TV Programmes - Easter Catalogue

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upcoming EASTER CONCERT IN BADEN-BADENLive signal available: Saturday, 28 March 2015, 6:00 p.m. CET

Berliner Philharmoniker • Bernard Haitink conductor Isabelle Faust violinDutch conductor Bernard Haitink and the Berliner Philharmoniker will meet at this year’s Easter Festival in Baden-Baden. Haitink is regarded as an authority, especially on the music of Beethoven. In this production he conducts Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, the “Pastoral”. For the Violin Concerto multi-awarded Isabelle Faust will take to the stage with him. Since her recordings with Claudio Abbado, she is the first choice when it comes to this masterpiece.

Live recording from the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden

2015 • Duration: approx. 90’ HDDirector: Torben Schmidt JacobsenProduced by: EuroArts Music in co-production with SWR

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ABSOLUTE PROKOFIEV – THE EASTER FESTIVAL IN MOSCOW Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra • Valery Gergiev conductorThe Easter Festival is an internationally renowned event among classical music lovers, traditionally opened in Moscow on Easter Sunday. Central to the Festival is its symphonic program: The musical focus in 2012 is on the seven symphonies by Sergei Prokofiev - a composer with whom Maestro Gergiev and the orchestra seem particularly in tune. Recordings at the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory

Concert 1: Symphony No. 1 • Piano Concerto No. 1 Daniil Trifonov piano Symphony No. 5

Duration: 77’ HDProgramme Number: 5925

Concert 2: Symphony No. 2 • Piano Concerto No. 2 Alexander Toradze piano Symphony No. 3

Duration: 109’ HDProgramme Number: 5926 Concert 3: Symphony No. 4 • Piano Concerto No. 4 Alexei Volodin piano Sonata No.7, III. • “Romeo & Juliet – Masks, Friar Laurence, Montagues & Capulets”


Concert 4: Symphony No. 7 • Piano Concerto No. 5 Sergei Babayan piano Symphony No. 6


Concert 5: Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Major, Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Leonidas Kavakos violin • Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Major, Denis Matsuev piano

Duration: 86’ HD Programme Number: 5941

2012/2013 • Directors: Sébastien Glas, Isabelle SoulardProduced by: EuroArts Music & Idéale Audience, in co-production with the Mariinsky Theatre in cooperation with TV Kultura, Museec/medici.tv

All symphonies will be available as single symphonies

ORCHESTRAL WORK / EVENTS

SOL GABETTA & SIR SIMON RATTLE IN BADEN-BADENGyörgy Ligeti: Atmosphères • Richard Wagner: Prelude to Act 1 of the opera “Lohengrin” • Edward Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85 • Igor Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps

Sol Gabetta celloBerliner Philharmoniker • Sir Simon Rattle conductor It has changed over the years that Edward Elgar’s warm and melodically charged Cello Concerto – long considered to be behind the times – once again sounds modern and fresh. On Easter Sunday 2014 Sol Gabetta made her debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker.


2014 • Duration: 89’ HDDirector: Torben Schmidt JacobsenProduced by: EuroArts Music in co-production with SWR/arte & NHK

Programme Number: 5996

GABRIEL FAURÉ: REQUIEM ORCHESTRE DE PARIS & PAAVO JÄRVI Chen Reiss soprano • Matthias Goerne baritoneChoir of the Orchestre de Paris • Stephen Betteridge chorus masterOrchestre de Paris • Paavo Järvi musical directionFauré’s unconventional composition has become a firm favourite in the repertoire. Paavo Järvi, new musical director of the Orchestre de Paris – one of the largest and most prestigious international orchestras – and has already gained a notable reputation as a conductor, including winning a Grammy award.

2011 • Duration: 84’ HDDirector: Isabelle SoulardProduced by: LGM, in co-production with Orchestre de Paris, Mezzo


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J.S. & C.P.E. BACH: ASCENSION ORATORIOSJ.S. Bach: “Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen”, BWV 11 (30’)C.P.E. Bach: “Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu”, WQ240 (75’)

Sophie Karthäuser soprano • Patrizia Hardt alto • Christoph Einhorn tenor Christoph Genz tenor • Jan van Der Crabben bass-baritone Stephan Genz bass • Ex Tempore Choir • La Petite Bande Sigiswald Kuijken leaderSince 1999, the Leipzig Bach Festival represents the worlds major festival according to J.S. Bach. This concert is one of the highlights of the Leipzig Bach Festival 2004. With the soloist, who are all experts in Baroque vocal music, the chamber choir Ex Tempore, also specialized in music of the 17th and 18th century, and La Petite Bande, an outstanding orchestra for early music, Sigiswald Kuijken has high professional musicians to perform two of the most remarkable vocal works by J.S. Bach and his most famous son: The two-part cantata “Ascension Oratorio” has its origin in an elder secular work and includes some arias which occur again in the b Minor mess. The thematical related oratorio by C.P.E. Bach, originated 40 years later, is an important masterpiece of the genre and tells with multifaceted musical colours the story of the Ascension of the Christ.

