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CATALOGUE 2019

CATALOGUE 2019

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SALZBURG FESTIVAL West-Eastern Divan , & 10 Wiener Philharmoniker, Håkan Hardenberger & 11 Henze: (Wiener Philharmoniker / Nagano / Warlikowski) 12 Monteverdi: L’incoronazione di Poppea (Les Arts Florissants / Christie / Lauwers) 13 Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (Wiener Philharmoniker / Carydis / Steier) 14 Rossini: L’italiana in Algeri (Ensemble Matheus / Spinosi / Leiser & Caurier) 15 Strauss: Salome (Wiener Philharmoniker / Welser-Möst / Castellucci) 16 Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame (Wiener Philharmoniker / Jansons / Neuenfels) 17

OPERA Benjamin: Lessons in Love and Violence (Royal House, / Benjamin / Mitchell) 18 Cruz: La Princesse Légère (Opéra Comique, / Deroyer / Houben & Wilson) 19 Draghi: El Prometeo (Opéra de Dijon / García Alarcón / Tambascio) 20 Goldschmidt: Beatrice Cenci (Bregenz Festival / Debus / Erath) 21 Larcher: Das Jagdgewehr (Bregenz Festival / Boder / Markovics) 22 Messager: Les P’tites Michu (Théatre Graslin, Nantes / Dumoussaud / Barché) 23 Offenbach: Les Contes d’Hoffmann (Dutch National Opera, Amsterdam / Rizzi / Kratzer) 25 Prokofiev: The Fiery Angel (Festival d’Aix-en-Provence / Ōno / Treliński) 24 Puccini: ( Festival / Thielemann / Sturminger) 26 Puccini: ( Torino / Noseda / Poda) 27 Rossini: (Tyrol Festival Erl / Kuhn / Di Montegral) 28 Rossini: (, / Sagripanti / Pynkoski) 29 Verdi: (Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin / Barenboim / Martone) 30 Verdi: Falstaff (Teatro Regio di / Frizza / Spirei) 31 Verdi: Jérusalem (Teatro Regio di Parma / Callegari / De Ana) 32 Verdi: Macbeth (Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin / Barenboim / Kupfer) 33 Verdi: (Opéra de Dijon / Rizzi Brignoli / Himmelmann) 34 Wagner: und Isolde (Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin / Barenboim / Tcherniakov) 35 Weber: Der Freischütz (Wiener Staatsoper / Netopil / Räth) 36

BALLET Grieg: Peer Gynt (Wiener Staatsballett / Clug) 37 Richard Siegal’s Ballet of Difference: On Body (Muffatwerk, Munich / Siegal) 38 CONCERT BBC Proms Nordic Night (Estonian Festival Orchestra / Buniatishvili / Järvi) 40 Hungarian Night (Budapest Festival Orchestra / Fischer) 40 Russian Classics (BBC Orchestra / Weilerstein / Canellakis) 41 Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2 (Schiff) 41 Gala Concerts Grafenegg Midsummer Night’s Gala 42 The Odeonsplatz Concert with Juan Diego Flórez 43 The Odeonsplatz Concert with 43 Berliner Philharmoniker Bernstein & Mahler (Dudamel) 44 Bernstein: Symphony No. 1 (Mumford / Dudamel) 44 Würth Philharmoniker & World Orchestra for Peace Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Wall / Schlicht / Glaser / Pape / Runnicles) 45 Bläserphilharmonie Mozarteum Salzburg Salzburg Wind Orchestra Gala (Angerer) 45 Czech Philharmonic Martinů: Nos. 2, 3 & 6 (Hrůša) 46 The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen Brahms: The Complete Symphonies (Järvi) 47 Brahms: Ein Deutsches (Farcas / Goerne / Järvi) 47 Arctic Philharmonic Winter Dreams (Hemsing / Jensen) 48 Philharmonic Orchestra Shostakovich & Beethoven (Barenboim / Shani) 48 Brahms: The Complete Symphonies (Barenboim) 49 Royal Orchestra Mozart & Beethoven (Uchida / Haitink) 50 Tchaikovsky: (Bychkov) 50 Beethoven & Brahms (Bronfman / Herreweghe) 51 Britten: (Stikhina / Padmore / Volle / Noseda) 51 Liszt & Mendelssohn (Kissin / Hengelbrock) 52 Bruch & Mahler (Jansen / Gatti) 52 Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks & 53 Bernstein & (Gerstein / Pappano) 53 NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester Holst & Williams (Urbański) 54 Mahler: Symphony No. 3 (Romberger / Gilbert) 54 Mozart & Mahler (Anderszewski / Hengelbrock) 54 Orchestre de Paris Bernstein: Mass (Sykes / Marshall) 55 Hommage à 55 Staatskapelle Schumann: The Complete Symphonies (Thielemann) 56 Festive Gala at the Dresden (Welser-Möst) 57 Festive Advent Concert at the Frauenkirche Dresden (Viotti) 61 Symphony Orchestra Kate Miller-Heidke and the MSO (Northey) 58 Berlioz: L’Enfance du Christ (Davis) 58 Russian Night (Vengerov / Northey) 59 20th Century Classics (Tognetti / Davis) 59 East Meets West (Siqing / Xiaohui / Jia) 59 MSO with Nelson Freire & 60 Bernstein on Broadway 60 International Days of Melk Abbey Haydn: Die Schöpfung (Concentus Musicus / Gottfried) 61

RECITAL & Mozart, Shostakovich & Brahms (Belcea Quartet / Tamestit) 62 Bach: Six Partitas + Lecture (Schiff) 62 An Evening with 63 Boulez: Livre pour Quatuor (Quatuor Diotima) 64 Dvořák: Chamber Works for Strings and (Busch Trio) 64

SERIES & SPECIAL Hollywood in – The World of 65 Super Diva – Opera for Everyone 66 Stars of Tomorrow 67

DOCUMENTARY Richard Siegal’s Ballet of Difference: Draw a Line 39 The Brahms Code 47 Silent Night – A Song for the World 68 Sounds of the Universe 68 – A Genius Divided 69 Karajan vs. Bernstein – Battle of Giants 69 – A League of her own 70 – First Rehearsals 70 Prelude to Debussy 71 Piotr Anderszewski and the Piano 71 & CONCERTS UNITEL is the exclusive audiovisual partner of the Salzburg Festival, the world’s most prestigious festival. The UNITEL catalogue features more than 120 productions from this spectacular venue. Photo: Salzburg Festival / Marco Borrelli

DANIEL BARENBOIM, LISA BATIASHVILI

WEST-EASTERN DIVAN ORCHESTRA, LISA BATIASHVILI & DANIEL BARENBOIM PERFORM TCHAIKOVSKY, DEBUSSY & SKRIABIN LISA BATIASHVILI () PYOTR I. TCHAIKOVSKY FROM · FOR VIOLIN AND ORCHESTRA IN , OP. 35 CLAUDE DEBUSSY LA MER – TROIS ESQUISSES SYMPHONIQUES LE POÈME DE L’EXTASE, OP. 54 WITH ENCORES BY LECLAIR & ELGAR David Strongin, violinist of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra: ’s musical language. I have been listening to this “Batiashvili’s and Barenboim’s interpretation of Tchaikovsky’s piece a thousand times, yet it impresses me again and again.” works is something very special. Barenboim teaches us the (Tagesspiegel)

Cat. no. A 045 50093 0000 | Video Director: Elisabeth Malzer | Length: 105' | Filmed in HDTV 1080/50i A co-production of ZDF/ and UNITEL in cooperation with Salzburg Festival

10 – SALZBURG FESTIVAL Photo: Tourismus Salzburg Salzburg Tourismus Photo: Photo: Salzburg Festival / Marco Borrelli

ANDRIS NELSONS

WIENER PHILHARMONIKER, HÅKAN HARDENBERGER & ANDRIS NELSONS PERFORM MAHLER & ZIMMERMANN HÅKAN HARDENBERGER () · LUCY CROWE () · EKATERINA GUBANOVA () CHOR DES BAYERISCHEN RUNDFUNKS · CHORUS MASTER BERND ALOIS ZIMMERMANN NOBODY KNOWS DE TROUBLE I SEE SYMPHONY NO. 2 IN “RESURRECTION”

A passionate rendition of Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony, “oscillating between dream and grotesque, between idyll and Hellmouth” (Wiener Zeitung).

Cat. no. A 045 50092 0000 | Video Director: Elisabeth Malzer | Length: 110' | Filmed in HDTV 1080/50i A co-production of BR/ and UNITEL in cooperation with Wiener Philharmoniker and Salzburg Festival

SALZBURG FESTIVAL – 11 THE BASSARIDS SEAN PANIKKAR () · RUSSELL BRAUN () . () NIKOLAI SCHUKOFF ( / CALLIOPE) · TANJA BAUMGARTNER ( / VENUS) et al. WIENER PHILHARMONIKER CONDUCTED BY KONZERTVEREINIGUNG WIENER STAATSOPERNCHOR · CHORUS MASTER HUW RHYS JAMES STAGED BY KRZYSZTOF WARLIKOWSKI Photo: © SF/Bernd Uhlig

52 years after their premiere, H. W. Henze’s The Bassarids return, with ancient Thebes, he plunges it into chaos. In the gigantic three-part set Kent Nagano at the helm, to the Salzburg Festival for a rare revival of Małgorzata Szczęśniak the tale unfolds like a film using split-screen of this modern classic in a highly dramatic psychological staging by techniques. The musical realization is “simply sublime” (Der Standard). Krzysztof Warlikowski. When Dionysus bursts into the intact world of “A completely gripping new production” (FAZ).

Cat. no. A 040 50105 | Video Director: Tiziano Mancini | Length: approx. 165' | Filmed in Ultra High Definiton A production of UNITEL in cooperation with Wiener Philharmoniker and Salzburg Festival

12 – SALZBURG FESTIVAL L’INCORONAZIONE DI POPPEA (POPPEA) · KATE LINDSEY (NERONE) · STÉPHANIE D’OUSTRAC (OTTAVIA) CARLO VISTOLI (OTTONE) · RENATO DOLCINI (SENECA) · ANA QUINTANS (VIRTÙ / DRUSILLA) MARCEL BEEKMAN (NUTRICE / FAMIGLIARE I) · DOMINIQUE VISSE (ARNALTA) · LEA DESANDRE (AMORE / VALLETTO) et al. DANCERS OF BODHI PROJECT AND SEAD SALZBURG EXPERIMENTAL ACADEMY OF DANCE LES ARTS FLORISSANTS CONDUCTED BY WILLIAM CHRISTIE STAGING & CHOREOGRAPHY BY JAN LAUWERS Photo: SF/Maarten Vanden Abeele

Dizzying power games – Sonya Yoncheva and Kate Lindsey shine in Jan “The love duet between Poppea and Nero is one of the most tender in Lauwers’s ‘’ of the most sensual, yet most immoral opera history and of infinite magic.” (Süddeutsche Zeitung) love story of opera history.

Cat. no. A 040 50103 | Video Director: Tiziano Mancini | Length: approx. 195' | Filmed in Ultra High Definition A co-production of CLC, UNITEL and medici.tv in cooperation with Salzburger Festspiele with support from CNC

SALZBURG FESTIVAL – 13 DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE MATTHIAS GOERNE (SARASTRO) · MAURO PETER (TAMINO) · ALBINA SHAGIMURATOVA (THE QUEEN OF THE NIGHT) (PAMINA) · ADAM PLACHETKA (PAPAGENO) · MARIA NAZAROVA (PAPAGENA) MICHAEL PORTER (MONOSTATOS) · KLAUS MARIA BRANDAUER (GRANDFATHER) · WIENER SÄNGERKNABEN (THREE BOYS) et al. WIENER PHILHARMONIKER CONDUCTED BY CONSTANTINOS CARYDIS KONZERTVEREINIGUNG WIENER STAATSOPERNCHOR · CHORUS MASTER ERNST RAFFELSBERGER STAGED BY LYDIA STEIER Photo: ORF / Roman Zach-Kiesling

Mozart’s timeless masterpiece at the Salzburg Festival – it doesn’t get Maria Brandauer as grandfather, who reads the fantastical story of much better than this! Especially when The Magic receives such Tamino’s quest to his three grandchildren. Constantinos Carydis draws a “spectacular and virtuosic staging” (Le Figaro) by Lydia Steier. Her “precise phrasing and plenty of crisp articulation from the Wiener colourful, fairy-tale production revolves around Hollywood star Klaus Philharmoniker” (Financial Times).

Cat. no. A 040 50092 | Video Director: Michael Beyer | Length: 144' | Filmed in HDTV 1080/50i A co-production of ORF, UNITEL and ZDF in cooperation with ARTE, Wiener Philharmoniker and Salzburger Festspiele

14 – SALZBURG FESTIVAL L’ITALIANA IN ALGERI (ISABELLA) · (MUSTAFÀ) · EDGARDO ROCHA (LINDORO) ALESSANDRO CORBELLI (TADDEO) · JOSÉ COCA LOZA (HALY) · REBECA OLVERA (ELVIRA) · ROSA BOVE (ZULMA) ENSEMBLE MATHEUS CONDUCTED BY JEAN-CHRISTOPHE SPINOSI PHILHARMONIA CHOR WIEN · CHORUS MASTER WALTER ZEH STAGED BY MOSHE LEISER & PATRICE CAURIER Photo: Monika Rittershaus

“The role of Isabella is sung to perfection by Cecilia Bartoli – a clever, How are things further complicated if he is Middle Eastern and she independent woman with an adventurous streak” (The New York is Western and their cultures fundamentally clash? Find the answers Times). What happens when a powerful man makes moves on a strong, in Leiser’s & Caurier’s colourful production of L’Italiana in Algeri with independent woman who has no intention of accepting his advances? Cecilia Bartoli in the title role of the spirited Isabella.

