CONSUMER NEWS
March 2018
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.
NEW RELEASES
CD: Anton Bruckner: Missa Solemnis
Accentus Music
The RIAS Kammerchor and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin revisit one of Anton Bruckner’s imaginative and immaculately crafted early works.
DVD + Blu-Ray: BBC Proms–WEDO / Martha Argerich–Daniel Barenboim
EuroArts Music International
Enjoy this stellar prom with the legendary Martha Argerich, Daniel Barenboim and his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra recorded live at the Royal Albert Hall!
DVD + Blu-Ray: Bel Canto – The Tenors of the 78 Era
NAXOS Audiovisual Division
A documentary series about the great tenors and bel canto singing in the first half of the 20th century by Jan Schmidt-Garre
DVD + Blu-Ray: Bruckner: Symphony No. 1
C Major Entertainment
Christian Thielemann and the Staatskapelle Dresden continue their Bruckner Cycle at the Philharmonie in Munich with a radiant performance of Symphony No.1
DVD + Blu-Ray: Copland conducts Copland
NAXOS Audiovisual Division
The concert film made in Los Angeles in 1976 captures a memorable performance conducted by the doyen of American composers Aaron Copland.
DVD: Daniel Barenboim plays & explains Debussy
EuroArts Music International
Watch Daniel Barenboim share his personal insights into Debussy’s music and his understanding of the “Art of the Prelude”.
DVD: Debussy - La Mer
EuroArts Music International
3 legendary performances | 3 legendary conductors | 3 different approaches to this masterpiece
DVD + Blu-Ray: From the New World – Nelsons / Gewandhausorchester
Accentus Music
This first DVD and Blu-ray release of the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig under its new music director Andris Nelsons focuses on Dvořák’s most iconic works.
DVD + Blu-Ray: Ingmar Bergman through the choreographer's eye
Bel Air Media
A unique dance film with performances by Alexander Ekman, Pär Isberg, Pontus Lidberg & Joakim Stephenson, tribute to Ingmar Bergman !
DVD + Blu-Ray: Juan Diego Flórez in Massenet’s “Werther”
Accentus Music
Recorded at the Opernhaus Zürich and staged by Tatjana Gürbaca, this “Werther” with star tenor Flórez is an epiphany – a recording for the ages.
DVD + Blu-Ray: Mahler 1 – Gewandhausorchester / Chailly
Accentus Music
This DVD and Blu-ray release continues the Leipzig Mahler cycle with the Gewandhausorchester and its former music director Riccardo Chailly.
DVD + Blu-Ray: Maria Callas: Magic Moments of Music – Tosca 1964
C Major Entertainment
This film tells the story of one of the most magic moments of music. Maria Callas returns to the opera stage as prima donna.
DVD + Blu-Ray: Rimsky-Korsakov : The Golden Cockerel
Bel Air Media
A cruel and sardonic fairytale, Rimsky-Korsakov’s Golden Cockerel undoubtedly counts among the most subversive works in the history of music...
FESTIVALS + EVENTS
Glyndebourne Festival 2018 open for public booking
Glyndebourne Productions Limited
Glyndebourne Festival 2018 has opened to public booking on Sunday 4 March.
Karajan Cinema Classics - Music in Perfection
Eliette und Herbert von Karajan Institut
As of March 2018, Karajan® Cinema Classics will present unique music recordings for the first time in select cinemas in Austria, Germany and Switzerland.
APP NEWS
Music Traveler is expanding to the DACH region
Only Hands Small
Music Traveler is expanding to the rest of Austria, Germany and Switzerland. Simple but effective: the app connects musicians with rehearsal spaces.
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