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.
The exquisite harmony of Vivaldi's masteerpiece with stunning video of nature's wonderous beauty.
The pianist Kyra Steckeweh and the filmmaker Tim van Beveren search for traces where Countess Dora P...
Violinist Mischa Elman performs a set of two of the most recognizable popular classic violin pieces:...
A superb adaptation of Purcell's the Indian Queen, staged and directed by Peter Sellars and performe...
A vacuum repairman moonlights as a street musician and hopes for his big break. One day a Czech immi...
Letters, Riddles and Writs is a one act opera for television by Michael Nyman broadcast in 1991.
Lyla and Louis, a singer and a musician, fall in love, but are soon compelled to separate. Lyla is f...
German virtuoso Julia Fischer performs violin and piano concertos by Saint-Saens and Grieg, accompan...
A history of the work of Merce Cunningham.
The story of Andre Rieu's first journey to Africa, the discovery of soloist Kimmi Skota and the shee...
What would you say to an evening of partying with music, song and above all, lots of fun, leaving yo...
Young Stanzi who is visiting Vienna helps a young corporal and musician to become famous for his mar...
Live performance of Beth Hart at the Crossroads Festival. Recorded in Bonn, Germany on March 24th, ...
MUHAI TANG – IN THE OCEAN OF MUSIC is a portrait of Chinese conductor Muhai Tang’s extraordinary lif...
Clara is given an enchanted Nutcracker doll on Christmas Eve. As midnight strikes, she creeps downst...
Herbert von Karajan conducts the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in these 3 great Beethoven symphonies...
A memorable intellectual journey to rediscover Baroque music, from the handmade fabrication of a har...