| Day | Hour | Type Event |
Name Lang | Event name | Short Event | Extended Lang | Extended Event |
| 20/05 | 02h41>04h19 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Europakonzert 2000 from Berlin | Europakonzert 2000 from Berlin | ENG | Mikhail Pletnev (piano), Karita Mattila (soprano), Violeta Urmana (alto), Thomas Moser (tenor), Eike Wilm Schulte (bass), Swedish Radio Choir, Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor: Claudio Abbado. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 19 - Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125. The European Concert has been a tradition of the Berliner Philharmoniker since 1991. The musicians commemorate the anniversary of the orchestra's founding on May 1st, 1882, playing in different European cities. In 2000, the orchestra played at home in the Berlin Philharmonic Hall. |
| 20/05 | 04h19>04h39 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | England, my England - I | England, my England - I | ENG | From August 28 to September 6, 2015, the Early Music Festival Utrecht focused on England, my England. On the basis of the festival theme, presenter Lex Bohlmeijer takes the viewer in a two-part documentary on an intriguing journey through England of the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Baroque, and relates this to the city of Utrecht. Episode 1 offers a peek into the inner city churches of Utrecht, visiting the source of inspiration if this year's festival: the English estate Boughton House, where the Duke of Buccleuch shows us around. |
| 20/05 | 04h39>05h22 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Beethoven - Septet in E-flat major, Op. 20 | Beethoven - Septet in E-flat major, Op. 20 | ENG | The soloists from the Lucerne Festival Orchestra present Ludwig van Beethoven's Septet in E-flat major, Op. 20, which is scored for clarinet, horn, bassoon, violin, viola, cello and double bass. This 1799 piece achieved great popularity during Beethoven's lifetime. It was arranged for many various instrumental ensembles, including versions for two guitars, and piano four-hands, but also a trio for clarinet (or violin), cello, and piano, arranged by Beethoven himself. This performance was recorded at the Lucerne Culture and Congress Center (KKL), Switzerland, in 2020. |
| 20/05 | 05h23>05h47 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Bach - Cantata "Ich habe genug", BWV 82 | Bach - Cantata "Ich habe genug", BWV 82 | ENG | The film Jaroussky sings Bach & Telemann is a portrait of a very special vocalist, and of two exceptional composers. When Philippe Jaroussky - whose angelic voice seems almost timeless, not belonging to any one epoque or decade - sings works by Telemann and Bach, it becomes abundantly clear that the sheer emotional force and the purifying power of their music have not diminished over the centuries. The works performed in this film are Telemann's Jesus liegt in letzten Zügen and Sinfonia from Brockes-Passion; Der am Ölberg zagende Jesus, and Bach's Sinfonia from Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis and Ich habe genug. |
| 20/05 | 05h47>05h59 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Messiaen - Vingt regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus - X | Messiaen - Vingt regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus - X | ENG | In recent years, a new generation of Chinese pianists has emerged on the international scene. But there are many more young Chinese artists, who the Académie France-Chine aims to enable to deepen their art by introducing them to and giving them a platform within French and European culture. Four of these artists are Chen Xue-Hong, Zhang Cheng, Chen Yunjie and Chen Sa, who made their joint debut in Paris in this unique concert at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées that showcased their extraordinary talent. On the program are Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 2, Schumann's Piano Sonata No. 1, Scriabin's Piano Sonata No. 8 and Paysage (No. 3) and Mazeppa (No. 4) from Liszt's Études d'Exécution Transcendante. The concert closes with Messiaen's Regard de l'Esprit de la joie (No. 10) from Vingt regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus. |
| 20/05 | 06h00>06h32 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Mozart - String Quartet No. 14, ''Spring'' | Mozart - String Quartet No. 14, ''Spring'' | ENG | From the Rammenau Castle, the Gewandhaus-Quartett performs String Quartet No. 14 in G major, K. 387 by Mozart. Composed in Vienna in 1782, this play dubbed Spring is the first of the Haydn Quartets, a suite of six string quartets composed by Mozart during his early years in Vienna in honor of Joseph Haydn, considered by many as the father of string quartets. Founded in 1808, the Gewandhaus-Quartett is the oldest quartet in the world, continuously performing for more than 200 years. It is currently composed of Frank Michael Erben (first violin), Conrad Suske (second violin), Volker Metz (viola), Jürnjakob Timm (cello), and Steffen Adelmann (double bass). |
| 20/05 | 06h32>07h01 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Berg - Violin Concerto | Berg - Violin Concerto | ENG | Andris Nelsons's starts off his official opening concert as principal conductor of the Gewandhausorchester with the world premiere of Steffen Schleiermacher's 'Relief for Orchestra'. Baiba Skride features as soloist in Alban Berg's Violin Concerto. In the slow finale the solo violin's line is gradually joined by the rest of the first violin, providing a lovely moment between soloist and orchestra. Skride's encore is Imitatione delle Campane by von Westhoff, a Bach contemporary. The concert closes with a rendition of Mendelssohn Symphony No. 3, Op. 56, known as the 'Scottish' which actually premiered in the Leipzig Gewandhaus in 1842. Recorded on February 22/23, 2018 in the Gewandhaus, Leipzig. |
| 20/05 | 07h02>08h38 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Bach - Sonatas for Violin and Piano | Bach - Sonatas for Violin and Piano | ENG | Johann Sebastian Bach probably composed his Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord BWV 1014 through 1019 while working as chapel master of Köthen. It is assumed he wrote the sonatas for Prince Leopold and later adapted them for personal use in Leipzig. Maybe it because of this that the pieces are very suitable for amateurs, though all sonatas also have enough finesse to pose professional musicians with a challenge. The separate pieces are meant to be played as a set, like the 'Brandenburg concertos'. |
| 20/05 | 08h38>08h59 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Graupner - Magnificat anima mea | Graupner - Magnificat anima mea | ENG | Patrick Debrabandere conducts the Vox Mago chamber choir in a performance of Christoph Graupner's (1683-1760) cantata Magnificat anima mea. This performance is part of the concert program In Tempus Adventus, consisting of three beautiful baroque cantatas, recorded in December 2018 in Onze-Lieve-Vrouw Presentatiekerk, Ghent in Belgium. This festive cantata was composed for Christmas in 1722. Graupner was a very prolific composer, with one of the largest oeuvres in the classical music history. He befriended composers like Händel and Matheson and even was chosen over Johann Sebastian Bach as the new cantor of the St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, but his employer Ernst Ludwig I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen decided otherwise and still wished to keep Graupner as court composer. |
| 20/05 | 09h00>09h25 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Modena - The Belcanto School | Modena - The Belcanto School | ENG | This documentary by Mark Perna shows the training and professional growth actions for opera singers, the promotion and enhancement of the cultural offer of the city and province of Modena and the maintenance and development of the Modenese musical tradition in the field of opera. |
| 20/05 | 09h25>09h37 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Chopin - Fantaisie in F minor, Op. 49 | Chopin - Fantaisie in F minor, Op. 49 | ENG | Italian pianist Andrea Molteni (1998) performs Frédéric Chopin's Fantaisie in F minor, Op. 49. Molteni began studying the piano at the age of six. He graduated with honors and honorable mention at the Conservatorio di musica Giuseppe Verdi di Como, and was awarded a master's degree Magna cum Laude in Advanced Performance Studies by the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano. He has performed at the Wiener Saal of the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, Scriabin Museum in Moscow, National Opera Center in New York, and several other international venues. This performance was recorded at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Ohio, USA, in 2022. |
| 20/05 | 09h38>10h02 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Classica Spotlight | Classica Spotlight | ENG | Cinematic classical clips and energizing concert pieces featuring up-and-coming artists. |
| 20/05 | 10h02>10h27 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Heitor Villa-Lobos Music for Cello and Piano - V | Heitor Villa-Lobos Music for Cello and Piano - V | ENG | In this six-part documentary on the life and work by Heitor Villa-Lobos, director Liloye Boubli takes viewers on a journey through the life and work of the Brazilian legend of classical music. The composer, conductor, cellist, and classical guitarist was born 1887 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Growing up amongst the immense social changes Brazil went through at the time - social revolution and modernization, abolishing slavery in 1888 - Villa-Lobos went on to become one of the best-known South American composers of all time. This fifth episode takes a closer look at the authentically Brazilian sounds and references to be found in Villa-Lobos' "Bachianas", as well as the importance of the violoncello in most of his compositions. |
| 20/05 | 10h27>11h36 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Works for Flute & Oboe: Haydn, Schumann, Bach | Works for Flute & Oboe: Haydn, Schumann, Bach | ENG | On April 9, 2020, when that year's pandemic forced concert life to a standstill, flautist Ana de la Vega and oboist Ramón Ortega Quero were well into their scheduled concert tour. They played their concert at Palais Lichtenau in the German city of Potsdam as planned, albeit without an audience. This intimate recording is the result. On the program are Joseph Haydn's "Londoner" Trio No.1 C Hb. IV/1, Clara Schumann's Drei Romanzen, Op.22, Antonín Dvoák's Silent Woods for cello and piano, J. S Bach's Trio Sonata in C minor from "Musikalischen Opfer" BWV 1079 and Robert Schumann's Drei Romanzen, Op. 94. The concert concludes with Ignaz Moscheles's Concertante in F. |
| 20/05 | 11h36>12h13 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Brahms - Double Concerto in A minor, Op. 102 | Brahms - Double Concerto in A minor, Op. 102 | ENG | The 2007 Europa-Konzert takes place in Berlin, on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the Berliner Philharmoniker. Under the theme "The Year 1882", the acclaimed orchestra is lead by conductor Sir Simon Rattle as it interprets Brahms' "Concerto for violin, cello and orchestra", his Fourth Symphony and Wagners' "Prelude to Act I" from Parsifal - the piece that marked the orchestra's first recorded work of September 1913 under the baton of Alfred Hertz. The soloists are Lisa Batiashvili (violin) and Truls Mørk (cello), established as sought-after young virtuosos and appearing regularly with leading orchestras and in recitals throughout the world. The "Kraftwerk und Kabelwerk Oberspree (power and cable factory)", the remarkable venue of this concert, is one of the most impressive historical industrial building from the late 19th century in Berlin. As its impressive presence is infused with Brahms and Wagner, there is an air of total commitment, only enhanced further by the unusual surroundings. The collaboration of Lisa Batiashvili and Truls Mørk ensures a moving performance of Brahms's last orchestral work, his Double Concerto. Following this, Rattle and the orchestra continue to demonstrate their outstanding musicianship, delivering Wagner's amazingly fresh and dynamic Fourth Symphony. |