Live recording from St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig

2004 • Duration: 109’Director: Michael BeyerProduced by: EuroArts Music, NHK Programme Number: 5403

HAYDN COMMEMORATION CONCERT 2009“THE CREATION”Annette Dasch soprano • Christoph Strehl tenor Thomas Quasthoff bass-baritone • Vienna Chamber Choir Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra • Adam Fischer conductorThis performance in the beautiful historic concert hall of Esterházy Palace in Eisenstadt, Austria, is a tribute to one of the world’s greatest musical genius, Joseph Haydn, on the occasion of his 200th anniversary of death in 1809. The Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra, founded in 1987 by the internationally renowned conductor Adam Fischer, and world famous soloists such as Annette Dasch and Thomas Quasthoff honour the composer by presenting his masterpiece, oratorio “The Creation”.

Live recording from the Haydnsaal at Esterházy Palace, Eisenstadt, Austria

2009 • Duration: 110’ HDDirector: Henning KastenProduced by: EuroArts Music, in co-production with NHK, in cooperation with ORF and Joseph Haydn Burgenland GmbH


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OPERA

MOZART: DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE - THE MAGIC FLUTE W.A. Mozart - Die Zauberflöte

Berliner Philharmoniker • Berliner Rundfunkchor Sir Simon Rattle conductor • Robert Carsen stage director Ana Durlovski • Pavol Breslik • Kate Royal • Michael Nagy • Dimitry Ivashchenko • Regula Mühlemann • Annick Massis • Magdalena Kožená Nathalie Stutzmann • José van Dam

The main focus of the Easter Festival 2013, held for the first time from 23 March to 1 April 2013 with the Berliner Philharmoniker at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, is on the four performances of Mozart’s opera “The Magic Flute” conducted by Sir Simon Rattle. In this co-production with the Teatro Real, Madrid, the principal roles are sung by Ana Durlovski (Queen of the Night), Pavol Breslik (Tamino), Kate Royal (Pamina), Michael Nagy (Papageno) and Regula Mühlemann (Papagena). The “Three Ladies” are also portrayed by prominent performers, namely Annick Massis, Magdalena Kožená and Nathalie Stutzmann. José van Dam functions as narrator. Canadian artist and seasoned opera director Robert Carsen is in charge of directing.

2013 • Duration: 163’ HDDirector: Olivier SimonnetProduced by: EuroArts Music in co-production with Idéale Audience, NHK and SWR


PUCCINI: MANON LESCAUTOpera in four acts by Giacomo Puccini after Histoire du Chevalier Des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut des Abbé Prévost

Berliner Philharmoniker • Sir Simon Rattle conductor Philharmonia Choir Vienna • Richard Eyre direction Robert Howell stageEva-Maria Westbroek Manon Lescaut • Lester Lnych Lescaut • Massimo Giordano Chevalier Renato Des Grieux • Liang Li Geronte de Ravoir • Bogdan Mihai Edmond • Reinhard Dorn Innkeeper • Magdalena Kožená Singer Kresimir Spicer Dancing Master • Arthur Espiritu Lamplighter • Johannes Kammler Sergeant

The fact that the Berliner Philharmoniker turn to Puccini – this beloved yet ostracized composer – is symbolic. Here is someone who was thought to be outmoded for a long time, but there is really so much more to be discovered about him and his work. “Manon Lescaut”, the tale of one who becomes a model but remains a girl, is very contemporary.


