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Classical Music Documentaries on DVD



Arnold Schoenberg (2003) UMDVD 3502
1 DVDs (27 min.), edited by Marie-France Cuenot

The Art of Conducting: Legendary Conductors of a Golden Era (1997) UMDVD 1850
1 DVD (115 min.), directed by Peter R. Smith

The Art of Piano: A Film (1999) UMDVD 917
1 DVD (108 min.), directed by Donald Sturrock

The Art of Violin: The Devil’s Instrument, Transcending the Violin (2001) UMDVD 836
1 DVD (113 min.), written and directed by Bruno Monsaingeon

Chronik der Anna Magdalena Bach (2005) UMDVD 2282
1 DVD (93 min.), music by Johann Sebastian Bach, directed by Daničle Huillet und Jean-Marie Straub

Copeland and the American Sound (2006) UMDVD 4611
1 DVD, presented by Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony

Frederic Francois Chopin: A Life to Remember (2003) UMDVD 1725
2 DVDs (260 min.), performed by Alan Kogosowski, directed by Paul Barton

The History of Music (2005) UMDVD 4097
8 DVDs (200 min.), directed by Robert Willgoos

How to Listen to and Understand Great Music (1998) UMDVD 91
12 DVDs (180 min. each), written by Robert Greenberg

Keeping Score: MTT on Music (2004) UMDVD 4666
1 DVD, conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas, performed by the San Francisco Symphony

A Labyrinth of Time (2006) UMDVD 3266
1 DVD (90 min.), written and directed by Frank Scheffer

Leaving Home: Orchestral Music in the 20th Century: A Conducted Tour by Simon Rattle (1996) UMDVD 4590
7 DVDs (350 min.), directed by Peter West, Barrie Gavin, and Deborah May

Leonard Bernstein’s Young People’s Concerts (2004) UMDVD 1927
9 DVDs (1500 min.), directed by Roger Englander

Le Mozart Noir: Reviving a Legend (2005) UMDVD 2669
1 DVD (53 min.), directed by Raymond Saint-Jean

Music is Style (2000) UMDVD 3636
1 DVD (29 min.), directed by Clark Santee

Piano Works (2006) UMDVD 4747
1 DVD (225 min.), music by Joseph Haydn, performed by András Schiff, directed by Anna Mérei

Stravinsky's Rite of Spring (2006) UMDVD 4613
1 DVD, directed by Michael Tilson Thomas, performed by the San Francisco Symphony

The War Symphonies: Shostakovich Against Stalin (2005) UMDVD 4594
1 DVD (76 min.), produced by Niv Fichman

A Wayfarer’s Journey: Listening to Mahler (2007) UMDVD 4593
1 DVD (90 min.), produced, written and directed by Ruth Yorkin Drazen

What the Universe Tells Me: Unraveling the Mysteries of Mahler’s Third Symphony (2003) UMDVD 2381
2 DVDs (165 min.), directed by Jason Starr
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