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Carla Bley (clavier) Estival Jazz Steve Swallow (bass) Wayne Krantz (guitar) Victor Lewis (drums) Larry Willis (piano) Don Alias (drums) Recorded in 1986, Lugano Swiss Tv director, Sandro Pedrazzetti (Senderinfo).

Milt Jackson; Ray Brown 4tet Jazz Estival Milt Jackson (vibraphone) Stanley Turrentine (saxophone) Ray Brown (doublebass) Cedar Walton (piano) Mickey Roker (drums) Recorded in 1986, Lugano, Swiss Tv director, Sandro Pedrazzetti (Senderinfo).

Wenzel Fuchs (clarinette), Elena Bashkirova (piano) Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897 Clarinet Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 120 1996 Directed by Jean-Claude Piroué (Senderinfo).

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Prix de Lausanne 2024 – Rising Stars Rising Stars is a dance performance bringing together Madison Young and Julian MacKay, former Prize Winners of the Prix de Lausanne, as well as the finalists and freshly designated Prize Winners of the 2024 edition. Also featured are the winning variations of the Young Creation Award and the Choreographic Project, this year under the direction of choreographer

Martha Argerich (piano), Lahav Shani (piano) Sergei Prokofiev (1891 – 1953) Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25 "Classical" (version for two pianos) Sergei Rachmaninov (1873 – 1943) Suite for two pianos No. 2, Op. 17 Maurice Ravel (1875 – 1937) Ma mère l'Oye (Mother Goose), version for piano four hands La valse (for two pianos) Johann Sebastian Bach/György Kurtág Cantata "Gottes Zeit ist der Zeit al

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Lakmé Opera in three acts by Léo Delibes (1836 – 1891) Libretto by Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille after Pierre Lotti First performance in Paris, Opéra Comique, April 14, 1883 Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera of Wallonia-Liège, Frédéric Chaslin (Conductor) Davide Garattini Raimondi, Marie Neyrinck (Stage direction) Paolo Vitale (Sets, Lights), Arnaud Doffagne (Lights), Giada Masi (Costum

Musical interludes: a chance to see some of the world's most renowned conductors and musicians performing beautiful pieces. (Senderinfo).

Evgeny Kissin (piano) Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D minor, BWV903 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Piano Sonata in D major, K311 (K284c) Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) Polonaise, Op. 44 No. 5 Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) Lilacs, Op. 21 No. 5 Prelude in A minor, Op. 32 No. 8 Prelude in G flat major, Op. 23 No. 10 Etudes-Tableaux, Op. 39 Vienna, Musikverein, M

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

The Waltz King Directed by Rupert Edwards The waltz, a popular 19th-century dance craze, is the focus of this docu-drama. It explores the rivalry between father and son composers, Johann Strauss Senior and Junior, who both held the title of "The Waltz King." (Senderinfo).

Zoltán Kocsis (piano) Virtuosi de Praha, Jirí Belohlávek (conductor) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791 Piano Concerto no. 23 in A Major KV 488 1990 Directed by Janos Darvas (Senderinfo).

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis (conductor) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791 Serenade No. 11 in E-flat major, K. 375 Bassoon Concerto in B-flat major, K. 191 Serenade No. 2 in D major 'Posthorn Serenade', K. 320 Directed by Hugo Käch Munich, Herkulessaal, 12, 14 et 15 March 1991 (Senderinfo).

Mata Hari Choreography by Ted Brandsen Libretto by Janine Brogt Music by Tarik O'Regan Dutch Ballet Orchestra Matthew Rowe, conductor Sets, Lights, Clement & Sanôu Costume, François-Noël Cherpin With Mata Hari; Margaretha – Anna Tsygankova Rudolph McLeod – Casey Herd General Kiepert – Jozef Varga Vadime de Masloff – Artur Shesterikov Shiva – Young Gyu Choi Temple Dancer- Wen Ting Guan Frieda McLeo

Avishai Cohen Quintet Avishai Cohen (double bass, bass, vocals) Yonatan Voltzok (trombone) Yuval Drabkin (saxophone) Itay Simhovich (piano) Roni Kaspi (drums) Jazz in Marciac, July 24, 2024 (Senderinfo).

