Leonard Bernstein Movies

Concert performance of Bernstein's Candide, with additional connecting texts by Loriot (Vicco von Bülow). The world is absurd, and no one...

The classic musical by Bernstein, Comden and Green is performed live in concert in Berlin, starring Audra McDonald, Thomas Hampson, Brent Barrett and...

Leonard Bernstein conducts three symphonies by Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no. 3 in E flat major, op 55 ('Eroica'), Symphony no. 4 in B flat...

Can a work of art remain relevant 200 years after its creation? Ludwig van Beethoven’s last completed symphony proves it’s possible.

A piano duel between composers, masters and students in a musical performance that, through the active participation of the audience called upon to...

Leornard Bernstein conducts the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, first with pianist Glenn Gould performing Bach's Keyboard Concerto #1 in D minor and...

In a pair of passionate performances, American composer Leonard Bernstein conducts the New York Philharmonic in Tchaikovsky's Symphony no. 4 and...

Karel Gott and his band sing songs in a natural Slovak scenery, without accompanying words or connecting story.

With a keen sensitivity to the demands and specificities of the American “musical”, and after the triumph of Sondheim’s Follies in...

This television essay from 1985 was written by Leonard Bernstein to commemorate the 125th anniversary of Gustav Mahler's birth. Recorded in Israel,...

A portrait of one of England's greatest composers. Winner of the Prix Italia.

That year, political tensions between the two enemy states had eased, and the aim was to deepen their cultural relationship. This event became a...

"The Rite of Spring is all about sex and reproduction. This is a beastly music brought to the highest, most refined point."

This series comprised six lectures on music, which cumulatively took the title of a work by Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question. Bernstein drew...