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Based in Leipzig, Germany, Accentus Music seeks to draw on tradi- For Paul Smaczny and the Accentus Music team, there is more tion and its team’s own experience of music films in order to find to music than sound. With its creative audiovisual approach to new perspectives on the translation from the audio to the visual world. classical music, the production company proves that “music is part Paul Smaczny, Accentus Music’s Managing Director, describes of socio-cultural, political, and social life. It shows that images his ambitions for the production company and the DVD label as follows: can give music a new dimension and position it exactly where it “For me, it’s about finding new and modern forms for music films. originates from – the centre of society.” Paul Smaczny has recorded Classical music has rarely been as popular as it is now, and film-makers some of classical music’s most important concerts for television must try to depict the magic of the classical tradition as well as look for and DVD, including the legendary concert of the West-Eastern Divan modern forms of media with which to visually and sensually convey music Orchestra from Ramallah and the historic concert given by the as a social driving force. This applies as much to documenting concerts New York Philharmonic in Pyongyang, North Korea. He has created as it does to portraying artists and orchestras.” and produced acclaimed international TV-events such as “24 hours Bach” and “24 hours Mozart”, he has always travelled in new DVD Label paths with his documentaries on artists and orchestras – such as “Claudio Abbado – Hearing the Silence”, “Multiple Identities”, Accentus Music has established its own independent DVD label on “K nowledge is the Beginning – Barenboim and the West-Eastern the classical music market. It releases Accentus’ high profile concert Divan Orchestra”, and “El Sistema”. His productions have won and opera recordings, feature-length documentaries and portraits as well many awards for their proximity to music and people, including as selected productions from third parties on DVD and Blu-ray. the Emmy Award, the Grand Prix at Golden Prague Festival, the Best Accentus’ exceptional releases, featuring some of the world’s most influ- Arts Doc Banff, and the FIPA D’Or. ential conductors, ensembles and soloists, have been honoured with prestigious awards, including the Diapason d’Or, International Classical Close to the Multi-media-Versed Public Music Award, BBC Music Magazine Award, Golden Prague Award and Gramophone Award. For its productions, Accentus Music uses the latest HDTV and 5.1 sound camera and broadcasting technology. “We are of course Classical Partners able to achieve state-of-the art standards in music filming, but are also aware that the development of new formats and recording The company works together with partners in television broadcasting techniques has only just begun,” says Paul Smaczny. “In the process, such as ZDF, ARTE, MDR, WDR, NHK, WNET/PBS and SRF. Accentus Music our technical knowledge won’t be an end in itself, but the integral comprises of a highly experienced team which has successfully worked means by which to bring music ever closer to the multimedia-versed together for many years. Accentus Music’s productions have featured, public. In addition to this is the fact that technology is only ever as amongst others, Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez, good as the people operating it. Beside the performers, the success Riccardo Chailly, Joshua Bell, Evgeny Kissin, Nikolai Demindenko, Martha of Accentus Music rests on the shoulders of successful producers, Argerich, Mischa Maisky, Anna Prohaska, the Simón Bolívar Youth directors, camera operators, audio producers and editors.” Orchestra, the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, the Staatskapelle Berlin, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the Warsaw Philharmonic, the New York Philharmonic and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. In 2012, the company presented an extensive documentary film commemorating the 800-year jubilee of Leipzig’s unique and world famous St. Thomas Boys Choir.

Claudio 9 Bruckner 5, Claudio Abbado & Lucerne Festival Orchestra Abbado 11 Mahler 9, Claudio Abbado & Lucerne Festival Orchestra 13 Claudio Abbado & Símon Bolívar Youth Orchestra, Anna Prohaska

Daniel 15 Daniel Barenboim, The Warsaw Recital Barenboim 17 Daniel Barenboim & Pierre Boulez, Franz Liszt Piano Concertos 19 Daniel Barenboim & Staatskapelle Berlin, Bruckner 4

Pierre 21 Pierre Boulez & The Cleveland Orchestra Boulez 23 Pierre Boulez & Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra

Riccardo 25 Mahler 2, Riccardo Chailly & Gewandhausorchester Leipzig Chailly 27 Mahler 8, Riccardo Chailly & Gewandhausorchester Leipzig 29 Mahler 4, Riccardo Chailly & Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

