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- DirectorAnand TuckerStarsEmily WatsonRachel GriffithsJames FrainThe tragic story of world renowned classic cellist Jacqueline du Pré, as told from the point of view of her sister, flautist Hilary du Pré-Finzi.
- DirectorLev ArnshtamStarsBoris ChirkovVasiliy MerkurevMikhail DerzhavinAbout the life of the Russian composer Mikhail Glinka.
- DirectorKarl HartlStarsHans HoltIrene von MeyendorffWinnie MarkusA film relating to the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. [This is from the US copyright record, which is public domain.]
- DirectorGeorges GachotStarsMartha ArgerichThe director Georges Gachot has a delightful and stylish gab with the great Argentinean pianist Martha Argerich entwined with wonderful excerpts of her presentations and rehearsals. Along the conversation in French and English, Martha discloses parts of her culturally wealthy life since she was a lonely student in Europe.
- DirectorMatt WolfStarsBob BlankErnie BrooksDavid ByrneDirector Matt Wolf's critically acclaimed documentary examines the life and work of Arthur Russell, an influential singer, songwriter, cello player and disco auteur who died tragically in 1992.
- DirectorLarry WeinsteinStarsValery GergievNetherlands Radio PhilharmonicFlora LitvinovaDocumentary on how composer Dmitri Shostakovich used his Fourth to Ninth Symphony as a silent protest against the crimes of Stalin.
- DirectorBenedict MirowStarsHilary Hahn
- DirectorScott HicksStarsGeoffrey RushArmin Mueller-StahlJustin BrainePianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.
- DirectorMurray LernerStarsIsaac SternDavid GolubDelun LiIsaac Stern's cultural tour of China is seen, with the master violinist performing and mentoring young Chinese musicians. He visits rehearsals of the Peking Opera, meeting with their musicians who use traditional Chinese instruments, and also visits a sports academy and other venues. The lingering effects of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), which opposed any western influences and oppressed those who introduced western approaches, are evident in the lack of skill development among many of the young musicians and the emphasis on technical skill rather than artistic interpretation.
- DirectorFrançois GirardStarsDustin HoffmanKathy BatesEddie IzzardAfter his single mother dies, a young boy with an excellent voice is sent to a prestigious choir school and has trouble adapting to the culture of the school.
- DirectorFrançois GirardStarsColm FeoreDerek KeurvorstKatya LadanA collection of vignettes highlighting different aspects of the life, work, and character of the acclaimed Canadian classical pianist.
- DirectorFrançois GirardStarsCarlo CecchiJean-Luc BideauChristoph KonczA red-colored violin inspires passion, making its way through three centuries over several owners and countries, eventually ending up at an auction where it may find a new owner.
- DirectorAndrzej WajdaStarsJohn GielgudKrystyna JandaAndrzej SewerynA violinist in a provincial Polish orchestra, whose husband is the director of the ensemble, on a visit to the U.S., ties up with the world-renowned symphony conductor. As it turns out, he was once in love with the violinist's mother. The conductor, a slightly unstable hypochondriac, returns to Poland to lead the provincial orchestra. He also tries to revive an old love affair using the violinist as a surrogate of her mother. Her husband is resentful of the conductor for personal and professional reasons.
- DirectorGregory RatoffStarsIngrid BergmanLeslie HowardEdna BestA violinist's piano accompanist retires. He hears his daughter's piano teacher (Ingrid Bergman) play, asks her to play on his next international tour, and they fall in love.
- DirectorJean NegulescoStarsJoan CrawfordJohn GarfieldOscar LevantA classical musician from the slums is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy, neurotic socialite.
- DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsIgor FomchenkoVladimir ZamanskiyNatalya ArkhangelskayaSeven-year-old Sasha practices violin every day to satisfy the ambition of his parents. Already withdrawn as a result of his routines, Sasha quickly regains confidence when he accidentally meets and befriends worker Sergei, who works on a steamroller in their upscale Moscow neighborhood.
- DirectorClaude SautetStarsDaniel AuteuilEmmanuelle BéartAndré DussollierStéphane is an emotionally distant but professionally dedicated violin restorer whose cold heart is tested when his employer's new girlfriend, a beautiful violinist, falls for him.
