilde), John Daszak (Loge)<br />
and Juha Uusitalo (Wotan).<br />
DIE MEISTERSINGER VON<br />
363NÜRNBERG GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Unitel Classica (Germany) ASS. PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
Wiener Staatsoper (Austria) PRODUCER Metis Film TV DIRECTOR<br />
Tiziano Mancini DURATION 273' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED<br />
Vienna State Opera MUSICAL STYLE Classical music COMPOSER<br />
Richard Wagner CONDUCTOR Christian Thielemann ORCHESTRA<br />
Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper (Austria) CHOIR Chor der<br />
Wiener Staatsoper (Austria) SOLOIST Falk Struckmann, Ain Anger,<br />
Adrian Eröd STAGE DIRECTOR Otto Schenk SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
HD/Dolby surround 5.1 TV, THEATRICAL, HOMEVIDEO, DVD AND MULTIMEDIA<br />
DISTRIBUTION C Major Entertainment GmbH (Germany)
Enrico Secchiaroli<br />
Wagner’s »Meistersinger« is a festive opera in its own<br />
right, but when it was reprised at the Vienna State<br />
Opera in January 2008, the festive spirit leapt out into<br />
the audience as well. Vienna’s dailies exploded with<br />
praise such as »a feast of singers« (Der Standard) and<br />
»nearly six hours of pure enjoyment« (Kurier). The<br />
plaudits applied to the entire cast, from Hans Sachs to<br />
the night watchman, as well as to the chorus and orchestra.<br />
Conductor Christian Thielemann, who commands<br />
the grand gesture as well as the subtle detail,<br />
deserves a great deal of the credit.<br />
DIE WALKÜRE 364 GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS completed PRODUCTION<br />
COMPANY Unitel Classica (Germany), Palau de les Arts (Spain)<br />
PRODUCER Metis Film TV DIRECTOR Tiziano Mancini DURATION 245'<br />
PRODUCTION YEAR 2007 RECORDED Palau de les Arts MUSICAL STYLE<br />
Classical music COMPOSER Richard Wagner CONDUCTOR Zubin<br />
Mehta ORCHESTRA Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana (Spain)<br />
SOLOIST Juha Uusitalo, Peter Seiffert, Stephen Milling STAGE<br />
DIRECTOR La Fura dels Baus (Director: Carlos Padrissa) SOURCE<br />
VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby surround 5.1 TV, THEATRICAL, HOMEVIDEO, DVD AND<br />
MULTIMEDIA DISTRIBUTION C Major Entertainment GmbH (Germany)<br />
Palau de les Arts/Tato Baezo<br />
The Catalan city of Valencia is setting new accents in<br />
21st-century opera with its visually transfixing production<br />
of Wagner’s »Ring« staged by Carlus Padrissa and<br />
La Fura dels Baus. The Barcelona-based Fura blends<br />
music, dance, acrobatics and technology into unforgettable<br />
stage events of raw and captivating power. Wagner’s<br />
dream of a Gesamtkunstwerk becomes reality in<br />
this shape-shifting sequence of tableaux featuring 3D<br />
computer projections, organic structures built of performers<br />
and much more. Zubin Mehta leads worldclass<br />
singers Peter Seiffert, Petra-Maria Schnitzer and<br />
Matti Salminen, and promising young talents that include<br />
Jennifer Wilson (Brünnhilde), John Daszak (Loge)<br />
and Juha Uusitalo (Wotan).<br />
DON GIOVANNI 365 GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Unitel Classica (Germany) ASS. PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
Salzburg Festival (Austria) PRODUCER ORF – Österreichischer<br />
Rundfunk TV DIRECTOR Brian Large DURATION 170' PRODUCTION YEAR<br />
2008 RECORDED Salzburg Festival MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
COMPOSER Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart CONDUCTOR Bertrand de<br />
Billy ORCHESTRA Wiener Philharmoniker (Austria) CHOIR Konzertvereinigung<br />
Wiener Staatsopernchor (Austria) SOLOIST<br />
Christopher Maltmann, Annette Dasch, Dorothea Röschmann,<br />
Erwin Schrott STAGE DIRECTOR Claus Guth SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
HD/Dolby surround 5.1 TV, THEATRICAL, HOMEVIDEO, DVD AND MULTIMEDIA<br />
DISTRIBUTION C Major Entertainment GmbH (Germany)<br />
Monika Rittershaus<br />
In Claus Guth's almost cinematic Salzburg Festival<br />
production, every character in Mozart's most realistic<br />
opera seems to be seeking salvation or damnation in<br />
the woods – a compelling concept that removes the<br />
opera from its traditional Seville setting. With a<br />
physique as striking as his full-bodied baritone voice,<br />
Christopher Maltman embodies Don Giovanni as an<br />
almost reluctant seducer. As to his sidekick Leporello,<br />
Uruguayan bass-baritone Erwin Schrott »is an event<br />
in his own right, the event of the Salzburg Don Giovanni«<br />
(Die Welt). Under Bertrand de Billy, the Wiener<br />
Philharmoniker play with refreshing verve and spirit.<br />
JOHANNES MOSER – JURAJ<br />
366VALCUHA: WAGNER, PFITZNER,<br />
STRAUSS<br />
GENRE Relay of: Instrumental recital, Live recording STATUS in<br />
progress PRODUCTION COMPANY Unitel Classica (Germany),<br />
Saarländischer Rundfunk (Germany), ARTE (France) TV DIRECTOR<br />
Torben Schmidt DURATION 90' PRODUCTION YEAR 2009 RECORDED<br />
E-Werk Saarbrücken, 07.11.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
COMPOSER Richard Wagner, Hans Pfitzner, Richard Strauss<br />
CONDUCTOR Juraj Valcuha ORCHESTRA Deutsche Radio Philharmonie<br />
Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern (Germany) SOLOIST Johannes Moser<br />
SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby surround 5.1 TV, THEATRICAL, HOMEVIDEO,<br />
DVD AND MULTIMEDIA DISTRIBUTION C Major Entertainment GmbH<br />
(Germany)<br />
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In this concert of late-Romantic music with the<br />
Deut-sche Radio Philharmonie, works by Pfitzner and<br />
Richard Strauss are performed with youthful enthusiasm<br />
and lightness by 2008 Echo Classic Award Winner<br />
Johannes Moser, one of Europe’s most promising<br />
young cellists. In addition to Richard Strauss’s<br />
Rom-ance for Cello and Orchestra, Moser plays the<br />
Pfitzner Cello Concerto, which was long held to be lost.<br />
Leading the orchestra, which also performs music by<br />
Wagner and other works by Pfitzner and Strauss, is<br />
another rising star of the classical music scene,<br />
Slovakian conductor Juraj Valcuha.<br />
LANG LANG AT SCHÖNBRUNN<br />
367 GENRE Relay of: Instrumental recital, Live recording STATUS<br />
completed PRODUCTION COMPANY Unitel Classica (Germany) PRODUCER<br />
ORF – Österreichischer Rundfunk TV DIRECTOR Agnes Méth<br />
DURATION 102' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Schönbrunn Palace,<br />
Vienna MUSICAL STYLE Classical music COMPOSER Carl Maria von<br />
Weber, Frédéric Chopin, Ludwig van Beethoven, Joseph<br />
Hellmesberger, Eduard Strauß, Franz Liszt CONDUCTOR Zubin<br />
Mehta ORCHESTRA Wiener Philharmoniker (Germany) SOLOIST Lang<br />
Lang SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby surround 5.1 TV, THEATRICAL,<br />
HOMEVIDEO, DVD AND MULTIMEDIA DISTRIBUTION C Major Entertainment<br />
GmbH (Germany)<br />
ORF/Ali Schafler<br />
Held at Vienna’s Schönbrunn Palace the day before the<br />
final match of the Euro 2008 Football Championship in<br />
Vienna, this concert brings together football fans and<br />
music lovers. Young Chinese pianist Lang Lang – the<br />
»pop star« of the international piano elite – dazzles his<br />
way into the hearts of the audience with his rendition<br />
of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2. After the intermission,<br />
conductor Zubin Mehta, who warmed up the<br />
Vienna Philharmonic with Weber’s »Oberon« Overture<br />
before tackling the Chopin, leads his musicians in a<br />
rousing performance of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony.<br />
106 avantpremière2009 MONTEVERDI – FROM THE BASILICA<br />
368OF SAINT DENIS<br />
GENRE Relay of: Vocal recital, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Unitel Classica (Germany), AVE (Germany),<br />
CLC (France) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY France 2 (France), YLE Teema<br />
(Finland), ZDF (Germany) ASS. PRODUCTION COMPANY ARTE (France)<br />
PRODUCER Ave TV DIRECTOR Andreas Morell DURATION 44'<br />
DURATION2 76' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Basilica of Saint Denis<br />
MUSICAL STYLE Classical music COMPOSER Claudio Monteverdi<br />
CONDUCTOR Emmanuelle Haim ORCHESTRA Le Concert d'Astrée<br />
(France) SOLOIST Rolando Villazón, Patrizia Ciofi, Topi Lehtipuu<br />
SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby surround 5.1 TV, THEATRICAL, HOMEVIDEO,<br />
DVD AND MULTIMEDIA DISTRIBUTION C Major Entertainment GmbH<br />
(Germany)<br />
Festival de Saint-Denis<br />
French conductor and harpsichordist Emmanuelle<br />
Haïm has devoted herself to cultivating the works of<br />
Monteverdi, Handel, Rameau and Purcell. With her ensemble,<br />
Le Concert d'Astrée, which performs on historical<br />
instruments, she has become a leading figure in<br />
the Early Music scene. In this concert of works by<br />
Claudio Monteverdi, powerhouse tenor Villazón proves<br />
his all-round mastery of italianità. Punctuating the programme<br />
are brief interview excerpts with Villazón and<br />
Haïm, who explain their understanding of Early Music.<br />
The concert was recorded at the Festival de St. Denis<br />
in the Gothic 12-century cathedral of St. Denis near<br />
Paris.<br />
SALZBURG FESTIVAL – OPENING<br />
369CONCERT GENRE Relay of: Instrumental recital, Live recording STATUS<br />
completed PRODUCTION COMPANY Unitel Classica (Germany) CO-<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY ZDF (Germany), 3sat (Germany) ASS. PRODUCTION<br />
COMPANY Salzburg Festival (Austria) PRODUCER ORF –<br />
Österreichischer Rundfunk TV DIRECTOR Michael Beyer DURATION 90'<br />
PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Salzburg Festival MUSICAL STYLE<br />
Classical music COMPOSER Maurice Ravel, Béla Bartók, Igor<br />
Stravinsky CONDUCTOR Pierre Boulez SOLOIST Daniel Barenboim<br />
SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby surround 5.1 TV, THEATRICAL, HOMEVIDEO,<br />
DVD AND MULTIMEDIA DISTRIBUTION C Major Entertainment GmbH<br />
(Germany)<br />
ORF/Ali Schafler
Put one of the world’s greatest orchestras in the hands<br />
of a leading specialist of 20th-century music, add a<br />
distinguished piano soloist, and you have a concert of<br />
superlatives that pays glowing tribute to three major<br />
works of the past century. Pierre Boulez conducts the<br />
official Salzburg Festival opening concert of the Vienna<br />
Philharmonic. Combining Béla Bartók’s Piano Concerto<br />
No. 1 – featuring Daniel Barenboim as the soloist –<br />
with Maurice Ravel’s »Valses nobles et sentimentales«<br />
and Igor Stravinsky's »Firebird« ballet, Boulez weaves<br />
a compelling musical texture that uncovers the links<br />
among the three works and the three composers.<br />
THE GAMBLER 370 GENRE Relay of: Opera, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Unitel Classica (Germany) ASS. PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
Staatsoper Unter den Linden (Germany) PRODUCER Bernhard<br />
Fleischer Moving Images TV DIRECTOR Karina Fibich DURATION 135'<br />
PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Staatsoper Unter den Linden,<br />
Berlin MUSICAL STYLE Classical music COMPOSER Sergei Prokofiev<br />
CONDUCTOR Daniel Barenboim ORCHESTRA Staatskapelle Berlin<br />
(Germany) CHOIR Staatsopernchor Berlin (Germany) SOLOIST<br />
Vladimir Ognovenko, Kristine Opolais, Misha Didyk STAGE<br />
DIRECTOR Dmitri Tcherniakov SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Dolby surround<br />
5.1 TV, THEATRICAL, HOMEVIDEO, DVD AND MULTIMEDIA DISTRIBUTION C Major<br />
Entertainment GmbH (Germany)<br />
David Baltzer<br />
Based on Dostoyevsky’s novel, »The Gambler« is a<br />
dark study of human failings and the corruptive power<br />
of money. In this production from the Berlin Staatsoper<br />
directed by Dmitri Tcherniakov, »the evening<br />
zips past entertainingly, yet leaves its mark in the<br />
listener’s mind: it is a stroke of genius like Prokofiev’s<br />
opera itself« (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung). The<br />
Staatskapelle Berlin under Daniel Barenboim provides<br />
a rich orchestral background to the full, lustrous voices<br />
of Vladimir Ognovenko, Kristine Opolais, Misha Didyk<br />
and Stefania Toczyska. The Prokofiev renaissance has<br />
reclaimed one of the composer’s most daring, almost<br />
»futuristic« pieces from neglect.<br />
w<br />
Wunderlich Medien GbR<br />
LISA DELLA CASA – LOVE OF A DIVA<br />
371 GENRE Documentary: Portrait STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
Wunderlich Medien GbR (Germany) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY BR<br />
Bayerischer Rundfunk (Germany), SF – Schweizer Fernsehen<br />
(Switzerland) PRODUCER Barbara Wunderlich EXECUTIVE PRODUCER<br />
Marten Schnier TV DIRECTOR Thomas Voigt, Wolfgang Wunderlich<br />
CAMERA Wolfgang Wunderlich EDITOR Wolfgang Wunderlich AUTHOR<br />
Thomas Voigt DURATION 58' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Various<br />
MUSICAL STYLE Classical music SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo<br />
DISTRIBUTION TV Wunderlich Medien GbR (Germany) DVD DISTRIBUTION<br />
Wunderlich Medien GbR (Germany)<br />
Archives Lisa Della Casa<br />
»Lisa Della Casa« – the moving story of a legendary<br />
singer and her great love: the exclusive TV documentary<br />
for her 90th birthday for the first time shows the<br />
career and intense private life of the elusive singer.<br />
This film is about three people who experienced greatest<br />
happiness and deepest despair and who, after<br />
almost 60 years, still live together in their own, hermetically<br />
sealed world. It includes exclusive interviews<br />
with the artist and her family and sensational historical<br />
TV material as well as private films of the family –<br />
many of them never seen before. Interviews with<br />
colleagues and contemporaries including Renée<br />
Fleming, Anneliese Rothenberger, Inge Borkh and<br />
Sena Jurinac give an impression of her exceptional<br />
artistic personality.<br />
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ROBERT STOLZ – MUSIC OF<br />
372RECONCILIATION GENRE Documentary: Portrait STATUS in progress PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
Wunderlich Medien GbR (Germany) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY ORF –<br />
Österreichischer Rundfunk (Austria) EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Marten<br />
Schnier TV DIRECTOR Thomas Voigt, Franz Fleischmann CAMERA<br />
Wolfgang Wunderlich EDITOR Wolfgang Wunderlich AUTHOR<br />
Thomas Voigt, Barbara Wunderlich DURATION 58' RECORDED Vienna,<br />
Berlin and others MUSICAL STYLE Classical music SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
DigiBeta/Stereo DVD DISTRIBUTION Sony BMG Music Entertainment<br />
(Germany)<br />
YLE<br />
Stolz Family Archive<br />
As a successful musician and »Aryan« favoured by the<br />
Nazis, he helped many Jews to escape from Germany.<br />
1938 he, too, had to escape and was imprisoned as a<br />
»hostile foreigner« in Paris, where he fell seriously ill.<br />
In the US he was celebrated as an anti-Nazi as well as<br />
a famous composer. After the war, the Russians allowed<br />
him to return to his completely undamaged<br />
apartment in Vienna, also because they loved his<br />
music. On his first journey to Israel in the early 1960s,<br />
Stolz insisted on performing his music in German.<br />
Many people in the audience were moved to tears<br />
hearing the songs they recalled from happier times.<br />
y<br />
373 JAMMING THE PAST<br />
GENRE Relay of: Ensemble/band appearance, Live recording<br />
STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY YLE (Finland) PRODUCER Osmo<br />
Tapio Räihälä TV DIRECTOR Vesa Lehko CAMERA Kimmo Kajasto<br />
EDITOR Sari Vaskio SETS Tuomo Dahlman LIGHT DESIGN Jari Väisänen<br />
DURATION 58' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Old Customs House,<br />
Tampere, Finland, 04.11.2007 MUSICAL STYLE Jazz COMPOSER Verneri<br />
Pohjola ORCHESTRA Aurora (Finland) SOLOIST Verneri Pohjola,<br />
Juhani Aaltonen, Jukka Tolonen, Mats Gustafsson, Edward<br />
Vesala SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Dolby surround 5.1 DISTRIBUTION<br />
TV YLE Export (Finland)<br />
108 avantpremière2009 Maarit Kytöharju<br />
A living drummer on stage plays a frenzied duel with<br />
a late musician … Is this possible? Yes it is! The trumpeter-composer<br />
Verneri Pohjola took some clips of<br />
past musicians from YLE’s archives and arranged their<br />
solos to fit his music. And vice versa: the band on<br />
stage picks a theme played by musicians from the past<br />
and throws itself into wild jamming. YLE Teema programme<br />
made television history by putting this act<br />
together in front of a live audience in the Tampere Jazz<br />
Happening. The result is an outstanding experience of<br />
modern jazz.<br />
LET'S MAKE A CHOIR!<br />
374 GENRE Documentary: Music, on location STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY YLE (Finland) PRODUCER Helena Kokko TV<br />
DIRECTOR Pirkko Epstein CAMERA Timo Silvonen EDITOR Markku<br />
Pulkkinen DURATION 45' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 CHOIR Teemalaulajat<br />
(Finland) SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo<br />
Veera Aaltonen<br />
What happens when you take 45 people who have<br />
never sung in a choir and start training them? Believe<br />
it or not, five months later these singers were performing<br />
Gustav Mahler with the Finnish Radio Symphony<br />
Orchestra in a packed Finlandia Hall! What it takes is a<br />
top-class choirmaster like Pasi Hyökki, and a lot of enthusiasm<br />
and work. The choir was guided forwards<br />
step by step, becoming familiar with a variety of styles<br />
and techniques. YLE Teema followed their progress in<br />
ten episodes in a TV series that became the big hit of<br />
the channel in 2008.<br />
THE SEASON TICKET<br />
375 SERIES The Season Ticket GENRE Relay of: Orchestral/choral<br />
concert, Live recording STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY YLE<br />
(Finland) PRODUCER Osmo Tapio Räihälä TV DIRECTOR Anna-Kaarina<br />
Kiviniemi, Jukka Konttori, Tiina Siniketo CAMERA Mika<br />
Paavilainen EDITOR Tapani Toroskainen SETS Kimmo Turunen<br />
LIGHT DESIGN Mika Paavilainen DURATION 94' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008<br />
RECORDED The Finlandia Hall, The Temppeliaukio Church MUSICAL<br />
STYLE Classical music COMPOSER Witold Lutoslawski, Tauno<br />
Marttinen, Hugo Wolf, Frank Martin CONDUCTOR Hannu Lintu,<br />
Sakari Oramo, Matthias Foremny ORCHESTRA Finnish Radio<br />
Symphony Orchestra (Finland) SOLOIST Christian Gerhaher,<br />
Thomas Quasthoff SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV YLE<br />
Export (Finland)
Pekka Saarinen<br />
The Season Ticket entered its third and last season in<br />
2008. The programme series was a monthly transmission<br />
of Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra’s concerts<br />
with a string of top conductors and soloists. The main<br />
content was, of course, music, but The Season Ticket<br />
opened a backstage door to the viewers, and the studio<br />
discussions gave the audience a wider outlook to<br />
the concerts. We met orchestra members, composers,<br />
a critic, and other people working in and around the<br />
orchestra life. The highlights of the year were a plenty,<br />
with German singers Christian Gerhaher and Thomas<br />
Quasthoff topping the bill.<br />
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ZDF German Televison<br />
DOMINGO, NETREBKO AND<br />
376VILLAZÓN – A MIDSUMMER<br />
NIGHT’S MUSIC FROM VIENNA<br />
GENRE Live recording STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY Unitel<br />
(Germany) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY ZDF (Germany), ORF (Austria)<br />
PRODUCER Jörg Hitzemann, Heidelinde Rudy TV DIRECTOR Heidelinde<br />
Haschek DURATION 99' 26" PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Schloss<br />
Schönbrunn, Vienna, Austria, 27.06.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical<br />
music CONDUCTOR Bertrand de Billy ORCHESTRA Radio Symphony<br />
Orchestra Vienna (Austria)<br />
ZDF, ORF/Ali Schafler<br />
Their first appearance together on stage at Berlin’s<br />
Waldbühne during the 2006 World Football Championship<br />
in Germany has meanwhile turned legendary.<br />
Last summer, two days before the final of the European<br />
Football Championship, Anna Netrebko, Rolando<br />
Villazón and Placido Domingo performed a second<br />
concert together. The picturesque scenery of the openair<br />
event was the Ehrenhof of Vienna’s Schönbrunn<br />
Palace. With opera highlights and operetta hits by<br />
Johann Strauß, Franz Lehár and Emmerich Kálmán, the<br />
three classical music stars stirred the Vienna audience.<br />
The trio was accompanied by the Vienna Radio Symphony<br />
Orchestra under Bertrand de Billy. For Anna<br />
Netrebko it was the last performance before her baby<br />
break.<br />
ECHO DER STARS<br />
377 GENRE Live recording STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY ZDF<br />
(Germany) ASS. PRODUCTION COMPANY Deutsche Phono-Akademie<br />
(Germany) PRODUCER Tobias Feilen, Martin Schneider TV DIRECTOR<br />
Utz Weber CAMERA Volker Schmidt AUTHOR Markus Paßlick<br />
DURATION 100' 13" PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Munich Philharmonie<br />
Gasteig, Munich, Germany, 19.10.2008 MUSICAL STYLE<br />
Classical music CONDUCTOR Andrey Boreyko ORCHESTRA Münchner<br />
Philharmoniker (Germany)<br />
ZDF/Phono-Akademie<br />
This year’s ECHO Klassik Awards Show – the ECHO<br />
Klassik being the highest music and recording medium<br />
award given to an artist in Germany – was the 13th to<br />
be broadcast by ZDF. Among the prize-winners present<br />
at »Echo der Stars« at Munich’s Philharmonie im<br />
Gasteig were Cecilia Bartoli, José Carreras, Philippe<br />
Jaroussky, Albrecht Mayer and Annette Dasch. The<br />
Munich Philharmonic Orchestra was conducted by<br />
Andrey Boreyko. The gala was presented by actress<br />
Natalia Wörner and entertainer Götz Alsmann.<br />
FESTIVE ADVENT MUSIC FROM<br />
378DRESDEN GENRE Live recording STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY ZDF<br />
(Germany) PRODUCER Jörg Hitzemann TV DIRECTOR Elisabeth Malzer<br />
DURATION 60' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Frauenkirche Dresden,<br />
Germany, 29.11.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music CONDUCTOR<br />
Christoph Eschenbach ORCHESTRA Staatskapelle Dresden<br />
(Germany) CHOIR Chor der Sächsischen Staatsoper Dresden<br />
(Germany)<br />
For eight years, Dresden’s Frauenkirche has been the<br />
venue of ZDF’s festive advent concerts. Until 2005,<br />
during its reconstruction phase, they were held in the<br />
midst of the scaffolding. Since the solemn reopening<br />
in 2005, the baroque grandeur of the Frauenkirche has<br />
been providing the unique scenery for »Festive Advent<br />
Music«. No less than three outstanding singers were<br />
last year’s guest soloists in Dresden: Anja Harteros,<br />
Elina Garanca and Jonas Kaufmann. Together with the<br />
choir of the Saxonian State Opera and the Staatskapelle<br />
Dresden conducted by Christoph Eschenbach,<br />
they performed an atmospheric pre-Christmas programme<br />
of works by Bach, Handel, Mozart and Schubert,<br />
amongst others.<br />
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GÖTZ ALSMANN'S NIGHTMUSIC<br />
379 GENRE Live recording STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY ZDF<br />
(Germany) PRODUCER Tobias Feilen, Oliver Heidemann TV DIRECTOR<br />
Frank Hof CAMERA Michael Donecker AUTHOR Markus Paßlick<br />
DURATION 57' 43" PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Bavaria Studios,<br />
Munich, Germany, 06.05.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
CONDUCTOR Michael Hofstetter, Cornelius Meister ORCHESTRA<br />
Orchester der Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele (Germany),<br />
Hofer Symphoniker (Germany)<br />
ZDF – Thomas K. Schumann<br />
»Götz Alsmann’s Nightmusic«, presenting popular<br />
classical repertoire at its highest level, is hosted by the<br />
musician and entertainer Götz Alsmann. The progamme<br />
is however not limited to classical melodies; Götz<br />
Alsmann also asks his guests for humorous musical<br />
encores, and none of them can resist the temptation.<br />
Music is fun – and this show proves it! Guests include<br />
Thomas Quasthoff, Hélène Grimaud, The Ten Tenors,<br />
Diana Damrau, David Garrett, Danielle de Niese, Jonas<br />
Kaufmann and The King’s Singers.<br />
KARAJAN – BEAUTY AS I SEE IT<br />
380 GENRE Documentary: Portrait STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
Unitel (Germany), MR Film (Austria) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY ZDF<br />
(Germany) ASS. PRODUCTION COMPANY ORF (Austria) PRODUCER Anca-<br />
Monica Pandelea TV DIRECTOR Robert Dornhelm EDITOR Christoph<br />
Engel DURATION 62' 35" PRODUCTION YEAR 2008<br />
Aspiring to the unusual, he reached the extraordinary.<br />
There is no common way to measure the lifework he<br />
left behind. He was the personification of fame, glamour<br />
and popularity. He aimed higher than any of his<br />
colleagues before or after him: Herbert von Karajan.<br />
The world of music has and never will be dominated<br />
110 avantpremière2009 by a similarly powerful figure. No other conductor has<br />
ever climbed higher in the world of public interest. In<br />
2008, Hollywood director Robert Dornhelm created a<br />
portrait of this exceptional artist to celebrate his 100th<br />
birthday.<br />
THE BERLIN PHILHARMONIC'S<br />
381NEW YEAR'S EVE CONCERT<br />
GENRE Live recording STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY ZDF<br />
(Germany) PRODUCER Martin Schneider TV DIRECTOR Elisabeth<br />
Malzer DURATION 86' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Berlin<br />
Philharmonic Hall, 31.12.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music<br />
CONDUCTOR Sir Simon Rattle ORCHESTRA Berliner Philharmoniker<br />
(Germany) DISTRIBUTION TV EuroArts (Germany)<br />
Sir Simon Rattle<br />
For more than three decades, Berlin Philharmonic’s<br />
New Year’s Eve Concert has been one of the annual<br />
highlights of ZDF’s classical music programme.<br />
For the 2008 finale, Sir Simon Rattle chose an all-<br />
American repertoire full of contrasts, ranging from<br />
Gershwin’s »American in Paris« and »Cuban Overture«<br />
to Samuel Barber’s »Adagio for Strings« and<br />
John Adams’s »Short Ride in a Fast Machine«. Some<br />
of the most beautiful songs from »Porgy and Bess«<br />
feature two outstanding singers: Pauline Malefane and<br />
Thomas Quasthoff, the latter a four-time Grammy<br />
award winner, not only performing as vocal artist but<br />
also as presenter.<br />
VILLAZÓN SINGING HANDEL<br />
382 GENRE Relay of: Vocal recital, Live recording STATUS completed<br />
PRODUCTION COMPANY Unitel (Germany) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY Moving<br />
Images (Austria) ASS. PRODUCTION COMPANY ZDF (Germany) PRODUCER<br />
Bernhard Fleischer, Jörg Hitzemann TV DIRECTOR Henning Kasten<br />
DURATION 45' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED St. Paul's Church,<br />
London, 07.10.2008 MUSICAL STYLE Classical music CONDUCTOR Paul<br />
McCreesh ORCHESTRA Gabrieli Players (Great Britain)<br />
ZDF/Unitel<br />
April 14, 2009 marks the 250th birthday of George<br />
Frederic Handel. On this occasion, Mexican tenor<br />
Rolando Villazón will sing well-known arias of the great<br />
baroque composer in London, where Handel lived for<br />
the most part of his life and had his biggest successes.<br />
In the charming church of Saint Paul Deptford, which<br />
was built in Handel’s times and which is famous for its<br />
superb acoustics, he will be accompanied by the
Gabrieli Players under Paul McCreesh. The virtuosity<br />
and expressiveness with which Villazón is performing<br />
arias from the operas »Tamerlano«, »Serse«, »Ariodante«<br />
and »Rodelinda« proves impressively that he is<br />
one of the most versatile singers of our time.<br />
ZDFtheaterkanal<br />
ANNETTE’S DASCHSALON:<br />
383MOONLIT NIGHT<br />
STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY ZDFtheaterkanal (Germany)<br />
CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY Radialsystem V (Germany) PRODUCER Dieter<br />
Schneider TV DIRECTOR Stefan Hossfeld DURATION 60' PRODUCTION YEAR<br />
2008 RECORDED Berlin, Germany SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo<br />
»Annette’s DaschSalon« is a cult event in Berlin.<br />
Soprano Annette Dasch regularly invites friends,<br />
singers and young performers to her lounge dedicated<br />
to classical and modern lied singing. The guests of<br />
this last lounge entitled »Moonlit Night« are baritone<br />
Dietrich Henschel, young soprano Anna Prohaska and<br />
the thrilling and unexpected performance of three<br />
young guys from Berlin called SchindelKilliusDutschke.<br />
The programme combines the highlights of the show<br />
with documentary backstage footage, interviews and<br />
short films. The repertoire contains songs from<br />
Schubert, Brahms and Korngold.<br />
CHOREOGRAPHIC AVANT-GARDE –<br />
384SELF-PORTRAITS OF SEVEN<br />
CHOREOGRAPHERS<br />
STATUS in progress PRODUCTION COMPANY ZDFtheaterkanal (Germany)<br />
CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY Deutsches Tanzfilminstitut Bremen<br />
(Germany) PRODUCER Birgit Adler-Conrad EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Ulrich<br />
Scholz TV DIRECTOR Ulrich Scholz CAMERA Ulrich Scholz DURATION<br />
30' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Berlin, Essen, Freiburg, Leipzig,<br />
Dresden, Freiburg SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo<br />
This series of portraits presents seven highly relevant<br />
choreographers involved in the development of contemporary<br />
dance. Supported by a professional filmmaker<br />
but in a mostly self-determined process, it was<br />
up to the choreographers themselves to choose and<br />
authorise the interviews and excerpts of performances.<br />
The excellence of the respective choreographic work is<br />
obvious. The style of each portrait stands out due to<br />
individual and remarkable graphics. Each choreographer<br />
has chosen an element that is significant for his<br />
own work, such as fire, water, ice, light, pearls or<br />
metal. Seven unconventional portraits were created<br />
pushing the boundaries of traditional TV genres. The<br />
choreographers are Joachim Schlömer, Stefan Thoss,<br />
Anna Huber, Henrietta Horn, Daniel Goldin, Urs<br />
Dietrich, Rubato.<br />
CLOUD GATE COMPANY –<br />
385BETWEEN TWO WORLDS (WT)<br />
GENRE Documentary: Dance STATUS in progress PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
ZDFtheaterkanal/3sat (Germany) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY moving –<br />
angel GmbH (Germany) PRODUCER Birgit Adler-Conrad EXECUTIVE<br />
PRODUCER Birgit Baumgärtner TV DIRECTOR Jean Christophe Blavier<br />
CAMERA Hao-Jan Chang, Patrick Pawig, Jean Christophe Blavier<br />
EDITOR Sabine Mahr-Haigis AUTHOR Jean Christophe Blavier<br />