Great 31 Joshua Bell – Nobel Prize Concert 2010 Soloists 33 Martha Argerich & Mischa Maisky, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester 35 Chopin – The Piano Concertos, Evgeny Kissin & Nikolai Demidenko

Sacred 37 Wilhelm Friedemann Bach – Rediscovered Cantatas Music 39 Saint Matthew Passion – St. Thomas Boys Choir Leipzig

Specials 41 New York Philharmonic & Alan Gilbert, A Concert for New York 43 Johann Strauss Waltzes arranged by Schoenberg, Berg and Webern

Docu- 45 Die Thomaner – A Year in the Life of the St. Thomas Boys Choir Leipzig mentaries 47 John Cage – Journeys in Sound

49 Upcoming Releases 2013 51 Information

Claudio Abbado 8 Bruckner 5 9 Claudio Abbado & Lucerne Festival Orchestra

Programme Running Time Anton Bruckner: 80:33 min Symphony No. 5 in B flat major DVD ACC 20243 “Abbado’s approach to the music of Bruckner is soft and song- like, at times tense and urgent, but constantly filled with warmth of Blu-ray feeling” – not only the Neue Zürcher Zeitung is full of praise when ACC 10243 Claudio Abbado and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra play Bruckner. Their interpretation of his awe-inspiring Fifth Symphony reflects the composer’s burgeoning powers and exquisite compositional artistry. As The Guardian poetically states: “The composer himself, one suspects, might have leapt to embrace Abbado as an ideal interpreter.”

„The orchestra, combining old friends and young talents, radiates a fabulously chamber-musical quality.“ Financial Times „... simply buy it, mortgaging the cat if need be. Crystal-clear camera work and perfect sound.“ Classical Music Magazine

„Die Produktion ist wärmsten Herzens zu empfehlen.“ www.klassik.com Claudio Abbado 10 Mahler 9 11 Claudio Abbado & Lucerne Festival Orchestra

Programme Running Time Gustav Mahler: 95:44 min Symphony No. 9 in D major DVD ACC 20214 Claudio Abbado and his hand-picked players of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra take their acclaimed Mahler cycle to a new level Blu-ray with this performance of the most complex and compelling of the ACC 10214 symphonies, the intense, searching Ninth. Abbado brings all his renowned clarity of vision and the experience of a lifetime to this BONUS: contradictory music – half valedictory, half life-affirming – and Conductor Camera his “orchestra of soloists” revels in the transparent textures and – Experience virtuosity of Mahler’s last completed symphony. “A rendition ... of Claudio Abbado astonishing depth and subtlety” (The Daily Telegraph). from the orchestra’s perspective (27:05 min)

“no one will want to deprive themselves of such a radical experience”. Diapason d’Or (June 2011)

“ … the mixture of close-ups and wide shots in the final rituals is superb as ever from this team. Finest concert DVD ever? I think so.” BBC Music Magazine

“ (...) this Ninth, which can only be described as unmissable.” Gramophone Magazine

“… this DVD … is an important release.” Financial Times

“Thank Heavens, the DVD sound is magnificent ...” “(...) an utterly exceptional Mahler Ninth.” International Record Review

Winner in the Category DVD PERFORMANCE International Classical Music Awards 2012 Claudio Abbado 12 Claudio Abbado 13 & Símon Bolívar Youth Orchestra Anna Prohaska

Programme running time Sergei Prokofiev: Scythian Suite, Op. 20 111:45 min Alban Berg: Lulu-Suite Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: “Ach, ich fühl’s” DVD (Pamina’s Aria from The Magic Flute) ACC 20101 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B minor Blu-ray ACC 10204 Five years after first conducting the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra in their Venezuelan home, Claudio Abbado continues his commitment to this stunning ensemble in this first joint audiovisual concert recording. Prokofiev’s extrovert Scythian Suite is a gift for the boundless energy of these young players, while the intricacy and anguish of Berg’s Lulu-Suite are an Abbado special- ity, with soprano Anna Prohaska, in her Lucerne Festival debut, singing the heroine’s dazzling statement of self-justification. The concert ends with an impassioned account of Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique, his final symphony, one of the most moving works in music history.

