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Fado is so much more than a musical genre - it is an attitude to life! With her art, Gisela João puts her own icing on the cake of the unique tradition of Fado: Modern and at the same time idiosyncratic, she interprets the Portuguese musical style…
Length
51 mins
Prog. No.
6994
Much like Rachmaninoff, who struggled to be taken seriously as he stuck to his post-romantic compositional style, in this documentary, Igudesman - also an immigrant and a prolific composer - tries to be honest about the innate insecurities of…
Length
52 mins
Prog. No.
6977
Danza Contemporánea de Cuba, founded in 1959, has now become the country's leading contemporary dance company, with a hybrid style, and a piquant mix of Afro-Caribbean rhythms, jazzy American modernism and European ballet inflections. It is here, in…
Length
53 mins
Prog. No.
6913
7 VISIONS OF AMEN is a masterpiece of Olivier Messiaen's musical production consisting of seven meanings of the word Amen. It is extraordinarily contemporary despite its 70 years of existence and its writing music is highlighted by four main essences…
Length
59 mins
Prog. No.
6766
Recorded at Berlin’s Tempodrom, the Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and its chief conductor Robin Ticciati present Richard Strauss’s "An Alpine Symphony" as a musical and philosophical mountain hike with the legendary mountaineer Reinhold Messner…
Length
52 mins
Prog. No.
6851
Turn back time and dreams to the black and white cinema universe where divas like Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland, Audrey Hepburn and many more with their delicate voices and expressive faces let us keep on dreaming while listening to their…
Length
48 mins
Prog. No.
6599
The three Sonatinas Opus 137 were written in 1816, one of Schubert’s happiest and most prolific years. He modelled them on the Sonatas of Mozart, but they are full of unmistakable Schubertian lyricism which was much admired by Brahms. The arpeggione…
Length
27 mins
Prog. No.
3671
Recorded at the Royaumont Abbey, France Philippe Jaroussky performs sacred works by Vivaldi, Scarlatti, Pergolesi.
Length
60 mins
Prog. No.
6596
The Danish Radio Big Band has joined forced with Curtis Stigers to celebrate the iconic legendary Frank Sinatra concerts that took place at The Sands Hotel in Las Vegas. The concert presents the most beloved evergreens from the American songbook of…
Length
59 mins
Prog. No.
5753
German composer Richard Wagner was notoriously anti-Semitic, and his writings on Jews were later embraced by Hitler and the Nazis. But there is another, lesser-known side to this story. For years, many of Wagner‘s closest associates were Jews - young…
Length
55 mins
Prog. No.
6478