The great composer of The Planets, Gustav Holst also taught himself Sanskrit, lived in a street of brothels in Algiers, cycled into the Sahara Desert, and allied himself during the First World War with a ‘red priest' who pinned on the door of his church "prayers at noon for the victims of Imperial Aggression". He hated the words used to his most famous tune "I Vow to Thee My Country" because it was the opposite of what he believed, and died before the age of 60 - broken and disillusioned.
The film is a parody of Disney's Fantasia, though possibly more of a challenge to Fantasia than paro...
The grand scale and magnificent acoustics of the Roman arena in Verona are ideally suited to the pag...
After the great success of his Beethoven cycle, Christian Thielemann now turns with his new orchestr...
Journeying across Varanasi, Lucknow, and Muzzafarpur in India, this documentary film traces the lost...
Animated interpretation of the Bizet opera, second in a trilogy.
Animated interpretation of the Bizet opera, first in a trilogy
Before the Trojan War, Agamemnon gathered the Greek armies at the port of Aulis. The goddess Diane s...
Johnny Green conducts the MGM Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Tchaikovsky's "Capriccio Italie...
Relationships, rehearsals, performances, hobbies, and family life of the members of the Guarneri Str...
Maestro follows Grammy award-winning conductor Paavo Järvi and an array of brilliant musicians as th...
John Eliot Gardiner goes in search of Bach the man and the musician. The famous portrait of Bach po...
A documentary that explores the challenges that a life in music can bring.
Recordings of all the Beethoven symphonies with their chief conductor are always a milestone in the ...
This was recorded over three nights at the Philharmonie in Berlin. It does, however, provide a fitti...
A ruthless real estate agent discovers a passion for piano and auditions with help from a young virt...
What would you say to an evening of partying with music, song and above all, lots of fun, leaving yo...
Jenny is young. Her life is over. She killed someone. And she would do it again. When an 80-year-old...