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Gladys Knight at the BBC

A look through the BBC archives for moment after moment from the 'empress of soul’, Gladys Knight. Combining classic tracks alongside The Pips with her own inimitable solo songs, this collection shows why Gladys Knight has powered through seven decades as singer and performer. This hour in the presence of a music legend features such songs as Baby Don’t Change Your Mind, The Way We Were and Help Me Make It Through the Night, drawn from Gladys’s appearances on Top of the Pops, The Old Grey Whistle Test and The Harry Secombe Show.

Gladys Knight at the BBC

7.0 2024
Respighi: La Fiamma

Christof Loy continues his exploration of early 20th-century opera at the Deutsche Oper Berlin with Respighi's rarely heard La fiamma. Imposing choruses and sweeping tableaux drive a drama of suspicion, desire and public frenzy, heightened here by Carlo Rizzi's musical direction and a cast led by Olesya Golovneva and Georgy Vasiliev. Premiered in 1934, the work mirrors a society sliding towards authoritarianism, its show trial carrying an unsettling emotional charge. Respighi's score moves beyond the colours of the Trilogia romana, blending impressionist shimmer, Russian influence and a renewed fascination with Italian Renaissance sound worlds.

Respighi: La Fiamma

NR 2024
Jean-Michel Jarre - Starmus: Bridge from the Future

Staged as the opening event of the seventh edition of STARMUS Festival and supported by ESET Digital Security, ‘Bridge From The Future’ was Jarre’s most ambitious live production to date. A sweeping sci-fi soundscape with stunning visual storytelling, choreographed light and laser displays, a 400-drone ballet, fireworks, and an architectural stage, designed by Jarre, that framed the iconic UFO Bridge with twin 30-metre towers. The concert also marked an historic first-time collaboration between Jarre and Queen guitarist Sir Brian May, who joined him on stage for a powerful new arrangement of Dvořák’s ‘New World Symphony’ as well as newly adapted works ‘Bratislava Time’ and ‘Rendez-vous Bratislava’. Jarre was accompanied by longtime collaborator Claude Samard and rising British artist Adiescar Chase, with contributions from the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra and a 19-piece chorus from the Slovak Philharmonic Choir.

Jean-Michel Jarre - Starmus: Bridge from the Future

9.0 2024
The Excursions of Mr. Brouček

We are off on an excursion, two excursions in fact, in the company of a landlord from Prague, who is, let us say, a little rough around the edges. The first journey of Mr Brouček is to the Moon where our beer-drinking hero (literally ‘Mr Beetle’) meets the oh-so sophisticated Moon-dwellers. In the second, we travel through time to the early 15th century to a heroic period in Czech history when the Czechs fought off armies of crusaders from the rest of Europe. Will Mr Brouček fare any better in Prague circa 1420, when Czechs are on the eve of a famous victory defending their Hussite faith? For this new production from the heart of the composer’s home country, Janáček Festival Brno has entrusted the staging to the famous Canadian director, Robert Carsen who thus opens the 2024 Festival with this, his sixth production of a Janáček opera.

The Excursions of Mr. Brouček

NR 2024
Harakiri Squad

The Edo period, where the world is peaceful. Behind the peaceful lives of people, there was a special forces unit that only a limited number of people knew about them. Its name is "The Evil Fish Squad". The evil fish squad consisting of Rinzo, Surume, Funaemon, and Himechi, are all on death row inmates. In exchange for death penalty exemption, it is a secret force that is tasked with doing dangerous, dark work that is close to death. This time, the mission given to the Evil Fish Corps is to undercover investigation into a mysterious group, Otaikokyo. Meanwhile, a young man appears in front of the evil fish squad. His name is Mizuno Hirama. Hirama continues on a journey to find a sister who is far from home. Will the Evil Fish Squad be able to save the Edo town from the conspiracy of Otaikokyo? A beautiful and exciting battle between man-eating demons and rogues begins now.

Harakiri Squad

NR 2024
Leonard Cohen: The Bird on a Wire Concerts

Yet more archive film has been found from the famous 1972 tour, which formed the basis of the best-selling 2010 DVD Bird on a Wire. Concert material from the shows in Stockholm, Paris and the Albert Hall, with Cohen at the height of his powers performing Marianne, Susanne, Joan of Arc, The Story of Isaac, The Dealer and many other songs, has now been edited together by Tony Palmer, who shot the original material. This is interspersed with more backstage film of the band on tour, and even some fresh interviews with Cohen himself, together with some previously unreleased sound recordings of his early masterpieces.

Leonard Cohen: The Bird on a Wire Concerts

NR 2024
Riccardo Chailly & Alexander Malofeev Lucerne Festival 2024

On the shores of Lake Lucerne, Riccardo Chailly and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra continue their Rachmaninov odyssey with the Symphonic Movement, a rarely performed piece, as well as the Symphonic Dances and the Scherzo in D minor. The highlight of the evening is the Piano Concerto No. 1, performed by Alexander Malofeev, a rising star on the keyboard. Chapters : Sergueï Rachmaninov - Scherzo in D minor - Symphonic movement in D minor (youth symphony) - Piano Concerto No. 1 in F sharp minor, Op. 1 - Danses symphoniques, op. 45

Riccardo Chailly & Alexander Malofeev Lucerne Festival 2024

NR 2024