World Premiere: 10. September 2010, Dubrovnik, Croatia.

http://www.rachlinandfriends.com/program.php?koncp=43

Schumann fancies he can compose, Brahms is a giftless bastard and Debussy is simply ugly. Igudesman creates a sardonic melange of the most evil music critics of the last centuries about some of the greatest works of chamber music. Malkovich slips into the role of the evil music critic, who believes the music of Ravel and co is weary and dreary. Julian Rachlin, Janine Jansen, Richard Hyung-ki Joo and other great musician beg to differ.

http://www.wellenklaenge.at/10/programm/Akt2.php

Igudesman’s Russian Nights Folder

Tick­ets: + 49/41 226 77 77 or www.kkl-luzern.ch

Besides involving school kids in dancing choreographies and choire pieces, Igudesman conducts works Johann Strauss, as well as his ode to “Uruguay” and several world premieres of his own music. People will be able to experience his “monumental” new work, by the name of “Waltz of the World” for orchestra and choire, as well as pieces like “Buy Mozart, for half price” and the “Song about Music”.

Aleksey Igudesman, Leitung und Violine

Luzerner Sinfonieorchester LSO
Chor und Vokalensemble der Kantonsschule Seetal
Performance-Gruppe der Kantonsschule Seetal
Chor der Kantonsschule Seetal
Lorenz Ganz und Aaron Tschalèr, Chorleitung
Gudrun Lange und Claudine Leyer, Choreografie

J. Strauss, «Wiener Blut», «Unter Donner und Blitz» (u.a.)
L. van Beethoven, Egmont Ouvertüre f-Moll op. 84
A. Igudesman, «Waltz of the world» (u.a.), «Yo me voy a Uruguay»

IGUDESMAN & JOO: “Everything you Always Wanted to Know About Classical Music” can be seen for a while online here:

http://www.3sat.de/page/?source=/theater/programm/144781/index.html

For those who thought they knew every­thing about clas­si­cal music, think again! For those who know noth­ing about it all are in for a trip as some of clas­si­cal music’s biggest names reveal their dark­est secrets and hid­den fetishes.

This is the movie where Lang Lang unleashes his Crouch­ing Tiger, Hilary Hahn con­fesses her crimes of pas­sion, Janine Jansen serves up a deadly cock­tail and Renaud Capuçon stu­pe­fies the astro­nauts from NASA.

The leg­ends of pop show off their clas­si­cal prowess too and watch out for the mas­ter actor of spy movies, Roger Moore, utter­ing his favourite four-letter code words!

With Sir Roger Moore, Marta Arg­erich, Renaud Capuçon, Mar­tin Fröst, Hilary Hahn, Janine Jansen, Lang Lang, Mis­cha Maisky, Lawrence Power, Julian Rach­lin, Alexan­dra Soumm, Midge Ure, Kim Wilde, Den­nis de Young, and others.

With Sir Roger Moore, Marta Argerich, Renaud Capuçon, Martin Fröst, Hilary Hahn, Janine Jansen, Lang Lang, Mischa Maisky, Lawrence Power, Julian Rachlin, Alexandra Soumm, Midge Ure, Kim Wilde, Dennis de Young, and others.

Watch the Trailer:

http://theaterkanal.zdf.de/ZDFde/inhalt/2/0,1872,8075266,00.html

For those who thought they knew everything about classical music, think again! For those who know nothing about it all are in for a trip as some of classical music’s biggest names reveal their darkest secrets and hidden fetishes.

This is the movie where Lang Lang unleashes his Crouching Tiger, Hilary Hahn confesses her crimes of passion, Janine Jansen serves up a deadly cocktail and Renaud Capuçon stupefies the astronauts from NASA.

The legends of pop show off their classical prowess too and watch out for the master actor of spy movies, Roger Moore, uttering his favourite four-letter code words!

Jeal­ous of the Birds, cur­rently in post-production, is a fea­ture length doc­u­men­tary that pro­vides a new angle and new sto­ries to the pan­theon of Holo­caust related doc­u­men­taries.
The film focuses on the emo­tional his­tory of a small com­mu­nity of Holo­caust Sur­vivors who remained in Frank­furt, Ger­many after lib­er­a­tion from Nazi death camps, and asks the ques­tion, ‘Why would a Sur­vivor choose to remain in Ger­many — shoul­der to shoul­der with their per­pe­tra­tors?‘

Hans Zim­mer and Alek­sey Igudes­man are respon­si­ble for the film’s film score.
Stay tuned for more.

Fur­ther information:
Score Mag­a­zine
Film Music Reporter
Hans Zim­mer Homepage
Jeal­ous of the Birds Homepage