Охотники за сокровищами. Джордж Клуни

Действие картины разворачивается во времена падения Третьего Рейха в Германии. Помимо военных действий и расовых чисток, у нацистов было много других дерзких замыслов. Не секрет, что многие лидеры гитлеровской Германии увлекались искусством и коллекционировали лучшие произведения мировой живописи и скульптуры, которое только могли найти и вывести с захваченных территорий. Несмотря на то, что условия для хранения экспонатов были обеспечены самые лучшие, такой порядок нарушал главную особенность искусства – оно должно быть доступно любому: и рейх-канцлеру и простому крестьянину. К концу войны в руках нацистской верхушки скопилось огромное количество ценнейших образцов. А вход советский войск и ожидаемые бомбежки стали под угрозу их сохранность. Группа искусствоведов решается на небывалый шаг – проникнуть в их резиденции раньше советских освободительных войск и вывести экспонаты в безопасное место.

Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey. 2014. National Geographic

Канал NationalGeographic отправляется к звездам по следам культовой программы «Космос: Персональное путешествие с Карлом Саганом», посвященной тайнам Вселенной. Над новым проектом, который получил название «Космос: Пространство и время», работала та же команда, которая когда-то создавала историю вместе с Саганом: исполнительный продюсер Энн Друян и астроном Стивен Сотер. К ним присоединился Сет Макфарлейн (Гриффины, Американский папаша), и вместе они создали 13-серийный проект, который, несомненно, станет достойным приемником оригинального сериала, завоевавшего премии Эмми и Пибоди.
Ведущим нового сериала стал известный во всем мире астрофизик, писатель и популяризатор науки Нил Деграсс Тайсон («Смерть в чёрной дыре и другие космические трудности», «Космические хроники»). Сериал расскажет о том, как человечество обнаружило законы природы и нашло собственные координаты в пространстве и времени. Он перенесет зрителей через Вселенную - в новые миры  - чтобы показать им всю мощь и величие Космоса. 
Оригинальный проект «Космос: Персональное путешествие с Карлом Саганом» был впервые показан в 1980 году, и его посмотрело более 750 миллионов человек по всему миру.

Гарегин Нжде. Грач Кешишян

Фильм рассказывает о выдающемся армянском политическом и военном деятеле Гарегине Нжде, который в начале XX века боролся за становление Армении и сохранение ее территориальной целостности.

Ellington In Anticipation. Mark Lockheart

I started experimenting with some of Ellington's tunes one day and after a while found I had four or five strong ideas that I was excited about. Some of these tunes including 'Satin Doll' and 'Mood Indigo' became the inspiration for the rest of the album which gradually took shape over about a year. I've always loved  the way Ellington wrote for distinct musical instrumental voices and became fascinated in the way you could hear Johnny Hodges, Harry Carney, Paul Gonsalves and Lawerence Brown all 'sticking out' in the section . The sucess of this record lies alot in the individual voices I have on this record.

Parliamentary Jazz Awards winner

Bach, J S: Partitas Nos. 1-6, BWV825-830. Ton Koopman (harpsichord)

As a harpsichord player and director of the group he founded, the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir, Ton Koopman has been a regular guest at leading concert halls in Vienna, London, Berlin, Brussels, Madrid, Rome, Salzburg, Tokyo and Osaka. Between 1994 and 2004 he conducted and recorded all the existing cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach, and this series received many international awards, among them the BBC Music Magazine Award in 2008.

Ton Koopman is considered to be one of the world’s leading experts in the performance of music of the baroque period and particularly that of J.S. Bach. In August last year He released a recording with Catherine Manson of Bach’s six sonatas for harpsichord and violin BWV1014-1019, and in recent times has released critically acclaimed recordings of the harpsichord works of Dieterich Buxtehude as part of a cycle of his complete works.