“flawless mastery” “I have never heard deeper articulation in the first-movement development, and its ‘aria’ is a model of sensitive filming …” BBC Music Magazine

“Aided by superb camera work, we see him, (Abbado) gaunt but energized, bringing sophistication and élan to Prokofiev’s monster canvas …” Financial Times Daniel Barenboim 14 Daniel Barenboim 15 The Warsaw Recital

Programme Running Time Fryderyk Chopin: 90:45 min Fantasia in F minor Nocturne in D flat major DVD Sonata in B flat minor ACC 20102 Barcarolle in F sharp major Waltz in F major Blu-ray Waltz in A minor ACC 10202A Waltz in C sharp minor Berceuse in D flat major Polonaise in A flat major Mazurka in F minor Waltz in D flat major

Chopin Year 2010 coincides with the 60th anniversary of Daniel Barenboim’s stage début, and as a pianist he has decided to devote this year to the great Romantic master of the keyboard. Chopin was born on 1 March 1810 in a small village near Warsaw, and on the eve of the 200th anniversary of this date Barenboim gave this wildly acclaimed Warsaw recital as part of an extensive European tour. The programme included some of the composer’s best-known works, including the great B flat minor Sonata with its famous Funeral March, which sounded to many as the composer may well have magined it. Daniel ALSO Barenboim AVAILABLE ON 16 17 BLU£RAY Daniel Barenboim Daniel Barenboim Franz Liszt Piano Concertos Liszt Daniel Bar Pierre Boulez, Staatskapelle Berlin Running Time 90:35 Pierre Boulez, Conductor

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and Orchestra No. 1 piano concertos in a single concert. With Sound Formats agner Concerto for Piano Pierre Boulez, his friend and esteemed DOLBY DIGITAL 5.1 enboim DTS 5.1 and Orchestra No. 2 colleague of many years, conducting PCM STEREO Programme Running Time Consolation No. 3 Barenboim’s own orchestra, the Staats- Region Code Franz Liszt: 76:24 min Valse oubliée No. 1 kapelle Berlin, they were showered with 0 ¥worldwide¦ Piano Concerto No. 2 in A major praise on their tour across Europe. For Disc Format Pierre Boulez , Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major DVD Richard Wagner both musicians, Liszt was one of the most DVD 9 A Faust Overture important pioneers of modern music, as Consolation No. 3 ACC 20239 Siegfried Idyll composer, conductor and pianist. He Valse oubliée No. 1 inﬂ uenced revolutionary contemporaries Richard Wagner: Blu-ray such as Robert Schumann and Richard A Faust Overture ACC 10239 Wagner. Two examples of the latter’s magniﬁ cent orchestral work round off this Barenboim Siegfried Idyll

A performance of concert programme celebrating Liszt’s Berlin Staatskapelle Booklet Klavier-Festival Ruhr bicentenary. includes an inter- Recorded live at A Production of ACCENTUS For the very first time Daniel Barenboim tackled Franz Liszt’s view featuring Philharmonie Essen Directed by Enrique Sánchez Lansch Music in Co-production with ZDF, in Co-operation with ARTE and Liszt two highly virtuosic piano concertos in a single concert. Daniel Barenboim 9/10 June 2011 Produced by Paul Smaczny Klavier-Festival Ruhr / © 2011 ACCENTUS Music / Artwork & With Pierre Boulez, his friend and esteemed colleague of many and Pierre Boulez Editorial © 2011 ACCENTUS Pierre Boulez appears courtesy Music / Front Cover: Franz Liszt, Piano Concertos years, conducting Barenboim’s own orchestra, the Staatskapelle of Deutsche Grammophon woodcut by Franz Seraph Gesellschaft mbH. Hanfstaengl, Austrian National Berlin, they were showered with praise on their tour across Library, Vienna, Pf 1556: B(4) / Dolby and the double D logo are Europe. For both musicians, Liszt was one of the most important trademarks of Dolby licensing Corporation. DTS, the Symbol, and pioneers of modern music, as composer, conductor and pianist. DTS-HD are registered trademarks of DTS, Inc. / Design: Anna Lena Boulez He influenced revolutionary contemporaries such as Robert von Helldorff [buero total] WARNING: The copyright proprie- Schumann and Richard Wagner. Two examples of the latter’s tors have licensed the ﬁ lm and sound recordings contained in this magnificent orchestral work round off this concert programme videogram for private use only. Staatskapelle All other rights reserved. Any un- celebrating Liszt’s bicentenary. authorized use including copying, editing, exchanging, exhibition, renting, lending, diffusion, hiring, Berlin „The concert (...) is very well filmed and recorded.“ public performance, radio or television or other ways of dealing Gramophone Magazine with this videogram or any part thereof is strictly prohibited. Made in Germany „The excellent production and packaging of the DVD (...) results in an important visual and audio document.“ ACC 20239 This production has been kindly supported by International Record Review NATIONAL-BANK AG. “… a highly successful video of concert(s)…” Musical Pointers ACC www.accentus.com 20239 „A fascinating meeting of musical equals.“ entartetemusik.blogspot.de Daniel Barenboim 18 Bruckner 19 The Mature Symphonies Bruckner 4 Daniel Barenboim, Conductor Staatskapelle Berlin

