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RICHARD WAGNER - Tristan und Isolde - Bayreuther Festspiele Stephen Gould, Evelyn Herlitzius, Georg Zeppenfeld, Iain Paterson, Christa Mayer Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, Christian Thielemann Staged by Katharina Wagner

Superstar violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter rounds off the musical celebrations for her 60th-birthday year with this very special concert with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. From Heinz Hall, she is joined by legendary composer and conductor John Williams as well longtime friend Yefim Bronfman; her protégé, cellist Pablo Ferrández; and sought-after conductor Susanna Mälkki. The first half sees Mutter, Ferrández and Bronfman come together for Beethoven's lyrical Triple Concerto – with Mälkki on the podium – while the second half sees Mutter and Williams reunited for an unmissable selection of music by the film music legend.

The Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra brings together refugee musicians and Ukrainian members of leading European orchestras. One day after the third anniversary of the Russian attack on Ukraine, they perform Beethoven's 9th Symphony - a masterpiece and symbol of freedom and humanity - under the direction of Keri-Lynn Wilson in Warsaw's Teatr Wielki.

Every year since 1970, the German town of Burghausen has hosted one of the world's biggest jazz festivals. During Burghausen International Jazz Week, the town becomes a "Bavarian jazz mecca": visitors from all over the world join residents to enjoy wonderful jazz performances in the colorful frenzy that grips the town packed with spectators and musicians. One of the artists featured in 2019 was The Earth, Wind & Fire Experience. In this concert, guitarist, composer and musical director Al McKay performs his timeless disco and soul hits. Joined by 7 of the 13 original members of Earth, Wind & Fire, he revives "Boogie Wonderland" and "September" from his world tour.

In search of the reality of life for independent musicians in the digital age, the film and art collective "relativ kollektiv" spent over a year accompanying the protagonists of the label and network "Analogsoul" in Leipzig, Berlin, Erfurt, and Jena. The film introduces the musicians in their everyday environments: in rehearsal rooms, during field recordings, at concerts, but also at their "day jobs." Directors André Klar and Benjamin Büttner discover situations between dedication and resignation and shed light on the everyday questions of people whose lives are based on their passion.

A man escapes to a bar late at night to avoid being alone. But when more and more partying people come into the bar and start encouraging him to join in, he is faced with the question: fit in or remain himself.

Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto, backed by Ensemble Modern and a live "visual score", perform their fourth collaborative work "utp_" at the National Theatre in Mannheim, Germany on November 16, 2007.

Theater director Thomas Ostermeier stages Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's timelessly magnificent "Threepenny Opera" with the ensemble of the Comédie Française in Aix-en-Provence, based on a new translation of the original text by Alexandre Pateau. In London's underworld district of Soho, the beggar king Jonathan Peachum and the criminal Macheath, known as Mackie Messer, are at war. The latter also seduces the daughter of the shady "businessman". When he finds out that the two have secretly celebrated a wedding, he decides to get rid of his rival. He is aided in his endeavors by Jenny, a cunning whore who betrays her ex-lover to the police. Back to the original: First performed in 1928, the opera parody strings together one biting musical number after another in cabaret style and jazz rhythm, breaking the boundaries of the genre, which until then had been considered bourgeois. Because the "Threepenny Opera" by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill is clearly political!

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This is clearly underlined in the live recording made in September 2002 at the Paris New Morning club. The New Morning - The Paris Concert DVD contains twelve great tracks, where all of the musicians involved show themselves to be fantastic soloists. High points are the new versions of "Crosswinds", "Dreamer", "Mister BC", "Dessiccated Coconuts", "Stratus" and "Spectrum".

Wanted! Hanns Eisler is a filmic and musical search for traces; an approach to Eisler's life as a homeless wanderer between worlds and his work, which retains its charisma and inspires subsequent generations of artists to new musical experiments.

Early 18th-century Krakow: The poor student Simon works as a travelling musician in order to finance his studies, and the Polish freedom fighter Jan is on the run from Saxon troops. They meet in the carriage of Count Kovalska, where they fall in love with the Count’s daughters Laura and Bronislava.

The "Carnival of the Animals" is Camille Saint-Saëns' best-known piece. Saint-Saëns did not want it to be published. On the 100th anniversary of the composer's death in December 2021, the documentary reports on the circumstances under which the piece of music was created, tells of Saint-Saëns' life and how the "Carnival of the Animals" ultimately became an evergreen in the music world.

The support group for opera addicts is in session, and its participants perform Prokofiev's Betrothal in a Monastery. Rarely performed outside Russia, and consigned to oblivion by Andrei Zhdanov's anti-formalist policies after the Second World War, the work is transformed by Dmitri Tcherniakov's extravagant staging. Under the baton of Daniel Barenboim, an all-star cast featuring Aida Garifullina and Violeta Urmana bring the characters to life on stage at Berlin's Staatsoper Unter den Linden.

Shrill, loud, colorful and fun - that's what Neue Deutsche Welle stands for. Songs like "Ich will Spaß", "Sternenhimmel" and "99 Luftballons" are still a must at any good party today. Yet the songs are already over 30 years old - just like the movement itself. The wave spilled over into Germany at the end of the 70s. For a long time, German musicians copied what was happening in the USA or Great Britain. There were hardly any German-speaking pop stars at the time. Inspired by punk, German musicians began to experiment at the beginning of the eighties: initially, the music was still characterized by cool synthesizer sounds and provocative lyrics.