DURATION 45' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Taipei (Taiwan),<br />
Wuppertal (Germany), Düsseldorf (Germany) CHOREOGRAPHY BY<br />
Lin Hwain-min DANCE COMPANY Cloud Gate Company (Taiwan)<br />
SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Stereo<br />
moving-angel GmbH<br />
According to a legend, »Cloud Gate« is the name of<br />
the oldest known dance in China. In 1973 Lin Hwaimin<br />
chose this name for the first contemporary dance<br />
theatre in Taiwan, which is now classified as one of the<br />
most important companies worldwide. »Cloud Gate«<br />
has performed in numerous tours around the world<br />
and at many festivals. In an interview with Lin Hwaimin,<br />
we learn more about his work and the history of<br />
the 5000-year-old »Cloud Gate« dance. Convincing excerpts<br />
of his shows will serve to show the artistic development<br />
of the company within the past ten years.<br />
I'M NOT ALONE 386 STATUS in progress PRODUCTION COMPANY ZDFtheaterkanal (Germany)<br />
CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY nb media (Germany) PRODUCER Birgit Adler-<br />
Conrad EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Norbert Busè TV DIRECTOR Dieter<br />
Schneider DURATION 0' 26" PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Various<br />
SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo<br />
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»I’m not alone« is a dance film choreographed by Nick<br />
Hobbs and danced by Kirsty Ross and Jörg Weinöhl.<br />
The film combines elements of a dance performance in<br />
an old ballroom with scenes shot in the woods around<br />
Berlin. In addition, we see a strange musician working<br />
hard to compose and perform the music the dancers<br />
need. Kirsty Ross and Jörg Weinöhl are leading dancers<br />
of ballettmainz; Nick Hobbs is working as resident<br />
choreographer with ballettmainz. Paul Pavey has<br />
worked internationally in all fields of dance as a composer,<br />
performer and teacher.<br />
KUNG FU – MONASTERY AND<br />
387MODERN DANCE THEATRE – THE<br />
CHOREOGRAPHER SIDI LARBI CHERKAOUI<br />
GENRE Documentary: Dance STATUS in progress PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
ZDFtheaterkanal (Germany) PRODUCER Frank Grevsmühl TV<br />
DIRECTOR Birgit Adler-Conrad AUTHOR Birgit Adler-Conrad DURATION<br />
25' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Avignon SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
DigiBeta/Stereo<br />
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui is one of the most innovative<br />
choreographers in the world. In 2008 he presented<br />
»Sutra«, a celebrated dance work with twelve monks<br />
of a Shaolin temple. Working with them for several<br />
months, Sidi Larbi Cherkoui practised martial arts<br />
such as Kung Fu and Thai Chi. In the film, Cherkaoui<br />
talks about the experiences he made in China and his<br />
fascination for the Shaolin philosophy. The film also<br />
gives some impressions of the »Sutra« performance: a<br />
unique meeting of ancient martial arts and contemporary<br />
dance. This cultural exchange leads to a new level<br />
in the history of performing arts.<br />
388 MASTERPIECES OF MANKIND –<br />
THE SNOW LION’S MASK<br />
GENRE Documentary: Other STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
ZDFtheaterkanal/Filmhouse (Germany) PRODUCER Bettina Kasten<br />
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Wolfgang Groh-Bourgett TV DIRECTOR Wolfgang<br />
Groh-Bourgett CAMERA Wolfgang Groh-Bourgett AUTHOR Wolfgang<br />
Groh-Bourgett DURATION 30' PRODUCTION YEAR 2007 RECORDED Ogyen<br />
Tegchok Namdroel Choeling Monastery in Bhutan SOURCE<br />
VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Stereo<br />
112 avantpremière2009 In autumn, the monks of the Ogyen Tegchok<br />
Namdroel Choeling Monastery in Bhutan celebrate<br />
»Ngacham«. Its highlight is the famous mask dance of<br />
the drums, conferred the status of a »Masterpiece of<br />
Mankind« by UNESCO. But this year the performance<br />
is jeopardised. The precious mask has been lent to the<br />
Institute of Regional History in the capital Thimpu. But<br />
the work takes longer than expected. Only two days<br />
before the Drametse festival starts, they set out to<br />
bring back the mask to the monks. A dangerous pass<br />
through the eastern Himalaya Mountains is the only<br />
way to reach the monastery. A race against time start.<br />
POPKOMM 08 389 GENRE Documentary: Other STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
ZDFtheaterkanal/3sat (Germany) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY Circle<br />
Entertainment (Germany), MBTV (Germany) PRODUCER Anne<br />
Zimmermann ASSOCIATED PRODUCER Matthias Börner, Marcus<br />
Herrmann TV DIRECTOR Olaf Böhler CAMERA Bernd Udo Herzmann<br />
EDITOR Johannes Denk, Haiko Blumentritt AUTHOR Eric Pfeil<br />
DURATION 120' PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Berlin, Germany<br />
SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO DigiBeta/Stereo<br />
At the beginning of October 2008, it was time again:<br />
Berlin became the heart of music. Intense, loud and<br />
wild, the beat of the Popkomm spread out over the<br />
city. ZDFtheaterkanal and 3sat presented the remarkable<br />
line-up and broadcast nine concerts on two channels<br />
during the so-called »Popkomm Night«. In a<br />
unique festival atmosphere emerging young bands<br />
from all over the world were presented during the<br />
»New Roots Evening«, including Mugison and the<br />
blues guitar player Henrik Freischlader and his band.<br />
Presenter Karin Bauerfeind talked to bands and audience<br />
focusing especially on the newcomers. This<br />
year’s partner country was Turkey represented by<br />
the members of the Ska Punk Band Athena.<br />
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL OPERAS<br />
390OF ALL TIMES (WORKING TITLE)<br />
STATUS in progress PRODUCTION COMPANY ZDFtheaterkanal/3sat<br />
(Germany) CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY Unitel/Classica (Germany)<br />
PRODUCER Wolfgang Bergmann, Meike Klingenberg PRODUCTION YEAR<br />
2009 RECORDED Germany, Austria, Switzerland SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO<br />
DigiBeta/Stereo
Unitel<br />
The worldwide comeback of opera is going to be<br />
celebrated in a gigantic international TV project.<br />
ZDFtheaterkanal, Classica and 3sat will present the<br />
most popular operas of all times with the audience<br />
choosing the »best«. First step: from the 30 most<br />
popular operas in Germany, Austria and Switzerland<br />
presented on ZDFtheaterkanal and Classica, the audience<br />
selects a short list of ten. These »top ten« will be<br />
shown in extraordinary TV adaptations on 3sat in December,<br />
followed by a grand gala to count down to the<br />
No. 1 opera of all times.<br />
EarthSync<br />
LAYA PROJECT 391GENRE Documentary: Music STATUS completed PRODUCTION<br />
COMPANY EarthSync (India) PRODUCER Sonya Mazumdar,<br />
Joanne de Rozario EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Sastry Karra<br />
TV DIRECTOR Harold Monfils CAMERA Cheong Yuk Hoy,<br />
Agung Dewantoro EDITOR Arturo Calvete, Henrik<br />
Silkstrom, Jose Garrido DURATION 67' 21" PRODUCTION YEAR<br />
2007 RECORDED India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Myanmar,<br />
Maldives, Thailand MUSICAL STYLE World music PIECE<br />
Traditional Songs DANCE STYLE Ethnic dance SOURCE<br />
VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Stereo DISTRIBUTION TV National Geographic<br />
Channels International (non-excusive) (World-wide,<br />
except USA) DVD DISTRIBUTION EMI/Virgin (India), Hed<br />
Arzi (Israel), Elite Music (New Zealand), Fanzines<br />
(Italy) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Sound Design, Music &<br />
Recording by Yotam Agam. Music Director: Patrick<br />
Sebag<br />
Timur Angin<br />
Laya Project is a musical and visual journey documenting<br />
folk music recorded and filmed on location in Sri<br />
Lanka, Thailand, Indonesia, Maldives, India and Myanmar.<br />
These recordings were brought back to the studio<br />
where they were enhanced and arranged. Some of<br />
these performances are rare, and documented for the<br />
first time. The musicians are primarily from coastal<br />
communities, towns and villages affected by the 2004<br />
tsunami. Laya Project is a celebration of life, a tribute<br />
to the resilience of the human spirit, and is dedicated<br />
to the survivors. Crossing boundaries of genre while<br />
still preserving the music of the people, Laya Project’s<br />
essence is an artistic purity and simplicity, a non-judgmental<br />
point of view.<br />
VOICE OVER THE BRIDGE<br />
392 GENRE Documentary: Music STATUS completed PRODUCTION COMPANY<br />
EarthSync (India) PRODUCER Sonya Mazumdar EXECUTIVE PRODUCER<br />
Sastry Karra TV DIRECTOR Ernest Hariyanto CAMERA Agung<br />
Dewantoro EDITOR Arturo Calvete DURATION 24' 30" DURATION2 24'<br />
30" PRODUCTION YEAR 2008 RECORDED Mynamar, India MUSICAL STYLE<br />
World music PIECE Traditional Songs SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIO HD/Stereo<br />
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Music Producer, Sound Design & Recording:<br />
Yotam Agam. Music Director: Patrick Sebag<br />
Khing Zin Shwe and Shwe Shwe Khaing share their<br />
lives and passions through their stories and voices.<br />
A collaboration with western musicians, Voice Over<br />
The Bridge follows the lives of these two musicians,<br />
in an audio-visual documentary of unexplored and<br />
remote Myanmar.<br />
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AVANT PREMIÈRE<br />
SCREENINGS<br />
AT MIDEM<br />
27 – 31 January,<br />
Cannes, France<br />
The <strong>Avant</strong> <strong>Première</strong> Screenings are<br />
an initiative by the IMZ International<br />
Music + Media Centre in collaboration<br />
with MIDEM, where the world’s<br />
leading producers of fine programmes<br />
on culture and the arts<br />
present their latest productions.<br />
It is a market<br />
• for programme purchasers in<br />
search of high-quality audiovisual<br />
programmes on culture, the performing<br />
arts, music and dance<br />
• for producers with an interesting<br />
project for which they need coproduction<br />
partners<br />
• for programme suppliers/distributors<br />
who want to present their latest<br />
audiovisual programmes on<br />
culture, the performing arts, music<br />
or dance to the programme purchasers<br />
of international television<br />
stations<br />
• for film festival programmers<br />
looking for an opportunity to get<br />
a comprehensive overview of the<br />
latest trends in dance and music<br />
films<br />
• for editors/journalists who want<br />
to keep abreast of the trends in<br />
culture, the performing arts, music<br />
or dance<br />
In 2008, as many as 345 programmes<br />
by 54 producers were presented to<br />
235 participants from 23 countries.<br />
© Kurt Danner, IMZ, Conference: Distribution in the<br />
World Wide Web: How Content Providers recognize<br />
successful partners<br />
CLASSIC AND<br />
JAZZ SYMPOSIUM<br />
at MIDEM<br />
organised by IMZ<br />
together with MIDEM Classique<br />
This year IMZ once again organised a<br />
well-received series of conferences at<br />
MIDEM on topical business aspects and<br />
new perspectives in classical music and<br />
media.<br />
With a special focus on the question of<br />
whether and how the Olympic Games<br />
2008 in Beijing and the World Expo 2010<br />
in Shanghai would have an impact on<br />
customer behaviour, Doing Classical<br />
Music Business In And With China, one<br />
of the most prominent panels held on<br />
Monday, 28 January 2008, resulted in<br />
the conclusion that although there is<br />
promise for classical music in China,<br />
interest in the genre remains limited:<br />
Wang Xiang, President of the recording<br />
company Poloarts and publisher of<br />
Gramophone China, warned those entering<br />
China’s classical music market to<br />
»be prudent”, noting that 80% of China’s<br />
1.2 billion population »are peasants and<br />
farmers and cannot afford to buy classical<br />
music«. Moreover, he added, China’s<br />
classical music lovers were narrowing the<br />
field still further by preferring the 18th<br />
and 19th century romantic composers.<br />
Peter Hanser-Strecker, President of Germany’s<br />
Schott Music&Media, stated that<br />
Chinese publishers were in fact interested<br />
in bringing European classical<br />
music to China and raised the issue of<br />
cultural barriers: »We are trying to publish<br />
a book about the Chinese musical<br />
tradition but we are finding that, because<br />
China is the oldest music culture in the<br />
world, there are many instruments whose<br />
names simply do not translate into Western<br />
languages.« Hanser-Strecker, who<br />
has been doing business in China for<br />
20 years, also urged the government to<br />
ramp up the fight against piracy. Wei Zhi,<br />
Vice-President of the China Shanghai<br />
International Arts Festival/Shanghai<br />
Audio and Video Publishing House,<br />
pointed out in his conclusion that success<br />
in the Chinese market hinges on<br />
finding a reliable and experienced publisher<br />
with rich resources.<br />
At Tuesday’s conference, the panel<br />
Distribution in the World Wide Web,<br />
moderated by IMZ Secretary General<br />
Franz Patay, was dedicated to the<br />
benchmarks necessary for content<br />
providers to recognise a business<br />
partner for this delicate, booming<br />
segment. Some facts and figures outlining<br />
the current status of online distribution<br />
were presented: the iTunes<br />
music store run by Apple holds a<br />
market share of 40% in the top three<br />
countries USA, UK and Japan, while<br />
eMusic ranges on second place in<br />
the mentioned regions with 12%. It<br />
was also stated that 95% of total online<br />
income is shared by the top 13<br />
providers. All in all, an audience of<br />
300 – 400 million worldwide is listening<br />
to classical music, which<br />
seems to be a high potential to start<br />
with …<br />
First, Hervé Boissière, Head of DVD<br />
and New Media, Medici Arts, France,<br />
shared his conviction that any hope<br />
for expanding classical music in this<br />
segment lies with the successful convergence<br />
of all the media in a valuable<br />
package integrating live events.<br />
He singled out an outstanding business<br />
model used in the Verbier Festival,<br />
of which Medici Arts covered<br />
every concert and webcasted live to<br />
an online audience of up to 80,000<br />
viewers from around 180 countries<br />
during live streamings, in comparison<br />
to 1,600 viewers on the spot.<br />
Rob Overman from Communiserve/<br />
Monterverdi.tv, Netherlands, took a<br />
similar path with the launch of the<br />
new web platform Monteverdi.tv.<br />
Decrying the lack of a central initiative<br />
by producers to use the potential<br />
of the internet market as a huge<br />
source of distribution via live streaming,<br />
he presented Monteverdi.tv as a<br />
clear concept of an all-inclusive platform<br />
driven by content, quality and<br />
artists with a 360 degrees approach,<br />
a worldwide community for all classical<br />
music lovers that provides experience<br />
and entertainment. The site is<br />
split into a video download centre in<br />
the form of live streaming with currently<br />
100 titles and an audio download<br />
centre with about 15,000 titles<br />
available until the end of 2008.