Cat. no. A 040 50104 | Video Director: Tiziano Mancini | Length: 163' | Filmed in Ultra High Definition A co-production of UNITEL and BR in cooperation with ARTE and Salzburg Festival

SALZBURG FESTIVAL – 15 RICHARD STRAUSS SALOME JOHN DASZAK (HERODES) · ANNA MARIA CHIURI (HERODIAS) · ASMIK GRIGORIAN (SALOME) GÁBOR BRETZ (JOCHANAAN) · JULIAN PRÉGARDIEN (NARRABOTH) · AVERY AMEREAU (A PAGE OF HERODIAS / SLAVE) et al. WIENER PHILHARMONIKER CONDUCTED BY FRANZ WELSER-MÖST STAGED BY ROMEO CASTELLUCCI Photo: SF/Ruth Walz

Richard Strauss’s masterpiece Salome finally returns to Salzburg after Franz Welser-Möst, a Strauss conductor in a league of his own, at the 25 years. Asmik Grigorian “sweeps all in her wake in the title role of helm of the Wiener Philharmoniker “makes you think you are hearing Strauss’s opera. […] Hers is a Salome to end all Salomes.” To witness the piece in its most perfect incarnation yet.” (Financial Times)

Cat. no. A 040 50093 | Video Director: Henning Kasten | Length: 112' | Filmed in HDTV 1080/50i A co-production of ORF, 3sat and UNITEL in cooperation with Wiener Philharmoniker and Salzburg Festival

16 – SALZBURG FESTIVAL PYOTR I. TCHAIKOVSKY PIQUE DAME BRANDON JOVANOVICH (HERMANN) · EVGENIA MURAVEVA (LISA) · VLADISLAV SULIMSKY (COUNT TOMSKY / PLUTUS) IGOR GOLOVATENKO (PRINCE YELETSKY) · HANNA SCHWARZ (COUNTESS) · ALEXANDER KRAVETS (CHEKALINSKY) et al. WIENER PHILHARMONIKER CONDUCTED BY MARISS JANSONS SALZBURGER FESTSPIELE UND THEATER KINDERCHOR · CHORUS MASTER WOLFGANG GÖTZ KONZERTVEREINIGUNG WIENER STAATSOPERNCHOR · CHORUS MASTER ERNST RAFFELSBERGER STAGED BY HANS NEUENFELS Photo: Ruth Walz

The precise psychological focus of ’s novella Pique the gripping new opera production by celebrated conductor Mariss Dame, which inspired Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky 50 years later to create Jansons and Hans Neuenfels, a luminary of modern director’s theatre. his operatic masterpiece of the same name, is captured perfectly in “A triumph for conductor Mariss Jansons!” (FAZ)

Cat. no. A 040 50094 | Video Director: Tiziano Mancini | Length: 183' | Filmed in Ultra High Definition A co-production of Servus TV, NHK and UNITEL in cooperation with Wiener Philharmoniker and Salzburg Festival

SALZBURG FESTIVAL – 17 GEORGE BENJAMIN LESSONS IN LOVE AND VIOLENCE FROM HOUSE, LONDON STÉPHANE DEGOUT (KING) · BARBARA HANNIGAN (ISABEL) · GYULA ORENDT (GAVESTON / STRANGER) · PETER HOARE (MORTIMER) SAMUEL BODEN (BOY / YOUNG KING) · OCEAN BARRINGTON-COOK (GIRL) · JENNIFER FRANCE (WITNESS 1 / SINGER 1 / WOMAN 1) KRISZTINA SZABÓ (WITNESS 2 / SINGER 2 / WOMAN 2) · ANDRI BJÖRN RÓBERTSSON (WITNESS 3 / MADMAN) et al. ORCHESTRA OF THE CONDUCTED BY SIR GEORGE BENJAMIN STAGED BY KATIE MITCHELL

Photo: Stephen Cummiskey / ROH

Lessons in Love and Violence, the new opera by composer George In a modern day setting it tells the powerful and thrilling story of King Benjamin and playwright Martin Crimp, two of Britain’s most Edward II, whose romantic relationship with the Earl of Cornwall, Piers celebrated artists, received a glowing reception from audiences and Gaveston, tears his country and his family apart. Barbara Hannigan is critics alike on its world premiere at the Royal Opera House in London. as “outstanding as ever”! (Financial Times)

Cat. no. A 020 50124 | Video Director: Margaret Williams | Length: 100' | Filmed in HDTV 1080/50i A production of Royal Opera House, BBC, François Roussillon et Associés, Arte Concert and medici.tv in cooperation with UNITEL

18 – OPERA VIOLETA CRUZ LA PRINCESSE LÉGÈRE FROM THE OPÉRA COMIQUE, PARIS JEANNE CROUSAUD (PRINCESS / NURSE) · MAJDOULINE ZERARI (THE QUEEN) · JEAN-JACQUES L’ANTHOËN (PRINCE / NARRATOR) NICOLAS MERRYWEATHER (THE KING) · KATE COLEBROOK (DR. DÉJANTHÉ / THE NURSE 2) GUY-LOUP BOISNEAU (DR. MALOFOI / PAGE / THE WITCH) ENSEMBLE COURT-CIRCUIT CONDUCTED BY JEAN DEROYER STAGED BY JOS HOUBEN & EMILY WILSON Photo: Stéfan Brion

A princess who is as light as a feather: The opera La Princesse Légère by calls to mind, with humor and poetry, the way children confront the Violeta Cruz, premiered in 2017, follows the fairytale The Light Princess gravity of the adult world and how parents learn to recognize the by George MacDonald. Written for children and those with a child’s soul, uniqueness of each child. The score is an outburst of life, in which his tales enchanted J.R.R. Tolkien and Lewis Carroll. The Light Princess electronics meet chanson and the sound of opera.

Cat. no. A 010 50092 | Video Director: Jérôme Cassou | Length: 85' | Filmed in Ultra High Definition A production of Heliox Films in co-production with L'Opéra Comique in association with Weo, Télénantes, TV78 with the support of CNC

OPERA – 19 ANTONIO DRAGHI EL PROMETEO FROM THE OPÉRA DE DIJON FABIO TRÜMPY (PROMETEO) · SCOTT CONNER (PELEO) · MARIANA FLORES (TETIS) GIUSEPPINA BRIDELLI (NISEA) · BORJA QUIZA (SATYRO) · ZACHARY WILDER (MERCURIO) ANA QUINTANS (MINERVA) · KAMIL BEN HSAÏN LACHIRI (HERCULES) · VICTOR TORRES (NEREO) et al. CAPPELLA MEDITERRANEA CONDUCTED BY LEONARDO GARCÍA ALARCÓN CHŒUR DE CHAMBRE DE NAMUR · CHORUS MASTER THIBAUT LENAERTS STAGED BY LAURENT DELVERT Photo: Gilles Abegg / Opéra de Dijon

After its premier in 1669, Antonio Draghi’s opera El Prometeo has his orchestra Cappella Mediterranea, has made it his speciality to never been performed again – until Leonardo García Alarcón used bring forgotten masterpieces to light. He thus descovered a missing the only remaining handwritten copy of the score to revive it in Dijon. link in the history of opera between the Venetian and Viennese opera Alarcón, who is the Opéra de Dijon’s artist in residence, together with tradition.

Cat. no. A 010 50086 | Video Director: Julien Condemine | Length: approx. 120' | Filmed in Ultra High Definition A co-production of CLC, Cappella Mediterranea, , with the participation of France Télévisions and UNITEL, with the support of CNC

20 – OPERA BERTHOLD GOLDSCHMIDT BEATRICE CENCI FROM THE BREGENZ FESTIVAL CHRISTOPH POHL (COUNT FRANCESCO CENCI) · DSHAMILJA KAISER (LUCREZIA) · GAL JAMES (BEATRICE) CHRISTINA BOCK (BERNARDO) · PER BACH NISSEN (CARDINAL CAMILLO) · MICHAEL LAURENZ (ORSINO) WOLFGANG STEFAN SCHWAIGER (MARZIO) · SÉBASTIEN SOULÈS (OLIMPIO) · PETER MARSH (JUDGE) et al. WIENER SYMPHONIKER CONDUCTED BY JOHANNES DEBUS PHILHARMONIC · CHORUS MASTER LUKÁŠ VASILEK STAGED BY JOHANNES ERATH Photo: © / Karl Forster

Church corruption, human violence & a daughter who plots revenge on 1935, was awarded a prize for his work, but the promised performance her abusive father – Goldschmidt’s Beatrice Cenci has every ingredient never took place. It was not until 1988 that it received its premiere for a gripping opera & the story of its origins is equally fascinating as a concert performance. At Bregenz, stage director Johannes Erath albeit tragic: The Jewish composer, who fled Germany for London in brought Beatrice Cenci on stage for the first time.

Cat. no. A 040 50101 | Video Director: Felix Breisach | Length: 107' | Filmed in HDTV 1080/50i A co-production of ORF III and UNITEL in cooperation with ORF Vorarlberg and Bregenz Festival

OPERA – 21 THOMAS LARCHER DAS JAGDGEWEHR FROM THE BREGENZ FESTIVAL SARAH ARISTIDOU (SHOKO) · GIULIA PERI () · OLIVIA VERMEULEN (SAIKO) ROBIN TRITSCHLER (THE POET) · ANDRÈ SCHUEN (JOSUKE MISUGI) ENSEMBLE MODERN CONDUCTED BY SCHOLA HEIDELBERG · CHORUS MASTER WALTER NUSSBAUM STAGED BY KARL MARKOVICS Photo: Bregenzer Festspiele / Anja Koehler

A world premiere at Bregenz Festival: Thomas Larcher has adapted same man, a hunter – his wife, his lover and his lover’s daughter. As Yasushi Inoue’s best-seller The Hunting Gun for his first opera, with a the women react to the revelation of illicit love, the hunter’s life is laid by Austrian Book Prize winner Friederike Gösweiner. It tells bare. Award-winning Austrian actor and film director Karl Markovics the story of three women, who speak in three letters addressed to the gives his debut as stage director for an opera.

Cat. no. A 040 50102 | Video Director: Felix Breisach | Length: 106' | Filmed in HDTV 1080/50i A co-production of ORF III and UNITEL in cooperation with ORF Vorarlberg and Bregenz Festival

22 – OPERA ANDRÉ MESSAGER LES P’TITES MICHU FROM THE THÉATRE GRASLIN, NANTES VIOLETTE POLCHI (MARIE-BLANCHE) · ANNE-AURORE COCHET (BLANCHE-MARIE) · BORIS GRAPPE (GÉNÉRAL DES IFS) PHILIPPE ESTÈPHE (GASTON) · DAMIEN BIGOURDAN (MONSIEUR MICHU) · MARIE LENORMAND (MADAME MICHU) CAROLINE MENG (MADEMOISELLE HERPIN) · ARTAYAZD SARGSYAN (ARISTIDE) et al. COMPAGNIE LES BRIGANDS & ORCHESTRE NATIONAL DES PAYS DE LA LOIRE CONDUCTED BY PIERRE DUMOUSSAUD CHŒUR D’ANGERS NANTES OPÉRA · CHORUS MASTER FRÉDÉRIC JOUNNAIS STAGED BY RÉMY BARCHÉ Photo: Nemo Perier Stefanovitch

In this delightful comedy by André Messager, award-winning conductor 1907, Les p’tites Michu became an international hit. In Nantes, the bright Pierre Dumoussaud and his young, creative team capture the audience’s colouring and the illustrations by Marianne Tricot give the operetta a imagination at the Théatre Graslin in Nantes with this “hilarious game of cheerful, contemporary look. A “delicious cocktail of charm, humour misunderstandings” (Le Figaro). After its phenomenal Broadway run in and gaiety” (Opéra Magazine).

Cat. no. A 010 50085 | Video Director: Nicolas Engel | Length: 135' | Filmed in Ultra High Definition A production of Heliox Films, Bru Zane France, Angers Nantes Opéra, Palazzetto Bru Zane, France Télévisions, Télénantes and UNITEL

OPERA – 23 LES CONTES D’HOFFMANN FROM THE DUTCH NATIONAL OPERA, AMSTERDAM NINA MINASYAN (OLYMPIA) · ERMONELA JAHO (ANTONIA) · CHRISTINE RICE (GIULIETTA) IRENE ROBERTS (LA MUSE) · EVA KROON (LA VOIX DE LA TOMBE) · (HOFFMANN) (LINDORF / COPPELIUS / LE DOCTEUR MIRACLE / LE CAPITAINE DAPERTUTTO) et al. ROTTERDAM PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA CONDUCTED BY DUTCH NATIONAL OPERA CHORUS · CHORUS MASTER CHING-LIEN WU STAGED BY TOBIAS KRATZER Photo: BAUS

The title role of Les contes d’Hoffmann, Offenbach’s most ambitious artist, in the “enormously clever production” (Concerti) by Tobias opera, requires an exceptional . The Dutch National Opera in Kratzer. The top vocal cast includes Nina Minasyan, Ermonela Jaho Amsterdam found him in John Osborn. He beautifully shows the and Christine Rice as the three women in Hoffmann’s “tales”. Vocal sufferings of Hoffmann, the prototype of the German romantic period powerhouse Erwin Schrott sparkles with devilish charisma.

