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8 DVDs: Riccardo Muti in Rehearsal (sub: EN-FR-DE)
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- If you purchase the complete 8-DVD box, you will enjoy the streaming of the following 8 videos for free.
DVD 1 – Berlioz – Symphonie Fantastique (also in streaming video)
DVD 2 – Berlioz – Lélio, ou Le retour à la vie (also in streaming video)
DVD 3 – Verdi – Le quattro stagioni from I vespri siciliani (also in streaming video)
DVD 4 – Schubert – Unfinished Symphony (also in streaming video)
DVD 5 – Cimarosa – Il ritorno di Don Calandrino (also in streaming video)
DVD 6 – Mozart – Sinfonia Jupiter (also in streaming video)
DVD 7 – Paisiello – Il matrimonio inaspettato (also in streaming video)
DVD 8 – Dvořák – Quinta Sinfonia (also in streaming video)
Total time: 11 hours and 40 minutes
Photo Booklet, 32 pages/English
Language: Italian
Subtitles: English, French, German
Formats: PAL and NTSC
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DVD 1 – Berlioz, Symphonie Fantastique
DVD 2 – Berlioz, Lélio, ou Le retour à la vie
DVD 3 – Verdi, Le quattro stagioni from I vespri siciliani (Mov. I – II)
DVD 4 – Schubert, “Unfinished” Symphony
DVD 5 – Cimarosa, Il ritorno di Don Calandrino
DVD 6 – Mozart, “Jupiter” Symphony
DVD 7 – Paisiello, Il matrimonio inaspettato
DVD 8 – Dvořák, Symphony No. 5
The “secret” of a baton: the baton of Riccardo Muti. The aim is to go behind the scenes to show not only the moment of the public performance, but also what happens during the rehearsals of Riccardo Muti, from the “art” of orchestra conduction to the work of musicians.
Through his orchestra rehearsals, Riccardo Muti leads the spectator on a journey into music. In this way you can better appreciate the indications and the clarifications of the Maestro: that enlightening, clarifying word is not used to show off knowledge, but to help the orchestra have a deeper vision of what it must perform and to help the audience face the Universe of Music.
A journey that fascinates both the simple enthusiast and the musician: the clarity of Maestro’s words, the meticulousness in the study performance of the score are instruments of the highest quality put in the hands of the audience.
This means that the DVD-Box Riccardo Muti in Rehearsal has a double value. On the one hand it constitutes a document of exceptional importance on the figure of Riccardo Muti himself, that is the human side: how he interacts with the public and performers – in a polite and elegant way, but always in balance between serious and facetious. On the other, it represents one of the main sources of the greatest gift Riccardo Muti has to offer to contemporary and future generations: his method.
This is not just cultural dissemination, it is an extraordinary document on the activity of one of the greatest conductors of all times.
Riccardo Muti in Rehearsal was awarded the Moige (Italian Movement of Parents) prize for the best TV programs 2016 “for introducing a new way of teaching music, highlighting its importance for the cultural growth of people since early age”.
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Riccardo Muti in Rehearsal awarded as best TV Program 2016 – Italy
Rome, June 2016 – For the section “Entertainment, culture, docu-fiction and reality”, “Riccardo Muti in Rehearsal” was awarded among the best TV Porgrams 2016 for its “proposal of a new way of teaching music, underlining its importance for cultural growth from early age”. (Moige Award – Movimento Italiano Genitori)
DVD 1 – Symphonie Fantastique
Hector Berlioz’ Symphonie Fantastique, written in 1830 according to a specific extra-music program, describes in five Movements the meeting of the composer with his beloved – actress Harriet Smithson, met for the first time in 1827 in Paris – and the pains of his non-reciprocated love.
Riccardo Muti Conductor
Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini
Orchestra Giovanile Italiana
DVD 2 – Lélio, ou Le retour à la vie
A sort of sequel of the Symphonie Fantastique. The French actor Gérard Depardieu interprets the opera making the text (written by Berlioz himself) live in a constant dialogue with the orchestra. The booklet contains the original libretto in French.
Riccardo Muti Conductor
Gérard Depardieu Narrator
Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini
Orchestra Giovanile Italiana
Running time: 1h 25′
DVD 3 – Le quattro stagioni
Riccardo Muti meets the ballet Le quattro stagioni from I vespri siciliani by Giuseppe Verdi. Composed to get closer to the French taste, the dance page in Act IV is one of the major dance compositions Verdi left us.
