John Eliot Gardiner goes in search of Bach the man and the musician. The famous portrait of Bach portrays a grumpy 62-year-old man in a wig and formal coat, yet his greatest works were composed 20 years earlier in an almost unrivalled blaze of creativity. We reveal a complex and passionate artist; a warm and convivial family man at the same time a rebellious spirit struggling with the hierarchies of state and church who wrote timeless music that is today known world-wide. Gardiner undertakes a 'Bach Tour' of Germany, and sifts the relatively few clues we have - some newly-found. Most of all, he uses the music to reveal the real Bach.
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A documentary that explores the challenges that a life in music can bring.
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In a mixture of feature film, music documentary and animated comics, historical facts are retold, an...
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Emmy Award winning documentary, directed by Peter Rosen, about the Eighth Van Cliburn International ...
With more than 50 years of experience as film director, Peter Greenaway (Nightwatching, Eisenstein i...
A thoroughly researched biopic of Charles Ives, America's greatest and most innovative composer (and...
The historic Toscanini television concerts with the NBC Symphony Orchestra. Broadcast #9 was of a co...
Letters, Riddles and Writs is a one act opera for television by Michael Nyman broadcast in 1991.
The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of th...
Documentary on conductor Herbert van Karajan, focusing on his early adoption of audio and video reco...
Frederick Ashton's La Fille mal gardée (The Wayward Daughter) is one of the choreographer's most joy...
This feature length documentary tells the story of Mahani Teave who grew up on Rapa Nui (Easter Isla...