L'Impératrice at the Paris Grand Palais

L'Impératrice al Grand Palais (2021)

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L’Impératrice bring a touch of French chic to their unique brand of electro with their new album Tako Tsubo delivering a host of danceable tunes to the cathedral-like space of the Grand Palais in Paris.
Setlist :
 Masques
 Anomalie Bleue
 Sonate Pacifique
 Peur des Filles
 Voodoo?
 Erreur 404
 Fou
 Submarine
 Hématome
 Vacances
 Agitations Tropicales
Matahari

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L’Impératrice bring a touch of French chic to their unique brand of electro with their new album Tako Tsubo delivering a host of danceable tunes to the cathedral-like space of the Grand Palais in Paris.
Setlist : Masques Anomalie Bleue Sonate Pacifique Peur des Filles Voodoo? Erreur 404 Fou Submarine Hématome Vacances Agitations Tropicales Matahari

L’Impératrice bring a touch of French chic to their unique brand of electro with their new album Tako Tsubo delivering a host of danceable tunes to the cathedral-like space of the Grand Palais in Paris.

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In the lush tropical greenhouses of the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul raise the temperature with their multi-faceted electro-pop.

Charlotte Adigery & Bolis Pupul

Metronomy present their new album, Small World, as well as some of their classic tracks, from the palaeontology gallery of the French National Museum of Natural History in Paris.

Setlist :
 Love Factory
 The Bay
 It's Good To Be Back
 Everything Goes My Way
 Walking in the Dark
 Night Owl
 Things Will Be Fine
 Salted Caramel Ice Cream
 Right On Time
 The Look
Back On The Motorway

Metronomy present their new album, Small World, as well as some of their classic tracks, from the palaeontology gallery of the French National Museum of Natural History in Paris.

Metronomy at the Museum

This edition of Passengers transports France 79 to the stars, or rather the Nice Observatory. Their dreamy electro pop will take you to an ethereal realm with tracks such as ‘Hometown’ and ‘Diamond Veins’.

French 79 at the Nice Observatory

Electro artist Kid Francescoli performs his latest album Lovers, from a boat cruising down the Seine. Recorded 6 July 2020 in Paris.

Kid Francescoli

After a long collaboration with Modeselektor as Moderat, Apparat returns to making music alone. The result is ‘LP5’, set to be an ambient classic, performed live in the majestic surroundings of the Palais de la Découverte in Paris.

After a long collaboration with Modeselektor Apparat returns to making music alone. The result is ‘LP5’ set to be an ambient classic performed live in the majestic surroundings of the Palais de la Découverte in Paris.

Passengers: Apparat

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Detroit-born Gerald Donald is an electronic music legend. Together with the late James Stinson, he was part of the pioneering Afrofuturist formation Drexciya. Since the mid-90s, he has released several influential albums under various pseudonyms, the best known of which is Dopplereffekt. The dazzling electro duo currently consists of Donald and his wife Michaela To-Nhan Bertel.

30 years of Tresor, Berlin

Since the mid-90s, Detroit-born Gerald Donald has released several influential albums under various pseudonyms, the best known of which is Dopplereffekt. 

Dopplereffekt

DJ Jennifer Cardini brings the French electro scene together in support of Ukraine with seven hours of music featuring top names such as Laurent Garnier, The Hacker, Vitalic and many more.
Line-up:
17h00 - Mala Ika B2B RAG 
 18h00 - Pedro Winter B2B Belaria
 19h00 - Jennifer Cardini B2B Laurent Garnier
 20h00 - The Hacker B2B Pablo Bozzi
 21h00 - Vitalic 
 21h30 - François X B2B Mac Declos
 22h30 - Deena Abdelwahed B2B گليثر ٥٥ GLITTER
 23h30 - UR Trax B2B Vel

Recorded 6 April at the Gaité Lyrique in Paris.

The French electro scene comes together in support of Ukraine with seven hours of music featuring top names such as Laurent Garnier, The Hacker, Vitalic and many more.

Stand with Ukraine

Arriving in April 2021, Extended is the fifth album from Modeselektor. The German duo are accompanying this release with a ‘visual album’ in film: 'Work’ stars American dancer Corey Scott-Gilbert who transposes the energy of Modeselektor’s music into a radical performance.

A Film by Corey Scott-Gilbert, Krsn Brasko and Tobias Staab

American dancer Corey Scott-Gilbert transposes the energy of Modeselektor’s music into a radical performance.

Modeselektor Presents Work

Grandbrothers hit the ground running with "Ezra was right", a debut song endorsed by Gilles Peterson. The duo then released their first album Dilation in 2015 to acclaim, followed two years later by Open. After a four-year break, Grandbrothers are back with a new gem of an album: All the Unknown.
Recorded March 14 2021 at Tournesol swimming pool, Bondy, France.