Programme Running Time Anton Bruckner 69:36 min Symphony No. 4 in E flat major “Romantic” DVD (1878/1880 Version) ACC 20217

Blu-ray Daniel Barenboim is an expert in exploiting the impact of cyclical ACC 10217 performances of composers’ works: This time he focuses his sharp intellect on all six of Anton Bruckner’s mature symphonies. Der Tagesspiegel described Barenboim’s performance of the works with the Staatskapelle Berlin on six nearly consecutive eve- nings in June 2010 as a “superhuman” accomplishment and went on to praise how: “His Bruckner is conceived and performed very theatrically, like an opera without words.” Bruckner’s famous “Romantic” Symphony No. 4 forms the prelude to a spectacular DVD series from Accentus Music and Unitel Classica, exploring Bruckner’s symphonic cosmos.

“As a wonderful Wagnerian orchestra with sublime dedication, it (the Staatskapelle) has earned a place on the Bruckner Mount Olympus.” Der Tagesspiegel Pierre Boulez 20 Gustav Mahler 21 Des Knaben Wunderhorn & Adagio from Symphony No. 10 Pierre Boulez & The Cleveland Orchestra

Programme Running Time Gustav Mahler: 88:06 min Symphony No. 10 – Adagio Twelve Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn DVD ACC 20231 Magdalena Kožená, Mezzo-Soprano Christian Gerhaher, Baritone Blu-ray ACC 10231

In celebration of the 150th anniversary of Mahler’s birth and just BONUS: one month short of his own 85th birthday, composer-conductor Interview with Pierre Boulez marked his forty-five-year collaboration with the Pierre Boulez Cleveland Orchestra by directing this very special Mahler-only (19:02 min) concert at Ohio’s splendid Severance Hall. Following the Adagio from the unfinished Tenth Symphony, he presented Twelve Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn with soloists Magdalena Kožená and Christian Gerhaher, both much-sought-after opera and concert singers on the world’s leading stages.

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„This performance of the Adagio from the 10th Symphony is an exceptional one…” – “It sounds, in a word, fantastic...” Audiophile Audition

„Magdalena Kožená is an engaging performer …” Gramophone Magazine Pierre Boulez 22 Pierre Boulez 23 ACADEMY Lucerne Festival Ac ademy Orchestra LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY Orchestra Pierre Boulez Programme Running Time Anton Webern: CD 1 Passacaglia for Orchestra, Op. 1 37:37 min Variations for Orchestra, Op. 30 CD 2 Igor Stravinsky: 76:42 min Le Chant du Rossignol Gustav Mahler: Item Number Webern | Stravinsky | Mahler Symphony No. 6 in A minor 2 CDs ACC 30230

The Lucerne Festival Academy was founded in 2004 by Pierre Boulez in conjunction with the Festival‘s executive director Michael Haefliger. Since then, some 130 highly gifted young musicians from all corners of the globe have gathered together every summer in Lucerne. Working together in daily rehearsals, workshops, and lessons, the participants are trained in basic skills for performing contemporary music. The teaching staff is made up of members of the Parisian Ensemble intercontemporain, one of the most celebrated ensembles in the field of modern music. The 2010 academy repertoire was recorded live during the Academy in summer 2010. The double CD is the only audio recording of the Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra under the baton of renowned maestro Pierre Boulez.