Confirming that they make most<br />
of their profits from subscriptions<br />
at their online store Naxos, Klaus<br />
Heymann, President of Naxos,<br />
Hong Kong, spoke about current<br />
tests with video on demand with<br />
the aim to make operas and concerts<br />
available online. He also<br />
stated that some of the most important<br />
requirements for successful<br />
distribution via internet are<br />
search functions and engines enabling<br />
consumers to easily find<br />
the product they are looking for.<br />
Yves Riesel, President of Abeille<br />
Musique Distribution /<br />
Qobuz.com, France, also underlined<br />
the importance of selling<br />
directly to consumers and raised<br />
the crucial issue of physical<br />
distributors getting online<br />
distribution rights, whereas Peter<br />
Rantasa, Executive Director of<br />
MICA – Music Information<br />
Centre, Austria, brought up the<br />
general question of fairness,<br />
presenting the Fair Music initiative,<br />
which has been developed<br />
as an alternative distribution and<br />
revenue share model to guarantee<br />
the artist a fairer quota from the<br />
sales of his music.<br />
Further panels of the IMZ conference<br />
programme, organised<br />
in association with IAMA International<br />
Artist Managers' Association,<br />
EFA European Festivals<br />
Association and IJFO International<br />
Jazz Festivals Organization,<br />
tackled The Changing Methods<br />
of Marketing Jazz Artists and<br />
Labels, exploring new Challenges<br />
and Opportunities of Artist Management<br />
in the Classical Music<br />
Sector, and entered The New<br />
World: Emerging New Markets in<br />
Europe, Asia and South America.<br />
MIDEM CLASSICAL<br />
AWARDS 2008<br />
The fourth edition of the MIDEM<br />
Classical Awards, where IMZ was part<br />
of the jury again, awarded prizes to<br />
twelve CDs and three DVDs from 17<br />
international labels. Several outstanding<br />
figures of the international music<br />
scene participated in the grand gala<br />
event celebrated at the Palais des Festivals<br />
in Cannes on 30 January. Of special<br />
note was legendary German<br />
mezzo-soprano Christa Ludwig, honorary<br />
patron of MIDEM Classique<br />
2008, who received the Lifetime<br />
Achievement Award to a standing ovation<br />
given by the audience. Conductor<br />
David Zinman won the Artist of the<br />
Year Award, and Robert von Bahr,<br />
founder of the Swedish label Bis<br />
Records was awarded the Label of the<br />
Year Award, in recognition of Bis’ exceptional<br />
catalogue of Scandinavian<br />
and contemporary music. Further<br />
cheers, jubilations and our special<br />
congratulations go to all IMZ members<br />
involved in the winning productions:<br />
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk<br />
(DVD: Opera/Ballet), produced by<br />
De Nederlandse Opera/Opus Arte;<br />
Barenboim on Beethoven (DVD:<br />
Concerts), co-produced by Thirteen/<br />
WNET New York, Bel Air Media and<br />
NHK in association with ARTE France,<br />
MEZZO, NPS and BBC; and Jacqueline<br />
du Pré, A Celebration (DVD:<br />
Documentaries), produced by Allegro<br />
Films.<br />
IMZ ACTIVITY REPORT 2008<br />
All MIDEM Classical Awards<br />
2008 winners are listed in the<br />
following:<br />
Category EARLY MUSIC<br />
Christophorus Columbus:<br />
Paraísos Perdidos Hespèrion<br />
XXI, La Capella Reial de<br />
Catalunya, Figueras, Savall –<br />
Alia Vox AVSA<br />
Category BAROQUE MUSIC<br />
Handel: Messiah (Dublin<br />
Version) Hamilton, Gill,<br />
Wilkinson, Mulroy, Brook,<br />
Dunedin Consort & Players,<br />
Butt – Linn Records<br />
Category VOCAL RECITALS<br />
Heroes: Vivaldi – Opera Arias<br />
Jaroussky, Ensemble Matheus,<br />
Spinosi – Virgin Classics<br />
Category CHORAL WORKS<br />
Schönberg: Gurrelieder<br />
Diener, Naef, Smith, Siegel,<br />
Lukas, Schmidt, Chor des<br />
Bayerischen Rundfunks, MDR<br />
Rundfunkchor Leipzig,<br />
SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-<br />
Baden und Freiburg, Gielen –<br />
Hänssler Classic<br />
Category SOLO INSTRUMENT<br />
Scriabin: Étude, Sonata No. 2,<br />
Four Mazurkas, Nuances,<br />
Poème, etc. Sudbin – BIS<br />
Category CHAMBER MUSIC<br />
Beethoven: The 10 Violin<br />
Sonatas Cerovsek,<br />
Jumppanen – Claves<br />
Category OPERA<br />
Dvorˇák: Král a Uhlíˇr, Jenis,<br />
Mikuláš, Breedt, Ághová,<br />
Lehotsky, Schäfer, Prager Kammerchor,<br />
WDR Rundfunkchor<br />
Köln, WDR Sinfonieorchester<br />
Köln, Albrecht – Orfeo<br />
Category<br />
CONTEMPORARY MUSIC<br />
Penderecki: Capriccio, De<br />
Natura Sonoris II, Piano Concerto<br />
I Piekutowska, Bilińska,<br />
The National Polish Radio<br />
Symphony Orchestra Katowice,<br />
Penderecki – Dux<br />
Category HISTORICAL<br />
Schumann: Das Paradies und<br />
die Peri Price, Miljakovic, Howells,<br />
Wright, Hollweg, Gaifa,<br />
Brendel, Amis el Hage, Coro e<br />
Orchestra Sinfonica RAI di<br />
Roma, Giulini – Arts Music<br />
Category CONCERTOS<br />
Sibelius/Lindberg: Violin<br />
Concertos Batiashvili,<br />
Finnish Radio Symphony<br />
Orchestra, Oramo – Sony<br />
Classical<br />
Category<br />
SYMPHONIC WORKS<br />
Bartók: Kossuth, The<br />
Wooden Prince Hungarian<br />
National Philharmonic,<br />
Kocsis – Hungaroton<br />
Category<br />
FIRST RECORDING<br />
Britten on Film: Coal Face,<br />
Night Mail, Rossini Suite,<br />
The King’s Stamp, etc.<br />
Beale, Carewe, Birmingham<br />
Contemporary Music<br />
Group, City of Birmingham<br />
Symphony Chorus,<br />
Choir of King Edward’s<br />
School, Brabbins – NMC<br />
Category DVD:<br />
OPERA/BALLET<br />
Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth<br />
of Mtsensk Westbroek,<br />
Ventris, Wilson, Vaneev,<br />
Poulson, Ludha, Kravets,<br />
Chorus of De Nederlandse<br />
Opera, Royal Concertgebouw<br />
Orchestra<br />
Jansons, Kušej – Opus Arte<br />
Category DVD: CONCERTS<br />
Barenboim on Beethoven<br />
The Complete Piano Sonatas<br />
Barenboim – EMI Classics<br />
Category DVD:<br />
DOCUMENTARIES<br />
Jacqueline du Pré:<br />
A Celebration<br />
Du Pré, Zukerman,<br />
Perlman, Mehta, Barenboim,<br />
Fischer-Dieskau,<br />
Ashkenazy, Barbirolli, etc. –<br />
Allegro Films<br />
Category CLASSICAL<br />
DOWNLOAD<br />
Mozart: Piano Concertos<br />
Nos. 17 KV 453 and 18<br />
KV 456, Symphony No. 33<br />
KV 319 Chamber Orchestra<br />
of Europe, Aimard – DG<br />
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JUNE<br />
IMZ AT ITF GOLDEN PRAGUE<br />
14 – 18 June, Prague, Czech Republic<br />
This year, the workshops organised by<br />
IMZ during the ITF Golden Prague focused<br />
on the issue of how to popularise<br />
opera in the age of high-speed internet,<br />
HD quality and state-of-the-art sound experience.<br />
Opera representatives, major<br />
broadcasters and producers came to discuss<br />
strategies at the round table of the<br />
IMZ workshop: »New Economic Models<br />
for Operas in the Audio-Visual Media«,<br />
held on Monday, 16 June, with presenter<br />
Henk van der Meulen, NPS and the panelists<br />
Chris Hunt, DCD Media; Joan<br />
Matabosch, Liceu Barcelona; Nicholas<br />
Payne, Opera Europa; Hazel Wright,<br />
Hazel Wright Media/Royal Opera House.<br />
Starting point of the discussion pivoted<br />
on The Met’s spectacular success of<br />
reaching 920.,000 people with the live<br />
transmission of its productions in HD<br />
in cinemas. Nicholas Payne opened the<br />
workshop by reporting on the Opera<br />
America Conference in Denver he had<br />
just been attending boiling down his<br />
reception to several laconic key aspects:<br />
the average attendee of the Met’s Live in<br />
HD programme, he stated, was female,<br />
in her 60s and a regular opera-goer,<br />
while the number of new entrants in fact<br />
was less than 15 % of total. In his view,<br />
Peter Gelb’s main achievement in this<br />
respect could be described as a threefold<br />
success: a communication success, as<br />
measured by his presence in the related<br />
media, a success in the way he tamed<br />
unions to deliver it, and a remarkable<br />
success in strengthening The Met as<br />
world leader in producing opera.<br />
Nonetheless, Payne advised against<br />
taking the Met’s success story as blueprint,<br />
since brands unmistakably depended<br />
on a stock of stars, as cherished<br />
in a comparable way only in four European<br />
opera houses – La Scala, Vienna<br />
State Opera, Opera Bastille and Covent<br />
Garden. He also underlined the importance<br />
of easy accessibility: the key role of<br />
television. »Every theatre needs to look<br />
for its own way to find its public,« countered<br />
Joan Matabosch, artistic director<br />
of Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona,<br />
who, denying the Met the alleged inimitability,<br />
provided a rough guide through<br />
the Barcelona strategy of using media,<br />
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whose main difference to The Met’s programmes<br />
is the fact that an important<br />
part of the budget comes from public<br />
institutions. In addition to regular radio<br />
and TV transmissions (four operas per<br />
season with Spanish TV, seven with Catalan<br />
TV), HD live broadcasting in cinemas<br />
was an incentive encouraging e.g. small<br />
cities to invest in HD equipment. In the<br />
2007/08 season, five theatres (the number<br />
has increased to 14 in 2008/09)<br />
would be served with four broadcasts in<br />
total, one being programmed for children.<br />
Within the framework of »Operas<br />
Operta” (open operas), a highly successful<br />
series of university courses for students<br />
established in 2002/03, currently<br />
45,091 students at 47 universities are attending<br />
up to five broadcasts (of a total<br />
of 28) via the internet, in combination<br />
with an opera introduction seminar and<br />
regular examinations. Not to forget<br />
»Opera on the Beach”, public viewings<br />
taking place on Barcelona´s gorgeous<br />
seaside and, once a year, the broadcasting<br />
of opera in prisons, considered as a<br />
way of going back to society for inmates.<br />
Following up on the portrayal of Gran<br />
Teatre del Liceu’s multi-media strategies,<br />
Hazel Wright gave an insight into the experiences<br />
the Royal Opera House has<br />
gained throughout the years as well as<br />
their current plans to take productions<br />
into new digital media with BBC and, in<br />
addition to BBC, by acquisition of Opus<br />
Arte, the new partner for inhouse producing.<br />
When the new house opened in<br />
1999, as Wright outlined the background,<br />
one third of the money for rebuilding had<br />
been raised from tax, one third from lottery<br />
sales, and one third from individuals.<br />
Since it was clear from the beginning that<br />
the opera house was owned by the people<br />
of UK, making productions available<br />
had to be seen as a crucial point. In practice,<br />
however, undertakings in accordance<br />
with this intention were getting<br />
increasingly difficult, with less and less<br />
money coming from fundings during the<br />
next years, forcing the house to get more<br />
commercial on board. In her conclusion,<br />
Hazel Wright pointed to the limited number<br />
of people being reached by the reported<br />
broadcast activities: »It’s not<br />
Henk van der Meulen, Nicholas Payne,<br />
Joan Matabosch, Hazel Wright, Chris Hunt<br />
(C) Jana Vargov<br />
going to replace the audience that attends<br />
the house anyway!« Given the<br />
undeniable fact that the targeted<br />
opera audience is not necessarily<br />
going to the movies … On the other<br />
hand, Chris Hunt took over the topic,<br />
in the UK 6% of the population go to<br />
the opera, those watching opera on<br />
TV being a tenth of this percentage.<br />
In his view, broadcasters and opera<br />
houses have to face the fact that it is<br />
more popular to go out and see<br />
opera than watch it on TV. Coming<br />
back to MET’s initiative, those who<br />
followed Peter Gelb the quickest, he<br />
concluded the thread, would have<br />
the biggest chance for success.<br />
Speaking of his own experience with<br />
DCD Media regarding the streaming<br />
of operas on major websites, he said:<br />
»The demand is there, but economics<br />
do not match.« Actually only<br />
0.3% of viewers were willing to pay.<br />
»They will pay for what is new and<br />
exciting.« For this reason an opera<br />
transmission would still have to have<br />
a sense of an event. Therefore, in<br />
order to be successful, it would be<br />
necessary to invest five years or approx.<br />
eight million pounds. Apart<br />
from asking whether there was one<br />
appropriate economic model for<br />
media strategies of opera houses at<br />
all, the audience repeatedly emphasised<br />
the content issue: »A relay is<br />
still only a relay, nothing to bring the<br />
specific art form forward.« For Henk<br />
van der Meulen, one way to a realistic<br />
answer to the core question of<br />
how opera houses can creatively use<br />
modern technologies to reach new<br />
audiences would have to lead<br />
through inter-divisional co-operation:<br />
»Different parties in the opera business<br />
want different advantages.«<br />
To solve this problem, opera houses<br />
would need to work together with<br />
broadcasters, record labels, cinemas,<br />
etc. The potential is vast. But, as<br />
Nicholas Payne put it: »We were all<br />
guilty of exploiting each other in the<br />
past«.