Royal Academy of Music Bach Prize

Prokofiev: Symphonies Vol. 1. Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Kirill Karabits

Alternative ending for Symphony No. 7
Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 44
Symphony No. 7 in C sharp minor, Op. 131
This is the first release in a survey of all seven Prokofiev Symphonies from Kirill Karabits and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Karabits has had access to the Prokofiev family archive and throughout this project there will be quite a few surprises, such as music from the early Symphony in G of 1902 and works such as 'Dreams' Op. 6, 'Autumnal Sketch' Op. 8 and 'Two Poems for orchestra and Women’s Chorus' Op. 7, as well as the 'Sinfonia Concertante' for cello & orchestra. Each CD booklet contains an interview with Karabits in conversation with Prokofiev expert Daniel Jaffé.

The 3rd Symphony makes extensive use of music from the opera 'The Fiery Angel'. It was premiered in 1929 under Pierre Monteux and is vividly colourful, sensual and exciting. The 7th dates from 1952, the year before the composer’s death. Intended as a work for young people, it is beautiful, yet enigmatic and reflective, harking back to the great ballet scores. Prokofiev provided an alternative ‘upbeat’ conventional ending to the symphony at the request of colleagues so as not to provoke criticism from the Soviet authorities. This alternative finale can be heard after the 7th symphony on this CD. Today the work is always performed with the peaceful ‘leave taking’ ending that the composer preferred.

“Karabits argues that the Third has a logic of its own, unrelated to the opera, and maintains his case in a truly terrifying yet detailed performance that precariously balances formal tautness with atrocious emotional intensity. The Seventh, he claims, is "a very tragic work", which is pushing it, though his interpretation is unnervingly bleak.” The Guardian

“the Bournemouth Orchestra can hold its head high in the most august company. These two performances are terrific.” MusicWeb International

The Fundamental Rhythm of Unpolished Brains. Hildegard lernt fliege

The results are not quite like anything you ever heard. No: They are a little bit like everything you ever heard. I lost count of the influences and allusions that flashed by, but moments that afford brief glimpses of others are legion. Vocally alone, Schaerer can sound like anyone from Phil Minton to Freddie Mercury. Tom Waits and Eugene Chadbourne are in there somewhere, too. On Don Clemenza he wordlessly evokes grand opera while his own prog-rock leaning lyrics on Zeusler are delivered in the manner of Genesis era Peter Gabriel. There are Bobby McFerrin moments, too. <...> The abiding danger that they might adds a memorable spice to this rather remarkable recording. LondonJazz News

BMW World Jazz Award winner

Lotte Lehmann – A 125th Birthday Tribute

It’s difficult to exaggerate the veneration that Lotte Lehmann (1888 – 1976) enjoyed during her career as a lyric soprano. Any press agent today would be hard-pressed to write the kind of glowing reviews that regularly appeared in newspapers wherever she sang. In her first career, primarily as an opera singer, she sang at opera houses of Hamburg, Berlin, Vienna, London, Paris, Chicago, New York and San Francisco; sang local and world premiers of works by Korngold, Richard Strauss, Puccini and others.

Lotte Lehmann had genius. She knew how to win not just the admiration, but the love of her audience. Few performers in the world of classical music have been so loved. Her enthusiasm, commitment, and ardor come across in spite of the limitations of the recording and the performance. She seemed to be in touch with the same power that had inspired the poets and musicians whose work she brought to life. Those who heard her felt that, and it lifted them up. That is the greatest gift that art can give.

This marvelous collection of "rarities" has been selected  from archival radio performances and studio "test pressings." Included are 10 previously unreleased recordings. All selection have been restored in 2013.

Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life. Jonathan Sperber

Karl Marx is a magisterial and defining biography that vividly explores not only the man himself but also the revolutionary times in which he lived.

Between his birth in 1818 and his death sixty-five years later, Karl Marx became one of Western civilization’s most influential political philosophers. Two centuries on, he is still revered as a prophet of the modern world, yet he is also blamed for the darkest atrocities of modern times. But no matter in what light he is cast, the short, but broad-shouldered, bearded Marx remains—as a human being—distorted on a Procrustean bed of political “isms,” perceived through the partially distorting lens of his chief disciple, Friedrich Engels, or understood as a figure of twentieth-century totalitarian Marxist regimes.