Grandbrothers hit the ground running with "Ezra was right", a debut song endorsed by Gilles Peterson. The duo then released their first album Dilation in 2015 to acclaim, followed two years later by Open. After a four-year break, Grandbrothers are back with a new gem of an album: All the Unknown.
Recorded March 14 2021 at Tournesol swimming pool, Bondy, France.

Grandbrothers Sessions

Between fiction and reality, French electro artist Jacques impresses in an offbeat episode of Release Party for the long-awaited release of his first album LIMPORTANCEDUVIDE.

Between fiction and reality, French electro artist Jacques impresses in an offbeat Release Party for the long-awaited release of his first album LIMPORTANCEDUVIDE.

Jacques in Release Party

Since 13 March all Berlin nightclubs, a vital part of this hedonistic city’s identity, have been closed. Many employees and artists are out of work and some club spaces could close down completely. In response to the shutdown, promoters, clubs, and artists have come together to create the world’s largest virtual club which begins streaming Wednesday 18th March. #UnitedWeStream.  A daily livestream from 7 p.m from one of Berlin’s clubs.
Tonight from Watergate.19:00 - 20:00 Jamiie20.00 - 21.00 Claptone21:00 - 22:00 Gheist f.t xx Isis xx22:00 - 23:00 Monika Kruse23:00 - 00:00 Yulia Niko

With Monika Kruse, Claptone, Gheist Hybrid, xxIsisxx, Jamiie, Yulia Niko

Since 13 March all Berlin nightclubs, a vital part of this hedonistic city’s identity, have been closed. Many employees and artists are out of work and some club spaces could close down completely. In response to the shutdown, promoters, clubs, and artists have come together to create the world’s largest virtual club which begins streaming Wednesday 18th March. #UnitedWeStream. A daily livestream from 7 p.m from one of Berlin’s clubs.
Tonight from Watergate.19:00 - 20:00 Jamiie20.00 - 21.00 Claptone21:00 - 22:00 Gheist Hybrid22:00 - 23:00 Monika Kruse23:00 - 00:00 Yulia Niko

United We Stream: Watergate

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Behind his polite exterior lies a formidable leader with a ruthless character, ready to do anything to make China the world's leading power by the People’s Republic’s centenary in 2049. This well-documented portrait of the Chinese president gives an unprecedented insight into his politics and shows how Xi Jinping's personal journey has shaped his choices as he steers China towards world domination.

A portrait of the Chinese president giving an unprecedented insight into his politics and showing how Xi Jinping's personal journey has shaped his choices as he steers China towards world domination.

The New World of Xi Jinping

After two months of fighting, the Russian troops had their advance towards the West blocked by fierce Ukrainian resistance. Forced to leave the suburbs of Kyiv, the occupying army left behind mass graves and horrific accounts of rape and abuse in their wake. Russia is now turning its efforts to the Dobas and the coastline along the Sea of ​​Azov. In Kyiv, the return of spring is also the return of many residents who had fled.

 In Kyiv, the return of spring is also the return of many residents who had fled

Ukraine: Kyiv in Spring

The Maginot Line is a giant: Thousands of underground bunkers and concrete defences lining the French border, from Belgium to the Mediterranean. In its time it was celebrated as a technical masterpiece and thought to be impregnable, today it also stands for the trauma of the French defeat in 1940. The documentary looks at a military construction that is as fascinating as it is controversial.

France's Defensive Barrier

Thought to be impregnable, the French defensive barrier did not halt the German invasion in 1940.

The Maginot Line

Far away from the South Korean capital of Seoul is the Buddhist Gameunsa Temple. Three nuns live, pray and cook together here as they preserve the knowledge of centuries-old temple cuisine. The abbess of this small monastery is the charismatic Wookwan Sunim, revered in Asia as one of the best cooks in the world.

South Korea: Magic Temple Food

Far away from the South Korean metropolis of Seoul is the Buddhist Gameunsa Temple where three nuns live, pray and cook together 

Geo Reportage

Lockdowns, crop failures due to climate change and the war in Ukraine are all to blame for soaring prices around the world.

Geopolitics of Inflation

Mapping the World Essentials

The literary source for Richard Strauss’s opera immortalizing the degeneracy of Herodes Antipas, King of Judea, and his step-daughter Salome, was supplied by Oscar Wilde. It tells of Herodes, who is keeping the prophet Jochanaan captive inside a cistern. Salome tries to seduce him and on being rebuffed, forces her stepfather to serve her the prophet’s head on a silver platter.

Directed by Christof Loy in Helsinki

Rejected by the prophet Jochanaan, Salome forces her abusive stepfather to exact revenge.