International Pitching Session/<br />
Co-Production Forum<br />
In the morning of Monday, 16 June, the<br />
Pitching Forum for cultural programmes<br />
offered the opportunity to have works in<br />
progress scrutinised by an illustrious lineup<br />
of well-known commissioning editors<br />
from SVT, ORF, NPS, YLE, BBC Wales,<br />
ARTE France, Czech TV and ETV.<br />
The projects presented on the IMZ Co-Production<br />
and Pre-Sales Forum were: Symfollies<br />
and Opera (BMC-Group), Alfred<br />
Brendel and Kit Armstrong and The Rediscovery<br />
of Sly and the Family Stone (Calliope<br />
Media), Carmen and Clari (Clasart),<br />
The Cunning Little Vixen (Idéale Audience),<br />
A Marriage of Excellence and Road To Beijing<br />
(IPAFA/EPP), Zanzibar – From<br />
Rhythm To Soul (LESFILMSDUPRÉSENT),<br />
Freedom Of Improvisation and Aimez-vous<br />
Brahms (LOFT Music), Have I Got News<br />
for Thee (Dennis Marks), Feet On the<br />
Ground (Poorhouse International), Lulu In<br />
A Cable Factory, First Ever Symphony Concert<br />
in Benin – A Road Trip and Jorma Panula<br />
– Man Without A Method (YLE).<br />
iEmmys<br />
Also in the framework of the 45th ITF<br />
Golden Prague, on Saturday, 14 June, the<br />
IMZ also hosted the International Emmy<br />
Awards Semi-Finals Judging in the category<br />
Arts Programming in English language.<br />
The two highest scoring programmes were:<br />
The Choir (Twenty Twenty Television, part<br />
of the Shed Media Group, United Kingdom)<br />
and Strictly Bolshoi (Ballet Boyz<br />
Prods for Channel 4, United Kingdom).<br />
These two programmes will proceed to the<br />
Final Round of Judging, competing against<br />
the two highest scoring programmes from<br />
the other regions.<br />
JULY, AUGUST, SEPTEMBER<br />
FILM FESTIVAL<br />
AT THE WIENER RATHAUSPLATZ<br />
12 July – 14 September, Vienna, Austria<br />
© www.christian-husar.com<br />
Meteorological oddities notwithstanding, for nine chilly summer weeks<br />
(12 July – 14 September) a sensational number of 640,000 spectators,<br />
listeners, passers-by, fans, flaneurs, and ardently weatherproof music lovers from<br />
all over the world were enjoying the unique liaison of high-calibre music and<br />
dance films culled from the IMZ members’ production pool and the delicious<br />
delights of international cuisine – turning the square in front of Vienna City Hall<br />
into the heart of a vibrant world capital of music and savoir-vivre. Again, the<br />
famous free open-air film festival displayed the extraordinary dimensions of a<br />
splendid architectural design especially constructed to define the setting for a<br />
brand-new standard of quality. The latest audiovisual technology in High Definition<br />
shining a light of future onto the 20 x 11.5m screen emphasised the beauty<br />
of treasures from the historical archives as well as of current film productions. It<br />
goes without saying that an important part of this summer’s programme focused<br />
on the work of one of the most influential pioneers of music in the media, Herbert<br />
von Karajan, whose 100th birthday provided a marvellous pretext to finally<br />
revisit e.g. his legendary 1982 Falstaff, the Silvesterkonzert 1985 in Berlin, or a<br />
concert with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra recorded during their Japanese<br />
tour in 1959. Speaking of anniversaries, Leonard Bernstein, exactly 10 years his<br />
musical antipode’s junior, starred on the screen as did 150-year-old Giacomo<br />
Puccini in a 2007 recording of the Bregenz festival’s famous Tosca. Not forgetting<br />
Rudolf Nureyev, whose 70th birthday made the programme curators of the IMZ<br />
open the treasure chest of ballet history recovering sleeping beauties like Swan<br />
Lake, Giselle, The Nutcracker, or Le jeune homme et la mort. Jazz fans were jubilating<br />
in view of a whole jazz series including rarely-shown homage programmes<br />
dedicated to the art of Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald – besides Paul Anka’s<br />
effective claim Rock Swings amongst the most acclaimed films of this year’s<br />
edition… And eventually, joining the protagonists of today’s music theatre, Eugen<br />
Onegin, La Fille du Regiment, the prisoners of Janacek’s House of Dead, Platée,<br />
the miserable march nymph, Wotan, Don Giovanni, Susanna and Benvenuto<br />
Cellini, the diverse audiences, of all ages, from all social backgrounds, gathered<br />
together for 65 summer evenings in front of Vienna City Hall to give proof of<br />
opera as a true powerhouse of emotion. All in all a splendorous celebration of<br />
tradition and the contemporary, of operatic endeavours, operetta explorations,<br />
of classical and modern dance, jazz, pop and world music enchanting both the<br />
experienced and growing-up music lovers… All things considered, the programme<br />
curated by the IMZ for the eighth year now, apart from once again being highly<br />
successful, has been critically acclaimed for providing food for thought, inspiring<br />
ways to build up new visual identities in the challenge of increasing technological<br />
opportunities, and – why not admitting it again – fabulous fun!<br />
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JULY<br />
AUSTRIA WEEK IN SIBIU<br />
4 – 13 July, Sibiu, Romania<br />
From 4 July until 13 July 2008,<br />
the Austrian Embassy in<br />
Romania organised the<br />
»Austria Week in Sibiu”,<br />
which also included a cultural<br />
programme in the course<br />
of which a screening of<br />
various films took place on<br />
10 July 2008.<br />
Marion Mangeng curated a<br />
film programme consisting<br />
of a classical concert, one<br />
opera and one ballet, which<br />
was very well received.<br />
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SEPTEMBER<br />
VIENNA MUSIC FILM<br />
FESTIVAL BUCHAREST<br />
17 – 21 September,<br />
Bucharest, Romania<br />
For the third year now, the IMZ<br />
curated the Vienna Music Film<br />
Festival in Bucharest, Romania.<br />
The festival took place on George<br />
Enescu Square from 17 to 21 September<br />
and was once again organised<br />
by ArCub and the City of Bucharest<br />
supported by the City of Vienna.<br />
For five days the George Enescu<br />
Square situated in the heart of<br />
Bucharest was transformed into an<br />
oasis of classical music and dance,<br />
where more than 10,000 visitors of<br />
all age groups enjoyed classical<br />
music in a relaxed environment<br />
following the concept of the Music<br />
Film Festival at the Vienna Rathausplatz.<br />
Marion Mangeng curated the<br />
programme (including operas as<br />
well as classical concerts). Ruth<br />
Pfletschinger was responsible for<br />
raising the funds from the City of<br />
Vienna, coordinating communication<br />
between the cities of Vienna and<br />
Bucharest, and setting up the<br />
graphic design for all marketing<br />
activities. She spoke about the<br />
project and the programme at the<br />
press conference and held a speech<br />
at the opening night.<br />
ArCuB is eager to organise a VMFF<br />
again in 2009. The IMZ is looking<br />
forward to another cooperation<br />
next year.<br />
OCTOBER<br />
VIENNA MUSIC FILM FESTIVAL<br />
IN NEW YORK:<br />
THE FUNDRAISING PARTY<br />
21 October, New York, USA<br />
One of the projects the IMZ – together<br />
with Sono Artists Consulting – is currently<br />
working on is the Vienna Music<br />
Film Festival in New York. The concept<br />
of the Music Film Festival at the Vienna<br />
Rathausplatz shall be exported to Bryant<br />
Park, New York: over a period of five<br />
consecutive days in August 2009, opera<br />
films and classical music films will be<br />
presented in combination with food and<br />
beverage stands offering exquisite Austrian<br />
and International cuisine. For this<br />
purpose, on 21 October 2008, Sono<br />
Artists Consulting and the IMZ in cooperation<br />
with the Austrian Cultural Forum<br />
in New York (ACF) held a Fundraising<br />
Party in the famous building of the ACF,<br />
designed by Austrian architect Raimund<br />
Abraham. Following the opening<br />
speeches of the director of the ACF,<br />
Andreas Stadler, and of Franz Patay and<br />
a presentation of the project Vienna<br />
Music Film Festival in Bryant Park, New<br />
York by Samantha Farber (Sono Artists<br />
Consulting) and Ruth Pfletschinger<br />
(IMZ), the guests had the great pleasure<br />
to listen to star guest Diana Damrau<br />
perform five arias accompanied by pianist<br />
Carrie Ann Matheson. After the<br />
spectacular performance, which was<br />
honoured with standing ovations, Diana<br />
Damrau expressed her enthusiasm and<br />
support for this important project and<br />
wished us good luck! The Fundraising<br />
Party was attended by various representatives<br />
of the world of opera and classical<br />
music, foundations, potential corporate<br />
sponsors and private persons interested<br />
in opera and classical music, and was<br />
well received. Another Fundraising Party<br />
is planned for Spring 2009.
WOMEX 2008<br />
29 October – 2 November,<br />
Seville, Spain<br />
In its 14th edition, and the final year of a<br />
total of four in Seville, WOMEX has once<br />
again broken past records. While the industry<br />
is facing so many challenges, the<br />
WOMEX Trade Fair continues to grow:<br />
WOMEX exhibitors have reached an all-time<br />
high of more than 650 companies, individuals<br />
and organisations in a sold-out trade fair<br />
of 320 stands, up significantly from 2007.<br />
More than 2800 delegates from all over the<br />
world gathered for five days of talk, trade,<br />
music and camaraderie. Once again the<br />
nightly showcases were open to the public,<br />
hosted in the city centre at the famed Teatro<br />
Lope de Vega/Casino de la Exposición (two<br />
stages), with another two stages in tents<br />
right in the middle of the Plaza de España.<br />
There, enthusiastic Sevillanos and delegates<br />
mingled and heard act after act of major<br />
and upcoming world music stars.<br />
Showcases: 49 acts from 40 countries<br />
on 5 stages.<br />
Conferences: more than two dozens of<br />
sessions including several new features like<br />
the highly popular one-on-one mentoring<br />
sessions with industry experts and numerous<br />
master classes that advised on legal<br />
issues, running festivals and more.<br />
In honour of the final year in Seville, the<br />
event kicked off with a tribute to Andalusia’s<br />
world-renowned contribution to world<br />
music culture: flamenco. Award-winning flamenco<br />
great Miguel Poveda performed a<br />
riveting show to standing ovations after<br />
newcomers Ultra High Flamenco had dazzled<br />
with their artistry.<br />
This year’s WOMEX Award went to folk stalwarts,<br />
Muzsikás, from Hungary. »Listening<br />
to Muzsikás connects us to a time and a<br />
place when music was intrinsically a political<br />
statement and playing your instrument a<br />
certain way was a courageous act,« said author<br />
and producer Joe Boyd in his presentation<br />
speech. »The intensity of those times<br />
has never left Muzsikás, and we remain<br />
lucky to be able to commemorate the spirit<br />
of those times and these wonderful musicians<br />
with this award,« Dániel Hamar,<br />
band leader of Muzsikás, said.<br />
A second WOMEX Award, this one for Professional<br />
Excellence in the Service of World<br />
Music, went to the Folk Music Department<br />
of the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland.<br />
»In creating the WOMEX Award,« explained<br />
WOMEX General Director Gerald<br />
Seligman, »we intended to go beyond simple<br />
recognition of worthy accomplishment<br />
to highlighting lessons about how to work<br />
and share in a community of traditions and<br />
nations. That’s why we are awarding the<br />
Folk Music Department of the Sibelius<br />
Academy. We want to focus on the role of<br />
enlightened education in preserving and<br />
enhancing tradition, and of the generosity<br />
of the Academy’s efforts. They have helped<br />
transfer the model to other nations so that<br />
other educational institutions may benefit<br />
from such an innovative approach to music<br />
education.«<br />
WOMEX 08 was dedicated to the memory<br />
of WOMEX 07 Award winner Andy Palacio,<br />
a Garifuna musician and ambassador from<br />
Belize, who died tragically early in 2008. He<br />
received touching tributes from delegates<br />
and the WOMEX team. An Andy Palacio<br />
Foundation was announced during the<br />
Sunday Award Ceremony.<br />
WOMEX 09 will be moving to Copenhagen,<br />
Denmark, and will be held from Wednesday,<br />
28 October until Sunday, 1 November.<br />
IMZ World Music Films Screenings<br />
at WOMEX 2008<br />
A total of 57 interesting World Music documentaries,<br />
clips, and concert recordings<br />
were entered to be selected for the very<br />
successful seventh IMZ-organised World<br />
Music Film Screenings at WOMEX.<br />
The screening programme included 13<br />
films covering music, dance and political<br />
issues from Africa, Asia, South America<br />
and Europe and was well received by an<br />
ever increasing and interested audience.<br />
Please find more information on the programme<br />
of World Music Film Screenings at<br />
WOMEX on www.worldmusicfilms.com.<br />
The film programme included:<br />
IMZ ACTIVITY REPORT 2008<br />
Podium Productions<br />
A Different Way – Tango<br />
with Rodolfo Mederos<br />
Director: Gabriel Szollosy<br />
African Underground: Democracy<br />
in Dakar Producers & Directors: Ben<br />
Herson, Magee McIlvane, Chris Moore<br />
Desert Blues, a Musical Journey<br />
into the Heart of Mali<br />
Director, Author: Michel Jaffrennou<br />
Krishna’s Dancer<br />
Director, Author: Dirk Hilbert<br />
Lay Down Your Hearts<br />
Producer, Director: John Simpson<br />
Laya Project<br />
Director: Harold Monfils<br />
Link TV’s Best<br />
Video Finds of 2008<br />
Mariem Hassan, the Voice<br />
of the Sahara<br />
Director, Editor, Author, Associated<br />
Producer: Manuel Dominguez<br />
Parno Graszt – Life with a<br />
Hungarian Gypsy Band<br />
Director: Sándor Silló<br />
Punta Soul<br />
Producer, Director, Author:<br />
Nyasha Laing<br />
Shaban<br />
Producer, Executive Producer,<br />
Director, Author: Milos Stojanovic<br />
The Dancing Room<br />
Director: Simon Broughton<br />
Wijdan, the Mystery of Gnawa<br />
Trance Music<br />
Director, Editor: John Allen<br />
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WORLD MUSIC FILMS ON TOUR!<br />
This project provides the opportunity to look<br />
beyond the familiar. You may explore the entire<br />
world’s musical traditions and creativity and experience<br />
the diversity of our fascinating planet.<br />
Join our initiative and let the world’s musics be<br />
your guest! We offer music/film treasures to<br />
music and film festivals and cultural institutions,<br />
which can be booked with us very easily.<br />
The available programmes:<br />
A devotion with a dance step (Italy)<br />
A Different Way – Tango with Rodolfo Mederos<br />
(Spain/Germany/France)<br />
A long journey home (Canada)<br />
Africa Live (UK/Senegal)<br />
African Underground: Democracy in Dakar(USA)<br />
Amadou & Mariam – Dimanche à Bamako<br />
(France/Senegal)<br />
As Old as My Tongue (UK/Zanzibar)<br />
Beatbox Columbia (Germany)<br />
Black and White in Colour (UK)<br />
Breaking the Silence – Music in Afghanistan<br />
(UK/Afghanistan)<br />
Calypso at Dirty Jim’s (France/Trinidad & Tobago)<br />
Desert Rebels (France)<br />
El Tanbura – Capturing a Vanishing Spirit (Egypt)<br />
Festival in the Desert: The Tent Sessions<br />
(USA/Mali)<br />
From Mambo to Hip Hop: A Bronx Tale (USA)<br />
Improvisation (Palestine)<br />
Jupiter’s Dance (France)<br />
Laya Project (India, Indonesia)<br />
Like an Ambassador of his People (Senegal/Germany)<br />
Mariza and the Story of Fado (UK/Portugal)<br />
Parno Graszt – Life with a Hungarian Gypsy<br />
Band (Hungary/Switzerland)<br />
Princesa de Africa (Spain)<br />
Road to Baleya (Canada)<br />
Sevdah: The Bridge that survived (UK)<br />
Shaban (Serbia)<br />
Sound of the Soul (USA, Morocco)<br />
Sufi Soul – The Mystic Music of Islam (UK)<br />
Talam: Bulgaria, Morocco, Sardinia, South-Africa,<br />
The North, Vietnam (Switzerland)<br />
Tomorrow/Craj (Italy)<br />
Tundé (USA)<br />
Wijdan, the Mystery of Gnawa Trance Music<br />
(USA)<br />
Whose is this song? (Bulgaria)<br />
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Bringing dance films to a wider public and<br />
providing exposure beyond the festival circuit for<br />
dance in film and video is the motivation for dance<br />
screen on tour, a unique, non-profit and entirely<br />
non-commercial initiative created in 1999 by IMZ<br />
in association with the SK Culture Foundation,<br />
Cologne. Following on from the successful dance<br />
screen editions 1999, 2000, 2002, 2005 and dance<br />
screen 2007, the winning and nominated productions,<br />
curated programmes as well as a selection<br />
of former dance screen highlights will continue<br />
on its global path.<br />
A selection of the available programmes:<br />
Carte Blanche to Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker<br />
De balletten en ci en là/Les ballets de ci de là<br />
Directed by Alain Platel<br />
Horizon of Exile<br />
Directed and choreographed by Isabel Rocamora<br />
Night Practice<br />
Directed and choreographed by Susanna Wallin<br />
Insyn<br />
Directed and choreographed by Klara Elenius<br />
Krishna’s Dancer<br />
Directed by Dirk Hilbert<br />
Blush<br />
Directed and choreographed by Wim Vandekeybus<br />
Foi<br />
Directed by Andreas Morell, choreographed by Sidi<br />
Larbi Cherkaoui<br />
The Cost of Living<br />
Directed and choreographed by Lloyd Newson<br />
Gold<br />
Directed by Rachel Davis, choreographed by Hanna<br />
Gillgren<br />
In the Mirror of Maya Derren<br />
Directed by Martina Kuldácek<br />
Birds<br />
Directed by David Hinton<br />
For further information<br />
please contact the IMZ at<br />
office@imz.at.
