°PRODUCTIONS

ELLA SHERIFF
"Dark am I... "
The song of Songs  - 
The love poem from the Bible by King Solomon
with Keren Hadar, soprano
Vocal ensemble (tenor, counter-tenor, bass)
chambermusic ensemble, pianor, percussion

° Concert TOURS

2012     GILLES APAP   & Mario Brunello, Cello
& Orchestra d'Archi Italiana
October  15 - 23
Dvorak, Slavonic Danes  *  Brahms, Hungarian Dances  *  Kodaly, Duo f. violin + cello  * 
Bartok, Divertimento f. String orchestra

2012   LES DESAXES     May / June, October
 - Concert Show: Music & Comedy
     "Sea, SAX & Fun."
 -  DéSAXés unplugged: 
      "SAXophonissimo"
CD:   "les DÉSAXÉS", soundtrack der Show
Video Clips


2011  Oct 1 - 10       2012  March/April -  June/July   - Sept/Oct
NAAT VELIOV'S ORIGINAL KOCANI ORKESTAR
Gypsy Brass
CDs: "LIfe" * Gypsy Folies * Gypsy Mambo * Cigance * L'Orient est rouge
Video: "live on tour "

° CONCERTS - Individual dates    

*  GILLES APAP, violin

Violin concertos
Bach, Bartok *, Berg, Brahms *, Enescu, Haydn *, Mozart *, Mendelssohn, Prokofiev. Ravel, Saint-Saens, Shostakovitch, Tchaikovsky, Vivaldi *, Wienawski
*  Soloist + mus. director

Chamber Music
GILLES APAP & THE COLORS OF INVENTION

New Programme Automn 2012:
" L'Oiseau de Feu"
Strawinsky, l'Oiseau de feu *  Prokofjev, The Love fro teh 3 Oranges * Mussorgsky, Picturse at an Exhibition 

GILLES APAP
 & Transsylvanian Mountainboys
Chris Judge, Gitarre * Brandon Statom, Bass
Classical, Swing, Jazz and Gypsy

Still in the repertory:
"sans orchestre"
Mozart, Kreisler, Ravel, Saint-Saens, de Falla and  traditional music
CD:  "sans orchestre" 
Video:   Live  at Philharmonie  Berlin

"Vivaldi's Four Seasons"
Vivaldi, Kreisler, Gypsy, Irish, Klezmer, soli

CD: Vivaldi's Four Seasons"
Video:   Live  at Philharmonie  Berlin

Solo-Recital
"Hope you like violin?"
Bach, Ysaye, Swing, Irish, Gypsy
CD: "Music for Solo Violin"
Video:  Live in concert

Duo Recital
"Sonatas"
& N.N., piano
Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Bartok, Debussy, Enescu, Fauré,de Falla, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Prokofjev, Ravel, Schumann, Strawinsky
CD: "Debussy, Ravel, Ensecu - Sonatas"
Video:  Live in concert



*  ROBERTO PROSSEDA, piano

NEW:

Liszt  in Italy     The program with the NEW CD
ffrom  "Années de Pèlerinage, Italie "
“Après une lecture de Dante”
Deux Légendes
CD:  Franz Liszt, Années de pèlerinage, Italie


“Without Words”
Mendelssohn * Schubert * Liszt
A selection of the best examples of  Mendelssohn’s "Lieder ohne Worte", joined by Lieder, originally composed “with words” by  Mendelssohn, Schubert and Liszt, transcribed by Liszt for solo piano
Detailed program .
CD: "Mendelssohn: "Lieder ohne Worte"  First complete recording


"Nature as a mirror of Interioty"
Schumann * Mendelssohn * Liszt
Schumann, Mendelssohn and Liszt had been inspired to several of their most beautiful works by their deep inner attachment to nature
Detailed program
CD:  Schumann, Fantasia


Robert Schumann: "Fantasia"
A selection from Kinderszenen 6  Waldszenen, Arabeske, Fantasia op. 17
CD: "Fantasia"


Mendelssohn in England
English and Scottish landscapes deeply inspired Mendelssohn and his music. In England he composed some of the most poetic of his piano works which are here presented together.
Detailed program
mp3: Adagio & Presto Agitato


