Competition Programmes
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Trio Élégiaque
Performing Arts
Sergei Rakhmaninov's highly Romantic Piano Trio, composed to the memory of Tchaikovski, in discussion and performance by Swedish Kungsbacka Trio
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97 –
An Evening With Nina Stemme
Performing Arts
Super soprano Nina Stemme in a selection of her favorite songs together with conductor Thomas Dausgaard and Swedish Chamber Orchestra. A touring show created for smaller Swedish venues as well as Lincoln Center and Salle Pleyel.
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96 –
REMEMBERING SVYATOSLAV RICHTER
Documentary programmes dedicated to music and dance
Yury Bashmet, the famous violist, shares his memories of the meetings with the brilliant pianist and outstanding person Svyatoslav Richter. This is a lively story about their joint performances at different concert halls. Yury Bashmet attempts to...
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95 –
SOUND MYRIADS, PIERRE BOULEZ´S "PLI SELON PLI, PORTRAIT OF MALLARMÉ"
Documentary programmes dedicated to music and dance
The film documents the rehearsals and the concert of Pierre Boulez’s grand composition "Pli selon pli, Portrait de Mallarmé" for solo soprano and orchestra, by the Cologne Ensemble musikFabrik, with soprano Yeree Suh and conductor Pascal...
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94 –
DIONYSOS – SCENES AND DITHYRAMBS WOLFGANG RIHM’S OPERA PHANTASY AT THE SALZBURG FESTIVAL
Performing Arts
Friedrich Nietzsche’s last cycle of poems Dithyrambs of Dionysus is the inspiration and point of departure for Wolfgang Rihm’s latest musical theatre work, which was given its world première at the Salzburg Festival. Stage director Pierre Audi...
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93 –
I AM THY LABYRINTH
Documentary programmes dedicated to music and dance
Composer Wolfgang Rihm has written an artists’ opera: Friedrich Nietzsche’s late hymns to Dionysos, the wild god of the ancient Greeks, are the inspiration and point of departure for his new musical theatre piece. Nietzsche’s ecstatic poetry and...
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92 –
JOHN CAGE: JOURNEYS IN SOUND
Documentary programmes dedicated to music and dance
On the occasion of the 100th birthday of the American composer in autumn 2012, the German production company Accentus Music will honour one of the most extraordinary protagonists of 20th century music with a television tribute. The program will be...
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91 –
A JEWEL OF THE BAROQUE
Documentary programmes dedicated to music and dance
The Český Krumlov castle and chateau feature on UNESCO’s list of the world’s cultural and natural heritage sites. Forming a part of the chateau area is a unique Baroque theatre – unique, since it is only here that the original Baroque stage and...
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90 –
TICKET TO PARADISE
Documentary programmes dedicated to music and dance
This documentary is an almost intimate portrait of the famous Czech mezzo-soprano singer Dagmar Pecková, who, surprisingly, openly speaks about her life and answers questions nobody has ever asked this opera star. With the same frankness she...
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89 –
AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT OF JANA K.
Documentary programmes dedicated to music and dance
The life story of legendary Czech jazz singer Jana Koubková. For years she has been one of the leading figures of Czech jazz. She has been singing since six years old in choirs, vocal groups and as a soloist. As a jazz soloist, Koubková became...
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