Trip to Asia: The Quest for Harmony (2008)

overview : 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.

Release Date : Feb 28, 2008

Runtime : 1h 48m

Genre : Documentary  

Companies : ZDF, BoomtownMedia, BBC

Countries : Germany

Keywords : berlin, germany, concert, shanghai, china, asia, orchestra, travel, hong kong