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AARON COPLAND: FANFARE FOR AMERICA
Aaron Copland (1900-1990) is best known and loved for the hugely popular compositions he [...]
Think of today‘s top operatic voices, and black owners of them are as likely to come [...]
ANDRÉ PREVIN - THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS
André George Previn’s simultaneous world careers as a director, composer and pianist [...]
“There are more excellent countertenors today than ever before, but one of them stands [...]
The film documents the genesis of the new production of Wagner’s “Die Meistersinger [...]
George Frideric Handel
„Barockstar“ tells the story of Handel‘s life as he journeyed through baroque [...]
We know that Maria Callas literally brought opera back to life. This film sets out to do [...]
CARLOS KLEIBER - TRACES TO NOWHERE
On the 11th July 2004 Carlos Kleiber got into his car and drove from Munich, via the Alps, [...]
A feature length portrait of conductor Sergiu Celibidache, a phenomenon in the world of [...]
Anton BrucknerCELIBIDACHE REHEARSES BRUCKNER'S NINTH
For a full sixty minutes Celibidache rehearses Bruckner’s Ninth – a key work for the [...]
Frédéric Chopin
“The wrist – the breath in the voice.” (Frédéric Chopin) The opera for Chopin was [...]
Robert Schumann, Arnold Schönberg
This double programme with singer Christine Schäfer offers classical music in a new [...]
Joseph HaydnCHRISTOPH VON DOHNÁNYI - IN REHEARSAL
At the start of the 1997/1998 season, the renowned German maestro Christoph von Dohnányi, [...]
Producer and TV director Nigel Wattis directed the film biography, reproduced on this DVD, [...]
Alexander Glazunov
When Nureyev took up the position of Artistic Director of the ballet of the Paris opera in [...]
Sergei ProkofievDANCER'S DREAM - ROMEO & JULIET
Les Etoiles, les Premiers Danseurs et le Corps de Ballet de l’Opéra national de Paris, [...]
Pyotr Ilyich TchaikovskyDANCER'S DREAM - SLEEPING BEAUTY
During his time as Artistic Director Nureyev created a number of magnificent [...]
Ludwig Minkus
Rudolf Nureyev’s version of La Bayadère, which takes up a whole evening, had its [...]
Richard Wagner
In 2007 the Berlin Philharmonic celebrates its 125th anniversary. It has chosen to mark [...]
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Composers of our time Erich Wolfgang Korngold - A Portrait tells the story of a composr [...]