- DirectorYaron ZilbermanStarsPhilip Seymour HoffmanChristopher WalkenCatherine KeenerMembers of a world-renowned string quartet struggle to stay together in the face of death, competing egos, and insuppressible lust.
- DirectorAlain CorneauStarsGérard DepardieuJean-Pierre MarielleAnne BrochetThe story of Monsieur de Sainte Colombe, fierce and somber man, grand master of the viola da gamba and professor of Marin Marais, prestigious musician in the court of Louis XIV.
- StarsPaul RhysCharles HazlewoodDavid BamberA dramatized documentary on the life and music of Ludwig van Beethoven.
- DirectorSimon Cellan JonesStarsPeter HansonJack DavenportLeo BillOn June 9, 1804, Ludwig van Beethoven and his pupil Ries assemble a group of musicians to give the first performance of his Third Symphony, 'Bonaparte', to his patron Prince Lobkowitz and his guests, including hypercritical Count Dietrichstein, in Vienna. The piece provokes political arguments among players and audience as to whether Bonaparte is a tyrant, or, as Beethoven believes, a liberator. The composer is also rejected by his former love, the recently widowed Josephine von Deym, though the visiting elder statesman of composers Haydn pays him a strange compliment. Leaving the gathering, Beethoven confesses to Ries that he is losing his hearing and later he reads that Bonaparte has declared himself the French emperor. As a result he will lose all respect for Napoleon and will change the symphony's title to 'Eroica'.
- DirectorPhil GrabskyStarsJuliet StevensonDavid DawsonLeif Ove AndsnesIn a quest to discover new insights into Fryderyk Chopin, the man and his musical genius, Grabsky traveled the globe over four years recording performances by world-class musicians and interviewing respected historians and musicologists.
- DirectorPhil GrabskyStarsEmanuel AxJonathan BissRiccardo ChaillyThe first truly comprehensive feature length cinema documentary ever made about Beethoven. With over 60 live performances.
- DirectorPhil GrabskyStarsLeif Ove AndsnesStephan GrothgarThis is an exciting, beautifully cinematic film offering a fresh look at Beethoven through the widely acclaimed performances and articulate insight of the great Leif Ove Andsnes.
- DirectorBernard RoseStarsGary OldmanJeroen KrabbéIsabella RosselliniThe life and death of the legendary Ludwig van Beethoven. Besides all the work he is known for, the composer once wrote a famous love letter to a nameless beloved, and the movie tries to find out who this beloved was--not easy, as Beethoven has had many women in his life.
- DirectorMilos FormanStarsF. Murray AbrahamTom HulceElizabeth BerridgeThe life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was deeply jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him.
- DirectorAgnieszka HollandStarsEd HarrisDiane KrugerMatthew GoodeA fictionalized account of the last year of Beethoven's life.
- StarsCharles HazlewoodJack TarltonKenneth CranhamThe story begins with the composer's father Leopold, with whom he conducted a passionate, tortured correspondence; it is Leopold who knows Mozart's secrets. There is another voice: that of the music itself. Music is the key to unlocking the emotions of Mozart, starting in this film with the great piano works. Without this key, how can we ever understand the emotions that gave birth to some of the most beautiful sounds the world has ever heard? The first great phase of Mozart's brief life was that of the traveling child prodigy, gifted as a performer and writer of music, who grew into the genius who, working within the restrictions of his time, began to rewrite the musical rules. But there was another facet to Mozart: the adult thinker aware of the bigger picture, passionately attached to the progressive values of the Enlightenment, impressively well-read, a speaker of most European languages (even a little English), an Austrian Catholic, a Freemason, and above all a composer at the height of his formidable powers, determined to succeed in the most difficult and lucrative area of all: Opera. Towards the end of his life, Mozart mastered the language of instrumental and orchestral writing--and how both love and loss provoked in him an extraordinary burst of creativity. This was essentially crystallized in three ambitious works that changed the future course of music: his last, great trilogy of symphonies--numbers 39, 40 and 41--which he wrote in six short weeks.
- StarsSimon RattleAnne Sofie von OtterWillard WhiteWritten and presented by Sir Simon Rattle this series forms a fascinating introduction to, and overview of, the music of the twentieth century.
- StarsAlistair CookeLeonard BernsteinJoseph N. WelchOmnibus was a television program that sought to provide the best of what television could provide as the highest common denominator of intellectual curiosity and interest. This level of programing excellence has not been achieved again.
