Classical Music Movies

Recorded concert movie chronicling many of the works of P.D.Q. Bach

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

The Berliner Philharmoniker’s European Concert, held each year on 1 May, is invariably an international highlight. Performing in 2008 in...

Fifty years after his death, this musical and psychological portrait of Ralph Vaughan Williams explores the passions that drove a giant of...

The New Year’s Gala Concert is a tradition for the Berliner Philharmoniker and its music director, Sir Simon Rattle. This 2011 concert, Dances...

Join André Rieu on his global adventures in Fiesta Mexicana as he finally recovers from illness to delight fans all over the world with...

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

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...

Recorded live at the Alys Robinson Q Stephens Performing Arts Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Juanita Bynum joined Jonathan Butler...

A video film about the dramatic events in the life of twelve-year-old Beethoven.

From the sumptuous setting of St. Mark's Square in Venice, the Orchestra and Choir of La Fenice tackle Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, conducted by...

A conductor, in silhouette against sheet music, leads the title tune, which dissolves into a series of placid landscapes. As the music picks up, we...

An unbroken sequence of fragments, last thoughts, elegies and absences by Schubert, Mozart, Wagner, Janáček, Stravinsky, Jacquet de la...

A Parade for three managers and four performers. Sketchy drawings in a neatly arranged palette, involving quotes from the French composer Erik Satie,...

During the anti-communist uprisings of the late 1950s, a writer of comedic poems against socialism was constantly pursued by Securitate troops.

Short documentary on classical Indian music.

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

Chronicles the Fifth International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs, hosted by The Van Cliburn Foundation. Players from all over the world,...