The complete disappearance by the tenth century of the medieval Chinese aristocracy, the “great clans” that had dominated China for centuries, has long perplexed historians. In this book, Nicolas Tackett resolves the enigma of their disappearance by using new, digital methodologies to analyze a dazzling array of sources. He systematically exploits the thousands of funerary biographies excavated in recent decades—most of them never before examined by scholars—while taking full advantage of the explanatory power of Geographic Information System (GIS) and social network analysis. Tackett supplements these analyses with an extensive use of anecdotes culled from epitaphs, prose literature, and poetry, bringing to life the women and men of a millennium ago.
The Destruction of the Medieval Chinese Aristocracy demonstrates that the great Tang aristocratic families were far more successful than previously believed in adapting to the social, economic, and institutional transformations of the seventh and eighth centuries. Their political influence collapsed only after a large proportion of them were physically eliminated during the three decades of extreme violence that followed Huang Chao’s sack of the capital cities in 880 CE.
James Breasted Prize
29 окт. 2015 г.
Весь мир - школа. Преобразованное образование. Хан С.
Бесплатное образование мирового уровня для всех и каждого - такова цель Салмана Хана и его Академии, выросшей из самодеятельных авторских интернет-уроков и достигшей всемирного признания. Как все первопроходцы, Хан переосмысливает традиции и дает волю воображению, чтобы представить обучение, свободное от предрассудков прошлого. Краеугольный камень его проекта и страсть всей его жизни -освободить преподавателя от чтения лекций и строгого следования учебным планам, навязанным чиновниками, и увеличить время для человеческого общения и взаимодействия.
Я наткнулся на Хана и его Академию, как и многие другие, пользуясь его сногсшибательными программами вместе с детьми. Видение и энергия этого человека, его вера в способность технологии изменить образование заразительны. Он настоящий первопроходец в том, что касается слияния технологий и образования. Я очень рад, что благодаря этой книге больше людей сможет познакомиться с этим неукротимым новатором. Билл Гейтс, сооснователь, председатель совета директоров Microsoft
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The App Generation: How Today's Youth Navigate Identity, Intimacy, and Imagination in a Digital World. Howard Gardner
No one has failed to notice that the current generation of youth is deeply—some would say totally—involved with digital media. Professors Howard Gardner and Katie Davis name today’s young people The App Generation, and in this spellbinding book they explore what it means to be “app-dependent” versus “app-enabled” and how life for this generation differs from life before the digital era.
Gardner and Davis are concerned with three vital areas of adolescent life: identity, intimacy, and imagination. Through innovative research, including interviews of young people, focus groups of those who work with them, and a unique comparison of youthful artistic productions before and after the digital revolution, the authors uncover the drawbacks of apps: they may foreclose a sense of identity, encourage superficial relations with others, and stunt creative imagination.
Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner has been acclaimed as the most influential educational theorist since John Dewey. His ideas about intelligence and creativity - explicated in such bestselling books as Frames of Mind and Multiple Intelligences (over 200,000 copies in print combined) - have revolutionized our thinking.In his groundbreaking 1983 book Frames of Mind, Howard Gardner first introduced the theory of multiple intelligences, which posits that intelligence is more than a single property of the human mind.
Gardner and Davis are concerned with three vital areas of adolescent life: identity, intimacy, and imagination. Through innovative research, including interviews of young people, focus groups of those who work with them, and a unique comparison of youthful artistic productions before and after the digital revolution, the authors uncover the drawbacks of apps: they may foreclose a sense of identity, encourage superficial relations with others, and stunt creative imagination.
Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner has been acclaimed as the most influential educational theorist since John Dewey. His ideas about intelligence and creativity - explicated in such bestselling books as Frames of Mind and Multiple Intelligences (over 200,000 copies in print combined) - have revolutionized our thinking.In his groundbreaking 1983 book Frames of Mind, Howard Gardner first introduced the theory of multiple intelligences, which posits that intelligence is more than a single property of the human mind.
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Философские основания экологического образования в эпоху нанотехнологий. Марфенин Н.Н.
