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.

Ludwig van Beethoven headed for Symphony No. 9 literally his entire life. As early as the 1790s, he ...

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

Based on the famous Gustav Holst musical suite, this musical film takes watchers on a magnificent jo...

Jenny is young. Her life is over. She killed someone. And she would do it again. When an 80-year-old...

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

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

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

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

A ruthless real estate agent discovers a passion for piano and auditions with help from a young virt...

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

In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced...

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

Solange is seriously depressed, and her kindhearted husband, Raoul, makes it his mission to cure her...

Upon awaking in the morning, a man finds his thoughts clouded by the possibility that he committed a...

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

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

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

Anton Bruckner’s 6th Symphony was written between 1879 and 1881: a very happy time in his life. Unli...

“Clarity was one thing that made this performance a marvel. Another was the flexibility of Barenboim...
Pierre Boulez conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a special concert from the Barbican,...