
Maurice Ravel
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During World War One, in a small rural French village far away from the front, a gamekeeper and his wife take in children displaced by the war.
La Maison des bois

Beautiful violin virtuoso Camille has two obsessions: the music of Ravel, and a friend of her husband's who crafts violins. But his heart seems to be as cold as her playing is passionate.
A Heart in Winter

An enterprising producer believes he has hit upon a winning concept: a program of original animated shorts set to classical music. Undeterred by warnings that this has already been done by an American named 'Prisney,' he rallies an orchestra of geriatric women, a bullish conductor, and an animator that he keeps locked in the dungeon. What could go wrong?
Allegro non troppo
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Hudební perličky Pavla Šporcla

What a prestigious cast for this Brahms evening! Renaud Capuçon and Julia Hagen, two internationally acclaimed artists, first perform the Double Concerto for violin and cello. They are accompanied by the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jakub Hrůša. The concert ends in style with Symphony No. 4.
Renaud Capuçon and Julia Hagen @ Rheingau Musik Festival

After ten years of loyal service at the helm of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Mikko Franck is flying off to new musical horizons. Before bidding farewell, the conductor and the ensemble offer us a final concert, featuring pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet.
Mikko Franck With Jean-Yves Thibaudet

This short film adapted from the ballet Daphnis and Chloe. The pirates hunt Chloe, capture her, and rape her. Bryaxis, their leader, forces her to dance for him. Syrinx comes to free her... forever.
The Rape of Chloe

Godard blends elements of literature, cinema and other artistic medias from different historical periods in order to make a stance on how words can be subverted and manipulated to many different contexts, sometimes bearing a similar significance to the original material or even creating an alternate context.
The Power of Speech

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Boléro, le refrain du monde

On March 15, 2022 at the Berlin Philharmonie, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin conducted by Alan Gilbert gave a concert in solidarity with Ukraine. With the participation of violinist Lisa Batiashvili, singers Rolando Villazón and Max Raabe and pianist Kirill Gerstein.
Concert in solidarity with Ukraine - Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin

Bettina Sanden, a solo dancer at the opera, falls ill with polio. The chances of a cure look rather slim.
Ballerina

Martin, in a last ditch hope, comes to meet Léa in Paris. They are both twenty-five and shared their first love story together. They are both now striving to mature.
Love Blooms

Artists and poets meet in a dreamlike space between walks and performances.
Umano Non Umano

As two families celebrate the engagement of their children, one of the lovers unearths a family secret.
Fiestapatria

Bolero is played every 15 minutes in the world. This film tries to answer how this famous melody inspired and influenced the world pop-culture? It explores the complexity and the richness of a piece so simple in appearance: the emotions it triggers, vertigo it creates, the words it inspires.
Bolero: A Global Hit
Filmmaker Richard Dindo's unique documentary uses historical reenactments and speculative "interviews" of historical figures to paint a fascinating portrait of one of the most influential writers of modern literature, renowned author Franz Kafka. Best known for his novel The Metamorphosis, Kafka was famously secretive and eccentric, and the details of his private life have become just as captivating to his fans as his work.
Who was Kafka?

At the Lightroom in London, pianist Yuja Wang offers an extraordinary recital at the heart of the immersive exhibition devoted to David Hockney. In this concert, the British painter's brightly coloured canvases enter into communion with the musical works performed, ranging from Bach to Samuel Barber. An unusual unison of the visual and audio arts.
Yuja Wang x David Hockney London Lightroom

The Philharmonie de Paris celebrates its tenth anniversary and invites Klaus Mäkelä and Gustavo Dudamel to perform a concert of changing colours, from modernism to impressionism, with works by Boulez, Beethoven, Poulenc, Moussorgski and Ravel.
Klaus Mäkelä and Gustavo Dudamel 10 year anniversary of the Philharmonie de Paris

The life and thoughts of Juan Manuel Espada, keeper in charge of the morgue sited at the Medicine University of Valencia.
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With Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, accordionist Martynas Levickis reveals the thousand and one facets of an instrument rarely given pride of place in concert halls. The NDR Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Delyana Lazarova are the perfect partners in this programme, which also includes a contemporary work by Caroline Shaw and Stravinsky's Firebird. Chapters: - Martynas Levickis - Ouverture festive pour accordéon - Maurice Ravel - Le Tombeau de Couperin - George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue, arrangement pour accordéon et orchestre - Caroline Shaw - Entr’acte pour cordes - Igor Stravinsky - L’Oiseau de feu, seconde suite pour orchestre