Classical Music Movies

The Opening of the Wells with music by the Czech composer, Bohuslav Martinu was supposed to be part of Laterna Magika II.: Tour programme in 1960....

Describes the life of Franz Schubert. Explains the character of his music and conveys the flavor of early 19th century Vienna which influenced his...

This music-video piece denounces the declining state of classical music by throwing a piano into the sea as a symbol of high culture submerging. The...

In “Everybody’s Cage”, German film artist Sandra Trostel turns John Cage and his approach to art into a tangible fascination,...

This fascinating musical exploration of Scotland retraces the journey taken in 1829 by acclaimed composer Felix Mendelssohn, which inspired some of...

Packed with intricate melodies, harmonies, and instrumentation, Johannes Vogel conducts the Synchron Stage Orchestra to perform Antonin...

NEW YORK SCHERZO is a feature documentary that follows the lives of three diverse classically trained musicians as they try to make it in New York...

A visual movie showing the changing seasons, weather, sun and stars in a small village on the Polish Lithuanian border set to classical music.

Edward Gardner conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the London Youth Choir in Gustav Holst’s celestial orchestral suite The Planets,...

An unbroken sequence of fragments, last thoughts, elegies and absences by Schubert, Mozart, Wagner, Janáček, Stravinsky, Jacquet de la...

Music historian Wulf Konold reveals the story behind Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor, op. 54, in this program, which also features a...

A ballet of squares and octagons in many forms, exhibiting a variety of geometric and sometimes sensuous interactions.

Joseph Haydn is renowned for taking the established forms of the symphony and string quartet and shaping them into the powerful media for musical...

Originally aired as part of Beethoven’s 250th anniversary celebration, Johannes Vogel conducts the Synchron Stage Orchestra to perform Gustav...

Ian Hislop and John Eliot Gardiner reveal the story behind Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Described as the 'greatest 'great' piece ever written,' its...

Contents Boulez: Initiale /Boulez Ensemble (chamber ensemble) Schubert: Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, D965 (Von Chezy / Muller) Anna Prohaska (soprano),...

This performance marks the debut of piano virtuoso, Vassily Primakov, who performs the three Intermezzos, Op. 117 by Johannes Brahms, the four...