Jascha Heifetz - God's Fiddler Not since Paganini had there been such a magician on the violin, a musical "wunderkind" who went on to set the standards for nearly a century. Through home movies and personal family photos taken from 1903-1987, this documentary filmed in Vilna, Lithuania, Saint Petersburg, Russia, and in Los Angeles, re-creates a life that spanned the 20th Century. We hear from all the great violinists of his generation, and from many of his former students who are still alive, that Heifetz was a legendary but mysterious figure whose story embodies the dual nature of artistic genius. Is the man and the artist the same person? What is the price each pays? And who was the man behind the music? Directed by Peter Rosen 2011

Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Lahav Shani (conductor) The Munich Bach Choir, Felix Mayer (choir master) The Gary Bertini Israeli Choir, Ronen Borshevsky (choir master) Sayaka Shoji (violin), Chen Reiss (soprano), Bernarda Fink (mezzo-soprano), Matthew Newlin (tenor), Mikhail Petrenko (baritone) Arvo Pärt (B. 1935) Swansong Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957) Violin Concerto in D minor op. 47 Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) Symphony no. 9 in D minor op. 125 Tel Aviv, Charles Bronfman Auditorium, 13 October 2022

Ernani Opera in 4 acts by Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901) Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave after Victor Hugo First performance in Venice, La Fenice, March 9, 1844 Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana Cor de la Generalitat Valenciana Michele Spotti (Conductor) Francesc Perales (Chorus master) Andrea Bernard (Stage director), Alberto Beltrame (Set Designer), Elena Beccaro (Costume Designer), Marco Alba (Lighting Designer) Angela Meade (Elvira) Piero Pretti (Ernani) Franco Vassallo (Don Carlo) Evgeny Stavinsky (Don Ruy Gomez de Silva) Laura Orueta (Giovanna) Matheus Pompeu (Don Riccardo) Javier Castañeda (Jago) Valencia, Palau de les Arts, June 2023

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Jokers Vincent Peirani : accordion, accordina Federico Casagrande : guitar Ziv Ravitz : drums After many collaborations in duo (with Émile Parisien, Michel Portal, Michael Wollny, François Salque) or within his quintet, Living Being, Vincent Peirani wanted to embark on another form of orchestration, that of the trio. With the Italian guitarist Federico Casagrande, who has been living in Paris for many years, and Ziv Ravitz, an Israeli drummer who lives in New York, he forms a hybrid trio, guitar, drums, accordion, in which each musician can take the place of another, to become, by turns, a soloist, a rhythmist, a colourist, and so on. This cosmopolitan formula explores all kinds of music: enigmatic, oneiric, electronic, explosive, colourful, even silent. Everything is permitted and left to the free will of each of the three protagonists. Like the Joker - not so much the fictional super-villain of American comic books as the playing card found in most card decks (the Joker can replace any other card and also be the highest trump) - all three of them have an equal and at the same time complementary role, and they are sometimes in opposition, unpredictable... Contradiction then adds to the trio's soundscape, enriching it even further and affirming its originality. Recorded on January 05, 2021 at the Comptoir Général, Paris TV Director, Nathan Benesty

Yom & The Wonder Rabbis Yom (clarinet, composition) Léo Jassef (keaboard) Guillaume Magne (guitar) Sylvain Daniel (bass) Mathieu Penot (drums) Recorded on July 11, 2019 at Jazz à Vienne TV Director, Mikaël Favard

Thomas de Pourquery & Supersonic Thomas De Pourquery, saxophone alto Laurent Bardainne, saxophone ténor Fabrice Martinez, trompette Arnaud Roulin, piano, claviers Frederick Galiay, basse Edward Perraud, batterie Playlist Thomas De Pourquery; Mermaids Sun Ra, We travel the space ways Thomas De Pourquery, Slow down, Present eternity, Sons of love, Simple forces, Give the money back, Révolutions, Disco 2100 Sun Ra, Love in outer space Recorded on June 15, 2019 at the Cité de la musique TV Director, Josselin Carré