| 20/05 | 12h14>13h12 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | J. S. Bach - Arias, solos, and duets | J. S. Bach - Arias, solos, and duets | ENG | Baritone Matthias Goerne teams up with violinist Vilde Frang, cellist Nicolas Altstaedt, flutist Stathis Karapanos, and harpsichordist Michaela Hasselt in this program dedicated to the music of J. S. Bach. They perform baritone arias from Bach's most beautiful cantatas, as well as solo pieces and duets. On the program are Sonata No. 3 in C major for violin solo, BWV 1005; arias 'Hier, in meines Vaters Stätte', BWV 32 and 'Die Welt mit allen Königreichen', BWV 59; Suite No. 5 in C minor for cello solo, BWV 1011; 'Wenn Trost und Hülf ermangeln muß', BWV 117; 'Ja, ja, ich halte Jesum fest', BWV 157; Invention No. 7 in E minor, BWV 778; Invention in A major, BWV 783; and 'Welt ade, ich bin dein müde', BWV 158. This performance was recorded at St. Mary's Church in Wittenberg, Germany. |
| 20/05 | 13h12>13h33 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Franck - Prélude, Choral et Fugue pour Piano | Franck - Prélude, Choral et Fugue pour Piano | ENG | In recent years, a new generation of Chinese pianists has emerged on the international scene. But there are many more young Chinese artists, who the Académie France-Chine aims to enable to deepen their art by introducing them to and giving them a platform within French and European culture. Four of these artists are Chen Xue-Hong, Zhang Cheng, Chen Yunjie and Chen Sa, who made their joint debut in Paris in this unique concert at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées that showcased their extraordinary talent. On the program are Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 2, Schumann's Piano Sonata No. 1, Scriabin's Piano Sonata No. 8 and Paysage (No. 3) and Mazeppa (No. 4) from Liszt's Études d'Exécution Transcendante. The concert closes with Messiaen's Regard de l'Esprit de la joie (No. 10) from Vingt regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus. |
| 20/05 | 13h33>13h59 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Classica Spotlight | Classica Spotlight | ENG | Cinematic classical clips and energizing concert pieces featuring up-and-coming artists. |
| 20/05 | 14h00>15h33 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Chopin - Piano Concertos No. 1 & No. 2 | Chopin - Piano Concertos No. 1 & No. 2 | ENG | Antoni Wit conducts the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra in performances of Chopin's Piano Concertos No. 1, Op. 11 and No. 2, Op. 21. Soloists are Nikolai Demidenko and Evgeny Kissin. After performing the first concerto, Demidenko encores with Chopin's Mazurka Op. 17/4. Kissin closes the concert with Chopin's Etude Op. 10/12 and the Waltz in E minor, Op. post. This concert was part of the celebration of Chopin's 200th anniversary in 2010. Chopin composed the second concerto one year before the Concerto No. 1 and completed both works at the age of 20, before leaving his home country Poland and moving to Paris. |
| 20/05 | 15h33>15h53 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 | Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 | ENG | J. S. Bach's six Brandenburg Concerto's belong to his best-known works. The composer wrote these concertos between 1711 and 1720 and dedicated them in 1721 to Christian Ludwig, Margrave of Brandenburg. In celebration of the pieces' 300th anniversary, Czech harpsichordist and conductor Václav Luks and the renowned Baroque ensemble Collegium 1704 recorded all six Brandenburg Concertos on historical instruments in 2021. The concertos are based on the Italian concerto grosso form, in which a group of solo instruments is set against a large ensemble. Bach's Brandenburg Concertos feature remarkable combinations of solo instruments and virtuoso solos. In this performance at the Hall of Mirrors in the Köthen Castle, Germany, Luks and his Collegium 1704 present Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F major, BWV 1046. This concerto was written for strings, woodwinds, and brass, and features solos from each instrument group. |
| 20/05 | 15h53>17h43 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Romeo and Juliet | Romeo and Juliet | ENG | Sergei Prokofiev based his ballet 'Romeo and Juliet' on William Shakespeare's famous play of the same name, telling the story of two young lovers from the feuding families Montague and Capulet. Acclaimed French choreographer Jean-Christophe Maillot created a distinctive choreography of the ballet in 1996, which has been performed to great success the world over. In his production, Maillot interprets Romeo and Juliet not as a social conflict or clan warfare governed by a strict code of honor, but as a tale of accidental tragedy that leads to the death of children more concerned with the path of love than that of hatred. This 2002 interpretation is performed by the dancers of Les Ballets de Monte Carlo. Chris Roelandt and Bernice Coppieters star in the title roles. |
| 20/05 | 17h44>18h17 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Villa-Lobos - String Quartet No. 9 | Villa-Lobos - String Quartet No. 9 | ENG | Quarteto Radamés Gnattali performs Heitor Villa-Lobos's String Quartet No. 9 at the Theatro Municipal in Rio de Janiero, Brasil. The ensemble was founded in 2006 and consists of Carla Rincón and Francisco Roa (violins), Fernando Thebaldi (viola), and Hugo Pilger (cello). The quartet, which specializes in Brazilian music, focuses on educational activities. Their recording of all of Villa-Lobos string quartets is a major achievement and was very well received by international music critics. Except for his Bachianas brasileiras, the performance of many of the Brazilian's compositions is limited to Latin America. Highly regarded as a composer, conductor and educator in his native country, Villa-Lobos has operas, symphonies, concertos, piano repertoire, choral music, and seventeen string quartets to his credit. |
| 20/05 | 18h17>20h00 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | The Divan Orchestra from the Alhambra | The Divan Orchestra from the Alhambra | ENG | Millions of television viewers in Germany, France, Portugal, Greece and Finland experienced live the moving open-air concert within the highly symbolic surrounding of the Alhambra in Granada. Music as a language of peace - this vision unifies the young musicians of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra who come from Israel, Palestine, Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Europe. They perform side by side in the orchestra formed in 1999 by Daniel Barenboim and Edward Said. The orchestra has taken on the complex challenge of performing music to promote peace. Soloists are Kyril Zlotnikov and Nabil Shehata. On the program are Beethoven's Leonore Overture No. 3, Bottesini's Fantasia on a theme by Rossini, Brahms' Symphony Nr. 1 and Vorspiel and Liebestod from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. |
| 20/05 | 20h01>20h31 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Teatro Regio behind the scenes | Teatro Regio behind the scenes | ENG | Few Italian theatres can boast of being an absolute point of reference for national and world culture. The Teatro Regio in Turin is both a symbol of excellence in the national operatic tradition and a prestigious stage hosting operas, ballets, concerts, and musicals of great substance. This short documentary offers a behind-the-scenes tour of the Teatro Regio Torino and bears witness to the enviable reputation that has prevailed since its opening in 1740. |
| 20/05 | 20h32>20h59 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Semi Final II - Liszt Competition 2017 | Semi Final II - Liszt Competition 2017 | ENG | Leon Bernsdorf (1992, Germany) performs Epithalam zu Eduard Reményis Vermählungsfeier (S129) and Grand Duo concertant sur la Romance de 'Le Marin' (S128) during semi-final II (chamber music) of the 11th International Franz Liszt Piano Competition, held in TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht, in 2017. The competition actively presents, develops, and promotes piano talents from around the world. In doing so, it has become one of the prominent gateways to the international professional classical music scene for young musicians. The International Franz Liszt Piano Competition was founded in 1986 in the Netherlands and has since built a reputation as one of the world's most prestigious piano competitions. |
| 20/05 | 21h00>22h29 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Piano Duets - Mozart, Ravel, Rachmaninoff a. o. | Piano Duets - Mozart, Ravel, Rachmaninoff a. o. | ENG | In this splendid concert, exceptional Russian pianists Nikolay Lugansky and Vadim Rudenko join forces in a program for two pianos comprising works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Maurice Ravel, Anton Arensky, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Nikolai Kapustin. Both pianists, laureates of the prestigious International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1994, have received international recognition. They perform regularly in a duo. On the program: Mozart's Sonata for two pianos in D major, K. 448/375 A; Ravel's La Valse (arr. for two pianos); Arensky's Suite No. 1 for two pianos, Op. 15; and Rachmaninoff's Suite No. 1 (Fantasy) for two pianos, Op. 5. As an encore, the duo performs 'Romance' from Rachmaninoff's Suite No. 2 for two pianos, Op. 17, followed by 'Overture' from Nikolai Kapustin's Sinfonietta, Op. 49. This performance was recorded at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow, Russia, on November 25, 2021. |
| 20/05 | 22h29>23h12 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Brahms - Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68 | Brahms - Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68 | ENG | Les Dissonances is a collective of artists founded by violinist David Grimal in 2004. The conductorless ensemble consists of musicians from the most prestigious European orchestras, international soloists, and young talents. In this performance, Les Dissonances present Johannes Brahms's Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68. Brahms realized he was expected to compose a symphony that would match the musical standards established by Ludwig van Beethoven. After working on it for at least fourteen years, he completed his Symphony No. 1 in 1876. Brahms's symphony was hailed as 'Beethoven's Tenth': a worthy successor to Beethoven's Symphony No. 9. Brahms's work contains several references to Beethoven. For instance, the main theme of the fourth movement - first appearing in the strings - resembles the 'Ode to Joy' in the finale of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9. This performance was recorded at Philharmonie de Paris, France, in 2014. |
| 20/05 | 23h13>23h47 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Dvoák - Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 53 | Dvoák - Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 53 | ENG | For the 2016 edition of the Waldbühne, the Georgian violinist Lisa Batiashvili and the Québécois conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin join the Berliner Philharmoniker for a beautiful concert. They present an all Czech program! We always think of Germany, Austria, and Italy when we name great classical composers, but the Czech Republic also delivered some master composers such as Antonin Dvorák, Bedrich Smetana, Leos Janacek, and Bohuslav Martinu. This concert starts with Smetana's famous Vltava from Má Vlast. Lisa Batiashvili plays Dvorák's Violin Concerto in A minor, and the concerts centerpiece is Dvorák's Symphony No. 6. |
| 20/05 | 23h47>23h59 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Classica Spotlight | Classica Spotlight | ENG | Cinematic classical clips and energizing concert pieces featuring up-and-coming artists. |
| 20/05 | 00h00>02h01 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Puccini - La Bohème | Puccini - La Bohème | ENG | Gustavo Dudamel conducts the Paris Opera Orchestra and Choir in a performance of Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème. Recorded at the Opéra National de Paris in 2017 and directed by Claus Guth. Among the soloists are Nicole Car, Aida Garifullina Atalla Ayan and Artur Ruciski. La Bohème premiered in 1896 at the Teatro Regio in Italy. The opera's libretto focuses on the relationship between Rodolfo and Mimì. When young poet Rodolfo meets seamstress Mimì, it's love at first sight. But faced by the cruel realities of poverty and ill health, will the flame that burns between them flicker and die? Or will the timeless strength of their youthful passion withstand every trial and tribulation that life can throw at them? |
