The celebrated composer and pianist Daniel Barenboim performs very special renditions of Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonatas. Composed between the years 1795 and 1822, Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas represent an extremely important moment in musical history. This intimate performance was recorded in Berlin in September 2020.

The celebrated composer and pianist Daniel Barenboim performs very special renditions of Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonatas. Composed between the years 1795 and 1822, Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas represent an extremely important moment in musical history. This intimate performance was recorded in Berlin in September 2020.

Robert Schumann (1810 – 1856) Kreisleriana, Op. 16 Sergei Rachmaninov (1873 – 1943) Preludes, Op. 23 Directed by Nadia Zhdanova Geneva, Human Rights Chamber at Palais des Nations. United Nations, 22 December 2021

Trio Zadig Astor Piazzolla (1921 – 1992) Las Cuatro estaciones porteñas Toulouse, Maison Nougaro, 2021 Directed by Patrick Lauze

The story of the legendary Hungarian-born conductor. The film portrays Fricsay conducting rehearsals and concert performances of works by Kodaly, Smetana, Dukas and Mozart. Tamas Vasary, Kurt Masur, Yehudi Menuhin and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, all of whom worked closely with him, talk about the man and his artistry. Through a wide array of archival footage, we discover the marvellous technique of this passionate and elegant conductor and the imaginative language he used in order to bring music to life.

Lucky Peterson and the Organization Lucky Peterson | vocal, Hammond organ B3, keyboard & guitar Timothy Waites | bass Raul Valdes | drums Shawn Kellerman | guitar, vocal Rachid Guissous | keyboard Play list Love Of Mine | Shawn Kellerman Funky Broadway | Lucky Peterson Love Me | Lucky Peterson I Pity The Fool | Lucky Peterson It Ain't Safe | S. Carter/G. Jackson Locked Out Of Love/Cold Shot/Mary Had A Little Lamp | Lucky Peterson Johnny B. Goode | Charles Edward "Chuck" Berry Voodoo Chile | Jimi Hendrix I Believe I'll Dust My Broom | Elmore James Them changes | Buddy Miles Superstition | Stevie Wonder Zugabe: Proud Mary/ Boogie-Woogie Blues Joint Party Recorded on March 30, 2019 at the Burghausen Jazz Festival TV Director, Susanne Sammet

Bachar Mar-Khalifé (piano, vocals) Marcel Khalifé (vocals) Sary Khalifé (cello) Anthony Millet (accordion) Karim Attoumane (guitar) Jérôme Arrighi (bass) Dogan Poyraz (drums) Festival Jazz à Vienne, 2022

Airelle Besson quartet – Radio One Airelle Besson, trumpet Isabel Sörling, lyric Benjamin Moussay, piano, Fender Rhodes Fabien Moreau, Drums Recorded on June16, 2019 at the Philharmonie de Paris TV Director, Josselin Carré

Roberto Fonseca (keyboard, piano, vocals) Yandy Martinez (bass, double bass) Ruly Herrera (drums) Nancy Jazz Pulsation Festival Nancy, 2021 Recorded under the marquee of Nancy Jazz Pulsations, October 12, 2021 Directed by Sylvain Pierrel

Al di Meola Al di Meola, guitar Fausto Beccalossi, accordEon Kemuel Roig, piano Gabor Csonka, violIn Lazlo Nyari, vioLIn Gyula Benko, viola Andras Sturcz , Cello Play list Azzurra | Al di Meola Milonga Noctiva | Al di Meola Mawazine | Al di Meola Brave New World | Al di Meola Frozen in Time | Al di Meola Turquoise | Al di Meola Mediterranean Sundance | Al di Meola Recorded on March 28, 2019 at the Burghausen Jazz Festival TV Director, Susanne Sammet

Rokia Traoré | Rubén Pellejero Rokia Traoré, chant Mamadyba Camara, Kora Mamah Diabaté, N'goni Every year, the Angoulême Festival proposes to a comic strip author to create the Jazz à Vienne poster, and the two festivals offer a creative comic concert that mixes music and comic strips. Both festivals offer a creative comic concert that will mix music and comic strips, bringing together a cartoonist and a musician, who express themselves live with their own "tools" to compose a hybrid work. This particular comic concert brings together the singer Rokia Traoré and the cartoonist Rubén Pellejero. Recorded on January 26, 2018 at the Festival d'Angoulème TV Director, Samuel Thiebaut

Musical interludes on Mezzo TV: a channel dedicated to bringing you the best performances from opera, classical, dance and jazz. Intermezzo is a chance to see some of the world's most renowned conductors and musicians performing beautiful pieces.