Cat. no. A 860 50031 | Video Director: Misjel Vermeiren | Length: approx. 180' | Filmed in HDTV 1080/50i A production of the Dutch National Opera in collaboration with UNITEL

24 – OPERA THE FIERY ANGEL FROM THE FESTIVAL D'AIX-EN-PROVENCE AUŠRINĖ STUNDYTĖ (RENATA) · SCOTT HENDRICKS (RUPRECHT) · AGNIESZKA REHLIS (FORTUNE TELLER / ABBESS) ANDREÏ POPOV (MÉPHISTOPHÉLÈS / AGRIPPA VON NETTESHEIM) · KRZYSZTOF BĄCZYK ( / INQUISITOR) PAVLO TOLSTOY (JAKOB GLOCK / A DOCTOR) · ŁUKASZ GOLIŃSKI (MATTHIEU WISSMANN / INNKEEPER / A SERVANT) et al. ORCHESTRE DE PARIS CONDUCTED BY KAZUSHI ŌNO WARSAW OPERA CHOIR · CHORUS MASTER MIROSLAW JANOWSKI STAGED BY MARIUSZ TRELIŃSKI Photo: Pascal Victor

Ruprecht falls for Renata and unconditionally follows her in Renata’s and soul threatens to completely dissolve their previous existence, as obsessive search for the fulfilment of her erotic fantasies with an Mariusz Treliński, named best director at the 2018 International Opera angel. The two cross the boundaries of perception and leave all rules Awards, shows in his mesmerizing staging. “A benchmark performance” of morality and reason behind. Their willingness to surrender body (Financial Times).

Cat. no. A 010 50094 | Video Director: Philippe Béziat | Length: 128' | Filmed in HDTV 1080/50i A production of Camera Lucida, France Télévisions, CNC and UNITEL

OPERA – 25 TOSCA FROM THE SALZBURG EASTER FESTIVAL (FLORIA TOSCA) · (MARIO CAVARADOSSI) · LUDOVIC TÉZIER (BARON SCARPIA) ANDREA MASTRONI (CESARE ANGELOTTI) · MATTEO PEIRONE (THE SACRISTAN) · MIKELDI ATXALANDABASO (SPOLETTA) et al. CONDUCTED BY SALZBURGER BACHCHOR · CHORUS MASTER ALOIS GLASSNER SALZBURGER FESTSPIELE UND THEATER KINDERCHOR · CHORUS MASTER WOLFGANG GÖTZ STAGED BY MICHAEL STURMINGER Photo: OFS / Karl Forster

Anja Harteros excels in the title role of Michael Sturminger’s cinematic the harassment of artists, political persecution, torture and arbitrary staging of Puccini’s Tosca, the centrepiece of Salzburg Easter Festival. executions. In Salzburg it is set in the Mafiosi world of modern day Ludovic Tézier is a thrillingly malevolent Scarpia. Tosca is a political and is “the perfect thriller ... reminiscent of Scorsese’s ‘Goodfellas’” thriller with a heart-breaking love story that gives a vivid account of (Kleine Zeitung), a “film noir” (FAZ).

Cat. no. A 040 50088 | Video Director: Tiziano Mancini | Length: 122' | Filmed in Ultra High Definition A production of UNITEL in co-production with ORF, 3sat and NHK in cooperation with Salzburg Easter Festival

26 – OPERA GIACOMO PUCCINI TURANDOT FROM THE TEATRO REGIO TORINO REBEKA LOKAR (PRINCESS TURANDOT) · JORGE DE LEÓN (CALAF) · ERIKA GRIMALDI (LIÙ) IN-SUNG SIM (TIMUR) · ANTONELLO CERON (THE EMPEROR ALTOUM) · MARCO FILIPPO ROMANO (PING) LUCA CASALIN (PANG) · MIKELDI ATXALANDABASO (PONG) · ROBERTO ABBONDANZA (A MANDARIN) ORCHESTRA DEL TEATRO REGIO TORINO CONDUCTED BY CORO DEL TEATRO REGIO TORINO · CHORUS MASTER CLAUDIO FENOGLIO STAGED BY STEFANO PODA Photo: Ramella & Giannese Regio / Teatro Torino

Visionary stage director Stefano Poda continues his successful great sensuality” (Operalounge). Grammy Award nominee Noseda at collaboration with conductor Gianandrea Noseda. He stages Puccini’s the helm of the “impeccable” orchestra of the Teatro Regio Torino masterpiece about Princess Turandot, whose cold heart is won by impressively conducts the Italian composer’s final opera “as modern her cunning suitor Prince Calaf, as “a stirring theatrical spectacle of as you have rarely experienced it. Chapeau!” (Operalounge)

Cat. no. A 000 50057 | Video Director: Tiziano Mancini | Length: 115' | Filmed in Ultra High Definition A production of Teatro Regio Torino in cooperation with UNITEL

OPERA – 27 GIOACHINO ROSSINI ERMIONE FROM THE TYROL FESTIVAL ERL MARIA RADOEVA (ERMIONE) · SVETLANA KOTIN (ANDROMACA) · FERDINAND VON BOTHMER (PIRRO) IURIE CIOBANU (ORESTE) · HUI JIN (PILADE) · GIOVANNI BATTISTA PARODI (FENICIO) · MARIA NOVELLA MALFATTI (CLEONE) ALENA SAUTIER (CEFISA) · GIORGIO VALENTA (ATTALO) ORCHESTRA OF THE TYROL FESTIVAL ERL CONDUCTED BY GUSTAV KUHN CHORUS ACADEMY OF THE TYROL FESTIVAL ERL · CHORUS MASTER OLGA YANUM STAGED BY FURORE DI MONTEGRAL Photo: Xiomara Bender Xiomara Photo:

Ermione, the rare opera gemstone by Gioachino Rossini, like you The result is an opulent opera film, in which impressive exterior shots have never seen it before: Filmmaker Felix Breisach captured the are combined with artistic shots of the dramatic action on stage. masterpiece, staged and conducted by Gustav Kuhn at the Tyrol Maria Radoeva in the title role leads a cast of outstanding singers in a Festival Erl in a shortened version especially made for this recording. “festival” of “great ” (Standard).

Cat. no. A 040 50098 | Video Director: Felix Breisach | Length: 94' | Filmed in 4K DCI SCOPE A co-production of ORF and UNITEL in cooperation with Tyrol Festival Erl

28 – OPERA GIOACHINO ROSSINI RICCIARDO E ZORAIDE FROM THE ROSSINI OPERA FESTIVAL PESARO (ZORAIDE) · JUAN DIEGO FLÓREZ (RICCIARDO) · SERGEY ROMANOVSKY (AGORANTE) NICOLA ULIVIERI (IRCANO) · VICTORIA YAROVAYA (ZOMIRA) · XABIER ANDUAGA (ERNESTO) · SOFIA MCHEDLISHVILI (FATIMA) ORCHESTRA SINFONICA NAZIONALE DELLA RAI CONDUCTED BY GIACOMO SAGRIPANTI CORO DEL TEATRO VENTIDIO BASSO · CHORUS MASTER GIOVANNI FARINA STAGED BY MARSHALL PYNKOSKI Photo: Amati Bacciardi

To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the premiere of the Rossini rarity, Ricciardo, giving a “masterclass in ” (Bachtrack). Pretty Yende the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro stages Ricciardo e Zoraide with – “radiant and richly expressive” (Financial Times) as Zoraide – proves an all-star cast. Juan Diego Flórez makes his debut as the crusader that she is “a virtuosa in Rossini singing” (Neue Musikzeitung).

Cat. no. A 000 50063 | Video Director: Ariella Beddini | Length: 116' | Filmed in HDTV 1080/50i A production of RAI and UNITEL

OPERA – 29 GIUSEPPE VERDI FALSTAFF FROM THE STAATSOPER UNTER DEN LINDEN MICHAEL VOLLE (SIR JOHN FALSTAFF) · ALFREDO DAZA (FORD) · FRANCESCO DEMURO (FENTON) JÜRGEN SACHER (DR. CAJUS) · STEPHAN RÜGAMER (BARDOLFO) · JAN MARTINÍK (PISTOLA) · (MRS. ALICE FORD) NADINE SIERRA (NANNETTA) · DANIELA BARCELLONA (MRS. QUICKLY) · KATHARINA KAMMERLOHER (MRS. MEG PAGE) STAATSKAPELLE BERLIN CONDUCTED BY DANIEL BARENBOIM STAATSOPERNCHOR · CHORUS MASTER MARTIN WRIGHT STAGED BY MARIO MARTONE Photo: Matthias Baus

Falstaff is Verdi’s masterpiece of comic opera, in which the behaviour day and shows Falstaff as ageing rebel in dodgy sideburns and leather of the ageing Sir John Falstaff, a devious freeloader and would-be jacket. Among the “exquisit vocal cast”, Michael Volle gives his debut ladykiller, causes uproar in the petty-bourgeois household of the in the title role “as if he had been preparing for this role for a lifetime” Windsor’s. In Berlin, Mario Martone updates the action to the present (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung).

Cat. no. A 050 50660 | Video Director: Tiziano Mancini | Length: approx. 145' | Filmed in Ultra High Definition A production of Staatsoper Unter den Linden and UNITEL

30 – OPERA GIUSEPPE VERDI FALSTAFF FROM THE TEATRO REGIO DI PARMA ROBERTO DE CANDIA (SIR JOHN FALSTAFF) · GIORGIO CAODURO (FORD) · AMARILLI NIZZA (ALICE FORD) DAMIANA MIZZI (NANNETTA) · JURGITA ADAMONYTE (MEG PAGE) · SONIA PRINA (MRS. QUICKLY) JUAN FRANCISCO GATELL (FENTON) · GREGORY BONFATTI (CAJUS) et al. FILARMONICA CONDUCTED BY RICCARDO FRIZZA CORO DEL TEATRO REGIO DI PARMA · CHORUS MASTER MARTINO FAGGIANI STAGED BY JACOPO SPIREI Photo: Roberto Ricci

At Festival Verdi, the city of Parma celebrates its most distinguished role, but at the same time manages to outline’s Falstaff’s melancholy. son, Giuseppe Verdi, with exceptional stagings such as Jacopo Spirei’s Giorgio Caoduro as jealous husband exhibits “excellent vocal qualities, take on the composer’s last opera Falstaff. In a contemporary British his clear and vibrant, his intonation perfect” (Bachtrack). setting, Roberto de Candia gives a hilarious performance in the title Riccardo Frizza conducts the bittersweet comedy.

Cat. no. A 000 50064 | Video Director: Tiziano Mancini | Length: approx. 150' | Filmed in Ultra High Definition A production of Teatro Regio di Parma in cooperation with UNITEL

OPERA – 31 GIUSEPPE VERDI JÉRUSALEM FROM THE TEATRO REGIO DI PARMA RAMÓN VARGAS (GASTON) · PABLO GÁLVEZ (THE COUNT OF TOULOUSE) · MICHELE PERTUSI (ROGER) (HÉLÈNE) · VALENTINA BOI (ISAURE) · DEYAN VATCHKOV (ADHÉMAR DE MONTEIL) PAOLO ANTOGNETTI (RAYMOND) · MASSIMILIANO CATELLANI (THE EMIR OF RAMLA) et al. FILARMONICA ARTURO TOSCANINI CONDUCTED BY DANIELE CALLEGARI CORO DEL TEATRO REGIO DI PARMA · CHORUS MASTER MARTINO FAGGIANI STAGED BY HUGO DE ANA Photo: Roberto Ricci

For Verdi lovers, the Festival Verdi in Parma is the place to be, especially and breathtaking desert scenes” (Klassik Begeistert). Star tenor Ramón for rare Verdi stagings such as Jérusalem. The opulent staging by Hugo Vargas sings Gaston and Annick Massis his lover Hélène. Pablo Gálvez de Ana, also responsible for the grandiose set design and gorgeous impresses as Count of Toulouse, whose brother Roger is excellently costumes, is “overwhelming with its phenomenal illusionist effects sung by Michele Pertusi.

Cat. no. A 000 50065 | Video Director: Tiziano Mancini | Length: approx. 190' | Filmed in Ultra High Definition A production of Teatro Regio di Parma in cooperation with UNITEL

32 – OPERA GIUSEPPE VERDI MACBETH FROM THE STAATSOPER UNTER DEN LINDEN, BERLIN PLÁCIDO DOMINGO (MACBETH) · (BANQUO) · ANNA NETREBKO (LADY MACBETH) EVELIN NOVAK (LADY-IN-WAITING) · FABIO SARTORI (MACDUFF) · FLORIAN HOFFMANN (MALCOLM) JAN MARTINÍK (MURDERER, APPARITION) · DOMINIC BARBERI (DOCTOR) · INSOO HWOANG (SERVANT) et al. STAATSKAPELLE BERLIN CONDUCTED BY DANIEL BARENBOIM STAATSOPERNCHOR · CHORUS MASTER MARTIN WRIGHT STAGED BY Photo: Bernd Uhlig

Magnetic opera legend Plácido Domingo and Anna Netrebko, who Macbeth. Maestro Daniel Barenboim conducts the Staatskapelle performs as Lady Macbeth “perhaps the best role of her life” yet Berlin in a gripping staging by acclaimed stage director Harry Kupfer. (rbb24), shine in Verdi’s operatic take on William Shakespeare’s tragedy “A magical moment of opera” (Neue Zürcher Zeitung).