Современный комплекс наук о жизни ставит в своем развитии перед философским знанием целый ряд новых вопросов и проблем, возникающих в связи с открытиями и наработками в сфере биологического познания, с новыми возможностями биологических экспериментов и конструктивных практик преобразования мира живого. Это проблемы генной и клеточной инженерии, инженерии биогеоценозов, проблемы био- и экоэтики и многие другие. В этой связи остро актуализируется возможность философского знания ответить на эти вновь возникающие проблемы и вызовы, идущие из сферы исследования и преобразования живого.
Этот сборник - третий из серии «Науки о жизни и современная философия», издаваемой Центром био- и экофилософии Института философии РАН. В серии вышли также: “Сетевые структуры в биологической и социальной системах”, “Экология и этика”.
Этот сборник - третий из серии «Науки о жизни и современная философия», издаваемой Центром био- и экофилософии Института философии РАН. В серии вышли также: “Сетевые структуры в биологической и социальной системах”, “Экология и этика”.
Многоликая софистика: нелегитимная аргументация в интеллектуальной культуре Европы Средних веков и раннего Нового времени. Отв. ред. П.В. Соколов
Монография объединяет исследования, целью которых является анализ нелегитимной аргументации в различных областях интеллектуальной культуры Запада Средневековья и раннего Нового времени: логике, юриспруденции, библейской герменевтике, науках о природе. В монографии реализован синтез двух основных подходов к исследованию аргумента-тивного устройства донововременного научного текста: аналитического (рациональная реконструкция) и исторического.
Армянские храмы мира
Эта книга - дань памяти великому народу Армении и его традициям. Альбом издан по благословлению патриаршего экзарха в России архиепископа Езраса и приурочен к 100-летней годовщине Геноцида армян.
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink
The New York Times bestseller.
Most people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards like money—the carrot-and-stick approach. That's a mistake, says Daniel H. Pink. In this provocative and persuasive new book, he asserts that the secret to high performance and satisfaction-at work, at school, and at home—is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.
"These lessons are worth repeating, and if more companies feel emboldened to follow Mr. Pink's advice, then so much the better." -Wall Street Journal
"Pink is rapidly acquiring international guru status... He is an engaging writer, who challenges and provokes." -Financial Times
TED-Ed Innovative Educators choice: «the books that changed lives»
Most people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards like money—the carrot-and-stick approach. That's a mistake, says Daniel H. Pink. In this provocative and persuasive new book, he asserts that the secret to high performance and satisfaction-at work, at school, and at home—is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.
"These lessons are worth repeating, and if more companies feel emboldened to follow Mr. Pink's advice, then so much the better." -Wall Street Journal
"Pink is rapidly acquiring international guru status... He is an engaging writer, who challenges and provokes." -Financial Times
TED-Ed Innovative Educators choice: «the books that changed lives»
Финские уроки. История успеха образовательной реформы в Финляндии. Сальберг П.
В своей книге Паси Салберг рассказывает, как за последнюю треть XX века финнам удалось сделать из посредственной школьной системы одну из лучших в мире, привлечь к профессии учителя самую талантливую молодежь и создать по всей стране школы, где дети не зубрят ответы на вопросы стандартных тестов, а учатся с радостью. В такой школе учиться не тяжело, но интересно, к каждому школьнику стараются найти индивидуальный подход, каждый учитель стремится работать творчески, а директора школ и вышестоящее начальство этому не препятствуют, а способствуют. В своем серьезном, изобилующем фактами исследовании, автор убедительно доказывает, что этому пути есть реальная альтернатива, о существовании которой красноречиво свидетельствует финский опыт.
“Finnish Lessons 2.0: What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland?” with “substantial additions throughout the text” ISBN: 978-0807755853
“Finnish Lessons 2.0: What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland?” with “substantial additions throughout the text” ISBN: 978-0807755853
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison Of Belief - The HBO Special
Tom Cruise (Actor), John Travolta (Actor), Alex Gibney (Director, Producer, Writer)
The highly-anticipated and critically-acclaimed documentary "Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison Of Belief" is a look inside the controversial religion from Academy Award-winner Alex Gibney. The film profiles eight former members of the Church of Scientology, exploring the psychological impact of blind faith, how the church attracts new followers and keeps hold of its A-list celebrity devotees.
