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.

The wife of a famous composer survives a car accident that kills her husband and daughter. Now alone...

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...
The Christmas I Love’ is a very special Christmas gift – a collection of some of the most tender car...
Pierre Boulez conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a special concert from the Barbican,...

This live recording was culled from seven September 1992 concerts given in Vienna, Berlin, and Frank...

In this classic drama, Vicky Page is an aspiring ballerina torn between her dedication to dance and ...

During the anti-communist uprisings of the late 1950s, a writer of comedic poems against socialism w...

The film is a parody of Disney's Fantasia, though possibly more of a challenge to Fantasia than paro...

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Anne Boyd, one of Australia's leading contemporary composers, teaches music at the publicly funded U...

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A woman in Canada abused by her aunt falls in love with a foreign composer looking for inspiration, ...

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

When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rival...

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Lyla and Louis, a singer and a musician, fall in love, but are soon compelled to separate. Lyla is f...

A vacuum repairman moonlights as a street musician and hopes for his big break. One day a Czech immi...