János S. Darvas
Music on Screen – Selected Projects
2017
Hector Berlioz: Requiem · Grande Messe des Morts
Cologne Cathedral
LIVE STREAMING ON ARTE · TV BROADCAST ON 3SAT
Czech Philharmonic Choir of Brno
WDR Rundfunkchor Köln
Andrew Staples (Tenor)
WDR Sinfonieorchester
Conducted by Jukka-Pekka Sarastre
ARTE CONCERT · WDR / 3SAT · 2017
Johann Sebastian Bach: Matthäus-Passion
3.5 Million YouTube Views
Tenor [Evangelist]: Christoph Prégardien
Baritone [Christusworte]: Tobias Berndt
Sopranos: Dorothée Mields, Hana Blažíková
Altos (Counter-tenors): Damien Guillon, Robin Blaze
Tenors: Colin Balzer, Hans Jörg Mammel
Basses: Matthew Brook, Stephan MacLeod
Collegium Vocale Gent
Conducted by Philippe Herreweghe
WDR / 3SAT · 2010
2016
Friedrich Gulda – Mozart for the People
RE-RELEASE ON DVD AND BLU-RAY
A Loft / Bodo Kessler Production · 1981
Richard Wagner: Das Liebesverbot – Teatro Real Madrid
LIVE STREAMING · TV · DVD · BLU-RAY
Wagner’s comic opera, based on Shakespeare’s comedy Measure for Measure, is performed in a new production by Danish stage director Kasper Holten for the Teatro Real in Madrid and the Royal Opera House London.
Conducted by Ivor Bolton
A co-production by EuroArts, Sintonía Media, the Teatro Real of Madrid and TVE · 2016
2015
A Celebration of Peace Through Music
RELEASE ON ITUNES · AMAZON VIDEO · DVD
The New York Philharmonic in Cologne
LIVE RECORDING
Alan Gilbert Conducts Sravinsky, Ravel and R. Strauss
Kölner Philharmonie – Cologne Philharmonic Hall
A WDR / 3SAT Production · 2015
A Celebration of Peace Through Music
TV BROADCAST PREMIERE
PBS · WETA TV · THIRTEEN NET
on Easter Sunday, April 5, 2015
Created and Conducted by Sir Gilbert Levine
Filmed in Buenos Aires, Kraków, Venice, Rome, Vienna and Washington D.C.
A co-production of Pax Per Musicam and Georgetown University
in association with WETA Washington, D.C. · 2015
2014
Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Requiem for a Young Poet
A Film by János Darvas and Thorsten Fricke
The starting point of the film is an impressive performance of Zimmermann’s “Requiem for a Young Poet”. The film focuses on Zimmermann’s acoustic collage technique and pursues it emphatically through visual means.
WDR · 2014
AWARD
51st Golden Prague Festival
Special Mention for Extraordinary Artistic Achievement
LIVE BROADCAST ON ARTE
Puccini: Manon Lescaut – Baden-Baden
Philharmonia Choir Vienna, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Lester Lynch, Massimo Giordano, Liang Li, Bogdan Mihai, Reinhard Dorn, Magdalena Kožená, Kresimir Spicer, Arthur Espiritu, Johannes Kammler
Stage director: Richard Eyre
Berliner Philharmoniker
Conducted by Sir Simon Rattle
Produced by EuroArts Music in co-production with SWR/ARTE and NHK · 2014
2013
AVAILABLE ON MEDICI
The Hungarian Touch
Produced by Idéale Audience · 2002
Philip Glass: The Perfect American – Teatro Real Madrid
WORLD PREMIERE · LIVE STREAMING · TV · DVD · BLU-RAY
Philip Glass presents his latest opera, The Perfect American, telling the story of a 20th-century character of huge cultural influence, Walt Disney.
Libretto by Rudolph Wurlitzer
Based on the novel by Peter Stephan Jungk
Stage director: Phelim Mc Dermott
Conducted by Dennis Russell Davies
A co-production by Idéale Audience, EuroArts, Teatro Real, WDR/Arte, TVE and NHK with the participation of MUSEEC/medici.tv and France Télévisions · 2013
MOZART – Great Piano Concertos
RE-RELEASE ON DVD
14 Piano Concertos with Vladimir Ashkenazy, Christian Zacharias, Mitsuko Uchida, Dezső Ránki, André Previn, Zoltán Kocsis, Radu Lupu, Homero Francesch, Aleksandar Madžar, Malcolm Frager, Ivan Klánský, Heidrun Holtmann
Produced by Bernd Hellthaler · 1991
2012
AVAILABLE ON MEDICI
COMING HOME – 75 Years Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
A production of EuroArts Music International in co-production with WDR/Arte/IBA · 2011
NEW RELEASE ON DVD AND BLU-RAY
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra – Anniversary Edition
The film “Coming Home” by János Darvas brings to life the 75 year history of the Israel Philharmonic with grace and pathos, telling the story of the orchestra itself within the history of Israel, her formation, and her people. The concert celebrating the orchestra’s 75th anniversary, featuring young soloists and performed under the esteemed baton of Zubin Mehta, is presented alongside this gorgeous film and allows the audience to see the fruit of 75 years of labor: great art.
Naxos of America – September 2012
NEW RELEASE ON DVD
TAKÁCS QUARTET · ZOLTÁN KOCSIS · ANDRÁS SCHIFF
Robert Schumann: Kinderszenen, Kreisleriana, Études symphoniques, Piano Quintet No. 44 – Claude Debussy: Children’s Corner – Béla Bartók: For Children
Produced by METROPOLITAN MUNICH · 1989 / 1990 / 1992