Erik Truffaz Quartet feat. Rokia Traoré Erik Truffaz, trumpet Rokia Traoré, song Benoît Corboz, claviers Marcello Giuliani, bass Arthur Hnatek, drum kit Is it still necessary to present him? A Slender figure, straight hair with a white beard, Erik Truffaz has marked the history of European jazz with at least two albums: The Dawn and Bending New Corners. Hip-hop, jungle rhythms and a timbre similar to that of Miles Davis: a cocktail that you just can't get enough of. The Swiss trumpet player, who has often taken an interest in non-western music, is making a comeback today – after a series of more pop style records with various singers including Sophie Hunger – this time with a new recording which is looking towards Africa: Doni Doni. Clearly in love with women's voices, he has invited Malian singer Rokia Traoré into the studio, who will of course be there for this stylistically very open-minded evening. Recorded on Sptember, 2016 at the Festival Jazz à la Villette TV Director, Giuseppe De Vecchi

Berliner Philharmoniker, Riccardo Muti (conductor) Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks Elina Garanca (mezzo-soprano), Vittoria Yeo (soprano), Francesco Meli (tenor), Ildar Abdrazakov (bass) Giuseppe Verdi (1813 – 1901) Messa da Requiem Recorded at the Festspielhaus, Baden-Baden, 14 & 20 April 2019 Directed by Nele Münchmeyer

Musical interludes on Mezzo TV: a channel dedicated to bringing you the best performances from opera, classical, dance and jazz. Intermezzo is a chance to see some of the world's most renowned conductors and musicians performing beautiful pieces.

Lulu Opera in a prologue and three acts by Alban Berg (1885 – 1935) (completed by Friedrich Cerha) Libretto by Alban Berg after Franz Wedekind's plays "Erdgeist" and "Die Büchse der Pandora" First performance in Zürich, Stadtheater, 2 June 1937 The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus, Lothar Koenigs (Conductor) William Kentridge (Stage Director) Catherine Meyburgh (Production Designer) Sabine Theunissen (Sets), Greta Goiris (Costumes), Urs Schönebaum (Lighting) Marlis Petersen (Lulu) Johan Reuter (Dr. Schön | Jack the Ripper) Susan Graham (Countess Geschwitz) Daniel Brenna (Alwa) Franz Grundheber (Schigolch) Martin Winkler (Animal Tamer | Acrobat) Paul Groves (Painter | African Prince) James Courtney (Physician | Professor | Policeman) Alan Oke (Prince | Manservant | Marquis) Elizabeth DeShong (Dresser | Schoolboy | Page) Julian Close (Theater Manager | Banker) Tyler Duncan (Journalist) Paul Corona (Servant) Kathryn Day (Designer) Ashley Emerson (Girl) Jane Shaulis (Mother) Recorded at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, 9 November 2015

Musical interludes on Mezzo TV: a channel dedicated to bringing you the best performances from opera, classical, dance and jazz. Intermezzo is a chance to see some of the world's most renowned conductors and musicians performing beautiful pieces.

Daniel Barenboim (piano), Staatskapelle Berlin String Quartet Robert Schumann (1810 – 1856) Fantasiestücke op. 12 (Des Abens – Warum? – Traumes Wirren) Piano Quintet Op. 44 Recorded at the Pierre Boulez Saal, Berlin, 24 April 2020

A student of Darius Milhaud and Luciano Berio, musician Steve Reich (born 1936) quickly developed a style all his own inspired by Baroque music, Bartók, Webern and Stravinsky, as well as jazz, traditional music (especially African), and Hebrew cantillation. As a trailblazing exponent of minimalist music, Reich rejected the characteristic complexity of mid-20th-century classical harmony and tonality in order to make large-scale works from minimal materials a single chord, a brief musical motif, a spoken exclamation – thereby reconciling classical and popular music. In this profile he looks back on the key stages of his 40-years lasting career, from the formation of his own group, Steve Reich and Musicians, to the American avant-garde he helped to create, from new video performances to his quasi-religious music. Despite his success and wide recognition Steve Reich has never renounced his independent spirit. This film is about the artist and his music. From the analogue tapes of his first recorded pieces to current technology of sampling and video. We see him at work and clips from his performances and concerts in Le Havre, Tokyo, Rome, New York and Manchester.