Winner of three 2015 Emmy Awards
The highly-anticipated and critically-acclaimed documentary "Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison Of Belief" is a look inside the controversial religion from Academy Award-winner Alex Gibney. The film profiles eight former members of the Church of Scientology, exploring the psychological impact of blind faith, how the church attracts new followers and keeps hold of its A-list celebrity devotees.
Winner of three 2015 Emmy Awards
The Forgotten Space. Allan Sekula and Noël Burch
Details the catastrophic effects globalization has wrought on the ship, truck and train industries. We visit displaced farmers and villagers in Holland and Belgium, underpaid truck drivers in Los Angeles, seafarers aboard mega-ships shuttling between Asia and Europe, and factory workers in China, whose low wages are the fragile key to the whole puzzle. At a moment when collective bargaining rights are under attack in the United States, and China continues to bow to foreign pressures to prevent such rights from being granted at all, this film asks: Is capitalism the Trojan horse that turns on its inventors?
Venice Film Festival - Venice Horizons Award
Venice Film Festival - Venice Horizons Award
Muse Of Fire
Judi Dench (Actor), Ian McKellen (Actor), Dan Poole (Director), Giles Terera
Dan Poole and Giles Terera have accomplished something truly great with this wonderful guide to Shakespeare. I wish it had been around when I was a young actress. - Judi Dench An indispensable aid to debunking Shakespeare and making him accessible" - Ian McKellen "MUSE OF FIRE demystifies the difficulty of understanding Shakespeare, but keeps all of the magic." - Tom Hiddleston Funny, passionate and exciting, MUSE OF FIRE will change the way you feel about Shakespeare forever. This unique feature documentary follows two actors, Giles Terera and Dan Poole, as they travel the world to discover everything they can about tackling the greatest writer of them all. Consulting a host of helpful luminaries along the way, including Ian McKellen, James Earl Jones, Judi Dench, and Tom Hiddleston, their exciting road trip takes them to Denmark with Jude Law, Hollywood with Baz Luhrmann, a prison in Berlin and Shakespeare's home in Stratford-upon-Avon. Admitting that they often struggled to understand the Bard, even finding him frightening, a host of today's top actors speak openly about their early encounters with the most famous storyteller in history. Giles and Dan enthusiastically set about tackling the fear and debunking the myth, showing us how Shakespeare can be incredible fun.
Dan Poole and Giles Terera have accomplished something truly great with this wonderful guide to Shakespeare. I wish it had been around when I was a young actress. - Judi Dench An indispensable aid to debunking Shakespeare and making him accessible" - Ian McKellen "MUSE OF FIRE demystifies the difficulty of understanding Shakespeare, but keeps all of the magic." - Tom Hiddleston Funny, passionate and exciting, MUSE OF FIRE will change the way you feel about Shakespeare forever. This unique feature documentary follows two actors, Giles Terera and Dan Poole, as they travel the world to discover everything they can about tackling the greatest writer of them all. Consulting a host of helpful luminaries along the way, including Ian McKellen, James Earl Jones, Judi Dench, and Tom Hiddleston, their exciting road trip takes them to Denmark with Jude Law, Hollywood with Baz Luhrmann, a prison in Berlin and Shakespeare's home in Stratford-upon-Avon. Admitting that they often struggled to understand the Bard, even finding him frightening, a host of today's top actors speak openly about their early encounters with the most famous storyteller in history. Giles and Dan enthusiastically set about tackling the fear and debunking the myth, showing us how Shakespeare can be incredible fun.
