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The collection “Classic Archive” presents great performances by legendary artists, remastered using the latest digital technology and enhanced with commentary for today’s audiences. These jewels of music broadcasting have been salvaged from various…
Length
90 mins
Prog. No.
7996
The Indomitable Bow is a unique portrait of Mstislav Rostropovich, a formidable personality as well as a complex, deeply political musician constantly engaged in a whirlwind of activities. Including unreleased documents, archive films, interviews and…
Length
79 mins
Prog. No.
7909
Ten years of hard work have made the Arod Quartet one of the most brilliant of its generation. For it takes years to blend together four individual talents into one. Resolving conflicts, working together, travelling and touring without neglecting…
Length
65 mins
Prog. No.
7833
Structured as a road-movie from Warsaw to Budapest in a special train car with the famous Polish-hungarian pianist Piotr Anderszewski, this new film by Bruno Monsaingeon captures the most important events of the pianist`s current activities: A new CD…
Length
83 mins
Prog. No.
7793
«Sonic Acts» provides an informed survey of the development and current state of affairs of electronic music. The boundaries between the serious and the popular sides of electronic music are becoming faint and this film explores the crossover taking…
Length
60 mins
Prog. No.
7745
A beautifully shot documentary highlighting the interpretation of Mahler’s compositions by conductors Haitink, Chailly, Muti, Abbado and Rattle, linked to interviews with these conductors where they explain their ideas about the work of Mahler. The…
Length
73 mins
Prog. No.
7744
Elliott Carter has lived in New York almost a century and describes his music as a reflection on modern democratic society, where people have to cooperate but keep their individuality. This revelatory portrait of the man widely considered to be the…
Length
90 mins
Prog. No.
7742
After Judaïsm and Oriental Christianity, the two first parts of our series “Chants of Heaven” this film allows us to discover the great musical diversity of Islam. From the extreme styles of Senegal to those of Egypt or India, via the more…
Length
90 mins
Prog. No.
7704
How did artists survive in the Soviet Union? How tricky did they have to be in the face of authorities? What kind of danger and difficulties did they have to fear? Gennadi Rozhdestvensky talks about authorities, watchdogs and the political system in…
Length
60 mins
Prog. No.
7530
"There are today magnificent virtuosos, the Yitzhak Perlmans, Vadim Repins,Hilary Hahns, Maxime Vengerovs and the like, but none of them, in my opinion, bears the indisputable mark of that which made the intensely original art of the great violinists…
Length
63 mins
Prog. No.
7332