PROGRAM: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Overture from Die Entführung aus dem Serail // Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Intermezzo from A Midsummer Night’s Dream // Charles Gounod: “Je veux vivre” from Roméo et Juliette (Soloist: Nino Machaidze) // Astor Piazzolla: Tango Etude No. 3 (Soloist: Eva-Nina Kozmus) // Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Flute Concerto No. 1 – Allegro maestoso (Soloist: Eva-Nina Kozmus) // Léo Delibes: Les filles de Cadix (Soloist: Nino Machaidze) // David Orlowsky: Juli (Orlowsky Trio) // Jens-Uwe Popp: Satin (Orlowsky Trio) // Édouard Lalo: Symphonie espagnole – Intermezzo (Soloist: Vilde Frang) // Charles Dumont, Michel Vaucaire: Non, je ne regrette rien
Festive Advent Concert at the Frauenkirche Dresden 2010
Italian tenor Vittorio Grigolo, hailed as “opera hero of the year” (Sächsische Zeitung), and Carolina Ullrich are the stars of this festive Advent concert from the Frauenkirche in Dresden. Conductor Bertrand de Billy heads this particularly lavish program with the Staatskapelle Dresden in the famous Baroque Frauenkirche. Together with the Chor der Sächsischen Staatsoper and the Kammerchor der Frauenkirche, and in a setting of resplendent beauty, they perform inspiring and festive works.
Beethoven 9 – Discovering Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
The monumental achievement of Christian Thielemann and the Wiener Philharmoniker forms the basis for this series of stimulating yet highly entertaining films that supplement “Beethoven 9”. They guide the viewer into the cosmos of Beethoven’s symphonies – and into Christian Thielemann’s conception of them. Each 60-minute program focuses on one particular symphony, which it presents in the context of Beethoven’s oeuvre, Thielemann’s interpretation, and the work’s artistic and historical position. While Thielemann introduces the viewer to the fine points of his interpretation, the renowned music critic Joachim Kaiser depicts the unique features of the work and the interpretation, and provides revealing comparisons with other readings of the Beethoven symphonies. In so doing, Kaiser is able to draw upon a treasure that only UNITEL is able to provide: the recordings of the legendary Beethoven cycles with Herbert von Karajan and Leonard Bernstein, concert productions with acknowledged Beethoven experts such as Böhm and Kleiber, as well as recordings of Beethoven symphonies with world stars of today such as Gustavo Dudamel and Paavo Järvi.
Victims & Seducers – The Fate of the Castrati
An expert in the virtuoso and often unjustly forgotten coloratura music of the Baroque era, the great mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli showcased the repertoire of the castrato singers in her successful CD/DVD “Sacrificium – The Art of the Castrati”. She is the face of the present documentary, in which she takes us into the intriguing world of the castrati, and lends her voice to the great Farinelli in performances of rediscovered bravura works. The film features dramatic re-enactments that alternate with information on medical, historical and sociological aspects of the castrato phenomenon.
Diana Damrau – Diva Divina: Nine Months With The German Opera Star
She is simply one of the best singers in the world,’ proclaimed the New York Sun triumphantly after another of Diana Damrau’s spectacular performances at the Metropolitan Opera. And while The Guardian gushed: ‘The German soprano…has become a cult figure,’ the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung noted succinctly: ‘Whoever says coloratura says Damrau.’ In private moments with her parents and her first teacher, Damrau talks about her childhood and youth, about her discovery of opera while watching TV, her early career and her international breakthrough in 2002 in roles such as Donna Anna and Zerbinetta. The film portrays an exciting, high-intensity, fast-paced jet-set life tempered by the harmony of a rewarding family life with her husband, her parents and, at the end of the film, with her brand-new baby!
Beethoven 9 – Discovering Beethoven: Symphony No. 1
The monumental achievement of Christian Thielemann and the Wiener Philharmoniker forms the basis for this series of stimulating yet highly entertaining films that supplement “Beethoven 9”. They guide the viewer into the cosmos of Beethoven’s symphonies – and into Christian Thielemann’s conception of them. Each 60-minute program focuses on one particular symphony, which it presents in the context of Beethoven’s oeuvre, Thielemann’s interpretation, and the work’s artistic and historical position. While Thielemann introduces the viewer to the fine points of his interpretation, the renowned music critic Joachim Kaiser depicts the unique features of the work and the interpretation, and provides revealing comparisons with other readings of the Beethoven symphonies. In so doing, Kaiser is able to draw upon a treasure that only UNITEL is able to provide: the recordings of the legendary Beethoven cycles with Herbert von Karajan and Leonard Bernstein, concert productions with acknowledged Beethoven experts such as Böhm and Kleiber, as well as recordings of Beethoven symphonies with world stars of today such as Gustavo Dudamel and Paavo Järvi.