Two Suns Ballet in two acts, creation & choreography by Roudolf Kharatian, Based on a poem by Grigor Narekatsi "The bool of Lamentations" Music, Armenian composers from 4th to 21th century : Mesrop Mashtots, Grigor Narekatsi, Aram Khachaturian, Alan Hovhaness, Arno Babjanyan, Avet Terterian et Ashot Ariyan Sets & costumes, Astghik Stepanyan Hip Hop Choreography, Hovhannes (Jungle) Howhannisyan With Jonathan Jordan (Narekatsi), Garegin Baelyan (Arshile Gorky), Maria Lakka (Toros Roslin), Hovhannes Hovhannisyan (Narrator), Sona Kharatian (Holy Mother), Sayaka Wakita (Faith), Nicole Fedorov (Hope), Marie Garnier (Love), Sayaka Wakita (The Girl) and the corps de ballet Hip Hop Dancers Hovhannes Hovhannisyan, Gegham Tadevosyan, Gor Karapetyan, Karen Tchagharyan, Hovhannes Minasyan Recorded on June 2015 at The Opera and Ballet Theater of Armenia TV Director, Jeff Kalousdian

London Symphony Orchestra, Barbara Hannigan (conductor & soprano) Olivier Messiaen (1908 – 1992) L'Ascension Gustav Mahler (1860 – 1911) Symphony No 4 London, Barbican Hall, 12 March 2023

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor) Mitsuko Uchida (piano) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791) Piano concerto no 23 in A major, KV 488 Anton Bruckner (1824 – 1896) Symphony no 6 in A major Recorded on December 14, 2018 at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam Directed by Joost Honselaar

Orchestre Prométhée, Pierre-Michel Durand (conductor) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791) Le Nozze di Figaro – Deh vieni non tardar (Susanna) Yaritza Veliz (soprano, Chile) Gaetano Donizetti (1797 – 1848) Lucia di Lammermoor – Verranno a te sull'aure (Edgardo/Lucia) David Astorga/Julia Sitkovetsky Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 – 1908) The Tsar's Bride – Suma neydot krasavitsa (Griaznoi) Benjamin Lewis (baritone, UK) Vincenzo Bellini (1801 – 1835) La Somnambula – Ah non credea mirarti (Amina) Mélissa Petit (soprano, France) Francesco Cilea (1866 – 1950) Adriana Lecouvreur – Acerba volluta (Pincipessa di Bouillon) Zlata Khershberg (mezzo-soprano, Israel) Gaetano Donizetti L'Elisir d'amore – Voglio dire (Nemorino/Dulcamara) Shan Huang/Jérôme Boutillier Piotr Ilitch Tchaikovsky (1840 – 1893) The Queen of Spades – Ya vas Lyublyu (Yetleski) Ilya Kutyukhin (baritone, Russia) Gioachino Rossini (1792 – 1868) La Cenerentola – Nacqui all'affanno (Angelina) Lilly Jørstad (mezzo-soprano, Norway) Gaetano Donizetti Don Pasquale – Cerchero lontana terra (Ernesto) Shan Huang (tenor, China) Wolfgang Amadeus Don Giovanni – Ah taci ingiusto cor (Elvira, Don Giovanni, Leporello) Julia Sitkovetsky/Bejamin Lewis/Jérôme Boutillier Giuseppe Verdi (1813 – 1901) C'est moi, Carlos... C'est mon jour suprême ... Ah ! Je meurs (Rodrigue) Jérôme Boutillier (baritone, France) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Die Zauberflöte – Der hölle Rache (Queen of the Night) Julia Sitkovetsky (soprano, UK) Ambroise Thomas (1811 – 1896) Hamlet -Allez dans un cloître (Reine, Ophélie, Hamlet) Zlata Khershberg/Mélissa Petit/Benjamin Lewis Giuseppe Verdi La Traviata – Lunge da lei (Alfredo) David Astorga (tenor, Costa Rica) Gaetano Donizetti La Favorite – Pour la fête (Alphonse XI, Leonor de Guzmann) Ilya Kutyukhin/Zlata Khershberg Gaetano Donizetti Lucia di Lammermoor – Chi frena in tal momento Tutti Recorded 18 January 2019 at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris TV Director, Patrick Savey

Staatskapelle Dresden, Antonio Pappano (Conductor) Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943) Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27 Dresden, Semperoper, 2018 Directed by János Darvas