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| 80 |
The Beauty of the Voice/ La voce in bellezza
 LOFT music
 unico film
ZDF / ARTE
Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen SRF
 Germany
 Sabine Gisiger
 Helena Vagnières
 52'
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Documentary programmes dedicated to music and dance
Synopsis
The Zurich Opera operates an international opera studio which each year allows 20 young singers from all over the world to fine-tune their skills to become qualified performers. This is a pool of young talent for the Zurich State Opera as well as many other opera houses. The artistic coach is the Mexican tenor Francisco Araiza. For 15 years he has been one of the leading tenors on the world's opera stages. His enormous experience coupled with his highly sensitive and motivating practice makes Francisco Araiza the ideal mentor to the young high-fliers in the IOS Zurich.
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| 79 |
Round and Round and Hand it Over
Mitiki - France Bertrand Guerry - 51'
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Documentary programmes dedicated to music and dance
Synopsis
How does a percussionist dance? In the piece ECHOA the dancers become music and the music can be seen. When two percussionists and two dancer-choreographers decided to create a new artistic venture which deals with the delicate relationship between dance and music, they worked out how to share scenic space together. Their idea was to create a bond between the body and the sound and to forgo the traditional relationship between musicians and dancers. The piece is constructed around a set of two percussive structures placed on a stage. All of this came into existence when dancer and choreographer Thomas Guerry met percussionist, pianist and composer Camille Rocailleux.
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| 78 |
Anderszewski Plays Schumann
TVP SA NINA Poland Bruno Monsaingeon Bruno Monsaingeon 52'
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Performing Arts (Music and dance programmes, including live concert recordings
Synopsis
Piotr Anderszewski - currently one of the most internationally recognised piano talents, presents his interpretations of classical Schumann works in a concert that was performed against a background of documentary pictures of the life of a modern piano player.
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| 77 |
Jonas Kaufmann Gala Concert
Panart Promotion - Czech Republic Stanislav Vaněk Jiří Lebeda 49'
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Performing Arts (Music and dance programmes, including live concert recordings
Synopsis
A concert performance by "the most expressive and flexible of all tenor voices right now" (The Independent) which presents an evening of famous arias from Italian and French operas. Jonas Kaufmann, accompanied by the Prague Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jochen Rieder, proves that he is not just a beautiful voice but a consummate artist whose ability to find something new to say with each and every phrase brings constant refreshment. With his gorgeous and inviting voice he bends a phrase with tender pianissimos and then stuns you with the visceral power of his full-voiced top notes that come so easily and generate such heat. He has everything: intelligence, musicianship and resourceful technique. The enthusiastic audience gave the astonishing tenor four standing ovations. The concert was shot in High Definition.
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| 76 |
The Little Mermaid
Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images GmbH San Francisco Ballet (Producer)in co-production with WNET, NDR/arte, C Major Entertainment Austria Thomas Grimm - 124'
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Performing Arts (Music and dance programmes, including live concert recordings
Synopsis
After making its triumphant U.S. premiere and playing to sold out houses this past season, John Neumeier’s superlative work of dance-theater returns in 2011. Featuring an evocative score by Lera Auerbach, this heart-wrenching story of sacrifice and unrequited love comes to life against dazzling scene, costume and lighting designs.
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| 75 |
Rusalka
C Major Entertainment Unitel Classica (Producer) Germany TV Director: Thomas Grimm / Stage Director: Martin Kušej - 154'
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Documentary programmes dedicated to music and dance
Synopsis
This highly acclaimed production from the Bayerische Staatsoper was a veritable sensation and a double revelation. Firstly, that of the powerful and fascinating re-interpretation of Antonín Dvořák’s fairy-tale opera “Rusalka” and then that of the young, up-and-coming Latvian soprano, Kristīne Opolais, whose performance was rightly hailed by the press as “one of the most vivid and striking accomplishments seen on an opera stage in a long time” (Vienna’s leading daily “Der Standard”).
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| 74 |
Playing Against Time
Dibb Directions Ltd Wellcome Trust
BBC United Kingdom Mike Dibb Mike Dibb, Tom Swindell, Danny Nissim, Jon Hiseman 74'
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Documentary programmes dedicated to music and dance
Synopsis
A powerful and moving ‘medical/musical’ exploration of Parkinson’s disease, featuring the great British virtuoso jazz saxophonist/composer Barbara Thompson (who was first diagnosed in 1997) and her husband jazz-rock drummer Jon Hiseman. For over forty years virtuoso saxophonist/composer Barbara Thompson has been Britain’s most brilliant and best-known female jazz musician. Her original compositions and soaring flute and saxophone improvisations have attracted large and enthusiastic audiences beyond the confines of contemporary jazz. She’s released many albums and toured regularly throughout Europe, mainly with her own band Paraphernalia.
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| 73 |
About Things that Never Change
Latvian Television - Latvia Agita Cāne Jānis Šēnbergs 52'
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Documentary programmes dedicated to music and dance
Synopsis
About Things That Never Change – is the title to one of the most beautiful songs written by Latvian composer Imants Kalniņš, to whose music this programme is dedicated.
It has been said that "his music helped us survive," in reference to the period of Latvia's incorporation into the Soviet Union. And yet it is precisely politics that is absent in his music. We find beauty – longing, love and craving creating part of the inexplicable magic of these songs. Imants Kalniņš's music became an island of inner freedom and a sanctuary for the soul during this politically difficult time. His music for films and theatre is also very special and continues an independent life of its own today.
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| 72 |
Gidon Kremer: Freedom to Be
Russia-Kultura TV-channel - Russia Tamara Bocharova Viktor Mitropov 39'
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Documentary programmes dedicated to music and dance
Synopsis
Well-known choreographer, actress and winner of the Golden Mask Award Alla Sigalova presents outstanding violinist and conductor Gidon Kremer in her program “Gidon Kremer: Freedom to Be.” She proposes taking a new perspective on the famous musician’s image and creative work. Gidon Kremer is the world’s leading violinist, winner of the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and the Paganini Competition in Genoa. He is art director and principal conductor of the Kremerata Baltica chamber orchestra. Kremer is famous for his interpretations of both classics and modern academic music. The documentary is based on the musician’s childhood memories, on the events and the people who have played such an important role in Kremer’s achievements.
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| 71 |
The Man and the Orchestra
Russia-Kultura TV-channel - Russia Valeriy Spirin Kirill Speranskiy 52'
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Documentary programmes dedicated to music and dance
Synopsis
Maestro Vladimir Fedoseyev began his musical career at the time when one could guess from the first few notes not only which orchestra was performing but name the conductor too. Now even an experienced musicologist can’t tell one orchestra from another. Nowadays little by little conducting has become an easy hobby, everyone seems to be able to do it. “Not everyone indeed”- the Principal conductor of the Tchaikovsky Grand Symphony Orchestra states.
What is a conductor? Why is he indispensable? What are the relations between a conductor and an orchestra? To be a conductor is a mysterious almost mystic occupation.
The documentary “The Man and the Orchestra” unveils some mysteries of the private life of an orchestra and its conductor.
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