Frédéric Chopin: Les Nocturnes
All 21 nocturnes presented in one recital
CD:  "Chopin"
Video:  Prosseda plays Chopin


The art of Nocturno

Chopin brought the 'Nocturno' to the highest poetic peaks, but also many other composers cwere fascinated by this genre.
The most interesting nocturnos, different in character and style, composed by  English, French, Russian, German composers  together with some of teh most beautiful written by Chopn.
Detailed program

Piano Concertos

Pedal Piano - Projekt
Original compositions for Pedal Piano by  Gounod, Mozart, Schubert
as well as adaptations of  works for harpsichord by  Bach

Felix Mendelssohn
Concerto no. 1 G minor , op.25
Concerto no. 3  E minor   (reconstructed and completed by M. Bufalini)
 Concert f. 2 pianos  E Major    (w. Alessandra Ammara)
mp3:   Mendelssohn, Klavierkonzert nr.1, 1.Satz
CD:    Mendelssohn, Klavierkonzert nr.3,

Robert Schumann 
   Concert A minor, op. 54

Frédéric Chopin
   Concert no. 1  G minor, op.11

Nino Rota 
Concerto Soirée   (1962)

Viktor Ullmann
Piano Concerto op. 25 (1939/ U: 1992, Stuttgart)



Permanent repertory information:
CDs: w. Gewandhaus orchestra: Mendelssohn, 3rd piano concerto
"Mendelssohn: "Lieder ohne Worte"  First complete recording
  Mendelssohn Discoveries: / Mendelssohn Rarities /  "Chopin"

*  DEBUSSY TRIO MÜNCHEN
NEW: 2012 - To the 150th birthday of Debussy
"Soirée du samedi"
Debussy, Rameau, Fauré, ravel, Albeniz, Satie, Piazzolla

Permanent repertory:
"Danse des Couleurs"
Modest Mussorgsky "Pictures of an Exhibition" a.o.

"Concerts des Époques"
Chamber Music from 4 centuries
Rameau, Marias, Debussy, Gubaidulina a.o.

"Serenade Cadiz"
A Spanish Summer Night's Music
Albeniz, Ravel, Stravinsky, Piazzolla a.o.

CD:"Garten von Freuden und Traurigkeiten"

 

*  Classic & Modernity

Members of  Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
PHILHARMONIC CAPRICCIO
R. Strauss, Cappriccio op.85
Schönberg, Verklärte Nacht, op.4  *
 Brahms, Sextett  op.18 *
Mozart *  Brahms *  Reger * v. Weber  Clarinet Quintets

PHILHARMONIC STRING SOLOISTS
* Mozart, Adagio + Fuge, KV 546 * Elgar, Serenade e-moll, op.20
* Stravinsky Concerto in Re
* A. Webern Langsamer Satz
* Tchaikovsky Serenade C-Dur
* Mendelssohn,  Streichersinfonien no.9 + 10
andwith  Albrecht Mayer, Solo Oboe
* Bach, Conc. p. Oboe et Violino, c-moll
* Marcello Conc. p.Oboe et archi, d-moll
& Mozart, Webern , Dvorak

*  Blue Planet - Music of the World

JEAN JACQUES LEMETRE

"Planet of Sounds"
Sounds, melodies and rhythms
played on a selection of original instruments collected from all  5 continents

CDs: "Ecoute ailleurs" * Cd à ID
+ more than 30 other recordings....

ESTI KENAN OFRI
& Koloudtof
"Gazelle"
Songs & Chants of the  Sephardic Jews from Spain and Morocco
CDs:"Gazelle" * Camino en mano

*  Film & Music

GÜNTER A.BUCHWALD
& Silent Movie Music Company 
"Classical Silent Movie Films & Live-Music"
Famous classics of the  international silent movie cinema
Murnau, Lubitsch, Pabst, Lang, 
Eisenstein, Chaplin, René Clair a.o.
CD: "Music for Silent Movie Films:
Großstadtzigeuner / Paris qui dort /
A Propos de Nice"

"Classical silent movies from Japan"
CD: "Das Mädchen Sumiko" / The Maiden Sumiko