Returning Marx to the Victorian confines of the nineteenth century, Jonathan Sperber, one of the United States’ leading European historians, challenges many of our misconceptions of this political firebrand turned London émigré journalist. In this deeply humanizing portrait, Marx no longer is the Olympian soothsayer, divining the dialectical imperatives of human history, but a scholar-activist whose revolutionary Weltanschauung was closer to Robespierre’s than to those of twentieth-century Marxists.

“Sperber prefers a firmly historicist approach, and attempts, by viewing his subject purely in the context of the times, to show us a quintessentially ‘nineteenth-century life'…Sperber’s rigor…yields gems.” New Yorker

An impressively researched work that provides a fresh perspective on Marx and his ideas by placing him in the social and intellectual swirl of the 1800s. Pulitzer Prize Finalist

Uneducated Guesses: Using Evidence to Uncover Misguided Education Policies. Howard Wainer

Uneducated Guesses challenges everything our policymakers thought they knew about education and education reform, from how to close the achievement gap in public schools to admission standards for top universities. In this explosive book, Howard Wainer uses statistical evidence to show why some of the most widely held beliefs in education today--and the policies that have resulted--are wrong. He shows why colleges that make the SAT optional for applicants end up with underperforming students and inflated national rankings, and why the push to substitute achievement tests for aptitude tests makes no sense. Wainer challenges the thinking behind the enormous rise of advanced placement courses in high schools, and demonstrates why assessing teachers based on how well their students perform on tests--a central pillar of recent education reforms--is woefully misguided. He explains why college rankings are often lacking in hard evidence, why essay questions on tests disadvantage women, why the most grievous errors in education testing are not made by testing organizations--and much more.

No one concerned about seeing our children achieve their full potential can afford to ignore this book. With forceful storytelling, wry insight, and a wealth of real-world examples, Uneducated Guesses exposes today's educational policies to the light of empirical evidence, and offers solutions for fairer and more viable future policies.

Winner of the 2014 AERA Division D Significant Contribution to Educational Measurement and Research Methodology Award, American Educational Research Association

Только Венеция. Образы Италии XXI. Аркадий Ипполитов

После грандиозного успеха книги «Особенно Ломбардия. Образы Италии XXI», снискавшей успех как среди читательской, так и среди профессиональной аудитории — в 2012 году она была награждена премией Андрея Белого, — ее автор продолжил путешествие по северу Италии. Новая книга историка искусств и старшего научного сотрудника Отдела западноевропейского изобразительного искусства Аркадия Ипполитова посвящена Венеции и шести ее районам — Каннареджо, Сан-Поло, Сан-Марко, Дорсодуро, Санта-Кроче и Кастелло, каждый из которых обладает собственной историей и атмосферой.  Artguide

The Library. A World History. James W. P. Campbell, Will Pryce

Ambitious and wide-ranging, this is the first single volume to tell the story of libraries around 
the world, from the beginnings of writing to the present day

Book collections have always served 
to display their owners’ culture and learning and the word ‘library’ has come to 
mean not only the books themselves, but also the buildings that house them. Each age and culture has moulded them to reflect its own priorities and preoccupations – mirroring the history of civilization itself.
In its highest form the library became 
a total work of art, combining painting, sculpture, furniture and architecture. From their designs for the libraries of ancient Rome to those of the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, architects have sought to outdo each other by producing ever more spectacular settings.