Cat. no. A 050 50611 | Video Director: Tiziano Mancini | Length: 155' | Filmed in Ultra High Definition A production of UNITEL, NHK, ZDF in cooperation with ARTE and Staatsoper Unter den Linden

OPERA – 33 GIUSEPPE VERDI SIMON BOCCANEGRA FROM THE OPÉRA DE DIJON VITTORIO VITELLI (SIMON BOCCANEGRA) · KERI ALKEMA (AMELIA GRIMALDI) · LUCIANO BATINIĆ (JACOPO FIESCO) GIANLUCA TERRANOVA (GABRIELE ADORNO) · ARMANDO NOGUERRA (PAOLO ALBIANI) · MAURIZIO LO (PIETRO) ORCHESTRE DIJON BOURGOGNE CONDUCTED BY ROBERTO RIZZI BRIGNOLI CHŒUR DE L’OPÉRA DE DIJON · CHORUS MASTER ANASS ISMAT STAGED BY PHILIPP HIMMELMANN Photo: Gilles Abegg/Opéra de Dijon

When Simon Boccanegra is elected Doge of the City of Genoa, it seems with its strong drive to love and freedom. To unveil the moving score, to offer the opportunity of reconciliation between the Patricians and the Orchestre Dijon Bourgogne is joined by Verdi specialist Roberto the Plebeians. But he becomes entangled in family tragedies and power Rizzi Brignoli, who is known for an intimate and precise knowledge of plays. Simon Boccanegra is Verdi’s most sombre work, yet enthralling the Italian master’s style.

Cat. no. A 010 50084 | Video Director: Franck Chaudemanche | Length: 140' | Filmed in HDTV 1080/50i A co-production of Heliox Films and Opéra de Dijon with the participation of France Télévisions with the support of CNC

34 – OPERA FROM THE STAATSOPER UNTER DEN LINDEN, BERLIN ANDREAS SCHAGER (TRISTAN) · (KING MARKE) · (ISOLDE) BOAZ DANIEL (KURWENAL) · STEPHAN RÜGAMER (MELOT) · EKATERINA GUBANOVA (BRANGÄNE) ADAM KUTNY (A HELMSMAN) · LINARD VRIELINK (A SHEPHERD / VOICE OF A YOUNG SAILOR) STAATSKAPELLE BERLIN CONDUCTED BY DANIEL BARENBOIM STAATSOPERNCHOR BERLIN · CHORUS MASTER RAYMOND HUGHES STAGED BY Photo: Monika Rittershaus

What Daniel Barenboim, the Staatskapelle Berlin and the mechanics of relationships, which ultimately seal the protagonists’ Staatsopernchor accomplish with Tristan and Isolde is “a Barenboim- tragic fate. “The third act belongs to Andreas Schager. What happens event” (Berliner Morgenpost). Russian stage director Tcherniakov there is a magic moment.” (Süddeutsche Zeitung) transfers the plot into a modern setting and exposes the intricate

Cat. no. A 050 50584 | Video Director: Andy Sommer | Length: approx. 260' | Filmed in HDTV 1080/50i A co-production of Bel Air Media, Mezzo, UNITEL and France Télévisions with the support of CNC

OPERA – 35 DER FREISCHÜTZ FROM THE WIENER STAATSOPER CAMILLA NYLUND (AGATHE) · DANIELA FALLY (ÄNNCHEN) · ALAN HELD (CASPAR) ANDREAS SCHAGER (MAX) · (HERMIT) · HANS PETER KAMMERER (SAMIEL) ADRIAN ERÖD (OTTOKAR) · CLEMENS UNTERREINER (CUNO) · GABRIEL BERMÚDEZ (KILIAN) ORCHESTER & BÜHNENORCHESTER DER WIENER STAATSOPER CONDUCTED BY TOMÁŠ NETOPIL CHOR DER WIENER STAATSOPER · CHORUS MASTER THOMAS LANG STAGED BY CHRISTIAN RÄTH Photo: Michael Pöhn / Wiener Staatsoper

Christian Räth’s inspired staging of Der Freischütz, Weber’s seminal desperate lover, in order to win the shooting contest, resorts to the use Romantic opera, at the Haus am Ring stands out due to the bold set of magic bullets. With his “magnificent Heldentenor”, Andreas Schager and costume design by Gary McCann. To win Agathe’s hand, the young offers “a convincing portrait” and Camilla Nylund’s Agathe arias are assistant forester Max has to pass a test of skill in marksmanship. The “captivating poetry” (Kleine Zeitung Steiermark).

Cat. no. A 040 50091 | Video Director: Agnes Méth | Length: 143' | Filmed in HDTV 1080/50i A production of ORF and UNITEL in cooperation with Wiener Staatsoper

36 – OPERA PEER GYNT FROM THE WIENER STAATSOPER DENYS CHEREVYCHKO (PEER GYNT) · NINA POLÁKOVÁ (SOLVEIG) · ENO PECI (DEATH) ZSOLT TÖRÖK (STAG) · FRANZISKA WALLNER-HOLLINEK (ÅSE) · IOANNA AVRAAM (INGRID) NIKISHA FOGO (GREEN-CLAD WOMAN) · ALEXIS FORABOSCO (ASLAK) et al. ORCHESTER DER WIENER STAATSOPER CONDUCTED BY SIMON HEWETT WIENER STAATSBALLETT CHOREOGRAPHY BY EDWARD CLUG Photo: Wiener Staatsballett / Ashley Taylor

In this story ballet, choreographer Edward Clug merges the distinct become emperor of the world, with the help of the bold stage and versions of Peer Gynt by Edward Grieg and Henrik Ibsen into a new costume design by Marko Japelij and Leo Kulaš. The result are “magical ballet experience. “A brilliant narrator” (Kronenzeitung), Clug captures scenes, never seen like this in conventional ballets” (Kurier) with “an the fantastic adventures of the boastful peasant boy, who sets off to outstanding cast, down to the smallest roles” (Opernfreund).

Cat. no. A 040 50106 | Video Director: Balázs Delbó | Length: approx. 100' | Filmed in HDTV 1080/50i A production of Wiener Staatsoper in co-production with UNITEL

BALLET – 37 RICHARD SIEGAL’S BALLET OF DIFFERENCE ON BODY BOD • MADE FOR WALKING • U N I T X T FROM THE MUFFATWERK, MUNICH MUSIC BY DJ HARAM, LORENZO BIANCHI HOESCH & ALVA NOTO CHOREOGRAPHY BY RICHARD SIEGAL Photo: Ray Demski

With drive and virtuosity, exceptional settings and energetic sounds, dance, pale colours and austere forms dominate the stage in Made for Siegal’s Ballet of Difference lets classical ballet tradition, contemporary Walking. In Unitxt, electronic beats are the driving force of the dancers. dance and pop culture meet at eye level in the 3-part-ballet On Body. Here, “Richard Siegal perfects seemingly impossible movements – you AfterBoD , which celebrates dancing on pointe and the individual’s joy to can hardly believe your eyes!” (BR Klassik)

Cat. no. A 055 50950 0000 | Video Director: Benedict Mirow | Lengths: 22' / 18' / 27' | Filmed in Ultra High Definition A production of NIGHTFROG, BR/ARTE and UNITEL

38 – BALLET RICHARD SIEGAL’S BALLET OF DIFFERENCE DRAW A LINE A FILM BY BENEDICT MIROW Photo: Ray Demski

The documentary Draw a Line accompanies Richard Siegal and Ballet today. Mirow also shot in Africa to trace the roots of Siegal’s style with of Difference during the rehearsals for On Body up to the celebrated which he transformed the German dance scene. A film about artistic world premieres in Cologne and Munich. It shows how the diverse freedom, the rousing power of electronic music and the brutal passion, troupe blossoms into one of the best companies of painful discipline and touching sensuality of dance.

Cat. no. A 050 50606 | Video Director: Benedict Mirow | Length: approx. 90' | Filmed in Ultra High Definition A production of NIGHTFROG, BR/ARTE and UNITEL

BALLET – 39 “NORDIC NIGHT” WITH ChrisPhoto: Christodoulou THE ESTONIAN FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA & PAAVO JÄRVI KHATIA BUNIATISHVILI (PIANO) ARVO PÄRT SYMPHONY NO. 3 EDVARD GRIEG IN A MINOR, OP. 16 CLAUDE DEBUSSY CLAIR DE LUNE SYMPHONY NO. 5 IN E FLAT MAJOR, OP. 82 LEPO SUMERA THE FLY HUGO ALFVÉN HERD MAIDEN’S DANCE

“One of the most admired conductors of the day” in one of “this season’s special Proms” (Guardian)

Cat. no. A 025 50420 0000 | Video Director: Jonathan Haswell | Length: 112' Filmed in HDTV 1080/50i A co-production of BBC and UNITEL PAAVO JÄRVI Photo: ChrisPhoto: Christodoulou “HUNGARIAN NIGHT” WITH THE BUDAPEST FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA & JÓZSEF CSÓCSI LENDVAY (VIOLIN) · JÓZSEF LENDVAY (VIOLIN) JENŐ LISZTES (CIMBALOM) HUNGARIAN RHAPSODY NO. 1 IN C SHARP MINOR HUNGARIAN RHAPSODY NO. 3 IN B FLAT MAJOR HUNGARIAN DANCE NO. 1 IN SYMPHONY NO. 1 IN C MINOR, OP. 68 . HUNGARIAN DANCE NO. 4 IN F MINOR PABLO DE SARASATE ZIGEUNERWEISEN, OP. 20 NICCOLÒ PAGANINI NEL COR PIÙ NON MI SENTO

“Oh, that concerts could all be like this. A masterclass!” (Spectator)

Cat. no. A 025 50421 0000 | Video Director: Kriss Russman | Length: 98' Filmed in HDTV 1080/50i IVÁN FISCHER A co-production of BBC and UNITEL

40 – CONCERT Photo: Chris Christodoulou ChrisPhoto: Christodoulou

KARINA CANELLAKIS

“RUSSIAN CLASSICS” WITH THE BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA & KARINA CANELLAKIS ALISA WEILERSTEIN () CORIOLAN , OP. 62 CELLO CONCERTO NO. 1 IN E FLAT MAJOR, OP. 107 SARABANDE FROM CELLO SUITE NO. 4 IN E FLAT MAJOR, BWV 1010 ANDREW NORMAN SPIRAL SYMPHONIC DANCES, OP. 45

Cat. no. A 025 50419 0000 | Video Director: Kerry Clark | Length: 90' | Filmed in HDTV 1080/50i A co-production of BBC and UNITEL Photo: Chris Christodoulou ChrisPhoto: Christodoulou

SIR ANDRÁS SCHIFF

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: THE WELL-TEMPERED CLAVIER (BOOK 2) PERFORMED BY SIR ANDRÁS SCHIFF Often heralded as one of the finest Bach interpreters today, Sir and “gracious lucidity” (ArtsDesk) of Sir András Schiff. Schiff, András Schiff embarks on Book II of Bach’s The Well-Tempered “travelling deeper into the inexplicable mysteries of Bach’s music” Clavier at the prestigious BBC Proms – a supreme technical (Observer), provides “masterly interpretations” (Bachtrack). His challenge for any performer and an astonishing experience for recital of the first volume at the BBC Proms was “one of those every listener, especially when they are played with the mastery unforgettable revelations” (Observer).

Cat. no. A 020 50128 | Video Director: Helen Scott | Length: 143' | Filmed in HDTV 1080/50i A co-production of BBC and UNITEL

CONCERT – 41 Photos: Thomas Jantzen, Sonja Stangl

PRETTY YENDE HARRIET KRIJGH

GRAFENEGG MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S GALA PRETTY YENDE (SOPRANO) · JOSEPH CALLEJA (TENOR) · HARRIET KRIJGH (CELLO) TONKUNSTLER ORCHESTRA CONDUCTED BY YUTAKA SADO WORKS BY ROSSINI, VERDI, BELLINI, OFFENBACH, BERLIOZ, POPPER, GIMÉNEZ, BERNSTEIN, ARDITI, PUCCINI & ELGAR

Pretty Yende, who sings brilliantly “up to the highest notes”, concert – a sparkling performance to rival the closing fireworks partners up with the “equally brilliant” (Kurier) Joseph Calleja and over the magnificent “Wolkenturm” stage. the highly talented cellist Harriet Krijgh for a spectacular open air

Cat. no. A 045 50074 0000 | Video Director: Heidelinde Haschek | Length: 77' | Filmed in High Definition A production of ORF in co-production with UNITEL and Grafenegg Festival

42 – CONCERT Photo: Marcus Schlaf Marcus Photo:

THE ODEONSPLATZ CONCERT WITH JUAN DIEGO FLÓREZ JUAN DIEGO FLÓREZ (TENOR) CONDUCTED BY WORKS BY MOZART, DONIZETTI, BERLIOZ, MASSENET, VERDI, PUCCINI, RIMSKY-KORSAKOV & TCHAIKOVSKY

Munich’s Odeonsplatz Concert is one of the open-air highlights of the year. The magnificent Residenz Palace on one side and the serene, towering Theatinerkirche on the other provide the ideal backdrop for exceptional performances of classical music. In this setting, Juan Diego Flórez presents an impressive aria programme, for which “he is celebrated like a popstar” (Süddeutsche Zeitung) by the Munich public. The Münchner Philharmoniker shine with their maestro Valery Gergiev at the helm.

