On the silver screen: Classical music in film
The history of film is hardly imaginable without music. Even silent films were accompanied by a live piano or orchestra, and in the sound film era, the combination of image and music remained a central element of this art form. Our playlist brings together works of Classical music that were used to particularly impressive effect in well-known films.
Recommended for you
- Philharmoniker premieres: Music of our time
- Bernard Haitink and the Berliner Philharmoniker
- Grand Opera with the Berliner Philharmoniker
- English music with the Berliner Philharmoniker
- A soprano’s perspective: Anna Prohaska’s favourites
- Johannes Brahms I: Symphonies, Concertos, Deutsches Requiem
- The magic of dance: Ballet music with the Berliner Philharmoniker
- “Unanswered Questions”: Musical Modernism between 1910 and 1920
- Igor Stravinsky in his works
- Mariss Jansons and the Berliner Philharmoniker