A Production of LUCERNE FESTIVAL, 2010

“… brilliantly programmed and gorgeously played …” BBC Music Magazine Riccardo Chailly 24 Mahler 2 25 Riccardo Chailly & Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

Programme Running Time Gustav Mahler: 95:42 min Symphony No. 2 in C minor DVD ACC 20238 The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and their Music Director Riccardo Chailly have already acquired legendary status – Blu-ray glorious reviews and many awards for their recordings testifying ACC 10238 to their continuing success. At Leipzig’s International Mahler Festival, to mark the centenary of Mahler’s death, they performed his monumental Second Symphony in the Gewandhaus – together with two marvellous soloists and choral forces quite beyond compare. About the final movement the composer said: “The increasing tension, working up to the final climax, is so tremendous that I don’t know myself, now that it is over, how I ever came to write it.”

“… the clarity, range and depth of sound, allied to the exceptional quality of the singing and playing, are certain to impress.” Gramophone Magazine

“… the bright tone of the strings, the slightly dry timbre of the brass and the delicacy of the woodwinds all illuminate this ‘Resur- rection’ Symphony.” Diapason (November 2011)

“… beautifully filmed with lots of wonderful touches.” BBC Radio 3 Riccardo Chailly 26 Mahler 8 27 Riccardo Chailly & Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

Programme Running Time Gustav Mahler: 92:19 min Symphony No. 8 in E flat major DVD ACC 20222 Mahler’s Eighth Symphony is arguably the grandest and most ambitious piece of symphonic music ever written. The composer Blu-ray himself regarded it as his opus summum, and an incredible ACC 10222 number of participants at the hugely successful Munich première in 1910 earned it the nickname “Symphony of a Thousand”. At Leipzig’s International Mahler Festival, Riccardo Chailly com- manded almost 500 musicians, and the overwhelming result of their joint effort inspired the Leipzig-based and internationally renowned artist Neo Rauch to the painting reproduced on the cover.

“… this is one Mahler symphony … Chailly’s rendering leads the field on DVD.“ BBC Music Magazine

“simply breathtaking” — “… this is not only the best played live performance of the work on DVD but it’s among the most musi- cally satisfying ever recorded.” International Record Review

“dream concerts” Classica Magazine

“… quite the most immaculate performance I have ever experienced”. Norman Lebrecht on artsjournal.com

“Strongly recommended” Gramophone Magazine Riccardo Chailly 28 MAHLER Mahler 4 29 4 Riccardo Chailly GEWANDHAUS & Gewandhausorchester ORCHESTER Leipzig CHAILLY

Programme Running Time Gustav Mahler: approx. 60 min Symphony No. 4 in G major DVD ACC 20257 “The greatest mix of colours that ever existed” was Gustav Mahler’s description of the third movement of his Fourth Sym- Blu-ray phony. Riccardo Chailly, one of the most adept interpreters of ACC 10257 Mahler of our time, and the Gewandhaus Orchestra transformed the entire Fourth Symphony into this kaleidoscope of sound. The BONUS: unmistakable timbre of the orchestra has become synonymous with late Romantic repertoire and Mahler-esque style – it was Mahler plays described by Der Tagesspiegel as “uncommonly present, even in Mahler – Symphony the thread-fine pianissimo, compact, concentrated, satin”. Once No 4, 4th movement more, the connection between Chailly, the Gewandhaus Orches- tra and Mahler proved to be exceptional: The way Chailly Riccardo Chailly on “moulded the music, which is so familiar to him, with loving ges- interpreting Mahler’s tures, confidently alluding to a thousand subtle details, allowing 4th Symphony with the orchestra to rise and fall – that is perfect.” the Gewandhaus Orchestra

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DVD/Blu-ray Release March 2013 (tbc) Great Soloists 30 Joshua Bell 31 Nobel Prize Concert

Programme Running Time Ludwig van Beethoven: 91:35 min Leonore Overture No. 3 in C major Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: DVD Violin Concerto in D major ACC 20215 Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 in E flat major Blu-ray ACC 10215 Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra Sakari Oramo, Conductor bonus: Interviews featuring Joshua Bell, Joshua Bell lights up the stage with this dazzling performance of Sakari Oramo and Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, the centrepiece of the Stockholm Mario V argas Llosa, concert in honour of the 2010 Nobel Prize Laureates. Part of the 2010 Nobel the official Nobel Week, this tribute concert opens with music by Laureate in Literature Beethoven that urgently evokes the spirit of freedom from tyranny. (25:13 min) And closing the evening is a glowing account by Sakari Oramo and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic of Sibelius’s monument to orchestral majesty, the titanic Fifth Symphony.