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Le Balcon, Students of the Institut d'Enseignement Supérieur de Musique - Europe et Méditerranée d'Aix-en-Provence, Maxime Pascal (conductor) Olivier Messiaen (1908 - 1992) From Canyons to Stars - excerpt: Interstellar Call Gérard Grisey (1946 - 1998) Stèle Olivier Messiaen Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum Cable car of the Glaciers of La Meije (Festival Messiaen, Pas de La Meije) 31 July 2021

Alfred Brendel (piano) Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886) Années de pèlerinage, première année Recorded in 1986 Directed by Humphrey Burton

Alfred Brendel (piano) Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886) Années de pèlerinage, deuxième année Recorded in 1986 Directed by Humphrey Burton

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Arabella "Lyrische Komödie" in three acts Richard Strauss (1864-1949) Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal First performance at Dresden, Sächsisches Staatstheater, 1 July 1933 Principal Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real, David Afkham (conductor) Andrés Máspero (Chorus Director) Christof Loy (Stage Direction) Herbert Murauer (Stage and Costume Design), Reinhard Traub (Lighting), Thomas Wilhelm (Choreography) Jacquelyn Wagner (Arabella) Sarah Defrise (Zdenka) Martin Winkler (Count Waldner) Anne Sofie von Otter (Adelaide) Josef Wagner (Mandryka) Matthew Newlin (Matteo) Dean Power (Count Elemer) Roger Smeets (Count Dominik) Tyler Zimmerman (Count Lamoral) Madrid, Teatro Real, 9 February 2023

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Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Lahav Shani (conductor) Juan Pérez Floristán (piano) Sergei Prokofiev (1891 - 1953) Scythian Suite Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873 - 1943) Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971) Petrushka Tel Aviv, Charles Bronfman Auditorium, 31 March 2023

Jakub Józef Orlinski (countertenor) Ensemble Il Pomo d'Oro, Zefira Valova (violin & conductor) Francesco Cavalli La Calisto (1661) | Sinfonia Erme e solinghe cime... Lucidissima face (Endimione) Giovanni Antonio Boretti Eliogabalo (1668) | Chi scherza con Amor (Eliogabalo) Giovanni Antonio Boretti Claudio Cesare (1672) | Sinfonia Crudo amor non hai pieta (Claudio) Giovanni Bononcini La Nemica d'Amore fatta amante (1693) | Sinfonia Giovanni Bononcini La Costanza non gradita (1694) | Infelice mia costanza (Aminta) Nicola Matteis Don Chisciotte in Siera Morena (1719) | Ballo dei Bagatellieri Francesco Bartolomeo Conti Don Chisciotte (1719) | Odio, vendetta, amor (Fernando) Luca Antonio Predieri Scipione il Giovane (1731) | Finche salvo e l'amor suo (Scipione) Pietro Antonio Locatelli Concerto a quattro op. 1 no 11 in C minor Giuseppe Maria Orlandini / Johann Mattheson Nerone (1723) | Che m'ami ti prega (Nerone) Nicola Fago Il faraone sommerso (1709) | Alla gente a Dio diletta Toulouse, Théâtre du Capitole, 21 July 2021 Directed by Olivier Simonnet

Wiener Philharmoniker, Christian Thielemann (conductor) Wiener Singverein Annette Dasch (soprano), Mihoko Fujimura (mezzo-soprano), Piotr Beczala (tenor), Georg Zeppenfeld (bass) Ludwig van Beethoven 1770 - 1827 Symphony No. 9 in D minor op. 125 Directed by Agnes Méth Vienna, Musikverein, 2010

"Without inner fire, without physical energy, this profession would be unthinkable," according to Riccardo Chailly, in whose style of conducting accuracy and elegance are unforgettably united with an inexhaustible temperament. This is clear in this portrait of the Italian maestro, which accompanies him working with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, at La Scala in Milan, and in rehearsals for La Bohème at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía in Valencia.

