MUSICAND BALLET
25 YEARS OF BRÜHL PALACE CONCERTS - Four orchestral suites by Johann Sebastian Bach performed at Augustusburg Castle in Brühl, near Bonn, by the Capella Clementina, conducted by Helmut Müller-Brühl. Each part begins with an introduction to the work of Bach by Israela Margalit.
Part 1: Concerto in A Major for Violin
Part 2: Concerto in E Major for Violin
Part 3: Concerto in D Major for 2 Violins
Part 4: Concerto in D Major for 3 Violins
IN 2387 23 minutes each part
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ART OF BUILDING A HARP (THE) - It takes four months to make a modern orchestra harp. This video shows the most important aspects of harp-building. A harp is also played to demonstrate playing techniques and the variety of sounds produced by the instrument. IN 2344 30 minutes
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BACH: RESOUND YE CAROLS, CANTATA (BWV 172) - From the festival programme the cantata "Erschallet ihr Lieder" by Johann Sebastian Bach (BWV 172) is here recorded on film.
IN 2399 30 minutes
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BELSAZAR - Oratorius by Georg Friedrich Handel, performed by the Hamburg State Opera. Scenery has been transferred to the 20th century and reminds of the persecution of the Jews in Hitler's Germany.
IN 1449 145 Minutes
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BORN 1685: JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH - GEORG FRIEDRICH HANDEL - This film takes Two Royal Commissions: Georg II of England invites Handel to compose the music to celebrate the peace concluded in the treaty of Aix-la Chapelle and the music for the Royal Fireworks. Frederick II of Prussia gives Bach a theme and asks him to elaborate a fugue upon it: The Music Offering. Around this theme, the lives of Bach & Handel are compared and contrasted.
IN 2392 29 minutes
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BRAZILIAN MASS (A) - Misa espiritual dei airto moreira. Conductor: Marcus Silva. Recorded in the church Gross St.Martin in Cologne.
IN 2442 35 minutes
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CHRISTMAS ORATORIO - The Christmas Oratorio via J.S. Bach is one of the popular performances of the world-known "Regensburger Domspatzen" choir. Under the musical direction of its conductor, Hans Martin Schneidt.
IN 2129 32 minutes each
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COLOGNE DANCE FORUM -The Cologne Tanz Forum is one of the well known German ballet ensembles. The video shows scenes from classical and modern ballet.
IN 2268 15 minutes
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DANCING IS NOT A LUXURY-THE MANY FACETS OF MARCIA HAYDEE- This video attempts to draw on the many facets of Marcia Haydée as a dancer and Stuttgart ballet director and dovetail it together into a portrait. Maurice Béjart, John Neumeier and Marcia Haydée herself take an active part in all this.
IN 2485 29 minutes
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DIETRICH FISCHER DIESKAU - THE CONSCIENCE OF VOICE - This video looks at the great German opera singer Dietrich Fischer Dieskau with excerpts from some of his operas and also some scenes away from the stage.
IN 2495 59 minutes
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DON GIOVANNI -
IN 1588 173 minutes
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GERHARD BOHNER - This dancer and choreographer is one of the most interesting outsiders in German ballet. This video included scenes from the only purely abstract work in German ballet, "Triadic Ballet".
IN 2367 20 minutes
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GERMAN CENTRE (THE) - KROLL AND THE PLATZ DER REPUBLIK - This video tells the story of the "Kroll Opera" in Berlin. The building itself has disappeared, only the legend remains. The Reichstag is the only building still standing of the ensemble of constructions that once surrounded the Platz der Republik.
IN 2671 58 minutes
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GESTURE DANCE - Oskar Schlemmer (1888-1943) was a teacher at the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau from 1920 to 1929. At the Bauhaus, he created ballet productions in addition to paintings and reliefs. This video provides a short introduction to Schlemmer's work.