- DirectorFrançois RibadeauStarsGlenn GouldBruno MonsaingeonFilmmaker Bruno Monsaingeon visits piano virtuoso Glenn Gould more than ten years after his self-imposed exile from the stage, which results in a mixture of interview and performance.
- DirectorBruno MonsaingeonStarsGidon KremerYehudi MenuhinDavid OistrakhA portrait of violinist David Oïstrakh, from his birth in Odessa in 1908 until his in 1974, and his career under Stalin's left wing terrorist regime. Featuring interviews with his peers Menuhin, Rostropovich and Rojdesvensky, this biography asks the question: was Oïstrakh really 'an artist of the people' as the communists called him?
- DirectorBruno MonsaingeonStarsHumphrey BurtonGlenn GouldBruno Monsaingeon signs a new masterpiece. He decided to talk about the question of Gould's genius in its totality. Based on dialogues between Gould (through the voice of Mathieu Amalric) and real characters, this documentary forms a polyphony in which the voices answer one another in echoes.
- DirectorBruno MonsaingeonStarsSvyatoslav RichterThis biography of Sviatoslav Richter, the great Russian pianist who dedicated his life to music and had little regard for fame in the West, shines a light on his formative years and places him against the setting of a chaotic USSR culture.
- DirectorRoman PolanskiStarsAdrien BrodyThomas KretschmannFrank FinlayDuring WWII, acclaimed Polish musician Wladyslaw faces various struggles as he loses contact with his family. As the situation worsens, he hides in the ruins of Warsaw in order to survive.
- DirectorPreston SturgesStarsRex HarrisonLinda DarnellRudy ValleeA man dreams of revenge when he suspects his wife is unfaithful.
- DirectorHenri-Georges ClouzotStarsLeontyne PriceFiorenza CossottoLuciano PavarottiFirst brought to the stage in 1967 at Milano's La Scala to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the death of Toscanini, Verdi's Requiem is one of the most important compositions in 19th century liturgical music.
- DirectorBruno MonsaingeonStarsYehudi Menuhin
- DirectorDanièle HuilletJean-Marie StraubStarsGustav LeonhardtChristiane LangPaolo CarliniThe life and music of Johann Sebastian Bach as presented by his wife, Anna.
- DirectorStéphanie ArgerichNathalie MullerStarsMartha ArgerichStephen KovacevitchLyda ChenThe mother through the daughter's eyes - a family portrait blending intimate conversations, agreements and disagreements, and shred ties of sounds and blood. This intimate portrait of two musical giants by Martha Argerich's daughter Stéphanie has been filmed over two decades and around the world: Warsaw, where Martha Argerich won the Chopin competition first prize; Japan, which hosts a unique Argerich festival; London, where Stephen Kovacevich, Stéphanie's father, lives, works and enjoys intensively Indian food; Belgium, where Martha lives in a house filled with pianos and cats; Argentina, which she left at the age of twelve to study in Vienna, but still conceals valuable family treasures; Switzerland, where Stéphanie and her sister Lyda are currently living. Made up of documentary sequences focusing on the two characters of Martha and Stephen in their everyday lives, in rehearsal and in performance, the film will be largely given over to intimate, delicious anecdotes, and a few scenes in which the family is reunited. A film by Stéphanie Argerich.
- DirectorIstván SzabóStarsHarvey KeitelStellan SkarsgårdMoritz BleibtreuAfter the end of World War II, a famous German conductor is accused of loyalty to the Nazi regime. He argues that art and politics are separate. An investigator thinks otherwise.
- DirectorRadu MihaileanuStarsAleksey GuskovMélanie LaurentDmitriy NazarovThirty years ago Bolshoi Orchestra conductor Andreï Filipov was fired for hiring Jewish musicians. Now a lowly janitor, an opportunity arises to gather his old musicians to go and pose as the official Bolshoi orchestra in Paris.
- DirectorBrad AllgoodGraham TownsleyJuliana Penaranda-LoftusLandfill Harmonic follows the Recycled Orchestra. An unlikely orchestra made out of recycled trash. As this group takes its inspiring spectacle of trash-into-music around the world, we follow the lives of a garbage picker, a music teacher and a group of children from a Paraguayan slum. Landfill Harmonic is a beautiful story about the transformative power of music, which also highlights two vital issues of our times: poverty and waste pollution.
