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…

I believe that there are thousands, perhaps millions, of people in the world who will say that Schubert is their favourite composer, but if questioned will not dare to put him on the level of Beethoven or Bach or Mozart. I have encountered this…

Paganini’s Daemon – with A Most Enduring Legend Niccolo Paganini created perhaps the most elaborate and enduring legend of all instrumental soloists in the history of Western music but as so often with legends, the excitement and the chatter obscured…

A film by Christopher Nupen with the young Russian master pianist who has taken the classical music world by storm in the past fifteen years. Evgeny Kissin not only has dazzling virtuosity and unmistakable star-appeal, his meteoric rise to the top of…

The earth on which we live silently remembers the catastrophies of our history but if we listen to the silence of the earth it will remind us of the fate of others who lived before us and from whose suffering we may yet learn. A television film by…

A Christopher Nupen film with Daniil Trifonov –– pianist, composer, Russian and a magician at the keyboard. The astonishing musical gifts of Daniil Trifonov have to be seen and heard to be believed. How many have won both the Rubinstein and…

A film about the pioneering career of Christopher Nupen, who founded one of the first independent production companies in the 1960s, at the dawn of the music documentary era. Seizing upon the emerging camera technology and his unique access to a…

Conducted by the brilliantly tousled maestro at his space console, the ensemble injects its inescapable pulse into the dance-hungry audience in the city center of Stuttgart on the renowned Schlossplatz of the New Castle at the jazzopen stuttgart. The…

Can there be a more charming ambassador for Scotland than Amy Macdonald? On the other hand: On stage, there is an approachable and likable artist who has evidently found her voice, and furthermore— transforms Stuttgart's historic Schlossplatz into a…