Suite Flamenca Bodas de Sangre, Suite Flamenca Antonio Gades, Ricardo Freire, Juan Antonio Zafra (music) Stella Arauzo Miguel Lara Companía Antonio Gades Cristina Hoyos (choreography) Teatro Real, Madrid, 2011

Michael Beyer"Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado (direction) Schweizer Kammerchor Bryn Terfel (bariton), Rachel Harnisch (soprano), Eteri Gvazava (soprano) Richard Wagner ""Wotans Abschied und Feuerzauber"" from Die Walküre Claude Debussy Le Martyre de Saint Sébastian (suite) La mer, trois esquisses symphoniques Directed by Michael Beyer Recorded at the Lucerne Festival in 2003.

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Berliner Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim (conductor) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) Concerto pour piano no. 21 in E b major K.482 Recorded in 1989 at the Siemens-Villa, Berlin Directed by George Moorse

Bachar Mar-Khalifé (piano) Bojan Z (piano) Paris, Jazz à la Villette, Grand Halle de la Villette, 5 september 2021 TV director, Samuel Thiebaut

Carla Bley (clavier) Estival Jazz Steve Swallow (bass) Wayne Krantz (guitar) Victor Lewis (drums) Larry Willis (piano) Don Alias (drums) Recorded in 1986, Lugano Swiss Tv director, Sandro Pedrazzetti

Rivalry in Music - Furtwängler vs. Toscanini Two men without whom the profession of conductor would not be what it is today. Two men who couldn't be more different from each other: Arturo Toscanini and Wilhelm Furtwängler. The former was rigorously faithful to the musical score, the latter conducted with radical subjectivity. In 1931 they both conducted at the Bayreuth Festival - for the first and last time. Soon the polite rivalry turned into bitter enmity. Both men were forced to take a stand on the regimes in their respective countries - and chose radically different paths. Toscanini, "the dictator", bravely challenged Mussolini; Furtwängler, a conservative, meanwhile proclaimed that art is always apolitical and reluctantly made a pact with the Nazis. The documentary not only opens up the different musical universes of the two great conductors by retracing their careers in Milan, Bayreuth and New York, but also raises a question that is more topical than ever: what has art to do with politics? Directed by Thomas von Steinaecker 2020

Armenian State Symphony Orchestra, Sergey Smbatyan (conductor) Armenian State Chamber Choir, Yerevan State Chamber Choir, Kristina Voskanyan (choir master) Sofya Sayadyan (soprano) Aksel Daveyan (baritone) Tigran Mansurian 1939 - Requiem Directed by Armen Andreasyan Gyumri, Armenia, Holy Saviour's Church, December 7, 2023

Le Balcon, Students of the Institut d'Enseignement Supérieur de Musique - Europe et Méditerranée d'Aix-en-Provence, Maxime Pascal (conductor) Olivier Messiaen (1908 - 1992) From Canyons to Stars - excerpt: Interstellar Call Gérard Grisey (1946 - 1998) Stèle Olivier Messiaen Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum Cable car of the Glaciers of La Meije (Festival Messiaen, Pas de La Meije) 31 July 2021

Alfred Brendel (piano) Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886) Années de pèlerinage, première année Recorded in 1986 Directed by Humphrey Burton

Alfred Brendel (piano) Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886) Années de pèlerinage, deuxième année Recorded in 1986 Directed by Humphrey Burton

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The Queen of Spades Opera in three acts, op. 68, by Piotr Ilych Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893) Libretto by Modest Ilych Tchaikovsky after Alexander Pushkin's novella First performance in Saint-Petersburg, Mariinsky Theatre, 19 December 1890 Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Bayerischer Staatsopernchor, Kinderchor des Bayerischen Staatsoper, Aziz Shokhakimov (Conductor) Benedict Andrews (Stage direction) Rufus Didwiszus (sets), Victoria Behr (costumes), Jon Clark (lighting) Asmik Grigorian (Liza) Brandon Jovanovich (Herman) Roman Burdenko (Count Tomsky) Boris Pinkhasovich (Yeletsky) Kevin Conners (Chekalinsky) Bálint Szabó (Surin) Tansel Akzeybek (Chaplitsky) Nikita Volkov (Narumov) Violeta Urmana (Countess) Munich, Staatsoper, 10 February 2024

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Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Paris, Gustavo Dudamel (Conductor) Gustav Mahler (1860 - 1911) Symphony no. 9 in D major Barcelone, Gran Teatre del Liceu, 20 September 2022

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Antonio Pappano (conductor) Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano) Jake Heggie 1961 - Camille Claudel: Into the Fire Hector Berlioz 1803 - 1869 Symphonie fantastique Amsterdam, Concertgebouw, 9 January 2025

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Richter, the Enigma Prokofiev's 9th Sonata was dedicated to him, he played at Stalin's funeral with Oistrakh and Rostropovitch and accompanied Schwarzkopf and Fischer-Dieskau: Sviatoslav Richter was THE Soviet pianist par excellence. This portrait, illustrated with rare and unpublished archival documents from the 1950s to the artist's death, gives a view of life in Soviet Russia from the perspective of one of the greatest and yet most enigmatic world pianists. Directed by Bruno Monsaingeon 1997

Music magazino. Classical music concert. Hamburg, Elbphilharmonie.