IN 2675 15 minutes
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GISELLE - The new production of "Giselle" at the Württemberg State Theatre in Stuttgart can best be described as a selection of fairy tales from the first half of the 19th century. Barrel organ music and colourfully dressed artists tend to surprise lovers of ballet.
IN 2621 30 minutes
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HANS JÜRGEN VON BOSE -This young German composer was born in Munich in 1953. This video includes interviews with this composer and excerpts from some of his compositions.
IN 2503 17 minutes
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HARALD KREUTZBERG- DANCER AND DANCE POET- Harald Kreutzberg (1902 -1968) was one of the most popular representatives of the German expressionist dance scene. This video presents a biographical portrait, but also centres on rare film footage that was long considered to be lost.
IN 2709 29 minutes
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HARALD KREUTZBERG- "THE ETERNAL CIRCLE" AND "WALPURGIS NIGHT" - This production features two authentic dance documents with Harald Kreutzberg. This film was considered lost for over 30 years.
IN 2711 29 minutes
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HUGUENOTS (THE) -This video presented here as a guide to the opera was recorded at the "Deutsche Oper" in Berlin on 5th September 1991. This video summarizes the opera in short commentaries and shows extracts from the most important scenes.
IN 2702 60 minutes
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JOHANN KRESNIK'S FORCEFUL DANCE THEATRE-Apart from Pina Bausch, Reinhild Hoffmann and Susanne Linke, Johann Kresnik-born in 1939- is the German dance scene's most prominent supporter of the idea of drawing a line between classical ballet and what is known as "dance theatre".
IN 2712 29 minutes
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LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: SYMPHONY #9 - This video shows a live recording of a festival concert on 1 January 1989 in Bonn's Beethovenhalle. The vocal soloists' quartet is performed excellently by Gabriela Benackova (soprano), Hanna Schwarz (alto), John Bröcheler (bass) and Hans-Dieter Bader (tenor)
IN 1512 79 minutes
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MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS & THEIR HISTORY - THE ACCORDION - It was only in the first half of the 19th century that the accordion became a member of the European family of musical instruments. This video traces the history of the accordion and deals with its construction and the way it functions.
IN 2455 30 minutes
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MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS & THEIR HISTORY - THE RECORDER - This video shows illustrations from the revival of the recorder in the 1920's during the German Youth Movement; and now as an important role for concert artists and in amateur and folk music. It also deals with the manufacture of recorders both as a craft and as an industrial procedure.
IN 2454 30 minutes
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PINA BAUSCH AND THE WUPPERTAL DANCE THEATRE - Rehearsals by the well-known Wuppertal ballet company led by choreographer Pina Bausch for a television recording of Stravinsky's "Le Sacré du Printemps"
IN 2099 15 minutes
44624 (VHS)(Eng)
PLAINT OF THE EMPRESS (THE) - This is the first film by choreographer Pina Bausch. The general framework is set be the changing seasons - autumn, winter and spring. The futility of human activity and the search for love make up the film's central theme set against the strains of a Silician funeral march. (Some nudity)
IN 1552 103 minutes
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PORTRAIT OF ROBERT SCHUMANN - This video portrait of Robert Schumann was produced on the occasion of the 1988 Schumann Festival in Dsseldorf, where the composer, shortly before the illness that led to his death in 1856, spent three years as municipal director of music. It presents a selection of Schumann's works.
IN 2603 18 minutes
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REINHILD HOFFMANN - Reinhild Hoffmann, head of the Bremen Ballet Company, advocates a radically modern style of dancing, as does her world famous Wuppertal counterpart Pina Bausch. The video portrays her and features scenes from several of her productions.
IN 2174 11 minutes
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REINHILD HOFFMANN'S DANCE THEATRE - This is a report on choreographer Reinhild Hoffmann and her Bremen dance theatre. Excerpts from her productions "Wedding", "Didi and Aeneas" and "Callas" are shown and Ms. Hoffmann and the company seen at rehearsals.
