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...
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 portrait of the film-composer David Raksin, made for German television. Released in 1994.

A fledgling ballerina falls in love with a brilliant composer, but the jealous head of the ballet co...

This music-video piece denounces the declining state of classical music by throwing a piano into the...

A chronicle of the life of infamous classical composer Ludwig van Beethoven and his painful struggle...

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...

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

Chandramouli, an international drummer, goes to Chennai to help his friend in his new project. Howev...

A musical based on the life and music of Johann Strauss, Jr.
The Christmas I Love’ is a very special Christmas gift – a collection of some of the most tender car...

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...

Emma, a talented conductor and rising star on the Montreal scene, has a complicated relationship wit...