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Philip Glass

Photo © Marthe Amanda Vannebo A Descent into the Maelstrom

The American writer, poet and critic Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) is famous for his short stories, tales and poems of horror and mystery such as 'The Fall of the House of Photo © Marthe Amanda Vannebo A Descent into the Maelstrom from Usher', 'The Tell-Tale 1841 tells the tale of two fishermen caught in torrents raging between the mountainous Heart' and 'The Raven', islands of Lofoten, inside the Arctic Circle of published in 1845 and northern Norway. A treacherous whirlpool drags their boat down and only one of considered among the them survives. Based on this story Philip Glass composed a choral work for the best-known poems in Australian Dance Theatre in 1986. With the blessings of the composer, Beacon Isle American literature. Films has produced an arrangement for the Artic Philharmonic Orchestra, the world's He captured the imagination and interest of youngest and northernmost professional readers around the world and led to literary orchestral institution, which gives about 150 innovations, earning him the nickname of performances each year covering the entire 'Father of the Detective Story'. Some aspects Northern Norway and the High North. The of his life, like his literature, are shrouded recording took place in the surroundings that in mystery, and the lines between fact and inspired Poe's story, the spectacular landscape fiction have been blurred substantially since his of Lofoten. Tim Weiss conducted the Arctic death. Philharmonic Orchestra and with Berit Norbakken Solset assuming the soprano solo part. Edgar Allen Poe

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Photo © Yngve Olsen Sæbbe

directed by Jan Vardøen produced by Beacon Isle Films Shot in 4K

A Descent into the Maelstrom - the documentary uses the music as recorded by the Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir in an examination of the social and political turmoil we are experiencing at the present time. We are staring into the abyss and the abyss has started to stare back at us. Douglas and Mary Filmmaker Jan Vardøen is marrying images of the hard life in the Lofoten with great Photo © Marthe Amanda Vannebo sensitivity to the music of Philip Glass. Running Time 70'

A Descent into the Maelstrom - the concert presents the actual recording of the music by Philip Glass with state of the art equipment undercut with spectacular images of the surrounding landscape. Running Time 63'

Approaching the Maelstrom is a documentary about the whole process of putting A Descent into the Maelstrom together, featuring one of the rare interviews with the composer Philip Glass. Running Time 50'

Photo © Marthe Amanda Vannebo

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Photo © Reinhard Winkler A GiANT iN THE MAKiNG

The reception to Bruckner's music has been late and slow. The recording of a complete Bruckner Cycle by Telmondis with Photo © Christian Herzenberger Valery Gergiev and the Munich Philharmonic at St. Florian in Upper Austria provides us with occupy, tells us about his triumph in Notre a unique chance of obtaining clips from all of Dame in Paris and the Albert Hall and Cristal his symphonies from one source in order to Palace in London. Composing symphonies make a comprehensive documentary about however made him lots of enemies because the composer. Deryck Cooke quite rightly Anton Bruckner the traditionalists led by Brahms had the upper pointed out that “Bruckner's symphonic music hand against the Neudeutsche Schule which is more like walking round a cathedral and taking to improvise on the organ and point out how included Wagner and Liszt and Bruckner in each aspect of it than like setting out on a the organ influenced orchestration in his later was lumped in with the latter. While the journey to some hoped-for goal”. Hence the symphonies. Other contributors tell us about fourth symphony was quite successful when difficulty of familiarizing oneself with much Bruckner's pining for young girls to whom he performed at the Musikverein, the of his work. St. Florian has been the first proposed in old fashioned letters which have Philharmonic declared other works to be stepping stone in what subsequently became been available to be filmed. The successors of unplayable and rubbish. It was only very late a career as a composer. On the death of his the choral society Frohsinn, which Bruckner led in his life that Bruckner experienced a real father Bruckner was taken to St. Florian by to fame while in Linz, will perform secular and breakthrough with a performance of his his mother in the hope that he would be sacred a cappella works and the current music 7th symphony in Munich. We will hear how accepted as choir boy. One mouth less to feed. director will assess Bruckner's vocal writing. Bruckner was feted and how disappointed We therefore begin with a visit to St. Florian On another level Valery Gergiev will discuss he was when the next symphony was initially and follow the Florianer Sängerknaben during Bruckner's most innovative compositions turned down by his most ardent supporter. recreation as well as learning and rehearsing followed by the appropriate clips. Bruckner's We will also devote time to the creation of music while their music director talks about little known, but quite close relationship with Bruckner's ninth and last symphony which was the institution in Bruckner's time as well as Richard Wagner merits a fresh look. The dedicated to God and remained unfinished. As today, together with his early upbringing. No director of the Richard Wagner Museum at he wanted to be buried under the organ of St. doubt that the splendour of the place made Bayreuth shows us the score of the third Florian in the crypt of the Basilica we return a lasting impression on the boy who would symphony, which Bruckner dedicated to to St. Florian and end with his Ave Maria later become Organist at St. Florian. The Wagner and reads out the amusing double performed by the Linzer Singakademie and architecture and space of the monastery is autograph which reassures the composer that Hard-Chor. certainly an element reflected in his symphonic Wagner was indeed the dedicatee, as some work. We hear about his choice to become a confusion had occurred in Bruckner´s mind directed by Reiner E. Moritz teacher, the misery of his first employment, the after a beer fueled evening at Wahnfried. produced by Monarda Arts final decision to turn to music and his success Arriving in Vienna to become successor to as organist. Both the organists of St. Florian, his teacher Simon Sechter Bruckner's fame as running time for television 58' where he began, and the Old Cathedral in Linz, an improviser earned him trips to France and there will be a 90' version for home where he went next, will talk about these first England. The current organist of the Vienna video & theatrical release Shot in 4K steps in a career as musician, demonstrate how Court Chapel, a position Bruckner would later

