Movies: Piano

Hamza (17) is a religious boy who grew up in Qur'an courses under the pressure of religion since his childhood. One evening, piano sounds rise from the open window of a house in an alley that he entered unknowingly. Hamza admires the sound of the pia...

A recording of Horowitz's historic 1986 recital in Moscow, the program also includes highlights of his return to his native Soviet Union--his first visit in 61 years....

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,...

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A musical fantasia on religion and the nature of exploitation....

A young man returns to his family home after two years of absence spent studying and traveling. He remembers his departure when he kissed his grandmother Lucie and his sister Emmanuelle on the steps. Today the house is empty, he sits down at the pian...

A feature-length independent documentary that follows the creation of a Steinway concert grand, #L1037- from forest floor to concert hall....

Melbhattan. Melbhattan is part homage, part pastiche of the opening sequence of Woody Allen's seminal 1979 film Manhattan. Melbhattan features more than sixty black and white tableaux of Melbourne each composed to mimic images in Allen's film....

A piano player is able to perform a Chopin piece backwards and Galeta will film it backwards and forwards creating four different variations of a movement bound to time....

A student at a prestigious music academy struggles to recreate a piece of sheet music stolen by an egocentric professor. After given just 2 hours to complete this task, he experiences the highs and lows of this process as it alters the way he thinks ...

Samuel, a piano student, enters a piano competition. At a party, he meets Camilo, a carefree guy. Camilo will inspire Samuel to play his instrument in a different way... That journey will make him discover more important values....

Robots live alongside mankind in a not too distant future, but are they really living?...

Calvin Lenox's 'The Door at the End of the Hall' follows a young musician through a dream of his in which he hears a mysterious song that seems to be coming from behind a locked door at the end of a hallway. Things start to fall into place when a st...

Composer and pianist Blaz Gaber lives only for his music and does not want to know anything about the outside world, where the war is raging. Upon his arrival from his poorly attended concert, he finds himself in prison for having stars drawn in his ...

A widow grieves, discovers her deceased spouse's secret, and builds a relationship with a talented boy who used to play the violin with her husband in a local bar....

Vladimir Horowitz's piano recital in 1987 at the Musikvereinssaal in Vienna....

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One of the highlights of Simon Rattle’s 16-year tenure as chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic was his final cycle of the Beethoven symphonies (BPHR160091), a set that rightly walked off with the 2016 Limelight Orchestral Recording of the Year....

This Emmy-nominated TV special highlights rare performance footage filmed between 1968 and 1969 at various US venues and locations, including the Westbury Music Fair, The Village Gate, and RCA Studios in New York City. Also featured are candid and pe...