Movies: Daniel Barenboim

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The struggles of the world’s Jewish people over the course of several centuries are expressed and explored through the music they inspired in this documentary from the BBC and Opus Arte. We Want the Light brings together harrowing tales from Holocaus...

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This dramatic production by the brilliant German stage director Harry Kupfer marked Daniel Barenboim's appointment as the artistic director of the Berlin State Opera in 1992. The cast is made up of the finest Wagnerian singers of the period, all of w...

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Otto Nicolai: Overture to Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor (The Merry Wives of Windsor) Edward Elgar: Falstaff in C minor, Op. 68 Piotr Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64...

Daniel Barenboim conducts the Berliner Philharmoniker in performances of Beethoven's 'Triple Concerto' and 'Choral Fantasy'. Itzhak Perlman and Yo-Yo Ma are joined by Carola Höhn, Katherina Kammerloher, Andrea Bönig and Endrick Wottrich, amongst othe...

Giuseppe Verdi's powerful opera Macbeth sees a barnstorming staging by legendary stage director Harry Kupfer at the newly reopened Staatsoper Unter den Linden....

In 2005, legendary pianist Daniel Barenboim performed the complete Beethoven piano sonatas over 8 concerts in 2 weeks at the Staatsoper in Berlin. These definitive performances were lavishly filmed and beautifully produced, and are now presented here...

The Bayreuth Festival Opera House mounted this production of Richard Wagner's 1865 opera Tristan und Isolde as part of the Bayreuther Festspiele. Staged by Heiner Müller, it stars Siegfried Jerusalem, Waltraud Meier, Poul Elming and Uta Priew, and fe...

PRELIMINARY EVENINING OF THE RING CYCLE. Upon the banks of the ageless river Rhine, the Rhinemaidens play. Alberich, a Nibelung dwarf, tries vainly to seduce one of them. To taunt him, they reveal their secret: out of the gold they guard one can forg...

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, the Berliner Philharmoniker invite an exceptional soloist for a festive gala. Together, the musicians bid...

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What happens when famous directors stage an opera? Eckhart Schmidt shows successful and failed attempts....

Recorded live at the Frederic R. Mann Auditorium, Tel Aviv, 26 December 2006...

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Mozart: Symphony No. 35, K.385 “Haffner”; Horn concerto No. 1, K.412; Piano concerto No. 22, K.482; Symphony Nr. 36, K.425 “Linz-Symphony”...

With nearly 450 years of tradition, the Staatskapelle Berlin is one of the oldest orchestras in the world. Daniel Barenboim has served as its music director since 1992, and in 2000 the orchestra appointed him Chief Conductor for Life. Having already ...

Guiseppe Verdi: Overture from "La forza del destino" Carlo's recitative and aria from "Don Carlos" Hector Berlioz: Excerpts from "La Damnation de Faust" Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 7 in B minor ("Unfinished") Richard Wagner: Sigmund's aria from "...

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