Classical Music Movies

An oratorio about the conflict between earthly and heavenly love, with which the Italian composer applied for the position of Kapellmeister at the...

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

Sheku Kanneh-Mason made history in 2016 when he became the first black winner of the BBC Young Musician competition. Sheku has six musically gifted...

In this 130-minute documentary film, Dr. David Chin will be joined by 15 prominent German Bach scholars and musicians and visit the important...

Portrait of a Knight is a musical romance about the way in which historic ideals inform contemporary urban life. Rachel is a young archivist living...

This documentary is about the life and works of the Austrian composer Anton Bruckner, a world-famous organist, a beloved teacher, and a controversial...

Jonas Kaufmann's very personal tribute to the city's famous music. We see the star tenor on the move in Vienna, visiting his favorite places, from...

A brilliant performance of Schönberg's monumental work at the Prague State Opera. Arnold Schönberg composed Gurre-Lieder to a text by J. P....

The Triple Concerto is one of Beethoven's less frequently performed works - probably also because it requires three soloists and makes considerable...

As viewed and filmed in High Definition by astronauts on the space shuttle, this is the Planet Earth as few have seen before. One hour of High...

Beethoven spent three years composing the Eroica, an intimate journal of his emotional crises and his dramatic emergence as an original master....

A dance of shapes. A title card tells us this is an experiment in conveying the mental images of music in a visual form. Liszt's "Second Hungarian...

This is a 4-DVD set, featuring the Estonian conductor Paavo Järvi and the chamber orchestra (around 40 members) Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie...

Experimental short film about composer Felix Mendelssohn travelling to the Jewish Museum in Berlin.

The Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 2 & 7 performed by Seiji Ozawa, who turned 80! Bonus content includes valuable footage of Beethoven’s Choral...

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,...