Paul Smaczny

Biography

Paul Smaczny is a German-based documentary film-maker and a producer of concert and opera recordings. His latest work is the award-winning Knowledge is the Beginning, about the West-Eastern Divan orchestra.

Known For

Acting

Production

2007

Daniel Barenboim: Beethoven - Piano Concertos 1-5

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2008

Americans in Pyongyang

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2008

Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concertos 1-6

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2001

Europakonzert 2001 from Istanbul

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2019

Leidenschaft und Pflicht und Liebe - Die drei Leben der Clara Schumann

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2015

The Lost Paradise

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2021

Winterreise

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2019

Universe, Incomplete

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2009

Händel Celebration Concert

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2006

A Night Of Rhythm & Dance (Waldbühne 2000)

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2005

Un Ballo in Maschera

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2018

Dvořák: From the New World

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2015

Adam's Passion

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2018

The Unanswered Ives: American Pioneer of Music

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2018

Music and Power

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2017

Maestras: The Long Journey of Women to the Podium

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2009

Mahler: Symphony No. 4 / Schoenberg: Pelleas and Melisande

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2020

Beethoven Reloaded

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2019

Taking Risks: Barbara Hannigan

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2012

Mozart - Berliner Philharmoniker - Radek Baborák - Daniel Barenboim

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2020

Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet

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2017

Ludwig van Beethoven: Tripelkonzert op.56

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2024

Arnold Schönberg - Der rastlose Visionär

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2024

Riccardo Chailly & Alexander Malofeev Lucerne Festival 2024

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2013

Mozart Requiem - Claudio Abbado & Lucerne Festival Orchestra

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Crew

Directing

2012

John Cage: Journeys in Sound

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2008

El Sistema

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2012

Die Thomaner

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2004

Pierre Boulez: Emotion and Analysis

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1996

Abbado: The Silence that Follows the Music

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Metanoia

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