Rhapsody Rabbit

Rhapsody Rabbit 1946

7.16

When Bugs Bunny attempts to perform Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody, he is troubled by a mouse.

1946

Mozart's Sister

Mozart's Sister 2024

1

For the first 18 years of her life, Mozart’s sister shared equal billing with her brother. Musical partners and collaborators, Wolfgang Mozart and Maria-Anna Mozart played together before Kings and Queens, and were the talk of Europe. What happened to her? Forced into retirement by age 16 because she was a woman, a stunning new investigation explores why she was retired against her will and the explosive theory: did Maria-Anna Mozart continue to compose in secret?

2024

Glenn Gould: Extasis

Glenn Gould: Extasis 1993

1

A collection of recollections and opinions of and about Glenn Gould, interspersed with excerpts of archive footage of the great Canadian pianist speaking and playing.

1993

The Winners

The Winners 1999

1

A searching, melancholy Dutch documentary about the lives of four classical musicians who won the prestigious Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, a victory that did not prove a guaranteed ticket to the top of the classical music world.

1999

Maurizio Pollini: De main de maître

Maurizio Pollini: De main de maître 2014

1

A unique film portrait of the famous Italian pianist. Maurizio Pollini felt himself that the time had come to submit to the probing of the camera, an exercise made all the more necessary because of his usual avoidance of the public eye.

2014

Artur Rubinstein: The Legendary Moscow Recital

Artur Rubinstein: The Legendary Moscow Recital 1964

1

Arthur Rubinstein's 1964 recital in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, filmed and recorded by Soviet television and preserved in its archives, in a program of work of Chopin and — in encores introduced from the stage by Rubinstein — Schumann, Chopin, Debussy, and Villa-Lobos.

1964

Albert Cano Smit: Fondation Louis Vuitton

Albert Cano Smit: Fondation Louis Vuitton 2019

1

Recital by pianist Albert Cano Smit at the Fondation Louis Vuitton auditorium, 15 February 2019, in a program of works by Bach, Ligeti, Beethoven, Scriabin, and Schumann.

2019

Martin James Bartlett: Fondation Louis Vuitton

Martin James Bartlett: Fondation Louis Vuitton 2019

1

A recital by concert pianist Martin James Bartlett on 25 October 2019 at the Louis Vuitton auditorium in Paris, performing works by Bach (arr. Busoni, Hess), Mozart, Schumann (arr. Liszt), Liszt, Granados, Prokofiev, and encores by Gershwin and Schumann. Part of the Fondation Louis Vuitton's "new generation" recital series.

2019

Evgeny Kissin: The Gift of Music

Evgeny Kissin: The Gift of Music 1999

8.00

Evgeny Igorevich Kissin was born in Moscow on the 10th of October 1971. He started to play the piano at the age of two, as soon as he was tall enough to reach the keyboard and he has not looked back from that day to this. His is a very rare story of continued success that has had the simultaneous blessing of critics, the public and musicians alike. This film by Christopher Nupen shows Kissin in preparation, interview, rehearsal and performance, with several dazzling performances shot live on stage, in true concert conditions. It also contains all the encores from Kissin's memorable Promenade concert at the Royal Albert Hall, London, in August, 1997—the first Prom concert by a soloist, it attracted the biggest audience in all the 103 year history, very nearly six thousand people. The music is by Liszt, Gluck, Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Paganini, Kissin himself and Chopin, the composer for whom Kissin feels the closest affinity.

1999

Matthew Kennedy: One Man's Journey

Matthew Kennedy: One Man's Journey 2007

9.00

A documentary on the life of Matthew Kennedy, one of the first internationally acclaimed African American concert pianists, and former director of the Fisk Jubilee Singers of Nashville, Tennessee. The film contains footage of interviews with Dr. Kennedy, live performances, radio broadcasts, studio recordings, and interviews with his former students and colleagues. Born in the segregated South in 1921, Matthew Kennedy was known throughout his home state of Georgia as a child-prodigy. At age 12 he attended a concert given by the famous Russian pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff in Macon, Georgia in 1932. Kennedy describes what he remembers of the concert from his perspective in the segregated balcony for “Colored.” He was also the star of his own radio show in the early 1930s. At that time, Kennedy's stage name on radio and in the cinema – where he played the organ to accompany the silent films – was “Sunshine.”

2007

Kids on the Slope

Kids on the Slope 2012

7.80

Two different students - a successful but aloof academic and a rebellious but kindhearted delinquent - form a friendship through their love for music.

2012