The Promise of Music

A documentary about the legendary Japanese filmmaker.

When Chizuru joins as a teacher at Umega High School, she hears an amateur orchestra perform. Reminiscing her old days of playing the violin, she decides to enroll in one.

An unbaptized woman is killed because of the regressive mentality existing in the mountains of northern Albania.

A satirical anthology film transforms popular humorous and sarcastic stage songs into standalone vignettes that lampoon the absurdities of bureaucratic officials and the liberal attitudes that were systematically targeted and suppressed in that era.

Iggy Pop’s ‘explosive performance’ (NME) at the revered Montreux Jazz Festival in 2023 is now available to see and hear in all its ‘vital and dangerous’ (CLASH) glory as Iggy Pop ‘Live at Montreux Jazz Festival 2023’ is released everywhere today in both physical and digital formats. On July 6th, 2023 Iggy Pop returned to the iconic event backed by a seven-piece band (including horn section) and thrilled a capacity Stravinski Auditorium crowd. The career-spanning set includes tracks from his time with The Stooges, his Idiot and Lust for Life albums, New Values leading up to his recent release Every Loser (which reached Top 10 sales charts across Europe).

Arturo Urbiola, independent singer/songwriter, talks about the influence music has had on his life, it's impact, and what's in store for his artistic career after becoming a father.

Halit Berati, a virtuoso clarinet player, is invited by the Italians to record his music, which is to be sold along Italian records.

In 1936, two female artists (a singer and a pianist) visit the city of Lushnja, which was very conservative.

Conductivity is a film about creative leadership told through the story of three young conductors at the prestigious Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland; I-Han Fu (Taiwan), Emilia Hoving (Finland) and James Kahane (France). When stepping on the podium, they are put under a magnifying glass. Conductor training, in essence, is leadership training. The film gives a unique viewpoint to follow the students, as this is the first film about conductor training at the Sibelius Academy.

This special aims to commemorate and celebrate Clapton's groundbreaking unplugged performance, offering fans both a theatrical experience and a streaming option to revisit this historic musical event.

BoA FIRST LIVE TOUR 2003 -VALENTI- is BoA's second Japanese DVD. It contains songs from her album second album VALENTI and also songs from the her first album LISTEN TO MY HEART. The concert was recorded on the last day of the tour at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo.

Blur playing two hits, in less than 10 minutes

Suisei will hold her solo concert at Japan’s prestigious Nippon Budokan on February 1, 2025, fulfilling her dream as an idol from her debut.

Journey with the musicians of the Berlin Philharmonic and their conductor Sir Simon Rattle on a breakneck concert tour of six metropolises across Asia: Beijing, Seoul, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taipei and Tokyo. Their artistic triumph onstage belies a dynamic and dramatic life backstage. The orchestra is a closed society that observes its own laws and traditions, and in the words of one of its musicians is, “an island, a democratic microcosm – almost without precedent in the music world - whose social structure and cohesion is not only founded on a common love for music but also informed by competition, compulsion and the pressure to perform to a high pitch of excellence... .” Never before has the Berlin Philharmonic allowed such intimate and exclusive access into its private world.

The struggles of a group of outcasts living in "Yentown", in an alternate-future Japan.

The B-52's recorded live at the 1982 US Festival.

Aus dem Takt

Explore the secrets of the universe with Professor Brian Cox in this special event that combines ground-breaking science with the power of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.

Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts his old band back together to save the Catholic home where he and his brother Elwood were raised.

Clark Terry has been described as 'possessor of the happiest sound in jazz'. A veteran of Duke Ellington's orchestra, he began to perform as a soloist in the sixties and established a reputation as one of the great teachers of jazz music, which continues to the present day. In this performance from 1977, he is joined by an all star band including Oscar Peterson, Ronnie Scott, Niels Pedersen, Joe Pass, Bobby Durnham and Milt Jackson.