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International Conducting Competition Rotterdam 2025

Sonya Yoncheva (soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano) Works by Puccini, Martucci, Tosti, Verdi, Albéniz Rencontres Musicales d’Evian, 30 June 2024

András Schiff (piano), Yuuko Shiokawa (violin), Nobuko Imai (viola), Miklós Perényi (cello) Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897 Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, op. 25 1992 Directed by Janos Darvas

Rivalry in Music – Schönberg vs. Stravinsky At the beginning of the 20th century, two famous composers were at the avant-garde while being at the antipodes: Igor Stravinsky, elegant and sophisticated, who revolutionized rhythm on the one hand – and on the other the intellectual and misanthropic Arnold Schoenberg with his visionary 12-tone technique. What began as a respectful meeting between these two composers soon turned into a bitter rivalry that led to a fundamental debate about progress and truth in music. Directed by Sylvie Kürsten 2021

Carl Nielsen – Between heaven and earth This documentary is intended to draw a psychological portrait of Nielsen, a composer in the turbulent times at the turn of the 20th century and the First World War. Who was this son of a provincial house painter whose workers’ and children’s songs are still commonplace today? Directed by Magdalena Zięba-Schwind

Cappella Mediterranea, Leonardo García Alarcón (musical direction) Ana Vieira Leite (soprano), Mariana Flores (soprano), Léo Fernique (countertenor), Valerio Contaldo (tenor), Matteo Bellotto (bass) Vincenzo Tozzi (1612 – 1679) Qual Suono Roland de Lassus (1532 –1594) Kyrie eleison Anonimo Fermarono i cieli Tommaso Carapella (1665 –1736) Ho vinto, Amor Anonimo U Ciucciu Cataldo Amodei (1650 –1695) Va, ché l’hai fatto a me Anonimo La canzone di Cecilia Sigismondo d’India (1582 –1629) Mercé ! Grido piangendo Pasquale Carroza Amantissime Jesu (Sinfonia) Cataldo Amodei In solitare arene Corrado Bonfiglio Caro amante José Marín (1618- 1699) Ojos, pues me desdeñáis Giovanni M. Trabaci (1575 - 1647) Canzona francesa cromatica Sigismondo d’India Dispietata Pietate Cataldo Amodei La Parca Tirannide Vezzosa Anonimo A riturnella Santiago de Murcia (1673-1739) Tarantela Española Alessandro Scarlatti (1660 –1725) Mori mi dici Sigismondo d’India Piangono al pianger moi Leonardo García Alarcón (1976 - ) Madrigal in 5 in fugue on La Canzone di Cecilia Chantilly, Les Coups de Cœur de Chantilly, 12 October 2025

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 McLeod - Emanouela Merdjanova Isadora Duncan - Erica Horwood La Madame- Nadia Yanowsky MC - Edo Wijnen M. Guimet - Anatole Babenko Lieutenant Ladoux - Roman Artyushkin Aunts- Wendeline Wijkstra, Pascalle Paerel et Hannah de Klein Uncles - Wolfgang Tietze, Peter Leung et Matthew Pawlicki-Sinclair Adam Zelle (Margaretha's father) - Nicolas Rapaic And the Dutch National Ballet Live from Dutch National Opera, Amsterdam TV Director, Jeff Tudor

Martha Argerich, Iddo Bar-Shaï (piano), Maxim Vengerov (violin), Mischa Maisky (cello) Les Siècles, Ion Marin (Conductor) Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921) Carnival of the animals Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) Triple concerto in C major Op. 56 Château de Chantilly, 4 May 2021

Guercœur Opera in three acts by Albéric Magnard 1865 - 1914 Libretto by the composer First performed in Paris, Opéra, 23 April 1931 Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg, Chœur de l’Opéra national du Rhin, Ingo Metzmacher (Conductor) Hendrik Haas (chorus master) Christof Loy (Director) Johannes Leiacker (Set Design), Ursula Renzenbrink (Costumes), Olaf Winter (Lighting) Stéphane Degout (Guercœur) Catherine Hunold (Vérité) Antoinette Dennefeld (Giselle) Julien Henric (Heurtal) Eugénie Joneau (Bonté) Gabrielle Philiponet (Beauté) Adriana Bignagni Lesca (Souffrance) Marie Lenormand (L’Ombre d’une femme) Alysia Hanshaw (L’Ombre d’une vierge) Glen Cunningham (L’Ombre d’un poète) Strasbourg, Opéra du Rhin, 4 May 2024