The Third Industrial Revolution. How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World. Jeremy Rifkin

The Industrial Revolution, powered by oil and other fossil fuels, is spiraling into a dangerous endgame. The price of gas and food are climbing, unemployment remains high, the housing market has tanked, consumer and government debt is soaring, and the recovery is slowing. Facing the prospect of a second collapse of the global economy, humanity is desperate for a sustainable economic game plan to take us into the future.
Here, Jeremy Rifkin explores how Internet technology and renewable energy are merging to create a powerful “Third Industrial Revolution.” He asks us to imagine hundreds of millions of people producing their own green energy in their homes, offices, and factories, and sharing it with each other in an “energy internet,” just like we now create and share information online.

“Impeccably argued…a compelling and cogent argument to overhaul our society and economy in favor of a distributed and collaborative model.”--Publishers Weekly

In 100 Years. Leading Economists Predict the Future. Edited by Ignacio Palacios-Huerta

This pithy and engaging volume shows that economists may be better equipped to predict the future than science fiction writers. Economists’ ideas, based on both theory and practice, reflect their knowledge of the laws of human interactions as well as years of experimentation and reflection. Although perhaps not as screenplay-ready as a work of fiction, these economists’ predictions are ready for their close-ups. In this book, ten prominent economists—including Nobel laureates and several likely laureates—offer their ideas about the world of the twenty-second century. In scenarios that range from the optimistic to the guardedly gloomy, these thinkers consider such topics as the transformation of work and wages, the continuing increase in inequality, the economic rise of China and India, the endlessly repeating cycle of crisis and (projected) recovery, the benefits of technology, the economic consequences of political extremism, and the long-range effects of climate change. For example, Daron Acemoglu offers a thoughtful discussion of how trends of the last century—including uneven growth, technological integration, and resource scarcity—might translate into the next; 2013 Nobelist Robert Shiller provides an innovative view of future risk management methods using information technology; 2012 Nobelist Alvin Roth projects his theory of Matching Markets into the next century, focusing on schools, jobs, marriage and family, and medicine; 1987 Nobelist Robert Solow considers the shift away from remunerated labor, among other subjects; and Martin Weitzman raises the intriguing but alarming possibility of using geoengineering techniques to mitigate the inevitable effects of climate change.

Urban Innovation Systems: What Makes Them Tick? van Winden W., Braun E., Otgaar A., Witte J-J.

Одни города и регионы привлекают талантливых людей, создающих новое знание и порождающих идеи. У других наоборот, ничего не выходит. Поддается ли создание инновационного города алгоритмизации? Или такие места «просто возникают», сами по себе, где и когда захотят?

Нынешнее исследование четырёх авторов из Нидерландов – Виллема Ван Виндена, Эрика Брауна, Александера Отгара и Яна-Йелле Витте, – призвано предъявить городу и миру концептуальную модель развития инновационного города, построенную на основе достижений экономической географии, городской экономики (urban economics), исследований в области управления городами и, наконец территориального брендинга. Жаль, разумеется, что авторы не уделили больше внимания сколковскому сюжету, – однако книга предоставляет пусть, возможно и недостаточную, но уж точно необходимую теоретическую базу для отечественного исследователя, – сегодняшнего или завтрашнего, – который решит восполнить этот пробел

Elihu Yale. Merchant, Collector & Patron. Diana Scarisbrick, Benjamin Zucker

‘There can be few educational institutions named after a man with the force of character, powers of leadership, business acumen, and variety of intellectual and spiritual interests of Elihu Yale'
His career, which spans Puritan New England, Mughal India, and the London of the English Enlightenment, throws light on the religious, political, social, commercial, scientific, and cultural circumstances of the world of the later Stuarts and early Hanoverians.

Elihu Yale (1649–1721) is famous for the name of Yale University, of which he was an early benefactor. He made his fortune in India, trading in diamonds. Arriving there in 1672, he rose through the East India Company from clerk to governor. When he returned to London in 1699 he brought with him gems, furniture and textiles. In the milieu of portrait painter Sir Godfrey Kneller and physician Sir Hans Sloane he established a fashionable household where he had assembled some ten thousand items.

