Welsh rock band Man perform live in Stuttgart. The tracks performed include 'Many Are Called But Few Get Up', 'C'mon' and 'Bananas'.

• Data premiery 2018-01-14
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The '80s pop band captured live in performance at London's Marquee Club in 1984. The songs performed by the group include their hits 'Sweet Memory', 'The Clapping Song' and 'Sign of the Times'.

• Data premiery 2013-01-08
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Collection of video performances featuring American children's entertainer Eric Herman. The songs performed include 'Take a Bath', 'How Big', 'The Math Game' and 'Monster League Baseball'.

• Data premiery 2017-01-07
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  Following Ensemble Caprice’s first recording of Vivaldi’s sacred music ( Gloria! Vivaldi and his Angels) we return to Vivaldi’s Venice and find ourselves yet again within the confines of the Ospedale della Pietà orphanage where, beginning in 1703, Vivaldi, the Red Priest, not only taught the orphan girls violin and singing (!), but also composed many of his most dazzling concertos as well as a substantial part of his highly inspired corpus of sacred music. To this day, it seems almost unbelievable that these very demanding scores could be successfully performed by young women. However, their concerts must have been of a very high standard, judging from the celebrity status they enjoyed throughout Europe. Of course the picturesque scenario of young women performing in church undoubtedly fired the imagination of countless listeners who would come from far and wide to hear the orphans perform musical miracles in Venice. In 1720 an English traveler, Edward Wright, gives us the following account of those events: Every Sunday and holiday there is a performance of music in the chapels of these hospitals, vocal and instrumental, performed by the young women of the place, who are set in a gallery above and, though not professed, are hid from any distinct view of those below by a lattice of ironwork. The organ parts, as well as those of other instruments, are all performed by the young women. They have a eunuch for their master, and he composes their music. Their performance is surprisingly good, and many excellent voices are among them. And this is all the more amusing since their persons are concealed from view.  It was both absurd and comical for Wright to assume that the composer was a eunuch, but it shows how the imagination of the male listeners got carried away when hearing those celestial angelic sounds produced by an invisible female orchestra and choir. After having met Vivaldi in Venice in 1739, a French jurist, Charles de Brosse, reports that  …about forty girls take part in every concert. I vow to you that there is nothing so diverting as the sight of a young and pretty nun in white habit, with a bunch of pomegranate blossoms over her ear, conducting the orchestra and beating time with all the grace and precision imaginable. Further proof of the incredible quality (and attraction) of these concerts is provided by no less a celebrity than the sophisticated French philosopher (and part-time composer) Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who in 1743 had nothing but praise for the achievements of the young girls: Every Sunday, vocal music for a large chorus with a large orchestra, which is composed and directed by the greatest masters in Italy, is performed in barred-off galleries solely by girls, of whom the oldest is not twenty years of age. One can conceive of nothing as voluptuous, as moving, as this music.  Knowing for instance that J.S. Bach only heard his own sacred music sung publicly in church by boys and men and never by women, we can only assume how much the titillation of these exciting rumours about the female choir and orchestra in Venice must have stirred the imagination of music lovers north of the Alps. During the course of the present recording, we move from Vivaldi’s description of war to his musical depiction of the joys of peace.  Juditha triumphans Juditha triumphans from 1716 is the best known of the Vivaldi oratorios (of which only four have survived). Subtitled Sacrum Militare Oratorium, it relates the gruesome Old Testament story of Judith, a beautiful widow chosen by God to put an end to the life of the Assyrian general Holofernes – who was out to destroy her hometown – by decapitating him.  At the time the oratorio was composed, the Republic of Venice was engaged in its 6th war against the Ottoman Empire and despite its ultimate triumph in 1718, the situation looked rather bleak two years earlier after two successive crushing defeats by the strong Ottoman army. In a typical baroque crossover mingling religious and worldly matters on the same battlefield, the oratorio Juditha triumphans was obviously aimed at strengthening the war efforts of the Venetian Republic. We know that this oratorio was performed at the Ospedale della Pietà, with an all-(young)-woman cast on both vocal and instrumental parts. It could only have added to the already wide range of exotic sensations when the overwhelmed listener heard these young women in nun’s habits engaging in musical warfare. Gloria, RV 588 However, let us not forget that Vivaldi’s talent also radiated its light upon the depiction of peace. The intense plea Et in terra pax (from Gloria RV 588), with its gripping harmonic tensions, serves as a worthy final statement for this recording, where war is gradually replaced by the hope for peace. Psalms, Concertos, Motet On the road towards peace we encounter brilliant psalm settings with powerful rhythms in choir and orchestra (In exitu Israel RV 604, Laudate Dominum RV 606), two virtuoso concertos for multiple soloists (RV 566 and RV 563) and a beautiful solo motet O qui coeli terraeque serenitas RV 631, praising serenity in heaven and on earth.  Vivaldi entertained a close relationship with Dresden, the Florence of the Elbe, both as a performing artist and as a composer; indeed, his pieces were frequently performed at court. One of his illustrious colleagues in Dresden, Jan Dismas Zelenka, was obviously inspired by Vivaldi’s sacred music when he composed the heart-rending lament Misera Madre in which Mary’s suffering at the foot of the cross is set for high-voice choir. It becomes quite obvious from the striking dissonances in this piece that the transition from war to peace is not always an easy one… And just as our plea for peace is here put forward with music from the past, we fervently hope that peace will reign in our present time and the future: Et in terra pax! © Matthias Maute, Montreal, 2011  

