Mezzo
Sweden
Mezzo is a television channel available in Sweden that focuses on music performance and cultural programming. Its schedule typically includes classical concerts, opera, jazz, and dance performances recorded from venues around the world. The channel also presents documentaries on composers, musicians, and visual artists. Mezzo does not carry advertising, allowing uninterrupted broadcasts of full-length performances. Viewers in Sweden can access the channel through selected cable and satellite providers. The channel’s content is primarily in the original performance languages, with occasional subtitles for spoken segments.
Schedule
00:50 - 01:45
Pierre Henry Is Not Dead
Special, Documentary, Biography, Music
A pioneer of electronic music, Pierre Henry (1927-2017) has, since the 1950s, alongside Pierre Schaeffer, laid the foundations of what characterizes the music of our time. At the time, everything had to be invented: the sounds, the tools to manipulate them, the ways of...
01:45 - 03:30
Teodor Currentzis, MusicAeterna: Mahler 5
Special, Music, Classical, Event, Opera
In Lucerne, Switzerland, on 8 October 2021, MusicÆterna perform Gustav Mahler's Symphony No 5 in C-sharp minor, conducted by Teodor Currentzis. Featuring Trauermarsch, Stürmisch bewegt, mit größter Vehemenz, Scherzo, Adagietto, and Rondo-Finale.
03:30 - 05:05
Christian Zacharias at the Gianadda Foundation: Tchaikovsky, Schubert
Special, Music, Classical
Christian Zacharias performs works by Tchaikovsky and Schubert at the Fondation Pierre Gianadda.
05:05 - 06:25
Malandain: Daphnis & Chloé - Ballet du Capitole
Special, Dance
A reinterpretation of Maurice Ravel's 'Daphnis et Chloé' by Thierry Malandain featuring the Toulouse Capitol Ballet, Toulouse Capitole Choir, and Toulouse National Capitol Orchestra.
06:25 - 06:55
Accident: A Family Portrait
Special, Music, Ballet
Death comes unexpectedly and abruptly to a family that has recently been challenged by the paterfamilia's marriage to a younger woman. When he dies suddenly, it becomes extremely important for her to push forward a delayed plan for a family portrait.
06:55 - 08:50
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra met dirigent Lahav
Special, Music, Classical
Wiegenlied, op 41 no 1 Meinem Kinde, op 37 no 3 Ich wollt ein Strausslein binden, op 68 no 2 Säus'le liebe Myrthe, op 68 no 3 Morgen, op 27 no 4 Das Rosenband, op 36 no 1 Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911 Symphony No 6 in A Minor.
08:50 - 10:00
Solrey & Traffic Quintet: Ciao Casanova
Music, Concert, Event
At La Fenice Venice, Traffic Quintet and conductor Solrey perform Igor Stravinsky, Nino Rota, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Antonio Vivaldi, Alexandre Desplat, Ryuichi Sakamoto, John Williams, and John Barry.
10:00 - 10:30
Mozart: Piano Concerto no. 6 - Christian Zacharias
Music
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756–1791 Piano Concerto no. 6 in B Major K 238.
10:30 - 13:05
Magnard: Guercœur: Opéra du Rhin
Opera
Featuring `Guercœur' opera in three acts by Albéric Magnard. Libretto by the composer.
13:05 - 13:30
INTERMEZZO
Music
Highlights from our repertoire.
13:30 - 14:25
Archie Shepp All Star: Tribute to John Coltrane
Special, Music, Jazz
Archie Shepp, musical direction, saxophones Ambrose Akinmusire, trumpet Jason Moran, piano Richard Davis, double bass Billy Hart, drums With guests: Marion Rampal, voice Izidor Leitinger, trumpet Sébastien Llado, trombone Jean-Philippe Scali.
14:25 - 15:15
McCoy Tyner: Piano Solo
Music, Concert, Jazz
Pianist McCoy Tyner plays the finest jazz at the Kongressaal in Munich in 1983.
15:15 - 16:05
John Coltrane Live in Antibes 1965
Special, Music, Concert, Jazz
The John Coltrane Quartet perform in Antibes in 1965. These four virtuosos play 'Naima', 'Ascension', 'Impressions', 'A Love Supreme: Acknowledgement', and 'A Love Supreme: Resolution'.
16:05 - 17:40
Claudio Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker
Special, Music, Concert
Claudio Abbado leads the Berlin Philharmonic and the Eric Ericson Chamber Choir in a performance of an iconic Brahms composition. Recorded at Musikverein, Vienna, 3 April 1997.
17:40 - 18:35
Shostakovich
Series, Music, Entertainment
Featuring William Kentridge's "Oh to Believe in Another World" and Dmitri Shostakovich's "Symphony No 10 in E minor, Op 93".
18:35 - 20:30
Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine - Orkester Nord, Martin Wåhlberg
Special, Music, Classical, Concert, Religious
Johann Nikolaus Harnoncourt directs the Concentus Musicus Wien as they perform `Vespers of the Blessed Virgin' by Claudio Monteverdi. Recorded in 1986 at the Graz Cathedral, Austria.
20:30 - 22:00
Steve Reich - Colin Currie Group. Edinburg International Festival
Music, Classical
Steve Reich 1936 - Clapping Music Two Pianos (World Premiere) Radio Rewrite Double Sextet Quartet In All Your Ways (World Premiere).
22:00 - 23:30
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly: Reich, Gershwina, Ives
Music
The Lucerne Festival Orchestra conducted by Riccardo Chailly perform Reich, Gershwin and Ives.
23:30 - 02:05
Massenet: Thaïs: Opéra de Monte-Carlo
Special, Music, Classical
In three acts by Jules Massenet (1842–1912), libretto by Louis Gallet based on the novel by Anatole France. First performance in Paris, Opéra, 16 March 1894 Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra.