Name: Grandbrothers from Cologne Cathedral
Genre: Performance Art
Duration: 4580 s
Cast: Grandbrothers

Grandbrothers à la cathédrale de Cologne

Grandbrothers im Kölner Dom

Grandbrothers from Cologne Cathedral

Grandbrothers en la catedral de Colonia

Grandbrothers alla cattedrale di Colonia

<p>Piano/electric duo Grandbrothers perform at Cologne Cathedral to celebrate the 700th anniversary of its consecration, in a spectacular show featuring their ‘augmented’ piano and light show.</p>

Piano/electric duo Grandbrothers perform at Cologne Cathedral to celebrate the 700th anniversary of its consecration, in a spectacular show featuring their ‘augmented’ piano and light show.

Trumpeter Enrico Rava and pianist Fred Hersh perform from their album, The Song Is You, at the Italian Piacenza jazz festival.

Piacenza Jazz Fest

Trumpeter Enrico Rava and pianist Fred Hersh perform from their album, The Song Is You, at the Italian azz festival.

Enrico Rava & Fred Hersch

Pianist Martha Argerich invites us into her home in Geneva in the company of her daughter Annie Dutoit to perform with friend and music partner, cellist Mischa Maisky. The programme includes Beethoven's Variations on the Magic Flute, Schumann's Fantasiestücke opus 73 and Chopin's Introduction and Polonaise brillante opus 3.

Pianist Martha Argerich invites us into her home in Geneva in the company of her daughter Annie Dutoit to perform with friend and music partner, cellist Mischa Maisky. 

Private Concert with Martha Argerich

Music director of the WDR Symphony Orchestra, Cristian Măcelaru takes his musicians on a tour of his homeland, Romania. A tour stopping in Timişoara, his hometown. On the programme: The Piano Concerto No. 2 by Johannes Brahms with soloist Simon Trpčeski.

Concert from the European Capital of Culture 2023

Conductor Cristian Măcelaru and the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne perform Brahms and Klaus Lang in Romania.

Cristian Mācelaru in Timişoara

Pianist Sofiane Pamart takes over the majestic Hôtel de la Marine in Paris for a nocturnal concert with magical overtones.

An Evening at the Hôtel de la Marine

Sofiane Pamart

Hania Rani was born in Poland and now divides her time between Warsaw and Berlin. Between these two cities, the pianist composes subtle and sensitive music reminiscent of Philip Glass or Erik Satie.

Piano Day 2022

Hania Rani

Winner of the prestigious International Tchaikovsky Competition in 2019, French pianist Alexandre Kantorow performs his winning piece, Tchaikovsky’s lesser-known second piano concerto in G Major, accompanied by the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Aziz Shokhakimov.

Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No.2

French pianist Alexandre Kantorowperforms Tchaikovsky’s lesser-known second piano concerto in G Major, accompanied by the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Aziz Shokhakimov.

Alexandre Kantorow

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

French conductor and contralto Nathalie Stutzmann, the pianist Alexandre Tharaud and the Orchestre de Paris bring the Paris Philharmonie to life with a treat of a programme.

Verdi, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky

Nathalie Stutzmann & Alexandre Tharaud

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

The Piano - From Classical to Modern

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

The Grand Palais during renovation work, a perfect setting for Berlin electronic supergroup Moderat to perform.

Passengers

Moderat at the Grand Palais

The 40th edition of the MUSICA international contemporary music festival in Strasbourg honoured the Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho. For the occasion, the group Tres Coyotes, made up of her lifelong friends, composer Magnus Lindberg and cellist Anssi Karttunen, came together for a concert of improvised music with the legend John Paul Jones, bassist of the group Led Zeppelin.

Festival Musica 2022

Tres Coyotes

Promising British breakthrough artist Olivia Dean performs at the ARTE Concert Festival 2022.

ARTE Concert Festival 2022

Olivia Dean

Every year, Radio France celebrates contemporary music with Présences Festival. The Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Kent Nagano takes over the Philharmonie de Paris to perform works by Thomas Lacôte, Unsuk Chin and Yann Robin.

Bach / Lacôte / Chin / Robin

The Orchestra Philharmonique de Radio France celebrates contemporary music, conducted by Kent Nagano.

Presences Festival 2023

A harpsichord rock star, philosopher musician, enfant terrible... At just 30 years of age, Jean Rondeau has already built a reputation as a performer. A true virtuoso, he has breathed new life into the harpsichord. He performs pieces from the Baroque repertoire with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra.

Freiburg Baroque Orchestra

A true virtuoso, Jean Rondeau has breathed new life into the harpsichord. He performs pieces from the Baroque repertoire with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra.

Jean Rondeau : Behind Bach

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

British duo Jockstrap perform from the debut album I Love You Jennifer B.  in the cavernous surroundings of the Palais d’Iéna in Paris.

Jockstrap at the Iéna Palace

Bonuses and Extracts

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At once seductive and dangerous, historical myth and male fantasy, the femme fatale represents both erotic promise and a death trap to the male observer. Conceived at the end of the 19th century in the works of Gustave Moreau, Franz von Stuck and Lovis Corinth, the femme fatale was completely reinvented in the 20th century by many female artists.