Riccardo Muti Conductor
Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini
Running time: 2h 25′
DVD 4 – “Unfinished” Symphony
Riccardo Muti meets Schubert in an opera he holds dear: Symphony No. 8 in B minor D 759, called “Unfinished”. Written in 1822, only its first two Movements were completed.
Riccardo Muti Conductor
Camerata Strumentale Città di Prato
Running time: 1h 12′
DVD 5 – Il ritorno di Don Calandrino
Precious score found by Riccardo Muti in the library of Conservatorio di Napoli and conducted at the Whitsun Festival in Salzburg and at Ravenna Festival, this opera makes a key contribution to the historical path that marked the transition from the Baroque opera to the musical summits reached by Mozart.
Riccardo Muti
Laura Giordano (Livietta)
Monica Tarone (Irene)
Francesco Marsiglia (Valerio)
Juan Francisco Gatell (Don Calandrino)
Marco Vinco (Monsieur Le Blonde)
Laura Pasqualetti Piano
Running time: 1h 02′
DVD 6 – “Jupiter” Symphony
The last symphony written by Mozart, KV 551 in C major called “Jupiter”, composed in the summer of 1788 with two other symphonies, KV 543 and KV 550. Three gems of the same branch grew during the last stage of the composer’s short life, a quite unhappy period amongst economic difficulties, the death of his daughter and the failure of Don Giovanni in Vienna.
Riccardo Muti Conductor
Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini
Running time: 1h 11′
DVD 7 – Il matrimonio inaspettato
Il matrimonio inaspettato by Giovanni Paisiello is a real treasure of the Neapolitan musical panorama from the XVIII Century, brought back to life thanks to Riccardo Muti’s will and commitment: he conducted it in Salzburg, where he found a triumphant welcome. Paisiello’s work is part of the project aiming to restore the XVIII Century Neapolitan Musical School involving the Salzburg Whitsun Festival, Ravenna Festival and the Opéra de Paris. Light opera but “full of freshness and humor”, as Riccardo Muti underlines, Il matrimonio inaspettato contains orchestral refinements and melancholic passages, whilst based on a playful plot.
Riccardo Muti Conductor
Alessia Nadin (Vespina)
Marie-Claude Chappuis (La Contessa di Sarzana)
Mario Cassi (Giorgino)
Nicola Alaimo (Tulipano)
Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini
Coro del Teatro Municipale di Piacenza
Corrado Casati Chorus Master
Speranza Scappucci Harpsichord
Running time: 1h 38′
DVD 8 – Symphony No. 5
Symphony No. 5 in F major op. 76 by Antonin Dvořák, composed in the summer of 1875, is considered a pastorale, so as the following Symphony No. 6 of this bohemian composer. Performed only four years later its composition, on March 25, 1879 in Prague, it is dedicated to conductor Hans von Bülow, great interpreter of Dvořák’s music.
Riccardo Muti Conductor
Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini
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[…] enlightening, intriguing, funny, amusing, rigorous and imaginative “report” about how Riccardo Muti works with musicians to get to the highest musical expression. Actually, all of these adjectives perfectly fit the conductor himself: it can’t be just by chance that anyone working with him regularly tells that he, more than other conductors, can open an unexpected semantic world behind every note, breath, accent, pause or phrase. How come? The answer is in this release. Those who were lucky enough to participate in one of his rehearsals, know it very well: Muti gets right to the point. And he also gets to the audience with a great screen presence. Be it for his Neapolitan origin, be it for his Neapolitan character, what he tells anyway goes directly to your heart, and then to your brain. And you don’t really need to be great pedagogists to know that the emotional sphere is the best perceptive channel to acquire knowledge. The rest is just pure amusement: the initiation of the Italian Youth Orchestra and Cherubini Orchestra and the astute delight of operas like Il Ritorno di Don Calandrino by Cimarosa and Il Matrimonio inaspettato by Paisiello, as well as Lélio by Berlioz, a gem of sophistication, with Gérard Depardieu’s fascinating voice, stunning continuation of the Fantastique.
Nicoletta Sguben for the magazine Amadeus
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8 DVDs: Riccardo Muti in Rehearsal (sub: EN-FR-DE)
99,00€ excl. shipping