Крест над Араратом
Российский институт стратегических исследований
«Несмотря на попытки Запада разлучить два народа, русские и армяне смогли выстоять в тяжелых условиях. Общая вера, цивилизационное единство и стремление к правде всегда сплачивало нас. Вступление Армении в Евразийский экономический союз подтверждает, что Россия и Армения и дальше видят путь своего развития только вместе», - отмечается в анонсе к фильму
«Несмотря на попытки Запада разлучить два народа, русские и армяне смогли выстоять в тяжелых условиях. Общая вера, цивилизационное единство и стремление к правде всегда сплачивало нас. Вступление Армении в Евразийский экономический союз подтверждает, что Россия и Армения и дальше видят путь своего развития только вместе», - отмечается в анонсе к фильму
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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro. MusicAeterna, Teodor Currentzis
For Currentzis, these recordings represent the culmination of a decade-long research project dedicated to the discrepancies between the composer’s will and what our ears have become used to. About his Figaro, he says: “The radicality of this recording is its precision. It is through strictest discipline that you unlock the perfume, bring the composer’s text into real life, create all these colours that are impossible on the stage. This is why we spent such a significant amount of time in the studio – because we were pushing to reach our limits, to jump above our limit and reach a new understanding of this music. That is the privilege of a ‘no-compromise’ studio recording.
CD des Jahres. Opernwelt
CD des Jahres. Opernwelt
Yes! Julie Fuchs
Paris de la fin de la Première guerre jusqu’aux sinistres événements qui annoncent la Seconde, voilà ce qu’a choisi la soprano Julie Fuchs pour son récital d’airs d’opéra, d’opérettes et de comédies musicales françaises – ou, du moins, en français pour quelques moments de Kurt Weill et Léhar (la seule incursion de l’album dans l’avant-Première guerre). On y trouve des choses tout à fait « sérieuses », comme l’air du Feu dans L’Enfant et les sortilèges, l’air de Vilya de La Veuve joyeuse (dans la traduction française de Robert de Flers) ou quelques délicieux moments des Aventures du roi Pausole de Honegger – en compagnie de l’excellent ténor Stanislas de Barbeyrac ; mais aussi des choses provenant de répertoires plus légers, voire du music-hall avec Yes ! de Maurice Yvain ou Tea For Two. C’est que Julie Fuchs ne se limite certes pas au répertoire classique, même étendu à Weill ou Yvain, mais ose s’aventurer dans les territoires du jazz et de la comédie musicale de Broadway. Une artiste lyrique complète, en quelque sorte.
Qobuz Diapason d'or, Le Choix de France Musique, Choc de Classica (octobre 2015)
Qobuz Diapason d'or, Le Choix de France Musique, Choc de Classica (octobre 2015)
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Mélodies rares. Paul Derenne
Rare french songs
Œuvres de Koechlin, Delage, Manziarly, Cliquet-Pleyel, Delannoy, Durey, Caplet, Ciry, Sauguet, Beydts, Francaix, Jaubert, et extraits d'opérettes de Van Parys et Pierre Petit / Paul Derenne, ténor
Institut national de l'audiovisuel - Ina Mémoire Vive
Œuvres de Koechlin, Delage, Manziarly, Cliquet-Pleyel, Delannoy, Durey, Caplet, Ciry, Sauguet, Beydts, Francaix, Jaubert, et extraits d'opérettes de Van Parys et Pierre Petit / Paul Derenne, ténor
Institut national de l'audiovisuel - Ina Mémoire Vive
30 сент. 2015 г.
