I AM FROM AUSTRIA, das Erfolgsmusical der Vereinigten Bühnen Wien mit den Hits von Rainhard Fendrich beeindruckt durch eine witzig-rasante Geschichte, ein fantastisches Bühnenbild, schillernde Kostüme, mitreißende Choreographien und ein großartiges Ensemble. In der vom Publikum geliebten und von der Presse hochgelobten Original-Inszenierung von Andreas Gergen live aus dem Raimund Theater blicken wir hinter die Kulissen eines Wiener Luxushotels, wo ein prominenter Stargast für Trubel und Hollywood-Flair sorgt – eine Story voller Romantik, Überraschungen und Situationskomik! In ausverkauften Theatern in Wien und Japan begeisterte das Stück von Titus Hoffmann & Christian Struppeck bisher insgesamt mehr als eine dreiviertel Million Menschen. Jetzt gibt es das Musical I am from Austria mit über 20 Hits von Rainhard Fendrich (Macho Macho, Blond, Tango Korrupti und viele mehr) endlich auch auf DVD und Blu-ray mit Surround Sound!
Turandot
Mention Giacomo Puccini’s name and opera-lovers all over the world will think of grand opera and passionate love stories. One of the world’s most famous arias comes from the composer’s final opera, Turandot: “Nessun dorma” – none shall sleep because by morning the Chinese princess is determined to have discovered the name of the unknown prince. The work is remarkable for ist Chinese local colour, ist opulent crowd scenes, ist powerful choruses and ist characters overwhelmed by their emotions. Enthusiastically acclaimed by ist audiences, the present production combines spectacular and touching scenes on the Bregenz Festival’s vast lakeside stage.
A John Williams Celebration
For the 2014/15 Opening Night Concert and Gala, the Los Angeles Philharmonic paid loving tribute to composer John Williams, long a champion and close friend of the LA Phil. Gustavo Dudamel, an awestruck fan of the musical icon, led the orchestra in a crosssection of Maestro Williams’ matchless canon.
Bruckner Symphony No. 2
Thielemann‘s brilliant interpretation of Bruckner´s Symphony No. 2 is performed wonderfully by the Staatskapelle Dresden, completing their critically acclaimed Bruckner cycle with a concert at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg. “In the Elbphilharmonie Thielemann once again proved to be the unrestricted Ruler on his ancestral territory, German Romantic repertoire” (Hamburger Abendblatt) and critics praised how lucent and with how much musical intensity Thielemann conducted this symphony in the acoustics of this hall – an exceptional positive example for subsequent conductors and orchestras.
Mahler Symphonies Nos. 9 & 10
Gustav Mahler spent 1909 and 1910 working on his final two symphonies. The Ninth has gone down in history as the culmination of his symphonic output and a prophetic anticipation of musical modernism. But owing to his declining health, he had to stop work on the Tenth after a few months and was unable to resume it before his death. Only the first movement,
included here, was orchestrated to a point where it can be performed without non-authorial additions. – The Mahler cycle by the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra under Paavo Järvi is appearing complete on DVD and Blu-ray on the C Major label and has already been internationally acclaimed as one of the most important Mahler projects of the new millennium.
“If I knew Mahler only from his music, I would say that he has a huge heart and a deep connection with the soul and humanity.” – PAAVO JÄRVI
Richard Strauss: At The End Of The Rainbow
Eric Schulz reveals in his latest music film a new perspective on the personality and oeuvre of Richard Strauss, who saw himself as the last great composer at the end of an era, “at the end of the rainbow”. This carefully researched production presents spectacular hitherto unreleased pictures of Richard Strauss. Among others: a live recording of the premiere of the “Olympic Anthem” at the Berlin Olympic stadium in 1936. The very first performance of this piece ever to be heard, performed by the Berlin Philharmonic and a choir of 1000 singers conducted by Richard Strauss himself. These spectacular rare pictures are embedded in interviews with relatives, famous musicians and Strauss experts, such as Christian Strauss, Stefan Mickisch and Brigitte Fassbaender.
Richard Strauss Gala
This exceptional programme of highlights from Richard Strauss´s works Der Rosenkavalier, Feuersnot,
Salome, Elektra, Die ägyptische Helena, Arabella, Die schweigsame Frau and Daphne was dedicated to Richard
Strauss 150th birthday in Dresden. The reputation as »THE Strauss-Orchestra« of the Staatskapelle
Dresden results from the special relation to Richard Strauss and his works, which started 130 years ago,
performing many world premieres of Richard Strauss´s operas and orchestral works.
The DVD includes the documentary My Strauss with Christian Thielemann, including a lot of archival
footage with Richard Strauss, rehearsals and concert excerpts of Elektra, Rosenkavalier, Frau ohne
Schatten, Heldenleben, Four last songs and more.
Mahler Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6
Symphonies Nos. 5 + 6 will continue the release of the complete Mahler cycle with Paavo Järvi and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, which since the 80s became a “powerful Mahler orchestra” (Frankfurter Rundschau)
Bonus: Introductions to Symphonies Nos. 5 + 6 with Paavo Järvi
Mahler Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8
In many ways Mahler’s Seventh and Eighth Symphonies are the most unusual works that the late Romantic composer ever wrote. The Seventh was the last in a series of middle-period pieces that were purely instrumental in character. Two movements headed “Nachtmusik“ (night music) and the remarkable writing for a guitar and a mandolin help to create a sequence
of darkly Romantic visions. And even within Mahler’s markedly eclectic output, the Eighth Symphony enjoys the status of an exotic outsider thanks not only to ist two-movement form combining an early medieval hymn and the final scene from Goethe’s Faust but also to the vast forces for which it is scored, earning it the title of “Symphony of a Thousand”.
“If I knew Mahler only from his music, I would say that he has a huge heart and a deep connection with the soul and humanity.” – PAAVO JÄRVI