- DirectorMorgan NevilleStarsYo-Yo MaKinan AzmehKayhan KalhorCellist Yo-Yo Ma and other international artists of The Silk Road Project discuss their philosophies on music and culture.
- DirectorEthan HawkeStarsSeymour BernsteinEthan HawkeSam BachelderMeet Seymour Bernstein: a beloved pianist, teacher and true inspiration who shares eye-opening insights from an amazing life. Ethan Hawke helms this poignant guide to life.
- DirectorSerge Ioan CelebidachiStarsSergiu CelibidacheA once-in-a-lifetime insight into the wondrous universe of fabled conductor Sergiu Celibidache. Madman to some, genius to most, teacher and master to many. An intimate portrait and a journey into his singular universe. The artistry, the mysticism, all the way into his inner sanctum, his Garden.
- 1971– 1h 26mTV-G8.7 (33)TV Episode
- DirectorEric SchulzStarsPlácido DomingoBrigitte FassbaenderMichael GielenDocumentary on the life and work of conductor Carlos Kleiber
- DirectorFredi M. MurerStarsFabrizio BorsaniBruno GanzTeo GheorghiuA twelve-year-old piano prodigy who suffocates from his parent's big dreams for him decides to make his escape--and with the aid of his grandfather--chase his own dreams instead.
- StarsNew York PhilharmonicLeonard BernsteinAaron CoplandA series of televised classical music concerts by the New York Philharmonic. They were telecast on CBS and syndicated in over 40 countries. In 1958, they started under the leadership of then-new conductor Leonard Bernstein. The televised series ended in 1972, when Bernstein left his position at the Philharmonic. A total of 53 concerts were televised.
- 1958–197255m7.9 (14)TV EpisodeDirectorRoger EnglanderStarsLeonard BernsteinNew York PhilharmonicStudents are asked to identify the composer, form, and style or various musical pieces.
- DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsRobert AshleyJohn CageMeredith MonkThis is a 4-part documentary that follows four different contemporary composers performing/creating/building their shows. Peter Greenaway leads us, with a great sense of balance between the performances and the interviews, through the creative process of 4 very different composers in style (sound and noise, repetition and discipline, vocal experimentation, poetry and musical freedom) who are all framed under the same musical genre - contemporary music. A Great way to get introduced to this music and to understand how much of it is intellectual or playful.
- DirectorJudith PearlmanStarsBob BurnsGeoffrey ReadGlenn GouldThe Idea of North is part filmed docudrama, part fantasy, part forerunner of music television. Based on the radio play by Glenn Gould, North's montage of words, images and music tells a universal story of the quest for our last frontier. A young man boards a train going North. It is a real train on a scheduled run, yet also a train of mind and mythology. As the journey unfolds, he chats with a seasoned guide, and passes his time in reading, watching the rugged landscape and speculating about his fellow travelers. He encounters four of them in his imagination, sharing their memories and the challenges that transformed their lives in the North. Together, they describe the final playing-out of man's two dreams: Eldorado and Utopia, both unattainable. At the journey's end, he descends to meet his future, walking away from the camera until he disappears into the North, perhaps forever.
- DirectorSusan FroemkeAlbert MayslesCharlotte ZwerinStarsVladimir HorowitzOrchestra del Teatro alla ScalaCarlo Maria GiuliniScientifically, his music has a great positive influence in the unborn child's brain.
- StarsEvgeny KissinA film by Christopher Nupen with the Russian master pianist who has taken the classical music world by storm. Evgeny Kissin not only has dazzling virtuosity and unmistakable star-appeal, his meteoric rise to the top of the international concert circuit has seldom been equalled. There have been few careers in music that have climbed so high, so fast.
- DirectorJános DarvasStarsArturo Benedetti Michelangeli
- DirectorStephen DaldryBrett SullivanStarsElliott HannaOllie JochimBradley PerretA talented young dancer has to learn to fight for his dream despite social and parental disapproval.
- DirectorFiona CochraneMusic affects our development from the womb to the grave. This documentary examines the role music plays in developing our brains as humans.
- 1971– 2h 44mTV-G9.1 (71)TV EpisodeDirectorGerald CaillatSue KnussenPeter R. SmithStarsJulius BakerJohn BarbirolliHugh BeanThe Art of Conducting: Great Conductors of the Past.