The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital World. Laurence Scott
"Scott is an ideal person to tackle this subject... Moreover, he is both a creative writer and a perceptive literary critic, who leavens his text with some mercurially brilliant turns of phrase and poetic coinages, while at the same time stiffening it up with huge dollops of literary explication and quotation… with his joyful phrase-making and sharp eye for the follies and absurdities of wired life, Scott would be the perfect investigator to report back on what it feels like to be… uploaded." Guardian
Samuel Johnson prize longlist
Winner of the Jerwood Prize
Samuel Johnson prize longlist
Winner of the Jerwood Prize
Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of Blackberry. Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff
There have been many books about the smartphone maker, but none of the authors has had the same level of access to Mr. Lazaridis and Mr. Balsillie as the duo behind Losing the Signal... you find yourself rooting for BlackBerry as the book recounts how a maker of crude teletext devices became the world's biggest smartphone manufacturer. The Financial Times
[McNish and Silcoff have] produced a tragedy worthy of Shakespeare's attention... So even as you read, with a kind of shiver of schadenfreude, about BlackBerry's vicissitudes, there's plenty of food for thought here about what this means on a much broader stage. Yahoo! Finance
Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Shortlist
[McNish and Silcoff have] produced a tragedy worthy of Shakespeare's attention... So even as you read, with a kind of shiver of schadenfreude, about BlackBerry's vicissitudes, there's plenty of food for thought here about what this means on a much broader stage. Yahoo! Finance
Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Shortlist
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioural Economics. Richard Thaler
“A sly and somewhat subversive history of [the economics] profession…engrossing and highly relevant.” The New York Times
“Highly enjoyable…dense with fascinating examples…. It is long past time to replace Econs with Humans, both in theory and in the practice of prediction.” Wall Street Journal
“In Misbehaving, [Thaler] offers a dryly humorous history of the revolution he helped ignite, as well as a useful (if sometimes challenging) primer on its key concepts.” Chicago Tribune
Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Shortlist
“Highly enjoyable…dense with fascinating examples…. It is long past time to replace Econs with Humans, both in theory and in the practice of prediction.” Wall Street Journal
“In Misbehaving, [Thaler] offers a dryly humorous history of the revolution he helped ignite, as well as a useful (if sometimes challenging) primer on its key concepts.” Chicago Tribune
Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Shortlist
Как становятся профессорами: академические карьеры, рынки и власть в пяти странах. Соколов М., Губа К., Зименкова Т., Сафонова М., Чуйкина С.
Как устроены академические карьеры в разных странах? Что надо и чего не надо делать, чтобы успешно взойти по их ступеням? Этот вопрос волнует три разные аудитории. Прежде всего, ответ на него интересует всех, кто стоит у подножья академической лестницы и оценивает свои шансы подняться по ней. Он занимает также администраторов, которые ломают голову над тем, как правильно перестроить эту лестницу, чтобы восхождение было легким делом для достойного и трудным для недостойного и чтобы профессорами становились только те, кто внес надлежащий вклад в науку и высшее образование.
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Дунай. Река империй. Андрей Шарый
Три тысячи километров Дуная, второй по протяженности реки Старого Света, - три тысячелетия истории человечества. Речное движение от германского истока к украинско-румынскому устью через территории Австрии и Словакии, Венгрии и Хорватии, Сербии и Болгарии - это путешествие в прошлое могущественных империй и в настоящее новой Европы. Во все времена Дунай вдохновлял на подвиги и свершения полководцев и политиков, поэтов и художников, композиторов и скульпторов. Сегодняшние поездки по Дунаю подтверждают: эта река обозначает важнейшую политическую и культурную дугу Старого Света, зону соперничества и сотрудничества народов, область взаимопроникновения их языков и обычаев. Дунай был и остается для человека и человечества - путем, целью, берегом, фронтирой, мечтой.
Это хорошо темперированное путешествие мы совершаем в сопровождении идеального экскурсовода, в памяти которого то и дело всплывают люди, о которых если бы не он, мы могли бы никогда и не узнать. Эксперт
Это хорошо темперированное путешествие мы совершаем в сопровождении идеального экскурсовода, в памяти которого то и дело всплывают люди, о которых если бы не он, мы могли бы никогда и не узнать. Эксперт
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Поэтики Джойса. Умберто Эко
Многие художники оставили заметки о поэтике, описания своего творческого труда, целые эссе по вопросам эстетики. Но никто, кроме Джойса, не заставлял своих персонажей столько рассуждать о поэтике и эстетике. — Умберто Эко
Умберто Эко — всемирно известный итальянский писатель, историк культуры, философ, специалист по семиотике, член ведущих академий мира, лауреат крупнейших премий, его труды переведены на сорок языков. Автор бестселлеров "Имя розы", "Маятник Фуко" и "Остров накануне" в этой книге обращается к анализу творчества Джеймса Джойса, прослеживая весь литературный путь великого ирландца. Умберто Эко раскрывает мир Джойса, и в особенности двух его монументальных произведений: "Улисса" и "Финнеганова помина" ("Поминок по Финнегану").