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The Zaryadye Concert Hall

On September 8th, 2018, of Paganini at breakneck speed turning himself The Programme: into a Paganini like demon and Anna Netrebko, Mussorgsky: Overture "Dawn on the Moskva President Vladimir Putin who at the height of her musical powers sang River" from Khovanchtchina opened the Zaryadye Marfa's aria from Rimsky-Korsakov's The Shchedrin: Solemn Overture Tsar´s Bride. All in all an unforgettable evening Ruslan and Ludmila Philharmonic Hall, a brilliant viewers around the world can share thanks to Glinka: Ludmila's Aria from . new venue in Zaryadye Telmondis who expertly recorded the event. Soloist Albina Shagimuratova (Soprano) This is what conductor Valery Gergiev has to Mussorgsky: Coronation Scene from Boris Park, Moscow. Valery Gergiev and say about the new hall: “Zaryadye Hall will have Godunov, Soloist Ildar Abdrazakov () his Mariinsky Orchestra provided the fitting more unique opportunities for staging opera and Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, framework for the event with an all-Russian ballets than the second stage of the Mariinsky Soloist Daniil Trifonov (Piano) programme of music by Shchedrin, Glinka, Theatre built ten years ago. There is a bad Khovanchtchina Mussorgsky, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky and practice – you build a philharmonic hall and then Mussorgsky: Scene from , Rimsky-Korsakov. Needless to say that Gergiev spend millions on improvement and updating. Soloist Mikhael Petrenko (Bass) Instead we want to build a hall that will not need Tchaikovsky Melancholic Serenade, Soloist any improvements. It should become a perfect Pinchas Zuckerman (Violin) acoustic instrument that will touch the soul and Shostakovich Concerto for piano, and the imagination of the audience once and for all. strings, Soloists Denis Matsuev (Piano) and I really believe in its success…” Timur Martynov (Trumpet) The Tsar's directed by François-René Martin Rimsky-Korsakov Marfa's Aria from Bride, Soloist Anna Netrebko (Soprano) produced by Telmondis Mussorgksy/Ravel Extracts from Pictures at an running time 107' Exihibition

invited world class soloists he is used to work with, including Albina Shagimuratova, Ildar Abdrazakov, Daniil Trifonov, Pinchas Zuckerman and Anna Netrebko. Breathtaking highlights were the performances of Daniil Trifonov who played the Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a theme

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SHELL SHOCK A REQUiEM OF WAR

