Contemporary Music (60)

Homage to Pierre Boulez on occasion of his 85th birthday

With Daniel Barenboïm and West-Eastern Divan Orchestra

• Staatsoper Berlin (Berlin, Germany)

George Benjamin's Written on Skin

George Benjamin (conductor), Katie Mitchell (stage director) – With Christopher Purves (The Protector), Barbara Hannigan (Agnès)...

Vivaldi's The Four Seasons recomposed by Max Richter

A documentary by George Scott

Kent Nagano conducts Dvořák and Moussa – With Moment Factory

375th anniversary of Montreal

Tugan Sokhiev conducts Messiaen, Dutilleux, Debussy, and Stravinsky – With Gautier Capuçon

Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse

Valery Gergiev conducts Strauss, Shchedrin, and Beethoven – With Denis Matsuev

Münchner Philharmoniker

• Philharmonie im Gasteig (Munich, Germany)

Kent Nagano conducts Messiaen – With Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Hans-Ola Ericsson

Orchestre symphonique de Montréal

Gala Concert for Krzysztof Penderecki's 80th birthday

With Gergiev, Dutoit and Urbański

• Grand Theatre — National Opera Warsaw (Warsaw)

Olivier Messiaen, The Crystal Liturgy

Birds, rhythms, colours and faith

Kent Nagano conducts Evangelista, Schumann and Strauss – With Truls Mørk

Orchestre symphonique de Montréal

Jaap van Zweden conducts Glass and Shostakovich – With Katia and Marielle Labèque

Orchestre de Paris

The Lost Paradise: Arvo Pärt and Robert Wilson

A documentary on the most performed contemporary composer in the world

Michael Nyman, Composer in Progress

A documentary directed by Silvia Beck

Rodion Shchedrin improvises with Chick Corea and Nicolas Economou

Jazz Improvisations

World premiere of Wuorinen's Brokeback Mountain

Tribute: work commissioned by Gérard Mortier (1943-2014)

Les Enfants de la Voix

The production of Philip Glass's opera Les Enfants terribles directed for stage by Stéphane Vérité

Risonanze (Resonances) – Rassegna di nuove musiche contemporanee

Steve Reich / Electric Counterpoint

Louie's Mulroney, The Opera

A comedy imagined by Dan Redican and Larry Weinstein

Between the lines

Meeting with three contemporary composers

Karlheinz Stockhausen: Helicopter String Quartet

Arditti String Quartet

• Holland Festival (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Arnold Schoenberg: Five orchestral pieces

Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra

Bruno Mantovani – Portrait

The French composer as portrayed by Karl More

John Cage, Journeys in Sound

A film by Allan Miller and Paul Smaczny

Adams' Doctor Atomic

Lawrence Renes, Peter Sellars – Gerald Finley (J. Robert Oppenheimer), Thomas Glenn (Robert Wilson), Jessica Rivera (Kitty Oppenheimer) – De Nederlandse Opera

• De Nederlandse Opera (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Edgard Varèse, A Visionary in Sound

A film by Frank Scheffer

Elliott Carter, A Labyrinth of Time

A century of music

How To Get Out Of The Cage

One Year With John Cage

Unsuk Chin's Alice in Wonderland

Kent Nagano, Achim Freyer, Unsuk Chin – With Sally Matthews and Dietrich Henschel – Nationaltheater München

• Nationaltheater München (Munich, Germany)

Morricone conducts Morricone

München, 2004

• Münchner Philharmoniker (Munich, Germany)