CLASART CLASSIC<br />
invites to the previews of<br />
JONAS KAUFMANN – A Perfectly Normal Hero<br />
A production of Wunderlich Medien<br />
and<br />
CARMEN (excerpts)<br />
A Production of the Zurich Opera House<br />
in cooperation with<br />
www.tmg.de<br />
Special Screening with Cocktails on Tuesday,<br />
January 20th, 17h30 – 18h30, Salle I & J<br />
IN THE PRESENCE OF JONAS KAUFMANN<br />
Photo: DECCA/Uli Webber
IMZ profile<br />
The IMZ, based in Vienna, is a global non-profit association<br />
dedicated to the worldwide development, dissemination and<br />
promotion of music and dance through the audiovisual media.<br />
It is a forum for exchange and reflection whose core objectives<br />
are to serve as a high-quality advisory body in this industry and<br />
as a mediator between those organisations and individuals involved<br />
and interested in the fields of music and dance. It is the<br />
IMZ’s intention to make the performing arts available to a wide<br />
audience around the globe and help arts programmes occupy<br />
their rightful place in the media.<br />
Thus, practically speaking, the professional umbrella organisation<br />
acts as an interface between leading international producers,<br />
distributors, broadcasters of cultural programmes, opera<br />
houses, educational institutions and record labels focusing on<br />
classical, contemporary and world music, and jazz, as well as<br />
classical and contemporary dance.<br />
With the aim to enhance the co-operation in this media universe,<br />
the IMZ, since its foundation in 1961, has established an<br />
essential network that has grown to more than 180 members<br />
from 27 countries around the world. Its members, whether they<br />
are individuals or organisations, are closely connected to the<br />
audiovisual music and dance business and who work hard to<br />
make a difference in this cultural community.<br />
And the IMZ continues to grow.<br />
As an IMZ member you will benefit from<br />
• excellent networking opportunities with major broadcasters,<br />
producers of the best music and dance programmes and<br />
record company executives, as well as with major experts<br />
and opinion leaders in this industry world-wide.<br />
• an amicable business environment that facilitates co-operation<br />
with co-production partners and offers a high profile in<br />
the relevant fields.<br />
• opportunities for presenting your programmes in front of key<br />
people of this industry (or rather: the industry’s movers and<br />
shakers at the major media markets (e.g. <strong>Avant</strong> <strong>Première</strong><br />
screenings at MIDEM, World Music screenings at WOMEX).<br />
• international competitions, festivals and topic-related programming<br />
like dance screen and Vienna TV Award, the<br />
world’s biggest open-air Music & Dance Film Festival in front<br />
of the Vienna City Hall, as well as World Music Film Screenings.<br />
• professional exchange at seminars, workshops and open discussions<br />
on burning issues arising from the production and<br />
distribution of music and dance programmes to, among<br />
other things, encourage a cross-disciplinary dialogue.<br />
• exclusive access to the computerized IMZ database and<br />
media archive consisting of up-to-date information on audiovisual<br />
productions of music and dance.<br />
• information on new technologies and their recent developments<br />
in the industry<br />
• special working groups of like-minded people collaborating<br />
on crucial subject-matters.<br />
• a monthly newsletter with the latest information on the industry,<br />
intended to be used as an exchange platform for<br />
major issues.<br />
• valuable works of reference like <strong>Avant</strong> <strong>Première</strong> and dance<br />
screen catalogues.
IMZ Board<br />
P R E S I D E N T<br />
V I C E P R E S I D E N T S<br />
T R E A S U R E R<br />
M E M B E R S<br />
Chris HUNT, Classical TV Ltd, United Kingdom<br />
Thomas BECK, Schweizer Fernsehen, Switzerland<br />
Henk VAN DER MEULEN, Royal Conservatoire of<br />
The Hague, The Netherlands<br />
Hazel WRIGHT, Royal Opera House Covent Garden,<br />
United Kingdom<br />
Bernd HELLTHALER, EuroArts Medien GmbH,<br />
Germany<br />
Toshio ASAOKA, NEP, Japan<br />
Nicolas AUBOYNEAU, FRANCE 2, France<br />
Gabrielle BABIN GUGENHEIM, ARTE France, France<br />
Aarno CRONVALL, Arcron Productions, Finland<br />
François DUPLAT, Bel Air Media, France<br />
Arild ERIKSTAD, NRK Norwegian<br />
Broadcasting Corp., Norway<br />
Urban FRYE, Rose d’Or Festival, Switzerland<br />
Gunilla JENSEN PEYRON, SVT Sveriges Television,<br />
Sweden<br />
Marie KUCEROVA, Czech Television, Czech Republic<br />
Reiner MORITZ, Poorhouse Productions Ltd.,<br />
United Kingdom<br />
Anca-Monica PANDELEA, ZDF, Germany<br />
Ben PATEMAN, Decca Music Group, United Kingdom<br />
Costa PILAVACHI, United Kingdom<br />
Dino PIRETTI, RAI Trade, Italy<br />
Katja RATHS, CLASART Film- und Fernsehproduktions<br />
GmbH, Germany<br />
Peter ROSEN, Peter Rosen Productions, Inc., USA<br />
Margaret SMILOW, thirteen/WNET, USA<br />
Martin TRAXL, ORF, Austria<br />
Larry WEINSTEIN, Rhombus Media, Canada<br />
H o n o r a r y B o a r d M e m b e r<br />
Wilfried SCHEIB, Austria<br />
Annual Membership Fee<br />
Full Membership<br />
EUR 2,500<br />
applies to TV stations, independent production and distribution<br />
companies, publishers, opera houses,<br />
record companies, etc.<br />
Affiliate Membership<br />
EUR 1,250<br />
applies to smaller production companies whose<br />
annual output in music or dance does not exceed two<br />
productions<br />
Associate Membership<br />
EUR 625<br />
applies to cultural, educational and scientific<br />
institutions, etc.<br />
Individual Member<br />
EUR 250<br />
applies to individuals<br />
Schedule of IMZ Events<br />
January 18 – 21, 2009 AVANT PREMIÈRE and<br />
Cannes MIDEM CLASSIQUE & JAZZ<br />
SYMPOSIUM at Midem<br />
April 17 – 19, 2009 SCREENINGS and PANEL<br />
Barcelona at EUROPEAN OPERA FORUM<br />
May 2 – 5, 2009 ROSE D’OR<br />
Lucerne<br />
June 13 – 17, 2009 IMZ WORKSHOPS<br />
Prague at ITF Golden Prague<br />
June 27 – August 30, 2009 OPEN AIR FILM FESTIVAL<br />
Vienna<br />
October 28 – November 1 WORLD MUSIC FILM SCREENINGS<br />
Copenhagen at Womex<br />
For detailed information<br />
please check the IMZ websites<br />
www.imz.at<br />
www.avantpremiere.at<br />
www.dancescreen.com<br />
www.worldmusicfilms.com<br />
DANCE SCREEN ON TOUR<br />
non-commercial distribution and<br />
screenings of dance screen winners<br />
and nominees<br />
WORLD MUSIC FILMS ON TOUR!<br />
non-commercial distribution and<br />
screenings of World Music films<br />
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IMZ Member Organisations<br />
126<br />
AUSTRIA<br />
Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images, Salzburg<br />
Eliette und Herbert von Karajan Institut, Salzburg<br />
Felix Breisach Medienwerkstatt GmbH., Vienna<br />
Haydn Festival Eisenstadt & Liszt Festival<br />
Raiding, Eisenstadt<br />
ImPulsTanz, Vienna<br />
Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum, Salzburg<br />
Lotus Records, Oberndorf<br />
ORF Österreichischer Rundfunk, Vienna<br />
Tanzquartier Wien GmbH, Vienna<br />
Universal Edition AG, Vienna<br />
Die Wiener Taschenoper, Vienna<br />
BELGIUM<br />
BMC-Group, Schelle<br />
Outside Broadcast NV, Rotselaar<br />
Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition,<br />
Brussels<br />
R.T.B.F. Radio-Télévision Belge de la Communauté<br />
française de Belgique, Brussels<br />
VRT Vlaamse Radio en Televisie, Brussels<br />
CANADA<br />
Amérimage-Spectra Inc., Montréal<br />
Rhombus International Ltd., Toronto<br />
Rhombus Media Inc., Toronto<br />
CROATIA<br />
HRT Hrvatska Televizija, Zagreb<br />
CZECH REPUBLIC<br />
BVA International Ltd., Prague<br />
Ceska Televize – Czech Television, Prague<br />
DENMARK<br />
DR Danish Broadcasting, Copenhagen<br />
ESTONIA<br />
Estonian Public Broadcasting ERR, Tallinn<br />
FINLAND<br />
Arcron Productions Ltd., Helsinki<br />
YLE Finnish Broadcasting Company, Helsinki<br />
FRANCE<br />
AGAT Films & Cie, Paris<br />
ARTE France, Paris<br />
ARTE Strasbourg, Strasbourg<br />
Auditorium du Louvre, Paris<br />
Bel Air Media, Paris<br />
Camera Lucida Productions, Paris<br />
CLC Productions, Lyon<br />
Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique<br />
et de Danse de Paris, Paris<br />
Europe Images International, Boulogne<br />
France 2, Paris<br />
France 3, Paris<br />
François Roussillon et Associés, Paris<br />
Idéale Audience, Paris<br />
LGM, Paris<br />
Medici Arts International, Paris<br />
Opéra National de Paris, Paris<br />
Telmondis, Paris<br />
Vidéothèque d’Art Lyrique et de Danse, Aix-en-Provence<br />
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GERMANY<br />
3sat, Mainz<br />
ARTE Deutschland TV GmbH, Baden-Baden<br />
Arthaus Musik GmbH, Halle<br />
BOOMTOWNMEDIA GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin<br />
BR Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich<br />
C Major Entertainment GmbH, Berlin<br />
Clasart Film- und Fernsehproduktions GmbH, Munich<br />
Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft mbH, Hamburg<br />
Deutsche Welle Radio & TV International, Berlin<br />
Deutsches Tanzfilminstitut, Bremen<br />
DeutschlandRadio/Deutschlandfunk, Cologne<br />
EuroArts Medien GmbH, Berlin<br />
EuroArts Music International GmbH – Distribution, Berlin<br />
EuroArts Music International GmbH – Production, Leipzig<br />
Finkernagel & Lück Medienproduktion GbR, Berlin<br />
GATEWAY4M - more fine music & media GmbH., Hamburg<br />
Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg, Hamburg<br />
HR Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt<br />
LOFT Music, Gauting<br />
MDR Figaro/Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, Halle<br />
Pars Media GmbH, Munich<br />
Radio Bremen Fernsehen, Bremen<br />
RBB Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg, Berlin<br />
Schott Music International, Mainz<br />
Sounding Images, Berlin<br />
Stadt Nürnberg – Tafelhalle, Nürnberg<br />
SWR Südwestrundfunk, Baden-Baden<br />
UNITEL GmbH & Co. KG, Oberhaching<br />
WDR Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Cologne<br />
Wunderlich Medien Film-, TV- und<br />
Musikproduktion GbR, München<br />
ZDF Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, Mainz<br />
HUNGARY<br />
Hungarian Television Corporation MTV, Budapest<br />
INDIA<br />
EarthSync, Chennai<br />
ITALY<br />
I.R.TE.M., Istituto di Ricerca per il Teatro Musicale, Rome<br />
Pan Dream, Rome<br />
RAI Trade, Rome<br />
Riccione TTV Festival Performing Arts on Screen, Riccione<br />
JAPAN<br />
NHK Enterprises Inc. (NEP), Tokyo<br />
NHK Nippon Hoso Kyokai, Tokyo<br />
Theater Television Co. Ltd., Tokyo<br />
THE NETHERLANDS<br />
AVRO Broadcasting Association, Hilversum<br />
CommuniServe, Amsterdam<br />
IdtV Docs BV, Diemen-Zuid<br />
NPS Nederlandse Programma Stichting, Hilversum<br />
PentaTone Music B.V., Baarn<br />
Royal Conservatoire of The Hague, The Hague<br />
NORWAY<br />
NRK Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, Oslo<br />
POLAND<br />
Music Gardens Festival, Warsaw<br />
Telewizja Polska S.A., Warsaw
RUSSIA<br />
RTR Kultura TV Channel, Moscow<br />
RTR Russian State TV & Radio Broadcasting<br />
Company, Moscow<br />
SERBIA<br />
Belgrade Television, Belgrade<br />
SLOVENIA<br />
RTV Slovenija, Ljubljana<br />
SPAIN<br />
TVE Television Española, Madrid<br />
SWEDEN<br />
SVT Sveriges Television, Stockholm<br />
SWITZERLAND<br />
Opernhaus Zürich, Zurich<br />
Rose d’Or AG, Lucerne<br />
Schweizer Fernsehen, Zurich<br />
Session Basel AG, Basel<br />
TSI Televisione Svizzera di Lingua Italiana, Lugano<br />
UNITED KINGDOM<br />
Allegro Films, Guildford<br />
Artial Productions, London<br />
Arts Council England, London<br />
BBC Cymru Wales, Cardiff<br />
BBC Music Magazine, Bristol<br />
BBC Rights & Business Affairs, London<br />
BBC Television, London<br />
BreakThru Films Ltd., London<br />
Classical TV Ltd., Bristol<br />
DCD Media plc, London<br />
Decca Music Group Limited, London<br />
Electric Sky, Brighton<br />
EMI Classics, London<br />
NVC Arts – Warner Music Entertainment, London<br />
Opus Arte UK Ltd., Heathfield<br />
P.O.P. 1 Ltd, Llanelli, Carmarthenshire<br />
Polyphonic Films Ltd., Bristol<br />
Poorhouse International Ltd., London<br />
Royal Opera House Covent Garden, London<br />
S4C Siannel 4 Cymru, Cardiff<br />
Sky Arts – BskyB, Isleworth<br />
Universal Music International Ltd., London<br />
USA<br />
Classic Arts Showcase, Los Angeles<br />
Cole Media, Los Angeles<br />
Kultur International Films, Ltd., New York<br />
Link TV, New York<br />
Opera America, New York<br />
Peter Rosen Productions, Inc., New York<br />
Putumayo World Music, New York<br />
San Francisco Ballet, San Francisco<br />
San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco<br />
The Metropolitan Opera Association, New York<br />
Thirteen/WNET, New York<br />
IMZ Individual Members<br />
AUSTRIA<br />
C.E.M.A. Central European Music Agency,<br />
Lubica Matasova, Salzburg<br />
Filmwerkstatt Wien, Barbara Weissenbeck, Vienna<br />
Opera4u.com GmbH, Paul Steinhauer, Vienna<br />
