The Ninth Symphony by Maurice BĂ©jart
2015
The first-ever recording on film of Maurice BĂ©jart's Ninth Symphony! Fifty years after its premiere, the Tokyo Ballet and BĂ©jart Ballet Lausanne present Maurice BĂ©jartâs groundbreaking choreography to Beethovenâs Symphony No. 9 in Tokyo's NHK Hall. With nearly 200 artists on one stage, Beethovenâs score was performed by the Ritsuyu-kai Choir, the soloists Kristin Lewis, Mihoko Fujimura, Kei Fukui, and Alexander Vinogradov, and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Zubin Mehta.
