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Der Ring des Nibelungen

Press Quotes

In this production “the visual codes of the digital era become elemental and dazzlingly employed means of narration” (Opernwelt).

„Quite a spectacle, brilliantly sung.“ The Sunday Times

“It looks like a landmark Ring cycle, it is outstanding.” BBC Magazine

4 Stars in Rondo

“Wagner like this is fun even for pop fans” Spiegel Online

“Wagner’s music drama ingeniously illustrated” Fono Forum

“This production positively crackles with tension” Crescendo

Awards

Rheingold: Echo Klassik 2010

Der Ring des Nibelungen: German Record Critics’ Award of New Releases for the Second Quarter 2010

Die Walküre: German Record Critics’ Award of New Releases for the First Quarter 2010

Das Rheingold: Diapason d´Or, DIAMANT d’Opera Magazine

Der Ring des Nibelungen: Choc de Classica

The Masterworks series is a treasure trove of art. Each ten-minute programme focuses on an individual painting, with a rich visual survey accompanied by an authoritative voice-over commentary. The selection of works, from galleries on both sides of the Atlantic, covers a broad spectrum of art from the earliest European masterpieces to contemporary works, introducing the unfamiliar and rediscovering the well-loved. Five films from each of the following galleries are available. Tate Gallery, London (R8201.1) National Gallery of Scotland (R8201.2) Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice (R8201.3) Museum of Modern Art, New York (R8201.4) Washington National Gallery of Art (R8201.5) Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (R8201.6) Kunsthaus, Zürich (R8201.7) Kunstmuseum, Basel (R8201.8) Wallraf-Richartz Museum and Museum Ludwig, Cologne (R8201.9) Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (R8201.10) Museé National du Louvre, Paris (R8201.11) Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (R8201.12) Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin (R8201.13) Lenbachhaus, Munich (R8201.14) Hamburger Kunsthalle (R8201.15) Neue Pinakothek, Munich (R8201.16) Harvard University Museums, Cambridge, USA (R8201.17) Art Institute of Chicago (R8201.18) Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (R8201.19) Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (R8201.20) Prado, Madrid (R8201.21) Musée Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels (R8201.22) Skagens Museum, Denmark (R8201.23) Gulbenkian Foundation Centre for Modern Art, Lisbon (R8201.24) Ateneum, Helsinki (R8201.25) National Museum, Stockholm (R8201.26) State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg (R8201.27) Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister, Dresden (R8201.28) Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (R8201.29) The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg (R8201.30) Collections in Tokyo, Kyoto and Atami (R8202) Collections in Budapest and Szentendre (R8203) Collections in Prague (R8204) National Gallery of

Norway, Oslo (R8205) Collections in Vienna (R8208)

Masterworks in Hungary

Masterworks in Czech Republic

Masterworks in Norway

Peter and the Wolf

Matthew Hart has taken Sergei Prokofiev’s ever-popular piece for solo narrative voice and orchestra and made a delightful children’s ballet, danced in this studio recording by pupils from the prestigious Royal Ballet School, with the great Anthony Dowell as the Storyteller/Grandfather. Hart’s choreography and Ian Spurling’s designs give a contemporary feel to the traditional tale of the boy who saves his animal friends from a wolf. There is a captivating simplicity to their highly entertaining production.

Leaving Home – Orchestral Music in the Twentieth Century

Written and presented by Sir Simon Rattle, the foremost British conductor of our day, this series forms a fascinating introduction to, and overview of, the music of the twentieth century. Each of the seven programmes feature over thirty minutes of specially-shot music in performance, with Rattle conducting the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.

Simon Rattle leads viewers on an exhilarating journey through the music of our time, explaining the chief musical developments from Mahler to the present day. Each programme is illustrated with evocative imagery, archive film and photographs and the featured music is set within the broader context of artistic and social change.

Why “Leaving Home”? The story of twentieth-century music is one of leave-takings in many ways. As a wealth of talented composers searched for new creative responses to the world around them, many made departures from the solid ‘home’ foundations of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century music – tonal harmony, melody, regular rhythm and metre. Many had to literally leave home, displaced by political uphevals. A remarkable diversity of expression developed – not all of the difficult or discordant variety commonly associated with modern music. The range is wide and this series samples the work of over thirty composers, discovering new and challenging sounds as well as some unexpectedly familiar music. It presents an extraordinary kaleidoscope of orchestral images, full of contrasts and surprises.

The first episode in the series describes a great musical culture in decline in turn-of-the-nineteenth-century Vienna. From that decline erupted a musical revolution whose reverberations have continued to this day. The names of Schönberg, Webern and Berg still strike terror into the hearts of many concert-goers, but with Simon Rattle we hear in this music’s brooding power not only the collapse of the old Austro-German order and the rise of Facism, but also the portents of the music to come in the second half of the twentieth century.

Roger Ballen

Roger Ballen is an American photographer who lives and works in South Africa. His shocking and moving pictures of poor rural whites confound preconceptions about this troubled country and reveal some of the deeper complexities and contradictions of its tragedy. This film follows Ballen on a photographic shoot in the flat, bleak platteland of the Western Transvaal.

Catherine Bailey by David Bailey

Photographer turned film-maker David Bailey’s unique portrait of his wife includes a stunning range of images of her as model, mother and a person totally at ease with herself. It even includes footage of her in various stages of pregnancy and childbirth. The programme is narrated by novelist Fay Weldon in conversation with Catherine, who talks about issues and events which have been important to her as a woman.

Icons of Twentieth-Century Design

In today’s consumer society our expectations, aspirations and dreams are reflected in the products we buy, or covet. From the millions of goods that go on sale each year, certain items rise above the dictates of mere fashion – they become icons, stamped indelibly on the consciousness of our age. Made in a lively, thought-provoking and accessible way, six ten-minute programmes focus on some of the icons of twentieth-century design, analysing their conception and considering their impact: the Coca-Cola Bottle, Gerrit Rietveld’s Red and Blue Chair, the London Transport Underground Map, the Volkswagen Beetle, Tapio Wirkkala’s Composition cutlery, and the Swatch.