This Vivaldi concert was recorded on the occasion of Julien Chauvin‘s CD release „Il Teatro“. The concert is an opportunity to confront the theatricality of Vivaldi‘s instrumental music with the virtuosity of his operatic arias. Always seeking to…

Autumn 2020. An international cast arrives in Amsterdam for the rehearsals of Mozart's “Le nozze di Figaro” by Dutch National Opera. Hundreds of people have been working on it for three years and the performances are sold out. The young up-and-coming…

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…

The Berliner Philharmoniker and Lahav Shani ring in the new year virtuosic, dance-like, and full of dynamism. We start with the overture to Johann Straussʼ Fledermaus before star violinist Janine Jansen presents Max Bruch’s passionate Violin Concerto…

What if our minds could live forever? Recent advances in artificial intelligence and neuroscience mean that we will soon be able to map our memories and experiences, and to use these data to build a digital consciousness identical with our own. These…

Composer, conductor, genius, Mensch, Marvin Hamlisch was as close to a modern day DaVinci as it gets. Hit after hit…”The Way We Were”, “Nobody Does It Better”, “The Sting”, “A Chorus Line”, Marvin was irrepressible and prolific. Winner of four…

The award-winning Trio con Brio Copenhagen performing piano trios from the years around 1900. The rarely played D'un matin de printemps by French composer Lili Boulanger is a tribute to nature’s eternity from the incredibly talented composer the…

The Ensemble I Gemelli takes us on a journey to the heart of the Italian 17th century, between cult arias and cantatas of the period. A timeless rendezvous at the Théâtre Graslin in Nantes. From Monterverdi to Cavalli via Sances, Strozzi and…

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 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…