Recordings of all the Beethoven symphonies with their chief conductor are always a milestone in the artistic work of the Berliner Philharmoniker. So it was with Herbert von Karajan and Claudio Abbado, and expectations are correspondingly high for this cycle conducted by Sir Simon Rattle. Where does the special status of these symphonies come from? Simon Rattle has an explanation: “One of the things Beethoven does is to give you a mirror into yourself – where you are now as a musician.” In fact, this music contains such a wealth of extreme emotions and brilliant compositional ideas that reveal the qualities of the orchestra and its conductor as if under a magnifying glass.
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Recordings of all the Beethoven symphonies with their chief conductor are always a milestone in the artistic work of the Berliner Philharmoniker. So it was with Herbert von Karajan and Claudio Abbado, and expectations are correspondingly high for this cycle conducted by Sir Simon Rattle. Where does the special status of these symphonies come from? Simon Rattle has an explanation: “One of the things Beethoven does is to give you a mirror into yourself – where you are now as a musician.” In fact, this music contains such a wealth of extreme emotions and brilliant compositional ideas that reveal the qualities of the orchestra and its conductor as if under a magnifying glass.
2016-05-13
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Christian Thielemann and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra performing Beethoven Symphonies 1-9
Max films his friends having lecherous fun at his own birthday party; unaware of how it will change his life. Just out of high school, by haphazard, he becomes a big porno producer. His father, a principled police major, chases porno makers, not suspecting that one of them lives in his own apartment. Hoodlums and girls from good families, corrupted policemen, petty dealers find themselves in a luring and scary world of porno.
Titled Colossi of Love, the documentary highlights the halcyon days of the kamaki (Greek for harpoon) suitors in the 70s and 80s when droves of women from mainly Scandinavia, Germany and Britain flocked to the Greek islands.
The plot is based on the dramatic fate of the Red Army commander Aleksei Ivanovich Pavlov. Having been captured in January 1942 and being among the displaced persons, he didn't immediately decide to return to the USSR. Having rolled around the foreign country for 17 years, Aleksei nevertheless returned to his homeland. He goes to his brother in the south of the country to Sevastopol. Aleksei accidentally meets the doctor Anna Andreyevna, who was saved from death in besieged Leningrad. She travels by car from Moscow and also to the south, with her daughter Tanya; she suggests he join them. Aleksei tells about his life on the road.
Based on the popular Japanese manga series "Ginga -Nagareboshi Gin-" by Takahashi Yoshihiro, this stage musicals follow the story of an Akita dog Gin, the son of the mighty hunting dog Riki.
Five years in the making, this brave and level-headed documentary exposes paramilitary activity in present day Northern Ireland during a supposed time of peace.
A successful and beautiful woman has always said no to marriage. Upon turning 30, she discovers she has a rare disease which will soon cause ovarian failure. How will she find a way to get pregnant before she can no longer have a child?
A woman who believes a dead composer is in love with her falls in love with a man who constantly fights an imaginary man named Hank.
Drawing on footage from Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, "Empty Nightclub" is a maze of urban streets, dark corridors and dance floors. The video weaves scenes from Orlando, San Francisco, New York, Chicago and Toronto to take the viewer on a mysterious journey. Are we looking for the party or are we desperately searching for the exit?
Ioannina, in the beginning of the 19th century. The whole Greece is under Turks. Ioannina is governed by the fierce and vulgar Ali Pasas. Ali’s eldest son, Muchtar, falls in love with a young Greek widow, Frosyni. The problem is, he’s married to the vindictive and cruel Chanife. And the muslim penalty for having an affair with a married man is death…
Rata lives voluntarily crowded in his room, devising conspiracy theories that he publishes on his YouTube channel. His life turns upside down the day he witnesses a possible crime. Will Rat be the hero he claims to be?
Saudamini is a pampered girl until she is forced to marry the widower Ghanshyam and move into his large household. Saudamini cannot cope with her husband's overbearing and greedy stepmother and pines after the man she really loved and had to abandon, Narendra.
Namie Amuro's 15th tour (focusing primarily on her _genic album) consisted of 44 performances throughout Japan from September 2015 to February 2016. The concert was released to home video a month later in the same year. Aside from the format both the DVD and Bluray are identical content-wise and include two bonus tracks shot at Miyagi Sekisui Heim Super Arena. The track set: What I Did For Love, Close your eyes, Close to you, Fly, Photogenic, NAKED, Time Has Come, Space Invader, BRIGHTER DAY, It, B Who I Want 2 B, Sit! Stay! Wait! Down!, Say the word, SWEET KISSES, Golden Touch, Get Myself Back, BLACK DIAMOND, grotesque, REVOLUTION, Dr., Red Carpet, TSUKI, Black Make Up, Every Woman, Stranger, Scream, Fashionista, Birthday, Anything, and Fight Together.
Amuro Namie's last dome tour! Starting in February 2018, the diva went on her Final Tour 2018 ~Finally~, bidding farewell to fans through 17 shows nationwide and another six Asia tour stops. She attracted 800,000 people to her tour, the largest ever for a solo artist in Japan. Each limited edition release of the tour includes her final Tokyo Dome live, her outdoors 25th Anniversary Okinawa live in September 2017, and one other live, giving fans the most complete Amuro Namie experience. This edition includes the Nagoya Dome live.
