Maurice Ravel

The London Telegraph described pianist Alice Sarah Ott as the “hottest new talent in classical music”. She now makes her debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker performing Ravel’s vibrant, jazz-influenced Piano Concerto in G major. Another artist making his debut is the Finnish conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali, who shows the music of his homeland from its most passionate side: with Jean Sibelius’s Tchaikovsky-inspired First Symphony, and music by the internationally too little known Uuno Klami.

Martin, in a last ditch hope, comes to meet Léa in Paris. They are both twenty-five and shared their first love story together. They are both now striving to mature.

The film tells that a person, even in very difficult circumstances, is able to turn the tide.

Spiced with Italian buffa, L’Heure espagnole transports us to Torquemada’s clock shop, the scene of his wife Concepcion’s infidelities.

"Music is a dream from which the veils have been lifted. It's not even the expression of a feeling, it's the feeling itself." This quote from Claude Debussy describes the musical world of this programme, made up of his own works and works by Maurice Ravel. In the choreography of Ravel's and Debussy's music by Jeroen Verbruggen and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, fluid lines, dream and atmosphere are strongly present.

Alice Sara Ott and Francesco Tristano join forces for this energetic and joyful collaboration on the stage of the international Heidelberger Frühling (Heidelberg Spring) festival, held annually since 1997 in March and April in the romantic German city. The program, entirely designed by good friends Ott and Tristano, is entitled "Scandal" in reference to the public outcry provoked by Stravinsky's Rite of Spring—indignantly called a "massacre" upon its 1913 premiere at Paris's Théâtre des Champs Élysées.

The short film illustrates and interprets Hart Crane's 'Proem To Brooklyn Bridge' using a direct animated stencil technique reflecting graphic styles of the period.

In 1910, Le Corbusier wrote in Germany his famous essay on the eyes that do not see the new forms of modern architecture. One hundred years later, in Recife, the immense modernist work of Portuguese architect Delfim Amorim remains unrecognized. What for Le Corbusier was a necessity and a projection, is now a debate about heritage, preservation, inheritance.

Leading Chopin interpreter Nelson Freire is the soloist in Chopin’s lyrical and brilliant Second Piano Concerto. On the podium the French conductor Lionel Bringuier makes his Proms debut conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra and gives a sizzling performance of Roussel’s Symphony No.3 and of Ravel‘s score for the ballet Daphnis et Chloé – Suite No 2. ‘’The programme, otherwise entirely French, highlights everywhere this purity of style and gesture (which would give him more in common with Pierre Monteux than Charles Munch), which charms all who see and hear the young conductor: a clear and understandable beat, subtle control of balance and level, natural rhythm and pulse, and expression without embellishment.’’

Framed by the tranquil beauty of a forest near Berlin, Khatia Buniatishvili gives a recital of pianistic masterpieces dappled by the shade of verdant ferns and leafy canopies. As a special treat, her older sister Gvantsa joins her for four-handed works by Dvořák, Brahms, and Piazzolla. Described as a “force of nature”, Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili takes her art into the wilderness with this concert. On a wooden stage, she sits in an earthy concert hall performing works of particular meaning for her, and beloved by audiences the world over. From Debussy’s Clair de Lune to Ravel’s La Valse, from Stravinsky’s Petrushka to Piazzolla’s Improvisations on Libertango, Buniatishvili demonstrates her wide palette of expression and lyric approach to her instrument. Interspersed with the music are intimate interviews of the artist herself in which she discusses on her musical upbringing, her career, and her impressions of the pieces she has chosen to include in the program.

In 2008, the Opéra national de Paris honored the legendary Jerome Robbins. Though the general public may remember him primarily for his staging and choreography of Bernstein’s West Side Story, Robbins was also a brilliant ballet choreographer. In this production, we discover three of his works of classical ballet—En sol, In the Night, and The Concert—paired with Benjamin Millepied’s Triade.

In 2008, 24 year old Ryan Sullivan set out from his Nebraska hometown with Hollywood aspirations. Instead he found himself in San Francisco, "the cool gray city of love," making a documentary about a porn company.

La Valse is dance a film by Thierry De Mey based on the choreography created on Maurice Ravel’s La Valse as the final part of ZOO’s performance Accords. Created as part of the triptych Equi Voci, the film La Valse exists in versions for one or three screens.

As two families celebrate the engagement of their children, one of the lovers unearths a family secret.

In this short film adapted from the ballet "Daphnis and Chloe," pirates capture Chloe and rape her.

A cinematographic attempt at a maximum of exertion and a maximum of relaxation based on the thoughts of John Cage, Chuang Tzu and others.

A nostalgia trip in the enigmatic labyrinth of the passed childhood.

스티븐(Stephane: 다니엘 오떼이유 분)과 맥심(Maxime: 앙드레 뒤솔리에 분)은 그들이 함께 음악 학교 입시를 준비하던 청소년 시절부터 알게 된 오랜 친구 사이이자, 악기를 제조하는 일을 같이하는 동업자이다. 그러나 매일 매일의 일상적인 습관과 사생활은 철저히 구분하는 그들 사이에는 알 수 없는 벽이있다. 그런 그들의 삶속에 '까미유 케슬레(Camille: 엠마누엘 베아르 분)'라는 젊고 재능있고 어딘가 청교도적인 분위기를 풍기는 바이얼리니스티브가 타성에 젖은 그들의 분위기를 뒤흔들어 놓으며 뛰어든다. 맥심과 까미유는 서로 사랑하게 되지만 스테판은 어쩐지 그들의 사랑을 못마땅해한다. 그는 외부에 대해 철저히 자신을 방어하는 인물이다. 무엇에도 쉽게 감동하지 않고 연애감정따위는 믿지않는 차가운 심장을 가진 사람인 것이다. 여자 친구 멜멘느와 플라토닉한 사랑을 나누고 편안하고 친숙한 상황속에서 살아가는 것에 만족한다. 하지만 그런 그가 까미유의 관심을 끌기 시작한다. 일부러 맥심을 밀어낼 생각이 전혀 없었음에도 불구하고. 그때부터 스테판은 곤경에 빠졌다고 생각한다. 그것은 새롭고 성가신 상황이기 때문이다. 서늘한 아름다움을 지닌 여성의 사랑은 겨울의 차가운 심장을 가진 이 남자에게 격렬하고 새로운 빛을 던지는데. 앞으로도 계속 그는 이렇게 말할 수 있을 것인가 "나는 당신을 사랑하지 않아"라고.

“Bolero” by Ravell is expressed in the mouvements of surrealistic paintings and in the rhythm of the film. This short animation won Golden Berlin Bear for Best Short Film.

The life and thoughts of Juan Manuel Espada, keeper in charge of the morgue sited at the Medicine University of Valencia.

The film is a parody of Disney's Fantasia, though possibly more of a challenge to Fantasia than parody status would imply. In the context of this film, "Allegro non Troppo" means Not So Fast!, an interjection meaning "slow down" or "think before you act" and refers to the film's pessimistic view of Western progress (as opposed to the optimism of Disney's original).

Artists and poets meet in a dreamlike space between walks and performances.