Wagner´s Jews Richard Wagner was notoriously anti-Semitic, and his writings on Jews were later embraced by Hitler and the Nazis. But for years, many of Wagner‘s closest associates were Jews - young musicians who became personally devoted to him, and provided crucial help to his work and career. Why were they drawn to him? And how could Wagner even accept their embrace? These questions are at the heart of ‘Wagner‘s Jews’, the first film to focus on Wagner‘s complex personal relationships with Jews. Filmed on location in Germany, Switzerland, and Italy, ‘Wagner‘s Jews’ reveals this remarkable story through archival sources, re-enactments, interviews, and performances of original musical works by Wagner‘s Jewish colleagues. Featuring Zubin Mehta and Leon Botstein among others, the film also explores the ongoing controversy over performing Wagner‘s music in Israel. The same questions asked in Wagner‘s time still resonate today: is it possible to separate the art from its creator? Can sublime music transcend prejudice and bigotry, and the weight of history? Directed by Hilan Warshaw 2013

Cappella Mediterranea, Leonardo García-Alarcón (Conductor) Mariana Flores (Soprano) Francesco Cavalli (1602–1676) ‘Mira questi due lumi’ | Le nozze di Teti e di Peleo (1639) ‘Or con pania e con esca’ | Le nozze di Teti e di Peleo ‘Volgi, deh volgi il piede’ | Gli amori di Apollo e Dafne (1640) Sinfonia di viole a 5 | Le nozze di Teti e di Peleo ‘Amanti, se credete’ | Egisto (1643) ‘Aprite, aprite gl’occhi’ | L’Ormindo ‘Udite, amanti’ | Doriclea (1645) ‘A tuo dispetto Amor’ | Scipione affricano (1664) ‘Occhi per pianger nati’ | La virtù dei strali d’Amore (1642) ‘Dell’antro magico’ | Giasone (1649) ‘Dimmi Amor, che farò?’ | Oristeo (1651) ‘Lassa, che far degg’io?’ | Giasone ‘Una stila di speme’ | Ercole amante (1662) ‘Restino imbalsamate’ | La Calisto (1651) ‘Speranze voi che siete’ | Erismena (1655) ‘Ed è pur vero, o core’ | Xerse (1655) ‘Quest’è un gran caso al certo’ | Hipermestra (1658) Sinfonia a 3 (Prologo) |  L’Orione (1653) ‘Menfi, mia patria, regno’ | La Statira (1655) ‘Pur ti stringo, pur t’annodo’ | Eliogabalo (1667) ‘E vuol dunque Ciprigna’ | Ercole amante Directed by John Blanch Bayreuth, Ordenskirche St. Georgen (Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival), 11 September 2025

Berliner Philharmoniker, Kirill Petrenko (conductor) Benjamin Bernheim (ténor) Piotr Tchaikovsky 1840 - 1893 Eugen Onegin, op. 24 | Polonaise - Introduction, Scene and Lensky’s Aria from Act 2 Gabriel Fauré 1845 - 1924 Pelléas et Mélisande, orchestral suite, op. 80| Sicilienne Charles Gounod 1818 - 1893 Roméo et Juliette | L’amour ! (Act 2) Piotr Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet, Fantasy Overture after Shakespeare Jules Massenet 1842 - 1912 Werther | Prelude to Act 1 - Pourquoi me réveiller (Act 3) Georges Bizet 1838 - 1875 L'Arlésienne, Suite No. 2 | Farandole Carmen | La fleur que tu m'avais jetée (Act 2) Emmanuel Chabrier 1841 - 1894 España, Rhapsody for orchestra George Gershwin 1898 - 1937 Cuban Overture Berlin, Philharmonie, 31 December 2025

Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano) Il Pomo d’Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev (conductor) The choir of the music-oriented classes of Puolala School Marie Lambert-Le Bihan (stage director) John Torres (lighting designer) Charles Ives 1874–1954 The Unanswered Question Rachel Portman 1960– The First Morning of the World Gustav Mahler 1860–1911 Ich atmet’ einen linden Duft (from Rückert-Lieder) Marco Uccellini ca. 1603–1680 Sinfonia terza (a cinque stromenti) op. 7 Biagio Marini 1594–1663 Con le stelle in Ciel che mai (from Scherzi e canzone op. 5) Josef Mysliveček 1737–1781 Toglierò le sponde al mare (from the oratorio ‘Adamo ed Eva’) Giovanni Valentini 1582–1649 Sonata enharmonica Francesco Cavalli 1602–1676 Piante ombrose (from the opera ‘La Calisto’) Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714–1787 Danza degli spettri e delle furie: Allegro non troppo | Recitativo accompagnato: Misera, dove son! | Aria: Ah! non son io che parlo (from the opera ‘Orfeo ed Euridice’) George Frideric Handel 1685–1759 As with rosy steps the morn (from the oratorio ‘Theodora’) Gustav Mahler 1860–1911 Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (from Rückert-Lieder) Turku, Concert Hall (Turku Music Festival), 29 August 2024

The Ninth Symhony Maurice Béjart, choreography After Schiller's "Ode to joy" Ludwig van Beethoven, music Maurice Béjart, staging Friedrich Nietzsche, Prologue Gil Roman, artistic director Israel Philharmonic orchestra Zubin Mehta, conductor Ritsuyukai choir Kufiami Kuriyama, chorus master Gil Roman, narratorr Kristin Lewis, soprano Mihoko Fujimura, mezzo-soprano Kei Fukui, tenor Alexander Vinogradov, bass JB Meier and Thierry Hochstätter, percussion Joëlle Roustan abd Roger Bernard, original costumes and sets Henri Davila, costumes adaptation Dominique Roman, Lighting realisation Piotr Nardelli, Ballet Master revival With The Béjart Ballet Lausanne The Tokyo Ballet and Solooists Dan Tsukamoto, Mizuka Ueno, Iori Nittono, Aya Takagi, Kathleen Thielheilm, Masayoshi Onuki, Elisabet Ros, Juien Favreau, Lisa Cano, Fabrice Gallarrague, Pauline Voisard, Felipe Rocha, Oscar Chacon, Keisuke Nasuno, Marsha Rodriguez, Cosima Munoz, Mari Ohashi, Kwinten Guilliams, Aldriana Vargas Lopez, Hector Navarro, Alanna Archibald Recorded on November 9 th 2014 at the NHK Hall Tokyo TV Director, Mari Hnamasu

Lahav Shani, Yulianna Avdeeva (piano), Anton Barakhovsky, Mark Karlinsky (violin), Sara Ferrández (viola), Ivan Karizna (cello) Sergei Rachmaninov Suite for two pianos No. 2, Op. 17 Mieczysław Weinberg Quintet for Piano and Strings in F Minor, Op. 18 Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival 2022

Fidelio Opera in two acts by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) Libretto by Joseph Sonnleitner and Stephan von Breuning First performance in Vienna, Theater and der Wien, 20 November 1805 Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Andrés Orozco Estrada (conductor) Chorus of Dutch National Opera, Edward Ananian-Cooper (Chorus master) Andriy Zholdak (Stage direction, set and lighting design) Andriy Zholdak, Simon Machabeli (Costume design) Andriy Zholdak, Daniel Zholdak (Set design) Etienne Guiol (Video design) Jacquelyn Wagner (Leonore) Eric Cutler (Florestan) James Creswell (Rocco) Nicholas Brownlee (Don Pizarro) Anna El-Khashem (Marzelline) Linard Vrielink (Jaquino) Mark Kurmanbayev (Don Fernando) Amsterdam, Dutch National Opera, 29 June 2024

Born in the United States, Madeleine Peyroux is a jazz singer and guitarist with an unclassifiable style and an exceptional artistic personality, carried by a voice that is both soft and husky, with blues and folk accents. After spending part of her childhood in the United States, she moved to France as a teenager where she joined her first jazz bands. An atypical artist, she performs a lot in the street while participating in festivals and creating her own albums. In 2004, she had an international success with Careless Love. Other albums have been released since, including the recent Anthem (2018), the title of which is taken from a Leonard Cohen song.

Go behind the scenes at the Steinway & Sons factory and discover Spirio, the incredible technology that allows a piano to replay a performance exactly as it was played live. Mr. Guido Zimmermann, the president of the world-famous pianomakers, talks us through the revolutionary concept, accompanied by images of the precise, fascinating craftmanship and engineering that goes into each one of the Spirio pianos. Hugo Cohen Sprung's documentary also allows us insight into French pianist and Steinway artist Bertrand Chamayou's experience with the technology and features a preview of his unique two-piano concert in which he performs with his "shadow"!