From the bright river banks of a Greek island to the dark ghettoes of Aleppo, from the high plains of Ethiopia overlooking Africa to the burning solitude of the Egyptian desert, from the hermitages on Mount Athos, suspended between heaven and earth…

Yehudi Menuhin in residence at the Hartt School of Music in Connecticut, sharing life with the students, teaching and conducting. A spectacular music lesson!

Inspired by the Tea Ceremony, Tan Dun, the contemporary Chinese composer living in New York, wrote the opera “Tea”. Tea is a tragic love-story set against the background of Chanoyu, the Japanese tea ritual. In “Tea”, Tan Dun combines Eastern and…

Mahler: "Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen" is based on Mahler’s 9th Symphony. In the four parts of this film, renowned conductor Riccardo Chailly and Mahler’s internationally acclaimed biographer, Henry-Louis de la Grange, analyse the four…

In the Ocean is unique in the genre of music documentary. With the cooperation of musicians who have never appeared before in the same film (Steve Reich, Brian Eno, Philip Glass, Louis Andriessen), it endeavours to explain the complex contemporary…

«Voyage to Cythera» is a documentary about Luciano Berio's composition Sinfonia. The film concentrates on the third part of the composition, which consists of a number of musical quotes from composers like Mahler, Stravinsky, Boulez, Schönberg and…

A documentary on the Dutch composer Louis Andriessen during the composition of his Chinese inspired work «Tao».

Documentary about the American composer John Cage based on his composition 'Fourteen'. The film includes shots of the performance of Fourteen by the Ives Ensemble juxtaposed with documentary material with John Cage about Erik Satie, Marcel Duchamp…

‘Five Orchestral Pieces’ Opus 16, written in 1909, is one of Schönberg’s most famous compositions, and a breakthrough in his work. With this piece Schönberg broke away from tradition, and made the revolutionary step from tonal to atonal music. 'No…

A documentary on Stravinsky’s «Symphonies for Wind Instruments», a funerary work written in memory of Debussy (for whom Stravinsky had always felt a great friendship). The ‘Symphonies for Wind Instruments’ was composed by Igor Stravinsky in 1920 in…