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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The renowned orchestra presents the world's biggest annual classical open air concert live from thei...

Live performance of Verdi's Missa da Requiem at the Edinburgh Festival in 1982. An all-star quartet ...

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Live performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's Magnificat, BWV 243 from Herbert von Karajan's New Year'...

Every year, the Berliner Philharmoniker hold a kind of classical-music fête with a bright, cheerful ...

Repertoire Modest Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain; Antonín Dvořák: Song to the Moon from “Rusalk...

The Waldbühne in Berlin, one of the most appealing outdoor amphitheatres on the European continent, ...

In this short, Johnny Green leads the MGM Symphony Orchestra in a performance of the overture to Ros...



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“Clarity was one thing that made this performance a marvel. Another was the flexibility of Barenboim...

In Anton Bruckner’s 7th Symphony, the listener encounters a music characterized by great spaciousnes...

The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of th...
Pierre Boulez conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a special concert from the Barbican,...

Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Philharmonic accentuate the colors, rhythms and passion of the music of A...

A video magazine put out by the Come Organization label. An in-depth documentary of the life & work...

Documentary about sixteen great conductors of the 20th century.

Letters, Riddles and Writs is a one act opera for television by Michael Nyman broadcast in 1991.