The Elements of Modern Architecture. Understanding Contemporary Buildings. Antony Radford, Selen B. Morkoç

Fifty of the world’s modern architectural masterpieces, constructed between 1950 and the present, are analysed through specially commissioned drawings that reveal the principles and details of what makes a building meaningful and enduring. Includes c. 2,500 line drawings and 50 photographs

Starting from its site, each work is analysed through its surroundings, use of natural light, volumes and massing; its program and circulation; and its details, fenestration and ornamentation, showing the reader how the building works as a cohesive whole.

Aimed at architects, students and everyone who appreciates great buildings, 'The Elements of Modern Architecture' will be an essential reference and inspiration for generations to come.

The Art and Politics of Science. Harold Varmus

A Nobel Prize–winning cancer biologist, leader of major scientific institutions, and scientific adviser to President Obama reflects on his remarkable career.

A PhD candidate in English literature at Harvard University, Harold Varmus discovered he was drawn instead to medicine and eventually found himself at the forefront of cancer research at the University of California, San Francisco. In this “timely memoir of a remarkable career” (American Scientist), Varmus considers a life’s work that thus far includes not only the groundbreaking research that won him a Nobel Prize but also six years as the director of the National Institutes of Health; his current position as the president of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; and his important, continuing work as scientific adviser to President Obama. From this truly unique perspective, Varmus shares his experiences from the trenches of politicized battlegrounds ranging from budget fights to stem cell research, global health to science publishing.

Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science
 
“A perceptive book about science and its civic value, arriving as the White House renews its acquaintance with empiricism.” — The New York Times

Роль учёного в обществе. Джозеф Бен-Дэвид

В книге прослеживается долгая история формирования научных институтов от позднего средневековья до сегодняшнего дня. Автор последовательно опровергает представления о линейной эволюции науки, фокусируя внимание читателя на неочевидности событий, обозначивших реальную траекторию ее развития. Он показывает, как различные интересы и действия конкретных личностей, связанные с познанием естественных явлений и имевшие первоначально характер технической информации, кристаллизовались в публично признанную роль ученого. Особое внимание уделено легитимации научного отношения к реальности и возникновению универсальной научной идеологии. Охватывая широкий социально-исторический контекст, Бен-Дэвид объясняет, почему центры научного влияния, появившись сначала в Италии, перемещаются затем в Великобританию, Францию, Германию и, наконец,  в Соединенные Штаты, а также дает подробный обзор стратегий, приведших к образованию или выбору определенных организационных форм науки в различных обществах.

Contemporary Fiction and the Fairy Tale by Stephen Benson

Recent decades have witnessed a renaissance of interest in the fairy tale, not least among writers of fiction. In Contemporary Fiction and the Fairy Tale, editor Stephen Benson argues that fairy tales are one of the key influences on fiction of the past thirty years and also continue to shape literary trends in the present. Contributors detail the use of fairy tales both as inspiration and blueprint and explore the results of juxtaposing fairy tales and contemporary fiction.

Contemporary Fiction and the Fairy Tale offers the first detailed and comprehensive account of the key authors working in this emerging genre. Students and teachers of fiction, folklore, and fairy-tale studies will appreciate this insightful volume.

Choice Magazine: CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title

Tim's Vermeer. Tim Jenison

Inventor Tim Jenison seeks to understand the painting techniques used by Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer.
Watching this film is a virtual art course in itself. Tim Jenison takes us on a search for the secrets of Dutch artist Vermeer's tremendous use of light in his art work. He researches early applications of the so called camera obscura and the use of lenses. He comes up with a possible theory of how Vermeer painted and then gets to work confirming his theory.

Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award.
Another 1 win & 3 nominations.

Finding Vivian Maier. John Maloof

A documentary on the late Vivian Maier, a nanny whose previously unknown cache of 100,000 photographs earned her a posthumous reputation as one the most accomplished street photographers.