• Wykonawca Ensemble Caprice
• Data premiery 2012-04-01
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String Quartets, Op 17: performed from the London edition published by Welcker c1774 (Nos 1-6)Haydn’s String Quartets Op 17 were written during his most effusively productive period, during his tenure in the service of the Esterházy family. He had a magnificent group of musicians at his disposal, including the young virtuoso violinist Luigi Tomasini, whose genius can be traced throughout these works, particularly in the achingly beautiful melodies of the adagio movements. These string quartets mark Haydn’s emergence as an indisputably great composer. They have a seriousness of intent and an increasing mastery of rhetoric and thematic development that are a world away from the lightweight divertimento-quartets that he was formerly producing.They are performed here on period instruments by the dazzling London Haydn Quartet, whose disc of the Op 9 quartets drew the most extravagant praise from the critics. Their second disc has been eagerly awaited, and comes as part of Hyperion’s celebrations of ‘Haydn year’.

• Wykonawca London Haydn Quartet
• Data premiery 2009-09-15
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Handel’s Coronation Anthems have delighted audiences ever since their first performance in 1727. They appear in all their glory in this celebratory Prom concert interspersed with a selection of Handel favourites.Harry Christophers and The Sixteen have long been celebrated for their interpretations of Handel’s great masterpieces. In this BBC Prom from the Royal Albert Hall they capture some of the composer’s most ebullient moments in concert performance, from the ever popular Arrival of the Queen of Sheba to the ubiquitous sounds of Zadok the Priest. All Four Coronation Anthems feature on this DVD as well as virtuosic excerpts from the oratorio Semele sung by Carolyn Sampson, and the Organ Concerto in F major performed by Alastair Ross in its original version which finishes with a rousing ‘Alleluia’ chorus. Bonus features include two works not shown in the BBC Two broadcast - Coronation Anthem My heart is inditing and Salve Regina.

• Wykonawca Sampson Carolyn , Ross Alastair , The Sixteen
• Data premiery 2010-01-01
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The French record label Paraty is pleased to announce the release of the world premiere recording of Matinas de Natal by Marcos Portugal. This monumental work, composed in Rio de Janeiro in 1811 and recorded by the Turicum Ensemble, is the first sacred work by the composer to be successfully restored by musicologists.  Marcos Portugal forged a brilliant career as a composer, equally at home in Europe and the New World. Having spent ten years composing sacred music and opera in Portugal, Marcos Portugal moved to Italy, where he spent an intense six and a half year sojourn. During this period he wrote twenty –two operas that enjoyed unprecedented success; productions were counted in the hundreds and concerts in the thousands. The phenomenon soon overflowed beyond the Italian borders and from 1793 his comic operas were performed throughout Europe, not only in Italian but also in German, Portuguese and Russian. The comic operas were then premiered in Brazil, and following 1793 they were performed in every major theatre in the country. The Turicum Enslemble was founded in 1992 by Luiz Alves da Silva and Mathias Weibel to disseminate the vast repertoire of the Iberian Peninsula and South America. The ensemble previously recorded six CDs of Brazilian music as well as the European music which directly influenced composers in the New World.

• Wykonawca Ensemble Turicum
• Data premiery 2012-08-01
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Hiro Kurosaki is an Austrian violinist of Japanese origin. He studied in Vienna at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst and attended masterclasses with Nathan Milstein. Since becoming interested in historical performing practice on original instruments Hiro Kurosaki has performed as concertmaster and soloist with Les Arts Florissants, the Clemencic Consort, London Baroque, the Cappella Coloniensis, and Concerto Köln. Hiro Kurosaki has had a longstanding musical partnership with Linda Nicholson, concentrating on the Classical and Romantic repertoire. Linda Nicholson is one of the foremost keyboard players specialising in the performance of baroque, classical and early romantic music on instruments of the period. After studying at the Royal College of Music and London University she has performed widely throughout Europe and the Far East, in solo recitals, chamber music and as concerto soloist; for example with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Les Arts Florissants, and the Academy of Ancient Music.

• Wykonawca Kurosaki Hiro , Nicholson Linda
• Data premiery 2010-01-01
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Collection of live hard rock and heavy metal performances. Featuring artists including Sacred Reich, Nazareth and Rick Springfield, the tracks performed include 'The American Way', 'Ignorance', 'War Pigs' and 'Death Squad'.

• Data premiery 2015-01-16
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Live concert performance from American soul musician Brian McKnight. The tracks performed include 'Find Myself in You', 'Shoulda Woulda Coulda' and 'Forever'.

• Data premiery 2018-01-19
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