This latest feature from the eccentrically experimental Catalan director Portabella is a beautiful, sometimes faintly bonkers celebration and contemplation of the role Bach’s music plays in the world today. Blending historical reconstruction with very loosely linked ‘dramatic’ scenes and documentary sequences, the film constitutes a playful, painterly sequence of variations on the argument that Johann Sebastian changed the way the world hears thanks to his extraordinary ear for harmony.
Leipzig, December 1734: Christmas brings the Bach family together. The first snow has fallen and the...
Part I of the series "Glenn Gould Plays Bach" is devoted to Bach's "Art of Fugue." Gould's performan...
The personal life and professional career of music superstar Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, universal...
In Part II of the series "Glenn Gould Plays Bach", Gould concentrates on the fugal form in Bach's wo...
Part III in the series "Glenn Gould Plays Bach" spotlights Gould recording Bach's "Goldberg Variatio...
The life and music of Johann Sebastian Bach as presented by his wife, Anna.
Deutsche Grammophon celebrates Nikolaus Harnoncourt's 80th birthday with this 2-DVD release of rare,...
A musical journey in the footsteps of conductor Michel Brun, an atypical character, an atheist, who ...
A memorable intellectual journey to rediscover Baroque music, from the handmade fabrication of a har...
This recording of all six cantatas from the Salle Henry Le Bœuf in the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brus...
At night, in the dark recesses of the woods, a male cellist lures in viewers with a performance of B...
Pianist Ivo Pogorelich in a 1987 studio recital of works by Bach, Scarlatti, and Beethoven, recorded...
Director Bruno Monsaingeon stages this live musical journey into the works of Johann Sebastian Bach,...
During a house concert, the Bach family gets a visit by their son Wilhelm Friedemann, who has just g...
There are more than 300 Bach choirs and Bach ensembles worldwide, most of which are made up of amate...
A little girl and her inventor father celebrate the success of their greatest dream, on a day she wi...
Erbarme dich - Matthäus Passion Stories is a labyrinthine narrative in which notables such as Peter ...
Composer Johann Sebastian Bach is introduced to King Frederick II of Prussia in 1747. The aging comp...
DEO A reimagining of Deo Gratias (ca. 1497) by Johannes Ockeghem. A Film by Eric Leiser. Animation...
When entertainment lawyer Wolfgang Leighton decides to take a break from business for some fishing i...