Richard Strauss: Salome

The planet's jet streams are being affected by rising temperatures in the Arctic. These streams are part of a wind system that circulates at high altitude around the Earth, and they have an influence on extreme weather events. Changes in them are bad news for life on Earth.

How Climate Change Makes Storms Worse

Changing jet streams are bad news for life on Earth

Winds of Change

ARTE Concert Festival welcomes a legend, Damon Albarn. He performs his new album live: The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows.

ARTE Concert Festival 2021

ARTE Concert Festival welcomes a legend, Damon Albarn

Damon Albarn

Three Japanese men have fallen under the charms of high school student Rinko, a character from the video game Love Plus. The game finally leads them to the seaside resort of Atami, where the virtual world and real life collides.

Three Japanese men have fallen under the charms of high school student Rinko, a character from the video game Love Plus

Petit ami parfait

An investigation into a little-known story from the Second World War. Having planned and executed their mass murders, the Nazis meticulously eliminated traces of their crimes against humanity between 1942 and 1944: The so-called Operation 1005.

How the Nazis Covered up their Crimes

The Nazis meticulously eliminated traces of their crimes against humanity between 1942 and 1944: The so-called Operation 1005.

Operation 1005

Ordinary Ukrainian citizens are preparing to resist the Russian invader by joining the army and helping the resistance in any way they can.

Ukraine: Resisting the Agressor

ARTE Reportage

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has brought the people of Kyiv together like nothing else. Calling on the spirit of the Maidan Revolution of 2014, they are ready to resist.

Ukraine: Maïdan Spirit

The Supreme Court is now made of a majority of ultra-conservative judges since President Trump's term in office. The court now looks set to overturn the Roe v Wade case which gave women the constitutional right to have an abortion if they so wish or need. This worrying step backwards for women's rights doesn't mean women won't have abortions. It means they'll die trying.

Abortion: A Threatened Right

This worrying step backwards doesn't mean women won't have abortions. It means they'll die trying

Mapping the World

Pianist Maria-João Pires joins the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra at the Aix-en-Provence Easter Festival in a concert featuring the music of Mozart, Mendelssohn and Schumann.


Programme:
Felix Mendelssohn - Ein Sommernachtstraum (A Midsummer Night's Dream), Overture, Op. 21
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 9 in E flat major, K. 271

Robert Schumann - Symphony No. 1 in B flat major, "Spring", Op. 38

Aix-en-Provence Easter Festival 2022

Pianist Maria-João Pires joins the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra at the Aix-en-Provence Easter Festival in a concert featuring the music of Mozart, Mendelssohn and Schumann.

Maria-João Pires plays Mozart

In 2020, for the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth, Philippe Jordan and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra recreated the mythical evening of December 22 1808, when  the composer presented his Sixth Symphony, also known as his Pastoral.

Philippe Jordan recreates the evening of December 22, 1808, when Beethoven presented his Pastoral symphony

Philippe Jordan Conducts Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony

Since its invention in the 19th century, the bicycle has allowed Western women to move around independently. Today, it is the turn of women in Arab countries to discover its power. Though at first glance innocuous and common, the bicycle is unexpectedly feminist.

The Freedom to Cycle

Though at first glance innocuous and common, the bicycle is unexpectedly feminist

Gymnastics

Saudi Arabia is reputed to be one of the richest and most conservative nations on the planet. But how do its citizens live today?

Saudi Arabia: The West

Unknown Arabia

The internationally renowned bassist, singer and composer Avishai Cohen performs in an exclusive concert from the Maillon theatre in Strasbourg. Accompanied by drummer Roni Kaspi and pianist Elchin Shirinov, the jazzman presents his forthcoming album Shifting Sands.

Private Session at the Maillon Theatre, Strasbourg

IThe internationally renowned bassist, singer and composer Avishai Cohen performs from his forthcoming album Shifting Sands.

Avishai Cohen Trio

Live from the Teatro Real in Madrid, an adaptation of Prokofiev’s flamboyant masterpiece by the ever-radical Calixto Bieito.

An adaptation of Sergei Prokofiev’s flamboyant masterpiece by radical director Calixto Bieito.

Prokofiev’s "The Fiery Angel" at the Teatro Real in Madrid

In 2017, Ukrainian journalist Stanislav Aseyev was living and working from the separatist region of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. Critical of the self-proclaimed republic, he used pseudonyms to protect his identity. But one day he was exposed which led to his imprisonment and torture in the notorious Izolyatsia prison

The story of Ukrainian journalist Stanislav Aseyev who was imprisonment and tortured in the separatist region of Donbas.

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Charlotte Adigery & Bolis Pupul

Charlotte Adigery & Bolis Pupul

Passengers

Metronomy at the Museum

Metronomy at the Museum

Passengers