Richter, the Enigma Prokofiev's 9th Sonata was dedicated to him, he played at Stalin's funeral with Oistrakh and Rostropovitch and accompanied Schwarzkopf and Fischer-Dieskau: Sviatoslav Richter was THE Soviet pianist par excellence. This portrait, illustrated with rare and unpublished archival documents from the 1950s to the artist's death, gives a view of life in Soviet Russia from the perspecti

André Midani: An Insider's Story of Brazilian Music Based on his autobiography, this unique session of intimate conversations reveals the key events in the history of Brazilian music through the eyes of André Midani, who helped shape the Brazilian music scene like no other from the 1950s to the new millennium. With Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Marisa Monte, Chico Buarque, Frejat, Jorge Ben Jor, E

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Klaus Mäkelä (Conductor) Chen Reiss (soprano) Felix Mendelssohn (1809 – 1847) The Hebrides (Fingal's cave) Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn (1805 – 1847) Hero und Leander Felix Mendelssohn Scherzo from 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' Felix Mendelssohn Infelice Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827) Symphony No. 3 "Eroica" Amsterdam, Concertgebouw, 25 December 2023 (Senderinfo).

Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) Singspiel by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791) Libretto by Emmanuel Schikaneder First performance in Vienna, Theater auf der Wieden, 30 September 1791 Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Jörn Hinnerk Andresen (Chorus Master) Wiener Philharmoniker, Joana Mallwitz (Conductor) Lydia Steier (Stage Director) Katharina Schlipf (Sets), Ursula Kudrna (Costumes)

Accident: A family portrait Vilde Frang violin; Francesca Amante, Nataša Novotná, Maja Dworak Strømgren, Line Tørmoen, Viktor Konvalinka, Václav Kuneš, Jo Strømgren, Rostislav Novák Sen. (dead man) Eugène-Auguste Ysaÿe: 6 Sonatas for solo violin In 'Accident', death comes unexpectedly and abruptly to a family that has recently been challenged by the pater familia's marriage to a younger woman. Whe

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Orchestre de Paris, Lahav Shani (conductor) Kirill Gerstein (piano) Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Piano Concerto No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 19 Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64 Paris, Philharmonie, 14 December 2022 (Senderinfo).

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 (Senderinfo).

Miklós Perényi (cello), Zoltán Kocsis (piano) Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897 Sonata for piano and violoncello in E minor No. 1, op. 38 Sonata for piano and violoncello in F major No. 2, op. 99 1990 Directed by Janos Darvas (Senderinfo).

Musical interludes: a chance to see some of the world's most renowned conductors and musicians performing beautiful pieces. (Senderinfo).

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Santtu-Matias Rouvali (conductor) Omar Tomasoni (trumpet) Anna Thorvaldsdottir (born 1977) Metacosmos Ennio Morricone (1928 – 1920) UT (trumpet concerto) Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 – 1975) Symphony No. 15 in A major Op. 141 Directed by Ferenc Soeteman Amsterdam, Concertgebouw, 24 March 2023 (Senderinfo).

Súlkary Choreography: Eduardo Rivero Identidad -1 Choreography: George Céspedes El cristal Choreography: Julio César Iglesias Ugo Danza Contemporánea de Cuba Directed by Violette de l'Isle Adam La Havana, Teatro Nacional de Cuba, 29 June 2024 (Senderinfo).

La Fille du régiment "Opéra-comique" in two acts from 1797-1848 Libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Jean-François Bayard First performance in Paris, Opéra-Comique, February 11, 1840 Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice, Stefano Ranzani (conductor) Coro del Teatro La Fenice, Alfonso Caiani (Chorus Master) Renaud Doucet, André Barbe (Stage direction, costumes, sets) Guy Simard (Lighting) M

Berliner Philharmoniker, Simon Rattle (conductor) Gustav Mahler (1860 – 1911) Symphony No. 6 in A minor Recorded on June 20, 2018, at the Philharmonie, Berlin TV Director, Michael Beyer (Senderinfo).

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla (Conductor) Gabriela Montero (piano) Raminta Šerkšnytė (born in 1975) De Profundis (Dutch premiere) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 Mieczyslaw Weinberg Symphony No. 3 Amsterdam, Concertgebouw, 21 April 2023 (Senderinfo).

Michael League (bass) Bill Laurance, Bobby Sparks II, Shaun Martin (piano) Mike "Maz" Maher, Justin Stanton, Jay Jennings (trumpets) Bob Lanzetti, Mark Lettieri, Chris McQueen (guitars) Chris Bullock, Bob Reynolds (saxophones) Zach Brock (violin) Nate Werth, Marcelo Woloski, Keita Ogawa, Larnell Lewis (drums) A to Jazz Festival, Sofia, 2022 (Senderinfo).

Wenzel Fuchs (clarinet), Elena Bashkirova (piano) Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897 Clarinet Sonata No. 2 in E-flat major, op. 120 1996 Directed by Jean-Claude Piroué (Senderinfo).

Musical interludes: a chance to see some of the world's most renowned conductors and musicians performing beautiful pieces. (Senderinfo).