An animated film made from approximately 1700 laser printed photo(collage)s, manipulated by hand.

Young Canadian virtuoso Bruce Liu displays the full range of his talent in a dazzling recital captured at the 2024 Ruhr Piano Festival.

The Bayreuth Festival 2023 will open with the premiere of Wagner's "Parsifal". Jay Scheib is directing, and Pablo Heras-Casado is the musical director.

Live Performance of Alligatoah

In this musical pseudo-documentary, a photographer in Berlin follows a homeless street musician for six months. She does it with the intention of turning him into a star.

In 1979, krautrock group Embryo toured Iran, Afghanistan and India by bus, while performing with local musicians and documenting their trip.

London/Brixton Academy 1. Beyond The Pale 2. Hands Across The Ocean 3. Serpents Kiss 4. Naked And Savage 5. Garden Of Delight 6. Severina 7. Butterfly On A Wheel 8. Vigilante Man 9. Wake (RSV) 10. Wasteland 11. The Crystal Ocean 12. Deliverance 13. Like A Child Again 14. Like A Hurricane 15. Tower Of Strength Cologne/Bürgerhaus Stollwerk 16. Beyond The Pale 17. Hands Across The Ocean 18. Serpents Kiss 19. Naked And Savage 20. Garden Of Delight 21. Severina 22. Butterfly On A Wheel 23. Vigilante Man 24. Sacrilege 25. Wake (RSV) 26. Wasteland 27. The Crystal Ocean 28. Deliverance 29. Like A Child Again 30. Like A Hurricane 31. Tower Of Strength 32. Blood Brother 33. 1969 Frankfurt/Das Bett 34. Hands Across The Ocean 35. Serpents Kiss 36. Garden Of Delight 37. Severina 38. Butterfly On A Wheel 39. Sacrilege 40. Deliverance 41. Like A Child Again

Roger Koza goes back to Hamburg after the pandemic and looks for his old friend Elmar.

This short movie consists of the 3 previously released music videos by Sixth June: "Winter Didn't Come", "Negde neko" and "In Dreams" from their latest album "Trust" (2020).

For many, the Eurovision Song Contest is the chance for a Pan-European party. But it is also highly political, especially for countries in Eastern Europe. When Ukrainian group Kalush Orchestra won in 2022, it was a message of European solidarity against Russian aggression.

Hanabie is like a kaleidoscopic storm. Colorful, loud, and unpredictable. The young women from Tokyo blend metalcore with J-pop melodies, rap, and kawaii aesthetics to create a sound that oscillates between sweet comic-book worlds and brute sonic power. Live, this mixture explodes in a wild firework of colors, fast breakdowns, and irresistible hooks. Hanabie. represent boundless energy, nonconformity, and the freedom to rain glitter even on the hardest metal. At Wacken, Japanese pop culture and Western hardcore collide, and the result is a show that overwhelms all the senses.

Sergei S. Prokofiev's monumental setting of Leo N. Tolstoy's epic novel, War and Peace. The composer and his wife Mira compressed the plot, set during Napoleon's Russian campaign, into a powerful sequence of scenes in which the love story between Natasha Rostova and Andrei Bolkonsky and the description of the Russian army's fight against the French invasion alternate in rich contrast, and at the same time are closely interwoven. All is related by the music in its fullness of splendid themes and touchingly quiet moments. Prokofiev's musical-dramatic masterpiece combines social drama and historical chronicle in its 13 scenes to form an exuberant panorama. In this production by Dmitri Tcherniakov, the opera is performed in in Munich for the first time ever.

Stage show with Udo Lindenberg. His voice is a little hoarse, but Udo rocks this evening too. Udo Lindenberg and the Panic Orchestra are on a major tour in 1978. rbb television shows the Frankfurt concert "Panic Nights".

Wolfgang Wagner's Bayreuth production of his grandfather's 'farewell to the world'has 'an unusual beauty and logic of its own ... with a double stress - on nature undefiled and on a form of religious symbolism ... There is an air of magic and mystery about the staging ... The performance was excellent ... Horst Stein conducted a beautifully proportioned Parsifal'. New York Times

An exceptional historical document: Gil Evans in concert at the 1976 Berlin Jazz Festival, one of Europe's most prominent musical events. Alongside other prestigious artists, the legendary arranger offers a varied repertoire, rich in innovation, fusion, and modern jazz. This confidential recording beautifully captures the creative energy of the era.

Here's something a little lighter than usual from the series of three-minute musical shorts produced in Germany from 1906 to. 1910 - twenty years before most people think of the birth of talkies. Instead of serious music, it's a duet from an operetta, THE DOLLAR PRINCESS.

Since the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival was founded in 2020, the city of Bayreuth has become a mecca for Baroque music. Sandrine Piau invites us to savour the frivolity of 18th-century Rome through cantatas with enchanting notes.

A farmer opposes his daughter marrying a young music teacher (who a visitor from town also has eyes on) and prefers she marry a rich shopkeeper.The drama culminates with a fire in a barn where the touring Vienna Boys Choir are rehearsing.

A series of short vignettes set in a Berlin Mietskaserne (rental barracks for the poor), framed by Schönberg's atonal piece Pierrot Lunaire.