Classical Music Movies

This music-video piece denounces the declining state of classical music by throwing a piano into the sea as a symbol of high culture submerging. The...

With more than 50 years of experience as film director, Peter Greenaway (Nightwatching, Eisenstein in Guanajuato) combines the worlds of film and...

200 years after Chopin's birth, the Space Shuttle Endeavour, like a giant piano, took the music of Chopin into orbit.

The first part of this Academy Award-winning short consists of a behind-the-scenes look at the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra as it prepares to...

Based on the famous Gustav Holst musical suite, Ken Russell's musical delight takes viewers on a magnificent journey of the planets of the Solar...

The film includes rare archival footage and tells in a very personal way of Gidon Kremer's encounters with Johan Sebastian Bach's music, accompanying...

What happens when an earth-splitting disaster destroys the home world of a lone living skeleton? As long as he has his most valuable treasure, he...

Live performance of Verdi's Missa da Requiem at the Edinburgh Festival in 1982. An all-star quartet of soloists under the baton of Claudio Abbado,...

Bluebeard, an opéra bouffe by Jacques Offenbach, premiered in Paris in 1866. Directed by Laurent Pelly, the National Opera in Lyon stages this...

Giuseppe Verdi based his famous opera on the novel “The Lady of the Camellias” by Alexandre Dumas. Robert Wilson’s production of...

On Air presents Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, performed by the world-renowned Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Peter Breiner, and...

"Probably the best living pianist" headlined the Berliner Morgenpost's review of Grigory Sokolov's sold-out June 2013 recital at the Berlin...

In this unique documentary, French filmmaker Benoit Jacquot interviews Alfred Deller, the internationally celebrated contemporary countertenor who...

A young woman has only one friend: a plant. That is, until tragedy strikes. (Promo Short for Predicamented Company)

At night, in the dark recesses of the woods, a male cellist lures in viewers with a performance of Bach's "Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major." It stars...