Vienna Music, Andreas Winkler, Vienna<br />
CANADA<br />
International Performing Arts for All Incorporated (IPAFA),<br />
Jacqueline Land, Alex Krawtschenko & Sylvia<br />
Sweeney, Toronto<br />
CZECH REPUBLIC<br />
Music on Film – Film on Music (MOFFOM),<br />
John Caulkins, Prague<br />
DENMARK<br />
ICMM – International Culture & Media Management,<br />
Bent-Erik Rasmussen, Lundby<br />
FINLAND<br />
Kroma Productions Ltd., Marikki Hakola, Porvoo<br />
FRANCE<br />
Andy Sommer, Paris<br />
Cécile Clairval-Milhaud, Paris<br />
Karl More Production, Benjamin Bleton, Paris<br />
GERMANY<br />
bce film, Bettina Ehrhardt, Munich<br />
Eins54 Film GmbH, Robert Zimmermann, Berlin<br />
Enrique Sanchez Lansch, Berlin<br />
GREECE<br />
Yorgos Kazantzis, Thessaloniki<br />
ICELAND<br />
Mypocket Production, Helena Jónsdóttir, Reykjavik<br />
ITALY<br />
Mulatto Media Productions, Anthony Zawinul, Milan<br />
MY SOUND di Mika Inouchi, Milan<br />
ScribaNetStudio, Antonio Caregnato, Noventa Padovana<br />
JAPAN<br />
Sound Bank K.K., Yoshiyuki Nagatake, Tokyo<br />
NORWAY<br />
Nordisk Film, Stein-Roger Bull, Oslo<br />
SWITZERLAND<br />
Georges Gachot, Zurich<br />
UNITED KINGDOM<br />
Calliope Media, Mark Kidel, Bristol<br />
Capriol Films, Tony Britten, Norfolk<br />
Dennis Marks, London<br />
Floating Earth, Steve Long, Perivale<br />
Gethin Scourfield, Caernarfon<br />
USA<br />
Mannes Productions, Inc., Elena Mannes, New York<br />
Prima Donna Productions, Judy Flannery, Ross<br />
Red Palette Pictures, Yelena Demikovsky, New York<br />
Universe Music Inc., David Young, Minneapolis<br />
Van Cliburn Foundation, Richard Rodzinski, Fort Worth<br />
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INDEX OF TITLES<br />
# TITLE<br />
37 120 years of Royal Concertgebouw<br />
Orchestra – Part 1<br />
38 120 years of Royal Concertgebouw<br />
Orchestra – Part 2<br />
311 A Celebration of Leonard Bernstein:<br />
Carnegie Hall Opening Night 2008<br />
183 A choir in Bondy<br />
43 A Gothic Revolution<br />
8 A Mendelssohn Jubilee Year<br />
aCelebration with Anne-Sophie Mutter<br />
175 A Midsummer Night’s Dream<br />
17 A Season of Operas<br />
257 A Summer Night's Gala at Grafenegg<br />
145 Adam Fischer – The Conductor,<br />
the Orchestra and Mozart<br />
101 Adam Green plays Avo Session<br />
222 Aimez-vous Brahms? – Gerhard Oppitz<br />
and the German Piano School<br />
160 Americans in Pyongyang<br />
102 Amy MacDonald plays Avo Session<br />
322 András Schiff at the Teatro Olimpico<br />
323 Anja Silja – A Life of Song<br />
359 Anne-Sophie Mutter – Encounters<br />
with Mendelssohn<br />
9 Anne-Sophie Mutter – Portrait of a<br />
global success<br />
383 Annette's DaschSalon: Moonlit Night<br />
258 Anything new about Haydn?<br />
191 Armide<br />
204 Arturo Toscanini In His Own Words<br />
184 At the heart of the orchestra<br />
44 Bach and the Lutheran Legacy<br />
161 Bach Motets<br />
45 Barenboim & West Eastern Divan<br />
130 Bareza in Chemnitz<br />
29 Barockstar – George Frideric Handel<br />
46 BatonCamp<br />
360 Bayreuth – From Myth to Modernity<br />
61 BBC Proms in the Park 2008 Highlights<br />
62 BBC Radio 3 Choir of the Year 2008<br />
63 BBC Young Musician of the Year 2008:<br />
30th Anniversary<br />
64 BBC Young Musician 2008: Brass<br />
65 BBC Young Musician 2008:<br />
Concerto Final<br />
66 BBC Young Musician 2008: Grand Final<br />
67 BBC Young Musician 2008: Keyboard<br />
68 BBC Young Musician 2008: Percussion<br />
69 BBC Young Musician 2008: Strings<br />
70 BBC Young Musician 2008: Woodwind<br />
84 Belshazzar<br />
10 Benjamin Britten: Billy Budd<br />
312 Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique<br />
314 Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique<br />
in Concert<br />
253 Bernard Haitink rehearses Richard<br />
Wagner’s “Parsifal” at Zurich<br />
Opera House<br />
196 Blue Notes from Scandinavia<br />
216 Bluebeard's Castle<br />
47 Boulez & the BBC Symphony Orchestra<br />
272 Broadway Goes Hollywood<br />
120 Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 –<br />
The Cleveland Orchestra<br />
71 Bryn Terfel Closer to Home<br />
72 Bryn Terfel’s Opera Night<br />
176 Cadmus & Hermione<br />
73 Cambridge Folk Festival 2008: Martha<br />
Wainwright featuring Devon Sproule<br />
74 Cambridge Folk Festival 2008: Seth<br />
Lakeman featuring Noah and the Whale<br />
75 Cambridge Folk Festival 2008:<br />
The Imagined Village<br />
121 Carmen<br />
341 Carnegie Hall Opening Night 2008:<br />
A Celebration of Leonard Bernstein<br />
273 Castor et Pollux<br />
103 Cecilia Bartoli – Malibran Rediscovered<br />
104 Cecilia Bartoli – The Barcelona Concert<br />
316 Celtic Frost – A Dying God<br />
326 Chapeau Mr. Cohen<br />
313 Charles Ives: Holidays Symphony<br />
317 Charlie Haden – Rambling Boy<br />
128<br />
avantpremière 2009<br />
342 Chess in Concert (Working Title)<br />
48 Choral<br />
384 Choreographic <strong>Avant</strong>-garde - selfportraits<br />
of seven choreographers<br />
298 Chris Joris & Bob Stewart Rainbow Band<br />
361 Christian Thielemann conducts<br />
Bruckner's Symphony No. 4<br />
122 Christmas in Vienna<br />
39 Christmas Matinée 2008<br />
254 Christoph von Dohnànyi rehearse<br />
Richard Strauss’s “Ariadne auf Naxos”<br />
at Zurich Opera House<br />
131 Cinkuši<br />
123 Clari<br />
205 Classic Archive<br />
225 Claude Chalhoub: Singing on the Violin<br />
385 Cloud Gate Company – between two<br />
worlds (Working Title)<br />
299 Concert Mendelssohn, Mozart and<br />
Schumann<br />
132 Croatian Music at the Riva dei Schiavoni<br />
105 Cyndi Lauper plays Avo Sessio<br />
217 Daniele Gatti conducts Orchestre<br />
National de France<br />
247 Dark Night of the Soul<br />
362 Das Rheingold<br />
140 David Doružka – Josefine Lindstrand<br />
Quartet<br />
327 Death in Venice<br />
304 Deav Premal & Miten with Manose<br />
18 Desperately Seeking Sidi Larbi<br />
Cherkaoui<br />
363 Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg<br />
364 Die Walküre<br />
244 Different Trains<br />
192 Discovering an Opera: The Fly<br />
162 Discovering Masterpieces of<br />
Classical Music<br />
315 Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5<br />
76 Doctor Who at the Proms<br />
106 Doktor Faust<br />
376 Domingo, Netrebko and Villazón –<br />
A Midsummer Night's Music<br />
from Vienna<br />
293 Don Carlos<br />
294 Don Giovanni<br />
365 Don Giovanni<br />
231 Dutch Final Eurovision Young<br />
Musicians 2008<br />
259 Dying in Love and Beauty –<br />
The Making of La Bohème<br />
377 Echo der Stars<br />
318 Echoes of Home<br />
282 Edgar<br />
107 Edita Gruberova – The Art of Bel Canto<br />
163 El Sistema<br />
283 Ernani<br />
330 Esa-Pekka Salonen & Friends<br />
133 Estonian Philharmonic Chamber<br />
Choir and Paul Hillier in Zadar<br />
85 Eugene Onegin<br />
164 Europa Konzert 2008 from Moscow<br />
248 Fabio Biondi and Stavanger Symphony<br />
Orchestra<br />
193 Faust<br />
378 Festive Advent Music from Dresden<br />
197 Fidelio<br />
255 Fidelio<br />
49 Folk Day<br />
1 Francis Poulenc: Dialogues des<br />
Carmélites<br />
226 Frank Peter Zimmermann: Bach Sonatas<br />
227 Franz Schubert - Die schöne Müllerin<br />
232 Gala of Dutch Dance 2008<br />
300 Gamba Recital by the Ricercar Consort<br />
268 Garrison Keillor: The Man on the<br />
Radio in the Red Shoes<br />
108 Gary Moore plays Avo Session<br />
2 Generation Classic. Made in Germany<br />
124 Genoveva<br />
19 Georges Prêtre<br />
249 Get the Money and Play – One Year<br />
Inside an Orchestra<br />
11 Giacomo Puccini: Turandot<br />
181 Gidon Kremer and Martha Argerich<br />
at the Berliner Philharmonie<br />
352 Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina:<br />
Missa Gabriel Archangelus<br />
331 God in Disguise<br />
319 Going Against Fate<br />
165 Goldberg Variations, Evgeni Koroliov<br />
269 Gordon Getty: The Musical Curse<br />
379 Götz Alsmann's Nightmusic<br />
40 Haitink conducts the Royal<br />
Concertgebouw Orchestra: Schubert<br />
41 Haitink conducts the Royal<br />
Concertgebouw Orchestra: Wagner<br />
355 Handel's Music at the Wratislavia<br />
Cantans Festival<br />
158 Hansel and Gretel<br />
295 Hansel and Gretel<br />
30 Hansel and Gretel<br />
343 Harlem in Montmartre:<br />
A Paris Jazz Story<br />
134 Haydn and Croatian Music Heritage<br />
90 Helmut Lachenmann: Phonetic Actions<br />
344 Hitman: David Foster & Friends<br />
332 Holocene<br />
333 Hotel Opera<br />
198 How the Opera Festival Was Made<br />
109 I Lombardi alla prima crociata<br />
31 Ice and Steel<br />
91 Idomeneo<br />
334 If only Bach had a clarinet<br />
284 Il Turco in Italia<br />
386 I'm not alone<br />
141 In Search of Gustav Brom<br />
266 In Tempus Praesens<br />
177 In the Footsteps of Chopin<br />
223 Into The Cold Dawn<br />
135 Inva Mula in Samobor<br />
260 Irmingard – Salzburg Festival 2008<br />
20 Israël Galvan, the Andalusian accent<br />
21 Ivry Gitlis, the violinist without borders<br />
373 Jamming The Past<br />
142 Jaroslav Ježek<br />
345 Jerome Robbins: Something to<br />
Dance About<br />
166 Jerusalem International Chamber<br />
Music Festival<br />
110 Jethro Tull plays Avo Session<br />
346 Joan Baez (Working Title)<br />
366 Johannes Moser – Juraj Valcuha:<br />
Wagner, Pfitzner, Strauss<br />
77 John Barrowman ‘Live’ at the Faenol<br />
Festival<br />
320 Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison<br />
125 Jonas Kaufmann – A perfectly normal<br />
hero<br />
92 Joseph Haydn Unveiled<br />
335 Jukkas Yoiks<br />
111 Julia Fischer – Violin and Piano<br />
136 Julian Rachlin and Friends in Dubrovnik<br />
380 Karajan - Beauty as I see it<br />
261 Karajan Memorial Concert on the<br />
Occasion of his 100th Birthday<br />
12 Karlheinz Stockhausen:<br />
Music for a New World<br />
324 Kinshasa Symphony - Black Africa’s<br />
one and only classical orchestra<br />
3 Kiss me, Kate...<br />
387 Kung Fu – Monastery and Modern<br />
Dance Theatre – The Choreographer<br />
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui<br />
328 La Chambre Blanche<br />
218 La Dame aux Camélias<br />
285 La gazza ladra<br />
353 La Serva Padrona<br />
321 La Traviata at Zurich Main Station<br />
224 La Voce in Bellezza<br />
286 Lady Macbeth from Msensk<br />
367 Lang Lang at Schönbrunn<br />
4 Lang Lang plays Tan Dun<br />
(Piano Festival Ruhr 2008)<br />
50 Last Night of the Proms<br />
391 Laya Project<br />
148 Legends: Roy Orbison<br />
274 Leon Fleisher – Recital for Two Hands<br />
22 Leon Fleisher – Recital for Two hands<br />
270 Leonard Bernstein Reflections<br />
374 Let's Make A Choir!<br />
347 Lights Up: In the Heights on Broadway<br />
(Working Title)<br />
149 Lines in the Landscape
371 Lisa Della Casa – Love of a Diva<br />
167 Lucerne Festival 2008 – RussianNight<br />
112 Luisa Miller<br />
126 Luisa Miller<br />
143 Magdalena<br />
23 Maguy Marin<br />
24 Mahler, with measured steps<br />
219 Mahler's Symphony No.8: Symphony of<br />
A Thousand<br />
305 Man of Hearken<br />
296 Manon<br />
32 Manon Lescaut<br />
275 Marcia Haydée – The Best is Still to<br />
Come!<br />
5 Marco Goecke: The Nutcracker<br />
233 Marco Polo<br />
25 Marius and Fanny<br />
127 Martha Argerich and Akiko Ebi<br />
137 Martina Filjak – A Portrait<br />
388 Masterpieces of Mankind –<br />
The Snow Lion’s Mask<br />
228 Masters of American Music<br />
287 Medea<br />
113 Messa da Requiem<br />
6 Metro Music. Sounds of the<br />
Unterground<br />
114 Michael Bolton plays Avo Session<br />
185 Mikhail Rudy – A Romantic Pianist<br />
186 Military Fantasy<br />
368 Monteverdi – From the Basilica<br />
of Saint Denis<br />
93 Mozart 22 – The Documentaries<br />
94 Mozart Week 2008: Mozart Concert<br />
in E flat-Major for Two Pianos and<br />
Orchestra<br />
26 Mr. Brown<br />
220 Music and Time on Paper<br />
182 Nadja Michael – The Art of<br />
Transformation<br />
78 Nana Mouskouri – The White Rose<br />
of Athens<br />
79 Nana Mouskouri at the BBC<br />
187 Nathalie Dessay, Paris - New York<br />
250 New Cello Concerto for Truls Mørk<br />
168 New Year's Concert from São Paulo<br />
245 NHK Music Festival 2008<br />
150 Nigel Kennedy: Blue Note Sessions<br />
51 Nigel Kennedy: Classical and Jazz<br />
151 Nigel Kennedy: Polish Spirit<br />
256 Nikolaus Harnoncourt rehearses<br />
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “The<br />
Magic Flute” at Zurich Opera House<br />
95 Nine Days in the Life of<br />
Benjamin Schmid<br />
234 North Sea Jazz Festival 2008<br />
267 Not Just One Truth – Pierre-Laurent<br />
Aimard<br />
235 NPS Matinee<br />
33 Nyman in Progress<br />
236 Olivier Messiaen – Saint Francis of<br />
Assisi<br />
251 Opening Gala of the new Opera House<br />
in Oslo, Norway<br />
52 Opera<br />
178 Opera Stars Perform the Lamenti<br />
306 Operatic Aria / Saša Cano<br />
53 Orchestra<br />
54 Orchestral Classics<br />
288 Orfeo<br />
86 Orpheus and Eurydice<br />
307 Our little company marches / 50 Years<br />
Of The RTVS Children and Youth Choir<br />
55 Palestrina and the Popes<br />
265 Papa Haydn<br />
115 Patricia Kaas plays Avo Session<br />
348 Patti Smith: Dream of Life<br />
206 Pierre Boulez - The Firebird at The<br />
Louvre Museum<br />
207 Pierre Boulez Presents The Firebird<br />
237 Pinkpop 2008<br />
