Movies: Classical music

  • 2023
    Sombras Brancas

    Sombras Brancas (2023)

    Sombras Brancas

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    At the age of 71, a highly regarded writer, José Cardoso Pires, suffers a major stroke and loses his memory and the ability to relate to the rest of the world. Everybody seems to defy the famous author to write another novel that recounts this advent...

    Sombras Brancas
  • 2022
    Song for Hope

    Song for Hope (2022)

    Song for Hope

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    When diagnosed with terminal cancer, a world renowned trumpet player uses music to give hope from concert stages to mountain tops, proving art is essential to survival....

    Song for Hope
  • 2022
    Ghosts and Whispers

    Ghosts and Whispers (2022)

    Ghosts and Whispers

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    An unbroken sequence of fragments, last thoughts, elegies and absences by Schubert, Mozart, Wagner, Janáček, Stravinsky, Jacquet de la Guerre and Schumann, inter-leaved with movements from John Woolrich's Pianobooks. The programme is performed alongs...

    Ghosts and Whispers
  • 1997
    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra: The First 50 Years

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra: The First 50 Years (1997)

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra: The First 50 Years

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    Go behind the scenes with one of London's most important musical institutions....

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra: The First 50 Years
  • 2006
    The Marriage of Figaro

    The Marriage of Figaro (2006)

    The Marriage of Figaro

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    This release contains the celebrated 2006 production of Mozart's Nozze di Figaro that was directed for the stage by Claus Guth at that year's Salzburg Festival. Ildebrando D'Arcangelo takes the title role, and gets support from Anna Netrebko as Sussa...

    The Marriage of Figaro
  • 1977
    The Nutcracker

    The Nutcracker (1977)

    The Nutcracker

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    The Nutcracker is Mikhail Baryshnikov's breathtaking and critcally acclaimed Emmy nominated production. The thisspectacular performance is danced by the magnificent team of Baryshnikov, one of the greatest classical dancers of the century, and Gelsey...

    The Nutcracker
  • 2013
    Aida - Arena di Verona

    Aida - Arena di Verona (2013)

    Aida - Arena di Verona

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    The grand scale and magnificent acoustics of the Roman arena in Verona are ideally suited to the pageantry of Verdi's Egyptian opera, presented here in a staging that is true to the original 1913 production, framed by obelisks and sphinxes and filled...

    Aida - Arena di Verona
  • 1943
    A Corny Concerto

    A Corny Concerto (1943)

    A Corny Concerto

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    Elmer Fudd introduces two pieces of classical music: "Tales of the Vienna Woods" and "The Blue Danube", and acted out by Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Laramore the Hound Dog, a family of swans, and a juvenile Daffy Duck....

    A Corny Concerto
  • 2022
    Godzilla vs. Gigan Rex

    Godzilla vs. Gigan Rex (2022)

    Godzilla vs. Gigan Rex

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    When army of Gigans tries to invade and destroy the Earth, the only one who can stop them is Godzilla....

    Godzilla vs. Gigan Rex
  • 1999
    Pavarotti & Friends 99 for Guatemala and Kosovo

    Pavarotti & Friends 99 for Guatemala and Kosovo (1999)

    Pavarotti & Friends 99 for Guatemala and Kosovo

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    The Pavarotti & Friends for Guatemala and Kosovo concert was held on June 1, 1999, and raised $1 million for War Child programs to aid young refugees from Kosovo and Guatemala. The concert featured guest performances by Mariah Carey, Ricky Martin, B....

    Pavarotti & Friends 99 for Guatemala and Kosovo
  • 1981
    At the Haunted End of the Day

    At the Haunted End of the Day (1981)

    At the Haunted End of the Day

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    A documentary by Tony Palmer on English composer Sir William Walton (1902–1983), made shortly before his death. The film includes the only full-length interview ever recorded with Walton. Filmed at his home on Ischia and in Oxford, London & Oldham, i...

    At the Haunted End of the Day
  • 2015
    Everybody's Cage

    Everybody's Cage (2015)

    Everybody's Cage

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    In “Everybody’s Cage”, German film artist Sandra Trostel turns John Cage and his approach to art into a tangible fascination, without giving in to explain just a single bit of it....

    Everybody's Cage
  • 2022
    Currentzis conducts Beethoven Symphony No. 9

    Currentzis conducts Beethoven Symphony No. 9 (2022)

    Currentzis conducts Beethoven Symphony No. 9

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    Ludwig van Beethoven headed for Symphony No. 9 literally his entire life. As early as the 1790s, he had an eye on Ode to Joy, perhaps the most well-known poem by Friedrich Schiller, written on the threshold of the French Revolution (1786). In his mat...

    Currentzis conducts Beethoven Symphony No. 9
  • 2015
    Maestro

    Maestro (2015)

    Maestro

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    Maestro follows Grammy award-winning conductor Paavo Järvi and an array of brilliant musicians as they perform to sold-out music halls across the world....

    Maestro
  • 1993
    Great Russian Composers

    Great Russian Composers (1993)

    Great Russian Composers

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    These biographical drama documentaries explore the lives and careers of Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Scriabin, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninov and Chaliapin....

    Great Russian Composers
  • 2022
    Winter Journey: Schubert's Winterreise

    Winter Journey: Schubert's Winterreise (2022)

    Winter Journey: Schubert's Winterreise

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    Baritone Benjamin Appl and pianist James Baillieu reimagine Schubert's song cycle Winterreise in the wintry setting of an Alpine landscape at the top of a mountain pass in Switzerland - a place that emphasises the timelessness of Schubert's music...

    Winter Journey: Schubert's Winterreise
  • 1954
    Convict Concerto

    Convict Concerto (1954)

    Convict Concerto

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    Woody Woodpecker is a piano tuner forced to play after a bank robber hides out in the piano and points a gun at him....

    Convict Concerto
  • 2018
    Shut Up and Play the Piano

    Shut Up and Play the Piano (2018)

    Shut Up and Play the Piano

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    The documentary follows Chilly Gonzales from his native Canada to late '90s underground Berlin, and via Paris to the world's great philharmonic halls. Diving deep into the dichotomy of Gonzales' stage persona, where self-doubt and megalomania are jus...

    Shut Up and Play the Piano
  • 2005
    Jack-Jack Attack

    Jack-Jack Attack (2005)

    Jack-Jack Attack

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    The Parrs' baby Jack-Jack is thought to be normal, not having any super-powers like his parents or siblings. But when an outsider is hired to watch him, Jack-Jack shows his true potential....

    Jack-Jack Attack
  • 1967
    Benjamin Britten and His Festival

    Benjamin Britten and His Festival (1967)

    Benjamin Britten and His Festival

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    A behind-the-scenes look at the Aldeburgh Festival and the opening by The Queen of the new concert hall at Snape....

    Benjamin Britten and His Festival