CONSUMER NEWS
June 2025
Your monthly update on performing arts releases, live streams, previews and specials - directly from the producers. Brought to you by the IMZ International Music + Media Centre, the international business network supporting performing arts through audiovisual media.
The IMZ Dance Film Competition Returns This November
IMZ International Music + Media Centre
We’re thrilled to announce the return of dancescreen, the IMZ’s renowned dance film competition – this time in Lisbon, Portugal, in collaboration with the InShadow Lisbon ScreenDance Festival.
NEW RELEASES
DVD + Blu-Ray: Chailly & Malofeev Play Rachmaninoff
Accentus Music
Chailly & Malofeev trace Rachmaninoff’s journey from youthful brilliance to final mastery at the 2024 Lucerne Festival.
CD: Gilbert & Sullivan's Utopia, Limited
Opus Arte
Gilbert & Sullivan’s penultimate opera performed by Scottish Opera, plus KING ARTHUR: Suite from the Incidental Music by Arthur Sullivan.
Blu-Ray: Ottorino Respighi: La Fiamma
EuroArts Music International
First performed in Rome in 1934, now ignited to spectacular effect in Berlin (FAZ 1/10/2024).
CD: Pletnev: Trumpet Concerto & 14 Mémoires musicales
EuroArts Music International
Maestro Mikhail Pletnev conducts his own, never before published composition: the 14 Memoires musicales (2024).
iTunes: Talbot: The Winter's Tale
Opus Arte
Joby Talbot's hauntingly beautiful score for The Royal Ballet's The Winter's Tale.
DVD + Blu-Ray: The Alchemy of the Piano / By Jan Schmidt-Garre
NAXOS Audiovisual Division
Together with director Jan Schmidt-Garre, award-winning pianist Francesco Piemontesi embarkes on a journey to find secret elements of piano playing.
CD: The Well-Tempered Clavier – Zhu Xiao-Mei
Accentus Music
Zhu Xiao-Mei’s intimate, moving journey with Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier – now available again in this deeply personal reissue.
LIVESTREAMS
Pablo Heras-Casado conducts two Magnificats
Deutsche Grammophon GmbH
8 2025: To open the International Baroque Days in the breathtaking Melk Abbey, Pablo Heras-Casado conducts two groups in two settings of the Magnificat text.
Peltokoski conducts Saint-Saëns & Wagner
Deutsche Grammophon GmbH
28 2025: The French composer’s Carnival of the Animals offers a chance for the orchestra’s principals to shine alongside Arthur & Lucas Jussen in brilliance.
BROADCASTS
MMM | The Four Seasons Recomposed by Max Richter
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21 2025: To rekindle his love for the Four Seasons, Max Richter created Recomposed in 2012. No one expected the global enthusiasm that his version triggered.
MET OPERA LIVE IN HD – 2025-2026 season
Clasart Classic
18 OCT 2025: Ticket sales for the award-winning series have started.
VIDEO ON DEMAND
Anouar Brahem in Paris
Deutsche Grammophon GmbH
Inspirational oud master Anouar Brahem is joined by three esteemed colleagues in this concert filmed live at the Philharmonie de Paris.
NEWS
Flagey is launching its new season on June 11th
Flagey asbl/vzw
Flagey is launching its new season, presenting on both emerging talents and renown artists in jazz, classical, global music and cinema.
Major Success for mdw Students at the 2025 “Red Bull Scoring Challenge”
mdw - Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien
Three Prizewinners from Vienna – Collaboration with Red Bull Music and Synchron Stage Vienna.
Rose d’Or 2025 Opens for Entries and Host Announced
Rose d‘Or
The 2025 awards are open for entries from 8 May 2025 and will close on 22 September 2025.
Theatrical Premiere: 'Waiting Places' Dance Film
San Francisco Dance Film Festival
San Francisco Dance Film Festival presents the theatrical premiere of Waiting Placesy, the newest film by luminaries Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber.
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