“The resultant ovation was well deserved...” Gramophone Magazine “This DVD gives the viewer a chance to experience the musical buzz which is normally only conveyed during live performances.” — “… Bell really is giving his all.” — “A treat for all violin enthusiasts.” Musical Pointers

“Visual details of the musicians and their instruments are among the best that I have ever seen. This is a treat considering the beauty of Bell’s violin, a 1713 Huberman Stradivarius.” blu-raydefinition.com Great Soloists 32 Martha Argerich 33 & Mischa Maisky The World Première of Rodion Shchedrin’s “Romantic Offering”

Programme Running Time Antonín Dvořák: 111:36 min Scherzo capriccioso in D flat major, Op. 66 (B 131) Rodion Shchedrin: DVD “Romantic Offering” – Concerto for Piano, Violoncello ACC 20224 and Orchestra César Franck: Sonata for Cello and Piano in A major Blu-ray Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 9 in E flat major, Op. 70 ACC 10224

Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, BONUS: Neeme Järvi, Conductor Behind the Scenes of a World Première (16:20 min) At one of her rare appearances with orchestra, Martha Argerich, the grande dame of the piano, joined forces with world-famous cellist Mischa Maisky and the fabulous Lucerne Symphony Orchestra for the world premiere of a newly commissioned work by Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin – Romantic Offering, a double concerto for piano, cello and orchestra dedicated to its very first soloists. The programme was rounded off by late-Roman- tic masterpieces by César Franck, Antonín Dvořák and Dmitri Shostakovich’s Ninth Symphony under the baton of renowned maestro Neeme Järvi.

“… the concert is directed with unobtrusive excellence by Michael Beyer, and presented to the high standard already established by Accentus Music.” The Classical Review

“… superb little quarter-hour documentary expertly directed by Maria Stodtmeier …” BBC Music Magazine Great Soloists 34 Chopin 35 The Piano Concertos Evgeny Kissin & Nikolai Demidenko

Programme Running Time Fryderyk Chopin: 96:54 min Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor DVD Mazurka in A minor ACC 20104 Etude in C minor Waltz in E minor Blu-ray ACC 10202B Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra Antoni Wit, Conductor

The internationally celebrated concert event from Warsaw on the occasion of Fryderyk Chopin’s 200th birthday presents two Russian piano stars in one programme: Nikolai Demidenko with a marvelous performance of Chopin’s Concerto No. 1, Evgeny Kissin with a most thrilling interpretation of Concerto No. 2. The former wunderkind enthused the audience, which could not get enough even after several encores. A unique performance and truly a gift for Chopin lovers all over the world.

“… an absorbing record of a special event” International Piano Magazine

“The filming … is very atmospheric.” BBC Music Magazine Sacred Music 36 Wilhelm Friedemann Bach 37 Rediscovered Cantatas

Programme Running Time Wilhelm Friedemann Bach: 85:11 min “Wohl dem, der den Herren fürchtet” Sinfonia D minor Booklet Notes “O Wunder, wer kann dieses fassen” song texts “Ach, dass du den Himmel zerrissest” in German, “Gott fähret auf mit Jauchzen” English, French

DVD In 2010 the world is celebrating the 300th anniversary of the ACC 20103 birth of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, whose music – for the most disparate reasons – was for a long time shrouded in oblivion. (only Many of his works disappeared completely after the Second available World War, and it was not until 1999 that they were rediscovered in on DVD) Kiev. The present world première recording of four of his cant atas grants us a fascinating insight into the composer’s output and invites us to join him on a musical voyage of discovery. These ambitious works, which were written for Christmas and Ascen- sion, attest to the technical and musical virtuosity of Johann Sebastian Bach’s eldest son.

“… this may just be the best way to get to know a fascinating composer. “ Gramophone Magazine Sacred Music 38 Saint Matthew Passion 39 St. Thomas Boys Choir Leipzig & Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

Programme Running Time Johann Sebastian Bach: 163:58 min St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244 2 DVD Thomaskantor Georg Christoph Biller ACC 20256 Christina Landshamer (Soprano), Stefan Kahle (Alto), Blu-ray Wolfram Lattke (Tenor), ACC 10256 Martin Lattke (Tenor), Klaus Mertens (Bass), Gotthold Schwarz (Bass)

The renowned St. Thomas Boys Choir of Leipzig, which boasts J. S. Bach as a former cantor, celebrates its 800th annivers ary with an extraordinary interpret ation of the St. Matthew Passion. The Guardian praised how “the harmonic lines interwove with a transcendence that can only be achieved through living, eating and working together”. This Accentus Music production is the only audio-visual release of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, performed by the choir for which it was written, in St. Thomas Church, Leipzig, where the composer worked and is buried.