Whether you call it shell shock or post- see where the war started, why it happened and traumatic stress disorder, war creates serious what the consequences are.” Shell Shock psychological wounds. A hundred years And confessed: “What do I know A Requiem of War after the end of the Great War, the Belgian about killing a man or seeing a friend die. At the composer Nicolas Lens has written a dance- end it was a battle between me, the keyboard The Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio oratorio on this subject, using lyrics by the and my imagination.” France and the Chorus of the Opera of well known Australian singer, song writer, poet In order to commemorate and celebrate Silesea in Bytom and rock’n roll enfant terrible Nick Cave. In the end of the Great War in 1918, the Conducted by Bassem Akiki twelve poems or cantos Cave evokes the Philharmonie de Paris restaged Shell Shock soloists anonymous protagonists of the war in a highly for many invited heads of state including Soprano Laurence Servaes personal and fluent style: soldiers, nurses, President Emmanuel Macron on November Mezzo Sara Fulconi deserters, survivors, dead, missing, mothers, 10th and 11th last year .The recording of this Counter Magid El-Bushra orphans and the terrifying Angels of Death. event lends itself ideally to be programmed for Sébastian Dray Remembrance Day or in the case of Australia Bass Mark S. Doss and New Zealand ANZAC Day. and Soloists of the Trinity Boys Choir The Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio France and the Chorus of the Opera of directed by Denis Caïozzi Silesia in Bytom was conducted by Bassem produced by Akiki. Soloists: Laurence Servaes, soprano, LGMT Sara Fulconi, mezzo, Magid El-Bushra, counter, running time 90' Shot in HD Sébastian Dray, tenor, Mark S. Doss, bass, and soloists of the Trinity Boys Choir.

The testimonies of these individual characters, photos © LGMT with whom everyone can identify, make the universal call for a humane and peaceful world. They morph into different characters and help each other by telling their individual story. The choreography and staging was entrusted to the Belgian-Moroccan choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, whose contemporary dancers from his company Eastman sometimes form a hero statue, but in general are absorbing, underlining and accompanying the vocal soloist characters in their role to focus on the traumatic effects war has on individuals. At the world première in 2014, to commemorate the outbreak of the Great War, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui said: “If you revisit the history of WW1, you get a different view of the United States and Iraq, because you can now

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Concerts for Television

Poorhouse is very proud to have secured Boris Berezovsky (piano) Dmitry Shishkin (Piano) worldwide distribution rights for a selection Russian National Orchestra Russian National Orchestra of programmes produced by the Moscow Conductor: Mikhail Pletnev Conductor: Mikhail Pletnyov Philharmonic Society. Dmitry Shostakovich Prokofiev: Concerto No. 2 for Piano in Hummel: Concerto No. 2 for Piano said about this institution: “It is difficult G minor, Op. 16 and Orchestra to overestimate the role of the Moscow Rimsky-Korsakov: The Snow Maiden Suite, HD Running Time: 35' Philharmonic in the development of musical life The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the in our country. It is a kind of university which Maiden Fevronia Suite, The Fairy Tale about Tsar is attended by millions of music lovers and Saltan Suite thousands of musicians.” Created in 1922 HD Running Time: 90' by the Commissar for Culture, Anatoly Boris Berezokvsky (piano) Lunacharsky, it has become Russia's leading Recital Music by Balakirev, Lyadov, Scriabin concert organizer with a wide range of HD Running Time: 90' subscription concerts featuring top artists and orchestras from all over the world and a lot Boris Berezovsky (piano) of programming for children. We have been Russian National Orchestra able to choose programmes involving Mikhail Conductor: Alexander Sladkovsky Pletnev, International Tchaikovsky Competition Rachmaninov: Concerto No. 1 for Piano Lucas Debargue winner in 1978 conducting the Russian and Orchestra Lucas Debargue (piano) National Orchestra, he founded in 1990, as HD Running Time: 45' Russian National Orchestra well as playing the rarely heard Second Piano Conductor: Mikhail Pletnev Concerto by Saint-Saens. We also selected Boris Berezovsky (piano) The Moscow Synodal Choir performances with another International Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra Bizet: Suite from music to drama, A Daudet’s Tchaikovsky Competition winner in 1990, Conductor: Vladimir Verbitsky L’Arlesienne (compiled by M. Pletnev) Boris Berezovsky, who features in concerts and Khachaturyan: Concerto for Piano and Ravel: Concerto No. 1 for Piano and Orchestra, a wonderful recital of all Russian music. We Orchestra, Adagio from Spartacus Daphnis and Chloe Suite can also offer a concert with French Shooting Alexander Borodin: In the Steppes of Central Scriabin: Promoetheus (Poem of Fire) Star, Lucas Debargue, an autodidact, who as Asia for Piano, Choir and Orchestra Die Welt puts it, came from nowhere to take HD Running Time: 60' HD Running Time: 120' 4th Prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 2015 as well as the prize of Boris Berezovsky (piano) Ekaterina Mechetina (piano) the critics and is now considered one of the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia Debussy: Suite Bergamasque, L 75 promises of the young generation. Last but Conductor: Konstantin Khvatynets HD Running Time: ??' not least we have taken on Chamber Music by Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a theme by Paganini Claude Debussy, which is not often recorded for Piano and Orchestra Vadim Repin (violin) but now available with world class artists. Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue for Piano Nikolay Lugansky (piano) and Orchestra Debussy: Sonata for Violin and Piano in HD Running Time: 60' G minor, L 140 Ravel: Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano Mikhail Pletnev (piano) in G major Russian National Orchestra Beethoven: Sonata No. 9 in A major, Op. 47 Conductor: Kirill Karabits (Kreutzer) Prokofiev: Dreams - symphonic picture HD Running Time: 35'/90' Saint-Saens: Concerto No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra HD Running Time: 45' produced by Moscow Philharmonic