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Boléro Choreography by Maurice Béjart With Maïa Plissetskaia Les ballets du XXème siècle. Un mythe de l'histoire de la danse contemporaine : le Boléro signé Béjart affirme magistralement la plasticité des corps. L'oeuvre de Ravel devient hypnotisante grâce à la chorégraphie puissante du regretté Maurice Béjart. Recorded on 1977 TV Director, Willy Botteldoorn

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Le cri Choreography, Nacera Belaza Light and sound conceptio, Nacera Belaza Light creation, Eric Soyer Music Larbi Bestam, chant lyrique Amy Winehouse "Some unholy war" Callas, ouverture de la Traviata de Verdi Nina Simone 'Black is the color of my true love's hair' Dancers Nacera Belaza Dalila Belaza Recorded on June 11, 2016 at the cloister of la Psalette TV Director, Béatrice Vernhes

En un battement continu, Choreography by Luc Petton et Marilén Iglesias Breuker Assistant, Tuomas Lahti Music, Ottol Lindholm (Fauve) With Pieradolfo Ciulli, Adalberto Fernandez Torres, Aurore Godfroy, Sun-A Lee, Anaïs Michelin, Animaliers : Cyril Cattai, Philippe Hertel, Mélanie Poux Wolves, barn owls and great grey owls, peregrine falcon, white-backed vultures Recorded on December 18, 2017 at the Castel of Pierrefonds TV Director, Tommy Pascal

Giotto Solo Choreography by Carolyn Carlson Lights, Guillaume Bonneau Dancer Carolyn Carlson Recorded on September 19, 2016 at the Panthéon, Paris TV Director, Tommy Pascal

Martha Argerich, Iddo Bar-Shaï, Stephen Kovacevich (piano), Tedi Papavrami, Sayaka Shoji (violin), Mischa Maisky (cello) Frédéric Chopin Cello Sonata in G minor op. 65 Robert Schumann Three romances for violin and piano op. 94 Claude Debussy Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (trans. for two pianos) Violin Sonata in G minor Maurice Ravel Ma mère l'oye Château de Chantilly, Dôme des Grandes Ecuries, 2022

Tabea Zimmermann (Viola), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Belcea Quartet Johannes Brahms 1833 - 1897 String sextet no. 1 in B flat major op. 18 String sextet no. 2 in G major op. 36 Dortmund, Konzerthaus, 5 May 2024

György Ligeti: Piano Concerto Ensemble intercontemporain, Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano) Pierre Boulez (conduction) Directed by Hanne Kaisik-Aumüller andUli Aumüller

L'Incoronazione di Poppea "Dramma musicale" in a prologue and three acts by Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) Libretto by Giovanni Francesco Busenello First performance in Venice, Teatro SS Giovanni et Paolo, 1643 I Gemelli, Emiliano González Toro (Conductor) Mathilde Etienne (mise en espace) David Hansen (Nerone) Mari Eriksmoen (Poppea) Alix Le Saux (Ottavia) Emiliano González Toro (Lucano | Soldato | Liberto | Famigliare | Tribuno) Lauranne Oliva (Drusilla | Virtù) Kacper Szelazek (Ottone) Anders Dahlin (Nutrice | Soldato | Famigliare) Nicolas Brooymans (Seneca) Mathias Vidal (Arnalta) Natalie Pérez (Valetto | Amore) Mathilde Etienne (Damigella | Fortuna) Eugenio di Lieto (Littore | Famigliare | Consulo) Pauline Sabatier (Venere) Paris, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, 25 May 2023 Directed by Yan Proefrock

Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, Pierre Boulez (conductor) Akiko Suwanai (violin) Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883) Prelude, Tristan und Isolde Alban Berg (1885 - 1935) Violin Concerto "To the memory of an angel" Arnold Schoenberg (1874 - 1951) Pelléas et Mélisande Lucerne, KKL (Lucerne Festival), 2003

Rachmaninov revisited Celebrated in his day not only as a great composer, Sergei Rachmaninov was also admired as an outstanding pianist who was a peerless interpreter of his own works including the piano concerti and the Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini. It is well known that he was in effect the sole pianist capable of performing his most demanding Third Piano Concerto and his performances and recording of the concerto came to be considered as the definitive ones. The relationship between performance, interpretation, and Rachmaninov's own life is addressed in this film by young pianists. They explore the evolution of interpretation over the past few decades with brief excerpts of recordings by Rachmaninov as contrasted with contemporary performances by today's well-known young pianists as they comment on the differences (or similarities) of their approach. Directed by Peter Rosen

