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'A mix of futurism à la "Metropolis", fantasy à la "Batman" and quotes from Piranesis "Carceri", juxtaposed in the form of photo montages, enhanced with...robots, a helicopter, a shark and the winged vehicle of a pop star Pope,' was how the "Neue Zürcher Zeitung" described this astonishing Salzburg Festival production of Berlioz's "Benvenuto Cellini." The high-calibre cast, headed by Burkhard Fritz as the temperamental Renaissance artist and the 26-year-old Latvian soprano Maija Kovalevska ...

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This initial video shows the "download booklet" feature within the Naxos Video Library (NVL). * Disclaimer * - This video was recorded during a Beta testing period. Final launch features can, and most likely will change. Visit us online at: www.NaxosVideoLibrary.com

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This initial video shows basic "custom clip creation" within the Naxos Video Library (NVL). * Disclaimer * - This video was recorded during a Beta testing period. Final launch features can, and most likely will change. Visit us online at: www.NaxosVideoLibrary.com

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This initial video shows the default player window within the Naxos Video Library (NVL). * Disclaimer * - This video was recorded during a Beta testing period. Final launch menu's can, and most likely will change. Visit us online at: www.NaxosVideoLibrary.com

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This initial video shows some of the Menu options within the Naxos Video Library (NVL). * Disclaimer * - This video was recorded during a Beta testing period. Final launch menu's can, and most likely will change. Visit us online at: www.NaxosVideoLibrary.com

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The Story of Jazz puts the crown on the Masters of American series. As entertaining as it is informative, it is a seamless array of performances, comments, and compelling historic insight. This colourful tale of cross-cultural influences that produced a constantly evolving and enduring music is a rich 97-minute weave of sounds, rare film clips, stills and interviews. Never before have the filmed comments of so many important jazz artists been assembled for one project, and never before has ...

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Through a more personal and conversational style of documentary, Thelonious Monk American Composer was the first fully rounded portrait of this terribly misunderstood man and musician. He was the pianistic ringleader of the bebop revolution and, after Duke Ellington, Jazz first major composer. Thelonious Sphere Monk a most original talent remained a highly productive musician after more than thirty years of musical activity and continued to be a growing artist, exploring his art and ...

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Lady Day The Many Faces of Billie Holiday invites viewers to see the many faces of this dark lady of the sonnets, as one poet called her, and to appreciate her undying art more deeply. Most presentations feature Lady Day as the sad victim of hard times and drugs. The single fact of her life that matters above all others is that she was a great artist who, with Louis Armstrong, invented modern jazz singing. Mining a treasure-trove of completely new information, the producers set the record ...

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One of the great legends in American music, the virtuoso saxophonist Charlie Parker nicknamed Bird created a new style of jazz and won equal fame as the king of the hipsters. Celebrating Bird The Triumph of Charlie Parker is a revealing look at an enigmatic yet endlessly appealing man, who soared to the heights of creative freedom but couldn't beat a lifelong addiction to heroin, and it includes Parkers only surviving TV appearance playing Hot House. With Dizzy Gillespie, Roy Haynes, Jay ...

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LG in Korea (Whisen Aircondition) licensed our Antonio Vivaldi: "Violin Concerto in G minor, op.8, no.2, RV 315, Summer: III. Presto" track for their video. The track was performed by Cho-Liang Lin (violin) and Sejong. If you like to hear more tracks from this album please follow this link for the album details: www.naxos.com If you like to license this track or choose from our vast catalog of other licensable tracks please check out naxoslicensing.com ... music licensing Vivaldi Antonio Lin ...

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