Strings Attached illustrates how a small group of top musicians, the young Artemis Quartet, live and work together with the aim of perfecting the world's most beautiful music. This film focuses on a single piece, one of the most ambitious and…

From 1917 to 1990, the Soviet Union was the locus of a fascinating paradox which this film highlights: In a context of extreme material and psychological hardship, even terror, there flowered some of the richest, most intense musical activity of the…

Martha Argerich is the last remaining pianist of legend. A wild child and a rebel at heart, this legendary Argentinean musician is surrounded by an aura of mystery: some find her too uncompromising, others generous and beautiful, yet to all she is…

Julia Varady is undoubtedly the most all-encompassing lyrical and dramatic soprano that came to the public’s attention in the early 1970’s. Since then, she has been able to master an extremely diverse repertoire of roles and her style represents a…

Alongside his classical career, remarkable violinist Gilles Apap regularly teaches Western classical music to the students of the Benares University in India. Gilles Apap takes us on a musical journey from his house in the Californian forests to the…

From where does this person -whom one always sees from the back- draw his mysterious power? From where does it spring, this power that he wields over a group of a hundred odd musicians and over the audience? From knowledge? From a close rapport with…

This portrait hinges upon SIR ROGER NORRINGTON's typical day in his countryside home. Images caught from his intriguing work and from his cosy domestic life are cleverly intermingled with "flash-backs" from his concerts and rehearsals with the Wiener…

This unique archival discovery shows Bruno Walter rehearsing Brahms's Symphony No. 2 with the Festival Orchestra Vancouver, Canada in 1958. It also includes the only existing film interview ever made with him.

The Latvian, Mariss Jansons, was one of the greatest and best loved conductors of modern times. In this tribute, the four orchestras that were central to his creative life, offer performances in his memory of music that he loved. They're led by…

Much like Rachmaninoff, who struggled to be taken seriously as he stuck to his post-romantic compositional style, in this documentary, Igudesman - also an immigrant and a prolific composer - tries to be honest about the innate insecurities of…