Beethoven 9 – Discovering Beethoven: Symphony No. 2
The monumental achievement of Christian Thielemann and the Wiener Philharmoniker forms the basis for this series of stimulating yet highly entertaining films that supplement “Beethoven 9”. They guide the viewer into the cosmos of Beethoven’s symphonies – and into Christian Thielemann’s conception of them. Each 60-minute program focuses on one particular symphony, which it presents in the context of Beethoven’s oeuvre, Thielemann’s interpretation, and the work’s artistic and historical position. While Thielemann introduces the viewer to the fine points of his interpretation, the renowned music critic Joachim Kaiser depicts the unique features of the work and the interpretation, and provides revealing comparisons with other readings of the Beethoven symphonies. In so doing, Kaiser is able to draw upon a treasure that only UNITEL is able to provide: the recordings of the legendary Beethoven cycles with Herbert von Karajan and Leonard Bernstein, concert productions with acknowledged Beethoven experts such as Böhm and Kleiber, as well as recordings of Beethoven symphonies with world stars of today such as Gustavo Dudamel and Paavo Järvi.
Beethoven 9 – Discovering Beethoven: Symphony No. 3
The monumental achievement of Christian Thielemann and the Wiener Philharmoniker forms the basis for this series of stimulating yet highly entertaining films that supplement “Beethoven 9”. They guide the viewer into the cosmos of Beethoven’s symphonies – and into Christian Thielemann’s conception of them. Each 60-minute program focuses on one particular symphony, which it presents in the context of Beethoven’s oeuvre, Thielemann’s interpretation, and the work’s artistic and historical position. While Thielemann introduces the viewer to the fine points of his interpretation, the renowned music critic Joachim Kaiser depicts the unique features of the work and the interpretation, and provides revealing comparisons with other readings of the Beethoven symphonies. In so doing, Kaiser is able to draw upon a treasure that only UNITEL is able to provide: the recordings of the legendary Beethoven cycles with Herbert von Karajan and Leonard Bernstein, concert productions with acknowledged Beethoven experts such as Böhm and Kleiber, as well as recordings of Beethoven symphonies with world stars of today such as Gustavo Dudamel and Paavo Järvi.
Beethoven 9 – Discovering Beethoven: Symphony No. 4
The monumental achievement of Christian Thielemann and the Wiener Philharmoniker forms the basis for this series of stimulating yet highly entertaining films that supplement “Beethoven 9”. They guide the viewer into the cosmos of Beethoven’s symphonies – and into Christian Thielemann’s conception of them. Each 60-minute program focuses on one particular symphony, which it presents in the context of Beethoven’s oeuvre, Thielemann’s interpretation, and the work’s artistic and historical position. While Thielemann introduces the viewer to the fine points of his interpretation, the renowned music critic Joachim Kaiser depicts the unique features of the work and the interpretation, and provides revealing comparisons with other readings of the Beethoven symphonies. In so doing, Kaiser is able to draw upon a treasure that only UNITEL is able to provide: the recordings of the legendary Beethoven cycles with Herbert von Karajan and Leonard Bernstein, concert productions with acknowledged Beethoven experts such as Böhm and Kleiber, as well as recordings of Beethoven symphonies with world stars of today such as Gustavo Dudamel and Paavo Järvi.
Beethoven 9 – Discovering Beethoven: Symphony No. 5
The monumental achievement of Christian Thielemann and the Wiener Philharmoniker forms the basis for this series of stimulating yet highly entertaining films that supplement “Beethoven 9”. They guide the viewer into the cosmos of Beethoven’s symphonies – and into Christian Thielemann’s conception of them. Each 60-minute program focuses on one particular symphony, which it presents in the context of Beethoven’s oeuvre, Thielemann’s interpretation, and the work’s artistic and historical position. While Thielemann introduces the viewer to the fine points of his interpretation, the renowned music critic Joachim Kaiser depicts the unique features of the work and the interpretation, and provides revealing comparisons with other readings of the Beethoven symphonies. In so doing, Kaiser is able to draw upon a treasure that only UNITEL is able to provide: the recordings of the legendary Beethoven cycles with Herbert von Karajan and Leonard Bernstein, concert productions with acknowledged Beethoven experts such as Böhm and Kleiber, as well as recordings of Beethoven symphonies with world stars of today such as Gustavo Dudamel and Paavo Järvi.