19.02.2017 4:15 PM (60 minutes)
The UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, 2155 Center St, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA, will screen “Isang Yun – In Between” on February 19 at 4:15 PM. More information here: www.otherminds.org/shtml/om22-info.shtml This documentary, directed by Maria Stodtmeier, filmed in North and South Korea, explores whether music can overcome the boundaries of a divided…
11.03.2017 21h15 (55 minutes)
Being a female conductor means being an exception. Even today. When a woman stands on the podium she is, in most cases, somehow “the first”: the first to lead a world-class orchestra, the first to conduct the “Last Night of the Proms” in London, the first to win the German Conductor Prize. For decades, this…
22.01.2017 23h55 (60 minutes)
This documentary, directed by Maria Stodtmeier, filmed in North and South Korea, explores whether music can overcome the boundaries of a divided country. There is one figure of the two Koreas, whose outstanding biography in itself forms a bridge between both worlds: The Korean composer Isang Yun, one of the very few people acknowledged on…
13.01.2017 19h55 (120 minutes)
The Gewandhausorchester and its Conductor Laureate Herbert Blomstedt continue their Beethoven cycle with the composer’s most well-known symphony: the Fifth. With its ideal form, balance, and richness in melodic and harmonic invention, it is a classic of its genre. Its four famous first notes so poignantly engrave themselves in our collective ears that one can…
11.03.2017 22h10 (70 minutes)
To be sure, there are pianists who also conduct, and concert masters who lead their orchestra from the violin desk. But a star soprano who coordinates a large instrumental ensemble while at the same time negotiating the trickiest coloratura singing is something entirely new. That is, until Barbara Hannigan came along to reveal this remarkable…
14.01.2017 20h15 (105 minutes)
On December 26th, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra celebrated its 80th anniversary with an all-Beethoven program. The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO) was founded in 1936 by Bronislaw Huberman and its inaugural concert, on 26 December 1936, was conducted by Arturo Toscanini. 80 years later on the same day, Zubin Mehta, the orchestra’s musical director for life,…
24.12.2016 23h (105 minutes)
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig St. Thomas Boys Choir Georg Christoph Biller, conductor Johannette Zomer soprano Bogna Bartosz alto Werner Güra tenor-Evangelist Martin Petzold tenor-Arien Klaus Häger bass Every year the outstanding Thomanerchor and Gewandhausorchester Leipzig perform Johann Sebastian Bach’s Christmas Oratorio in St. Thomas Church. It ist one of his most famous works. For many people it…
18.12.2016 23h05 (90 minutes)
With the Messa da Requiem, Christian Spuck brings one of Giuseppe Verdi’s key works to the stage. In a large-scale co-production by the Ballet and Opera Zurich, the German choreograph and director ventures to portray an overwhelming interpretation of Verdi’s funeral mass in his scenic-choreographic interpretation. 36 dancers, the choir of the Zurich Opera and…
03.10.2016 00h15 (35 minutes)
Ludwig van Beethoven’s Fifth , the “Symphony of Fate”, is one of the most popular works of classical music and marked a highlight of the Lucerne Festival 2013. Under the musical direction of Pablo Heras-Casado, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra – once founded by Claudio Abbado – performed the piece with such power and emotion that…
23.10.2016 23h35 (58 minutes)
Music, especially Bach’s music, gave this artist the strength to survive unimaginable challenges. Zhu Xiao-Mei belongs to the “Lost Generation” that endured the worst excesses of Mao’s regime: several years of “re-education”, five years in a work camp, her family destroyed, endless deprivation and political intrigue… “Zhu Xiao-Mei: How Bach defeated Mao” is a portrait of…
23.10.2016 18h25 (50 minutes)
Muscular yet elegant, eloquent and charismatic – terms that flow from journalists’ pens when referring to Nikolaj Znaider. The Danish artist once again affirmed his reputation as one of the most distinguished violinists of our time with his performance of Ludwig van Beethoven’s violin concerto with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig under the baton of its musical…
31.10.2016 00h45 (80 minutes)
Max Reger (1873-1916) Piano Concerto in F minor, Op. 114 Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Symphony No. 6 in F major Peter Serkin, piano Gewandhausorchester Leipzig Herbert Blomstedt Max Reger’s Piano Concerto Op. 114 was created in the summer of 1910 in Leipzig and was there brought into the world by pianist Frieda Kwast‐Hodapp and the…