Cat. no. A 055 51004 0000 | Video Director: Elisabeth Malzer | Length: approx. 120' Filmed in HDTV 1080/50i A co-production of BR and UNITEL in cooperation with medici.tv JUAN DIEGO FLÓREZ Photo: Peter Meisel Meisel Peter Photo:

THE ODEONSPLATZ CONCERT WITH DIANA DAMRAU DIANA DAMRAU (SOPRANO) · RADOSLAW SZULC (VIOLIN) CONDUCTED BY CRISTIAN MĂCELARU WORKS BY BERNSTEIN, MASSENET, SATIE, GOUNOD & DVOŘÁK

A glittery summer night’s gala with world star Diana Damrau in the dreamlike atmosphere of Munich’s Odeonsplatz! After a swinging opening with Bernstein’s Overture to Candide, Damrau shines in French arias like “Suis-je gentille ainsi?” from Massenet’s and “Je veux vivre” from Gounod’s Romeo et Juliette. In the second half, Christian Măcelaru conducts Dvořák’s Symphony ‘From the New World’ “with captivating drama and breathtaking precision” (Süddeutsche Zeitung).

Cat. no. A 055 50996 0000 | Video Director: Elisabeth Malzer | Length: 88' Filmed in HDTV 1080/50i DIANA DAMRAU A production of BR in co-production with UNITEL

CONCERT – 43 Photo: StephanPhoto: Rabold

GUSTAVO DUDAMEL

GUSTAVO DUDAMEL CONDUCTS BERNSTEIN & MAHLER

LEONARD BERNSTEIN DIVERTIMENTO FOR ORCHESTRA GUSTAV MAHLER SYMPHONY NO. 5 Cat. no. A 055 51194 0000 | Video Director: Michael Beyer | Length: approx. 85'

TAMARA MUMFORD (MEZZO-SOPRANO) LEONARD BERNSTEIN SYMPHONY NO. 1 JEREMIAH Cat. no. A 050 50663 | Video Director: Andreas Morell | Length: 25'

Gustav Mahler described his Fifth Symphony as a “cursed work” Bernstein’s cheeky occasional piece, Divertimento, which – here that “no one understands”. While the extreme variety of expression in Europe at least – is far too rarely heard. actually overwhelmed the audience at the time, the symphony In 1944, at the age of just 25, Leonard Bernstein conducted the enjoys the highest popularity today, especially thanks to its first performance of his First Symphony, a work based on the gossamer-like Adagietto movement. Gustavo Dudamel, music Old Testament lamentations of the Prophet Jeremiah, which director of the , also conducts Leonard demonstrates astonishing musical and intellectual maturity.

Filmed in Ultra High Definition A production of Berlin Phil Media and UNITEL

44 – CONCERT Photo: AndiPhoto: Schmid

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: SYMPHONY NO. 9 CONDUCTED BY (SOPRANO) · ANNIKA SCHLICHT (MEZZO-SOPRANO) ATTILIO GLASER (TENOR) · RENÉ PAPE () MEMBERS OF THE BAVARIAN RADIO CHORUS · CHORUS MASTER HOWARD ARMAN BAYERISCHER LANDESJUGENDCHOR · CHORUS MASTER GERD GUGLHÖR LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN SYMPHONY NO. 9 IN , OP. 125

Sir ’s unique “all-star” World Orchestra for Peace, with Donald Runnicles a quartet of world-class soloists, chorus members of and the Bayerische Chorakademie, give a commemorative performance of Beethoven’s legacy to universal peace and brotherhood. They are joined by players of the newly-formed Würth Philharmoniker to add a touching significance on this occasion of remembrance; that the future after any war lies in the hands of the surviving younger generation. Recorded at the exact ‘11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month’, when the guns fell silent and World War 1 came to an end in 1918.

Cat. no. A 050 50651 | Video Director: Elisabeth Malzer | Length: 69' | Filmed in Ultra High Definition DONALD RUNNICLES A production of World Orchestra for Peace and UNITEL

SALZBURG WIND ORCHESTRA GALA “THROUGH THE WOODS, THROUGH THE PASTURES” Christian SchneiderPhoto: BLÄSERPHILHARMONIE MOZARTEUM SALZBURG CONDUCTED BY HANSJÖRG ANGERER BACHCHOR SALZBURG · CHORUS MASTER ALOIS GLASSNER WORKS BY JOHANN STRAUSS JR., WEBER, SCHUMANN, KOMZÁK, WINTER, ADAM, JOSEF STRAUSS, BRUCKNER, SIBELIUS & JOHANN STRAUSS SR.

If you wander “through the woods, through the pastures” musically, you soon come into Romantic hunting grounds. These words from Weber’s opera Der Freischütz are the guiding idea for the traditional Salzburg New Year’s Concert of the Bläserphilharmonie Mozarteum Salzburg, led by Hansjörg Angerer. They roam through the most beautiful hunting, nature and forest music of the .

Cat. no. A 045 50087 0000 | Video Director: Hans Hadulla | Length: 103' | Filmed in HDTV 1080/50i A production of Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images for Universität Mozarteum Salzburg in cooperation with ORF III and UNITEL HANSJÖRG ANGERER

CONCERT – 45 Photo: KarelPhoto: Cudlin

MARTINŮ SYMPHONY CYCLE

BOHUSLAV MARTINŮ: SYMPHONIES NOS. 2, 3 & 6 CONDUCTED BY JAKUB HRŮŠA CONCERT I BOHUSLAV SYMPHONY NO. 2 H. 295 MARTINŮ SYMPHONY Cat. no. A 985 50046 0000 | Video Director: Adam Rezek | Length: 27' CYCLE CONCERT II SYMPHONY NO. 3 H. 299 . SYMPHONY NO. 6 H. 343 Cat. no. A 985 50045 0000 | Video Director: Henning Kasten | Length: 67'

Jakub Hrůša continues Jiří Bělohlávek’s ambitious project of death, his pupil Hrůša took over for Symphonies Nos. 2, 3 and 6. recording the complete Martinů symphonies at the visually and With the performance of the fifth symphony of Martinů, who is acoustically spectacular Rudolfinum Prague with his Czech deemed the greatest Czech composer of his generation, the cycle Philharmonic. Bělohlávek had started with Nos. 1 and 4; after his will be completed in 2019.

Filmed in HDTV 1080/50i A production of and UNITEL in cooperation with Czech Philharmonic

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THE DEUTSCHE KAMMERPHILHARMONIE BREMEN

JOHANNES BRAHMS: THE COMPLETE SYMPHONIES CONDUCTED BY PAAVO JÄRVI SYMPHONY NO. 1 IN C MINOR, OP. 68 SYMPHONY NO. 3 IN F MAJOR, OP. 90 Length: 48' Length: 40' SYMPHONY NO. 2 IN D MAJOR, OP. 73 SYMPHONY NO. 4 IN , OP. 98 Length: 47' Length: 42'

Cat. no. A 015 50104 0000 | Video Director: Jean-Pierre Loisil | Filmed in Ultra High Definition A production of CLC in cooperation with medici.tv and UNITEL, with the support of CNC

JOHANNES BRAHMS: EIN DEUTSCHES REQUIEM CONDUCTED BY PAAVO JÄRVI VALENTINA FARCAS (SOPRANO) · MATTHIAS GOERNE () STATE CHOIR LATVIJA · CHORUS MASTER VALDIS TOMSONS JOHANNES BRAHMS EIN DEUTSCHES REQUIEM, OP. 45

Cat. no. A 050 50609 | Video Director: Andreas Morell | Length: 71' | Filmed in HDTV 1080/50i A production of Salve TV, ZDF/3Sat, The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and UNITEL

“THE BRAHMS CODE” – A MUSIC DOCUMENTARY In Post-production: This documentary by award-winning film artistic director Paavo Järvi, the viewer experiences the peaks of director Christian Berger explores the four symphonies by these Romantic masterpieces and receives information for a better Johannes Brahms. Through the eyes of the musicians and their understanding.

Cat. no. A 045 50091 0000 | Video Director: Jean-Pierre Loisil | Filmed in HDTV 1080/50i A production of Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images, Deusche Welle and UNITEL

CONCERT – 47 WINTER DREAMS – ELDBJØRG HEMSING REDISCOVERS HJALMAR BORGSTRØM'S ELDBJØRG HEMSING (VIOLIN) THE ARCTIC PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA CONDUCTED BY EIVIND G. JENSEN HJALMAR BORGSTRØM VIOLIN CONCERTO IN G MAJOR, OP. 25

Under the mesmerizing northern lights at the Stormen Concert Hall in Bodø, Norway, Eldbjørg Hemsing rediscovers a forgotten national treasure, Hjalmar Borgstrøm’s Violin Concerto. The concerto has only received a handful of performances in 100 Photo: Synne M. Tommerberg / Stormen Konserthus years. Borgstrøm, who gained inspiration from Wagner and Beethoven, created this work in 1914. Its notes were found by conductor Terje Boye Hansen, who forwarded them to Hemsing, one of Norway’s biggest musical talents today. And she demonstrates why Borgstrøm’s composition has the potential to achieve the same significance among violin in Norway as Edvard Grieg’s Piano Concerto, which is the Norwegian piano concerto par excellence. Hemsing shines “with a brilliant technique, her tone is bright and soft” (RP Online), breathing new life into the virtuosic music “with her vivacious personality and a wonderfully clear and pure lyrical tone” (Rondo).

Cat. no. A 805 50021 0000 | Video Director: Anders Lindstad | Length: 47' Filmed in Ultra High Definition ELDBJØRG HEMSING A production of Clockwork, UNITEL and Peiling Photo: medici.tvPhoto:

DANIEL BARENBOIM & LAHAV SHANI PERFORM SHOSTAKOVICH & BEETHOVEN DANIEL BARENBOIM (PIANO) LÉON ORTHEL SCHERZO NO. 2 FOR ORCHESTRA, OP. 38 LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN PIANO CONCERTO NO. 3 IN C MINOR, OP. 37 DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH SYMPHONY NO. 5 IN D MINOR, OP. 47

In his inaugural performance as the new of the Rotterdam Philharmonic, Lahav Shani leads the orchestra in Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony, a work from 1937 that returned the composer into Stalin’s good political graces after being denounced by the Soviet regime. He is joined by his former mentor and a renowned Beethoven interpreter with hundreds of recordings of the composer’s music to his name: Daniel Barenboim performs Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto, a startlingly dramatic work inspired by Mozart’s own in C Minor (K. 491).

Cat. no. A 865 50055 0000 | Length: approx. 110' | Video Director: Dick Kuijs | Filmed in HDTV 1080/50i A production of Rotterdam Philharmonic and medici.tv in association with UNITEL LAHAV SHANI, DANIEL BARENBOIM

48 – CONCERT Photo: MonikaPhoto: Rittershaus

DANIEL BARENBOIM

JOHANNES BRAHMS: THE COMPLETE SYMPHONIES CONDUCTED BY DANIEL BARENBOIM

CONCERT I CONCERT II SYMPHONIES NOS. 1 & 2 SYMPHONIES NOS. 3 & 4 Length: 94' Length: 93'

On the occasion of the Festival Barenboim in , former main post office of the city, famous for its magnificent Daniel Barenboim returns to his native city to perform with acoustics, Barenboim’s rendition of the Symphonies Nos. 1-4 the Staatskapelle Berlin the entire cycle of Johannes Brahms’s elicits “bravos and standing ovations in the audience” (Berliner symphonies. In the concert hall of Kirchner Cultural Centre, the Morgenpost).

Cat. no. A 835 50011 0000 | Video Director: Tilo Krause | Filmed in Ultra High Definition A co-production of Federal Office of Media and Public Content, Argentina, Centro Cultural Kirchner and UNITEL

CONCERT – 49 Photo: Todd Rosenberg Todd Photo:

BERNARD HAITINK

MITSUKO UCHIDA & PERFORM MOZART & BEETHOVEN (PIANO) WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART PIANO CONCERTO NO. 23 IN A MAJOR, K. 488 SYMPHONY NO. 6 IN A MAJOR, WAB 106

For the first time in almost 35 years Bernard Haitink is leading the Concerto No. 23. In this work the woodwinds play a significant Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Bruckner’s Sixth Symphony. role and Mozart allows several from the operas he was The composer himself considered this ‘the boldest’ of all his working on in the same time period to seep in. symphonies. Mitsuko Uchida performs Mozart’s Piano

Cat. no. A 865 50047 0000 | Video Director: Joost Honselaar | Length: approx. 100' Filmed in HDTV 1080/50i | A production of RCO and UNITEL Photo: RenskePhoto: Vrolijk

SEMYON BYCHKOV

PYOTR. I. TCHAIKOVSKY: THE NUTCRACKER CONDUCTED BY SEMYON BYCHKOV CHILDREN OF THE NATIONAL CHILDREN’S CHOIR & THE NATIONAL BOYS CHOIR CHORUS MASTER WILMA TEN WOLDE

PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY THE NUTCRACKER, OP. 71

The combination of the captivating conductor Semyon Bychkov Orchestra’s Christmas Matinee truly irresistible. Tchaikovsky’s and Tchaikovsky’s legendary music for the Christmas ballet The infectious music and the atmospheric fairy tale about dolls that Nutcracker makes this programme of the Royal Concertgebouw come to life garantuee a heart-warming concert suitable for all ages.

