Three television programmes about the Brahms Violin and Viola Sonatas. Part One: FAE Scherzo Violin Sonata No. 1 Op. 78 Part Two: Violin Sonatas No. 2, Op, 100 and No. 3, Op. 108 Part Three: Viola Sonatas Op. 120 No. 1 and Op. 120 No. 2 Each…

This film is not a documentary account of events of Sibelius's life. It is an attempt to use film and Sibelius's music and words to try and convey to the viewer something of his artistic intentions and of his extraordinarily creative and poetic…

This film is not a documentary account of events of Sibelius's life. It is an attempt to use film and Sibelius's music and words to try and convey to the viewer something of his artistic intentions and of his extraordinarily creative and poetic…

Vladimir Ashkenazy has had a particular affection for the music of Rachmaninoff throughout his professional life, and his performances have long had the ring both of authenticity and of deep commitment. This is not surprising in a Russian-born and…

Vladimir Ashkenazy has had a particular affection for the music of Rachmaninoff throughout his professional life, and his performances have long had the ring both of authenticity and of deep commitment. This is not surprising in a Russian-born and…

At the close of the 19th century, Vienna presented to the world a picture of ordered elegance and dignified gaiety, but beneath the surface the corruption and hollowness of the late Hapsburg Empire produced widespread and deep-seated confusion and so…

A retrospective view of twenty years in the life of this Soviet-born master pianist who has lived in the West since 1963. We have been producing films and television programmes with Vladimir Ashkenazy since 1966 and this one spans the entire period…

This is the first of two films about the music of Tchaikovsky, written and directed by Christopher Nupen. It covers the period from the first tentative stirrings of Tchaikovsky's musical talent to the time of the composition of Eugene Onegin and the…

This is the second of Christopher Nupen's films about Tchaikovsky and it continues his examination of Tchaikovsky's preoccupation with the idea of fate as a governing force in our lives. The first film (Tchaikovsky's Women) focused on the young…

This is a film in two parts with one of the finest performing musicians of the 20th century; an artist whose career spanned 73 years and who won the admiration and respect of virtually every international musician of his time and their genuine…