In March 2012 the St. Thomas Boys Choir Leipzig celebrates its 800th anniversary - promptly for this unique centenary anniversary the choir appears in a full-length documentary film on the big screen for the first time. Through their personal stories, a sensitive portrayal of the St. Thomas Boys emerges, which raises questions about the fascination of the traditional ensemble.
New York Philharmonic & Alan Gilbert - "A Concert for New York"
ACCENTUS Music and New
York Philharmonic announce the live recording and transmission of a
very special concert: The New York
Philharmonic, led by Music Director
Alan Gilbert, present “A
Concert for New York” in remembrance and renewal
the tenth anniversary of 9/11.
“Abbado’s approach to the music of Bruckner is soft and songlike, at times tense and urgent, but constantly filled with warmth of feeling (…)” Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez & Staatskapelle Berlin
ACCENTUS
Music presents a concert recording featuring the Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim, and the honorary conductor
of the orchestra, Pierre Boulez, at
the Philharmonie Essen in
June 2011.
Mahler 8 - Riccardo Chailly and the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig
The highlight of the International Mahler Festival in Leipzig in May 2011 was the final performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 - the so called “Symphony of a Thousand”. Riccardo
Chailly commanded almost five hundred musicians in this monumental Mahler symphony, a work which the
composer regarded as his Opus Summum.
Mahler 2 - Riccardo Chailly and the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig
At Leipzig’s
International Mahler Festival, to mark the centenary of Mahler’s death, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and their Music Director Riccardo
Chailly
performed his monumental Second Symphony in the Gewandhaus – together
with two
marvellous soloists and choral forces quite beyond compare.
The soloists of The Philharmonics – an ensemble made up of musicians from the Vienna Philharmonic – perform Johann Strauß's waltzes arranged by Arnold Schönberg, Anton Webern und Alban Berg in an original Viennese Coffeehouse.
A World Premiere with Martha Argerich, Mischa Maisky and the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester
At one of her rare appearances with orchestra, Martha Argerich, the grande dame of the piano, joined forces with world-famous cellist Mischa Maisky and the fabulous Lucerne Symphony Orchestra for the world premiere of a newly commissioned work by Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin – Romantic Offering, a double concerto for piano, cello and orchestra dedicated to its very first soloists.
ACCENTUS Music is proud to present this year's official Nobel Prize Concert from Stockholm, Sweden. This event of world class is produced by ACCENTUS Music for Nobel Media AB. American star violinist Joshua Bell and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra performed works by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Sibelius.
Start of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin in the Schiller Theater
The world premiere of the opera "Metanoia" by Jens Joneleit opens the first season of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in the Schiller Theater on 3 October 2010.
Gustavo Dudamel & Wiener Philharmoniker - The Closing Gala Concert from Lucerne Festival 2010
The Closing Gala Concert from Lucerne Festival in Summer 2010 could not have been more colorful. Gustavo Dudamel and the Wiener Philharmoniker framed their concluding concert with the sound of drums: a drum roll and an insistent rhythm, respectively.
Claudio Abbado & Lucerne Festival Orchestra - Mahler 9
Claudio Abbado and his hand-picked players of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra take their acclaimed Mahler cycle to a new level with this audiovisual recording of the most complex and compelling of the symphonies, the intense, searching Ninth.
2010 marks the 300th anniversary of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710 – 1784), the eldest son of Johann Sebastian Bach. On the occassion of this event the Bachchor Mainz celebrates the rediscovery of his cantatas in the impressive Augustinerkirche in Mainz.
"Sechs ausverkaufte Abende lang zehrt Barenboim von seinem Ruf als konditionsstärkster Interpret dieses Erdballs – und dem Klang seiner Staatskapelle. Als traumhaftes Wagner-Orchester mit grandiosem Einsatz hat sie einen Platz im Bruckner-Olymp verdient." Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin
Homage to Pierre Boulez on occasion of his 85th birthday
Concerning to the 85th birthday of the famous composer, conductor and music theorist Pierre Boulez the Berlin state opera “Unter den Linden” devoted an extraordinary Homage.
In 2010, the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela was orchestra in residence at the Lucerne Festival at Easter. Under the baton of their strong supporter Claudio Abbado, the orchestra once again reached out to the audience on the opening concert, spreading its lively enthusiasm on a highest musical level for which it is famous and loved for.
Fryderyk Chopin - The Piano Concertos: E. Kissin & N. Demidenko
The unique recording of Chopin’s Piano Concertos featuring Evgeny Kissin and Nikolai Demidenko marks Frédéric Chopin’s 200th anniversary. The Russian star pianists are accompanied by the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Antoni Wit.
Chopin Year 2010 coincides with the 60th anniversary of Daniel Barenboim’s stage début, and as a pianist he has decided to devote this year to the great Romantic master of the keyboard.
