Nikolaus Harnoncourt
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Biography: Biography not available
Department: Sound
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
Adult: No
Birthday: December 06, 1929
Age: 95 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 05, 2016
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Bach: Christmas Oratorio
Overview: Nikolaus Harnoncourt directs the Concentus Musicus Wien and Toelzer Knabenchor in Bach's masterwork. Featured soloists are Peter Schreier and Robert Holl. The performance was filmed in 1982 at the Stiftskirche in Waldhause, Austria.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-22
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Il Ballo Delle Ingrate
Overview: Monteverdi's mini-opera, starring Cathy Berberian.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Mission Mozart - Lang Lang & Nikolaus Harnoncourt
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-01-17
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Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach
Overview: The life and music of Johann Sebastian Bach as presented by his wife, Anna.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-02-03
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Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos. 4 & 5
Overview: Mozart Violin Concertos Nos. 4 & 5 Gidon Kremer(Violin) Wiener Philharmoniker, conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt Violin Concerto No.4 in D major, K 218 1. (0:29) 2. Allegro (8:31) 3. Andante cantabile (6:14) 4. Rondeau, Andante grazioso - Allegro ma non troppo (7:54) (Kadenzen und Eingänge von Robert D. Levin) Violin Concerto No.5 in A major, K 219 1. (0:27) 2. Allegro aperto (9:21) 3. Adagio (10:16) 4. Rondeau, Tempo di Menuetto (9:31) (Kadenzen und Eingänge von Robert D. Levin)
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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The Marriage of Figaro
Overview: This release contains the celebrated 2006 production of Mozart's Nozze di Figaro that was directed for the stage by Claus Guth at that year's Salzburg Festival. Ildebrando D'Arcangelo takes the title role, and gets support from Anna Netrebko as Sussanna, Bo Skovhus as Il Conte Di Almaviva, and Dorothea Roschmann as La Contessa. Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts the orchestra.
Genres: Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-07-26
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Karajan's Magic and Myth
Overview: Over twenty-five years after his death in July 1989, the controversial Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan remains an enigma. He was the most successful conductor in the history of classical music. Many of his recordings - of Italian opera, of Wagner and Richard Strauss, of Sibelius, Beethoven and Brahms - are treasured by music lovers around the world. Yet, even at the peak of his fame, his performances were variously criticised for being too opulent, too manicured, lacking warmth or spiritual depth. This musical profile explores the many paradoxes in the life and music of this controversial figure, who forged his international reputation in London with the Philharmonia Orchestra shortly after the end of the Second World War and went on to reign supreme in the classical music world during his three decades with the Berlin Philharmonic. The film also examines Karajan's belief in the visual power of music, and his determination to leave behind a substantial legacy of music on film.
Genres: Documentary History Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-05
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La Clemenza di Tito
Overview: The 1791 La Clemenza di Tito (or 'The Clemency of Titus') marked Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's final opera seria. With a libretto by Metastasio (edited slightly by Caterino Mazzolà), the work dramatizes the palace intrigues surrounding emperor Titus's attempts to coronate a new bride and the envious Vitellia's attempts to have Titus assassinated (with the help of Titus's friend Sextus) following the deposition of Vitellia's emperor father. Stage director Martin Kušej mounted Tito in August 2003, at the Felsenreitschule in Salzburg; a film of that live performance now appears in this home video release. The cast includes Michael Schade as Titus, Vesselina Kasarova as Sextus and Dorothea Roschmann as Vitellia. The Wiener Staatsopernchor, under the baton of Nikolaus Harnoncourt, provides musical accompaniment; Jens Kilian designed the sets.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-08-20
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Bach Brandenburg Concertos & Coffee Cantata
Overview: Deutsche Grammophon celebrates Nikolaus Harnoncourt's 80th birthday with this 2-DVD release of rare, vintage, period Bach performances for the first time. Never released on DVD and, to the dismay of fans, long unavailable--these glorious Bach pieces are conducted by period instrument pioneer, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, as only he can. Harnoncourt, a notable cellist, performs in two concertos and on gamba in one. Harnoncourt warns, "If we lose contact with the great works of Bach, we lose our contact with humanity." Vocalists Janet Perry, Robert Holl, and Peter Schreier sing with distinction in the Coffee Cantata. The Surround Sound makes clear that they revel in the acoustics of the visually magnificent Baroque library of Wiblingen Monastery.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-07-25
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Cecilia Bartoli Sings Haydn