Умберто Эко — всемирно известный итальянский писатель, историк культуры, философ, специалист по семиотике, член ведущих академий мира, лауреат крупнейших премий, его труды переведены на сорок языков. Автор бестселлеров "Имя розы", "Маятник Фуко" и "Остров накануне" в этой книге обращается к анализу творчества Джеймса Джойса, прослеживая весь литературный путь великого ирландца. Умберто Эко раскрывает мир Джойса, и в особенности двух его монументальных произведений: "Улисса" и "Финнеганова помина" ("Поминок по Финнегану").
Nobel Writers on Writing. Ottar G. Draugsvold
Since its inception, the Nobel Prize for literature has given a very public voice to some of the world's greatest writers, and their responses to the honor--their acceptance speeches--have often been epochal. From the famed call to arms by William Faulkner to the multicultural song of Derek Walcott, from 1903's Bjornstjerne Bjornson to 1999's Gunter Grass, this collection of 28 speeches traces the ideals of the artists and the selection committee itself throughout the 20th century. Included are an introduction to each of the writers chosen, an abridged copy of the speech or lecture and a bibliography of works in English.
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan. Herbert P. Bix
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
In this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at the enigmatic leader whose sixty-three-year reign ushered Japan into the modern world. Never before has the full life of this controversial figure been revealed with such clarity and vividness. Bix shows what it was like to be trained from birth for a lone position at the apex of the nation's political hierarchy and as a revered symbol of divine status. Influenced by an unusual combination of the Japanese imperial tradition and a modern scientific worldview, the young emperor gradually evolves into his preeminent role, aligning himself with the growing ultranationalist movement, perpetuating a cult of religious emperor worship, resisting attempts to curb his power, and all the while burnishing his image as a reluctant, passive monarch. Here we see Hirohito as he truly was: a man of strong will and real authority.
In this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at the enigmatic leader whose sixty-three-year reign ushered Japan into the modern world. Never before has the full life of this controversial figure been revealed with such clarity and vividness. Bix shows what it was like to be trained from birth for a lone position at the apex of the nation's political hierarchy and as a revered symbol of divine status. Influenced by an unusual combination of the Japanese imperial tradition and a modern scientific worldview, the young emperor gradually evolves into his preeminent role, aligning himself with the growing ultranationalist movement, perpetuating a cult of religious emperor worship, resisting attempts to curb his power, and all the while burnishing his image as a reluctant, passive monarch. Here we see Hirohito as he truly was: a man of strong will and real authority.
Вино мертвецов. Ромен Гари
Сенсационная публикация потерянного романа: рукопись, подаренная автором подруге юности, обнаружилась спустя полвека на аукционе. ""Вино мертвецов" — книга, пронизанная отчаянным сарказмом и мощнейшей энергией, рассвет творческой жизни со всеми его обещаниями" (Le Monde). "Вино мертвецов" — юношеский роман самого популярного французского классика ХХ столетия. Ромен Гари, летчик, дипломат, герой Второй мировой войны, блестящий романист и великий мистификатор, был дважды награжден знаменитой Гонкуровской премией: первый раз в 1956 году как Гари, второй — в 1975-м как Эмиль Ажар. У этого романа, единственного, подписанного его настоящим именем — Роман Кацев, — удивительная судьба. Рукопись, подаренная автором подруге юности, считалась навсегда утраченной. Однако спустя полвека она обнаружилась на аукционе, и к столетию писателя книга наконец увидела свет.
Great Museum. Johannes Holzhausen
Featuring unprecedented access to an influential and multi-faceted institution, The Great Museum reveals the inner workings of Vienna s Kunsthistorisches Museum, one of the most important art institutions in the world. Widely known as the art palace that houses paintings by Rembrandt, Diego Velazquez, Pieter Brueghel, Peter Paul Rubens and Caravaggio, among many other canonical works, the museum also features a remarkable and magnetic group of dedicated employees. As the camera follows the spacious rooms hosting some of the world s most valuable art works, director Johannes Holzhausen reveals a dynamic, reflective and fast-moving institution that s both adapting to the marketing and funding realities of the 21st century while remaining faithful to its core mission.