Le Rossignol (The Nightingale) Lyric tale in three acts (scenes) by Igor Stravinsky (1882 – 1971) Libretto by Stepan Mitusov after the tale by Hans Christian Andersen First performance in Paris, Opéra, 26 May 1914 Les Mamelles de Tirésias ('The Breasts of Tiresias'). "Opéra bouffe" in a prologue and two acts by Francis Poulenc (1899 – 1963) Libretto by Francis Poulenc after Guillaume Apollinaire's

L'Heure espagnole "Comédie musicale" in one act and 21 scenes by Maurice Ravel 1875 – 1937 Libretto by Franc-Nohain (Maurice Étienne Legrand) based on his comedy of the same name (1904) Premiered in Paris, Opéra Comique, 19 May 1911 L'Enfant et les sortilèges "Fantaisie lyrique" in two parts by Maurice Ravel Libretto by Colette Premiered in Monte-Carlo, Théâtre de l'Opéra, 21 March 1925 Orchestre

Evgeny Kissin (piano) Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D minor, BWV903 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Piano Sonata in D major, K311 (K284c) Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) Polonaise, Op. 44 No. 5 Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) Lilacs, Op. 21 No. 5 Prelude in A minor, Op. 32 No. 8 Prelude in G flat major, Op. 23 No. 10 Etudes-Tableaux, Op. 39 Vienna, Musikverein, M

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

Electronic Vibrations – A sound changes the world Whether techno or hip-hop – electronic music is nowadays the driving force of pop culture. We have almost forgotten that its origins lie in the WDR's electronic studio, which made Cologne to one of the centres of the avant-garde during the post-war years. This is the story of how a room full of strange devices would become a cabinet of curiosities,

Yoav Levanon (piano) Felix Mendelssohn (1809 – 1847) Variations sérieuses Op.54 Robert Schumann (1810 – 1856) Fantaisie in C, Op.17 Franz Liszt (1811 – 1886) Sonata in B minor S.178 George Gershwin (1898 – 1937) Rhapsody in Blue Paris, Louis Vuitton Foundation, 12 November 2021 (Senderinfo).

Musical interludes: a chance to see some of the world's most renowned conductors and musicians performing beautiful pieces. (Senderinfo).

Betroffenheit Crystal Pite (choreography) Music by Owen Belton, Alessandro Juliani & Meg Roe Kidd Pivot, Electric Company Theatre Jay Gower Taylor — Stage design Tom Visser — Lighting Nancy Bryant — Costumes Linda Chow — Costumes Nicola Ryall — Costumes Bryan Arias — Dancer David Raymond — Dancer Cindy Salgado — Dancer Jermaine Spivey — Dancer Tiffany Tregarthen — Dancer Jonathon Young — Actor Hei

La grande danza – Aterballetto in Milan Choreographies by Jiří Pokorny (Words & Space), Giuseppe Spota (Narcissus), Philippe Kratz (Phoenix) Aterballetto is the principal producing and touring dance company in Italy. They are well-known for their ability to shift their style across a wide range of musical genres, from classical to pop and jazz. Jiří Pokorny's "Words and Space" is a metaphor of an

Das Rheingold Prologue in 1 act of "Der Ring des Nibelungen" by Richard Wagner (1813 – 1883) Libretto by Richard Wagner Munich, Königliches Hof- und National Theater, 22 September 1869 Philharmonia Zürich Gianandrea Noseda (Direction) Andreas Homoki (Stage direction) Christian Schmidt (Set and Costume Design), Franck Evin (Lighting design) Tomasz Konieczny (Wotan) Xiaomeng Zhang (Donner) Omer Kobi

Franco Ambrosetti Quintet, Estival Jazz, Franco Ambrosetti (Saxhorn) George Gruntz (piano) Steve Coleman (saxophone) J.F Clark (bass) Daniel Humair (drums) Recorded in 1985, Lugano, Swiss Tv director, Sandro Pedrazzetti (Senderinfo).

Mc Coy Tyner trio Estival Jazz 1985 Mc Coy Tyner (piano) Louis Hayes (drums) Avery Sharte (doublebass) Recorded in 1985, Lugano, Swiss TV director, Sandro Pedrazzetti (Senderinfo).

Jon Hendricks & co Estival Jazz 1986 Jon Hendricks (Bandleader, sing) Clifford Barbaro (drums) Cyrus Chestnut (Piano) Kevin Burke (Choral) Marcus McLaurine (Doublebass) Judith Hendricks (Choral) Aria Hendricks (Choral) Recorded in 1986, Lugano, Swiss TV director, Sandro Pedrazzetti (Senderinfo).