Overview: From the Styriarte Festival in Graz Austria, the acclaimed mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli and Maestro Nikolaus Harnoncourt with his orchestra Concentus Musicu Wien, present a concert on Haydn arias and Symphony No.92, the "Oxford". The singing virtuosity of "Scena di Berenice" is sublime as is the performance of The "Oxford" Symphony from the ensemble renown for its specialty in early music and playing on period instruments. A unique concert.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Beethoven - Fidelio (Zurich 2004)
Overview: Nikolaus Harnoncourt is the conductor in this 2004 production of Beethoven's only opera staged at the Zurich Opera House. Finnish soprano Camilla Nyland takes the title role, with performances by Jonas Kaufmann, Laszlo Polgar and Alfred Muff.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-03-29
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Beethoven Missa Solemnis
Overview: With this performance of the Missa solemnis Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Honorary Guest Conductor of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, once more attained the status of a living legend, due mostly to his wide-ranging expertise of music from the Baroque and Classical era. The highly acclaimed soloists are Marlis Petersen (Soprano), twice the singer of the year by the renowned Opernwelt magazine, Elisabeth Kulman (Alto), Werner Güra (Tenor), winner of the BBC Music Magazine Award for the best vocal performance, and Gerald Finley (Bass), Grammy-Awardwinner for the best opera recording. They are accompanied by the famous Netherlands Radio Choir.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-01
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Der Freischütz
Overview: The legendary director Ruth Berghaus created this staging of Carl Maria von Weber’s Der Freischütz as a gripping theatrical experience for the Zurich Opera in 1993. Its revival in 1999 was a roaring success. With sets by Hartmut Meyer and costumes by Marie-Louise Strandt, Berghaus’ staging avoids the local peasant colour conventionally associated with Weber’s opera. Chorus and orchestra of the Zurich Opera House are conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, universally celebrated for the structural transparency of his interpretations, his intellectual penetration and his emotional understanding of both music and opera plot. And last but not least an all-star cast made this production a highly memorable event: the dramatic soprano Inga Nielsen as Agathe, one of her best roles, the Swedish soprano Malin Hartelius as Ännchen, the sought-after Heldentenor Peter Seiffert, who gives a convincing passionate Max, and many others.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-03-01
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Mozart: Mitridate Re Di Ponto
Overview: Soprano Yvonne Kenny turns in a spirited performance as Aspasia in this brilliant staging of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's first notable opera -- penned when he was only 14 years old. The production, set in early Roman times, follows the inner circle of the empire's most formidable foe, King Mithridates of Pontus. Maestro Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts the sterling cast, which includes tenor Gosta Winbergh and mezzo-soprano Ann Murray.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Haydn The Seasons
Overview: When Joseph Haydn completed his fourth and final oratorio at the beginning of 1801 the 69-year-old composer was famous throughout Europe. Born in 1732 as the son of a humble wheelwright, Haydn grew up in a rural, peasant environment. That such a child should make his way eventually to the position of court composer was an extremely rare occurrence. Even in his days at royal courts, however, Haydn still felt a close and intimate attachment to Nature and to life in the countryside. When Baron Gottfried van Swieten, then, presented to Hadyn a libretto on the theme of The Seasons, he found in the old composer a worthy partner in his own veneration for Nature.
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-01-01
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Christophe Coin, le musicien
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Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1995-04-15
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An Advent Concert of Music by Bach
Overview: Nikolaus Harnoncourt leads the Concentus Musicus Vienna and Arnold Schoenberg Choir in a concert of Bach music at Austria's Kloster Melk Benedictine Monastery. Works included in this celebration of the coming of Christmas are Cantata BWV 61, "Nun Komm, der Heiden Heiland"; Cantata BWV 147, "Herz und Mund"; and Magnificat in D Major BWV 243. Soloists are Christine Schafer, Anna Korondi, Bernarda Fink, Ian Bostridge, Christopher Maltman. With the Concentus Musicus Vienna and the Arnold Schoenberg Choir.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-14
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Bach: St. John Passion
Overview: Johannes-Passion St. John Passion Equiluz · Moser · Holl · Scharinger Soloists of the Tölzer Knabenchor Tölzer Knabenchor Concentus Musicus, Wien Nikolaus Harnoncourt Directed by Humphrey Burton
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1985-06-30
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Mozart Violin Concertos 1-5 & Sinfonia Concertante in E Flat
Overview: Gidon Kremer performs the complete Mozart Violin Concertos plus the Sinfonia concertante with violist Kim Kashkashian. Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts the VIenna Philharmonic. The works were filmed in Vienna between 1983 and 1987.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-05-09
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Mozart !!!
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Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-07-05
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Neujahrskonzert der Wiener Philharmoniker 2001
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Original Language: de
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