| 21/05 | 02h01>03h45 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | The spirits of Mozart | The spirits of Mozart | ENG | A crossover experience inspired by the music of Mozart: the surprising and original Spirits of Mozart. In this crossover concert, outstanding personalities from the fields of pop, jazz and classical music interpret Mozart`s compositions in their personal musical languages for a broad public of the 21st century. These performances show that the impact of Mozart`s music reaches far beyond the boundaries of classical music. Performers like Dee Dee Bridgewater, the young violinist Benjamin Schmid with jazz band and orchestra, Jethro Tull's singer-flautist Ian Anderson and many others present Mozart arrangements in a rousing, electrifying mélange of classical, jazz and pop culture. |
| 21/05 | 03h46>03h58 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Music of Naples | Music of Naples | ENG | Throughout the centuries, the Italian city of Naples has proved to have a remarkably favorable climate for artistic innovation. The presence of the royal or vice royal courts, the practice of music in churches, fraternities, and charitable institutions, financial support from well-to-do citizens, and the popularity of song and dance in public life made for an extraordinarily diverse musical landscape. |
| 21/05 | 03h59>04h45 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Dvoák - Symphony No. 6 in D major | Dvoák - Symphony No. 6 in D major | ENG | For the 2016 edition of the Waldbühne, the Georgian violinist Lisa Batiashvili and the Québécois conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin join the Berliner Philharmoniker for a beautiful concert. They present an all Czech program! We always think of Germany, Austria, and Italy when we name great classical composers, but the Czech Republic also delivered some master composers such as Antonin Dvorák, Bedrich Smetana, Leos Janacek, and Bohuslav Martinu. This concert starts with Smetana's famous Vltava from Má Vlast. Lisa Batiashvili plays Dvorák's Violin Concerto in A minor, and the concerts centerpiece is Dvorák's Symphony No. 6. |
| 21/05 | 04h45>05h13 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | IVC 2021 - Final: Diepenbrock, Fauré a. o. | IVC 2021 - Final: Diepenbrock, Fauré a. o. | ENG | Tenor Zhuohan Sun (China, 1993) and pianist Sara Pavlovic (Serbia, 1996) perform 'Wanderlied' from Robert Schumann's Kerner-Lieder, Op. 35; 'Der Abend kommt gezogen' from Alphons Diepenbrock's Drie ballades, Op. 1; Gabriel Fauré's Prison, Op. 83, No. 1; 'Ganymed' from Hugo Wolf's Goethe-Lieder; Franz Schubert's Nacht und Träume, D. 827; Zaiyi Lu's The bridge in my homeland; 'Mit Myrten und Rosen' from Schumann's Liederkreis, Op. 24; 'C' from Francis Poulenc's Deux poèmes de Louis Aragon, FP 122; and 'Scheiden und Meiden' from Gustav Mahler's Lieder und Gesänge aus der Jugendzeit, during the final round of the International Vocal Competition 2021 - Lied Duo. This performance was recorded at De Verkadefabriek in 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands. |
| 21/05 | 05h14>05h41 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 4, Op. 40 | Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 4, Op. 40 | ENG | Fabio Luisi conducts the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in this powerful performance taken from the 150th Anniversary celebrations of Denmark's national composer, Carl Nielsen. Alongside Nielsen's inscrutably ironic Symphony No. 6, this performance features world-renowned French pianist Lise de la Salle as soloist in Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 4. This lesser-known concerto saw three separate iterations throughout the composer's life and is characterized by bold chromaticism and a distinctly Jazz-like quality. Luisi and de la Salle have prior experience with this piece, having previously performed and recorded it together. This performance was recorded at the DR Koncerthuset in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2017. |
| 21/05 | 05h41>05h59 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Classica Spotlight | Classica Spotlight | ENG | Cinematic classical clips and energizing concert pieces featuring up-and-coming artists. |
| 21/05 | 06h00>06h22 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Mozart - Symphony No. 31, K. 297 | Mozart - Symphony No. 31, K. 297 | ENG | Jeffrey Tate conducts the Mozarteum Salzburg Orchestra in a performance of Mozart's "Paris" Symphony No. 31 (K. 297). Mozart composed the work in 1778, during his unsuccessful job-hunting time in Paris. The opening movement of the "Paris" symphony is one of the grandest and most thrilling sounds Mozart ever made from an orchestra. The composer used the clarinets for the first time in a symphony, having heard the new instrument earlier in Mannheim. With horns, trumpets, timpani, and a full section of woodwind with flutes, oboes, clarinets, and bassoons, it is the biggest orchestra the composer had used until then. This broadcast is directed by János Darvos. |
| 21/05 | 06h22>06h35 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | De Falla - El sombrero de tres picos - Suite No. 2 | De Falla - El sombrero de tres picos - Suite No. 2 | ENG | During the New Year's Gala 2010, the Berlin Philharmonic perform under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel, whose infectious energy and exceptional artistry have made him one of the most sought-after conductors by orchestras and opera companies around the world. They welcome mezzo-soprano Elna Garana, who has become one of the world's most famous singers within just a few years. On the program are various works by French composers, like Berlioz' Le Carnival Romain, Overture, Op. 9 and D'Amour l'ardente flamme' from La Damnation de Faust (Op. 24), Saint-Saëns' 'Mon c½ur s'ouvre à ta voix' and 'Danse Bacchanale' from his opera Samson et Dalila and the 'Habanera', 'Seguidilla' and 'Chanson Bohème' from Bizet's Carmen. The concert concludes with de Falla's Suite No. 2 from the ballet 'El sombrero de tres picos'. |
| 21/05 | 06h35>07h37 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Bach - Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2 No. 1 to 12 | Bach - Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2 No. 1 to 12 | ENG | In 1722, when Johann Sebastian Bach lived in Köthen, Germany, he published a book of preludes and fugues in all 24 major and minor keys. This collection became known as The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book One, BWV 846-869. About two decades later, Bach compiled a second book in Leipzig, which became known as The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book Two, BWV 870-893. Bach intended these pieces for the clavier, which includes the harpsichord, clavichord, and organ. Despite this unclarity, these pieces are regarded as some of the most important works in the history of Western classical music. In this broadcast, Nikolai Demidenko plays Preludes and Fugues Nos. 1 to 12 (BWV 870-881) from Book Two of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, recorded at the Palazzo Labia in Venice, Italy, in 2010. |
| 21/05 | 07h38>07h58 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | IVC 2021 - Semi-finals: Schubert, Wolf a. o. | IVC 2021 - Semi-finals: Schubert, Wolf a. o. | ENG | Soprano Heidi Baumgartner (Austria, 1998) and pianist Asuka Tagami (Japan, 1991) perform Franz Schubert's Suleika I, Op. 14 No. 1, D. 720; 'Er ist's' from Hugo Wolf's Mörike-Lieder; Bart Visman's Vermeer's Gold; 'Sua katselen' (Looking at you) from Kaija Saariaho's Leino-Laulut (Leino songs); and 'Pantomime' and 'Apparition' from Claude Debussy's Quatre chansons de jeunesse, during the semi-finals of the International Vocal Competition 2021 - Lied Duo. This performance was recorded at Het Noordbrabants Museum in 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands. |
| 21/05 | 07h58>08h56 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Pierre Boulez - A life for music | Pierre Boulez - A life for music | ENG | The French musician and composer Pierre Boulez (1925-2016) is considered one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century music. In the documentary 'Pierre Boulez - A life of music' (2017), Reiner E. Moritz creates a personal portrait of the young and impatient artist who once impetuously suggested to blow up the opera houses in order to do away with stuffy traditions, yet later moved on to conduct the "Ring of the Century" in the very heart of traditional opera, Bayreuth, and became a prized guest conductor with the worlds greatest orchestras. The documentary includes fragments from the composer's rich oeuvre, and features rare photographs from the Boulez-Chevalier archive. The documentary is at its most personal when the maestro's family and friends reflect on his life. Boulez's younger brother Roger shares invaluable information about Pierre's early years, and the renowned pianist Daniel Barenboim opens up about his friend's music and compositions. |
| 21/05 | 08h56>09h26 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | PIAM - Semi-final I: Debussy, Chopin and Liszt | PIAM - Semi-final I: Debussy, Chopin and Liszt | ENG | Acclaimed classical music talent scout Antonio Mormone (1930-2017) lives on as the name-giver of the Premio Internazionale Antonio Mormone (PIAM), awarded to the winner of the Italian music competition of the same name. The first edition of this competition, which was held in various venues in Milan from 2019 to 2021, was dedicated to the piano. As part of this competition, Ying Li (China, 1997) performs Claude Debussy's Images, book I; Frédéric Chopin's Nocturne in C-sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 1; and Franz Liszt's Paraphrase from Verdi's 'Rigoletto'. This performance was recorded at Teatro EDI Barrio's in Milan, in February 2020. |
| 21/05 | 09h27>09h59 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Classica Spotlight | Classica Spotlight | ENG | Cinematic classical clips and energizing concert pieces featuring up-and-coming artists. |
| 21/05 | 10h00>11h03 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Rachmaninoff - Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27 | Rachmaninoff - Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27 | ENG | Sir Simon Rattle leads the Berlin Philharmonic in a performance of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27. After the disastrous premiere of the composer's Symphony No. 1 in 1897, Rachmaninoff seriously doubted his ability as a symphonist. Almost a decade later, in October 1906, he started composing his Symphony No. 2. Months of revisions followed. He finished this large orchestral work in the summer of 1907, followed by a highly successful 1908 premiere in St. Petersburg. This performance at the magnificent Teatro Real in Madrid, Spain is part of the Europakonzert 2011. |
| 21/05 | 11h03>12h44 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Kristine Opolais Recital | Kristine Opolais Recital | ENG | Critics praise her, and the audience loves her. Kristine Opolais, the prima donna and the star of the New York Metropolitan Opera, performs in her home country Latvia. She gives a splendid concert with the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, at the Latvian National Opera, in 2017. The program includes arias from operas that made Kristine an international star. It includes mostly Italian music that will encourage you to dream about love and think about what is truly important. Enjoy the most beautiful arias and instrumental pieces of opera by Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, Pietro Mascagni, Camille Saint-Saëns, Arrigo Boito, and Alfredo Catalani. |
| 21/05 | 12h44>12h59 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Summertime at the Domaine Forget | Summertime at the Domaine Forget | ENG | The documentary Summertime at the Domaine Forget introduces internationally renowned treasure: Domaine Forget festival in Saint-Irénée, Québec. Domaine Forget is one of Canada's leading music academies and hosts this annual festival to promote music and dance. Every summer, 500 music students from around the world gather for an intensive course program featuring: masterclasses, individual lessons, chamber music sessions, lectures, and special workshops. |
