Classical Music Movies

The Italian Character: a film within music and about music. The Italian character is the story of one of the most renowned orchestras in the world,...

In four corners of the globe, in each of the four seasons, four outstanding violinists guide us on an extraordinary journey through their four...

The pianist Kyra Steckeweh and the filmmaker Tim van Beveren search for traces where Countess Dora Pejačević (1885-1923) lived and worked....

The show, recorded at London's magnificent Royal Albert Hall, is Bill's own hilarious and irreverent guide to the sounds, styles, and instruments of...

This series comprised six lectures on music, which cumulatively took the title of a work by Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question. Bernstein drew...

Mr. and Mrs. Jones hear a piano being played in their living room. They automatically assume it is their cat who is making the music, when in fact,...

“Clarity was one thing that made this performance a marvel. Another was the flexibility of Barenboim’s speeds…. The flexibility of...

Newman's poem tells the story of a soul's journey through death, and provides a meditation on the unseen world of Roman Catholic theology. Gerontius...

Enjoy the summer evening concerts of André Rieu on the most romantic square in the Netherlands: the Vrijthof in Maastricht! You can use the...

The story of the birth of Bedřich Smetana's most famous composition, from his first impressions of his stay in Šumava through the images...

In Restoration-era France, the ambitious Julien Sorel rises through society thanks to his intelligence, charm, and determination. Torn between Madame...

This short film provides a fanciful account of how Felix Mendelssohn came to compose "The Wedding March".

Two young but remarkably talented performers came together for a joint performance at the Czech Radio Ostrava recording studio. Two outstanding...

Fred Pellerin and Kent Nagano revive the great tradition of the OSM and offer a new symphonic Christmas tale! They take you to...

A visual movie showing the changing seasons, weather, sun and stars in a small village on the Polish Lithuanian border set to classical music.

In September 2002 the famous Russian conductor Valery Gergiev gave some master classes in Rotterdam to three young, and talented, but just starting...

A small locomotive faces the challenge of bigger, stronger trains, with his best friend -- the conductor -- at his side.