Stanislav Levchenko

This 'Swan Lake' is a 'Swan Lake' for our times, capable of transporting the audience to another world. The magic in the story suddenly takes hold of the viewer. Ballet is not simply a way of telling the story. Rather than gestures asking to be deciphered, the choreographer created large-scale, visionary movements closer to an artistic language of symbols and plays on the whole spectrum of human emotions. It always maintains a relationship of creative tension with its surroundings, especially the music, the poetry of the set, the use of light and colour, the texture of the costumes. A key element of this artistic responsibility is to tell the story precisely but openly, without pinning it down, especially the ending an ending which is in a many-faceted sense a 'deliverance'. Does this mean that the lovers are saved? Is the spell's power broken? Are there other kinds of salvation and deliverance? Perhaps even by death and transfiguration? Ballerina Polina Semionova performs the mythic parts of Odette and Odile (white swan and black swan) with her great partner Stanislav Jermakov. The Zurich Opera House Orchestra is conducted by Russian musical director Vladimir Fedoseyev acclaimed in this repertoire.

For the first time in a single box the entire discographic collaboration between Deutsche Grammophon and Stanislav Bunin, a refined Russian interpreter, nephew of the famous pedagogue Heinrich Neuhaus, legendary founder of the Russian piano school that had among his students Emil Gilels, Radu Lupu and Sviatoslav Richter.

Stanislav Grof, psychiatre et cofondateur de la Psychologie transpersonnelle, nous fait partager le bilan de quarante années de recherche scientifique sur la conscience humaine et les états modifiés de conscience, où il a rassemblé une quantité impressionnante de données qui lui ont permis d'enrichir considérablement les concepts fondamentaux de la psychologie et de la psychiatrie. …

Dvorák has written extensively for voices. Somehow we hardly ever hear any part of this repertoire. This 3 CD set offers the complete music for two and more voices including the choral works by this composer. Most duets are accompanied on the piano. They are rather a mixed bag with a large number of Moravian songs and some Russian and Irish ones.