The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other historic personalities, whose careers intersected with the growth of the Ricordi house. It beautifully draws the parallel between the great music of the composers, the historic and social upheavals of their times, as well as the "smaller stories" of the successive generations of Ricordi.

A story built around the music of Oskar Merikanto, tells the love story of the poor musician Lauri A...

Johann Strauss, Jr., a would-be composer of waltzes in mid-19th Century Vienna, attempts to thwart h...

Violinist Sydney Wells was accidentally blinded by her sister Helen when she was five years old. She...

The film traces the career of some of the winners of this new generation nicknamed the "K-Classics G...

Oscar winning composer Ryuichi Sakamoto weaves man-made and natural sounds together in his works. Hi...
Documentary about the state of the conducting world in the 1990s. Broadcast as part of the BBC OMNIB...

His unforgettable scores are an essential part of some of the most beloved movies of our time, over ...

A mother keeps making excuses for why her son's father has not returned home. Jon Marco, just celebr...

Jonas Kaufmann's very personal tribute to the city's famous music. We see the star tenor on the move...

The exquisite harmony of Vivaldi's masteerpiece with stunning video of nature's wonderous beauty.

Idi and Rita live with their grandmother, Manie. Idi tries to keep the memories they have of their m...

Relationships, rehearsals, performances, hobbies, and family life of the members of the Guarneri Str...

Anne Boyd, one of Australia's leading contemporary composers, teaches music at the publicly funded U...
Very few people really knew Herbert von Karajan. The conductor gave access to his private life only ...

A fictionalised exploration of Beethoven's life in his final days working on his Ninth Symphony. It ...

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

Valery Gergiev is widely recognised as the greatest modern interpreter of Tchaikovsky’s music and th...

Surely Bach’s French Suites, which he composed during his years at Cöthen (1717–1723), are among the...

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...