IN 2358 25 minutes
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REINHILD HOFFMANN - SUSANNE LINKE DANCE THEATRE - They both had the same dance training, at the same time -at the Folkwang Academy in Essen, in the late 1960's- and yet they have gone separate artistic ways; the choreographers and solo dancers Susanne Linke and Reinhild Hoffmann.
IN 2646 29 minutes
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RIVER KILOMETRE 784 - In June 1990, artist Angie Diest staged a performance at the Südbrücke in Cologne. The video represents a film version of the dance performance, the attempt at bringing together the elements dance, music, pictorial art, architecture and video.
IN 2678 19 minutes
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ST. ANTON ORGAN (THE) - Over a four-year restoration and repair period the entire process of production and overhaul of organ pipes is seen, giving an informative insight into the many different phases of the work.
IN 2194 37 minutes
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SEARCH FOR DANCE-PINA BAUSCH'S THEATRE WITH A DIFFERENCE (THE)- Choreographer Pina Bausch has been creating an aesthetic form of resistance for the past 20 years. When she first took up a job as ballet director in Wuppertal company in 1973, she was virtually unknown. In the meantime, she and her company are world famous.
IN 2713 29 minutes
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SIX BRANDENBURG CONCERTS, JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH - Recorded in Schloss Bruehl, the castle of Bruehl between Cologne and Bonn.
IN 1457 103 minutes
45521 (VHS)(No commentary)
SKETCHES ON THE ST. MATTHEW'S PASSION - The climax of the 1980 Hamburg Bach festival was a ballet, choir and orchestra version of Bach's St. Matthew's Passion in the Michaeliskirche. Staged by choreographer John Neumeier, it was the first time the Passion of Christ had ever been taken as the subject of ballet.
IN 2322 49 minutes
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SLEEPING BEAUTY - "One has to believe in fairy tales, because ... what would your life be like?" ... words said by Marcia Haydée, the choreographer for the SLEEPING BEAUTY ballet at the Wuerttemberg State Theatre in Stuttgart.
IN 2620 30 minutes
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SOUNDING BRASS - THE MAKING OF A WIND INSTRUMENT - In a Munich workshop we see the processes involved in making a trumpet. Starting with the mouthpiece we are then shown how the bell, the valves, the tubing and some of the 360-odd components are made and assembled.
IN 2283 30 minutes
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SUSANNE LINKE - Susanne Linke gives us, off camera, a very personal and poignant account of her life. Plus extracts from "Effects", "Metamorphosis", "In the Bathtub" and "Homage to Dore Hoer-Dolor"
IN 2710 57 minutes
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SUSANNE LINKE AND THE FOLKWANG SCHOOL OF DANCE (1982) - For roughly a decade the Folkwang School of Dance in Essen has been a proving ground and talent nursery for young choreographers. Scenes from ballets directed by Susanne Linke with the Folkwang company are shown.
IN 2265 17 minutes
44623 (VHS)(Eng)
SYLVIA PLATH - CHOREOGRAPHIC THEATRE BY JOHANN KRESNIK - Johann Kresnik, born in Austria in 1939, is a founder of modern German ballet. "Sylvia Plath" is a stage version of the last three days in the life of the American poetess, who committed suicide in London in 1963.
IN 2420 27 minutes
44622 (VHS)(Eng)
TOSCA ON THE TRAMPOLINE - In "Tosca on the Trampoline" Viennese actor Otto Schenk tries to demonstrate the complexities of the opera genre using sketches and scenes excerpted from operas. The "Theater an der Wien" in Vienna provides the setting for the sometimes odd yet witty situations that occur.
IN 2414 40 minutes
45493 (VHS)(Eng)
WOLFGANG RIHM - The most successful of the young German composers with 70 compositions to his credit. In this video an interview with Wolfgang and excerpts of some of his compositions.
IN 2504 11 minutes
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YOUTH MAKES MUSIC - The "Youth makes music" competition has been held in Germany for 25 years. Each year, some 10,000 young people take part. This documentary highlights some of the important developments of the last 25 years.
IN 2580 28 minutes
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