A new way to approach classical music, more fun, more original, more entertaining. Mozart Band arrives, and with it his four young members: Mozart, Betoven, Chopin and Verdi. Since the filming of a music video for a superstar to the mysterious theft of a valuable harp, Mozart and his friends live a host of incredible adventures. There comes a symphony of humor, adventure and above all, lots of music.
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, enriched by archive material of the last thirty years about the great conductors who have been performing on the most famous rostrum in Rome.
Animated Composer in need of inspiration dreams his way through centuries of music - an inspiring tale that leaves him with a rather bland pop tune.
The New Year’s Gala Concert is a tradition for the Berliner Philharmoniker and its music director, Sir Simon Rattle. This 2011 concert, Dances and Dreams, has a theme of dances (two Dvorak Slavonic Dances, Stravinksy’s Firebird Suite, Grieg’s Symphonic Dance, Richard Strauss’s Dance of the Seven Veils, and Brahms’ Hungarian Dance No. 1) and dreams (Ravel’s Alborado del Gracisoso and the famous Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor). This generous mix of romantic and impressionistic music shows off the magnificent Berlin ensemble at its best. It is also great to see star pianist Evgeny Kissin at the keyboards.
A shy young man with a passion for opera has his world turned upside down by a con artist who really does have a heart of gold.
Com o tema da famosa valsa de mesmo nome de Johan Strauss, Roses From The South vê André se aventurando na incrível ilha paradisíaca subtropical de Mainau, perto da costa sul da Alemanha. Conhecida como a 'Ilha das Flores' devido aos seus jardins exóticos únicos, Mainau e seus majestosos terrenos do palácio fornecem o cenário pitoresco perfeito para André e sua Orquestra Johan Strauss realizarem uma apresentação fascinante diante de um mar de fãs apaixonados.
Uma professora de música já idosa que dá aulas de piano para presos descobre um prodígio entre as detentas e se dedica a desenvolver o talento da moça.
A violinista Sydney Wells sofreu um acidente durante sua infância que a deixou cega. Quando ela consegue recuperar a visão através de um transplante de córnea, ela passa a ver imagens sombrias e aterrorizantes que a amedrontam. Sem poder distinguir se a situação é devido a adaptação de seu corpo à nova situação, a jovem passa a desconfiar que a causa está ligada ao doador.
Letters, Riddles and Writs is a one act opera for television by Michael Nyman broadcast in 1991.
A integração das grandes obras da música clássica com visuais extremamente criativos e originais da animação. São as seguintes composições que fazem parte do filme: "Toccata e Fuga em Ré Menor", de Johann Sebastian Bach; "Suíte Quebra-Nozes", de Peter Llich Tchaikovsky; "O Aprendiz de Feiticeiro", de Paul Dukas; "Sagração da Primavera", de Igor Stravinsky; "Sinfonia Pastoral", de Ludwing Van Beethoven; "Dança das Horas", de Almicare Ponchielli; "Noite no Monte Calvo", de Modest Mussorgsky; e "Ave Maria", de Franz Schubert.
Like his father, Tom is a real estate agent who makes his money from dirty, and sometimes brutal, deals. But a chance encounter prompts him to take up the piano and become a concert pianist. He auditions with the help of a beautiful, young virtuoso pianist who cannot speak French - music is their only exchange. But pressures from the ugly world of his day job soon become more than he can handle.
Anna Holtz (Diane Kruger) é uma jovem de 23 anos que sonha em se tornar uma compositora. Como estudante do Conservatório de Música, ela é indicada para um cobiçado cargo em uma editora musical. Devido a uma série de eventos ocasionais ela é designada para trabalhar juntamente a Ludwig van Beethoven (Ed Harris), o mais celebrado artista vivo da época. Inicialmente descrente, Beethoven faz a Anna um desafio de improvisação, no qual ela demonstra sua sensibilidade musical. Beethoven a aceita como escriba, dando início a um forte relacionamento entre os dois.
This musical comedy based on an opera by Jacques Offenbach incorporates a twist on the classic Greek myth: Orpheus, a music teacher at a girls’ school in the ancient Greek city of Thebes, actually does not miss his wife Eurydice that much – until the gods and Offenbach himself pressure him to retrieve her from Hades.
Young Austrian Archduke Paul "Gustl" Gustave is in an arranged engagement but his uncle, the emperor, decides to let Gustl carry on a fling with ballet dancer Lisl Gluck.
Joseph Haydn is renowned for taking the established forms of the symphony and string quartet and shaping them into the powerful media for musical expression that they became thereafter. He brought symphonic traits to the piano sonata and was a master of chamber music. His masses and choral works also continue as standards in the concert repertory, and his operas are highly valued. These informative programs are a concise overview of the composer's life and times, filmed on location in the cities and places that influenced their works. Also included in a detailed list of each composer's most significant musical compositions.
Silva Varescu, a self-sufficient and professionally successful cabaret performer from Budapest, is about to embark on a tour of America. Three of her aristocratic admirers, named Edwin, Feri and Boni, prefer her to stay. Edwin, unaware that his parents have already arranged a marriage for him back home in Vienna, orders a notary to prepare a promissory note of his expected marriage to Silva within ten weeks.
A newspaper reporter and the daughter of an immigrant maintenance man help expose political corruption in New York City.
Laerte (Lázaro Ramos) é um violinista que, após não passar em um teste para a OSESP, vai dar aulas em uma favela na periferia de São Paulo. Lá descobre um garoto com talento excepcional e por meio da música faz com que ele abandone o tráfico de drogas e dê um novo sentido para sua vida.
Live television version of the classic musical.
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 Kirkland, both chowcased at the peak of the their careers, with members of the American Ballet Theatre.
