Highlights
Tigran Hamasyan Trio – StandArt
In production, upcoming in July 2022.
Tigran Hamasyan, a genius pianist and composer of Armenian origin, has become a musical reference beyond the jazz sphere.
The musician breaks down the boundaries of jazz to offer music that belongs only to him. Vibrant, volcanic music, impregnated with rock, metal and Armenian folklore, in which polyrhythms alternate with calmer, poetic, ethereal phases, like a sound and cinematic wave in perpetual mutation.
At 35 years old, after having explored Armenian music, Tigran Hamasyan explores jazz standards. His album StandArt, highlights the jazz repertoire from the 1920s to the 1950s with compositions by Richard Rodgers, Charlie Parker and Jerome Kern. Accompanied by Justin Brown and Matt Brewer, the trio offers us a “Tigran version” of the American music classics: dazzling, complex rhythms, rock accents and high harmony.
Combined with an original and elaborate scenography, mixing projection and jazz club atmosphere, in order to intertwine the universe of the artists and the jazz clubs codes.
Genre: Jazz
Director: Colin Laurent
Duration: 70′
Format: HD
Cante Jondo, Granada 1922
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Granada, 1922. Manuel de Falla dreams every night about the ancestral songs that his nanny sang to him as a child… The composer is worried about the disappearance of the authentic flamenco and primitive Andalusian songs to become commercial. In agreement with two other enthusiasts, Federico García Lorca and Miguel Cerón, they decide to devise a rescue plan that will reach the whole world. It is when the first Concurso de Cante Jondo was born.
The idea is supported by artists from all over Europe, but at the same time finds obstacles that sometimes seem insurmountable, such as the lack of funds, the threat of an imminent strike and the ruthless opposition of some very influential local journalists, who disparage the initiative as “Spanishness”. In spite of all this, the contest is held in the Alhambra with artists coming from all over Andalusia. A huge success from the critics and the audience. Falla and his friends can finally be proud, flamenco will be from then on an undisputed cultural heritage.
Genre: Documentary
Director: José Sanchez Montes
Duration: 52′ or 90′
Format: HD
Shai Maestro Quartet – Human
Shai Maestro is one of the most influential pianists of his generation. At the age of 18, he left Israel, spotted by Avishai Cohen, and went to New York. There he became the pillar of the trio “Avishai Cohen, Shai Maestro, Mark Giuliana” which made jazz history with the album “Gently Disturbed”, followed by “Seven Seas” and hundreds of concerts around the world.
Since 2010, the pianist is blossoming in a trio with Ofri Nehemya (drums) and Jorge Roeder (double bass). After 3 albums, Shaï reaches at 33 years old the consecration by signing with ECM in 2018. His first album under the artistic direction of Manfred Eichert, “The Dream Thief”, is a success. He thus consolidates an unavoidable status of composer and pianist of jazz of world dimension.
Genre: Jazz
Director: Nathan Benisty
Duration: 63′
Format: HD
Pete Doherty & Frédéric Lo Live at Cirque d’Hiver Bouglione
English rocker Peter Doherty is back with French songwriter Frederic Lo for a majestic and refreshing collaboration!
After The Libertines, The Babyshambles and Puta Madres, English rocker Peter Doherty has teamed up with French songwriter Frederic Lo to record an album entitled “The Fantasy Life Of Poetry & Crime”. In this open-hearted project that breathes redemption, the elegance of Lo’s music blends with the poetry of the lyrics and Doherty’s delicate voice. A sparkling alchemy to discover live !
Genre: Folk
Director: Gautier & Leduc
Duration: 69′
Format: HD
Connexions
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Connexions is a documentary series that highlights the intimate relationship of an electronic music producer with airports, at night. The filming takes place in the terminals of Parisian airports.
A DJ lives at 130 beats per minute, his rhythm is dense, split and solitary at the same time. In the early morning, a trance-like audience cheers him on in a Berlin basement. Four hours by plane and a nap later, Israeli dancers are stomping their feet on a Tel Aviv beach waiting for him. These crowd baths are the submerged face of the iceberg, they make many fans dream. But these intense moments last only a brief moment, an hour or two…
Then the solitude returns at a gallop. Unlike a rock band, DJs travel between concerts alone. How do these DJs or electronic music producers use this time? Are air travels a source of inspiration? Does the excitement of an airport or its architecture make them creative? Is the airport a necessary zone of anonymity? How can we ultimately exploit these huge transit zones? Are they compatible with fatigue and jetlag?