2014 • Duration: 128’ HDDirector: János DarvasProduced by: EuroArts Music in co-production with SWR/arte & NHK


LUCERNE FESTIVAL 2003 - ABBADO CONDUCTS MAHLER SYMPHONY NO. 2Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C minor “Resurrection”

Eteri Gvazava soprano • Anna Larsson mezzo-soprano Orfeón Donostiarra • Lucerne Festival Orchestra Claudio Abbado conductor

2003 • Duration: 86’ HD Director: Michael BeyerProduced by: EuroArts Music, SF DRS/ARTE, NHK


NELSON CONDUCTS BACH’S SAINT MATTHEW PASSION (Matthäus Passion) Werner Güra (The Evangelist) tenor • Stephen Morscheck (Jesus) bass Lucy Crowe soprano • Christine Rice mezzo-soprano • Nicolas Phan tenor Matthew Brook bassThis work recounts the story of the capture and crucifixion of Christ, using the words of the Holy Scriptures, often interrupted by the poetic interjections of the chorus – dramatic, lyrical and contemplative. The emotional variety and intensity are correspondingly greater. Because of the magnitude of work which contains no fewer than 68 musical numbers and requires almost five hours to perform, JS Bach’s St Matthew Passion is a unique depiction of the suffering and death of Christ. This concert filmed twice with 7 HD cameras is directed by Louise Narboni.

2011 • Duration: 177’ HDDirector: Louise NarboniProduced by: Idéale Audience, in coproduction with Soli Deo Gloria, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Museec with the participation of France Télévisions


Also available: Documentary 52’

CHORAL / VOCAL MUSIC

CECILIA BARTOLI, MISSION: AGOSTINO STEFFANI IN VERSAILLESCecilia Bartoli mezzo-soprano • Philippe Jaroussky countertenor I Barocchisti • Coro della Radiotelevisione Svizzera • Diego Fasolis musical director • Arend Prohmann artistic director

Cecilia Bartoli sings and her voice transports us within Louis XIV’s chambers, under the gold of the Hall of Mirrors, between the Salon de Vénus’ brown marbles or the mysterious groves in the palace’s park.

2012 • Duration: 60’ HDDirector: Olivier SimonnetProduced by: Idéale Audience & ARTE France


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NELSON CONDUCTS BEETHOVEN’S MISSA SOLEMNISLudwig van Beethoven: Missa Solemnis in D Major, Op. 123

Tamara Wilson soprano • Elizabeth DeShong alto Nikolaj Schukoff tenor • Alastair Miles bass • The Gulbenkian Choir Chamber Orchestra of Europe • John Nelson conductor Renowned conductor John Nelson with one of the world’s greatest orchestras, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Gulbenkian Choir and celebrated soloists present Beethoven’s great and well-known work “Missa Solemnis” at Gulbenkian’s Grand Auditorium in Lisbon.

Live recording from the Gulbenkian Grand Auditorium, Lisbon

2010 • Duration: 85’ HDDirector: Rhodri HuwProduced by: Idéale Audience, Soli Deo Gloria Production


ROSSINI: PETITE MESSE SOLENNELLEGioacchino Rossini: Petite messe solennelle

Alexandrina Pendatchanska soprano • Manuela Custer alto Stefano Secco tenor • Mirco Palazzi bassGewandhausChor • Chor der Oper • Leipzig GewandhausorchesterRiccardo Chailly conductorLive recording from the Gewandhaus Leipzig

2008 • Duration: 85’ HDDirector: Michael BeyerProduced by: EuroArts Music, in co-production with ZDF/ARTE


NELSON CONDUCTS HAYDN’S THE CREATIONJoseph Haydn: The Creation

Lisa Milne soprano • Lucy Crowe (Eve) soprano • Werner Güra tenor Matthew Rose baritone • Jonathan Beyer (Adam) bassThe Netherlands Radio Choir • The Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic • John Nelson conductorOn 25 June 2010, conductor John Nelson led the Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic, the Netherlands Radio Choir and the famous soloists Lisa Milne, Werner Gura, Matthew Rose, Lucy Crowe and Jonathan Beyer, in a live concert of Haydn’s oratorio The Creation - considered by many to be his greatest work-, from Grote Kerk, Naarden – one of the oldest and most famous churches in the Netherlands.Haydn undertook the composition of The Creation starting at the age of 65, and it took him a year and a half to complete the work, from 1796 to April 1798. A deeply religious man, he later said, “Never had I been so devout as when I was composing The Creation. Everyday I fell to my knees and prayed to God to give me strength for my work.”

Live recording from the Grote Kerk, Naarden/Netherlands

2010 • Duration: 110’ HDDirector: Rhodri HuwProduced by: Idéale Audience, Soli Deo Gloria, with participation of FranceTélévisions, Mezzo and Museec


BACH: MASS IN B MINOR - NOTRE DAME / JOHN NELSONRuth Ziesak soprano • Joyce DiDonato mezzo • Daniel Taylor counter-tenor Paul Agnew alto • Dietrich Henschel bass • Deborah Nemtanu violin Guil-laume Paoletti cello • Eckhard Rudolph double bass • Jory Vinikour organ Ensemble Orchestral de Paris • John Nelson conductorLike music lovers the world over, John Nelson believes Johann Sebastian Bach’s Mass in B Minor is a pinnacle of Western music. For years, he has cherished the dream of performing this masterwork in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris with the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris whose renown has grown constantly since he began conducting with them eight years ago. In addition to John Nelson and his Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, the Mass in B minor brings together the Maîtrise de Notre-Dame choir conducted by Nicole Corti as well as internationally recognized soloists Ruth Ziesak, Joyce DiDonato, Daniel Taylor, Paul Agnew and Dietrich Henschel.

Live recording from Notre Dame, Paris

2006 • Duration: 109’ HDDirector: Olivier SimmonetProduced by: Idéale Audience


BACH: MASS IN B MINOR - HERBERT BLOMSTEDT AND THE GEWANDHAUSORCHESTRA LEIPZIGRuth Ziesak soprano • Anna Larsson alto • Christoph Genz tenor • Dietrich Henschel bass • Gewandhaus Kammerchor • Gewandhaus Orchestra Herbert Blomstedt conductorHerbert Blomstedt appears with the Gewandhaus Orchestra for the last time as the Gewandhaus Music Director in this recording. After seven successful years in Leipzig, the maestro performs a work in the Thomas Church that is especially dear to him: Johann Sebastian Bach’s Mass in B minor. This Mass is one of the greatest works of church music. Herbert Blomstedt’s reading of the Mass is conceived and executed on the highest level. The performance as a whole vibrates with life: the work of the Gewandhaus’ Orchestra and Choir and the outstanding soloists is exemplary.

2005 • Duration: 117’ HD Directed by Michael BeyerProduced by: EuroArts Music, NHK


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LIBERA “ANGEL VOICES”The sound of Libera has become familiar to millions worldwide following the group’s successful recordings and appearances on TV and radio; stage and film. Libera is a real “boy band” whose young members have become known for their unique musical style in concert and on their atmospheric albums, which have topped classical and mainstream charts across the world. With shimmering, mystical chords and ecstatic harmonies, they are unlike any other group you have ever heard. At times plaintive, at others climactic and transcendent. These are truly sounds to lift the soul. Celestial sounds for a new time!

Live recording from the St. Pieterskerk, Leiden, Netherlands

2007 • Duration: 60’ HDDirector: Phillip Bird Produced by: IDTV, EMI


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BUXTEHUDE: MEMBRA JESU NOSTRICycle of Seven Sacred Cantatas BuxWV 75

Andreas Scholl counter-tenor Schola Cantorum Basiliensis • René Jacobs conductorDietrich Buxtehude (1637 - 1707), Danish organist and composer of church, chamber and organ music, was possibly the most influential composer of his time. Membra Jesu nostri, a title that defies elegant translation, is a cycle of seven cantatas, each a meditation on Christ on the Cross, his feet, knees, hands, side, breast, heart and face. The instrumental ensemble offer most subtle and colourful playing with lovingly sung interpretations from the soloists, including the renowned counter-tenor, Andreas Scholl, being impeccably clear and well balanced. The splendid direction from the talented René Jacobs gives impressive attention to detail which makes the performance so moving, suitably reverent and compelling. Buxtehude’s sacred music is at last starting to get the exposure that it rightly deserves.

Live recording from the historic abbey of Payerne

2004 • Duration: 53’ SD 16:9Directed by Thomas GrimmProduced by: SF DRS


J.S. BACH & J. KUHNAU: MAGNIFICATBach: Magnificat, BWV 243; Cantata “Meine Seel erhebt den Herren”, BWV 10; Kuhnau: Magnificat in C major

Deborah Yorck soprano • Orlanda Velez Isidro soprano Bogna Bartosz alto • Jörg Dürmüller tenor • Klaus Mertens bassAmsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir • Ton Koopman conductorLive recording from the Thomaskirche Leipzig

2003 • Duration: 86’ HDDirector: Bob ColesProduced by: EuroArts Music and NHK


BEETHOVEN: MISSA SOLEMNIS - CONCERT FOR THE REOPENING OF THE FRAUENKIRCHE, DRESDENCamilla Nylund soprano • Birgit Remmert alto • Christian Elsner tenor René Pape bass • Choir of the Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden

With this festive concert the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden under the baton of Fabio Luisi celebrates the moving event of the re-opening of the Frauenkirche in Dresden. After the Bombing of Dresden on February 13, 1945, the church burnt out and its dome, called the “Stone Bell”, finally collapsed. The rebuilt church will remain a monument and a symbol of hope and conciliation, reminding people of its history. Beethoven’s overwhelming music blends impressively with the camera shots of the vast and impressive hall - a touching event of great solemnity. The cast of soloists is excellent including Camilla Nylund and René Pape, one the most outstanding singers of the younger generation.