| 21/05 | 12h59>13h17 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Ravel - Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano | Ravel - Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano | ENG | In this beautiful concert from the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall of Moscow, two exceptional Russian soloists join forces. Violinist Vadim Repin, who at the age of 17 became the youngest winner of the violinist section of the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition 1987 in Brussels, is specialized in interpreting works of Russian composers. Together with renowned pianist Nikolay Lugansky, he brings to the stage a performance of prestige and virtuosity. The programme features Ravel's Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano in G-major. It is produced by the Moscow Philharmonic Society, which Saint Petersburg-born composer Dmitri Shostakovich himself once described as playing a significant role "in the development of musical life [in Russia]. It is a kind of university which is attended by millions of music lovers and thousands of musicians." The Moscow Philharmonic Society was founded in 1922 by then-Commissar for Culture, Anatoly Lunacharsky, and has over the years come to be Russia's leading concert organizing institution. |
| 21/05 | 13h18>13h45 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Glass - Double Concerto for Two Pianos | Glass - Double Concerto for Two Pianos | ENG | As part of a new collaboration with the famous composer of "music with repetitive structures" Philip Glass, French pianists Katia and Marielle Labèque perform the European premiere of Glass's Concerto for two pianos with the Orchester de Paris conducted by Jaap van Zweden, current music director of the New York Philharmonic. |
| 21/05 | 13h45>14h01 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Classica Spotlight | Classica Spotlight | ENG | Cinematic classical clips and energizing concert pieces featuring up-and-coming artists. |
| 21/05 | 14h02>14h59 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Dufay - Missa Ave regina caelorum | Dufay - Missa Ave regina caelorum | ENG | Why make use of a brilliant idea only once...? Guillaume Dufay upcycled his Marian antiphon Ave Regina Coeloruminto, a four-part mass, probably intended for the dedication of the cathedral of Cambrai. This dazzling piece of polyphony is a reminder of the extraordinary history of Kamerijk, which managed to maintain its position as an independent bastion in Burgundian territory. This is music of rebellion and devotion, powerfully performed by Cantica Symphonia's specialists! |
| 21/05 | 15h00>16h31 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Prosseda performs Mozart, Schubert & Chopin | Prosseda performs Mozart, Schubert & Chopin | ENG | Roberto Prosseda (1975) performs Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 5 (KV. 283) and four Impromptus Op. 90 by Franz Schubert. The performance ends with Chopin's technically demanding Ballade No. 4, Op. 52. Prosseda is particularly noted for his performances of newly discovered works by Mendelssohn and has recorded a nine-CD series for Decca of the piano works of Mendelssohn. Since 2012, Prosseda also gives lecture-concerts with the robot pianist TeoTronico, as educational or family concerts, to demonstrate differences between a literal production of music and human interpretation. |
| 21/05 | 16h31>17h30 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Mahler - Symphony No. 1 | Mahler - Symphony No. 1 | ENG | Jean Paul's novel 'Titan', in which an artistically gifted young man, driven by his failure to find his way in society, eventually commits suicide in despair, inspired Gustav Mahler to compose his Symphony No. 1. The work did not come easily to Mahler: he composed it between 1887 and 1888 when he, in his twenties, was working as a conductor at the Oper Leipzig. The first version of the work was considered as a symphonic poem in two parts, as its titles told a specific musical story. This original version premiered in Budapest in 1898, but it did not go down well. Mahler decided to revise his work: he left out the expressionist titles and cut the second part (Blumine). This results in a wonderful symphony, full of musical references. The opening part quotes one of Mahler's earlier compositions (Ging heut' morgens übers Feld from Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen), the second movement is an Austrian ländler (a folk dance), and the third part refers to a very well-known melody: 'Brother John'. All in all, this Symphony No. 1 marks an incredible achievement for a composer this young. |
| 21/05 | 17h30>19h11 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Homage to Yehudi Menuhin | Homage to Yehudi Menuhin | ENG | On 22 April 2016, Yehudi Menuhin would have celebrated his 100th birthday. One of his most famous students - and one of his best friends - is violinist Daniel Hope. For him, Yehudi Menuhin was the reason he become a violinist. At first, his mother became the secretary of Menuhin when Daniel Hoe and his parents moved to London. Hope grew up in Menuhin's house and learned not only to love music, but also to make the violin a part of his life. Playing the violin every day is like walking every day, or drinking and eating. He played with Menuhin some of Bartok's Duos which was, according to Hope, an introduction to Bartok's extraordinary music. A piece of Bartok had to be part of this program as well as Ravel's Kaddish, the encore Daniel Hope choose when Menuhin conducted his last concert in Düsseldorf. But this concert starts with Elgar's Violin Concerto. Hope plays with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin under the baton of Iván Fischer. |
| 21/05 | 19h12>19h29 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Bach - Sonata No. 4 BWV 1017 | Bach - Sonata No. 4 BWV 1017 | ENG | This Sonata for Violin and Harpsichord No. 1 BWV 1014 is the fourth out of the set of sonatas Johann Sebastian Bach composed before 1725, probably during his time as chapel master in Köthen. Presumably, he wrote these sonatas for Prince Leopold and later adapted them for further use in Leipzig. Maybe this is why these pieces are well playable for amateurs, while every sonata still has the finesse that can offer a challenge to professional musicians. The different pieces are meant to be a set, just like the Brandenburg concertos. |
| 21/05 | 19h29>20h12 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | My heart is burning | My heart is burning | ENG | René Pape perfectly embodies the new generation of opera singers: with a current and relaxed appearance, he craves new challenges and demonstrates an openness to ambitious experimentation. In the musical film My Heart Is Burning, René Pape sings and plays various roles that showcase the impressive versatility of his voice and the many facets of his personality. Directed by Sibylle Muth. |
| 21/05 | 20h13>20h41 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Debussy - La Mer | Debussy - La Mer | ENG | Claude Debussy's symphonic sketches for orchestra known collectively as 'La Mer' evoke a richly varied vision of the sea. The first part ('De l'aube á midi sur la mer') calls up a morning and afternoon at sea, the second ('Jeux de vagues') echoes the play of the waves, and the third and final part ('Dialogue du vent et de la mer') conjures the communing voices of wind and waves. Debussy knew his sea, the Mediterranean, intimately both from childhood visits to Cannes and from his Italian travels later in life. |
| 21/05 | 20h41>20h59 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Classica Spotlight | Classica Spotlight | ENG | Cinematic classical clips and energizing concert pieces featuring up-and-coming artists. |
| 21/05 | 21h00>21h56 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Historical and Hysterical Guide to the Orchestra | Historical and Hysterical Guide to the Orchestra | ENG | Join this whimsical and informative time travelling journey, discovering both the sound and historical context of each orchestral instrument. This piece was commissioned and given its world premiere by the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich for their 150th anniversary Celebration Concert, is narrated by Aleksey Igudesman and Hyung-ki Joo and conducted by Joshua Weilerstein. Did you know that flutes used to be made of mammoth bone and vulture wings? Or that timpani used to be played on horses? And is it a coincidence that cellos were made fatter than violins just around the same time as chocolate was brought over to Europe from Mexico? Packed with original music to showcase each instrument, well-researched historical facts, and the trademark goofiness of Igudesman and Joo, audiences and listeners of all ages will feel inspired to discover more about the orchestra. |
| 21/05 | 21h56>22h39 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Documentary 2017 | Documentary 2017 | ENG | This short documentary follows the participants of the 11th International Franz Liszt Piano Competition, held in TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht, in 2017. The competition actively presents, develops, and promotes piano talents from around the world. In doing so, it has become one of the prominent gateways to the international professional classical music scene for young musicians. The International Franz Liszt Piano Competition was founded in 1986 in the Netherlands and has since built a reputation as one of the world's most prestigious piano competitions. |
| 21/05 | 22h40>23h03 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Schumann - Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op. 26 | Schumann - Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op. 26 | ENG | After recording all 32 Ludwig van Beethoven piano sonatas to celebrate the composer's 250th birth anniversary, celebrated Italian pianist Riccardo Schwartz decided to record solo piano works by Robert Schumann. In this performance, Schwartz performs Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op. 26 (Carnival Scenes from Vienna). Schumann composed most of the work during his stay in Vienna in 1839, where he wrote the first four movements, presenting pictures of lively carnival revelry. He completed the fifth, last movement on his return to Leipzig. This piano cycle is among the composer's most popular. Acclaimed pianist Riccardo Schwartz (1986) has performed as a soloist with many world-renowned conductors, including Gustav Kuhn and Yuri Temirkanov. His acclaimed performances include recitals and concertos for piano and orchestra in many prestigious concert halls. |
| 21/05 | 23h03>23h22 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | M. Armanini - Nocturne for Erhu and String Quartet | M. Armanini - Nocturne for Erhu and String Quartet | ENG | Intercultural chamber music ensemble AU Ensemble performs Canadian contemporary composer Mark Armanini's Nocturne for Erhu and String Quartet (2021).In this performance, Yun Song plays the erhu - a Chinese two-stringed instrument. Since 1990, in-demand composer Armanini has been writing for various combinations of Asian and Western instruments. Armanini's prize-winning repertoire has been performed by ensembles including the CBC Radio Orchestra, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, and the Edmonton Symphony. This performance was recorded at the Deep Cove Shaw Theatre in North Vancouver, Canada, on March 23, 2022. |
| 21/05 | 23h23>23h45 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Villa-Lobos - String Quartet No. 14 | Villa-Lobos - String Quartet No. 14 | ENG | Quarteto Radamés Gnattali performs Heitor Villa-Lobos's String Quartet No. 14 at the Theatro Municipal, Rio de Janiero, Brasil. The ensemble was founded in 2006 and consists of Carla Rincón and Francisco Roa (violins), Fernando Thebaldi (viola), and Hugo Pilger (cello). The quartet, which specializes in Brazilian music, focuses on educational activities. Their recording of all of Villa-Lobos string quartets is a major achievement and was very well received by international music critics. Except for his Bachianas brasileiras, the performance of many of the Brazilian's compositions is limited to Latin America. Highly regarded as a composer, conductor and educator in his native country, Villa-Lobos has operas, symphonies, concertos, piano repertoire, choral music, and seventeen string quartets to his credit. |
