Trip to Asia: The Quest for Harmony (2008)
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.
Featured Crew
| Thomas Grube | Director |
| René Dame | Director of Photography |
| Alberto Venzago | Director of Photography |
| Anthony Dod Mantle | Director of Photography |
| Martin Hoffmann | Editor |
| Simon Stockhausen | Sound Designer |
| Uwe Dierks | Producer |
| Thomas Grube | Producer |
| Andrea Thilo | Producer |
| Alan Yentob | Producer |
