Known for his mournful "Adagio for Strings," Samuel Barber was never quite fashionable. This acclaimed film is a probing exploration of his music and melancholia. Performance, oral history, musicology, and biography combine to explore the life and music of one of America’s greatest composers. Features Thomas Hampson, Leonard Slatkin, Marin Alsop and many more of the world's leading experts on Barber's music, with tributes from composers Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson and William Schuman. The film was broadcast on PBS, and screened at nine film festivals internationally, with three best-of awards. It was named a Recording of the Year 2017 by MusicWeb International.
A behind-the-scenes look at the Aldeburgh Festival and the opening by The Queen of the new concert h...
Utilizing potent TV interviews and many forgotten performances from his 30-year career, we are immer...
Director helmut Dietls and Patric Susskinds illustrate a legendary story of two lovers who cant keep...
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...
In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced...
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When his first stage show fails, songwriter Cole Porter goes off to fight in WWI until, injured, he ...
Fictionalized biography of George Gershwin and his fight to bring serious music to Broadway.
A chronicle of the life of infamous classical composer Ludwig van Beethoven and his painful struggle...
30 years after his last visit to Japan, John Williams has returned for a special concert – making hi...
From the euphoric first to the solemn sixth, the Brandenburg Concertos features some of Bach's fines...
Tom enters from stage left in white tie and tails, sits at the piano, gets his focus as the orchestr...
Animated interpretation of the Bizet opera, second in a trilogy.
Animated interpretation of the Bizet opera, first in a trilogy
Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli grew up in Lajatico, a rural village in Tuscany, where his family still...
A documentary that explores the challenges that a life in music can bring.