| 21/05 | 23h45>23h59 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Classica Spotlight | Classica Spotlight | ENG | Cinematic classical clips and energizing concert pieces featuring up-and-coming artists. |
| 21/05 | 00h00>01h43 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Monteverdi - L'Orfeo | Monteverdi - L'Orfeo | ENG | Musical director Emiliano Gonzalez Toro leads Ensemble I Gemelli in this 2021 performance of Claudio Monteverdi's late-Renaissance opera L'Orfeo at the Théâtre Graslin in Nantes, France. Among the soloists are Toro himself (Orfeo), Emke Baráth (Euridice), Natalie Perez, Douglas Williams, Fulvio Bettini, Alix Le Saux, Jérôme Varnier, and Mathilde Etienne. The opera retells the Greek legend of Orpheus and his descent to the underworld to return his bride Eurydice to the world of the living. Monteverdi composed L'Orfeo in 1607 for the annual Carnival at Mantua. One of the first operas ever written, it is still performed regularly. |
| 21/05 | 01h43>03h22 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | The Berlin Philharmonic in Tokyo | The Berlin Philharmonic in Tokyo | ENG | The Berliner Philharmoniker is one of the world's finest orchestras, its fame stretching all the way to Japan. Unsurprisingly, this 2000 concert, recorded at Tokyo's magnificent Suntory Hall, was a resounding success. Mariss Jansons conducts a beautiful program that includes Antonin Dvorák's Symphony No. 8, Carl Maria von Weber's Overture to Oberon, and Dmitri Shostakovich's Violin Concerto featuring star violinist Hilary Hahn (*1979) |
| 22/05 | 03h23>04h21 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Dance on screen | Dance on screen | ENG | In 'Dance on screen', renowned film maker Reiner E. Moritz explores how twentieth-century modern media influenced the development of dance, and vice versa. The invention of the film camera and television has allowed audiences to see not only beautiful dancing and wonderful choreography, but it also brought the dancers' facial expressions and stage presence to the screen. These technical developments allowed this essentially ephemeral art form to be preserved. 'Dance on screen', about both classical ballet and modern dance, features interviews with recognized choreographers and directors. Moreover, many of the great dancers of the twentieth century are seen in performance, including Alvin Ailey, Anna Pavlova, and Pina Bausch. |
| 22/05 | 04h22>04h59 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Saint-Saëns - Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78 | Saint-Saëns - Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78 | ENG | Leonard Slatkin conducts the Orchestre national de Lyon in a concert recorded at the Auditorium de Lyon in France, 2013. The concert is a tribute to the organ of the Maurice-Ravel Auditorium, which was made by Aristide Cavaillé-Coll. The program features three works which premiered on exactly the same organ: Camille Saint-Saëns' Cyprès et Lauriers and Symphony No. 3 and Poulenc's Concerto for Organ, Timpani and Strings. Soloist is Vincent Warnier. |
| 22/05 | 04h59>05h19 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | CMIM Voice 2022 - Semi-final: Nils Wanderer | CMIM Voice 2022 - Semi-final: Nils Wanderer | ENG | Countertenor Nils Wanderer (Germany, 1993) performs 'Cara sposa' from George Frideric Handel's opera Rinaldo; 'Es ist vollbracht' from J. S. Bach's St John Passion, BWV 245; and 'Cold Song' from Henry Purcell's opera King Arthur, during the semi-finals of the Aria division of the Concours musical international de Montréal 2022 (CMIM). He is accompanied by the Montreal Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Jacques Lacombe. This performance was recorded at the Montreal Symphony House. |
| 22/05 | 05h20>05h46 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 1. Op. 1 | Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 1. Op. 1 | ENG | Piano soloist Boris Berezovsky is accompanied by the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Alexander Sladkovsky in a performance of Sergei Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto no. 1, Op. 1. Rachmaninov composed his first concerto while studying at the Moscow Conservatory at the age of 18. The concert opens with 'Heavenly Movement', a composition by the young Russian composer Elmir Nizamov (*1986). This concert was recorded at the Tchaikovksy Concert Hall of the Moscow Philharmonic Society on April 28, 2017. |
| 22/05 | 05h46>05h59 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Classica Spotlight | Classica Spotlight | ENG | Cinematic classical clips and energizing concert pieces featuring up-and-coming artists. |
| 22/05 | 06h00>06h35 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 9, K 271 | Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 9, K 271 | ENG | In a Salzburg Festival performance, the Mozarteum Orchestra and pianist Mitsuko Uchida, under the baton of Jeffrey Tate, play Piano Concerto No. 9, K 271. This piece was nicknamed "Jeunehomme" but was composed for Victoire Jeramy, the daughter of Mozart's friend, dancer and choreographer Jean-Georges Noverre. |
| 22/05 | 06h35>07h00 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Poulenc - Concerto for Organ, Timpani and Strings | Poulenc - Concerto for Organ, Timpani and Strings | ENG | Leonard Slatkin conducts the Orchestre national de Lyon in a concert recorded at the Auditorium de Lyon in France, 2013. The concert is a tribute to the organ of the Maurice-Ravel Auditorium, which was made by Aristide Cavaillé-Coll. The program features three works which premiered on exactly the same organ: Camille Saint-Saëns' Cyprès et Lauriers and Symphony No. 3 and Poulenc's Concerto for Organ, Timpani and Strings. Soloist is Vincent Warnier. |
| 22/05 | 07h00>08h20 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 1 & Symphony No. 2 | Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 1 & Symphony No. 2 | ENG | At the age of seven, Argentine pianist Martha Argerich made her debut with Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, Op. 15, a piece that would accompany her throughout her career. The celebrated pianist performs this signature piece at the Lucerne Festival with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra under the baton of Swedish conductor Herbert Blomstedt, who makes his festival debut with the orchestra. Beethoven's Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36, is also on the program. This performance was recorded at the Lucerne Culture and Congress Center (KKL), Switzerland, in August 2020. |
| 22/05 | 08h21>08h44 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | IVC 2021 - Semi-finals: Debussy, Haydn a. o. | IVC 2021 - Semi-finals: Debussy, Haydn a. o. | ENG | Soprano Isabel Weller (Germany, 1994) and pianist Yuriko Watanabe (Japan, 1994) perform Claude Debussy's Nuit d'étoiles, L. 2, and Mandoline, L. 43; Joseph Haydn's Piercing eyes, Hob. XXVIa, No. 35; 'Die Mainacht' from Johannes Brahms's Vier Gesänge, Op. 43; 'Pietà' from Paul Hindemith's Das Marienleben, Op. 27; Bart Visman's Vermeer's Gold; and 'Lied vom Winde' from Hugo Wolf's Mörike-Lieder, during the semi-finals of the International Vocal Competition 2021 - Lied Duo. This performance was recorded at Het Noordbrabants Museum in 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands. |
| 22/05 | 08h44>09h13 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Discovering Masterpieces - Symphonie Fantastique | Discovering Masterpieces - Symphonie Fantastique | ENG | Watch the series 'Discovering Masterpieces', your audio-visual concert guide to the great masterpieces of classical music. The series brings you 20 half-hour documentaries on 20 classical masterpieces: acclaimed experts, famous soloists and outstanding conductors take you on a journey back to the time and place of composition. In today's documentary, Hector Berlioz' 'Symphonie Fantastique'. This 'Fantastic Symphony' is widely regarded as one of the most important and representative pieces of the early Romantic period. Leonard Bernstein once called it "the first musical expedition into psychedelia" because of its hallucinatory and dream-like nature. The German musicologist Wulf Konold describes the idea behind and the realization of this fascinating work. |
| 22/05 | 09h13>09h35 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Liszt - Piano Concerto No. 2, S.125 | Liszt - Piano Concerto No. 2, S.125 | ENG | Alexander Ullman (1991, United Kingdom) performs Franz Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 2 (S125) during the final of the 11th International Franz Liszt Piano Competition, held in TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht 2017. The competition actively presents, develops and promotes piano talents from around the world. In doing so, it has become one of the prominent gateways to the international professional classical music scene for young musicians. The International Franz Liszt Piano Competition was founded in 1986 in the Netherlands and since has built a reputation as one of the world's most prestigious piano competitions. |
| 22/05 | 09h36>10h00 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Classica Spotlight | Classica Spotlight | ENG | Cinematic classical clips and energizing concert pieces featuring up-and-coming artists. |
| 22/05 | 10h00>11h20 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Mahler - Symphony No. 9 | Mahler - Symphony No. 9 | ENG | The Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester was founded in 1986 at the initiative of Claudio Abbado and has since become the world's best youth orchestra. Named after the great composer, the programme is marked by the special relationship between the maestro and the young orchestra, as well as their special relationship to Gustav Mahler. Claudio Abbado is undeniably the supreme Mahler conductor of our time and his long-time association with this repertoire culminates in this stirring performance of Mahler's last Symphony, written shortly before the composer's untimely death. Recorded at Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome 2004, the film vividly shows the joy, talent, and professionalism of the young musicians drawn from all over Europe and their devotion to Claudio Abbado. A wonderful homage to orchestra, conductor, composer and to a triumphant master work - Gustav Mahler's magnificent 9th symphony. |
| 22/05 | 11h21>11h55 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Vocal works by Monteverdi, Frescobaldi a. o. | Vocal works by Monteverdi, Frescobaldi a. o. | ENG | The six-concert series "Io suono italiano" is dedicated to music of Italian composers and performed by Italian musicians on Italian instruments. The concert programs cover four centuries of music: from Girolamo Frescobaldi and Antonio Vivaldi to more contemporary music by Ennio Morricone and Azio Corghi. Each program presents more familiar pieces alongside lesser-known compositions. These performances were filmed at the atmospheric Teatro Sociale in Rovigo, Italy, in January 2021. In this program, Marina De Liso (soprano), Roberto Loreggian (harpsichord), and Nicola Dal Maso (violone) present vocal Baroque music. On the program are Benedetto Ferrari's Amanti io vi so dire, Barbara Strozzi's Lamento, Tradimento, and Che si può fare, Giovanni Felice Sances's Usurpator tiranno, Girolamo Frescobaldi's Partite sopra il Passacagli, and Se l'aura spira, Claudio Monteverdi's Ohimè ch'io cado, and Si dolce è il tormento. |
| 22/05 | 11h55>12h50 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Memory of a Concert | Memory of a Concert | ENG | In 2006, Gidon Kremer and Martha Argerich set out on tour performing solos and duets by Bartók und Schumann. The last of the concert series at the Berliner Philharmonie has been recorded for this film, featuring a rare solo performance by Martha Argerich. A concert film with personal and moving commentary by Gidon Kremer. Program: Schumann's Violin Sonata No. 1, Op. 10, Violin Sonata No. 2, Op. 121; Kinderszenen, Op. 15; Bartók: Violin Sonata No. 1 Sz 75; Violin sonata No. 2 Sz 76. |
