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Rental > Classical Music: 97 Films to Rent on DVD
Great Composers - Volume 2 (Beethoven, Wagner) (2001)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Jill Marshall, Kriss Rusmanis
- Excellent BBC series gives a substantial insight into its selected classical composers, combining biographical narrative with musical–analysis…
Great Composers - Volume 3 (Tchaikovsky, Puccini, Mahler) (2001)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Simon Broughton, Chris Hunt, Kriss Rusmanis
- Excellent BBC series gives a substantial insight into its selected classical composers, combining biographical narrative with musical–analysis…
Piano Teacher, The (2001)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Michael Haneke
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, Benoit Magimel
- Isabelle Huppert gives the bravest and possibly best performance of her career as a brittle, imbalanced music teacher in a drama that might prove too…
Song for Martin, A (2001)
- Dir. Bille August
Feat. Sven Wollter, Reine Brynolfsson
- Touching drama of a composer and concertmaster who fall in love through classical music, only to battle the effects of Alzheimer's.
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Taking Sides (2001)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Istvan Szabo
Feat. Harvey Keitel, Stellan Skarsgard, Moritz Bleibtreu
- The ambiguities of Germany during the Nazi era are interrogated with skill in this taut examination of the case of famed classical conductor Dr…
Howard Goodall's Big Bangs (TV Series) (2000)![Aro Favourite Aro Favourite](/img/arofavsm.gif)
- Feat. Howard Goodall
- Presented by affable Brit maestro, Howard Goodall (whose own notable works include the theme tunes to Blackadder and Mr. Bean), this enlightening,…
Enrico Caruso: Voice of the Century (1998)
- Biographical documentary exploring the life of the Italian operatic tenor, filmed in Naples and featuring Placido Domingo, Beverly Sills, and Luciano…
Hilary and Jackie (1998)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Anand Tucker
Feat. Emily Watson, Rachel Griffiths
- Musical biopic buoyed by a quite fascinating subject – prodigious English Cellist Jacqueline Du Pre – adapted from the controversial…
Red Violin, The (1998)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Francois Girard
Feat. Samuel L. Jackson, Jason Flemyng, Greta Scacchi
- The contemporary auction of a prized antique violin becomes another suspenseful, passionate chapter in its lifespan as we learn of its 300 year…
Richter, The Enigma (1998)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Bruno Monsaingeon
- Lengthy biography of the supremely expressive Russian pianist Sviatoslav Richter, who only emerged from behind the Iron Curtain in the late 1950s.…