Amuro Namie's last dome tour! Starting in February 2018, the diva went on her Final Tour 2018 ~Finally~, bidding farewell to fans through 17 shows nationwide and another six Asia tour stops. She attracted 800,000 people to her tour, the largest ever for a solo artist in Japan. Each limited edition release of the tour includes her final Tokyo Dome live, her outdoors 25th Anniversary Okinawa live in September 2017, and one other live, giving fans the most complete Amuro Namie experience. This edition includes the Fukuoka Yahuoku! Dome live.
Amuro Namie's last dome tour! Starting in February 2018, the diva went on her Final Tour 2018 ~Finally~, bidding farewell to fans through 17 shows nationwide and another six Asia tour stops. She attracted 800,000 people to her tour, the largest ever for a solo artist in Japan. Each limited edition release of the tour includes her final Tokyo Dome live, her outdoors 25th Anniversary Okinawa live in September 2017, and one other live, giving fans the most complete Amuro Namie experience. This edition includes the Kyocera Dome Osaka live.
Amuro Namie's last dome tour! Starting in February 2018, the diva went on her Final Tour 2018 ~Finally~, bidding farewell to fans through 17 shows nationwide and another six Asia tour stops. She attracted 800,000 people to her tour, the largest ever for a solo artist in Japan. Each limited edition release of the tour includes her final Tokyo Dome live, her outdoors 25th Anniversary Okinawa live in September 2017, and one other live, giving fans the most complete Amuro Namie experience. This edition includes the Sapporo Dome live.
Amuro Namie's last dome tour! Starting in February 2018, the diva went on her Final Tour 2018 ~Finally~, bidding farewell to fans through 17 shows nationwide and another six Asia tour stops. She attracted 800,000 people to her tour, the largest ever for a solo artist in Japan. Each limited edition release of the tour includes her final Tokyo Dome live, her outdoors 25th Anniversary Okinawa live in September 2017, and one other live, giving fans the most complete Amuro Namie experience. This edition includes the Tokyo Dome live in May
In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journalist lands him an assignment from Rolling Stone magazine to interview and tour with the up-and-coming band, Stillwater.
Arno Hintjens is a unique figure. A blend between a playboy and a hobo, a truly cosmopolitan nature and a true rock'n roll heart. Or, as Oor's Music Encyclopedia puts it 'one of the few groundbreaking artists of the European continent by the unique way in which he manages to combine elements of American Blues and funk, French chanson and Belgian barroom-songs into his own personal style'. In this live DVD recorded in Brussels in 2005, he delivers us the best of his songs.
Portrait of a Knight is a musical romance about the way in which historic ideals inform contemporary urban life. Rachel is a young archivist living and working in Wellington, New Zealand. Feeling alone and disconnected from life, she projects her romantic fantasies onto the paintings she loves, until one day her song brings Reginald - a Knight of the Realm - to life. His carefree innocence and zest for life begin to open Rachel up to the beauty around her, but the fates have a way of making trouble when miracles occur...
An unbroken sequence of fragments, last thoughts, elegies and absences by Schubert, Mozart, Wagner, Janáček, Stravinsky, Jacquet de la Guerre and Schumann, inter-leaved with movements from John Woolrich's Pianobooks. The programme is performed alongside images from the Quay Brothers.
Marilyn Monroe performs live at the Mapfre Stadium in Columbus, Ohio; featuring other rock and metal icons such as Slipknot, Slash, and Myles Kennedy.
Concert filmed in the Plaza de la Revolución on August 12, 2008, in the presence of a massive public, followers of the work of Buena Fe.
Recording of Maroon 5 live performance in Pearl Concert Theater at Palms Casino Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada in 2011.
On a warm February night in Los Angeles, the legendary Seattle rock band Soundgarden concluded a sold-out winter tour in support of King Animal, their first studio album in over sixteen years. In front of a rapturous crowd, Live From The Artists Den captured this unforgettable night within the historic art deco setting of The Wiltern. Soundgarden interwove brand new songs with classic radio hits, along with rarities performed for the first time in front of a live audience. Over the extended set, the band showcased their legendary catalogue and unparalleled musicianship, solidifying their impact on the history of rock and roll.
Pianists Charlie Kunz and Mark Hambourg tickle the ivories for our entertainment in this jolly musical short.
Queen and Adam Lambert were set to perform in the UK and Europe summer 2020. However, due to the coronavirus pandemic, those dates postponed to 2021. The band has worked with YouTube to prepare this hour-long special Tour Watch Party for the fans. The show features standout performances from their tour around the world.
Concert film celebrating Otsuka Ai's 5th Anniversary since debut in the music industry. This was held at Osaka-jo Yagai Ongaku-do on September 10th, 2008.
Concert film featuring Sakamoto Maaya's final performance from her Mitsubachi tour held on New Year's Eve, December 31, 2012 at Nakano Sunplaza.