| 22/05 | 12h51>13h15 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Bach - Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor, BWV 1011 | Bach - Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor, BWV 1011 | ENG | At St. Bartholomew Church in Dornheim, Germany, where composer Johann Sebastian Bach married his first wife Maria Barbara, renowned Dutch cellist Anner Bijlsma performs the composer's Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor, BWV 1011. It is likely Bach wrote his collection of six Suites for unaccompanied cello during the years 1717-1723. His cello suites are an essential part of the cello repertoire, highlighting the instrument's manifold polyphonic possibilities. As customary in a Baroque suite, each movement is based on a dance type. Bach's Suite No. 5 opens with a prelude, and is followed by six dance movements, divided over five sections: an allemande, a courante, a sarabande, two gavottes, and a final gigue. |
| 22/05 | 13h15>13h44 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto, Op. 64 | Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto, Op. 64 | ENG | Sir Simon Rattle conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in the 2016 edition of the Europakonzert. This time, it takes place at the beautiful Baroque church of Røros, a Norwegian mining town whose intact picturesque old town makes it a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The talented Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang is the star soloist in Mendelssohn's songful Violin Concerto, Op. 64, which she plays with warmth, elegance and effortless virtuosity. |
| 22/05 | 13h44>14h03 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Classica Spotlight | Classica Spotlight | ENG | Cinematic classical clips and energizing concert pieces featuring up-and-coming artists. |
| 22/05 | 14h03>15h56 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Shchedrin's Double Concerto, Franck and Dvorák | Shchedrin's Double Concerto, Franck and Dvorák | ENG | The Lucerne Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Neeme Järvi presents the world premiere of Rodion Shchedrin's Double concerto for cello, piano and orchestra. Soloists are Martha Argerich (piano) and Mischa Maisky (cello). The concert program features Antonín Dvoák's Scherzo capriccioso Des-Dur Op. 66, B 131, Shchedrin's aforementioned Double concerto "Romantic Offering", César Franck's Sonata for piano and cello in A, and Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 9, Op. 70. This première performance was recorded at the Culture and Congress Centre of Lucerne, KKL, on February 9, 2011. The Lucerne Symphony Orchestra is orchestra-in-residence at KKL Luzern. The Lucerne Symphony Orchestra is Switzerland's oldest symphony orchestra and has won an international standing that extends far beyond its home base. |
| 22/05 | 15h56>16h07 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Schubert - Overture to Rosamunde (D. 644) | Schubert - Overture to Rosamunde (D. 644) | ENG | Andreas Spering conducts Philharmonie Zuidnederland in a performance of "Overture Rosamunde" (D. 644), by Franz Schubert (1797-1828). Recorded in Muziekgebouw Eindhoven, the Netherlands in 2015. Schubert initially composed the Overture for Georg Ernst von hofmann's play 'Die Zauberharfe' ('The Magic Harp'), which premiered on August 19, 1820. Three years later, the overture was used again, this time for Helmina von Chézy's play Rosemunde. Chézy's (1783-1856) librettos enjoyed little succes, and it is said that Schubert's contribution to Rosamunde saved the production. |
| 22/05 | 16h08>18h10 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Tricentenary of the French Dance School | Tricentenary of the French Dance School | ENG | Created under the reign of Louis XIV (the Sun King and the dancing King) the École de danse de l'Opéra national de Paris celebrates its 300th birthday. For three centuries, the ballet school has carried out the mission of passing its traditions to artists of the future. The celebration held in 2013 at the Opéra national de Paris showcases the school's work and evolution, and features pupils, conductor Marius Stieghorst, and the Orchestre des Lauréats du Conservatoire. |
| 22/05 | 18h10>18h41 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Villa-Lobos - String Quartet No. 6 | Villa-Lobos - String Quartet No. 6 | ENG | Quarteto Radamés Gnattali performs Heitor Villa-Lobos's String Quartet No. 6 at the Palácio do Catete in Rio de Janiero, Brasil. The ensemble was founded in 2006 and consists of Carla Rincón and Francisco Roa (violins), Fernando Thebaldi (viola), and Hugo Pilger (cello). The quartet, which specializes in Brazilian music, focuses on educational activities. Their recording of all of Villa-Lobos string quartets is a major achievement and was very well received by international music critics. Except for his Bachianas brasileiras, the performance of many of the Brazilian's compositions is limited to Latin America. Highly regarded as a composer, conductor and educator in his native country, Villa-Lobos has operas, symphonies, concertos, piano repertoire, choral music, and seventeen string quartets to his credit. |
| 22/05 | 18h41>20h04 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Handel at Chambord Castle | Handel at Chambord Castle | ENG | This 2016 concert at Chambord Castle in France under the direction of Hervé Niquet features 70 musicians that gave a spectacular performance of Handel's Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks. In between Le Concert Spirituel also plays Concerto Grosso's No. 4 and No. 5 also by Georg Friedrich Handel. After that you can enjoy the celebrated movement of Marc- Antoine Charpentier's Te Deum, now universally known as the signature tune of Eurovision. The music brings to mind the splendor at the court of King Louis XIV, who sojourned in Chambord on several occasions. |
| 22/05 | 20h05>20h32 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Discovering Masterpieces - Concerto for Orchestra | Discovering Masterpieces - Concerto for Orchestra | ENG | Watch the series 'Discovering Masterpieces', your audio-visual concert guide to the great masterpieces of classical music. The series brings you 20 half-hour documentaries on 20 classical masterpieces: acclaimed experts, famous soloists and outstanding conductors take you on a journey back to the time and place of composition. In today's documentary, Bela Bartok's 'Concerto for Orchestra' is discussed. This piece is one of the most frequently performed works of the twentieth century. Pierre Boulez explains how he interpreted this composition with the Berlin Philharmonic. He also describes its fascination against the backdrop of Bartok's biography. |
| 22/05 | 20h33>20h59 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Semi Final II - Liszt Competition 2017 | Semi Final II - Liszt Competition 2017 | ENG | Minsoo Hong (1993, South Korea) performs La notte (S377a) and Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12, (S379a) during semi-final II (chamber music) of the 11th International Franz Liszt Piano Competition, held in TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht, in 2017. The competition actively presents, develops, and promotes piano talents from around the world. In doing so, it has become one of the prominent gateways to the international professional classical music scene for young musicians. The International Franz Liszt Piano Competition was founded in 1986 in the Netherlands and has since built a reputation as one of the world's most prestigious piano competitions. |
| 22/05 | 21h00>22h11 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Orff - Carmina Burana | Orff - Carmina Burana | ENG | Rodolfo Barráez conducts the Orchestra and Choir of the Academia de Musica del Palacia de Mineria in a performance of Carl Orff's cantata Carmina Burana. Soloists are Anabel de la Mora (soprano), Andrés Carrillo (tenor) and Daniel Cerón (baritone). Carmina Burana, composed in 1935 and 1936, is based on 24 poems from a medieval manuscript of the same name. The full title is "Songs from Beuern: Secular songs for singers and choruses to be sung together with instruments and magical images". It was first performed at the Oper Frankfurt on June 8, 1937. |
| 22/05 | 22h11>22h57 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Rimsky-Korsakov Suites | Rimsky-Korsakov Suites | ENG | In this exquisite 2016 concert from Moscow's Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, the Russian National Orchestra and star-pianist Boris Berezovsky are led by conductor Mikhail Pletnev in a performance of magnificent works by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Winner of the 1990 International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, Berezovsky interprets the works of Rimsky-Korsakov with a virtuosic power. The programme features The Tale of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya, suite for orchestra, as well as The Tale of Tsar Saltan, musical pictures for orchestra. It is produced by the Moscow Philharmonic Society, which Saint Petersburg-born composer Dmitri Shostakovich himself once described as playing a significant role "in the development of musical life [in Russia]. It is a kind of university which is attended by millions of music lovers and thousands of musicians." The Moscow Philharmonic Society was founded in 1922 by then-Commissar for Culture, Anatoly Lunacharsky, and has over the years come to be Russia's leading concert organizing institution. |
| 22/05 | 22h57>23h30 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Mozart - Sinfonia concertante, K 364 | Mozart - Sinfonia concertante, K 364 | ENG | Vilde Frang, Tabea Zimmermann and conductor/pianist András Schiff team up for a concert at the 25th anniversary edition of the Swiss Verbier Festival in 2018. András Schiff's versatile artistry excels both as pianist and conductor, as this program illustrates. He is joined by Vilde Frang, a superlative Mozart interpreter, and master violist Tabea Zimmermann for Mozart's Sinfonia concertante. The work exemplifies the vast range of emotion Mozart is capable of instilling in one single work: from serene and joyful in the outer movements, to thoughtful and sad in the central movement. Schumann and Brahms - Schiff accompanies Tabea Zimmermann in the core 19th century viola repertoire. Unlike Schumann, whose Märchenbilder were written with the viola in mind, Brahms' wrote his Op.120 for clarinet and piano. He soon provided a viola transcription, which has become as popular than the original. |
| 22/05 | 23h31>23h59 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Classica Spotlight | Classica Spotlight | ENG | Cinematic classical clips and energizing concert pieces featuring up-and-coming artists. |
| 22/05 | 00h00>02h34 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Handel - Agrippina | Handel - Agrippina | ENG | Schwetzingen, a small German town near Heidelberg, boasts a famous palace with gardens as magnificent as those at Versailles. In the spring, the palace is the backdrop for the Schwetzingen Festival. Every year, the festival commissions a small-scale opera for the palace's exquisite Rococo theatre, built in 1752. Agrippina is a brilliant early George Frideric Handel opera. Composed when he was just twenty-four, it was Handel's first big hit in the theater. It's full of his fresh, exuberantly inventive music, and set to a libretto by Cardinal Vincenzo Grimani, one of the finest librettists Handel ever worked with. This staging of Agrippina was recorded under the baton of Arnold Östman, a renowned specialist in the music of the 17th and 18th centuries. The London Baroque Players accompany Barbara Daniels, Janice Hall, and David Kuebler in Michael Hampe's elegant and colourful production that shows us the perfidious intrigues of the power-crazy Empress Agrippina, and the criminal power struggles in classical Rome. |
| 23/05 | 02h34>04h22 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | The Pyongang concert | The Pyongang concert | ENG | "The concert was historic..." Daniel J. Wakin, The New York Times "From the start, the concert was exceptional... It felt like history... If this concert... precipitates a thaw, it started here." Anna Fifield, Financial Times The concert was the ultimate highlight of the New York Philharmonic's trip to North Korea's capital Pyongyang: when Music Director Lorin Maazel raised his baton for Arirang, a lilting folk song emblematic of the North and South Korean people, some audience members were obviously misty-eyed. The North Korean audience was on its feet, applauding and waving to the musicians. Does this moment symbolize a change? Can music make a real difference? The concert at the East Pyongyang Grand Theatre was certainly an impressive event. The New York Philharmonic under Lorin Maazel opened with the national anthems of North Korea and the United States, leading on to Wagner's Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin, Dvorák's Symphony No. 9 From the New World and An American in Paris. |
