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Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.2

In time for his 65th birthday in November 2007, Daniel Barenboim has completed a cycle of Beethoven's piano concertos. Recorded live at the prestigious Klavier-Festival Ruhr in May 2007, this recording reflects both a very individual and special…
Length
30 mins
Prog. No.
5637

Joaquín Achúcarro & the Berliner Philharmoniker - De Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain

Joaquín Achúcarro plays with the Berliner Philharmoniker under the baton of musical director Sir Simon Rattle "Nights in the Gardens of Spain" by Manuel de Falla.
Length
28 mins
Prog. No.
5878

Discovering Masterpieces of Classical Music - Ravel

The “Bolero”, originally composed as a ballet, is Maurice Ravel's most successful work at all. The world famous melody of the “Bolero” has been featured in popular music, motion pictures and even video games. Pianist and writer Paul Roberts vividly…
Length
15 mins
Prog. No.
5610

Verbier Festival 2007: Martha Argerich plays Bartok

Length
26 mins
Prog. No.
7967

Rolando Villazón's "L’Elisir d’Amore" In The Wild West

Rolando Villazón as director and Nemorino: these tidings alone were enough to unleash a worldwide "run" on tickets to the Baden-Baden 2012 Pentecost-holiday opera. After his directorial debut in 2011 ("Werther", Lyon) the Mexican tenor now takes it a…
Length
29 mins
Prog. No.
5937

Soprano Annette Dasch: That is why music is the most important thing

This portrait follows Annette Dasch in her time in Bayreuth, Geneva, Munich and Berlin, during rehearsals, in performances, and in preparations of her show “Annettes DaschSalon”. The 2010/2011 season was marked by special events - from major debuts…
Length
30 mins
Prog. No.
5991

A Film and its Era: Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)

Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Notorious’ is released in 1946. Portrait of a film: after the fall of the Third Reich, the U.S. Secret Service, in order to prevent terrorist attacks, infiltrates the web of Nazi expatriates in South America. Hitchcock encrusts a…
Length
30 mins
Prog. No.
6197

A Film and its Era: Le père Noel est une ordure (Jean-Marie Poiré)

Jean-Marie Poiré shoots Santa Claus is a Stinker in 1981. Portrait of a film: Christmas Eve at the headquarters of “SOS Distress Friendship”. While a desperate man commits suicide over the phone, all sorts of characters arrive unannounced at the…
Length
30 mins
Prog. No.
6210

A Film and its Era: In the realm of the senses (Nagisa Oshima)

Nagisa Oshima directed «In the Realm of the Senses» in 1976. Portrait of a film: a sexually explicit film about absolute love. Considered to be pornographic by its director, it was regarded as an ‘art’ film in many countries. It was filmed in Japan…
Length
30 mins
Prog. No.
6202

A Film and its Era: The Mariage of Maria Braun (Reiner W. Fassbinder)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder shot Maria Braun's wedding in 1979. Story of a film: The film is about the life and destiny of Maria Braun and tells the rise and fall of this great adventurer and exceptional woman who lived in West Germany between 1945 and…
Length
30 mins
Prog. No.
6215