David Oistrakh: Classic Archive

The 9th Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven is one of the most popular pieces of classical music in the world. Even those who are not passionate about th...

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...

Lyrical biography of the classical composer, depicted as a romantic hero, an accursed artist.

This is a full-length documentary honoring the life and work of American composer and artist John Cage. Cage is considered one of the most influential...

Avant-garde composer John Cage is famous for his experimental pieces and "chance music" but temporarily branched into video in 1992 with this art film...

April 5th, 2000... On the heels of their unanimously acclaimed albums "Appalachia Waltz" and "Appalachian Journey", "Appalachian Journey Live In Conce...

The great composer of The Planets, Gustav Holst also taught himself Sanskrit, lived in a street of brothels in Algiers, cycled into the Sahara Desert,...

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

A look at the activities of the Tanglewood Music Center, America's renowned summer Academy for talented musicians, singers, composers and conductors.

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...

The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other histo...

Presents Handel as a key figure in the development of Baroque music. Illustrates with musical selections his contributions to 18th century music inclu...

Documentary about the state of the conducting world in the 1990s. Broadcast as part of the BBC OMNIBUS strand of documentaries.