Kultur La Guitarra: Classical Music Performance DVD ¹
Julian Bream is celebrated as one of the world's leading classical guitarists. He is featured in this series of eight 30-minute films, shot entirely on location in Spain, playing some of the finest pieces in the repertoire of the Spanish guitar. The program traces the evolution of the Spanish guitar over five centuries, from 1500 to the present day. Together, its music and history paint a rich portrait of Spain and her people. Bream plays in some of Spain's most magnificent old buildings and beautiful landscapes, creating through his performances a visual evocation of the culture, history and society that has given birth to the music. Seville, Toledo, Madrid, Barcelona and the Pyrenees -these and other locations form a vivid backdrop to his playing. Each program travels between Spain's past and present and includes a wealth of historical documentation -paintings, manuscripts, biographical sketches of composers, period instruments -as well as film of life in Spain today.For this series, Julian Bream asked the outstanding Spanish guitar maker, his long standing friend and colleague José Romanillos to make him a vihuela and a Baroque Spanish guitar and for the first time, he performs publicly on these instruments. In episode 4, he is joined by another master performer, Paco Peña, who plays Flamenco guitar and talks with Bream about its origins and meaning....details

Kultur Famous Composers Joseph Haydn DVD ¹
The Famous Composers Joseph Haydn DVD give you a concise overview of the composer's life and times, filmed on location in the cities and places that influenced their works. Also includes a detailed list of Haydn's most significant musical compositions....details

Kultur Famous Composers Wolfgang Mozart DVD ¹
The Famous Composers Wolfgang Mozart DVD is an insightful program that uncovers his character and explores the obstacles he overcame in trying to establish himself as an independent artist when musicians were still seen as servants to the rich and powerful. Mozart's years in Vienna (1781-91) were his most productive. There, he wrote his great masterpieces including opera Don Giovanni, The Magic Flute, the Jupiter Symphony, Quintet In G Minor and his last great work, the Requiem, which he composed just before his death at the age of thirty-five. The program concludes with a brief overview of Mozart's work that is useful to experienced music lovers and newcomers alike. The soundtrack features a selection of Mozart's compositions played by members of the Elysium Ensemble....details

Kultur Famous Composers Johann Sebastian Bach DVD ¹
The Famous Composers Series Johann Sebastian Bach DVD is a concise overview of the composer's life and times, filmed on location in the cities and places that influenced his works. Also included in a detailed list of Bach's most significant musical compositions....details

Kultur Famous Composers Ludwig Van Beethoven DVD ¹
The informative Famous Composers Series Ludvig Van Beethoven DVD program is a concise overview of the composer's life and times, filmed on location in the cities and places that influenced his works. Also included in a detailed list of Beethoven's most significant musical compositions....details

Kultur Alexander Markov: Paginini's 24 Caprices DVD ¹
This performance of one of the most challenging music scores in the violin repertory, Paganini's 24 Caprices, is by the internationally celebrated violinist, Alexander Markov, recorded in Reggio Emilia, Italy. It combines intense passion with extraordinary technical ability. Director Bruno Monsaingeon, himself a concert violinist, first heard Markov during a recital in New York entirely devoted to the Caprices and was left utterly dumbfounded....details