Berlinale Caligari Award
Berlinale Caligari Award
Milton Glaser: To Inform and Delight
Profiles Milton Glaser (1929- ), America's foremost graphic designer: designer of the iconic "I [heart] N.Y." logo, teacher, and humanitarian. Interviews with Glaser are arranged to take him through a rough chronology of his life: study at New York High School of Music and Art and at Cooper Union, a seminal stay in Italy, his marriage, and his various partnerships - founding Push Pin Studios and "New York" magazine, designing Grand Union supermarkets, and working with "The Nation." Interspersed are examples of his work. Glaser is, throughout, charming in manner, memorable in his observations, and generous of spirit.
Chicago International Film Festival Nominated
Chicago International Film Festival Nominated
Music to Madness - the Story of Komitas
The film, Music to Madness – the story of Komitas, examines the Armenian Genocide from the perspective of Komitas, an Armenian music composer and priest that experienced a life filled with the passion of dreams pursued. Tragically, Komitas also witnessed the devastation of that dream during the calamity of the Armenian Genocide in the years 1915 – 1923. Through the life and tragedy of Komitas, genocide is considered not only as a demographic description of mass killing, but also as the murder of individual persons and the implications of these murders on those surrounding.
Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor. Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
In January 2014, music lovers worldwide were saddened to learn that Claudio Abbado had passed away. Deutsche Grammophon feels immensely blessed and proud to be releasing together with Accentus Music Bruckner’s Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, which was recorded as part of Abbado’s final concert
The concert was recorded by Accentus Music during the 75th Lucerne Festival in 2013 with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra.
Gramophone Awards - Record of the Year, Winner - Orchestral
BBC Music Magazine Orchestral Award Winner
The concert was recorded by Accentus Music during the 75th Lucerne Festival in 2013 with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra.
Gramophone Awards - Record of the Year, Winner - Orchestral
BBC Music Magazine Orchestral Award Winner
29 сент. 2015 г.
Rameau: Pièces de clavecin. Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)
This is a masterclass for the instrument, confirming this young artist as a truly great player: in the words of International Record Review ‘his technique is beyond criticism and his inherent musicianship goes far deeper than mere surface understanding … it is difficult not to warm to such a musician’.
This double album comprises the whole of Rameau’s output of keyboard suites, and Esfahani rejoices in its wealth of genius, its excitement and drama. Rameau is a composer whose revival is ongoing, and his unique combination of the witty and the cerebral, the light and the curmudgeonly, abounds throughout his harpsichord music.
New York Times Best Classical Recordings of the Year
Gramophone Awards Winner - Baroque Instrumental
This double album comprises the whole of Rameau’s output of keyboard suites, and Esfahani rejoices in its wealth of genius, its excitement and drama. Rameau is a composer whose revival is ongoing, and his unique combination of the witty and the cerebral, the light and the curmudgeonly, abounds throughout his harpsichord music.
New York Times Best Classical Recordings of the Year
Gramophone Awards Winner - Baroque Instrumental
Glenn Gould: The Complete Album Collection 1 & 8
In 1955 Glenn Gould signed an exclusive contract with Columbia Masterworks, and remained with the label until his untimely death in 1982. The Complete Album Collection refurbishes Gould’s complete approved studio recordings - from his legendary 1955 Goldberg Variations to his last recording in 1982 - using state-of-the-art Direct Stream Digital® (DSD) mastering technology in an x81 CDs limited edition; each album presented with its original LP sleeves and labels. The deluxe box packaging includes a 416 pages book, featuring the complete original liner notes (many penned by Gould himself), a wealth of facsimile documents, rare photographs, full discographical information, and a newly commissioned introductory essay by Gould scholar and biographer Kevin Bazzana. Few pianists are so easily identifiable as Gould, whose rhythmic acuity, breathtakingly clean articulation and scintillating technical aplomb still leave a formidable individual imprint, from his brashly controversial Mozart Sonata cycle and spacious Brahms Intermezzi to his fiercely committed 20th-century music interpretations and his bracing, joyous & highly influential Bach.
Sony: 88875032222
Sony: 88875032222
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