Triegel meets Cranach TrailerArnold Schönberg - Der rastlose Visionär TrailerRiccardo Chailly & Alexander Malofeev Lucerne Festival 2024 Trailer
Paul Smaczny is a German-based documentary film-maker and a producer of concert and opera recordings. His latest work is the award-winning Knowledge is the Beginning, about the West-Eastern Divan orchestra.
Total trailers found: 35
26 November 2005
Live performance from Oper Leipzig, 26 November 2005.
04 November 2019
Live performance from 2018 of the unfinished work by composer Charles Ives. Inspired by the potential of the work, director Christoph Marthaler, stage designer Anna Viebrock and conductor Titus Engel joined forces to stage a performance of Ives' incomplete project, originally intended for more than 4,000 musicians, at the arts festival Ruhrtriennale in 2018.
19 June 2020
Shakespeare’s play “Romeo and Juliet” has inspired generations of artists to adaptations like scarcely any other work.
08 September 2015
He is the most performed contemporary composer in the world. And yet he rarely ventures out in public, prefers to keep quiet about his music, feels at home in the forests of Estonia and generates therewith - perhaps involuntarily - the impression of a recluse, which is attributed to him again and again: Arvo Part.
16 December 2008
El Sistema is a network of childrens and youth orchestras, music centres and workshops in Venezuela, in which more than 250,000 children and young people are currently learning to play an instrument.
13 February 2021
Franz Schubert's "Winterreise" is considered the pinnacle of German art song. Hans Zender (1936 - 2019) arranged the cycle in 1993, and his version for tenor and small orchestra brings to light emotions that pulsate beneath the surface in Schubert.
01 May 2006
The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra’s annual summer concert at the Waldbühne in Berlin is legendary�
01 January 2007
If Daniel Barenboim is not the world's greatest living classical musician he is certainly the most versatile.
01 January 2018
Music is not "just" music. It can have immense power in good or evil. This documentary by Maria Stodtmeier and Isa Willinger highlights interesting and very current themes about the links between music and politics.
01 July 2009
Gustav Mahler's fourth symphony and Pelleas et Melisande by Arnold Schoenberg performed by the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, conducted by Claudio Abbado.
01 January 2009
The 250th anniversary of George Frideric Handel’s death takes place on April 14th, 2009. This outstanding British-German performance in Handel’s baptistery, the Market Church in Halle, represents the media highlight of the Handel Year.
01 January 2004
Boulez rehearsing with the Berlin Philharmonic
24 March 2017
When a woman steps onto the conductor's podium, she is always one of the first: the first to lead a world-class orchestra, the first to conduct the closing night of London's Proms, the first to win the German Conductor Prize.
08 September 2015
Adam’s Passion is the moving first collaboration between two “masters of slow motion who harmonize perfectly with each other” (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung).
01 May 2001
Mariss Jansons conducts the Berliner Philharmoniker in the 2001 edition of the Europakonzert, filmed live at the Hagia Eirene in Istanbul on 1 May 2001.
24 September 2024
On the shores of Lake Lucerne, Riccardo Chailly and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra continue their Rachmaninov odyssey with the Symphonic Movement, a rarely performed piece, as well as the Symphonic Dances and the Scherzo in D minor.
14 November 2012
A sonic innovator or an expert on chance? This documentary by Oscar-winning director Allan Miller and Emmy-winner Paul Smaczny pays tribute to the most fascinating American avant-garde composer.
24 September 2003
World-renowned maestro Claudio Abbado opens up about his life and work in this profile that effectively combines images of the conductor in rehearsal and in concert and interviews with friends, colleagues and Abbado himself.
21 June 2020
Ludwig van Beethoven is far more than just an epitome of European culture: he has become a synonym for classical music, much like the Beatles for pop or Picasso for modern art.
13 September 2019
Clara Schumann led an almost cinematic life as the daughter of a strict and ambitious father, as an internationally extremely successful pianist, as the wife of a famous composer and as the mother of seven children.
18 May 2019
Barbara Hannigan is a renowned soprano and exceptionally talented artist and musician from Canada, who recently has begun an international career as conductor.
25 August 2005
Knowledge is the Beginning is the story of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, where young Arabs and Jews perform and live side by side.
01 January 1996
Shot over a two-year period observing Abbado: a) Rossini, Overture to 'll Barbiere di Siviglia' b) Schubert, Symphony no.
27 October 2008
Claudio Abbado conducts the Orchestra Mozart with Giuliano Carmignola, principal violinist, live at 7
22 September 2019
The Unanswered Ives is the first film about Charles Ives (1874-1954), an American modernist composer, one of the first American composers of international renown.
16 September 2008
In summer 2007 the New York Philharmonic received an invitation that was unprecedented in the orchestra's history.
12 January 2017
The Triple Concerto is one of Beethoven's less frequently performed works - probably also because it requires three soloists and makes considerable demands on them.
16 February 2012
"Die Thomaner" is one of the most prestigious youth choirs in the world. This documentary follows these promising talented choristers for over a year during their demanding artistic life full of pressure and success.
23 February 2018
Recorded live at the Gewandhaus zu Leipzig in May 2017, this release features a delightful concert by the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and conductor Andris Nelsons.
26 September 2021
This unique production of Carl Maria von Weber’s ‘Der Freischütz’ was created to celebrate both the piece’s 200th premiere anniversary at Konzerthaus Berlin and the 200th anniversary of the famed concert hall itself.
01 January 2017
Midori, in her search for authenticity,visits the places where Bach's compositions originated. Exploring the castle of Köthen, where Bach wrote the Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin,she fills the historical rooms with the sound of these masterpieces.
02 September 2013
Mozart did not write the Requiem as despairing funeral music for his impending death. Rather, the piece proclaims eternal light and redemption.
