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- Documentary presents a comprehensive portrait of an iconic artist of our time.
- Three Austin women join a lawsuit with others arguing rape goes unprosecuted. Despite setbacks, they persevere to hold law enforcement accountable for inaction and catalyze change.
- Three young prodigies and their families exploring the popular and competitive world of piano playing in China.
- Florence Foster Jenkins is known as "the worst singer of all times" and yet she is a cult figure whose recordings still outsell many contemporary singers. Opera superstar Joyce DiDonato interprets the flamboyant "queen of dissonance". The involvement of the celebrated virtuoso makes it possible to contrast two different musical perspectives and gives viewers a vivid impression of the film's key conflict between inner delusion and external reality.
- Why was classical music so important to Hitler and Goebbels? The stories of Jewish cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who survived Auschwitz, and of star conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, who worked with the Nazis, provide insight. The film centers around two people who represent musical culture during the Third Reich - albeit in very different ways. Wilhelm Furtwängler was a star conductor; Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, the cellist of the infamous Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz. Both shared a love for the classical German music.
- The exiled Austro-German musician and composer Artur Schnabel was a giant of his time, but in Germany today he is nearly forgotten. Pianist and Schnabel devotee Markus Pawlik (in collaboration with baritone Dietrich Henschel and the Szymanowski String Quartet) brings Artur Schnabel's greatest compositions back to Berlin with a filmed commemorative concert. Along the way, Pawlik visits the places, landscapes, and history that shaped Schnabel's life and music. "Artur Schnabel: No Place of Exile" rediscovers an essential artist displaced by the catastrophe of the two World Wars and the Holocaust and inspired by the possibilities of modernism.
- Carlo Gesualdo - beastly murderer and divine composer - is one of the most striking figures in the history of music. Based on his dramatic honor killing, the film tells the story of revolutionary music and the search for forgiveness.
- Two outstanding artists, one location, and an acrimonious rivalry - these are the key ingredients for the five-part series "The Antagonists: Rivalry in Art" which deals with envy and burning ambition, drive and the desire to reach new heights of artistic creation, as well as failure and the triumph of success. At the heart of each episode lies a conflict and a break with tradition that will eventually lead to innovation. Through their rivalry we will come to understand their real character and their fascinating stories will be revealed. 1. Episode: Michelangelo vs Leoardo. 2. Episode: Van Gogh vs Gauguin. 3. Episode: Nolde vs Liebermann. 4. Episode: Caravaggio vs Baglione. 5. Episode: Turner vs Constable.
- Transverse flute is Ana de la Vega's passion - from childhood in Australia, through her school years in Paris, to all the stages of the world. Here she plays Mozart's G major concerto with the Bremen Philharmonic under Marko Letonja.
- Three masterpieces simply disappear. Robbed from the Kunsthalle Schirn in Frankfurt. It is the greatest art theft in German history. But how will the art thieves manage to install the loot on the market? A nerve racking tug-of-war, a struggle between the thieves, mafia bosses, dealers, lawyers, investigators, insurances and museums begins.
- The sad fate of the "Venus of Morgantina" is one of the greatest art scandals of the 20th century. Art loss investigators and archaeological detectives are fighting with all available means against smuggling, the obviously most global form of art crime.
- Beloved, stolen, hidden. Over more than 70 years museums, collectors and private owners have been dragging at Egon Schiele's "Wally". At the core of it all is the question how justice can be reinstalled after all the criminal acts of the Nazi time.
- The stories tell about 60 faked works of art, ranging from Pollock over Rothko to Motherwell. And about nine-figure losses. The forgery scandal regarding the Knoedler Gallery in New York outweighs by far the one concerning Beltracchi.
- From Berlin it takes you 40 kilometers to reach the Liebenberg estate, a picturesque countryside surrounded by lakes and by one of Germany's most beautiful woods. Nowadays Liebenberg houses a training center for executive managers for economy, sciences, politics and sport, run by the DKB Foundation. However, very few know about the changeful history of this place. There would be: the greatest scandal during the reign of Emperor Wilhelm II, the drama of the Rote Kapelle, a semi Jewish tumor scientist appointed by Hitler, Liebenberg as exemplary estate during the GDR years and a village that was supposed to be sold as a whole.
- Swing events are becoming increasingly popular. It is not only music and dancing that are thrilling the scene but it is fashion and life style of the nineteen-twenties, the thirties and forties that are being celebrated as well. Why do dancing and music of the swing period still fascinate people nowadays? How many exact style details are necessary to be a success in this scene? And why is the fascination of the past so strong that some people will dedicate their whole free time to adapt their dressing and living to a different period?
- Strauss is a contradiction as such, composing opposites of seeming misfits. Christian Thielemann reflects on this: "I often visited Strauss' home in Garmisch, up to this day nothing has been changed. You still see the beer mugs, you may imagine the bourgeois person living here, sleeping in starched linen, playing cards, and of course he would be enjoying a really good Sundays roast - that is the atmosphere pervading. And that this composer would then drift off to such remote walks of life as for instance with "Elektra" and "Die Frau ohne Schatten" is more than remarkable. To fathom this contradiction in Strauss' music, wavering between middle class life and artistic excess, between return to the past and holding up traditions as well as overcoming boundaries - nobody could possibly do it better than Thielemann. Thielemann, too, like Strauss is a bourgeois person at the bottom of his heart with a great love for German culture, quite an awe inspiring house at the Griebnitz Lake and a large art collection. "I frankly admit", he says, "I just love it all. Good wine, good music, wonderful orchestras."
- Official EPK of "Scandale" with Alice Same Ott and Francesco Tristano performing a track inspired by Igor Stravinsky, written by Tristano, which will appear on their new album released by Deutsche Grammophon. Fascinated from the idea of Ballets Russes their challenging programme for two pianos centers upon Stravinsky's extremely rhythmic and avant-garde score of "The rite of spring", the crowning success de scandale of Ballets Russes and includes the catchy tune of Rimsky-Korsakov's "Scheherazade".