Boris Berezovsky Society in HD

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Carmina Burana Choreographed by Claude Brumachon

These medieval songs Carmina Burana around the wheel of Choreographed by Claude Brumachon Music Carl Orff fortune have been staged The Cannes Orchestra and danced many a time the Philharmonic Choir, Nice the Ensemble Vocale Syrinx & to Carl Orff's gripping the Children's Choir of the Cannes music. The latest attempt Conservatory Conducted by Benjamin Levy is by Brumachon for the soloists Ballet du Grand Théâtre Soprano Celine Mellon thought, an elevation of spirituality. Men who Tenor Christophe Berry de Genève and was filmed seem to have escaped Dante's Inferno are Jean-Christophe Lanièce at last year's Festival de submitted to the fickleness of fate as within each scene, and sometimes within a single Dancers from Danse in Cannes. movement, the wheel of fortune turns joy into the Grand Théâtre de Genève bitterness and hope into grief. Costumes for Brumachon was born in Rouen where he the men resemble Roman garb or remind us directed for TV by Vincent Massip studied at the Fine Arts School. He later of Géricault's Raft of the Medusa, while the performed with Ballet de la Cité, Christine goddesses are lavishly dressed courtesy Livia produced by La Belle Télé Gérard and Karine Saporta before he started Stoianova and Yassen Samailov from the label running time 65' Shot in HD his independent career as a choreographer “On aura tout vu”. by founding a research group with Benjamin Lamarche. This group was developed into a performing ensemble in 1984 and lives on until today in the guise of Sous la Peau. In 1992 Brumachon became co-director with Benjamin Lamarche of the CCNN (Nantes). Carmina Burana is his first work for the Geneva Ballet Company. In an interview Brumachon explained his vision of the ballet as follows: “I see the human condition in these people on the ground, a shaking ground, destroying itself, burning. Above six women, six goddesses, Venus, Flora, Fortuna, Phoebe, Hecuba and Philomela, who had been turned in to a nightingale. I see these six women who dominate humanity and represent the sacred, love, poverty, power, salvation, courage and distress, Flora in flowers, Fortuna in red, Hecuba in black, Phoebe in yellow, Philomela in feathers and Venus in transparent skin.” He evokes the seasons of an earth, the feeling of a humanity, the animals of a nature, the power of

