Your gateway to classical music

A way to enjoy classical music is through video clips which give more meaning and life to the music. We have curated some of these videos which will help you appreciate even more classical music while heard in conjunction with entertaining videos.

Salut Salon "Wettstreit zu viert" /"Competitive Foursome

Imagine a combination of classical music, jazz, and cool acrobatics and you have this video!

2Cellos: Vivaldi Storm

Playing music under the conditions that the music itself expresses enhances the feelings of the listeners and allows for greater integration with the music. The performance by 2Cellos of Vivaldi's Summer concerto under the thunderstorms is worth seeing not only for the quality of the playing but also for the video's visual effects.


Chili Claus and Classical Orchestra

Watch what happens when the whole Danish National Chamber Orchestra and conductor Claus Pilgaard eat the world's hottest chili peppers during a performance! A challenge for all musicians, but hilarious for the viewers. 









A chilling Winterreise in an operating room

A video where human emotion reaches its maximum! Watch how an opera singer, diagnosed with brain tumour, undergoes a craniotomy while he is awake, singing Schubert's "Gute Nacht" and speaking while he is being operated.



Yo Yo Ma: Bach Cello Suite No 1

This video by Yo Yo Ma became viral during the Covid pandemic, to heal the pain and comfort human suffering around the earth. Culture, and specifically music, connects all people as one. As Yo Yo Ma says: "The way we express ourselves and understand each other, can bind us together as one world."




Cremaine Booker & Tina Guo: Double Cello Concerto (Vivaldi)

Watch this beautifully arranged multi-screen video performance of Vivaldi's "Double Concerto" . The music is being performed by cellists Tina Guo and Cremaine Booker, where they seem to be having a conversation, although it gives the impression that there is a full orchestra playing.











Philarmonic Orchestra of Radio France: The Carnival of the Animals (Camille Saint Saëns)

This music, composed by Camille Saint Saëns in 1886, is a unique and humorous chamber music work, a kind of a joke parade of animal sounds and colors. The Orchestra of Radio France performed this piece and created an exciting animated video with animals also participating in the orchestra! The whole zoo on music action!  






NASA & National Symphony Orchestra Pops: Claire de Lune by Claude Debussy

This visualisation accompanies the famous music piece "Clair de Lune" by Claude Debussy, performed by the National Symphony Orchestra Pops. The music, sad and joyful at the same time, evokes a solitary walk under the moonlight. The video was created by NASA as part of NASA's celebration of 60 years, and follows the Moon throughout a lunar day, showing sunrises and sunsets over prominent features on the Moon.  

Sjællands Symfoniorkester: Flash mob in Copenhagen Metro ("Peer Gynt" by Grieg)

Watch this video where the passengers of the Copenhagen Metro were surprised by the Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra (Sjællands Symfoniorkester) playing Edvard Grieg's "Peer Gynt". All music was recorded and performed in the metro. See how the passengers' faces lit up when listening to this beautiful music and how the music created a bond among them.







SpaceX-Falling back to Earth with Blue Danube (Johann Strauss)

Watch this video recorded by a GoPro camera placed inside a Falcon 9 (a two-stage rocket that transports satellites into orbit) flight in space, capturing some spectacular views on its way back to earth! 


Vikingur Olafsson: Bach Organ Sonata No 4 BWV 528

The pianist Vikingur Olafsson has made an interesting musical video which makes Bach's Organ Sonata No 4 BWV 528 even more captivating, suggesting the beginning of a new world, a world of hope, beauty and truth. Olafsson's technique in interpreting this piece is extraordinary, giving you the impression of 3 dimensional music. A transcending music, especially when listened to with the video. 

Schwizgebel: Erlkönig (Schubert)

Full of drama and tension, the music expresses Goethe’s poem of the same title, depicting the death of a child. The story depicts a father carrying home horseback his moriband young son through a wintry forest. The child is having visions of the Erl-King, a terrible and evil supernatural being who wants to take the boy away to his kingdom by promising him amusement, rich clothes and the attentions of his daughters while the father is trying to outrace the demon and get help for his child. The father comforts the boy by telling him that what he sees and hears is just a trick a of his imagination from the sounds and sights of nature. At the end, the child tells his father that the Erl King has declared that he would take him by force and the father gallops faster. Upon reaching their destination, the child is already dead. Watch this video which shows the story of the music. 

OLJA: The Swan (Camille Saint Saens)

A fairy tale video which gives life to Camille Saint Saens' masterpiece "The Swan",  travels you to other times and distant places and fuels your imagination!

Beethoven's Symphony 7 Allegretto in various films and TV series

A very interesting compilation of scenes using this magnificent and dramatic music as background.