In Search of Beethoven
In Search of Beethoven offers a comprehensive documentary about the life and works of the great composer. Over 65 performances by the world's...
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The Exile and Death of Andrei Tarkovsky
A documentary about the life of Andrei Tarkovsky in exile in Western Europe including Italy, Sweden, Germany and France until his sad demise to a...
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The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 1999
The annual New Year’s Eve Concert is one of the highlights in the calendar of every classical music fan in Berlin and beyond. On New Year‘s Eve...
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The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 2000
The annual New Year’s Eve Concert is one of the highlights in the calendar of every classical music fan in Berlin and beyond. On New Year‘s Eve...
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Maurizio Pollini: De main de maître
A unique film portrait of the famous Italian pianist. Maurizio Pollini felt himself that the time had come to submit to the probing of the camera...
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Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 1, 6 & 8
Claudio Abbado conducted Beethoven’s symphonies on many occasions in the Philharmonie in Berlin. But only at the end of his tenure as chief...
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Mahler: Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection” – Lucerne Festival
“It would be hard to find anything greater, more significant or more moving anywhere in musical life today: total harmony of mind and heart, poetry...
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Peter and the Wolf: A Prokofiev Fantasy
A delightful DVD of Prokofiev's universally beloved and popular "musical tale," brought to life by human actors in a fairytale world inhabited by...
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Verdi: Requiem
Live performance of Verdi's Missa da Requiem at the Edinburgh Festival in 1982. An all-star quartet of soloists under the baton of Claudio Abbado...
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Verdi Un Ballo in Maschera
This production from Covent Garden is set in Stockholm, and not Boston. With Reri Grist (Oscar), Placido Domingo (Gustavus), Katia Ricciarelli...
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Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Count Almaviva is in love with Rosina. However, she is currently staying with Dr. Bartolo – who desires to marry her. By using a series of...
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The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 1998
The annual New Year’s Eve Concert is one of the highlights in the calendar of every classical music fan in Berlin and beyond. On New Year‘s Eve...
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Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
Abbado wholly vindicates Verdi’s intentions through his feeling for the shape of a whole scene, for the inherent subtleties of Verdi’s scoring and...
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 - Claudio Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker
Symphony No. 8 is as different musically from the Seventh Symphony as it is close in time since it was finished only five months later. It appears...
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Mahler: Symphony No. 4 / Schoenberg: Pelleas and Melisande
Gustav Mahler's fourth symphony and Pelleas et Melisande by Arnold Schoenberg performed by the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, conducted by Claudio...
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Lucerne Festival: Mahler: Symphony No. 1; Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No.3
The charismatic and inspiring Claudio Abbado and the mesmerising young pianist Yuja Wang, with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, hold the audience...
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Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concertos 1-6
Claudio Abbado conducts the Orchestra Mozart with Giuliano Carmignola, principal violinist, live at the Teatro Municipale Valli, Reggio Emilia...
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 - Claudio Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker
With the Fifth Symphony, the Symphony No. 9 is the most famous piece. Its unusual length, the adjunction of soloists and of choruses, the choice of...
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