Trio Sōra Clémence de Forceville (violin), Angèle Legasa (cello), Pauline Chenais (piano) Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) Piano Trio in C minor, Op. 1 no. 3 Piano Trio in D major, Op. 70 no. 1, "Ghost" Fondation Singer Polignac, Paris, 17/06/2020 TV director, Guillaume Klein

Alexandre Kantorow (piano) Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897) Ballades, op. 10 Piano Sonata no. 3 in F major, Op. 5 Recorded in Paris, Fondation Singer Polignac, 5 June 2020

Fuenteovejuna Faustino Núnez (music) Companía Antonio Gades Cristina Carnero (Laurencia) Ángel Gil (Frondoso) Joaquín Mulero (Comendador) Alberto Ferrero (Mayor) Antonio Gades (direction and choreography) José Manuel, Caballero Bonald, Antonio Gades (script) Pedro Moreno (costumes) Stella Arauzo (artistic director) Teatro Real, Madrid, 2011

Martha Argerich (piano) Sinfonia Varsovia, Jacek Kaspszyk (conductor) Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849) Piano Concerto in E minor No.1, Op. 11 Mazurka, Op.24 No.2 Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856) Traumeswirren, Op. 12, No.7 (Fantasie Stücke) Philharmonic Hall, Warsaw, 27 August 2010 Directed by Pierre-Martin Juban

Eric Legnini trio invites Thomas Dutronc & Hugh Coltman Eric Legnini, piano Thomas Bramerie, bass Franck Agulhon, drums Thomas Dutronc, guitar and voice Hugh Coltman, guitar and voice Set List E.Legnini trio Boda-Boda - Breakfeast at Dawn ou Doo We Doo - The Jive Hugh Coltman If Only for a minute - Near the house - Night Birds - The sun will dance Thomas Dutronc Plus je t'embrasse - Petite Fleur - C'est si bon - La belle vie Recorded on June 23, 2020 at Jazz à Vienne, Théâtre antique TV Director, Fabien Raymond

Éric Legnini Trio Éric Legnini Trio Eric Legnini (piano) Rocky Gresset (guitar) Thomas Bramerie (double bass) A foot-stomping jazz, touched by soul and by funk. Eric Legnini's recording tryptich, begun in 2006 with Miss Soul (then Big Boogaloo and Trippin'), marking the magnificent first steps of a leader for a pianist with a hyper-sophisticated bop language as early as the middle of the 1990's alongside the saxophonist Stefano Di Battista. Since then, the Belgian musician, settled in Paris has led an eclectic career, multiplied collaborations with vocalists (his friend Huge Coltman amngst others) and regularly puts on his producer's hat. In this 2019 season, Eric Legnini is coming back to the trio, but this time without drums : he will be accompanied by the guitarist Rocky Gresset (a reference on the Gypsy jazz scene) and by Thomas Bramerie (long-time touring partner and very probably the most sought after Parisian bass player) with whom he will present a completely new repertoire. Recorded on September 7, 2019 at the Pierre Boulez Hall - Philharmonie, Jazz à la Villette TV Director, Samuel Thibaut

Géraldine Laurent Quartet Géraldine Laurent (alto saxophone) Paul Lay (piano) Donald Kontomanou (drums) Yoni Zelnik (double bass) Playlist Album, Cooking Recorded at the Maison Nougaro barge from January 25 to January 31st, 2021 TV Director, Patrick Lauze

Judith Jáuregui (piano), Quatuor Gerhard Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904) Piano Quintet no. 2 in A major op. 81 Enrique Granados (1867-1916) Piano Quintet in G minor op. 49 Lille Piano Festival, 12 June 2022

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Keith Jarrett Estival Jazz 1986 Keith Jarrett (piano) Gary Peacock (Bass) Jack DeJohnette (drums) Recorded in 1986, Lugano, Swiss Tv director, Sandro Pedrazzetti

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Manze (conductor) Leds Tows Hall, 17 & 18 September 2021

Turandot "Dramma lirico" in three acts by Giacomo Puccini (1858 - 1924) Libretto by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni after Carlo Gozzi First performance in Milan, Teatro alla Scala, 25 April 1926 Arena di Verona Orchestra & Chorus, Marco Armiliato (Conductor) Ulisse Trabacchin (Chorus Master) Children's choir A.d'A.Mus, Marco Tonini (chorus master) Franco Zeffirelli (Stage Direction, sets) Emi Wada (Costumes), Maria Grazia Garofoli (Choreographic movements), Gaetano Petrosino (Ballet coordinator) Anna Netrebko (Turandot) Yusif Eyvazov (Calaf) Maria Teresa Leva (Liù) Ferruccio Furlanetto (Timur) Carlo Bosi (Imperatore Altoum) Gëzim Myshketa (Ping) Matteo Mezzaro (Pong) Riccardo Rados (Pang) Youngjun Park (Mandarino) Verona, Arena di Verona, 10 August 2022

