CONSUMER NEWS
October 2016
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

DVD + Blu-Ray: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
C Major Entertainment
You don’t just see an Ailey performance, you feel it. Experience this electrifying modern dance program that includes four audience favorites!

DVD + Blu-Ray: Beethoven 9 | Gewandhausorchester, Blomstedt
Accentus Music
Herbert Blomstedt, the Gewandhausorchester, and the outstanding quartet of soloists achieve a gripping interpretation of this monumental work.

DVD + Blu-Ray: Einstein on the beach
Telmondis Distribution
Philip Glass and Robert Wilson's operatic masterpiece is released for the first time on DVD and BluRay.

Karlheinz Stockhausen's Donnerstag aus Licht now on demand
Sonostream.tv
Sonostream.tv's livestream debut of Theater Basel from October 1, Karlheinz Stockhausen's Donnerstag aus Licht, is still available on demand

DVD + Blu-Ray: Parsifal – Barenboim & Tcherniakov
Bel Air Media
Filmed at the Staatsoper Berlin. Available on DVD & Blu-ray. Featuring Andreas Schager, Anja Kampe, Wolfgang Koch, René Pape.

DVD + Blu-Ray: Philippe Jordan | Beethoven Complete Symphonies
MONARDA Music GmbH
A brand new production of all Beethoven Symphonies filmed in the highest quality known on the market today.

DVD: Ruslan and Lyudmila - Jurowski / Tcherniakov.
Bel Air Media
Filmed at the Bolshoi Theatre for the reopening night of the historic stage. Featuring Vladimir Jurowski, Albina Shagimuratova, Mikhail Petrenko.

DVD: Sound Tracker - Sami Yaffa | Ethiopia
MONARDA Music GmbH
Sami Yaffa takes a musical trip around the world, searching for traditions and musical cultures. First release for Home Entertainment.

DVD: Sound Tracker - Sami Yaffa | Indonesia:Java & Bali
MONARDA Music GmbH
Sami Yaffa takes a musical trip around the world, searching for traditions and musical cultures. First release for Home Entertainment.

DVD: Sound Tracker - Sami Yaffa | Turkey
MONARDA Music GmbH
Sami Yaffa takes a musical trip around the world, searching for traditions and musical cultures. First release for Home Entertainment.

DVD: Sound Tracker - Sami Yaffa | USA Road Trip
MONARDA Music GmbH
Sami Yaffa takes a musical trip around the world, searching for traditions and musical cultures. First release for Home Entertainment.

DVD: Tribute-to Svetlanov by Vladimir Jurowski
Bel Air Media
A Tribute concert to Evgeny Svetlanov : Vlamidir Jurowski conducts the
Symphony orchestra of the Russian Federation.

DVD + Blu-Ray: Vincenzo Bellini: Norma from Gran Teatre del Liceu
C Major Entertainment
Directed by Grammy Award-nominated opera, theatre and film director Kevin Newbury and starring Sondra Radvanovsky as a “powerful, elegant” Norma (NYT)

DVD + Blu-Ray: Waldbühne – Czech Night
EuroArts Music International
The Berliner Philharmoniker were joined by conductor Yannick Nézet-Seguin and violinist Lisa Batiashvili for a Czech Night at the Waldbühne in Berlin 2016.

DVD: You and Me – A Peking opera
Accentus Music
Zhang Yimou’s Peking Opera “You and Me” is an overwhelming feast for the senses, making the Peking opera genre accessible for an entirely new audience
BROADCAST DATES

Berlin live - Arte’s TV broadcast of live concert
Kobalt Productions
OCT 2016 ON ARTE: In October, Arte is broadcasting the BERLIN LIVE concerts of Petula Clark, Suzanne Vega, The Kills, The Pixies, Fun Lovin’ Criminals and Bloc Party.

ECHO Klassik 2016
ZDF – German Television
9 OCT 2016 ON ZDF: This year’s ECHO Klassik winners Anna Netrebko, Jonas Kaufmann, and Andrea Bocelli will be awarded at the Konzerthaus Berlin.

“Samson et Dalila” live from Paris Opera
Telmondis Distribution
13 OCT 2016 ON ARTE Concert: Live broadcast in Cinema on October 13th
Delayed broadcast on Arte Concert on October 14th

Beethoven Violin Concerto on arte
Accentus Music
23 OCT 2016 ON ARTE: Nikolaj Znaider, Riccardo Chailly and the Gewandhausorchester perform Beethoven’s Violin Concerto at the Gewandhaus zu Leipzig.

Documentary “Zhu Xiao-Mei: How Bach Defeated Mao”
Accentus Music
23 OCT 2016 ON ARTE: “How Bach Defeated Mao” is a quiet but compelling film about the tremendous power of music and a very personal film about the pianist Zhu Xiao-Mei.
SOON ON THE MARKET

BLUEBEARD'S CASTLE / LA VOIX HUMAINE – Paris Opera
Telmondis Distribution
Béla Bartók / Francis Poulenc

Prokofiev Celebration
Telmondis Distribution
125th Birth Anniversary
Musical direction by Valery Gergiev

Tea, Zen, Dance
Poorhouse International
A quest for meaning in modern China, guided by the charismatic main character Zhao Liang, one of the leading choreographers of modern dance in China today.

The Life of Death of Walter Benjamin
Poorhouse International
A documentary to go with the opera “Benjamin, Dernière Nuit” recorded by Telmondis at Lyon Opera in March.
MORE NEWS...

A unique concert hall is opening in Berlin
Pierre Boulez Saal - Barenboim-Said Akademie gGmbH
The Pierre Boulez Saal is a unique, architecturally distinct international concert hall, designed by Frank Gehry and part of the Barenboim-Said Akademie in Berlin.
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