“…this is a performance that has Bach ‘liturgically’ wired into its DNA… Billers direction exudes profound integrity and commitment, the chorales in particular shaped by a deeply-felt inevitability, and the ethereal alto purity of recent Thomasschule graduate Stefan Kahle is deeply moving alongside the noble Christus of veteran Klaus Mertens and Christina Landshamer’s radiant soprano… … a moving testament to a choir celebrating 800 years...” BBC Music Magazine Specials 40 A Concert for New York, 41 New York Philharmonic & Alan Gilbert to mark the 10th Anniversary of 9/11

Programme Running Time Gustav Mahler: 111:48 Symphony No. 2 in C minor, “Resurrection” DVD Dorothea Röschmann, Soprano ACC 20241 Michelle DeYoung, Mezzo-Soprano New York Choral Artists Blu-ray ACC 10241

The New York Philharmonic – America’s preeminent symphony bonus: orchestra – gave A Concert for New York to mark the tenth Alan Gilbert anniversary of the events of 9/11. What work could be better suited & Zarin Mehta on to the occasion than Mahler’s “Resurrection” Symphony with A Concert its “evocation of every aspect of life” and “its profound sense of for New York hope”, as the Philharmonic’s Music Director Alan Gilbert put it? (14:05 min) This concert became an unforgettable event, a “consistently impressive” performance with “gripping playing”, “magnificent” soloists and an “excellent” chorus (The New York Times).

“riveting and moving“ Musical Pointers

“… the camerawork, the orchestra, soloists and chorus are clearly inspired by the sense of the moment and are perfectly in sync with the Gilbert reading.” “…you will be weeping, as I was, at its awe-inspiring finale.” blu-raydefinition.com

“… this DVD release is not designed solely for those focused on music-making. Presentation and packaging signify a ritual of remembrance.” Gramophone Magazine Specials 42 Johann Strauss Waltzes 43 arranged by Schoenberg, Berg and Webern

Programme Running Time Johann Strauss: 64:20 min “Kaiserwalzer” Op. 437, “Lagunenwalzer” Op. 411, “Rosen aus dem Süden” Op. 388 DVD arr. by Arnold Schoenberg ACC 20228 “Wein, Weib und Gesang!” Op. 333 arr. by Alban Berg “Schatzwalzer” Op. 418 arr. by Anton Webern Blu-ray Leopold Godowsky: “Alt-Wien” ACC 10228 Fritz Kreisler: “Marche miniature viennoise”, “Schön Rosmarin”, “Caprice viennois” b0nus: Tibor Kováč: “Yiddische Mame” How Schoenberg came to arrange waltzes by Strauss The Philharmonics, the ensemble founded by members of the (10:10 min) Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, fill the Café Sperl with some of the most authentically Viennese sounds imaginable – the Strauss waltzes that Schoenberg, Berg and Webern arranged and performed in May 1921 to raise funds for their pioneering “Society for Private Musical Performances”. This is music the players have in their blood, and they maintain the echt atmosphere with Godowsky’s tribute to the city, “Alt-Wien” and a clutch of Kreisler gems, rounding the programme off with a new piece by the ensemble’s leader Tibor Kováč, based on traditional Jewish melodies and Mahler themes, “Yiddische Mame”.

“The Philharmonics” is an ensemble founded by members of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. “… one of the great DVDs of the year.” “The documentary is concentrated and absolutely brilliant …” Musical Pointers

“Tibor Kováč and his Philharmonic colleagues perform chamber arrangements of Viennese waltzes to the very highest musical level. […] The venerable interior of the legendary Café Sperl provides them with an appropriate background.“ Wiener Zeitung/ProgrammPunkte Documentaries 44 Die Thomaner 45 A Year in the Life of the St. Thomas Boys Choir Leipzig