Real estate agent, John Maloof explains how a trip to a local auction house, in search for old pictures to use for a book history of his neighborhood, resulted in him bidding and winning a box full of old negatives. John, goes through the massive quantity of negatives, describes how impressed he was by the quality of the images, quickly determined they were not reverent to his project and just put them away. That could have very likely had been the end of the story, if the power of the images had not pushed him to fall in love with photography. John confides that his photo hobby quickly motivated him to set up a darkroom and devote large amounts of time shooting. As he learned more about photography, he recognized that those negatives he had bought, then stored, were the work of a real master. In an attempt to confirm his suspicion, he selected about 100 images and put them online with the hope that the feedback would confirm his judgement as to the strength of the images.

Miami Film Festival Grand Jury Prize
Palm Springs International Film Festival Award

Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?: An Animated Conversation with Noam Chomsky. Michel Gondry

A series of interviews featuring linguist, philosopher and activist Noam Chomsky done in hand-drawn animation.

This is a fantastic, intelligent wedding of word and image. It's like a genuine synthesthetic experience, like the animator wanted us to have a cogent, dependable hallucination of Chomsky's brilliant, eloquent statements. From time to time I would sort of "forget" whether I was hearing Chomsky or seeing what he was saying; they sometimes switched places... or (perhaps more accurately) truly merged in my mind, like finally having the image of one of those 3D "art" images pop out at you when your eyes finally settle into the correct parallax and focus mix. I found that when I was relaxed and letting the flow of ideation wash over me, my experience was "of a piece"; almost psychedelically.

Rhythm Is It! Thomas Grube, Enrique Sánchez Lansch

RHYTHM IS IT! records the first big educational project of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Sir Simon Rattle. The orchestra ventured out of the ivory tower of high culture into boroughs of low life for the sake of 250 youngsters. They had been strangers to classical music, but after arduous but thrilling preparation they danced to Stravinsky's 'Le Sacre du Printemps' ('The Rite of Spring'). Recorded with a breathtaking fidelity of sound, this film from Thomas Grube and Enrique Sánchez Lansch documents the stages of the Sacre project and offers deep insights into the rehearsals of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.

6 wins & 1 nomination

American Masters: Alexander Calder

An American Masters special—a co-production of American Masters and Florentine Films/Sherman Pictures LLC, Alexander Calder is the first definitive portrait of the inventor of the mobile.  The one-hour PBS program shows Calder at work in his studio, and features never-before-seen archival films and photographs. It includes contemporary shooting of dozens of works, seen as Calder meant them to be viewed, in dynamic motion. Interviewees include: Arthur Miller, Ellsworth Kelly, I.M. Pei, Brendan Gill, Marla Prather, David Ross, Calder’s daughters and grandson, Sandy Rower, and others.

The film received rave reviews, including Pick-of-the-Week status in People and an A in Entertainment Weekly. Sherman made an appearance on Charlie Rose, during which Rose called the film “an extraordinary American masterpiece.” Legendary agent Robby Lantz said it was “a masterful movie portrait,” and Susan Lacy, executive producer of American Masters, described it simply as “the best artist portrait I’ve ever seen.”

Emmy Award, Outstanding Series, as part of American Masters
George Foster Peabody Award
CINE Golden Eagle
Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival
World Premiere at the Whitney Museum of American Art
Screened at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

TIGRAN MANSURIAN. Quasi parlando

Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, violin; Anja Lechner, violoncello; Candida Thompson, lead violin

Issued in the wake of the great Armenian composer’s 75th birthday, this New Series album opens with Tigran Mansurian’s fiercely-concentrated Double Concerto, composed in 1978, and proceeds to new music performed by its dedicatees: the lyrical Romance, dedicated to Moldovan violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja, and the intensely expressive Quasi parlando, dedicated to German cellist Anja Lechner.

