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The film focuses primarily on Sanssouci, the summer palace of the Prussian King, Frederick the Great. A performance by the renowned chamber orchestra, The Hannover Band, on historical instruments. Music by J.P. Kirnberger, C.P.E. Bach, C.H. Graun, J…
Length
60 mins
Prog. No.
1163
András Schiff plays Bachs Goldberg Variations.
Length
82 mins
Prog. No.
6645
Italian pianist Andrea Lucchesini performs some of Chopin’s most famous pieces for piano. Lucchesini's playing is both technically virtuosic and emotionally charged, capturing the beauty and grandeur of Chopin's compositions with grace and poise.
Length
65 mins
Prog. No.
4427
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
A retrospective view of twenty years in the life of this Soviet-born master pianist who has lived in the West since 1963. We have been producing films and television programmes with Vladimir Ashkenazy since 1966 and this one spans the entire period…
Length
66 mins
Prog. No.
3676

"Bach around the world" celebrates in the form of a Pledge Show the great composer and Thomaskantor Johann Sebastian Bach. Impressions of all over the world give an idea of how modern and popular the old music of the composer still is. Whether in…

Length
60 mins
Prog. No.
5070
This film traces the unlikely journey of a lock of hair cut from Beethoven's corpse and unravels the mystery of his tortured life and death. The film begins in modern times when a pair of Beethoven enthusiasts, Ira Brilliant and Dr Alfredo “Che”…
Length
84 mins
Prog. No.
6394
In March of 2004, the Royal Opera Covent Garden in London cancelled its contract with Deborah Voigt. The official reason given by the casting director: too fat. The opera world was outraged. Since when can't opera singers be overweight? Since Callas…
Length
60 mins
Prog. No.
5597
"Schubertiade" represents small concerts delivered freely and free of any binding form, this film is committed to develop an almost impressionistic vision / interpretation of Bertrand Chamayou. This is to reconstruct the context of small recitals of…
Length
64 mins
Prog. No.
6171
At the age of 43, Anton Bruckner has not developed his full musical genius. Although everything inside him is striving towards music he finds one excuse after another to turn away from his vocation. Having completed every imaginable course of study…
Length
80 mins
Prog. No.
5019