Highlights
Concerto Köln
Concerto Köln is one of the leading German chamber orchestras of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
We present 2 programs : ‘The Four Seasons’ and ‘Bach in Italy’
The Four Seasons
Solo Violin: Shunske Sato
Filmed at: Teatru Manoel – Malta
Duration: 84′
Antonio Vivaldi (1678 – 1742)
Concerto for strings and continuo in G minor RV 156
Evaristo Felice dall’Abaco (1675 – 1742)
Concerto in D minor op. 2 No. 1, Concerti a quattro da chiesa
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto No. 1 in E major, Op. 8, RV 269, ” Spring ” (La primavera)
Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 8, RV 315, ” Summer ” (L’estate)
Charles Avison (1709 – 1770)
Concerto Grosso No. 6 in D major, from the 12 Concerti Grossi in seven parts after the Harpsichord Lessons by Domenico Scarlatti
Antonio Vivaldi
Sinfonia al Santo Sepolcro in B minor, RV 169
Concerto No. 3 in F major, Op. 8, RV 293, ” Fall ” (L’autunno)
Concerto No. 4 in F minor, Op. 8, RV 297, “ Winter ” (L’inverno)
Bach in Italy
Filmed at Teatru Manoel, Malta
Solo Violin : Markus Hoffmann
Duration: 75′
Antonio Vivaldi (1678 – 1741)
Concerto for strings and continuo in C minor RV 120
Pietro Antonio Locatelli (1695 – 1764)
Concerto grosso in G minor op. 1 No. 12
Evaristo Felice Dall’Abaco (1675 – 1742)
Concerto a più Istrumenti in D major op. 5 no. 6
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750)
Harpsichord Concerto No. 4 in A major BWV 1055
Giovanni Battista Sammartini (1700 – 1775)
Sinfonia in A major
Antonio Vivaldi
Violin Concerto in E minor RV 277 “Il favorito”
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sinfonia in C major from the cantata “Der Herr denket an uns” BWV 196 Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G major BWV 1049
Genre: Classical Music
Director:Julien Condemine
Format: HD, 4K
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Falstaff by Giuseppe Verdi
At more than eighty years of age, Verdi had sworn that he would never be asked to do it again, but he greedily dives back into the composition of a final opera buffa with the most youthful spirit.
The hilarious misadventures of the old knight Sir John Falstaff, erotomaniac, windbag and boastful, wishing to seduce two rich Windsor damsels, will serve as a framework for an exemplary libretto, both concise and sparkling, by Arrigo Boito, after Shakespeare. Verdi only had to graft a music with dazzling verve, handling with naturalness both the quasi-spoken song and the lyrical flights of fancy on a most voluble orchestral accompaniment. The pathos of these ten characters with strong characters rubs shoulders with our liberating laughter, until the masterly final fugue (in C major!) on the words “everything in the world is a farce”, symbol of this strikingly tonic masterpiece. Let’s hold our breath, the duo Michael Schønwandt and David Hermann is at work, it promises us exciting moments of musical theater.
Livretto by Arrigo Boito
Genre: Opera in 3 Atcs
Duration: 139′
Format: HD
Languages : Italian with French subtitles
Béjart Ballet Lausanne “Ballet for Life”
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Using Mozart’s arias and Queen’s greatest hits, Maurice Béjart wanted to create an incredible culture shock: the question of desire and love in the age of AIDS, the shadow of death at the height of a vital act…
From the opening, the emotion and nostalgia are there, the dancers lying in their white shroud come to life on the song “This Is A Beautiful Day”, and carry us away to the sound of Freddie Mercury’s unique voice, to which they really give life. The 37 dancers who share the stage, dressed in Gianni Versace’s costumes, give us a wild performance of Béjart’s choreography.
Genre: Choreography
Duration: 108′
Format: HD, 4K
Fly Bird, Fly
The story of the Hungarian folk revival, which started in the 1970s, and its continuing legacy today. It was the only grassroots musical movement in the Eastern Bloc. Why did it happen, and how did rural peasant music become a significant movement in the city and had an effect on the regime change?
Filmed in Budapest, Warsaw and Transylvanian villages with eye-catching archive and new dance scene recordings.
Duration: 50′ or 60′
Directed by Simon Broughton
Language: Hungarian with English subtitles
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The Baltic Sea Philharmonic conducted by Kristjan Järvi plays ‘Midnight Sun’
Under the baton of Founding Conductor and Music Director Kristjan Järvi, the Baltic Sea Philharmonic played the entire 100-minute ‘Midnight Sun’ programme of music by Grieg and Stravinsky from memory. Budapest-born pianist József Balog joined the orchestra as soloist in Grieg’s Piano Concerto. The concert also includes another of Grieg’s most celebrated works – the Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 – and Stravinsky’s 1945 orchestral version of The Firebird, a piece which the Baltic Sea Philharmonic became the first orchestra in the world to perform completely from memory.
Genre: Classical Music
Duration: 105′
Format: HD
Can be paired with the documentary Nordic Pulse which follows Kristjan Järvi and the Baltic Sea Philharmonic on three European tours as they fulfill their destiny to become the first orchestra in history to perform Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite by memory and push the boundaries of what it means to be an orchestra.
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Charpentier “Grands Motets” by Les Arts Florissants
Program:
Magnificat H. 77
Pange lingua H. 61
Litanies à la Vierge H. 83
Te Deum H. 147
Pestis Mediolanensis H. 398 & H. 398a
Sonate
Nuptiae sacrae H. 412
Genre: Classical Music
Duration: 76′
Director:John Blanch
Format: HD, 4K