Patricia Kopatchinskaja is not only one of the most imaginative violinists around today, she is also a musician capable of galvanising colleagues and mesmerising audiences. Whether she is digging into the dark emotions of 20th-century masterpieces or championing new works she is as irresistible as a force of nature: passionate, challenging and totally original in her approach. RPS Music award

Hidden Handel. Ann Hallenberg (mezzo).Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis

The Handel arias and orchestral pieces on this disc span a narrow spectrum from the comparatively unfamiliar to the practically unknown. Nine of the twelve arias are recorded here for the first time, as is the D major March, HWV 416. The arias are mostly arie aggiunte, composed for insertion in later performances of existing operas to accommodate a different cast of singers. Some of these arias have come to light only recently or have previously been inadequately identified.

The Swedish mezzo-soprano Ann Hallenberg has become established as one of Europe’s leading mezzo-sopranos. Her operatic repertoire includes a large number of roles by Rossini, Mozart, Gluck, Massenet, Handel, Vivaldi and Monteverdi. Equally at home on the concert platform, she frequently appears in concert halls and festivals throughout Europe and North America.

Ann Hallenberg Opera Awards CD (Operatic Recital)

Избранные письма Сергея Рахманинова 2013. Антон Батагов

В этом цикле Рахманинов пишет письма композиторам-постмодернистам. Он сам был анти-модернистом. Он не совершал революций, не "опережал время", и не боялся выглядеть старомодным. На первый взгляд кажется, что он не повлиял ни на кого из композиторов конца ХХ – начала XXI века. И всё же его незримое магическое присутствие ощущается в музыке некоторых авторов: и тех, кого называют "современной классикой", и рок-музыкантов. И наоборот: когда бесконечные Рахманиновские мелодии раскручиваются из кратчайшего мотива – буквально из двух-трех нот – слово "минимализм" уже готово сорваться с языка… Впрочем, пути этих взаимодействий – штука настолько тонкая и неочевидная, что не хочется огрублять ее музыковедческими терминами.

Schubert: Winterreise. Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Helmut Deutsch (piano)

Following the success of Jonas Kaufmann’s debut album on Sony Classical, The Verdi Album, Sony Classical are pleased to release its first recital disc with the world’s top tenor. Along with Franz Schubert’s earlier song cycle Die Schöne Müllerin, Winterreise is generally considered the composer’s greatest contribution to the Lied repertoire. The Winterreise song cycle (Winter Journey) is set to 24 poems by the poet Wilhelm Müller and was completed by Schubert a year before his death in 1827. After over 20 years of working together and countless performances of Winterreise, Jonas Kaufmann and his piano-partner Helmut Deutsch finally commit the Olympus of the Lied repertoire to disc. What started as a teacher-student relationship at the Münchner Hochschule für Musik und Theater has long since developed into a close professional partnership. Helmut Deutsch is recognised as one of the world's foremost Lieder pianists.

“Even shelves heaving with Winter’s Journeys should find space for Kaufmann’s...Few tenor versions of this great cycle are sung with such depth of tone, so wide a spectrum of colours or such a poetic a response to Müller’s texts. In Deutsch, Kaufmann has an ideal travelling companion.” Sunday Times

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Leos Janacek - Robert Schumann. Marc-André Hamelin

Marc-André Hamelin n'est pas "que" le virtuose phénoménal qui nous étonne disque après disque. Ce n'est pas non plus "que" le découvreur de tant de bonnes musiques oubliées. Sur son dernier album, il nous fait entendre sa face intimiste révélant un amoureux de la nature avec lequel il fait bon se promener sur les Sentiers broussailleux de Moravie si bien décrits par Janacek comme dans la forêt, inséparable de l'âme romantique allemande. Par une très intelligente mise en perspective, Hamelin traverse la forêt de Schumann (Waldszenen) où l'on croise des chasseurs aux aguets dans des paysages souriants ou maudits et même un mystérieux oiseau prophète. De quoi épouvanter les enfants écoutant de curieuses histoires au coin du feu (Kinderszenen). Mais, heureusement, c'est le poète qui parle et qui aura même le dernier mot, car c'est bien un poète qui a signé cet album au charme et à la mélancolie irrésistibles