Berliner Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim (conductor) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major K.488 Enregistré en 1989 à la Siemens-Villa, Berlin Réalisé par George Moorse

Werther "Drame lyrique" in four acts and five tableaux by Jules Massenet (1842 - 1912) Libretto by Edouard Blau, Paul Millet and Georges Hartmann after Goethe First performance in Viena, Hofoper, 16 February 1892 Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Paris Michel Plasson (Conductor) Maîtrise des Hauts-de-Seine / Choeur d'enfants de l'Opéra National de Paris Benoit Jacquot (Stage direction) Charles Edwards, André Diot (sets, lighting), Christian Gasc (Costumes) Jonas Kaufmann (Werther) Sophie Koch (Charlotte) Ludovic Tézier (Albert) Anne-Catherine Gillet (Sophie) Alain Vernhes (Le Bailli) Andreas Jaggi (Jean Schmidt) Christian Tréguier (Johann) Directed by Benoit Jacquot and Louise Narboni Paris, Opéra National de Paris, (Opéra-Bastille), 2010

Orchestra dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Leonard Bernstein (Conductor) Claude Debussy La Mer Recorded in 1989 at the Auditorio Pio, Rome Directed by Horant H. Hohlfeld

Wiener Philharmoniker, Daniele Gatti (conductor) Igor Stravinsky 1882 - 1971 Apollon Musagète, ballet suite Dmitri Shostakovich 1906 - 1975 Symphonie No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93 Directed by Christoph Engel Vienna, Musikverein, 29 September 2024

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Daniele Gatti (Conductor) Felix Mendelssohn 1809 - 1847 Calm sea and prosperous voyage, op. 27 Claude Debussy 1862 - 1918 La Mer Ludwig van Beethoven 1770 - 1827 Symphony no. 6 in F major Op. 68, "Pastoral" Geneva, Victoria Hall, 8 November 2023

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Glenn Gould - Hereafter Directed by Bruno Monsaingeon 2005

Tabea Zimmermann (Viola), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Belcea Quartet Johannes Brahms 1833 - 1897 String sextet no. 1 in B flat major op. 18 String sextet no. 2 in G major op. 36 Dortmund, Konzerthaus, 5 May 2024

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The Ninth Symhony Maurice Béjart, choreography After Schiller's "Ode to joy" Ludwig van Beethoven, music Maurice Béjart, staging Friedrich Nietzsche, Prologue Gil Roman, artistic director Israel Philharmonic orchestra Zubin Mehta, conductor Ritsuyukai choir Kufiami Kuriyama, chorus master Gil Roman, narratorr Kristin Lewis, soprano Mihoko Fujimura, mezzo-soprano Kei Fukui, tenor Alexander Vinogradov, bass JB Meier and Thierry Hochstätter, percussion Joëlle Roustan abd Roger Bernard, original costumes and sets Henri Davila, costumes adaptation Dominique Roman, Lighting realisation Piotr Nardelli, Ballet Master revival With The Béjart Ballet Lausanne The Tokyo Ballet and Solooists Dan Tsukamoto, Mizuka Ueno, Iori Nittono, Aya Takagi, Kathleen Thielheilm, Masayoshi Onuki, Elisabet Ros, Juien Favreau, Lisa Cano, Fabrice Gallarrague, Pauline Voisard, Felipe Rocha, Oscar Chacon, Keisuke Nasuno, Marsha Rodriguez, Cosima Munoz, Mari Ohashi, Kwinten Guilliams, Aldriana Vargas Lopez, Hector Navarro, Alanna Archibald Recorded on November 9 th 2014 at the NHK Hall Tokyo TV Director, Mari Hnamasu

Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth (Conductor) Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971) Firebird Petrouchka The Rite of Spring Paris, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, 30 September 2022

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Idomeneo, re di Creta "Dramma per musica" in three acts, K 366, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) Libretto by Giovanni Battista Varesco after "Idoménée" by Antoine Danchet First performance in Munich, Residenztheater, January 29, 1781 Orchestra of the Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège, Fabio Biondi (Conductor) Chorus of the Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège Jean-Louis Grinda (stage director) Laurent Castaingt (Set designer), Laurent Castaingt (Lighting designer), Jorge Jara (Costume designer), Arnaud Pottier (Video designer) Maria Grazia Schiavo (Ilia) Ian Koziara (Idomeneo) Annalisa Stroppa (Idamante) Nino Machaidze (Elettra) Riccardo Della Sciucca (Arbace) Inho Jeong (La Voce) Liège, Opéra Royal de Wallonie, 19 September 2023