Founded in 1212 the St. Thomas Choir Leipzig is one of Running Time the most famous and prestigious boys’ choirs in the world. 113:35 min This documentary accompanies “Die Thomaner”, aged between 9 and 18 years old, over a period of one year. DVD Their unique world, from motets to boarding school and the ACC 20212 football pitch, is distinguished by success, pressure to perform, doubt, pride, homesickness, and friendship. Blu-ray The film charts the breadth of the boys’ experience from the ACC 10212 classroom to traveling on tour to South America. bonus: J.S. Bach, Accentus Music releases this title worldwide St. Matthew Passion (except Germany, Austria, Switzerland and South Tyrol). BWV 244 Nr. 1 Chor: “Kommt, ihr Töchter, heft mir klagen” Nr. 39 Arie (Alt): „Erbarme dich“ (13:33 min)

Subtitles English Français Español “[The film] provides a moving insight into the everyday lives of the 日本語 members of St Thomas’s Choir today.” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 한국어

“A sensitive, magnificent documentary that makes the hairs on your neck stand on end.” Hamburger Abendblatt

“A gripping documentary” ZDF Aspekte

“A touching documentary” ARD ttt Documentaries 46 John Cage 47 Journeys in Sound

A film by Allan Miller & Paul Smaczny Running Time 60:35 min

A sonic innovator or an expert on chance? A writer or an DVD anarchist? A specialist in mushrooms or a performance artist? ACC 20246 A Zen master or a cook? John Cage was all of these things. This documentary by Oscar-winning director Allan Miller and Blu-ray Emmy-winner Paul Smaczny pays tribute to the most fascinating ACC 10246 American avant-garde composer. Shot in America, Germany and Japan, the program premieres rare archival footage; presenting bonus: concert excerpts and a set of short episodes, featuring associates Interviews with of Cage and contemporary artists, playfully delineating different J. Cage, aspects of John Cage. M. Cunnigham, R. Rauschenberg

Performances including 4‘33“ by D. Tudor; by S. Schleiermacher and Schlagquartett “This film is a brilliant, intimate tribute to one of the most influential Köln artists of the 20th century. It is evident that the filmmakers (49:25 min) succeeded in revealing the curiosity, the humour and ultimately the humanity of John Cage. It has the ability to make avant-garde Subtitles concepts accessible and attractive to a broader audience.” Deutsch Jury Golden Prague Festival 2012 English “No one has ever been able to speak for Cage as well as he could Français for himself. An excellent way to discover this is in the new 日本語 documentary ‘John Cage: Journeys in Sound’ made for German 한국어 television by Allan Miller and Paul Smaczny. It looks and sounds brilliant on Blu-ray.” Los Angeles Times

“A relaxed intricate portrait without pathos, preaching or pretence of apology.” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 48 Bruckner — The Mature Symphonies49 Upcoming Barenboim, Staatskapelle Berlin Bruckner 5 — DVD & Blu-ray —› April 2013 (tbc) Bruckner 6, 7, 8, 9 — DVD & Blu-ray Releases Mahler — Chailly, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig Mahler 6 — DVD & Blu-ray —› April/May 2013 (tbc) 2013 Mahler 5 & 9 — DVD & Blu-ray Claudio Abbado & Lucerne Festival Orchestra Mozart: Requiem in D minor K. 626 — Prohaska, Mingardo, Schmitt, Pape; Bavarian Radio Choir, Swedish Radio Choir

Claudio Abbado & Lucerne Festival Orchestra Beethoven: Incidental music to Goethe’s tragedy “Egmont”, Op. 84 Banse, Ganz Mozart: Symphony in D major, K. 385 “Haffner” Mozart: Concert Arias – Christine Schäfer

Claudio Abbado at Salzburg Festival 2012 Mozart: Missa solemnis C minor K. 139 „Waisenhausmesse“ Invernizzi, Mingardo, Camarena, Esposito Schubert: Missa E major, D 950 — Harnisch, Mingardo, Camarena, Fanale, Esposito; Orchestra Mozart, Arnold Schoenberg Chor

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DVD Sound Formats PCM Stereo Dolby Digital 5.1 DTS 5.1

Blu-ray Picture Format NTSC 16:9, FULL HD

Blu-ray Sound Formats DTS HD Master Audio PCM Stereo

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Languages Unless otherwise indicated all subtitles for song texts, lyrics, interviews, bonus material as well as booklet texts are available in English, German and French. 52 Accentus Music GmbH & Co. KG

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