Overview

Join renowned violinist Scott Yoo in Now Hear This, a new four-part documentary miniseries that merges music, storytelling, and travel, as he chases the secret histories of some of the greatest music ever written.

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54 min PBS Returning Series TV-PG US EN Documentary

Episodes

• E01 Something Completely Different20. 09. 2019
• E02 The Riddle of Bach27. 09. 2019
• E03 Man Out of Time04. 10. 2019
• E04 Italian Style11. 10. 2019

Overview

Join Scott Yoo, star violinist and conductor, for more unexpected stories of our greatest composers including Haydn, Schubert, and Mozart; more spectacular journeys through Europe, the US and Canada; more breathtaking photography, locations and sound; and more unforgettable performances from some of today's leading musicians.

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54 min PBS Returning Series TV-PG US EN Documentary

Episodes

• E01 The King of Strings18. 09. 2020
• E02 The Schubert Generation25. 09. 2020
• E03 Becoming Mozart02. 10. 2020
• E04 Beethoven's Ghost09. 10. 2021

Overview

In this special American Edition of Now Hear This, celebrated violinist and conductor Scott Yoo crosses the country, exploring the diversity of American musicians, cultures and landscapes to discover how our regional and ethnic music has inspired America’s greatest composers: Amy Beach, Florence Price, Aaron Copland and two of today’s masters, Sergio Assad and Reena Esmail.

Details

54 min PBS Returning Series TV-PG US EN Documentary

Episodes

• E01 Amy Beach, American Romantic08. 04. 2022
• E02 Florence Price and the American Migration15. 04. 2022
• E03 Dean of American Music29. 04. 2022
• E04 New American Voices06. 05. 2022

Overview

Conductor and violinist Scott Yoo is on the road. Join him in Buenos Aires to learn the tango and Piazzolla’s conflicted relationship with it. In Scotland and Germany, explore the connection between mental health and creativity, in Schumann and other artists. In New York, meet a composer pointing classical in a new direction. And in Spain, discover the breathtaking musical portraits of Albeniz.

Details

54 min PBS Returning Series TV-PG US EN Documentary

Episodes

• E01 Piazzolla’s History with Tango14. 04. 2023
• E02 Genius and Madness21. 04. 2023
• E03 Andy Akiho Found (his) Sound
• E04 Portraits of Spain

Overview

Travel with Scott Yoo, Mexico City Philharmonic chief conductor, on a voyage of musical discovery as he travels the world to explore the greatest music ever written, from the Baroque to the present. Meet incredible musical prodigies, great virtuosos in may art forms, revered maestros like Yo-Yo Ma, and get an inside look at the challenges of composing, as Scott writes his very first work.

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54 min PBS Returning Series TV-PG US EN Documentary

Episodes

• E01 Rising Stars12. 04. 2024
• E02 Virtuosos19. 04. 2024
• E03 Old Friends26. 04. 2024
• E04 The Composer Is Yoo03. 05. 2024

Overview

Join Scott Yoo as he travels the world to explore some of the greatest music ever written. All of the composers in Season Six are expats or exiles--their music inspired equally by nostalgia for a homeland they couldn’t return to, and new friendships, ideas and opportunities in new places. Their careers were marked by loss and longing, but ultimately renewal and redemption. From Great Performances.

Details

54 min PBS Returning Series TV-PG US EN Documentary

Episodes

• E01 Chopin’s Polish Heart11. 04. 2025
• E02 Boccherini: Night Music18. 04. 2025
• E03 Rachmaninoff Reborn25. 04. 2025
• E04 Barrios: Chopin of the Guitar02. 05. 2025

Overview

Scott Yoo, violinist and conductor of the Mexico City Philharmonic, explores the lives and works of Johannes Brahms and Scott Joplin, two celebrated composers whose careers did not go as planned, alongside the music scene of two major musical epicenters: Istanbul and Iceland. From Great Performances.

Details

54 min PBS Returning Series TV-PG US EN Documentary

Episodes

• E01 Brahms: Free But Alone10. 04. 2026
• E02 Episode 217. 04. 2026
• E03 Episode 324. 04. 2026
• E04 Episode 401. 05. 2026