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Catalogue 2018 Catalogue 2018 CATALOGUE 2018 CATALOGUE 2018 Unitel GmbH & Co. KG Gruenwalder Weg 28D 82041 Oberhaching/Munich, Germany CEO: Jan Mojto Editorial team: Franziska Pascher, Dr. Martina Kliem, Arthur Intelmann Layout: Manuel Messner/luebbeke.com All information is not contractual and subject to change without prior notice. All trademarks used herein are the property of their respective owners. Date of Print: February 2018 © UNITEL 2018 All rights reserved Front cover: Alicia Amatriain & Friedemann Vogel in John Cranko’s “Onegin” / Photo: Stuttgart Ballet ON THE OCCASION OF HIS 100TH BIRTHDAY UNITEL CELEBRATES LEONARD BERNSTEIN 1918 – 1990 Leonard Bernstein, a long-time exclusive artist of Unitel, was America’s ambassador to the world of music. He was one of the most influential musicians of the last century and inspired an entire generation. An influential teacher, a brilliant conductor, a fine composer and an accomplished pianist – a man who lived five lives and who exuded passion from every pore. In addition to his role as conductor, composer, educator and performing artist, Bernstein was one of the early pioneers in bringing the arts to television. As such, he became one of the most internationally recognized musical personalities in the world. Leonard Bernstein, who died in 1990, would have celebrated his 100th birthday on August 25th 2018. Thanks to the exclusive partnership, Unitel presents today around 200 programmes with and about Leonard Bernstein, among them 27 new episodes of his world famous TV series Young People’s Concerts and the two operas Tristan und Isolde, by Richard Wagner, and A Quiet Place, by Bernstein himself. The range goes from the legendary recordings of Bernstein’s Mahler and Beethoven Cycles to West Side Story – The Making of a Recording and the historic performance of the Ode to Freedom following the fall of the Berlin Wall, from Bernstein’s rehearsals in Salzau to the intimate portraits Larger than Life, Reaching for the Note and The Gift of Music. Photos: Unitel AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME FOR GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION YOUNG PEOPLE’S CONCERTS ! 2ND SEASON 27 NEW EPISODES AVAILABLE Awarded four Emmys and hailed by Variety as “a rare In 27 “new” episodes of this legendary series, Bernstein moment in the symbiosis of the arts and broadcasting”, presents famous masterpieces like Mussorgsky’s Pictures Leonard Bernstein’s Young People’s Concerts left their at an Exhibition, music from Paris, unusual instruments mark on television history. Aired on CBS from 1958 and young talented performers such as 16-year-old to 1972, these 53 one-hour programmes were written cellist Lynn Harrell (later one of the most famous cellists and hosted by Leonard Bernstein. With the New York in the world …). Philharmonic and guest artists providing the live music, these programmes brought musical concepts and music Length: 27 x approx. 55' history to life for generations of viewers. Cat. no. A 035 05124 0000 RICHARD WAGNER: TRISTAN UND ISOLDE Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde is one of Bernstein’s finest performance from the Herkulessaal in Munich, Bernstein opera recordings and still considered exemplary. It conducts the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen presents the top Wagner singers of the time: Peter Rundfunks. Hofmann and Hildegard Behrens in the title roles as well as Yvonne Minton (Brangäne), Bernd Weikl (Kurwenal) Length: approx. 264' and Hans Sotin (King Marke). In this semi-staged Cat. no. A 050 05284 LEONARD BERNSTEIN: A QUIET PLACE In 1986 Bernstein conducted a refined version of his own The next morning, after breakfast and games in the opera A Quiet Place in Vienna. It contains singable late garden – the “quiet place” –, they find that their hostility romantic melodies as well as Broadway musical sounds, has given way to reconciliation. syncopated jazz rhythms and well-tempered modernity and, of course, a masterful instrumentation. Estranged family members recall the history of their Length: 169' relationships with each other and with their dead mother. Cat. no. A 050 05322 PLUS SOME EXCITING RECORDINGS & DOCUMENTARIES TO COME IN 2018 Photo: Ralph Larmann CATALOGUE 2018 JOHN CRANKO'S STUTTGART BALLET SPECIAL Of Miracles and Superheroes – Documentary on the Stuttgart Ballet 11 Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet (Stuttgart Ballet / Cranko) 12 Marcia Haydée – The Seduction of Dance 13 Tchaikovsky: Onegin (Stuttgart Ballet / Cranko) 14 Stuttgart Ballet Talks 15 OPERA Berg: Wozzeck (Salzburg Festival / Wiener Philharmoniker / Jurowski / Kentridge) 16 Bizet: Carmen (Bregenz Festival / Wiener Symphoniker / Carignani / Holten) 18 Donizetti: Don Pasquale (Wiener Staatsoper / Pidò / Brook) 20 Giordano: Andrea Chénier (Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich / Armiliato / Stölzl) 22 Gounod: Roméo et Juliette (Wiener Staatsoper / Domingo / Flimm) 24 Handel: Arminio (Händel-Festspiele, Karlsruhe / Armonia Atenea / Petrou / Cencic) 26 