| 23/05 | 04h22>04h48 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Heitor Villa-Lobos Music for Cello and Piano - VI | Heitor Villa-Lobos Music for Cello and Piano - VI | ENG | In this six-part documentary on the life and work by Heitor Villa-Lobos, director Liloye Boubli takes viewers on a journey through the life and work of the Brazilian legend of classical music. The composer, conductor, cellist, and classical guitarist was born 1887 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Growing up amongst the immense social changes Brazil went through at the time - social revolution and modernization, abolishing slavery in 1888 - Villa-Lobos went on to become one of the best-known South American composers of all time. In this sixth and final episode of the mini-series, Brazilian musicians and experts discuss Villa-Lobos' everlasting legacy and how his compositions continue to inspire Brazilian composers and artists to this day. |
| 23/05 | 04h49>05h40 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 5, Op. 64 | Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 5, Op. 64 | ENG | In May 2019, the new principal conductor of the Gewandhaus, Andris Nelsons, presented Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 with his orchestra in combination with Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 1 with outstanding violinist Baiba Skride as the soloist. In this composition, the violin does not allow itself a break, continually tells its dark story and gets into a vicious circle of ostinato Passacaglia bass lines again and again falls into beguilingly beautiful singing. Tchaikovsky initially thought his 'Symphony of Fate' was a failure and believed himself to be at the end of his creative powers. It was probably the composer's nature, plagued by self-doubt, that made it almost impossible for him to develop a self-confident attitude to his own creative power. Between this two works, Skride performs Stravinsky's Elegy for Solo Violin. |
| 23/05 | 05h41>05h59 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Hildegard von Bingen - Chants Selection | Hildegard von Bingen - Chants Selection | ENG | Over the course of eleven days in August 2020, the French town of Rocamadour hosted the fifteenth edition of Festival de Rocamadour, a music festival dedicated to sacred music from the classical, baroque, and romantic periods. On August 25, the French soprano Laetitia Corcelle led her vocal ensemble La Sportelle for a performance of sacred music and motets at the atmospheric medieval Basilique Saint-Sauveur. Mezzo soprano Anne Bertin-Hugault opens the concert with solo performances of a selection of one-thousand-year-old works by Hildegard von Bingen: O Pastor Animarum, O nobilissima viriditas, Spiritus Sanctus, O Splendidissima Gemma, Caritas, Rex Noster, and lastly Alleluia! O virga mediatrix. Then Bertin-Hugault is joined by Cédric Baillergau (bass), Steve Zheng (tenor), and soprano Laetitia Corcelle for more modern and even contemporary material: Northern Lights and Ubi caritas by the Norwegian composer Ola Gjeilo, Ubi caritas by the French composer Christoper Gibert, and Adoro te by the French composer Mel Bonis stem from our own day and age. The program continues with Anton Bruckner's Christus factus est, Gioachino Rossini's O salutaris hostia, Charles Gounod's Les Sept Paroles de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ sur la Croix, and then comes to an end with Johannes Brahms's O Heiland, Reiß. |
| 23/05 | 06h00>06h21 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Mozart - Eine kleine Nachtmusik | Mozart - Eine kleine Nachtmusik | ENG | From the castle of Rammenau, the Gewandhaus-Quartett plays Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K. 525 (Serenade 13 for Strings in G major) by Mozart. This serenade was completed in Vienna on August 10, 1787, while Mozart was working on the second act of the opera Don Giovanni, and was not published until about 1827, long after the composer's death. The traditionally used name of the work - A Little Night Music - comes from notes in Mozart's personal catalog. Founded in 1808, the Gewandhaus-Quartett is the oldest quartet in the world, continuously performing for more than 200 years. It is composed of members of the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and has had more than 200 musicians to date. The Gewandhaus-Quartett is currently composed of Frank Michael Erben (first violin), Conrad Suske (second violin), Volker Metz (viola), Jürnjakob Timm (cello), and Steffen Adelmann (double bass). |
| 23/05 | 06h21>06h35 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Brahms - Tragic Overture in D minor, Op. 81 | Brahms - Tragic Overture in D minor, Op. 81 | ENG | Manfred Honeck conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in a performance of Brahms' Tragic Ouverture, Op. 81 during the Easter Concert in Baden-Baden 2016. |
| 23/05 | 06h36>07h39 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Roberto Giordano plays Brahms and Beethoven | Roberto Giordano plays Brahms and Beethoven | ENG | In this recital, Roberto Giordano plays the Six Pieces for Piano, op. 118 of Brahms, a collection completed in 1893 and dedicated to Clara Schumann who will be the penultimate produced by the composer during his lifetime. The concert program also includes two Beethoven sonatas, the famous Moonlight Sonata No. 14, op. 27, and Sonata No. 31, op. 110, one of the last sonatas signed by the composer. This concert was recorded at Villa Visconti Borromeo Litta, in the Italian city of Lainate, in 2017. Directed by: Pietro Tagliaferri. |
| 23/05 | 07h39>07h59 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | CMIM Voice 2022 - Semi-final: Valerie Eickhoff | CMIM Voice 2022 - Semi-final: Valerie Eickhoff | ENG | Mezzo-soprano Valerie Eickhoff (Germany, 1996) performs 'Crude furie degli orridi abissi' from George Frideric Handel's opera Serse; 'Assisi a pie d'un salice' from Gioachino Rossini's opera Otello; and 'Nobles seigneurs, salut!' from Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera Les Huguenots, during the semi-finals of the Aria division of the Concours musical international de Montréal 2022 (CMIM). She is accompanied by the Montreal Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Jacques Lacombe. This performance was recorded at the Montreal Symphony House. |
| 23/05 | 08h00>08h59 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Music in the air | Music in the air | ENG | Television plays a crucial role in popularizing classical music. Not only has it preserved precious moments of music making, but it also helps shape the future of music. The Vienna-based IMZ International Music + Media Centre, a global association for all those involved in any aspect of classical and contemporary music, world music, jazz, and dance, celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2015. To commemorate this, renowned film maker Reiner E. Moritz produced the documentary 'Music in the air' to shed light on the history of classical music on television. The film dives into television's archives to demonstrate what the medium has done for the dissemination of music. It features rare footage of Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra in one of the first televised concerts, and captivating fragments from Leonard Bernstein's Young People Concerts. Moreover, the film contains excerpts of great performances from the past, including those by Glenn Gould, Herbert von Karajan, Igor Stravinsky, and Pierre Boulez. |
| 23/05 | 08h59>09h33 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | PIAM - Semi-final II: Mozart and Bartók | PIAM - Semi-final II: Mozart and Bartók | ENG | Acclaimed classical music talent scout Antonio Mormone (1930-2017) lives on as the name-giver of the Premio Internazionale Antonio Mormone (PIAM), awarded to the winner of the Italian music competition of the same name. The first edition of this competition, which was held in various venues in Milan from 2019 to 2021, was dedicated to the piano. As part of this competition, Ying Li (China, 1997) performs Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Sonata No. 13 in B-flat major, K. 333, and Béla Bartók's Sonata, BB 88, Sz.80. This performance was recorded at Nuovo Teatro Ariberto in Milan, in June 2021. |
| 23/05 | 09h33>10h00 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Classica Spotlight | Classica Spotlight | ENG | Cinematic classical clips and energizing concert pieces featuring up-and-coming artists. |
| 23/05 | 10h00>10h30 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | The Boy with the Wig: Kids on Mozart | The Boy with the Wig: Kids on Mozart | ENG | The Boy with the Wig - Kids on Mozart explores children's fascination with the composer. The 30-minute film by Claus Wischmann features boys and girls aged between eight and eleven recounting his life through humour and serious interpretations of Mozart's biography. Discover Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart through the eyes of children. |
| 23/05 | 10h31>11h35 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Mosaïque Project - Canadian Piano Quartets | Mosaïque Project - Canadian Piano Quartets | ENG | This very special concert event celebrates the diversity and richness of Canada through the eyes and ears of its people. Ensemble Made in Canada's Mosaique Project features a commissioned suite of piano quartets by 14 Canadian composers, each inspired by a region of our vast country. Their album release and two-year National tour culminate in St. Catharines' stunning Partridge Hall! The ensemble consists of Elissa Lee (violin) Sharon Wei (viola), Rachel Mercer (cello) and Angela Park (piano) and is rapidly gaining recognition as Canada's premier piano quartet. |
| 23/05 | 11h35>12h18 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Johan de Meij - Echoes of San Marco & Fellini | Johan de Meij - Echoes of San Marco & Fellini | ENG | This concert is the result of the collaboration between the Giuseppe Nicolini Conservatory of Piacenza and the Giuseppe Verdi of Milan as part of the project "MIlanoPIACEnza ... suonare insieme." On the program are works by the Dutch conductor and composer Johan de Meij. "Echoes of San Marco" is a tribute to the Venetian Renaissance composer Giovanni Gabrieli (1555-1612). Echoes of San Marco opens with a quote from Gabrieli's "Canzon Septimi Toni" from the "Sacre Sinfoniae", and is just like the original work composed for two choirs of brass instruments. "Fellini" is composed for solo saxophone and orchestra and is a tribute to Italian film director Federico Fellini (1920-1993). De Meij composed the work for saxophone player Hans de Jong, who during this concert is dressed as a melancholic clown to intensify the dreamy and imaginary worlds present in Fellini's films. This concert is recorded at the Sala dei Teatini of the Teatri di Piacenza in 2018. Directed by Pietro Tagliaferri. |
| 23/05 | 12h18>12h58 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Villa-Lobos - String Quartet No. 7 | Villa-Lobos - String Quartet No. 7 | ENG | Quarteto Radamés Gnattali performs Heitor Villa-Lobos's String Quartet No. 7 at the Palácio do Catete in Rio de Janiero, Brasil. The ensemble was founded in 2006 and consists of Carla Rincón and Francisco Roa (violins), Fernando Thebaldi (viola), and Hugo Pilger (cello). The quartet, which specializes in Brazilian music, focuses on educational activities. Their recording of all of Villa-Lobos string quartets is a major achievement and was very well received by international music critics. Except for his Bachianas brasileiras, the performance of many of the Brazilian's compositions is limited to Latin America. Highly regarded as a composer, conductor and educator in his native country, Villa-Lobos has operas, symphonies, concertos, piano repertoire, choral music, and seventeen string quartets to his credit. |