276 Pinocchio's Adventures<br />
208 Piotr Anderszewski, Recital in Warsaw<br />
27 Piotr Anderszewski. Unquiet traveller<br />
229 Popgalerie<br />
7 Popkomm 08<br />
389 Popkomm 08<br />
301 Portrait of Augustin Dumay<br />
188 Presto<br />
42 Prinsengracht Concert 2008<br />
302 Queen Elisabeth Competition<br />
238 Queens's Day Concert 2008<br />
152 Quest for the Lost Ark<br />
80 Quincy Jones: The Many Lives of Q<br />
(Part 1 of 2)<br />
81 Quincy Jones: The Many Lives of<br />
Q (Part 2 of 2)<br />
199 Raoul<br />
194 Raymonda<br />
354 Recital Hana Kotkovà – Simon<br />
Mulligan<br />
239 Richard Wagner – Lohengrin<br />
169 Rigoletto<br />
289 Rigoletto<br />
200 Road to Music – A series of the pianist<br />
Gergely Bogányi<br />
372 Robert Stolz – Music of Reconciliation<br />
116 Roger Hodgson plays Avo Session<br />
262 Romeo and Juliet<br />
170 Rossini: Messe solennelle<br />
221 Rubato ma glissando<br />
179 Rudolf Nureyev, Celestial Attraction<br />
297 Salome<br />
349 Salome<br />
13 Salsa in Salzburg<br />
230 Salute Petra – Celebrating the Life of<br />
Luciano Pavarotti<br />
369 Salzburg Festival – Opening Concert<br />
96 Salzburg Festival 2008: Otello<br />
153 Sarah Brightman: Symphony in Vienna<br />
128 Seicento Icons<br />
246 Seiji Ozawa: Eugene Onegin<br />
271 Shadows in Paradise<br />
14 Simone Kermes – The voice of baroque<br />
and Le Musiche Nove<br />
356 Sinfonia Iuventus in Concert<br />
308 Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra to<br />
Celebrate Centenary<br />
87 Spartacus<br />
209 Spinosi Records Vivaldi<br />
154 Stairway to Heaven<br />
28 Stravinsky Ballets<br />
159 Strictly Bolshoi<br />
117 Sunshine Superman – The Journey of<br />
Donovan<br />
309 Swan Lake<br />
210 Swing, Sing & Think: David Fray<br />
Records Johann Sebastian Bach<br />
56 Tallis, Byrd and the Tudors<br />
277 Tamerlano<br />
336 Tan Dun – The Hunan Sculptor Of<br />
Sounds<br />
189 Tandem<br />
278 Tannhäuser – The Revolutionary<br />
88 Tchaikovsky Gala<br />
252 tenThing brass ensemble<br />
290 Thaïs<br />
310 The 8th Gala Evening of New Ballet<br />
Choreographies<br />
240 The Abduction from the Seraglio<br />
82 The Andrews Sisters: Queens of the<br />
Music Machines<br />
146 The Band and the Three Nordic Voices<br />
211 The Berlin Philharmonic at the 60th<br />
edition of the Festival d'Aix-enProvence<br />
381 The Berlin Philharmonic's New Year's<br />
Eve Concert<br />
83 The Beverley Sisters – Tickled Pink<br />
279 The Buskaid Soweto String Ensemble in<br />
Concert<br />
147 The Copenhagen Ring<br />
195 The Coronation of Poppea<br />
201 The Crucible<br />
212 The Cunning Little Vixen<br />
180 The Cure – Live in Paris 2008<br />
155 The Emperor's Secret Garden<br />
370 The Gambler<br />
156 The Human Camera<br />
263 The Importance Of Being Music –<br />
The Composer Georg F. Haas<br />
190 The Keys To The Orchestra<br />
171 The Lucerne Festival Academy –<br />
Glimpses of Pierre Boulez'<br />
Workshop for the Future of Music<br />
390 The most beautiful operas of all times<br />
(Working Title)<br />
350 The Music Instinct: Science and Song<br />
172 The New York Philharmonic in<br />
Pyongyang<br />
213 The Paris Opera Ballet<br />
57 The Passions of Vaughan Williams<br />
291 The Puritans<br />
202 The Rape of Lucretia<br />
97 The School of Listening<br />
375 The Season Ticket<br />
357 The Table<br />
203 The Vampire<br />
264 The Vienna Boys’ Choir – Distant Roads<br />
337 The Voice of Orpheus<br />
173 The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra<br />
& Daniel Barenboim in Ravello<br />
58 The Winner’s Finale Live<br />
358 The Young Polish Jazz<br />
98 Thomas Hampson – Schumann Recital<br />
138 Three Reflections about Death<br />
118 Till Brönner plays Avo Session<br />
139 To play, to sing, to dance<br />
303 Toots Thielemans, a Jazz Legend<br />
241 Top 2000 A Go Go<br />
339 Triade<br />
340 Tribute to Jerome Robbins<br />
99 Triple Concerto with the Simón Bolívar<br />
Youth Orchestra of Venezuela and Gustavo<br />
Dudam el<br />
34 Tristan and Isolde<br />
15 Tropicana – The cabaret of dreams<br />
325 Truls Mørk plays Chopin and Dvorák<br />
89 Turangalîla Symphony<br />
280 Un Ballo in Maschera<br />
16 Urban Ballet – Dance in August 2008<br />
214 Verbier Festival 2008<br />
292 Viaggio à Reims<br />
382 Villazón singing Handel<br />
144 Visegrad Baroque Orchestra<br />
157 Viva La Diva<br />
392 Voice Over The Bridge<br />
35 Wagner: Tannhäuser<br />
174 Waldbühne 2008 – Los Ritmos de la Noche<br />
59 Wayne McGregor's Infra<br />
36 Werther<br />
242 Wings of Wax<br />
338 Winter Festival in Dalecarlia<br />
243 Within Temptation<br />
60 World Music Celebration<br />
129 Yaron Herman Trio<br />
281 Yondering<br />
351 You Cannot Start Without Me: Valery<br />
Gergiev: Maestro<br />
100 Young Singers Project<br />
215 Zaïde<br />
329 Zappa plays Zappa<br />
119 Zucchero plays Avo Session<br />
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INDEX OF DIRECTORS<br />
NAME #<br />
Adler-Conrad, Birgit 387<br />
Alby, Claire 19<br />
Alsema, Frank 234<br />
Amado, Gilles 25<br />
Atteln, Günter 162, 171<br />
Bärlocher, Rolli 101, 102,<br />
105, 108, 110, 114,<br />
115, 116, 118, 119<br />
aBarnabé, Jocelyn 326<br />
Barnard, David 230<br />
Barré, Pierre 298, 300, 303<br />
Bartov, Mira 333<br />
Bataillon, Vincent<br />
86, 339, 340<br />
Baylaucq, Philippe 328<br />
Beck, Silvia 33<br />
Becker, Oliver 223<br />
Bell, Victoria 63<br />
Bernardinello, Mando<br />
352, 353, 354<br />
Bernays, Paul<br />
Beyer, Michael<br />
164, 165, 167, 170,<br />
172, 173, 222, 369<br />
70<br />
Blackhurst, Craig 46<br />
Blaschke, Bartosz<br />
Blavier, Jean Christophe<br />
357<br />
275, 385<br />
Blumenschein, Viviane 319<br />
Böhler, Olaf 7, 389<br />
Bordewijk, Alex 232<br />
Borgwardt, Uffe<br />
Breisach, Felix<br />
147<br />
106, 121, 122, 123,<br />
124, 253, 254, 255,<br />
256, 321<br />
Bridcut, John 57<br />
Bruner, Katharina 223<br />
Buttmann, Patrick 32, 35<br />
Byron, Toby 228<br />
Caduff, Reto 317<br />
Caillat, Gérald 209<br />
Caïozzi, Denis 28, 88, 211<br />
Caresten, Ulf 338<br />
Ciniselli, Michael 10<br />
Conders, Erik 247, 248, 250<br />
Copans, Richard 17<br />
Corbiau, Gerard 301<br />
Cosel, Bill 120<br />
Cram, Bestor 320<br />
Dekker, Jellie 238<br />
Diverse, Diverse 237<br />
Dorigo, Andrea 112<br />
Dornhelm, Robert 380<br />
Duguet, Claire 178<br />
Eckardt, Carmen 6<br />
Eisenschenk, Herbert 258<br />
Elmquist, Helén 334, 336<br />
Epstein, Pirkko 374<br />
Exposito, Valerie 177<br />
Faudon, Curt 264<br />
Faure, Yves 129<br />
Fibich, Karina 370<br />
Finkernagel, Daniel 181, 182<br />
Fleischmann, Franz 372<br />
Fletcher, Tina 67<br />
Flossmann, Gabriele 259<br />
Foldager, Kristian 146<br />
Fraser-Crook, Janet 73,74,75<br />
Fraudreau, Martin 176<br />
130<br />
avantpremière 2009<br />
NAME #<br />
Geus, Merel de 234<br />
Gisiger, Sabine 224<br />
Glas, Sébastien 214<br />
Goetghebeur, François<br />
127, 219<br />
Greenberg, Rodney 45<br />
Grimm, Thomas<br />
216, 218, 276, 281<br />
Groh-Bourgett,Wolfgang 388<br />
Halvorson, Gary<br />
311, 314, 341<br />
Hariyanto, Ernest 392<br />
Haschek, Heidelinde<br />
257, 376<br />
Hasse, Laurent 180<br />
Haswell, Jonathan 59, 297<br />
Havelka, Ondrej 143<br />
Heller, Ayelet 160<br />
Hof, Frank 379<br />
Honselaar, Joost 235, 239<br />
Horn, David 342, 344<br />
Hossfeld, Stefan 383<br />
Hoyer, Myriam 214<br />
Huis in 't Veld, Eduard 234<br />
Hulscher, Hans<br />
37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 242<br />
Hundsbichler, Klaus 259<br />
Huw, Rhodri 61, 62, 66, 72,<br />
76, 77, 82<br />
Ilijic, Zvonko 136<br />
Ishida, Yoko 245<br />
James, Dante 343<br />
Jenkins, Ailsa 83<br />
Jeshel, Jörg 16<br />
Jirásek, Pavel 140, 141<br />
Joxe, Sandra 21<br />
Juban, Pierre-Martin 205<br />
Judd, Sue 295<br />
Kasten, Henning 174, 382<br />
Kennard, David 312, 315<br />
Kent, Don 18, 84, 212<br />
Kidel, Mark 22, 274, 279<br />
Kieser, John 313<br />
Kinberg, Judy 345<br />
King-Dabbs, Andy 43, 56<br />
Kisil, Aleš 142<br />
Kiviniemi, Anna-Kaarina 375<br />
Kloft, Michael 360<br />
Kohno, Takuo 244<br />
Komlos, Andras 197, 198,<br />
199, 200, 201, 202, 203<br />
Konttori, Jukka 375<br />
Kopsa, Tihana 134<br />
Kowalewski, Jozef 356<br />
Kramer, Brigitte 16<br />
Krieken, Joost van 235<br />
Kuperberg, Clara 272<br />
Lamm, Ellen 333<br />
Lamoureux, François 329<br />
Lamoureux, Pierre 329<br />
Large, Brian 91, 262, 365<br />
Laurin, Ginette 328<br />
Lehko, Vesa 373<br />
Liewehr, Kurt 260<br />
Linton, Elisabeth 333<br />
Loreau, Thierry 303<br />
Lough, Robin 293, 294<br />
Lück, Alexander 181, 182<br />
NAME #<br />
MacGibbon, Ross 87, 296<br />
Maillot, Jean-Christophe 175<br />
Malzer, Elisabeth<br />
161, 378, 381<br />
Mancini, Tiziano 11, 109,<br />
113, 362, 363, 364<br />
Maniura, Peter 58<br />
Mannes, Elena 350<br />
Manzi, Oliver 159<br />
Méth, Agnes 8, 13, 99, 261,<br />
359, 361, 367<br />
Meyszies, Ulrich 29<br />
Miller, Allan 351<br />
Mirkovic, Tatjana 235<br />
Mirow, Benedict 226<br />
Monfils, Harold 391<br />
Monsaingeon, Bruno<br />
27, 208, 210<br />
Moravec, Dušan 307<br />
Morell, Andreas 1, 3, 5, 111,<br />
168, 169, 368<br />
Motyl, Tomasz 355<br />
Münchmeyer, Nele 92<br />
Muratovic, Amir 306<br />
Narboni, Louise 214<br />
Noort, Suzanna 243<br />
Nyblom, Sofia 337<br />
Palmers, Jan 249<br />
Pannen, Stefan 107<br />
Paramo, Sonia 179<br />
Pelly, Laurent 158<br />
Penth, Boris 225<br />
Perkin, Deborah 80, 81<br />
Perlemuter, Chloé 85<br />
Pichler-Hausegger, Barbara<br />
263<br />
Pleger, Ralf 9<br />
Plötzeneder, Carl 93, 95, 100<br />
Power, Chris 48, 52, 53, 54<br />
Preusse, Holger 323, 325<br />
Priestley, Philip 26<br />
Proefrock, Yan 220, 221<br />
Ramirez, Angel Luis 280<br />
Rebois, Marie-Hélène 23<br />
Reggiani, Maria 20<br />
Reiner E., Moritz 278<br />
Rhys, Dafydd 265<br />
Riley, Brooks 30, 31, 34, 36<br />
Robbins, Andy 44, 55<br />
Roeleven, Dirk Jan 241<br />
Röhr, Helena 333<br />
Rosen, Peter<br />
268, 269, 270, 271<br />
Rossacher, Hannes 117<br />
Roussillon, François<br />
191, 192, 193, 194, 195<br />
Roy, Mathieu 327<br />
Russell, Ian 58<br />
Russell-Jones, Iwan 71<br />
Ruyg, Edith 231<br />
NAME #<br />
Saffa, Joan 312, 315<br />
Salfati, Pierre-Henry 24<br />
Schlüssel,Timo 252, 254,256<br />
Schmidt, Anna 162<br />
Schmidt, Felix 323<br />
Schmidt, Torben 14, 366<br />
Schmidt-Garre, Jan 266, 267<br />
Schneider, Dieter 386<br />
Schneider, Martin 13<br />
Scholz, Ulrich 384<br />
Schönhofer, Peter 96<br />
Schwietert, Stefan 318<br />
Sebring, Steven 348<br />
Seesemann, Wolf 227<br />
Seig, Matthew 228<br />
Sellars, Peter 215<br />
Siebenmorgen, Peter 360<br />
Siegers, Caroline 90<br />
Siltberg, Lars 332<br />
Šimerda, Tomáš 144<br />
Simonnet, Olivier 128, 343<br />
Šimunov, Mladen 133<br />
Siniketo, Tiina 375<br />
Sirišcevic, Dražen 135<br />
Šišmanovic, Liljana 131<br />
Skibsted, Karl Bjerre 145<br />
Smaczny, Paul 163<br />
Smith, Yvonne 228<br />
Sommer, Andreas 94<br />
Sommer, Andy 89, 126, 166,<br />
206, 207, 217<br />
Steenwinkel, Siebe de 241<br />
Stevens, David 47<br />
Stevens, Martyn 68, 69<br />
Stiehler, Angelika 162, 171<br />
Stockmann, Michael 196<br />
Stodtmeier, Maria 163<br />
Stronski, Waldemar 358<br />
Sturminger, Michael 103,104<br />
Sudar, Zoran 138<br />
Valentine, Richard 49, 60<br />
Vegheim, Torstein 251, 252<br />
Vermeiren, Misjel<br />
233, 236, 240, 273<br />
Verstraete Jr., Guus 42<br />
Vick, Graham 277<br />
Vidmar, Vojko 309, 310<br />
Villeneuve, Thierry 180<br />
Vipotnik, Miha 305<br />
Vlakveld, Arjan 241<br />
Vlietinck, Benoît 299<br />
Voigt, Thomas 125, 371, 372<br />
Volaric, Danko 130, 132<br />
Vorkapic, Vlatka 139<br />
Wallner, Thomas 15<br />
Weber, Utz 377<br />
Weinstein, Larry 204<br />
Weisz, Christian Kurt 97, 98<br />
Wennehorst-Norrman, Bengt<br />
330, 331<br />
Wharton, Mary 346<br />
Williams, Heidi 64, 78<br />
Williams, Rhian 65<br />
Willis Sweete, Barbara 349<br />
Winkler, Adrian 316<br />
Wischmann, Claus<br />
107, 322, 324, 325<br />
Wiseman, Frederick 213<br />
Woodward, Matt 50, 51<br />
Wübbolt, Georg 4<br />
Wunderlich, Wolfgang<br />
125, 371<br />
Yagi, Junya 246<br />
Zakonjsek, Jan 308<br />
Zemljic, Barbara 304<br />
CHOREOGRAPHERS<br />
NAME #<br />
Aeschlimann, Roland 84<br />
Bausch, Pina 86<br />
Blankenbuehler, Andy 347<br />
Bølstad, Katrine 247<br />
Christe, Nils 232<br />
Davenport, Jacqueline 199<br />
Gallotta, Jean-Claude 191<br />
George, Andrew 297<br />
Goecke, Marco 5<br />
Grigorovitch, Iouri 87<br />
Hosseinpour, Amir 35, 273<br />
Hwain-min, Lin 385<br />
Israël, Galvan 20<br />
Jones, Richard 10<br />
Kylián, Jirí 242<br />
Laurin, Ginette 328<br />
Litvinov, Viktor 309<br />
Lunn, Jonathan 35<br />
Macmillan, Kenneth 296<br />
Magal, Saar 17<br />
Maillot, Jean-Christophe<br />
175<br />
Marin, Maguy 23<br />
Millepied, Benjamin 339<br />
Neumeier, John 218, 281<br />
Nureyev, Rudolf 194<br />
Pastor, Krzysztof 232<br />
Posca, Fabian 31<br />
Robbins, Jerome 340<br />
Sayers, Denni 76<br />
Skamletz, Gudrun 176<br />
Slater, Jeanne 341<br />
Stache, Thomas 17<br />
Szöllosi, András 203<br />
Varone, Doug 349<br />
Wheeldon, Christopher 159
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