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Granados Love and Death

There are not many music documentaries finished the piece during a stay in Switzerland at the turn of the 19th century as backdrop. made in Spain. Poorhouse already worked with but the outbreak of WW1 thwarted the Paris Highlights of the documentary include filmmaker Arantxa Aguirre on herA Rose for première. Granados managed to persuade performances by Evgeny Kissin, Rosa Torres- Antonio Soler. Now she has come up with Love the administration of the opera house to let Prado, Carlos Alvarez, Arcángel, Rocio Márquez and Death, a portrait of composer and pianist the world première go to the MET in New and Nancy Fabiola Herrera. Danza Oriental Enrique Granados. This is a great love story York, where the opera was staged with great by Maurice Béjart is performed by members between the penniless artist and Amparo, the success on January 26th, 1916. Because of of the Béjart Ballet Lausanne while Patricia daughter of a well to do Catalan business man. an invitation to perform at the White House Guerrero stunningly interprets the Danza de But first things first. Granados studied piano Granados and his wife cancelled their boat trip los ojos verdes in her own choreography. in Barcelona and thereafter went to Paris directly to Spain and went home via England like so many other young Spanish artists. In instead. They died while crossing the Channel directed by Arantxa Aguirre Paris he shared a room with pianist Ricardo when German U-Boot 29 torpedoed the ferry produced by Lopez-Li Films & RTVE Viñes and made friends with Pablo Casals. In with the French coast already in sight. The 1992 he had his first success as a composer captain urged the passengers to stay on board running time 58' & 79' Shot in HD with Danzas espanolas and as a pianist with as he was confident to reach the harbour, but Grieg's piano concerto. His breakthrough came Granados and his wife jumped into the sea, with the zarzuela Maria del Carmen 1898 in besotten with fate, and drowned. Madrid. His greatest and most lasting success Arantxa Aguirre tells her story with archive was the piano suite Goyescas. On playing this footage and picture material from Granados' piece in Paris the Paris Opera suggested he time, using also paintings and postcards in a use the material to create an Opera. Granados most original way with booming Barcelona

Newsletter No47 February - March 2019 10czech tv Leosˇ Janácekˇ A documentary about the Czech composer who changed the image of music

The Cunning Little Vixen Photo © Bill Cooper

Leoš Janáček is one of the four great Czech The life of a genius is usually different in composers who gained worldwide fame some way. Janáček was a musical genius, a (together with Smetana, Dvořák and Martinů). person with an extraordinary creative talent, His name will forever represent Czech music but also an eccentric who exhibited foolish

in the world; however there is an absence of and sometimes ridiculous behaviour. Our film Jenufa a comprehensive biographic document that aims to explore this gift of generosity and its would introduce Janáček to contemporary importance to mankind. international audiences. Our advisor and script co-writer is musicologist Jiří Zahrádka, Czech Brian Large at work leading expert on Janáček. The documentary will be built on important Janáček motives and themes: Janáček and the gift of genius, Janáček and perseverance, Janáček and conductors, Janáček and Max Brod, Janáček and his relationships with women. As the archive footage we will use Czech Televisions’s rich music video archives as well as international recordings of Janáček’s and other works. For the broad context we The Cunning Little Vixen Photo © Bill Cooper will speak to people that are related to Janáček on the international music scene. We intend to use clips from a multitude of opera performances such as Jenufa (from Glyndebourne, La Monnaie, Teatro Real, Deutsche Oper), Katja Kabanova (from Glyndebourne, Teatro Real), The Makropoulos Case (from Glyndebourne), The Cunning Little Vixen (from Théâtre Musical du Châtelet, Glyndebourne), From the House of the Dead (from Aix-en Provence, Vienna, Savonlinna) and others. We will also meet Janáček expert Brian Large directed by Vlastimil Šimunek˚ and invite conductors like Simon Rattle, Daniel & Reiner Moritz Barenboim, Vladimir Jurowski, Donald Runnicles to participate. produced by Czech TV running time 52'

