Award-winning production of documentary films
Fugue State Films makes engaging, and engrossing films about classical music for the discerning viewer. Our films are available digitally or in beautifully-produced multi-DVD boxsets.
Our films such as The Genius of Cavaillé-Coll, Maximum Reger and Bach and Expression have garnered excellent reviews, our favourite being: “You should buy this set. Mortgage your house, sell your relatives into slavery, but get it!” (Musicweb International).
We have won best DVD in the BBC Music Magazine Awards twice, the Deutschen Schallplattenkritikpreis three times, and we even made the six o’clock news in New Zealand.
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Lighten Our Darkness: Illuminating Choral Evensong
£95.00 – £2,400.00An exploration and celebration of one of the oldest forms of worship used around the world, this documentary goes behind the words and music and looks at how and why Choral Evensong continues to be the mainstay of Anglican daily worship in many cathedrals and large churches.
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Bach: The Great Toccata
£28.50 – £2,000.00Bach is arguably the greatest of all composers, and certainly the greatest composer who wrote for the organ. Daniel Moult, explores the extraordinary Toccata and Fugue in D minor, an instantly recognisable masterpiece that is one of the most popular pieces of music ever written.
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Crowdfund Now! Olivier Messiaen and the Organ – filming to start on January 29th, 2024!
£38.00 – £2,000.00Please prebuy this multi-disc boxset from Fugue State Films. Tom Bell performs Messiaen's cycles including La Nativité, the Messe de la Pentecôte and the magisterial Livre du Saint-Sacrement in its entirety at Blackburn Cathedral. In an accompanying documentary Tom explores Messiaen's life and compositions with biographer and scholar Christopher Dingle. We shall also film Thomas Lacôte, Carolyn Shuster-Fournier and Loïc Mallié at the organ at Messiaen's church in Paris, La Trinité.
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Cloister – a Novel by Will Fraser
£30.00 – £1,750.00Will Fraser's first novel: Matthew, an ambitious assistant organist is in conflict with his lazy director of music, an unworthy boss. While Matthew strives to excel in this uneasy milieu, he is further destabilised by the thrilling attractions of Chloë, a blues singer. This relationship involves him in the resolution of a homicide … but has the murderer returned?
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Bach’s Missing Pages – Buy DVD
£34.50In seven thirty-minute films Sietze de Vries performs the entire Orgelbüchlein, demonstrates the organs at the Martinikerk in Groningen and the Petruskerk in Leens, improvises 45 new chorale preludes in the style of Bach, discusses the philosophy of improvisation, and demonstrates how to improvise according to the techniques Bach uses in his great collection of chorale preludes. For the first time on film we can glimpse the enormous scale of Bach's vision for his Orgelbüchlein. All performances are also presented on two CDs.