Seductive and dangerous, the figure of the femme fatale in art was completely reinvented in the 20th century.

The Femme Fatale in Art

The decisive moment in 1618 that triggered the Thirty Years' War between Catholics and Protestants and changed the course of European history.

The decisive moment in 1618 that triggered the Thirty Years' War between Catholics and Protestants. 

The Defenestration of Prague

Tensions between Moldova and Russia are escalating over the breakaway region of Transnistria, an investigation on how prepared Europe is for another summer of wildfires, and a report from the Dissident Club in Paris.

Tensions in Moldova / WildFires in Europe

Tensions between Moldova and Russia are escalating with street protests and controversy over Russian secret documents.

ARTE Europe Weekly

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

Highly influential indie rockers from Boston, famous for such tracks as Debaser and Where is my mind perform in Paris as part of a European tour for their latest album Doggerel.

Legendary and highly influential indie rockers perform in Paris as part of their European tour.

Pixies - Live at the Paris Olympia

Eclectic American singer-songwriter Ben Harper performs from his latest album, 2022’s Bloodline Maintenance. Filmed at Ground Control in Paris.

Ground Control

Eclectic American singer-songwriter Ben Harper performs from his latest album, 2022’s Bloodline Maintenance.

Ben Harper

At first glance, it's an image of innocence. A motherly milkmaid pouring out the milk in a kitchen, preparing snacks from our childhoods. But there's actually far more to her than meets the eye.

The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer

A famous image that at first glance looks totally innocent, but is in actual fact full of innuendo

Look but Don't Touch

An exclusive investigation into the Russian paramilitary organisation Wagner, headed by oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin. 2,500 documents were leaked from Prigozhin’s servers by anti-Putin hackers, shedding light on this secretive group of mercenaries, a key element in the war in Ukraine.

Data Sources

An exclusive investigation into the Russian paramilitary organisation Wagner, headed by oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin. 

The Prigozhin Papers

Lyubov, which means love in Russian, is 80 years old and lives alone on the shores of Lake Baikal. She bears witness to this wonder of nature and possesses and unbreakable bond with the world’s deepest lake in Siberia. Her life here is hard, especially in winter, but she would not live anywhere else.

On the shores of Lake Baikal, an old woman lives alone in a beautiful place that is dear to her heart.

The Old Woman and the Lake

Many governments and organisations are wary of their employers using the social media TikTok. Does the Chinese company really serve Xi Jinping’s regime?

TikTok: A Chinese Threat?

Mapping the World Essentials

Working her way out of poverty as a sex worker all while supporting her family in Romania. That’s Andrada’s goal. She speaks confidently and openly about her work in a red-light district in Germany’s Ruhr region.  
This programme by German channel ARD is part of The European Collection, a joint initiative of European public media (ARD, ARTE, France Télévisions, SRG SSR and ZDF), coordinated by ARTE.

Portrait of a sex worker in the Ruhr region, Germany.  

Hard Life – I sell sex for money

France’s President Emmanuel Macron forced through an unpopular reform of the country’s pension system – and the French aren’t having it. We travel to Romania to find out about a possible law to ban gambling adverts, and look at how to protect Europeans from addictions.

France’s pension reform / Gambling / Photography

Protests erupt across France in response to the government’s pension reform bill, and we explore gambling across Europe.

A look at how we are getting better at managing and conserving water supplies in drier parts of our planet like southern Spain, Israel and the desert city of Las Vegas.

Water

 A look at how we are getting better at managing and conserving water supplies in drier parts of our planet like southern Spain, Israel and the desert city of Las Vegas.

Good News From Our Planet

In El Salvador, gangs have terrorised the country for decades. But when Nayib Bukele was elected president in 2019, becoming the youngest head of state in Latin America, he vowed to take back control from the gangs by installing a state of emergency.

El Salvador: The coolest dictator in the world?

When Nayib Bukele was elected president in 2019, he vowed to take back control from the gangs by installing a state of emergency.

ARTE Reportage

Far from the metropolitan centre of Tel Aviv, Sderot show another side of Israel. One with high-levels of social deprivation and strong support for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government’s controversial judicial reforms.

Sderot - The Other Israel

Far from the metropolitan centre of Tel Aviv, Sderot is a different Israel with strong support for Netanjahu and high levels of social deprivation.

In Peru, every year, the people who live in remote mountain villages gather to build the Inca bridge of Q'eswachaka, a traditional structure of woven grass, and the last of its kind. This ancestral know-how inherited from the Incas, and the enduring spirit of community, enables the villagers to pull off a stunning feat of engineering, time and again.

In Peru, every year, villagers build the Inca bridge of Q'eswachaka from woven grass, and the last of its kind.

The Inca Grass Bridge of Q'eswachaka

With all the religious wars, the 17th century was a tense time in Europe. And in art one theme caught everyone’s imagination: the Virgin Mary.

Assumption of the Virgin - Nicolas Poussin

Look But Don't Touch

Palestinian prisoners in Israeli gaols have fathered around one hundred children over the last ten years. Their sperm is smuggled out of prison to be used in IVF with their partners.

Israel-Palestine: Secret Babies of the Intifada

Palestinian prisoners in Israeli gaols have fathered around one hundred children over the last ten years.

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.