6 Minutes Diary

Like many of Janáček’s late masterpieces, the genesis of the ‘Diary’ is unseparable from its composer’s intense, obsessional love for Kamila Stösslová. A song-cycle like no other, here it’s the main work in a recital which showcases the extraordinary talents of Nicky Spence, Václava Housková and the vocal trio Voice.

In celebration of Michael Tilson Thomas’ 25th and final year as Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony, SFS Media presents the premiere recordings of MTT’s most recent compositions for voice and orchestra.

For almost his entire life, Béla Bartók's music fell on deaf ears. Unnoticed by the general public, this extraordinary composer created a unique cosmos of Hungarian/South-Eastern European folk and art music. Like Schönberg and Stravinsky, he is one of the protagonists of 20th century musical art. A few years after his death, his music became a bestseller and this success has reached unimagined heights again in our time. Accordionist Teodoro Anzellotti presents an individual selection of Bartók's masterpieces.

In 1945, as a truckload of war survivors stops in front of an Amsterdam factory at the end of World War II, Otto Frank gets out and walks inside. After climbing the stairs to a deserted garret, Otto finds a girl's discarded glove and sobs, then is joined and comforted by Miep Gies and Mr. Kraler, factory workers who shielded him from the Nazis. After…

The second in a series of musical installments from Tony and Emmy Award–winning singer/actor Mandy Patinkin and pianist/producer Thomas Bartlett (aka Doveman)—Diary: April/May 2018—is out today on Nonesuch Records. The digital release's fourteen songs were recorded by the two musicians in Bartlett's New York studio in the spring of this year. Diary: April/May 2018 is available in the Nonesuch Store, iTunes, Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, and YouTube, all via mandypatinkindiary.com. A Tom Kalin–directed video for the album track "From the Air" by Laurie Anderson can be seen below.

Millions know her from duets with Keith Urban, Cyndi Lauper and heart stopping performances on America's Got Talent, but locally she is the songwriter's favorite singer, the singer's favorite writer, and everyone's favorite friend.

A new priest (Claude Laydu) arrives in the French country village of Ambricourt to attend to his first parish. The apathetic and hostile rural congregation rejects him immediately. Through his diary entries, the suffering young man relays a crisis of faith that threatens to drive him away from the village and from God. With his fourth film, Robert Bresson began to implement his stylistic philosophy as a filmmaker, stripping away all inessential elements from his compositions, the dialogue and the music, exacting a purity of image and sound.