Handel: Semele (Händel-Festspiele, Karlsruhe / Deutsche Händel-Solisten / Moulds / Visser) 28 Handel: Serse (Oper Frankfurt / Carydis / Köhler) 30 Janáček: The Cunning Little Vixen (Wiener Staatsoper / Netopil / Schenk) 32 Monteverdi 450 (Teatro La Fenice / Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists / Gardiner) 34 Mozart: La clemenza di Tito (Salzburg Festival / musicAeterna / Currentzis / Sellars) 36 Nono: Prometeo (Teatro Farnese / Ensemble Prometeo & Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini / Angius) 38 Puccini: La Bohème (Royal Opera House, London / Pappano / Jones) 40 Puccini: Madama Butterfly (Royal Opera House, London / Pappano / Leiser & Caurier) 42 Respighi: La bella dormente nel bosco (Teatro Lirico di Cagliari / Renzetti / Muscato) 44 Rossini: Le Comte Ory (Opéra Comique, Paris / Orch. des Champs-Élysées / Langrée / Podalydès) 46 Rossini: Mosè in Egitto (Bregenz Festival / Wiener Symphoniker / Mazzola / de Beer) 48 Rossini: Otello (Teatro di San Carlo, Naples / Ferro / Gitai) 50 Schumann: Szenen aus Goethes Faust (Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin / Barenboim / Flimm) 52 Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame (Oper Stuttgart / Cambreling / Wieler & Morabito) 54 Verdi: Aida (Salzburg Festival / Wiener Philharmoniker / Muti / Neshat) 56 Verdi: Il Trovatore (Royal Opera House, London / Farnes / Bösch) 58 Verdi: Otello (Royal Opera House, London / Pappano / Warner) 60 Verdi: Rigoletto (Chorégies d’Orange / Orch. Philharmonique de Radio France / Franck / Roubaud) 62 Wagner: Die Walküre (Salzburg Easter Festival / Staatskapelle Dresden / Thielemann / Nemirova) 64 BALLET Richter: Woolf Works (The Royal Ballet, London / McGregor) 66 Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty (The Royal Ballet, London / Petipa) 68 Satie/Stravinsky: Parade & Pulcinella (Corps de Ballet of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma / Massine) 70 Le Ballet Royal de la Nuit (Théâtre de Caen / Ensemble Correspondances / Daucé / Lattuada) 72 7 CATALOGUE 2018 CONCERT Gala Concerts Elbphilharmonie Hamburg – The Inaugural Concert 75 Hollywood in Vienna – A Tribute to Danny Elfman 77 Anna Netrebko & Yusif Eyvazov – The Waldbühne Concert 77 Bartabas & The Académie Equestre de Versailles 77 BBC Proms First Night of the Proms (BBC Symphony Orchestra / Levit / Gardner) 78 City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Leila Josefowicz, Allan Clayton & Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla 79 Schoenberg: Gurrelieder (London Symphony Orchestra / Rattle) 80 Staatskapelle Berlin & Daniel Barenboim 81 Salzburg Festival Camerata Salzburg, Sergey Khachatryan & Lorenzo Viotti 82 Mozart: Requiem (musicAeterna & Chorus / Currentzis) 83 Berliner Philharmoniker Adams & Dvořák (McAllister / Dudamel) 85 Adams: The Gospel According to the Other Mary (Rattle) 85 Czech Philharmonic Martinů, Strauss & Janáček (Baborák / Bělohlávek) 86 Il pomo d’oro In War and Peace – Harmony Through Music (DiDonato / Emelyanychev) 86 Handel – Women’s Loves and Lives (Ciofi / Leon / Emelyanychev) 86 Münchner Philharmoniker The Odeonsplatz Concert – Yuja Wang & Valery Gergiev 89 Prokofiev: The Complete Symphonies (Gergiev) 89 Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf (Gergiev) 89 NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester Brahms: The Complete Symphonies (Hengelbrock) 90 Orchestre de Paris Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius (Harding) 91 Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Debussy & Stravinsky (Gatti) 92 Haydn & Mahler (Gatti) 92 Beethoven & Brahms (Zimmermann / Gatti) 92 Mozart & Dvořák (Damrau / Hengelbrock) 95 Schubert & Mozart (Hengelbrock) 95 Bach: Mass in B minor (Herreweghe) 95 Staatskapelle Berlin Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Damrau / von der Damerau / Fritz / Pape / Barenboim) 96 Bruckner & Mozart (Barenboim) 96 8 CATALOGUE 2018 Staatskapelle Dresden Beethoven, Bach & Bruckner (Schiff / Blomstedt) 98 Bruckner: Symphony No. 1 (Thielemann) 98 Festive Gala at the Semperoper Dresden – 100 Years UFA Film Classics (Thielemann) 100 Festive Advent Concert at the Frauenkirche Dresden (Thielemann) 100 Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks The Odeonsplatz Concert – Martin Grubinger & Manfred Honeck 102 Sommer, Mahler & Rachmaninoff (Romberger / Jansons) 102 Beethoven & Prokofiev (Barenboim / Jansons) 102 West-Eastern Divan Orchestra Strauss & Tchaikovsky (Soltani / Manasherov / Barenboim) 104 RECITAL & CHAMBER MUSIC Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 (Schiff) 105 Woodlands and Beyond… – Hélène Grimaud at the Elbphilharmonie 106 Bartók: The Complete String Quartets (Quatuor Diotima) 107 Rameau: Symphonies for two Harpsichords (Hantaï / Sempé) 108 Pierre Boulez Saal Opening Concert (Boulez Ensemble / Barenboim) 109 Schubert: The Complete Piano Sonatas (Barenboim) 111 The Christmas Tree Concert (Argerich / Barenboim) 112 Haydn, Ligeti & Dvořák (Belcea Quartet) 113 DOCUMENTARY Short Rides with John Adams 114 Arnold
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