Originally founded by Jewish musicians from Germany, Poland and Austria, the "Palestine Orchestra" gave its first concert in 1936. Sixty years later fifteen of the world's finest musical talents come together to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the…

A documentary film series about the great tenors in the first half of the 20th century who served the ideal of beautiful singing. These great tenors are introduced and analysed musically and historically from critics, family and colleagues. An…

Master Course with Hermann Prey recorded at the Richard-Strauss-Tagen Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1997. Exclusively covered were Lieder by Richard Strauss.

With this film, you will dive into the artistic cosmos of the composer and artist Maria de Alvear. Based on the interrelationship between music and language, she attempts to give profound significance to each note. This documentary will show you how…

Leading to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the documentary will present a concise lookback at the events at the beginning of October 1989. The church of St. Nikolai in Leipzig is symbolic in its initiation of peaceful demonstrations. Several interviews…

German Brass is one of the world's most original and distinctive brass ensembles. They perform arrangements of classical pieces and swinging versions of standards and jazz tunes with exceptional musical spirit. Inspired by a turbulent stage show with…

For this feature, "24 hours Bach" presents the best performers in their field, including John Eliot Gardiner, the Monteverdi Choir founded by him, the English Baroque Soloists, as well as other internationally-known vocal soloists.

The British conductor John Eliot Gardiner has set his mind on performing all of Johann Sebastian Bach's cantatas. Several of these concerts take place in Saxony and Thuringia, where Bach lived. This offers Gardiner the opportunity to discover Bach…

Ever since the nineteenth century, the Mariinsky Theatre - a jewel in the crown of Russian Imperial theatres - has been an important cultural symbol of Russian statehood. The Theatre's performances are highly innovative and striven toward a synthesis…

Against the backdrop of escalating violence in the Middle East, Daniel Barenboim's project has lost none of its topicality: in the summer of 1999, the world-famous musician founded the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra in the classical city of Weimar…