Actor and writer Stephen Fry explores his passion for the world's most controversial composer, Richard Wagner. As a life-long fan can Stephen, who is Jewish and lost family in the Holocaust, salvage Wagner's music from its dark associations with anti-Semitism and Hitler?
This documentary portrait, the first television biography of Rattle for 15 years, follows him throug...
Very few people really knew Herbert von Karajan. The conductor gave access to his private life only ...

The young Clara creeps downstairs on Christmas Eve to play with her favourite present – a Nutcracker...
A short documentary about Fritz Lang's film 'Frau im Mond', and its relation to the science and hist...

A journey into the past and the future of Italo Disco music through the stories of the original 80's...

This music-video piece denounces the declining state of classical music by throwing a piano into the...
A documentary by writer and filmmaker Daniel Bird about the making of Sergei Parajanov's 'The Colour...
A short documentary by Levon Grigoryan about the making of Parajanov's «Sayat-Nova», or «The Colour ...

Unable to purchase a $50,000 digital projector, a group of film fanatics in rural Pennsylvania fight...

On Air presents Igor Stravinsky's The Firebird, performed by the world-renowned Royal Philharmonic O...

On Air presents Igor Stravinsky's Petrushka, performed by the world-renowned Royal Philharmonic Orch...

Surely Bach’s French Suites, which he composed during his years at Cöthen (1717–1723), are among the...
This is not merely another film about cinema history; it is a film about the love of cinema, a journ...

This short was released in connection with the 20th anniversary of Warner Brothers' first exhibition...
The Christmas I Love’ is a very special Christmas gift – a collection of some of the most tender car...

A musician seeks a peaceful vacation in a Vogtland village but is soon overwhelmed by requests for a...

A documentary on the life and work of the composer Sofia Gubaidulina.

There is hardly a better way to approach Ludwig van Beethoven than through his piano concertos. Beet...

The Berliner Philharmoniker’s European Concert, held each year on 1 May, is invariably an internatio...
A short documentary exploring the ongoing relevance and power of 'Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma'.