27.09.2015 23:30 (55 minutes)
He is the most performed contemporary composer in the world. Nevertheless, he also rarely ventures out in public, keeps quiet about his music, feels at home in the forests of Estonia and generates therewith – perhaps involuntarily – the impression of a recluse, which is attributed to him again and again: Arvo Pärt. The Estonian…
11.10.2015 22:40 (Part I: 55 minutes, Part III: 30 minutes)
The three-part documentary “Crossing Borders – Daniel Barenboim on Music” accompanies Daniel Barenboim on his quest into the social meaning of music and the secrets of sound. It features him as a UN Ambassador of Peace leading a spectacular concert in Gaza, working with the West-Eastern-Divan-Orchestra and conducting the Cairo Symphony Orchestra for the very…
04.10.2015 17:45 (1h30)
There is probably no other orchestra that is so intensely involved with Gustav Mahler and has established such an outstanding “Mahler sound”: The long-standing engagement of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA with his symphonies is unprecedented. This tradition was carried on this summer: In his concerts with the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA, 36-year-old famed Latvian conductor Andris…
26.12.2015 12:40 (1h40)
At this summer’s LUCERNE FESTIVAL, Sir Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker presented a new Haydn symphony that never existed before: Rattle gathered together ten of the most original and avant-garde-like instrumental movements by Joseph Haydn to fashion a Symphonie imaginaire. In addition to this astonishing Haydn Pasticcio, Rattle conducted Mozart’s Sinfonia concertante for violin,…
02.08.2015 09:50 (53 minutes)
The three-part documentary “Daniel Barenboim – Crossing Borders” accompanies Daniel Barenboim on his quest into the social meaning of music and the secrets of sound. It features him as a UN Messenger of Peace leading a spectacular concert in Gaza, working with the West-Eastern-Divan-Orchestra and conducting the Cairo Symphony Orchestra for the very first time.…
05.07.2015 09:05 (57 minutes)
Always armed with a bowler, wisecracks and affectations, he is not only on the outside one of the strangest fellows in French music history: Erik Satie was not just a composer, he was also a designer, church founder, PR pioneer, master of aperçus, author, wayfarer, professional self-publicist and inventor of “Musique d’ameublement.” The music documentary…
19.07.2015 17:30 (100 minutes)
The Gewandhausorchester Leipzig plays Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D major op. 61 and Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 Riccardo Chailly is, without a doubt, one of the great conductors of our times. At the Gewandhaus zu Leipzig, he conducted Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto and Mahler’s Symphony No. 1. The violin concerto is played by…
27.09.2015 21:10 (52 minutes)
She crosses boundaries and loves to explore new territory. Barbara Hannigan is one of the most fascinating and multi-facetted artistic personalities of our time. She sets new standards as a singer, conductor, and performance artist. The intimate portrait “I’m a creative animal” takes the viewer into the world of an exceptional musician – a world…
25.05.2015 00:40 (114 minutes)
The Mass in B Minor, Bach’s last completed vocal work as well as the climax of his creativity, reveals the overwhelming wealth of his compositional skills. In the history of music it ranks highly, as the “Montblanc of church music” (Franz Liszt) – composed during Bach’s time as cantor at the St. Thomas Church in…
01.06.2015 00:20 (57 minutes)
From the LUCERNE FESTIVAL IN SUMMER 2014 LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA Andris Nelsons, conductor Sara Mingardo, alto “Ah, who will heal the pains/of one for whom balm turned to poison?” wrote the poet Johann Wolfgang Goethe in December 1777, after visiting a depressed admirer who – inspired by the example of Goethe’s legendary protagonist, the young…
31.05.2015 23:25 (52 minutes)
Although the aesthetics of staging and broadcasting classical music haven’t changed much within the past 30 years, a parallel universe driven by a new event culture, marketing strategies and stardom has developed. With the first CD in 1982 as the starting point of the popularization of classical music the phenomenon found its peak in the…
08.06.2015 00:09 (56 minutes)
Always armed with a bowler, wisecracks and affectations, he is not only on the outside one of the strangest fellows in French music history: Erik Satie was not just a composer, he was also a designer, church founder, PR pioneer, master of aperçus, author, wayfarer, professional self-publicist and inventor of “Musique d’ameublement.” The music documentary…