2005 • Duration: 88’ HDDirector: Nele MünchmeyerProduced by: EuroArts Music, ZDF/ARTE


J.S. BACH: ST JOHN PASSION - MASAAKI SUZUKI AND THE BACH COLLEGIUM JAPANGerd Tuerck • Stephan MacLeod • Chiyuki Urano • Miduri Suzuki Robin Blaze • Bach Collegium Japan Masaaki Suzuki conductorThe choir and the orchestra of the Bach Collegium Japan - shooting-star among the celebrated baroque specialists - perform the St John’s Passion with only a small ensemble of about 50 musicians (as was custom at the time) under the former Ton Koopman student Masaaki Suzuki.

Recorded live from The Suntory Hall in Tokyo/Japan

2000 • Duration: 116’ HD Director: Shokichi AmanoProduced by: NHK and EuroArts Music


J.S. BACH: ST JOHN PASSIONJuliane Banse soprano • Michael Chance alto • Ian Bostridge tenor Rainer Trost tenor • Thomas Quasthoff bariton • RIAS-KammerchorBerliner Philharmoniker • Sir Simon Rattle conductorThe principal conductor of the Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle, performs music by J. S. Bach. Together with the marvelous Berlin orchestra, the conductor takes on Bach’s splendid St John’s Passion. The solo voice parts are sung by the renowned soloists Juliane Banse, Michael Chance, Ian Bostridge, Rainer Trost and Thomas Quasthoff.

2002 • Duration: 123’ HD Director: Bob ColesProduced by: EuroArts Music, ZDF/arte, TV Man Union, MPF


JOSEPH HAYDN: THE CREATION Edith Mathis soprano • Christophe Prégardien tenor • René Pape bass Lucerne Festival Chorus and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra Peter Schreier conductorHaydn’s Creation represents the culmination of the composer’s long career, a consummate blend of this great musician’s mature wisdom and his eternal youthfulness.

Recorded live from the Jesuit Church in Lucerne

1992 • Duration: 104’ 4:3Director: Elisabeth Birke-Malzer Produced by: EuroArts in association with NHK © VIDEAL/ brilliant media


LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: MISSA SOLEMNISLuba Orgonasova soprano • Jadwiga Rappé alto • Uwe Heilmann tenor Jan-Hendrik Rootering bassSinfonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundunks • Sir Colin Davis conductorThe film documents an impressive performance from the Schauspielhaus on the Gendarmenmarket in Berlin under the direction of Sir Colin Davis.

1988 • Duration: 98’ 4:3 Director: Klaus LindemannProduced by: Bayerischer Rundfunk/ BMG © BMG


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HAYDN: THE SEVEN LAST WORDS OF OUR SAVIOUR ON THE CROSSRecorded at its original location in Cadiz, the city that commissioned the work 1787

Le Concert des Nations • Jordi Savall conductorHaydn’s Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross was recognised throughout Europe as a masterpiece when it was premiered in the church of Santa Cueva, Cádiz. Haydn himself thought it was the best piece of music he ever wrote, and it established his fame in Europe and beyond. Paradoxically, the first version for orchestra, the most famous in Haydn’s era, is the least known today. This historic television recording is performed by Le Concert des Nations under the baton of Jordi Savall, one of Europe’s leading exponents of period music. The performance is enhanced by specially shot footage from the Holy Week processions which take place in Cádiz every Easter.

Live recording from Oratorio de la Santa Cueva in Cadiz, Andalucia

2007 • Durations: 64’/68’ HDDirector: Rhodri HuwProduced by: Element ProductionLong version including stunning images from the Holy Week processions in Cadiz plus readings of the Seven Last Words by a priest


J.S. BACH: ORGAN CONCERTS IN ST. THOMAS CHURCH, LEIPZIGUllrich Böhme

This concert is performed on the new Bach-organ of the St. Thomas Church, Leipzig which was played for the first time at Whitsun 2000. This Organ is built after a historical model and corresponds to the organ on which Bach used to play during his 27 years in Leipzig. The Church organist Ullrich Böhme has the pleasure to play on this authentic instrument to celebrate the great composer.

2000 • Duration: 56’ SD 16:9 Director: Michael BeyerProduced by: EuroArts Music


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