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Arnold Schönberg: Pierrot lunaire Robert Schumann: Dichterliebe CHRISTINE SCHÄFER SPECIAL Stage Director: A film by Oliver Herrmann Running Time: 126 (including interview 45 min) min Picture Format 16:9 Release Date: 2002 Subtitle languages: D, GB, F, SP 26,50 Euro (Region Code 0) |
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| This double
programme with singer Christine Schäfer offers classical music in
a new visual context: In the film One Night. One Life (1999), based on the cycle Pierrot Lunaire, Arnold Schönberg’s opus 21, director Oliver Herrmann has created a surreal, at times grotesque dream world set in a modern city, through which Pierrot (Christine Schäfer) moves like a spirit. In each new number she passes through different scenes and levels of the world around us: such as an abattoir, a peep-show, a station or a supermarket. In Dichterliebe (2000), a film by Oliver Herrmann based on Robert Schumann’s song-cycle of the same name, the boundaries between song recital and reality blur. The chosen setting – a night club in the centre of Berlin – creates the intimate, dark salon atmosphere in which the songs might also have been performed at the time they were written. Returning to origins in this way, the film departs from the concert atmosphere in which song-recitals are normally performed nowadays. Cast: Christine Schäfer (soprano), Natascha Osterkorn (piano) This DVD is enhanced by a 45-minute interview in which Christine Schäfer speaks about her life, career and understanding of classical music. |
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Igor Stravinsky. The Final Chorale Arnold Schönberg. Five Orchestral Pieces Regie: Frank Scheffer Running Time: 104 min Picture Format: 4:3 Sound Format: Dolby Digital 2.0 Release Date: 2005 Menu languages: GB Subtitle languages: D, GB, F, NL, SP, JP 20,30 Euro (Region Code 0) |
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| Written in 1909, Five Orchestral Pieces is one of Arnold Schönberg's most famous compositions, representing the revolutionary step from tonal to atonal music. In the composer's own words, it was just "No architecture, no build up, just an uninterrupted flow of colours, rhythm and moods". Conductor Michael Gielen rehearses and performs Schönberg's op. 16 with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic. Each of the five movements is interpreted with intervies of Gielen, Carl Schorkse and Charles Rosen who discuss various aspects of Schönberg's life and works. Rosen also performs the last movement of Schönberg's Three Piano Pieces, op. 11. |
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Arnold Schoenberg: Moses und Aron Live Recording from the Vienna State Opera Running Time: 110 min + 24 min interview Picture Format: 16:9 Sound Format: DTS 5.1 / DD 5.1 / PCM Stereo Release Date: 2006 Menu languages: D, GB, F, SP Subtitle languages: D, GB, F, SP, IT 34,20 Euro (Region Code 0) |
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| Cast: Franz Grundheber (Moses), Thomas Moser (Aron), Ildikó Raimondi (Ein junges Maedchen), Janina Baechle (Eine Kranke), Peter Jelosits (Ein junger Mann, Juengling), Morten Frank Larsen (Ein anderer Mann), Georg Tichy (Ephraimit), Axexandru Moisiuc (Ein Priester); Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera; Stage Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera; Vienna State Opera Chorus; Extra-chorus of the Vienna State Opera; Slovak Philharmonic Chorus; Daniele Gatti (conductor), Reto Nickler (stage direction), Norbert Balatsch, Janko Kastelic (chorus masters), Wolfgang Gussmann (set design & costumes), Susana Mendoza (costumes); directed fot TV by Claus Viller |
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