Silk Road - Songs Along the Road and Time DVD + CD 2008 / Directed bt Curt Faudon / The Vienna Boys' Choir - Chorus Master Janko Zannos / Music by Gerd Schuller

UPC 807280146998

ISBN: 9783941311503 / 978-3941311503

REGION 0 NTSC DVD

MADE IN GERMANY

AUDIO: German 5.1, English 5.1, French 5.1, Spanish 5.1, Italian 5.1, Japanese 5.1

SUBTITLES: -

Total Runtime: 86 MINUTES 

!!! CONDITION OF DVD/CD set is USED VERY GOOD !!!

English Summary:

Curt Faudon brings to life a never before seen, intimate view of the Vienna Boys' Choir, the most famous boys' choir in the world. Being a combination between fly-on-the-wall documentary and cinematic elements this multi-layered feature film takes us on a journey around the world and even back into time, experiencing the boys' nomadic lifestyle through their very own eyes. Kicking off the story is the choir's Silk Road project, a children's opera which tells the tale of a 2000 year old ghost and a talking camel, based on original songs from Turkey, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Mongolia and China. While rehearsing the songs, meeting with Asian artists and learning the opera dialogue they attend school, go on their "normal" tours during the academic year and sing under famous conductors such as Franz Welser-Möst and Riccardo Muti. The fictional narrative focuses on a boy who thinks he is a middling chorister muddling along, trying to fly under the radar. He only discovers in the course of the rehearsals that he is much better than he thinks to be. The boy's friends, coming from the US, Slovakia and even from Japan, give their best to help him overcome his shyness before the opening night of the opera.

Tracklist:

1 Wa habibi (My beloved). Hymn from Lebanon
2 L’homme armé (The armed man). French Renaissance chanson
3 Josquin Desprez: O Domine I.II
4 Antonio Caldara: Ego sum panis vivus (I am the living bread)
5 Jog.wa (I ask for yoga). Bhajan from Kolhapur, India
6 Yulduz Usmanova: Shoch va gado (The king and the beggar)
7 Yulduz Usmanova / Gerd Schuller: Shoch va gado. Film Score
8 Sus Xâtin (Lady of Water). Uzbek rain song
9 Gerd Schuller: Sus Xâtin. Film Score
10 Haq Ali (Truth, Ali). Qawwali from Pakistan
11 – 13 Antonio Vivaldi: excerpts from: Gloria in D, RV 589
11 No. 4/5 Coro: Gratias agimus / Propter magnam gloriam tuam
12 No. 8 Alto e coro: Domine Deus
13 No. 9 Coro: Qui tollis peccata mundi
14 Veni creator spiritus (Come, creator spirit). Gregorian chant
15 Tarakihi (The locust). Maori folk song
16 Alamuhan. Uyghur folk song
17 Field hollers from Darg, Tajikistan
18 Guadifeng. Xiaodiao from Gansu
19 John Pond Ordway / Li Shutong: Li Ge (Song Bie) Farewell song
20 Kou-lueull tsian. Craftsmen’s song from the Ordos Region, China
21 Gerd Schuller: Fau Dong Pe China Medley. Film Score
22 Franz Schubert: Die Post (The mail), from: Die Winterreise op. 89 D 911
23 Franz Schubert: Der stürmische Morgen (The stormy morning), from: Die Winterreise op. 89 D 911
24 Ievan Polkka (Eva’s polka), from Finland
25 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / Gerd Schuller: Terracotta Army. Film Score

Soundtrack on CD:

The music offerings, culled from the choir's long tradition and musicological field research come in Latin, Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, French, Marathi, Maori, Savo Finnish, Tajik, Urdu, Uyghur, Uzbek and German. Most of the pieces have not been recorded by the Vienna Boy's Choir before.

Running Time 67 minutes