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- The 2nd Annual Directors Guild of Great Britain DGGB Awards and Interviews backstage with the recipients, honorees and presenters of the Awards Show 2005. The Lifetime Achievement Award presented via satellite to Theatre and Film Director Sam Mendes on the set of Jarhead.
- The building of the Alltwalis Wind Farm from the planning, foundations, turbines delivery and all the people involved in the project.
- A recording of the 1824 version of Berlioz's Messe solennelle, which was considered to be lost until a copy was discovered in Antwerp in 1991.
- Filmed at the Styriate Festival in Graz Austria, Maestro Nikolaus Harnoncourt and his orchestra Concentus Musicus Wien collaborates with the world acclaimed mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli in a concert of rarely performed Mozart arias and Symphony No.38, the "Prague". Harnoncourt founded the orchestra with his violinist wife Alice in 1953. The ensemble is world renown for perfomances of early music on original instruments. A unique concert of virtuoso singing and orchestral style.
- The two dazzling stars of Gaetano Donizetti's brilliant comedy "L'elisir d'amore" Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alanga discuss their roles, the music and perform an aria, Adina's "Quanto amore!" and Nemorino's "Una furtiva lagrima" from the opera. Stage Director Frank Dunlop's witty production set in the 1920's is a beguiling mixture of sharp comedy and heartfelt pathos. The Orchestre de L'Opéra National de Lyon is conducted superbly by Maestro Evelino Pidó.
- The five stars of Mikhail Glinka's extraordinary opera masterpiece "Ruslan and Lyudmila" discuss their role, the music and perform an aria from the opera. Anna Netrebko's performance as "Lyudmila" is nothing short of breathtaking. Stage Director Lotfi Mansouri, Conductor Maestro Valery Gergiev accompanied by the Chorus and Orchestra of The Kirov interpret magnificently Glinka's musical vision of Russian folktale and nationalism, which cast the style for Russian composers over the next hundred years.
- The two stars of Leos Janácek's "The Cunning Little Vixen", Eva Jenis and Thomas Allen discuss their roles, the music and perform an aria from the opera. Stage Director, Nicholas Hytner and Designer, Bob Crowley capture beautifully the central themes of the eternal cycle of Nature. The Orchestre de Paris is conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras an expert interpreter of Janácek's works.
- Maestro Valery Gergiev, Conductor and Artistic Director of The Kirov Opera is interviewed by Dr. Reiner Moritz, Arts Patron, giving an indepth insight into the historic recording of the operatic masterpiece "Ruslan and Lyudmila" by the acknowledged "Father of Russian Opera" the composer Mikhail Glinka. Valery discusses the casting, music and staging of the opera, recorded at The Mariinsky Theatre in 1996. This Introduction accompanies the DVD Recording as an Extra Feature.
- A documentary introduction from musicologist Michael Nupen which places the Symphony and the life and work of Shostakovich in the context of its time. The performance of Symphony No.5 in D minor OP.47 played by The Russian Federation State Symphony Orchesta conducted by Yevgeni Svetlanov.
- A documentary introduction about John Cage and his epoch-making music, precedes the performances with the Ensemble Modern with solists Hermann kretzschmar and David Tudor playing "Concerto for Prepared Piano and Chamber Orchestra' and "Concerto for Piano and Orchestra". David Tudor helped Cage pioneer "live' electronic music in the 1960's and took part in several first performances of the composer's work.
- A documentary introduction by conductor Pierre Boulez, a former pupil of Messiaen and musicologist Michael Nupen precedes the performances of "Chronochromie" played by the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie and "Oiseaux exotiques" played by the Ensemble InterContemporain specially staged at the Alter Oper in Frankfurt, Germany.
- Sir John Tavener's magnum opus "The Veil of the Temple" and the setting of the Temple Church, London combines Western music with the insights and intensity of the Orthodox East. Sir John has written this gothic masterpiece for those of any faith or those of none. He says,"It is a journey towards God, and if you see God as the centre, as you must, then it is a journey from the periphery to God". Divided into eight cycles, each ascending in pitch, cycles one through seven draw from the versus of St. John's Gospel at the centre, and concluding with the eighth cycle, belonging to the day of eternity, which is finially 'paradisal'- a musical image of the celestial Temple within.
- The spectacular mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli is joined by the ensemble Il Giardino Armonico in a program of baroque music from composer Antonio Vivaldi, "The Red Priest". The concert encompasses arias and instrumental pieces from the oratorio Juditha Triumphans and the operas L'Olimpiade, Tito Manlio, Ottone in Villa, La fida ninfa, Bajazet (Il Tamerlano) and a chilling, passionate performance from Farnace. The ensemble performs Concerto in C major for Flautino (affectionately known as the Penny Whistle), and Concerto in D major for Lute. The predominant portion of music was unknown and specially transcribed from Vivaldi's original manuscripts by musicologist Claudio Osele. The International Film Crew from RM Associates is directed by veteran opera director Brian Large and produced by classical music producer Colin Wilson. The sell-out musical event was presented at the superb art-deco Théatre des Champs-Eysées, Paris in September 2000.