Chamber Music & Recitals

An outstanding recital by Ukrainian-Israeli-American pianist, live in Havana, Cuba

Macbeth DVD

The first film in the series keys on Dvorak's prophecy and explores it's present-day pertinence. In New York City and Spillville, Iowa, Dvorak boldly chose to regard African Americans and Native Americans as representative Americans. That decision was...

Hollywood's supreme film composer was a casualty of the standard narrative- as he himself was bitterly aware. Not only were his movie scores high creative accomplishments; Bernard Herrmann was a formidable- and formidably unfashionable- concert composer...

Steeped in nostalgia, in his Danbury childhood and the New England Transcendentalists with whom he profoundly identified, in the American experience of race which he absorbed from his Abolitionist grandparents, Ives used the past with consummate empathy...

If George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess- the highest creative achievement in American classical music- embodies a glorious (and controversial) fulfillment of Dvorak's prophecy, there also exists a buried lineage of exceptional compositions by Black composers...

No non-Western musical idiom has so impacted on the Western concert tradition as Indonesian gamelan, beginning with the Javanese Pavilion at the 1889 Paris Exposition: an epiphany. Sampling gamelan-inspired works by Debussy, Ravel, and McPhee, our film...

Buffeted by social and political currents, Copland can seem unmoored: a cork in a stream. He was politicized by the Depression- and by the example of Mexico, whose artists galvanized national identity and progressive thought. He wrote a prize-winning...

This DVD includes scenes from Moscow and the Golden Ring, the cluster of historic towns to the northeast of the city, including Vladimir, Suzdal, Rostov, and Zagorsk, and show the historic heart of Russia in winter and summer.

A tour of Salzburg, Vienna, Gmunden, Waldvirtel and Drosenberg set to three Serenades by Mozart including Eine kleine Nachtmusik.

Venices famous buildings and canals are seen with music by Corelli, Vivaldi, Torelli, Albinoni, and D. Scarlatti.

Most of the places visited reflect a spirit of calm and tranquility, although the glimpses of Venice dwell briefly on carnival revelers. Other scenes range from the Bavarian Chiemsee and the Swiss Engadin to the marshy tracts of the Camargue in the South.