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Barbe-bleu Bluebeard

Jacques Offenbach having studied violin Ludovic Halévy's and Henri Meilhac's and cello in his native Cologne leaves the brilliant libretto for Barbe-bleu rewrites Paris Conservatoire after one year and finds Perrault's story as follows: Saphir and Fleurette a position in the orchestra of the Opéra- are living as shepherds loving each other. Comique as cellist. Halévy gives him some In reality Fleurette is Hermia, the daughter composition lessons. As cello virtuoso he of King Bobèche and Saphir a prince, who appears with Rubinstein in Paris, with Liszt has disguised himself to be near his beloved in Cologne and Joachim and Mendelssohn Fleurette. Bluebeard who had recently at concerts of the Musical Union in London. poisoned his fifth wife sends his alchemist In 1850 he is appointed conductor at the Popolani to the village to find a virginal young Théâtre Français, a position he gives up in peasant to become his sixth wife. He chooses the Exhibition year of 1855 when he creates Boulotte who is anything but virginal, but the Bouffes Parisiens, where he begins to Bluebeard is delighted. However when he Jacques Offenbach, photo by Nadar perform his own work. With Orphée aux catches sight of Fleurette he orders Popolani enfers he has his first big success in 1858. This to administer Boulotte a strong sleeping potion Barbe-bleu is the prototype of things to come. In Vienna as he has already done with the earlier wifes. Orchestra and Chorus he premières his Rheinnixen to great acclaim. While Fleurette has been finally recognized by Opera National de Lyon La Belle Hélène will follow in the same year. her father, King Bobèche, and is preparing to Conductor Michele Spotti Barbe-bleu has its première at the Théâtre des marry her prince, Bluebeard tries to interfere, cast Variétés in Paris on February 5th, 1866, playing but is stopped in his tracks by the arrival of Barbe-blue Yann Beuron for an unprecedented 5 month followed by Boulotte, who had woken up the other wives Prince Saphir Carl Ghaszarossian productions in London, Vienna and Brussels and led them to the castle in the disguise of Fleurette Jennifer Courcier during the same year. Offenbach's success is gypsies. Bluebeard has no choice but to finish Boulotte Heloise Mas based on satirical treatment of familiar stories, his days with the streetwise Boulotte. Popolani Christophe Gay mythological or others, in which contemporary Laurent Pelly, with many successful Comte Oscar Nabil Suliman society and politics are ridiculed during the Offenbach productions to his credit, will stage Roi Bobèche Christophe Mortagne regime of Napoléon III. With the death in Barbe-bleu at the Opera National de Lyon exile of the Emperor Offenbach's work loses with Michele Spotti conducting Orchestra and directed for TV by Vincent Massip its main target and becomes less attractive. Chorus of the Lyon Opera House. In order to make up for this he undertakes a produced by Telmondis very successful US tour in 1876. The last years running time 120' of his life are mainly devoted to create his one and only opera Les contes d`Hoffmann. He dies in 1880.

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“I met three geniuses in my life: Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein and ” Charlie Chaplin

Clara Haskil The Mystery of Interpretation

The celebrated Viennese piano teacher stage to perform. In 1942 she barely escaped Anton Door, an acquaintance of Brahms and Nazi occupation of France and made Vevey Joachim and Clara Schumann published his in Switzerland her home for the rest of her first meeting with Clara Haskil in the Neue life. Only after WW2 her career really took Freie Presse in April 1902: “Recently a doctor off until a tragic fall from the stairs of Brussels from Romania came to me, leading by the Central station ended her life in 1960. She hand, a little girl barely seven years of age. is remembered by wonderful recordings, in directed by Pascal Cling, Prune The child, whose mother is a widow, is unique. particular with Arthur Grumiaux. Rudolf Serkin Jaillet & Pierre-Olivier François She has never had any music lessons beyond nicknamed her “the perfect Clara”. This is the being shown the value and name of the notes. first documentary on the artist, who left no produced by Louise Productions and More did not seem necessary, for every piece of audiovisual material but plenty of recordings, Seppia Film music that is played to her and which she can which have become benchmark, letters and running time 70' manage with her small hands she repeats by ear photographs. Clara Haskil - The Mystery of without mistake and in any key one asks. An easy Interpretation also tries to find an answer to movement from a Beethoven Sonata that I gave what a great interpretation of a composition is. her she played at sight without difficulty. One is The documentary is ready in time for the next baffled, for this early maturity of a human brain Clara Haskil International Piano Competition in strikes one as uncanny”. In Vienna Clara Haskil Vevey, Switzerland. Contributors include Joëlle studied with Richard Robert, whose pupils also Caullier, Eugène Chaplin, Marguerite Colombo, included Rudolf Serkin and . Later Michiel Dalberto, Michael Garady, Alain she moved to Paris where she graduated from Lompech, Patrick Peikert, Eliane Reyes and the Paris Conservatoire at the age of 15 with Christian Zacharias, who is also the president a Premier Prix in piano. Her budding career of the competition. came to a halt in 1913 suffering from scoliosis. With great will power she resumed playing a few years later, often dragging herself on