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Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Lahav Shani (conductor) Chen Reiss (soprano) Richard Strauss 1864 - 1949 Six Orchestral Songs Wiegenlied, op. 41 no. 1 Meinem Kinde, op. 37 no. 3 Ich wollt ein Strausslein binden, op. 68 no. 2 Säus'le liebe Myrthe, op. 68 no. 3 Morgen, op. 27 no. 4 Das Rosenband, op. 36 no. 1 Gustav Mahler 1860 - 1911 Symphony No. 6 in A Minor Rotterdam, de Doelen (Grand Hall), 16 February 2024

Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Rafael Payare (Conductor) Javier Perianes (piano) Alberto Ginastera (1916 - 1983) Variaciones concertantes, op.23 Jimmy López Bellido (born in 1978) Ephemerae, piano concerto Heitor Villa-Lobos (1997 - 1959) Bachianas brasileiras no. 8 Maurice Ravel 1875 - 1937 Bolero Montreal, Maison Symphonique, 23 November 2023 Directed by Benoît Guérin

Segovia at Los Olivos Directed by Christopher Nupen In fact, in Western classical music, the achievement of Andrés Segovia is unique. As a boy in Granada, he was captivated by the variety of tone colours and the wealth of harmonic possibilities of the Spanish guitar and he saw a future for it that nobody had previously even dreamed of. On those seemingly slender beginnings he set out on a remarkable quest. Using the work done by Fernando Sor and Francisco Tarrega in the nineteenth century and adding the compositions of Johann Sebastian Bach, he began to build not only a career for himself, but to lay the foundations of modern guitar technique and the present-day international popularity of the Spanish guitar as a serious musical instrument. Within twenty years, Andrés Segovia had taught himself the instrument, revolutionised the technique and won acceptance for it on the concert platforms of Europe. He spent the next fifty years giving concerts in almost every part of the world and was at various times a resident of the United States, Switzerland and Argentina. At the age of 75, he returned to his native Andalusia with his young wife, Emilita, and built a new home, Los Olivos, on the Costa del Sol as close as he could to Granada. This film is made in the relaxed atmosphere of his new home and in Jaen and Granada where he spent his formative years. The idea is very simple: to give a great man an opportunity of looking back on sixty years of concert life and one of the most unusual contributions to Western music made by any performing musician in the last hundred years. Segovia talks in his inimitable poetic way about what he has tried to do, and plays some of the music most closely associated with him and his extraordinary career.

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Freiburger Barockorchester, RIAS Kammerchor, Rene Jacobs (conductor) Polina Pastirchak (soprano), Sophie Harmsen (contralto), Steve Davislim (tenor), Johannes Weisser (bass) Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) Missa solemnis in D major, op. 123 Recorded at the Philharmonie, Berlin, 13 May 2019 TV Director, Michael Beyer

Wiener Philharmoniker, Riccardo Muti (conductor) Julia Kleiter (soprano), Alisa Kolosova (alto), Michael Spyres (tenor), Günther Groissböck (bass) Ludwig van Beethoven 1770 - 1827 Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, op. 125 Vienna, Musikverein, 7 May 2024

Clowns Directed, choreographed and composed by Hofesh Shechter Performed by Hofesh Shechter Company Chien-Ming Chang, Frédéric Despierre, Rachel Fallon, Mickaël Frappat, Yeji Kim Kim Kohlmann, Erion Kruja, Merel Lammers, Attila Ronai, Diogo Sousa (dancers) Christina Cunningham (costume design) London, Rivoli Ballroom, 2018 Directed by Sebastian Cort

Choreography : Alain Platel Dramaturgy : Hildegard De Vuyst Musical Dramaturgy : Jan Vandenhouwe Les ballets C de la B Choir and Orchestra of the Teatro Real de Madrid Andrés Máspero (Choir Conductor) Marc Piollet (Conductor) Music by Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner Directed for TV by Andreas Morell Teatro Real de Madrid (Madrid, Spain), 2012