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  • Horowitz in London

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    Vladimir Horowitz’s piano recital in 1982 at Royal Festival Hall in London.

  • Horowitz in Vienna

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    Vladimir Horowitz’s piano recital in 1987 at the Musikvereinssaal in Vienna.

  • The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick

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    The early 1960s: In preparation for his Bar Mitzvah, a Jewish boy, Max Glick (Noam Zylberman) from a small Manitoba community with an overbearing family tries to navigate his coming-of-age with his family’s condescension and bigotry using his sarcastic, Jewish humour. The town’s rabbi dies, and a sub-plot develops in which Max’s father (Aaron Schwartz)…

  • High Fidelity: The Adventures of the Guarneri String Quartet

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

  • Paganini

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    Legendary “devil violinist” Niccolo Paganini sets all of 19th century Europe into frenzy.

  • André Rieu – Das große Konzert 2019

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  • Fantasia 2000

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    Blending lively music and brilliant animation, this sequel to the original ‘Fantasia’ restores ‘The Sorcerer’s Apprentice’ and adds seven new shorts.

  • Viva la banda de Mozart

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    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…

  • Years of Pilgrimage: The Wandering Soul of Franz Liszt / Fashionable Empire

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    YEARS OF PILGRIMAGE: Franz Liszt was a virtuoso pianist that took early nineteenth-century Europe by storm. He conquered the Parisian salons with passionate performances marked by excellent technique and handsome features that became the downfall of many women. But what was he truly after? The musical narrates the story of Liszt’s early years, and his…

  • Tosca by Giacomo Puccini

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    As part of the 2019 Aix-en-Provence Opera Festival, filmmaker Christophe Honoré delivers an innovative staging of Giacomo Puccini’s famous drama. His cleverly staged “opera within the opera” is a melancholy homage to the fascinating figure of the diva, who thrives on art and love and upsets the laws of time and death.

  • Nodame Cantabile

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    When a classically trained young conductor meets a free-spirited pianist at music school, their romance and their music have a hard time harmonizing.

  • Sur le bout des doigts

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    A piano prodigy nurtures her gift under the watchful eye of her mom, but soon struggles to cope with pressure and expectations.

  • Eroica

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    British filmmaker Simon Cellan Jones directs the BBC drama Eroica, starring Ian Hart as Ludwig van Beethoven. Shot on digital video, this TV film depicts the first performance of Beethoven’s Third Symphony, June 9th, 1804, in Vienna, Austria. Prince Lobkowitz (Jack Davenport) has invited friends to listen to Beethoven conduct his new symphony for the…

  • The Beat That My Heart Skipped

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    A ruthless real estate agent discovers a passion for piano and auditions with help from a young virtuoso, but the pressures of his corrupt career threaten to derail his musical aspirations.

  • Four Minutes

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    Jenny is young. Her life is over. She killed someone. And she would do it again. When an 80-year-old piano teacher discovers the girl’s secret, her brutality and her dreams, she decides to transform her pupil into the musical wunderkind she once was.

  • Copying Beethoven

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    A fictionalised exploration of Beethoven’s life in his final days working on his Ninth Symphony. It is 1824. Beethoven is racing to finish his new symphony. However, it has been years since his last success and he is plagued by deafness, loneliness and personal trauma. A copyist is urgently needed to help the composer. A…

  • Shall We Kiss?

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    When Gabriel and Emilie meet by chance, he offers her a ride, and they spend the evening talking, laughing and getting along famously. At the end of the night, Emilie declines Gabriel’s offer of “a kiss without consequences”. Emilie admonishes him that the kiss could have unexpected consequences, and tells him a story, unfolding in…

  • Classic Albums: Frank Zappa – Apostrophe (‘) Over-Nite Sensation

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    This episode focuses on Zappa’s early 70s albums, Overnight Sensation (1973) and Apostrophy (‘) (1974). Together they encapsulate Zappa’s extraordinary musical diversity and were also the 2 most commercially successful albums that he released in his prolific career. Included are interviews, musical demonstrations, rare archive & home movie footage, plus live performances to tell the…

  • The Piano Forest

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    Shuhei Amamiya transfers to Moriwaki Elementary filled with hope and ambition. But it doesn’t take long before he gets picked on by the class bullies, and gets involved in a dare to play the mysterious piano in the forest. Igniting his meeting with an equally enigmatic child, Kai Ichinose, who seems to be the only…

  • The Eye

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    Violinist Sydney Wells was accidentally blinded by her sister Helen when she was five years old. She submits to a cornea transplantation, and while recovering from the operation, she realizes that she is seeing dead people.

  • Nodame Cantabile: The Movie I

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    Chiaki is an aspiring conductor who faces the challenge of leading an orchestra which is made up of substitutes. Nodame gives her support to her beloved as she works hard towards achieving her dream to pass a promotion exam at their music conservatory. Will Chiaki be able to revive a broken down orchestra and launch…