Reiner Moritz
2021Anton Bruckner - Das verkannte Genie
Reiner Moritz
Valery Gergiev, Kent Nagano
Underestimated by his contemporaries, but today acclaimed as one of the greatest and imaginative composers of his time. Anton Bruckner was a genius of tones. Such great conductors like Kent Nagano, Valery Gergiev and Simon Rattle let the composer comes alive in the documentary „Anton Bruckner – The Making of a Giant“ telling the ups and downs of life through his music.
Anton Bruckner - A Giant in the Making
Helene Grimaud: Living with Wolves
Reiner Moritz
From childhood, piano prodigy Hélène Grimaud honed her skills and performed around the world. Along the way, as this documentary portrait reveals, she developed a love for animals that led to the Wolf Conversation Center, which she founded in 1999. She discusses both passions with the filmmakers, who also capture footage of Grimaud with her beloved wolves and her dazzling performances of works by Brahms and Rachmaninoff.
Helene Grimaud: Living with Wolves
Dmitri Shostakovich - Complete Symphonies & Concertos (Valery Gergiev, Mariinsky Orchestra)
Don Kent, Reiner Moritz
Nobody is better suited to undertake such a challenge than Valery Gergiev and his Mariinsky Orchestra. Over a period of a year all 15 Symphonies and 6 Concertos have been recorded at Salle Pleyel in Paris. What an adventure for the artists and the big production team! Never before in the history of television has something like this been undertaken including the very first “Ring” for television at Bayreuth. • Dmitri Shostakovich is arguably one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. To understand his music one needs to see it in the context of his life, his social environment, the political situation, the unbelievable brutality with which the Communist Party enforced its ideological credo and the subtle ways with which Shostakovich succeeded in combining his innermost thoughts with the demands of Socialist Realism. He was a man of many faces. And beyond any doubt Dmitri Shostakovich was a musical genius.
Dmitri Shostakovich - Complete Symphonies & Concertos (Valery Gergiev, Mariinsky Orchestra)
Heavenly Voices
Alessandro Scillitani
Ernesto Tomasini, Philippe Jaroussky
Heavenly Voices tells the story of the castrato phenomenon, and how the most gifted amongst these singers rose to international stardom. Max Emanuel Cencic and Philippe Jaroussky, two of today's singing stars, take us back in time and talk about operatic entertainment in the Baroque Age. This is illustrated by paintings and prints from the time as well as major performances of today. In this film, many countertenors are featured in famous roles and in interviews, amongst them Jochen Kowalski, Andreas Scholl, David Daniels, Daniel Behle and Valer Barna-Sabadus.
Heavenly Voices
