This catalogue represents around 1800 TV highlights of performance and documentary programming in a wide variety of genres, including opera, ballet & dance, orchestral music, jazz and entertainment.
They started out in 1981 as a New York City street band, playing jazz, gospel and classics. Now they're an internationally acclaimed quartet forming a tighly-knit unit with their own distinctive identity, performing both traditional and experimental…
300 years ago, around the year 1700, the Italian musician and craftsman Bartolomeo Cristofori invented a new musical instrument: the piano.Today, the piano is the most widely-played and best-loved of all musical instruments. Reason enough to…
300 years ago, around the year 1700, the Italian musician and craftsman Bartolomeo Cristofori invented a new musical instrument: the piano.Today, the piano is the most widely-played and best-loved of all musical instruments. Reason enough to…
The 58-minute documentary on Bach takes a close look at his life, the places where he worked, his works and the techniques he used when composing, as well as at the political and cultural life during the composer's time. Recorded at original places,…
The programme is a musical celebration of the nativity, featuring many traditional carols, illustrated by pictures by the Old Masters from the National Gallery in London. With music by Handel and Vaughan Williams.
Rodolfo Mederos is a bandoneonist, a composer with an enormous oeuvre, one of the authorities on the tango – and an inspiration to new generations of musicians. Born in Buenos Aires and still living there, the city has always been his muse. And this…
„You are hereby permitted to all men“ is the very prosaic wording of the Jewish divorce document named gett, from which the name of the film is derived. Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem is the story of an Israeli woman struggling with the religious…
The highly acclaimed Mommy is set in the fictional - and rather dystopian - year 2015, where it is legal to hospitalize your wayward kids, if you cannot cope with them. Meet Anne Dorval as she discusses her role as the Mommy, director Xavier Dolan,…
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…
Known as the last dictatorship of Europe, you wouldn’t think Belarus would be home to some of the most ground breaking and provocative theatre productions currently being produced. However, in the outskirts of Minsk, near forgotten villages, in…