| 23/05 | 12h59>13h28 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Schumann - Fantasie in C, Op. 17 | Schumann - Fantasie in C, Op. 17 | ENG | After recording all 32 Ludwig van Beethoven piano sonatas to celebrate the composer's 250th birth anniversary, celebrated Italian pianist Riccardo Schwartz decided to record solo piano works by Robert Schumann. Schumann composed his Fantasie in C, Op. 17 in 1836, revising it prior to publication in 1839. Bearing a dedication to Franz Liszt, it is one of Schumann's greatest works for solo piano, and a central work of the early Romantic period. Written in a loose sonata form, the first movement is rhapsodic and passionate, the middle movement is a grandiose rondo, and the finale is slow and meditative. Acclaimed pianist Riccardo Schwartz (1986) has performed as a soloist with many world-renowned conductors, including Gustav Kuhn and Yuri Temirkanov. His acclaimed performances include recitals and concertos for piano and orchestra in many prestigious concert halls. |
| 23/05 | 13h29>13h59 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Classica Spotlight | Classica Spotlight | ENG | Cinematic classical clips and energizing concert pieces featuring up-and-coming artists. |
| 23/05 | 14h00>15h19 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | La Moresca - Addio, Daedalus | La Moresca - Addio, Daedalus | ENG | After more than thirty years at the top Ensemble Daedalus is saying goodbye to the concert stage. That demands a fitting farewell. Roberto Festa sought and found music that mirrors his journey over three decades. With Italian carnival songs and morescas by Renaissance composers such as Barbetta, Banchieri, and Falconieri, this farewell will be above all a party, with - true to tradition - first-rate performers, such as his traveling companion Marco Beasley. |
| 23/05 | 15h19>16h54 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Mahler - Symphony No. 6 | Mahler - Symphony No. 6 | ENG | On November 14, 1987, a promising conductor made his Berlin Philharmonic debut with Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 6: Simon Rattle. In retrospect Rattle says, "I felt that I was finding my voice on that day." Mahler's multifaceted work is now again on the program when Sir Simon appears for the last time as chief conductor of the Berliner Philharmoniker in the Philharmonie in 2018. The wheel comes full circle. Mahler's Symphony No. 6 is often referred to by the nickname Tragische ("Tragic"). Mahler composed work during a happy time in his life, as he had married his wife Alma in 1902 and became father of his second daughter. This contrasts with the tragic and even nihilistic last movement of the symphony. |
| 23/05 | 16h54>17h46 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Holst - The Planets | Holst - The Planets | ENG | Conrad van Alphen conducts Sinfonia Rotterdam and the Nationaal Vrouwen Jeugdkoor in a performance of Gustav Holst's The Planets, Op. 32, recorded at De Doelen, Rotterdam, in 2019. Van Alphen founded Sinfonia Rotterdam in 2000. Under his passionate leadership, this orchestra has developed into one of the Netherland's best-known orchestras. Holst worked on his orchestral suite The Planets, as an expression of his interest in astrology, from 1914 to 1916. The Planets consists of seven movements, each one named after the planet known at that time (excluding Earth), and its corresponding astrological character: "Mars: the Bringer of War", "Venus: the Bringer of Peace", "Mercury: the Winged Messenger", "Jupiter: the Bringer of Jollity", "Saturn: the Bringer of Old Age", "Uranus: the Magician", and "Neptune: the Mystic". The middle section of Jupiter features a glorious melody that has become widely known. Holst adapted this melody when he set the poem "I Vow to thee to thy Country" to music. The last movement of The Planets includes a women's choir, lending the music its mysterious, celestial atmosphere. |
| 23/05 | 17h46>19h15 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 4 & Nielsen 6th | Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 4 & Nielsen 6th | ENG | Fabio Luisi conducts the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in this powerful performance taken from the 150th Anniversary celebrations of Denmark's national composer, Carl Nielsen. Alongside Nielsen's inscrutably ironic Symphony No. 6, this performance features world-renowned French pianist Lise de la Salle as soloist in Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 4. This lesser-known concerto saw three separate iterations throughout the composer's life and is characterized by bold chromaticism and a distinctly Jazz-like quality. Luisi and de la Salle have prior experience with this piece, having previously performed and recorded it together. This performance was recorded at the DR Koncerthuset in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2017. |
| 23/05 | 19h16>19h34 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Bach - Sonata No. 5 BWV 1018 | Bach - Sonata No. 5 BWV 1018 | ENG | This Sonata for Violin and Harpsichord No. 5 BWV 1014 is the fifth out of the set of sonatas Johann Sebastian Bach composed before 1725, probably during his time as chapel master in Köthen. Presumably, he wrote these sonatas for Prince Leopold and later adapted them for further use in Leipzig. Maybe this is why these pieces are well playable for amateurs, while every sonata still has the finesse that can offer a challenge to professional musicians. The different pieces are meant to be a set, just like the Brandenburg concertos. Performers: Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin), Enrico Pace (piano) |
| 23/05 | 19h34>19h59 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Modena - City of Belcanto | Modena - City of Belcanto | ENG | This documentary by Mark Perna shows the training and professional growth actions for opera singers, the promotion and enhancement of the cultural offer of the city and province of Modena and the maintenance and development of the Modenese musical tradition in the field of opera. |
| 23/05 | 19h59>20h25 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Mozart - Violin Concerto No. 5 | Mozart - Violin Concerto No. 5 | ENG | Les Dissonances is a collective of artists founded by violinist David Grimal in 2004. The conductorless ensemble consists of musicians from the most prestigious European orchestras, international soloists, and young talents. In this performance, Les Dissonances play Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 5 in A major, K. 219, also known as the 'Turkish Concerto'. Leading violinist Grimal features as the soloist. With the exception of the first violin concerto, Mozart composed his other four violin concertos in 1775 at a time when he was concertmaster at the Salzburg court. It is the third and final movement that gives Concerto No. 5 its nickname, the 'Turkish Concerto'. This movement features a striking middle section of 'Turkish music', which the composer achieves not only by changing the meter, and the mode to minor, but also by letting the cellos and basses play col legno - creating a percussive sound with the wood of their bow. This performance was recorded at Cité de la Musique, France, in 2014. |
| 23/05 | 20h26>20h59 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Classica Spotlight | Classica Spotlight | ENG | Cinematic classical clips and energizing concert pieces featuring up-and-coming artists. |
| 23/05 | 21h00>22h37 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Ice Dance: Sleeping Beauty (2013) | Ice Dance: Sleeping Beauty (2013) | ENG | The award-winning Imperial Ice Stars are 26 Olympic, World, European and National Championship skaters, who jointly hold over 250 competition medals, performing theatrical ice dancing on a frozen theatre stage. The Imperial Ice Stars have received five-star praise from critics and standing ovations from audiences at some of the world's most prestigious venues - London's Royal Albert Hall and Sadler's Wells, Singapore's Esplanade Theatre, Montreal's Place des Arts and Cape Town's Artscape. This stunning performance, filmed at the Melbourne Theatre Company in Australia, offers a new look on the secular tale of Sleeping beauty, with the original music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893). |
| 23/05 | 22h37>23h13 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Danielpour - Elegies | Danielpour - Elegies | ENG | Richard Danielpour (*1956) is one of the most beloved American composers of his generation due to his frequent referencing of and connection with the past, being inspired by American icons such as Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber and Leonard Bernstein. His lush musical language is often infused with swingy jazz rhythms just as is the music of Copland and Bernstein. Thus, he conveys an intense musical experience to the listener with his intuitive musical style, his exquisite melodic lines and accessible harmonic language. All this makes him to be a hugely popular composer with American orchestras. The initial idea for the composition of a song cycle "Elegies" came from the American mezzo soprano Frederica von Stade who was born in 1945, the same year in which her father was killed when the Jeep he was driving drove over a land mine. Charles von Stade is buried at the American cemetery in Margraten (South Netherlands). His daughter could thus only create a picture of him for herself via family stories and through his letters. These letters form the basis of the text of the songs, where father and daughter "meet" and communicate for the first time. The first movement Vigil, depicts the arrival of the daughter who hopes for a spiritual connection with her father. The second movement describes the intense sorrow of her father at the horrors of war and is as if his daughter is calling on him to return to her. In the third movement we hear the father give his unborn daughter his blessing, "Little soul, to where would you go from the darkness of the womb?" Movement four is the preparation for the reunion of the souls of father and daughter which takes place in movement five, Paradise. Here the daughter welcomes her father's spiritual rest and sings, "Peace, the air which I breathe". The philharmonie zuidnederland is conducted by Harmut Haenchen. The German born conductor who naturalized to become Dutch and was chief conductor of the Dutch Opera Amsterdam, the Dutch Philharmon |
| 23/05 | 23h13>23h26 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Bartók - Romanian Folk Dances | Bartók - Romanian Folk Dances | ENG | This concert entitled 'Liszt Mosaics' is dedicated to the rich traditonal of Hungarian Folk Music. The concert opens with a selection of Bartók's 44 Duos for 2 Violins (No. 17, 18, 36 and 44) performed by Shlomo Mintz and Radics Ferenc. Furthermore, Pál Eszter is accompanied by the Hungarian State Folk Ensemble and Cameristi della Scala in vocal performances of Hungarian Folk Music from the Kalotaszeg region. The ensembles conclude the concert by performing Romanian Folk Dances by Bartók, led by musical director István Pál Szalonna. Solo violinist is Agnese Ferraro. |
| 23/05 | 23h27>23h59 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Classica Spotlight | Classica Spotlight | ENG | Cinematic classical clips and energizing concert pieces featuring up-and-coming artists. |
| 23/05 | 00h00>01h56 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Beethoven - Fidelio, Op. 72 | Beethoven - Fidelio, Op. 72 | ENG | Fidelio (originally titled "Leonore, oder Der Triumph der ehelichen Liebe," which translates to "Leonore, or the Triumph of Marital Love"), Op. 72, is Ludwig van Beethoven's only opera. This 2018 opera film from the Swiss Theater St. Gallen is based on Jan Schmidt-Garre's highly acclaimed stage production of Beethoven's Fidelio. Otto Tausk conducts the Sinfonieorchester and choir of St. Gallen, as well as many wonderful soloists in a beautifully designed set by Nikolaus Webern. The producers carefully filmed and edited several performances, and by using additional footage of starring soloist Jacquelyn Wagner as Leonore, the captivating stage production is enhanced and transformed into a unique cinematic experience. |
| 23/05 | 01h56>03h05 |
(0x00) ? | ENG | Beethoven - Symphony No. 9 | Beethoven - Symphony No. 9 | ENG | Beethoven's Symphony no 9 is interpreted by the Berlin Philharmonic under former chief conductor Claudio Abbado at the Berliner Philharmonie in 2001. The recording features interpretations that are the fruit of decades of Claudio Abbado's involvement with Beethoven. Listening to the music, one hears how the Berlin Philharmonic transforms Abbado's musical intentions into sound - there is a sense of unity that can only be achieved through many years of shared artistic experience and attention to detail. |