Concert De La Loge Devos Taylor Dunford Sakai Quatuor Cambini-Paris Chauvin - Galerie Doree - BLU-RAY

In 2018, the 'Golden Gallery' of the Central Bank of France, and more precisely it's renovation in the style of the 18th century by the Count of Toulouse, celebrated it's tricentenary. Like the Hall of Mirrors at the Château de Versailles, it counts among the most lavish ceremonial galleries of France it was in this glorious setting that several scenes of the movie Marie-Antoinette, by Sofia Coppola, were shot. On this occasion, the baroque ensemble 'Concert de la Loge' and it's musical director Julien Chauvin drew upon this incredible setting, it's paintings and it's sculptures but also it's history, and brought together various pieces from the baroque and classical repertoire Lully, Rameau, Couperin, Boccherini, Charpentier, Vivaldi, Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Haendel... Thanks to an elaborate scenography and to a smart lighting design, the program is also a journey through the mysteries of the visual works displayed in the gallery for instance the allegories of the young Louis XIV at the beginning of his reign, the story of Henry IV... all of which is explained at length in a gorgeous booklet written by art specialists.

Lucerne Festival Opera Brahms, Featuring Brahms, Johannes Brahms, Nelsons, Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Michael Beyer.Andris Nelsons conducts the Lucerne Festival Opera in this performance of Brahms' works, recorded in August 2014. For the first time, the festival would take place without the incomparable Claudio Abbado, with the young Latvian Andris Nelsons leading the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. Nelsons had already won the trust and respect of both listeners and performers in a moving memorial concert for Abbado in Lucerne. He is known internationally as one of the most gifted conductors of his generation. Now he was poised to lead the prestigious festival into a new era he brilliantly mastered this Inchgreatest challengeInch (as he himself called it) of his career. The audience and the musicians responded with heartfelt gratitude. InchHe is aware of every single player and carries us on an unbelievable wave of enthusiasmInch, according to concertmaster Sebastian Breuninger. Solo violist Wolfram Christ adds, InchNelsons accepts what is inherent in our orchestra and what comes from Abbado; he builds on it and makes it into something new.Inch The works featured are 'Serenade No. 2 in A Major', 'Alto Rhapsody' and 'Symphony No. 2 in D Major'. Recorded live at the Concer Hall of KKL Luzern 15-16, August 2014. Subtitled German, English, French, Japanese, Korean.

In 2014 the World Orchestra for Peace and conductor Valery Gergiev returned for it's fourth appearance to the BBC Proms stage to commemorate the centennial of the outbreak of WW1.The concert featured Roxanna Panufnik's Three Paths to Peace, an orchestra commission, Mahler's Sixth Symphony, and the Symphonic Fantasia from Richard Strauss' Die Frau ohne Schatten. Founded in 1995 by Sir Georg Solti, The World Orchestra for Peace is made up of leading players from the world's finest orchestras. Includes a documentary honoring the orchestra's 20th anniversary, Charles Kaye's From War To Peace.