- StarsGeorg Solti
- StarsLeonard BernsteinMichael WagerTatiana TroyanosLeonard Bernstein's Harvard University lectures on the future of music, originally delivered in 1973, but not broadcast until 1976.
- DirectorViviane BlumenscheinStarsJulia BeckerAndreas BergerBenjamin ForsterA film documenting conductor David Zinman and the preparation of his orchestra, the Tonahalle Orchestra Zurich, for a performance and recording of Symphony no. 6 by Gustav Mahler.
- DirectorWolf KoenigRoman KroitorStarsGlenn GouldHoward ScottStanley JacksonToronto-based pianist Glenn Gould is in New York City to record Johann Sebastian Bach's Italian Concerto, four years after Gould made an international name for himself with his bestselling recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations. Gould will perform each of the three movements several times over the course of his stay in the studio in his perfectionism, he and the recording crew who will critically review each. That recording crew will have to deal with some of Gould's idiosyncrasies, some problematic, such as his tendency to hum when he plays, and some just humorous, such as he conducting himself when he has a free hand when he is playing. Gould will also have to deal with some of what he would consider necessary evils of the process, such as publicity, including having publicity photos taken. Away from the piano, he talks about his career, being in New York compared to his home in Toronto or anywhere else in Canada, and his very conscious decision, unlike many artists, not to live in the creative epicenter of New York.
- DirectorWolf KoenigRoman KroitorStarsGlenn GouldBanquoMrs. Wm. DoolittleIn preparation for a recording session in New York City, Glenn Gould, as he usually does, first makes a stop at at the Steinway showroom to choose from among the many concert grand pianos available which he would like to use for the recording. Mention is made of his favorite piano on which to practice, namely the one at his recreational property on the shores of Lake Simcoe, his tastes in such not for the bells and whistles of newer instruments, said piano which is seventy years old with a tone and touch more reminiscent of a harpsichord. Mention is also made of his wish to retire from performing at age thirty-five, eight years away, to concentrate on composing. And while he is known primarily for performing the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, he favors more contemporary atonal music. He himself talks about among other things performing on stage versus in a recording studio, and why he doesn't attend concerts of other musicians.
- 1958–197250mTV Episode
- DirectorPaul SmacznyStarsClaudio AbbadoDaniel BarenboimBerliner PhilharmonikerClaudio Abbado: The Silence that Follows the Music offers a unique insight into the dedication of one of the world's greatest conductors: Claudio Abbado. Through the eyes of musicians, singers, soloists, and opera producers from several orchestras, this film conveys an intensely moving view of this highly gifted musician and committed conductor. The program includes footage of rehearsals and performances with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic, and the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, as well as statements from friends and colleagues including Zubin Mehta, Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez, and Maximilian Schell.
- DirectorKen RussellStarsRobert PowellGeorgina HaleLee MontagueComposer Gustav Mahler's (Robert Powell) life, told in a series of flashbacks as he and his wife (Georgina Hale) discuss their failing marriage during a train journey.
- DirectorBruno MonsaingeonStarsClaudio AbbadoPierre BoulezMaurizio PolliniA unique film portrait of the famous Italian pianist. Maurizio Pollini felt himself that the time had come to submit to the probing of the camera, an exercise made all the more necessary because of his usual avoidance of the public eye.
- DirectorBruno MonsaingeonStarsMstislav RostropovichYehudi MenuhinPau CasalsRostropovich, who had already achieved international recognition in the 1950s, was forced to flee his country in 1972. He defended Solzhenitsyn who was expelled from the USSR for having published the "Gulag archipelago". Deprived from of his citizenship by the Soviet authorities, Rostropovich settled in Paris and Washington. This gave birth to his legend.
- DirectorFrank SchefferStarsRiccardo ChaillyHenry-Louis de La GrangeA documentary based on Gustav Mahler's 9th Symphony. Riccardo Chailly is conducting and analyzing the four movements of the symphony.
- DirectorFrank SchefferStarsPierre BoulezJohn CageElliott Carter
- DirectorDorian SupinStarsArvo Pärt
- DirectorJános DarvasStarsIgor StravinskyThe life and work of one of the most influential composers of the 20th Century: Igor Stravinsky, narrated by himself. Footage, rehearsals, concerts, and interviews.