Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Music > Classical Music: 72 Films to Rent
- Yo-Yo Ma - Inspired by Bach Vol. 1 (1997)
- Dir. Kevin McMahon, Francois Girard
- Cellist Yo–Yo Ma’s celebrated musical exploration of Bach’s enigmatic solo cello suites, prompted six films, attempting to complement the…
- Yo-Yo Ma - Inspired by Bach Vol. 2 (Falling Down Stairs / Sarabande) (1997)
- Dir. Barbara Willis Sweete, Atom Egoyan
Feat. Arsinee Khanjian, Don McKellar
- Cellist Yo–Yo Ma’s celebrated musical exploration of Bach’s enigmatic solo cello suites, prompted six films, attempting to complement the…
- Yo-Yo Ma - Inspired by Bach Vol. 3 (1997)
- Dir. Niv Fichman, Patricia Rozema
- Cellist Yo–Yo Ma’s celebrated musical exploration of Bach’s enigmatic solo cello suites, prompted six films, attempting to complement the…
- Leaving Home (TV Series) (Orchestral Music in the 20th Century) (1996)
- The famed conductor Sir Simon Rattle here presents an accessible guide to the challenging classical music traditions of the 20th…
- Transformation of the World Into Music (1996)
- Dir. Werner Herzog
- Werner Herzog, indulging in a love of opera, turns his documentary eye on the Richard Wagner Festival, capturing the pulse of the annual event, and…
- Farinelli (1995)
- Dir. Gerard Corbiau
Feat. Stefano Dionisi, Enrico Lo Verso, Elsa Zylberstein
- Il Castrato – less a freak of nature than of anatomical subtraction. This flamboyant biopic freely interprets the illustrious musical and…
- Gesualdo - Death for Five Voices (1995)
- Dir. Werner Herzog
- A sharp, sometimes unflattering profile of 16th century composer Don Carol Gesualdo, with dir. Herzog dividing his time between the artist's sexual…
- 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould (1994)
- Dir. Francois Girard
- Built out of 32 disparate fragments, this quasi–doco on the Canadian pianist is fittingly tailored to its difficult and elusive subject,…
- Remembering Jacqueline Du Pre (1994)
- Dir. Christopher Nupen
- Official doco on the renowned cellist suffers from a sanctimonious voice–over. Still, the best record of this talent with interviews and…
- Verdi - La Traviata (1994)
- A 1994 staging of the Verdi opera with Georg Solti conducting the Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, and Angela Gheorghiu, Frank Lopardo…