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For its 15th anniversary, the Verbier Festival has once again brought together the most prestigious artists in classical music. This series of TV programmes presents the very best of the 28 concerts.
Length
42 mins
Prog. No.
7818
In 1994, 54-year old José Van Dam undertook to play the role of Scarpia in Puccini's Tosca for the first time, a part that he had refused repeatedly in the past. In April 1995 in Liège, the singer met again with stage director Nicolas Joel for the…
Length
45 mins
Prog. No.
7762
A selection of the 2021 Verbier Festival’s finest concerts with many of the event’s most loyal artists (Valery Gergiev, Evgeny Kissin, Denis Matsuev) and newcomers (Mao Fujita or Josef Špaček playing Mozart, Klaus Mäkelä conducting the Verbier…
Length
44 mins
Prog. No.
7631
The virtuoso pianist Sergei Babayan performs Mozart’s mature and powerful Piano Concerto No. 25 as well as Bach’s Keyboard Concerto No. 1, both accompanied by the Verbier Festival Orchestra under the direction of the young talented American conductor…
Length
40 mins
Prog. No.
7602
In 2014, Denis Matsuev gave a concert with the St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, under the baton of Zoltán Kocsis. Together, they performed Liszt‘s Piano Concert No. 2 and his Totentanz, as well as Shchedrin‘s Elégie pour piano seul.
Length
34 mins
Prog. No.
7542
Little Red Riding Hood begins, like all fairy tales, with: "Once upon a time..." For children of all ages the composer Georges Aperghis imagined a tale in music and movement: he chose the very first version written by Charles Perrault almost 300…
Length
43 mins
Prog. No.
7337
Gennady Rozhdestvensky conducts the Symphony Capella Orchestra of Russia with Viktoria Postnikova at the piano for a rare performance of “Dead Souls”, a work composed by Schnittke for the cinema. This piece is followed by a cantata by Prokofiev…
Length
45 mins
Prog. No.
7327
Famous music filmmaker Bruno Monsaingeon devoted a whole cycle of concert films to David Oistrakhs musical legacy. He collected recordings from all over the world with him as a soloist with an orchestra and as a chamber musician. The concerts were…
Length
37 mins
Prog. No.
7315
Before the champagne corks pop to celebrate the turn of the year 2016/2017, EuroArts Music captures the Berliner Philharmoniker under the baton of Simon Rattle. The programme includes some of the most dashing Slavonic Dances by Antonín Dvořák, and…
Length
34 mins
Prog. No.
6842
The motto called "IN EXILE – OF GODS AND MEN" connects ancient mythology, the Renaissance and the present: The Friedrichswerdersche Church, which was re-opened in October for museum exhibitions but had to close again right away due to the pandemic…
Length
42 mins
Prog. No.
6833