Cat. no. A 860 50020 | Video Director: Dick Kuijs | Length: approx. 90' | Filmed in HDTV 1080/50i A production of RCO, Avrotros and UNITEL

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PHILIPPE HERREWEGHE

YEFIM BRONFMAN & PHILIPPE HERREWEGHE PERFORM BEETHOVEN & BRAHMS (PIANO) LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN PIANO CONCERTO NO. 4 IN G MAJOR, OP. 58 JOHANNES BRAHMS SYMPHONY NO. 2 IN D MAJOR, OP. 73 WITH AN ENCORE BY SCARLATTI

With Beethoven and Brahms, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra the Russian-Israeli-American master who is known to excel in turns to its : to perform the best works from the Classical and tumultuous works. Remarkably enough, Bronfman now turns to the Romantic periods. It joins forces with star pianist Yefim Bronfman, most tender of piano concertos that Beethoven composed.

Cat. no. A 865 50046 0000 | Video Director: Dick Kuijs | Length: approx. 90' | Filmed in HDTV 1080/50i A production of RCO and UNITEL Photo: Milagro ElstakPhoto:

WAR REQUIEM

BENJAMIN BRITTEN: WAR REQUIEM CONDUCTED BY GIANANDREA NOSEDA ELENA STIKHINA (SOPRANO) · (TENOR) · MICHAEL VOLLE (BARITONE) NETHERLANDS RADIO CHOIR · CHORUS MASTER SIMON HALSEY FLEMISH RADIO CHOIR · CHORUS MASTER BART VAN RIJN NATIONAL CHILDREN’S CHOIR · CHORUS MASTER WILMA TEN WOLDE WAR REQUIEM, OP. 66 In his debut with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Gianandrea acclaim: Britten’s monumental War Requiem, in which the forces Noseda turns to one of his signature works that earned him critical of the “combined superbly” (Bachtrack).

Cat. no. A 860 50019 | Video Director: Dick Kuijs | Length: 90' | Filmed in HDTV 1080/50i A production of UNITEL, RCO and Mezzo

CONCERT – 51 52 –CONCERT 52 JANINE JANSEN JANINE First Piano Concerto. First Liszt for extraordinaire pianist by joined are here, of spirit the celebrating are who Orchestra, Concertgebouw Royal the and Hengelbrock 97' |Length: Soeteman Ferenc Director: |Video 0000 50045 A865 no. Cat. FELIX EVGENY KISSIN & KISSINEVGENY &THOMAS GIOACHINO ROSSINI GIOACHINO FRANZ LISZT LISZT FRANZ PERFORM GIUSEPPE VERDI VERDI GIUSEPPE WITH ENCORES BY BY ENCORES WITH A production of RCO and UNITEL and RCO of A production EVGENY KISSIN (PIANO) KISSIN EVGENY LISZT & MENDELSSOHN & LISZT Filmed in HDTV 1080/50i HDTV in Filmed PIANO CONCERTO NO. 1 IN E FLAT MAJOR EFLAT 1IN NO. CONCERTO PIANO SYMPHONY NO. 4 IN A MAJOR, OP. “ITALIAN” 90 AMAJOR, 4IN NO. SYMPHONY OVERTURE “LE ROMAIN”, OP. ROMAIN”, 9 CARNAVAL “LE OVERTURE OVERTURE TO OVERTURE BALLET MUSIC FROM FROM MUSIC BALLET FAURÉ & PUCCINI & FAURÉ

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MAX BRUCH BRUCH MAX JANINE JANSEN &DANIELE GATTI

GUSTAV MAHLER PERFORM A production of UNITEL, RCO and Mezzo and RCO UNITEL, of A production JANINE JANSEN (VIOLIN) VIOLIN CONCERTO NO. 1 IN G MINOR, OP. GMINOR, 1IN NO. 26 CONCERTO VIOLIN ’ s BRUCH &MAHLER SYMPHONY NO. 1 IN DMAJOR 1IN NO. SYMPHONY EVGENY KISSIN, HENGELBROCK THOMAS ” ( NRC HandelsbladNRC ’ s Violin Concerto No. 1. The No. 1. The Concerto s Violin ’ s Symphony No. 1. “ s Symphony the elegant intensity of intensity elegant the ). The programme ). programme The ” (

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FESTIVE GALA WITH LANG LANG & MARISS JANSONS LANG LANG (PIANO) WORKS BY BERNSTEIN, DEBUSSY, ELGAR, DVOŘÁK, MOZART, XINGHAI, TOYAMA, MASCAGNI, BRAHMS, & LIGETI

Feel like taking a world tour? Let Mariss Jansons and the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks take you to Europe, America and Asia in their festive gala programme. They are joined by super star Lang Lang, who performs the dreamy Andante from Mozart’s Piano Concerto in C major as well as an excerpt from the Yellow River Concerto, a popular piece from his native China. To end the concert maestro Jansons unleashes a musical firework display with an Hungarian Dance by Brahms and Rumanian folk music by Ligeti.

Cat. no. A 055 51206 0000 | Video Director: Elisabeth Malzer | Length: 75' LANG LANG, MARISS JANSONS Filmed in HDTV 1080/50i | A production of BR and UNITEL Photo: Peter Meisel Peter Photo:

KIRILL GERSTEIN & SIR PERFORM BERNSTEIN & RACHMANINOFF (PIANO) LEONARD BERNSTEIN SYMPHONY NO. 2 “” SERGEI RACHMANINOFF WALTZ FROM SIX PIECES FOR PIANO FOUR HANDS, OP. 11/4 SYMPHONY NO. 2 IN E MINOR, OP. 27

Finally reunited with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Sir Antonio Pappano conducts Sergei Rachmaninoff’s magnificent Second Symphony and Leonard Bernstein’s rarely heard Symphony No. 2. Kirill Gerstein, “who is emerging as one of the most respected of his generation” (), brings his experience to the dark, urban piece of Bernstein.

Cat. no. A 055 50974 0000 | Video Director: Hans Hadulla | Length: 105' | Filmed in HDTV 1080/50i A production of BR in co-production with UNITEL SIR ANTONIO PAPPANO, KIRILL GERSTEIN

CONCERT – 53 KRZYSZTOF URBAŃSKI CONDUCTS HOLST & WILLIAMS NDR ELBPHILHARMONIE ORCHESTER WOMEN OF THE CHOIR CHORUS MASTERS ERWIN ORTNER & ROGER DIAZ CAJAMARCA , OP. 32

Photo: Photo: Benjamin Hållenkremer STAR WARS SUITE

Is this music from “Star Wars” or “E.T.”? Such questions regularly pop up when Holst’s The Planets is performed. Mars, the “Bringer of War”, contains music which John Williams recycled 60 years later for the Star Wars Suite. Krzysztof Urbański and the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra invite you to compare these two works.

Cat. no. A 055 50993 0000 | Video Director: Alexander Radulescu | Length: approx. 100' Filmed in HDTV 1080/50i | A production of NC3, NDR, Elbphilharmonie and UNITEL KRZYSZTOF URBAŃSKI licensed by Studio Hamburg Enterprises GmbH

GUSTAV MAHLER: SYMPHONY NO. 3 CONDUCTED BY ALAN GILBERT (ALTO) Photo: PeterPhoto: Hundert NDR ELBPHILHARMONIE ORCHESTER KNABENCHOR HANNOVER · CHORUS MASTER JENS BREIDING WOMEN OF THE BAVARIAN RADIO CHORUS & WOMEN OF THE NDR RADIO CHOIR CHORUS MASTER HOWARD ARMAN GUSTAV MAHLER SYMPHONY NO. 3 IN D MINOR

After compelling Mahler performances around the world, Alan Gilbert returns to the Elbphilharmonie with the colossal Third Symphony: “a fulminant success” (Die Welt).

Cat. no. A 050 50610 | Video Director: Georg Wübbolt | Length: approx. 100' Filmed in HDTV 1080/50i | A production of NDR in cooperation with ARTE in collaboration with UNITEL licensed by Studio Hamburg Enterprises GmbH ALAN GILBERT

THOMAS HENGELBROCK CONDUCTS MOZART & MAHLER PIOTR ANDERSZEWSKI (PIANO) NDR ELBPHILHARMONIE ORCHESTER Photo: FlorencePhoto: Grandidier WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART PIANO CONCERTO NO. 24 IN C MINOR, K. 491 GUSTAV MAHLER SYMPHONY NO. 5 IN C SHARP MINOR

Piano philosopher Piotr Anderszewski performs Mozart’s dramatic Piano Concerto in C minor in a concert night of “profound Mozart and fulminant Mahler in the Elbphilharmonie” (Bachtrack).

Cat. no. A 055 51038 0000 | Video Director: Andreas Morell | Length: 105' Filmed in HDTV 1080/50i | A production of 3B-Produktion in cooperation with NDR and ARTE THOMAS HENGELBROCK in collaboration with UNITEL licensed by Studio Hamburg Enterprises GmbH

54 – CONCERT Photo: Chau Cuong-Lê

BERNSTEIN: MASS

LEONARD BERNSTEIN: MASS CONDUCTED BY WAYNE MARSHALL JUBILANT SYKES (THE CELEBRANT) CHŒUR AEDES · CHORUS MASTER MATHIEU ROMANO CHŒUR DE L’ORCHESTRE DE PARIS · CHŒUR D’ENFANTS DE L’ORCHESTRE DE PARIS · CHORUS MASTER LIONEL SOW

Monumental, delirious, transgressive – Mass by Leonard Bernstein Chorus and Children’s Chorus and the Ensemble Aedes take on (1918-1990) is doubtlessly one of the most abundant scores in this “extravagant, exuberant and endlessly inventive creation” musical history. On the occasion of the composer’s 100th birthday, (The New York Times). Bernstein expert Wayne Marshall, the Orchestre de Paris, its

Cat. no. A 010 50081 | Video Director: François-René Martin | Length: 108' | Filmed in Ultra High Definition A co-production of CLC, Radio France, ARTE France and UNITEL with the participation of La Cité de la musique – Philharmonie de Paris Photo: Thierry BorredonPhoto:

HOMMAGE À CHARLES GOUNOD

HOMMAGE À CHARLES GOUNOD JODIE DEVOS · ELSA DREISIG () · KATE ALDRICH (MEZZO-SOPRANO) PATRICK BOLLEIRE (BASS) · YOSEP KANG (TENOR) · OLIVIER LATRY (ORGAN) ORCHESTRE NATIONAL DE FRANCE CONDUCTED BY JESKO SIRVEND CHARLES GOUNOD ROMÉO ET JULIETTE · · FAUST · · PHILÉMON ET BAUCIS · CINQ-MARS · · ·

A gala concert at the Auditorium de Radio France in Paris with occasion of the bicentenary of Charles Gounod's birth. “Bravos much loved works and rarities of the French composer on the for the soloists and orchestra!” (Operawire)

Cat. no. A 015 50126 0000 | Video Director: Jean-Pierre Loisil | Length: approx. 85' | Filmed in Ultra High Definition A co-production of CLC and Radio France in association with ARTE France and UNITEL with the support of CNC

CONCERT – 55 Photo: Classica Photo:

CHRISTIAN THIELEMANN

ROBERT SCHUMANN: THE COMPLETE SYMPHONIES CONDUCTED BY CHRISTIAN THIELEMANN CONCERT I SYMPHONY NO. 1 IN B FLAT MAJOR, OP. 38 “SPRING” · SYMPHONY NO. 2 IN C MAJOR, OP. 61 Cat. no. A 075 50012 0000 | Length: approx. 90' CONCERT II SYMPHONY NO. 3 IN E FLAT MAJOR, OP. 97 “RHENISH” · SYMPHONY NO. 4 IN D MINOR, OP. 120 Cat. no. A 075 50013 0000 | Length: approx. 80'

After Brahms and Bruckner, Christian Thielemann and the was recorded live at the in Tokyo, is a new milestone Staatskapelle Dresden, one of the world’s oldest and most in Schumann interpretation. Christian Thielemann conducts with prestigious and, like Schumann, rooted in Saxony, verve and explores the music to the finest nuances. present ’s four symphonies. This cycle, which

Cat. no. Symphony Cycle A 555 50065 0000 | Video Director: Akira Miki | Filmed in Ultra High Definition (60p) A co-production of Tohokushinsha Corporation, Classica Japan and UNITEL in cooperation with Staatskapelle Dresden

56 – CONCERT Photo: MatthiasPhoto: Creutziger

J. STRAUSS:

FESTIVE GALA AT THE SEMPEROPER DRESDEN JOHANN STRAUSS: DIE FLEDERMAUS (EISENSTEIN) · RACHEL WILLIS-SØRENSEN (ROSALINDE) · (PRINCE ORLOFSKY ANDREAS SCHAGER (ALFRED) · NIKOLA HILLEBRAND (ADELE) · SEBASTIAN WARTIG (FALKE) · MICHAEL KRAUS (FRANK) et al. STAATSKAPELLE DRESDEN CONDUCTED BY FRANZ WELSER-MÖST SÄCHSISCHER STAATSOPERNCHOR DRESDEN · CHORUS MASTER CORNELIUS VOLKE

In this gala evening from the Semperoper Dresden Franz Welser- version shines with a distinguished cast headed by star tenor Möst brings his incomparable musicianship to the most Viennese Jonas Kaufmann as Eisenstein. of all operettas, Johann Strauss Jr.’s Die Fledermaus. The concert

Cat. no. A 055 51207 0000 | Video Director: Andy Sommer | Length: approx. 90' | Filmed in HDTV 1080/50i A production of ZDF in cooperation with UNITEL and Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden

CONCERT – 57 Photo: Bluedog Productions Bluedog Photo:

KATE MILLER-HEIDKE

KATE MILLER-HEIDKE AND THE MSO CONDUCTED BY BENJAMIN NORTHEY

In a special one-night-only event, Australian theatre and music from her award-winning opera The Rabbits and popular hits from sensation Kate Miller-Heidke joins the MSO, performing songs her album ‘The Best of Kate Miller-Heidke: Act One’.