Artists approached
Chloé
Traümer
Maud Geffray
Flore
Laurent Garnier
Vitalic
Rone
Para One
Deena Abdelwahed
Folamour
Manu Le Malin
Louisaaah
Antigone
Bambounou
Zadig
Molécule
Genre: Electro
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La Maestra Collection
Go behind the scenes of the first editions of the international competition for women conductors, with two documentaries and pair the films with the full performances of the winners: Beatriz Fernández Aucejo, Anna Sułkowska-Migoń and Rebecca Tong.
LA MAESTRA: FIRST EDITION
The Philharmonie de Paris and the Paris Mozart Orchestra are organizing the first edition of the International Competition for Female Conductors. The aim is to give female talent the visibility it deserves, to encourage vocations and to encourage programmers to take into account the diversity of our societies. Aimed at professional female conductors of all ages, this competition puts the spotlight on twelve candidates selected from around the world, whom this film allows us to discover.
Genre: Documentary / Classical Music
Director: Adeline Chahin
Duration: 97′
Format: HD
LA MAESTRA: SECOND EDITION Upcoming May 2022, available for prebuy
Claire Gibault’s La Maestra competition, which sends a strong message to the musical world, is extended by a two-year academy that provides professional support for the winners. The competition offers a repertoire that combines key works from the 18th to the 20th century with contemporary creations, allowing the candidates to show the breadth of their palette. In the first edition, the Indonesian chef of Chinese origin, Rebecca Tong, was chosen. Who will be the new chefs that the 2022 edition of La Maestra will discover?
Genre: Documentary / Classical Music
Director: Adeline Chahin
Format: HD
REBECCA TONG DIRECTS THE ORCHESTRE DE PARIS & SABINE DEVIEILHE
In September 2020, Rebecca Tong, American-Indonesian conductor, won the first prize in the La Maestra competition for female conductors. Today, Rebecca Tong is back at the helm of the Orchestre de Paris and joined by Alexandre Gattet to play Mozart’s Oboe concerto, followed by Mahler’s Fourth Symphony with Soprano Sabine Devieilhe.
PROGRAM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Oboe Concerto
Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 4
Genre: Classical Music
Director: Adeline Chahin
Duration: 86′
Format: HD
ANNA SULKOWSKA-MIGON DIRECTS THE PARIS MOZART ORCHESTRA
This program combines works performed over four days at the Philharmonie de Paris. Its highlight, L’Existence du Possible by contemporary composer Graciane Finzi, is presented here as a world premiere. Surrounding this contemporary work, compositions by Mozart, Alma Mahler, Clara Schumann or even Stravinsky show the full musical palette of promising Polish conductor Anna Sułkowska-Migoń, winner of the second edition of the LA MAESTRA competition, and the Paris Mozart Orchestra.
PROGRAM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Don Giovanni, overture
Alma Mahler – 3 Lieder, Die stille Stadt – Waldseligkeit – Bei dir ist es traut
Clara Schumann – Piano concerto in A minor, 3rd movement Graciane Finzi – The Existence of the Possible (world premiere)
Igor Stravinsky – Suite from Pulcinella
Genre: Classical Music
Director: Adeline Chahin
Duration: 67′
Format: HD
BEATRIZ FERNANDEZ AUCEJO DIRECTS THE PARIS MOZART ORCHESTRA
At the beginning of March at the Philharmonie de Paris, facing the Paris Mozart Orchestra, Beatriz Fernández Aucejo displayed the full richness of her repertoire. (Re)discover the third winner of the second edition of the LA MAESTRA competition conducting Berlioz’ Symphonie fantastique, Ravel’s Piano Concert, Brahms’ Symphony No. 1 and Debussy’s La Mer. It is difficult to imagine a more beautiful program.
PROGRAM
Hector Berlioz – Symphonie fantastique, 2nd movement “Un Bal”
Maurice Ravel – Piano Concerto in G major, 1st movement
Johannes Brahms – Symphony No. 1, 1st movement
Claude Debussy – The Sea, 1st movement “From Dawn to Noon on the Sea”
Genre: Classical Music
Director: Adeline Chahin
Duration: 44′
Format: HD