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.

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...

The Nutcracker is Mikhail Baryshnikov's breathtaking and critically acclaimed Emmy-nominated product...

Oscar winning composer Ryuichi Sakamoto weaves man-made and natural sounds together in his works. Hi...

A documentary on the life and work of the composer Sofia Gubaidulina.

Valery Gergiev is widely recognised as the greatest modern interpreter of Tchaikovsky’s music and th...

Packed with intricate melodies, harmonies, and instrumentation, Johannes Vogel conducts the Synchron...

Packed with intricate melodies, harmonies, and instrumentation, Johannes Vogel conducts the Synchron...

Packed with intricate melodies, harmonies, and instrumentation, Johannes Vogel conducts the Synchron...

Originally aired as part of Beethoven’s 250th anniversary celebration, Johannes Vogel conducts the S...
The Christmas I Love’ is a very special Christmas gift – a collection of some of the most tender car...

Documentary about sixteen great conductors of the 20th century.

70 Years Young is André Rieu’s ultimate concert featuring musical highlights chosen by the maestro h...

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

Letters, Riddles and Writs is a one act opera for television by Michael Nyman broadcast in 1991.
Pierre Boulez conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a special concert from the Barbican,...

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

Live performance of Verdi's Missa da Requiem at the Edinburgh Festival in 1982. An all-star quartet ...

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