Cat. no. A 170 50007 | Video Director: Lilian Yu | Length: 98' | Filmed in Ultra High Definition Produced by Toby Parkinson, Bluedog Productions, distributed by UNITEL Photo: Bluedog Productions Bluedog Photo:

BERLIOZ: L'ENFANCE DU CHRIST

HECTOR BERLIOZ: L’ENFANCE DU CHRIST CONDUCTED BY SIR SASHA COOKE (MARIA) · ANDREW STAPLES (LE RÉCITANT) · RODERICK WILLIAMS (JOSEPH) (CENTURION) · SHANE LOWRENCEV (POLYDORE) · MATTHEW BROOK (HÉRODE / LE PÈRE DE FAMILLE) MSO CHORUS · CHORUS MASTER WARREN TREVELYAN-JONES

Sir Andrew Davis explains why L’Enfance du Christ is a must-see: narrator (sung by Andrew Staples) is so colourful. The final chorus “This piece is very unusual for Berlioz as most of it is quite intimate. is to die for!” It has wonderful writing for the chorus, it’s very varied and the

Cat. no. A 170 50008 | Video Director: Thomas Toby Parkinson | Length: 96' | Filmed in Ultra High Definition Produced by Toby Parkinson, Bluedog Productions, distributed by UNITEL

58 – CONCERT RUSSIAN NIGHT WITH MAXIM VENGEROV (VIOLIN) PYOTR I. TCHAIKOVSKY VIOLIN CONCERTO IN D MAJOR, OP. 35

CONDUCTED BY BENJAMIN NORTHEY Productions Bluedog Photo: NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV SCHEHERAZADE, OP. 35 CONDUCTED BY MAXIM VENGEROV

Maxim Vengerov joins the MSO to perform the fiendishly difficult Violin Concerto by Tchaikovsky, which is full of soaring melodies, melancholy and virtuosity. It is followed by Rimsky-Korsakov’s colourful oriental fantasy Scheherazade – let the MSO transport you into the world of a thousand-and-one nights!

Cat. no. A 175 50017 0000 | Video Director: Lilian Yu | Length: 87' | Filmed in Ultra High Definition Produced by Toby Parkinson, Bluedog Productions, distributed by UNITEL MAXIM VENGEROV

SIR ANDREW DAVIS CONDUCTS 20TH-CENTURY CLASSICS (VIOLIN) BENJAMIN BRITTEN FOUR SEA INTERLUDES FROM WITOLD LUTOSŁAWSKI PARTITA FOR VIOLIN AND ORCHESTRA Photo: Bluedog Productions Productions Bluedog Photo: THE LARK ASCENDING SERGEI RACHMANINOFF SYMPHONIC DANCES, OP. 45

Conducted by Sir Andrew Davis with ’s violin master Richard Tognetti, this concert features Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending, a glorious evocation of English pastoral life, which was placed No. 1 in the ABC’s Swoon Classic 100 countdown in 2015.

Cat. no. A 175 50016 0000 | Video Director: Lilian Yu | Length: 88' | Filmed in Ultra High Definition RICHARD TOGNETTI Produced by Toby Parkinson, Bluedog Productions, distributed by UNITEL

EAST MEETS WEST: A CHINESE NEW YEAR’S CELEBRATION LU SIQING (VIOLIN) · MA XIAOHUI (ERHU) CONDUCTED BY LÜ JIA BAO YUANKAI CHINESE SIGHTS AND SOUNDS: DIALOGUE ON FLOWERS Productions Bluedog Photo: CHEN GANG & HE ZHANHAO BUTTERFLY LOVERS’ VIOLIN CONCERTO YANG LIQING SHEPHERD GIRL IN THE TIANSHAN MOUNTAINS ROBERT SCHUMANN SYMPHONY NO. 1 IN B FLAT MAJOR, OP. 38 “SPRING”

Join the MSO and maestro Lü Jia with a stellar cast of guest artists to celebrate the Chinese New Year in a colourful and joyous one-night-only event showcasing Melbourne’s diverse culture!

Cat. no. A 175 50018 0000 | Video Director: Lilian Yu | Length: 96' | Filmed in Ultra High Definition Produced by Toby Parkinson, Bluedog Productions, distributed by UNITEL MA XIAOHUI

CONCERT – 59 Photo: Bluedog Productions Bluedog Photo:

NELSON FREIRE

MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA WITH NELSON FREIRE AND STUART SKELTON NELSON FREIRE (PIANO) · STUART SKELTON (TENOR) CONDUCTED BY SIR ANDREW DAVIS CARL VINE SYMPHONY NO. 1 “MICROSYMPHONY” RICHARD WAGNER “WINTERSTÜRME WICHEN DEM WONNEMOND” FROM DIE WALKÜRE “MORGENDÄMMERUNG” & “SIEGFRIEDS RHEINFAHRT” FROM GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN PIANO CONCERTO NO. 5 IN E FLAT MAJOR, OP. 73 · “GOTT! WELCH DUNKEL HIER!” FROM GUISEPPE VERDI BALLABILE & “NIUN MI TEMA” FROM OTELLO

Cat. no. A 175 50019 0000 | Video Director: Lilian Yu | Length: 105' | Filmed in Ultra High Definition Produced by Toby Parkinson, Bluedog Productions, distributed by UNITEL Photo: Bluedog Productions Bluedog Photo:

BERNSTEIN ON BROADWAY

BERNSTEIN ON BROADWAY SARAH FOX (SOPRANO) · LIANE KEEGAN (CONTRALTO) · BRETT POLEGATO (BARITONE) · BRENTON SPITERI (TENOR) BRAMWELL TOVEY (CONDUCTOR & PIANO) MUSIC FROM ON THE TOWN, WONDERFUL TOWN, CANDIDE, PETER PAN, FANCY FREE & WEST SIDE STORY

Leonard Bernstein wrote symphonies and conducted the New concert celebrates Bernstein’s Broadway, with excerpts from York Philharmonic, but as well, he conquered Broadway and works premiered or set there. became musical New York’s chief representative. This MSO

Cat. no. A 175 50020 0000 | Video Director: Thomas Toby Parkinson | Length: 107' | Filmed in Ultra High Definition Produced by Toby Parkinson, Bluedog Productions, distributed by UNITEL

60 – CONCERT INTERNATIONAL BAROQUE DAYS OF MELK ABBEY Photo: Daniela Matejschek Matejschek Daniela Photo: : DIE SCHÖPFUNG ANNA LUCIA RICHTER (SOPRANO) · MICHAEL SCHADE (TENOR) FLORIAN BOESCH (BARITONE) CONCENTUS MUSICUS CONDUCTED BY STEFAN GOTTFRIED BACHCHOR SALZBURG · CHORUS MASTER ALOIS GLASSNER JOSEPH HAYDN DIE SCHÖPFUNG (HOB. XXI:2)

To mark its 40th anniversary, the International Baroque Days of Melk Abbey are returning to their roots: Under the musical direction of Stefan Gottfried, Concentus Musicus Wien, the Bach Choir Salzburg and a great vocal cast, perform Haydn’s famous oratorio Die Schöpfung. First performed in Vienna in 1798, Haydn’s three- part oratorio is still considered a reference work today. of the world, the chaos of all beginnings is marked by picturesque depictions of nature in the composition.

Cat. no. A 040 50097 | Video Director: Volker Werner | Length: 100' | Filmed in HDTV 1080/50i CONCENTUS MUSICUS A co-production of ORF III/ORF and Scarlatti Arts International, distributed by UNITEL Photo: Robert Michael Photo:

FESTIVE ADVENT CONCERT AT THE FRAUENKIRCHE DRESDEN HANNA-ELISABETH MÜLLER (SOPRANO) STEPANKA PUCALKOVA (MEZZO-SOPRANO) · DANIEL HOPE (VIOLIN) SÄCHSISCHER STAATSOPERNCHOR · CHORUS MASTER JÖRN HINNERK ANDRESEN STAATSKAPELLE DRESDEN CONDUCTED BY LORENZO VIOTTI WORKS BY MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY, REGER, FAURÉ, MOZART, POULENC, HUMPERDINCK & ROSSINI

The Festive Advent Concert has become a much loved tradition in Dresden and one of German TV’s biggest classical music success stories. This time, conductor Lorenzo Viotti, the Staatskapelle Dresden and the Staatsopernchor join forces with soprano Hanna-Elisabeth Müller and violinist Daniel Hope to present a programme ranging from Mozart’s Violin Concerto in G Major to excerpts from Rossini’s Petite messe solennelle and sacral works by Mendelssohn and Reger.

Cat. no. A 055 51058 0000 | Video Director: Elisabeth Malzer | Length: 62' | Filmed in HDTV 1080/50i A production of ZDF in co-production with UNITEL in cooperation with Staatskapelle Dresden and Stiftung Frauenkirche FESTIVE ADVENT CONCERT

CONCERT – 61 Photo: Heliox Films

BELCEA QUARTET & ANTOINE TAMESTIT

BELCEA QUARTET & ANTOINE TAMESTIT PERFORM MOZART, SHOSTAKOVICH & BRAHMS CORINA BELCEA, AXEL SCHACHER (VIOLIN) · KRZYSZTOF CHORZELSKI, ANTOINE TAMESTIT () ANTOINE LEDERLIN (CELLO) WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART STRING QUINTET IN C MAJOR, K. 515 DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH NO. 8 IN C MINOR, OP. 110 JOHANNES BRAHMS STRING QUINTET NO. 2 IN G MAJOR, OP. 111

The Belcea Quartet, one of the world’s leading chamber music ranges from the Classical and Romantic era to the 20th century. ensembles, teams up with viola player Antoine Tamestit to light up “A world-class ensemble!” () the Saal in Berlin with an exciting programme that

Cat. no. A 055 50892 0000 | Video Director: Frédéric Delesques | Length: 97' | Filmed in Ultra High Definition A production of UNITEL and Heliox Films in association with ClassicAll/M_Media with the support of CNC Photo: PeterPhoto: Adamik JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: SIX PARTITAS PERFORMED BY SIR ANDRÁS SCHIFF JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH PARTITAS NOS. 1-6, BWV 825-830 Cat. no. A 055 51007 0000 | Length: 145' SIR ANDRÁS SCHIFF: LECTURE ON THE BACH PARTITAS English: Cat. no. A 055 50976 0000 | Length: 100' German: Cat. no. A 055 50975 0000 | Length: 113'

Sir András Schiff has spent many years probing the inexhaustible riches of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. At Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin he continues his series of lectures & concerts with a presentation of Bach’s six partitas for solo piano. Available are Schiff’s complete performance of the partitas as well as his lecture (held in German and in English) that includes musical examples at the piano.

Video Director: Frédéric Delesques | Filmed in Ultra High Definition SIR ANDRÁS SCHIFF A production of UNITEL, Heliox Films and ClassicAll/M_Media with the support of CNC

62 – RECITAL & CHAMBER MUSIC Photo: Heliox Films

DANIEL BARENBOIM, KIAN SOLTANI

AN EVENING WITH CLAUDE DEBUSSY DANIEL BARENBOIM (PIANO) · MARIANNE CREBASSA (MEZZO-SOPRANO) · (FLUTE) MICHAEL BARENBOIM (VIOLIN) · YULIA DEYNEKA (VIOLA) · KIAN SOLTANI (CELLO) · ALINE KHOURI (HARP) CLAUDE DEBUSSY IN D MINOR FOR VIOLONCELLO AND PIANO · CHANSONS DE BILITIS · SYRINX FOR SOLO IN G MINOR FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO · TROIS POÈMES DE STÉPHANE MALLARMÉ · SONATA FOR FLUTE, VIOLA AND HARP TROIS MÉLODIES DE VERLAINE

Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the death of Claude programme includes the evocative Syrinx for solo flute and the Debussy, a group of acclaimed international artists, led by Chansons de Bilitis, featuring French mezzo-soprano Marianne Daniel Barenboim, presents a selection of the French composer’s Crebassa. chamber music and songs. Along with duo and trio , the

Cat. no. A 055 50971 0000 | Video Director: Frédéric Delesques | Length: 82' | Filmed in Ultra High Definition A production of ARTE France and Heliox Films in association with UNITEL in cooperation with the Pierre Boulez Saal with the support of CNC

RECITAL & CHAMBER MUSIC – 63 Photo: HelioxPhoto: FIlms

QUATUOR DIOTIMA

PIERRE BOULEZ: LIVRE POUR QUATUOR PERFORMED BY QUATUOR DIOTIMA YUN-PENG ZHAO, CONSTANCE RONZATTI (VIOLIN) · FRANCK CHEVALIER (VIOLA) · PIERRE MORLET (CELLO)

At the Cité de la musique in Paris, the Quatuor Diotima, one of the Boulez’ work has been profoundly revised in collaboration with world’s most in-demand ensembles, presents Pierre Boulez’ Livre the Quatuor Diotima. The unaccomplished fourth movement has pour quatuor. Written between 1948-49 in a period of complete been completed by Philippe Manoury. radicality, this work is an exercise in formality and fragmentation.