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Anna Karenina photo © Kiran West from MDM. Any further supporters for the documentary and maybe some symphonies are of course very welcome. You can watch the teaser here: https://vimeo.com/305029736 READY FOR DELiVERY Iconic Couples: 4 new episodes at 52’ each: Ingrid Bergman & Roberto Rossellini Judy Garland & Vincente Minnelli Ali MacGraw & Steve McQueen Monica Vitti & Michelangelo Antonioni

OUT ON DVD Anton Bruckner The DVD of Pierre Boulez - A Life for Music has been released by Arthaus to enthusiastic Steve McQueen & Ali MacGraw in The Getaway reviews such as Mark Sealey´s on classical net The Tiki Craze of Hollywood 52' who concludes The Max Factor 52’ “If you have even a minimum interest in the Carmina Burana 65’ world of contemporary music; if you want to be Shell Shock 90’ clearer about Boulez, and perhaps understand better why he was such a great figure in (modern) music; if you already know the musician AVANT-PREMIERE and his work, then this is an essential DVD so SCREENING BERLIN 2019 rich and full of material that it cannot fail to The Poorhouse International show reel is communicate the energy, inventiveness and rock- scheduled for Sunday, February 10th, 2019 in solid musicianship of Boulez.” Block 2 between 13:30 and 15:00. Contact Reiner Moritz and Heike Connolly at ANNA KARENiNA the IMZ Zone and/or Grand Hotel Esplanade/ Sheraton, Tel. +49 (0)30 254 780 or mobile John Neumeier is one of the very few Heike Connolly +44 7720 060102. choreographers who has the ability to create full length ballets. After his very successful Tatiana, based on Pushkin's novel in verse, he SHOWREEL turned to Leo Tolstoy and created a ballet Shell Shock 90’ inspired by the latter's novel Anna Karenina. Carmina Burana 65’ The main protagonists Karenin and Anna, AN UPDATE FOR ANTON The Zaryadye Concert Hall in Moscow 107’ danced by Edvin Revazov and Anna Laudere, Hans Zender - Thinking with Your Senses 56’ are well known to us from their outstanding BRUCKNER - A GiANT iN Descent into the Maelstrom 63’ performances in Tatiana. Different from the THE MAKiNG Leoš Janácekˇ - A Moravian Genius 52’ novel John Neumeier ends his ballet with With filming in and around Ansfelden, Hans van Manen: Adagio Hammerklavier 24’ Anna's suicide. Anna Karenina was created as St. Florian, Bayreuth and Linz we are two Gaël Faye at the Olympia 58’ a coproduction between the Hamburg Ballet, thirds home. We have already clips from 6 of El Baille -The Bal 80’ the Bolshoi Ballet and the National Ballet of Bruckner's symphonies provided by Telmondis, Anton Bruckner - A Giant in the Making 58' or Canada. Telmondis will record in May of this a motet by the Florianer Sängerknaben, two 90’ year and Reiner E. Moritz is preparing for an Lieder and some more motets by the Linzer extra feature if Poorhouse can raise enough Singakademie and Hard Chor, and some organ interest in this new venture. Any pre-purchase playing and will do the rest of our filming in would be very welcome. The ballet will be Vienna this March. We are then expecting the directed by the old Neumeier associate outstanding three symphonies from Telmondis Thomas Grimm. Running Time 165 Minutes after the Bruckner Fest in September to complete our documentary by the end of the year. This is also a good moment to say thank 58 Broadwick Street you to all those colleagues who committed London W1F 7AL early: BR, ORF, Sky Arts NZ and UK, SVT and YLE. I also wish to thank Monarda Arts, my telephone: +44 (0)20 7436 8663 producer, to have obtained some underwriting email [email protected] www.poorhouseintl.co.uk

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