Bach & Friends

Great Russian Composers

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

1993

Maestro

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

2015

Bolero: A Global Hit

Bolero is played every 15 minutes in the world. This film tries to answer how this famous melody inspired and influenced the world pop-culture? It exp

2019

La familia Figueroa: una dinastía musical

Documentary on the life and accomplishments of the members of this uniquely talented musical family. The film focuses on the Figueroa family’s history

2015

The Reich's Orchestra

In 2007, the Berliner Philharmoniker celebrated their 125th anniversary. Film director Enrique Sánchez Lansch took this occasion to tell a hitherto un

2007

Peter Dvorský

2022

The Bolero

The first part of this Academy Award-winning short consists of a behind-the-scenes look at the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra as it prepares to pe

1973

Leonard Bernstein: The Gift of Music

Leonard Bernstein narrated by legendary screen star Lauren Bacall. The movie also relies extensively on Bernstein's own words to provide the counterp

The Fire and the Rose

A documentary on the life and work of the composer Sofia Gubaidulina.

1990

De occulta philosophia

A memorable intellectual journey to rediscover Baroque music, from the handmade fabrication of a harpsichord by master luthier Titus Crijnen to the in

2014

Diesen Kuss der ganzen Welt - Beethoven heute

2020

Bach: A Passionate Life

John Eliot Gardiner goes in search of Bach the man and the musician. The famous portrait of Bach portrays a grumpy 62-year-old man in a wig and forma

2013

Englands heimliche Hymne - Land of Hope and Glory

2016

High Fidelity: The Adventures of the Guarneri String Quartet

Relationships, rehearsals, performances, hobbies, and family life of the members of the Guarneri String Quartet.

1989

What Difference Does It Make?

A documentary that explores the challenges that a life in music can bring.

2014

The Language Of The New Music

This is a film about Ludwig Wittgenstein and Arnold Schoenberg; two men whose lives and ideas run parallel in the development of Viennese radicalism.

1985

Bennewitzovo kvarteto

2022

Yannick

At 41 years old, the Quebecois conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin has established himself as one of the most gifted maestros of his generation, with numer

2017

Beethoven na Slovensku

1968

El corazón del Teatro Real

Documentary about an emblematic institution of the Spanish Arts, Madrid's Teatro Real, or Royal Theatre, released to celebrate it's 2nd centenary anni

2018