Cat. no. A 010 50083 | Video Director: Frédéric Delesques | Length: 61' | Filmed in Ultra High Definition A production of UNITEL, Heliox Films and Quatuor Diotima in association with ClassicAll/M_Media and Radio France with the support of CNC Photo: Heliox Films

BUSCH TRIO

ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK: CHAMBER WORKS FOR STRINGS AND PIANO PERFORMED BY BUSCH TRIO ORI EPSTEIN (PIANO) · OMRI EPSTEIN (CELLO) · MATHIEU VAN BELLEN (VIOLIN)

CONCERT I CONCERT II CONCERT III NO. 3 IN F MINOR, OP. 65 BAGATELLES FOR 2 , TRIO NO. 2 IN G MINOR, OP. 26 PIANO TRIO NO. 4 IN E MINOR, CELLO AND PIANO, OP. 47 PIANO QUARTET NO. 1 IN D MAJOR, OP. 23 OP. 90 'DUMKY' PIANO QUINTET NO. 1 IN A MAJOR, OP. 5 PIANO QUARTET NO. 2 IN E FLAT MAJOR, OP. 87 PIANO TRIO NO. 1 IN B FLAT MAJOR, OP. 21 PIANO QUINTET NO. 2 IN A MAJOR, OP. 81 Length: 102' Length: 110' Length: 82'

Named after the legendary violinist Adolf Busch, the young piano Music Chapel in Waterloo, Belgium – an educational institution trio has received enthusiastic responses from audiences and critics legendary for its musical elite intake and output – they perform across the UK and Europe. In three concerts at the Queen Elisabeth an extensive selection of chamber works by Antonín Dvořák.

Cat. no. A 965 50020 0000 | Video Director: Frédéric Delesques | Filmed in Ultra High Definition A production of Heliox Films, Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, Alpha Classics & Outhere-Music, UNITEL, medici.tv and RTBF with the support of CNC

64 – RECITAL & CHAMBER MUSIC Photo: SzaboPhoto: THE WORLD OF HANS ZIMMER HOLLYWOOD IN VIENNA Featuring music from “INCEPTION” “THE DARK KNIGHT” “GLADIATOR” “THE LION KING” and many more

HOLLYWOOD IN VIENNA THE WORLD OF HANS ZIMMER LISA GERRARD, VALENTINA NAFORNIŢĂ, MONIKA BALLWEIN (SINGERS) · (WINDS) RUSANDA PANFILI (VIOLIN) · MARIE SPAEMANN (CELLO) · JUAN GARCIA-HERREROS, AMIR JOHN HADDAD (GUITAR) LUIS RIBEIRO, LUCY LANDYMORE, ALEKSANDRA ŠUKLAR (PERCUSSION) · FRANTIŠEK JÁNOŠKA (PIANO) ELIANE CORREA (PIANO & ACCORDION) · ANNA BAULINA (CIMBALOM) · KAREN RUBIO LUGO (DANCER) ORF VIENNA RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CONDUCTED BY MARTIN GELLNER NEUE WIENER STIMMEN · INSINGIZI & FRIENDS · CHORUS MASTER CHRISTOPH WIGELBEYER MUSIC BY HANS ZIMMER FROM THE MOTION PICTURES THE DARK KNIGHT, MISSION IMPOSSIBLE II, RUSH, KUNG FU PANDA, THE DA VINCI CODE, SHERLOCK HOLMES, THE HOLIDAY, HANNIBAL, THE LION KING, GLADIATOR, INCEPTION & PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN

Once a year, the Wiener Konzerthaus is the venue of a glamorous dedicated to Academy Award winner Hans Zimmer, featuring his film performance and turns the nation’s capital into a mecca for greatest hits from more than 30 successful years of film score film fans with “Hollywood in Vienna”. The 2018 gala has been composing.

Cat. no. A 045 50104 0000 | Video Director: Peter Rabinger | Length: 96' | Filmed in HDTV 1080/50i A co-production of Interspot, Tomek Productions, ORF III and UNITEL

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Four new episodes of the casual, briskly paced and highly successful concert series! With unparalleled charm and whirlwind exuberance, world renowned tenor Rolando Villazón hosts a unique television special in which young musical “stars of tomorrow” are introduced to millions of music lovers as soloists in performances with the Junge Sinfonie Berlin under the baton of Elias Grandy and Marie Jacquot. In total 28 episodes available!

TUULI TAKALA (SOPRANO) SINDY MOHAMED (VIOLA) JAKUB JÓZEF ORLIŃSKI (COUNTERTENOR) CATHERINE TROTTMANN (MEZZO-SOPRANO) 4 TIMES BAROQUE RICCARDO TERZO () · DUO AVÈS JUNGE SINFONIE BERLIN CONDUCTED BY ELIAS GRANDY JUNGE SINFONIE BERLIN CONDUCTED BY ELIAS GRANDY WORKS BY HANDEL, FAGO, PROWO, VIVALDI WORKS BY KHACHATURIAN, TELEMANN, MOZART, & MONTEVERDI VON WEBER, KAPUSTIN & LEHÁR Cat. no. A 055 13437 0028 Cat. no. A 055 13437 0029

JOHANNES KAMMLER (BARITONE) ELSA DREISIG (SOPRANO) · KATHARINA KONRADI (SOPRANO) ELDBJØRG HEMSING (VIOLIN) TOBIAS FELDMANN (VIOLIN) TAMÁS PÁLFALVI (TRUMPET) · ADRIANA BABIN (PANPIPES) LUCAS AND ARTHUR JUSSEN (PIANO) JUNGE SINFONIE BERLIN CONDUCTED BY MARIE JACQUOT CONDUCTED BY JUNGE SINFONIE BERLIN MARIE JACQUOT WORKS BY DVOŘÁK, BORGSTRØM, LORTZING, BARTÓK, WORKS BY SCHUMANN, STRAUSS, MENDELSSOHN, GOUNOD, ARUTJUNJAN, BACH, SCHUBERT, CONSTANTIN, KAGEL SAY, TÁRREGA, FAURÉ & ROSSINI & MENDOZA Y CORTÉS Cat. no. A 055 13437 0030 Cat. no. A 055 13437 0031

Video Director: Elisabeth Malzer | Length: 28 x approx. 40' | Filmed in HDTV 1080/50i A production of Salve TV for ZDF in cooperation with ARTE and UNITEL

SERIES & SPECIAL – 67 200 YEARS OF SILENT NIGHT THE STORY OF THE MOST FAMOUS CHRISTMAS SONG GIVEN BY THE GREATEST VOICES 90 MINUTES | ULTRA HIGH DEFINITION | DOLBY DIGITAL

Silent Night – A Song for the World is a documentary about the creation and success of the world’s most famous Christmas Carol – a song composed in 1818 in Salzburg, which has been translated into 140 languages, which stopped World War I at Christmas, which should become the third best selling single by Bing Crosby. In short: A song for the world! The film tells the story of the creation of the Christmas Carol and features world stars like Rolando Villazón, Kelly Clarkson, Joss Stone a film by Hannes M Schalle and David Foster, who share their personal Christmas experiences in their home towns and perform Silent Night in various languages.

Cat. no. A 040 50089 | Video Director: Hannes M Schalle Various lengths available | Filmed in Ultra High Definition A production of Moonlake Entertainment in collaboration with Servus TV, BR/ARTE and UNITEL

SOUNDS In 2018 the International Baroque Days of Melk Abbey, today one of the internationally most renowned early music festivals, celebrated their 40th anniversary. Director OF THE Volker Werner’s documentary focuses on the unique connection between the festival and Melk Abbey. Here a modern cultural institution meets the centuries-old UNIVERSE religious living space of the monastery. By including A FILM BY VOLKER WERNER eminent figures like Helmut Pilss, Alexander Hauer and Michael Schade, the documentary takes us on a journey from the present day to the beginnings of the Pentecost concerts and grants an unexpected look behind the scenes.

Cat. no. A 045 50096 | Video Director: Volker Werner Length: 40' | Filmed in HDTV 1080/50i A co-production of ORF and Scarlatti Arts international, distributed by UNITEL

68 – DOCUMENTARY Thomas von Steinaecker sets out to paint a complete picture of Bernstein and focusses on the American’s less known later works: his Mass, the musical 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and the great final opera A Quiet Place. The film paints a vivid picture of the multitalented Bernstein, struggling with his role as composer and conductor, tackling the tension between successes LEONARD BERNSTEIN and flops, between the politics of his time and his A GENIUS DIVIDED A FILM BY THOMAS VON STEINAECKER own liberal humanitarian claim. Joining the dots, Steinaecker is creating a genuine portrait of Bernstein on his quest to his ultimate masterwork: the great American opera.

Cat. no. A 050 50573 | Video Director: Thomas von Steinaecker Length: 54' | Filmed in HDTV 1080/50i A production of 3B-Produktion in co-production with UNITEL, SRF and ZDF in cooperation with ARTE

Bernstein vs. Karajan: a musical . They were on top of the world of classical music, reflecting also the political conflicts of their time: the grandson of a rabbi against a member of Hitler’s national-socialist party, America against Europe, modernists against traditionalists. These two conductors mostly distinguished themselves KARAJAN VS. by renovating the music industry, television and opera. They were icons of the 1970s who created a special sort of glamour in classical music and at the same time contributed to its democratization. © Zadig Productions Cat. no. A 010 50099 | Video Director: Emmanuelle Franc BERNSTEIN Length: 54' | Filmed in HDTV 1080/50i BATTLE OF GIANTS A co-production of Zadig Productions, INA, Orchestre National d'Île-de-France, France Télévisions and CNC, A film by Emmanuelle Franc distributed by UNITEL

DOCUMENTARY – 69 BIRGIT NILSSON An intimate portrait of Birgit Nilsson (1918–2005) on A LEAGUE OF HER OWN the occasion of her centennial on 17th May 2018: The Swedish soprano was the world’s leading between 1955 and 1975. Rare TV and archive footage shows Nilsson at work, and is complemented by interviews with Plácido Domingo, , , , Jonas Kaufmann and many others. The film reveals a sensitive woman behind the honest, down to earth, quick-witted artist, who had “a voice like fire and ice” (Sir Antonio Pappano). Shot at the farm in Båstad/Sweden, where Nilsson grew up, and major opera houses of her career.

Cat. no. A 050 50580 Video Directors: Thomas Voigt, Wolfgang Wunderlich Length: 60' / 90' | Filmed in HDTV 1080/50i A DOCUMENTARY BY THOMAS VOIGT A production of Wunderlich Medien GbR and AND WOLFGANG WUNDERLICH The Birgit Nilsson Foundation in collaboration with UNITEL

Her vocal mastery is undisputed, but it is Barbara Hannigan’s talent of conducting an orchestra that is of particular interest to Mathieu Amalric. In his film, the celebrated French actor and director follows her for three days in Amsterdam. He documents the creative process of the conductor and the Ludwig ensemble during the rehearsals for the recording of ’s Suite for the album Crazy Girl Crazy – what does it take to achieve perfect ? BARBARA HANNIGAN FIRST REHEARSALS A DOCUMENTARY BY MATHIEU AMALRIC

Cat. no. A 015 50131 | Video Director: Mathieu Amalric Length: 40' | Filmed in HDTV 1080/50i A production of Camera Lucida and UNITEL

70 – DOCUMENTARY Claude Debussy died one hundred years ago. His writings reveal a personality both profoundly non-conformist and extreme. For some, his music is mysterious and impenetrable, for others it is fascinating and brilliant. In this film, contemporary artists – among them conductor , singer Barbara Hannigan and pianist Alexandre Tharaud – recount ‘their Debussy’, providing keys to a better understanding of the composer’s works and the radical rupture they constituted at his time. The portrait includes unpublished archival interviews PRELUDE TO and excerpts of performances by great ‘Debussians’ like François, Bernstein and Boulez.

Cat. no. A 010 50098 | Video Director: Marie Guilloux DebussyA FILM BY Length: 52' | Filmed in HDTV 1080/50i MARIE GUILLOUX A co-production of Schuch Productions, ARTE France and BnF, with support from Procirep-Angoa and the Sacem in association with CNC and UNITEL

Piotr Anderszewski is not only one of the best pianists of our time, he is also a great doubter, a perfectionist, who has to cope with the fact that as a musician he does not always find the perfect instrument at the venue. All around the concert in the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, in which Piotr Anderszewski plays Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor together with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester and Thomas Hengelbrock, we experience him in the intensive confrontation PIOTR with his instrument, the piano. “It is a complicated relationship. Sometimes I think it would be better if the instrument didn’t exist at all,” says Piotr Anderszewski. ANDERSZEWSKI “I would prefer to transmit music telepathically – without & THE PIANO physical sounds.”

A FILM BY Cat. no. A 055 51039 | Video Director: Andreas Morell ANDREAS MORELL Length: 43' | Filmed in HDTV 1080/50i A production of 3B-Produktion commissioned by NDR in cooperation with ARTE in collaboration with UNITEL licensed by Studio Hamburg Enterprises GmbH

DOCUMENTARY – 71 ULTRA HD

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