Movies: Humphrey Burton
- 1961
Antonio Gaudí (1961)
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A study of Antoni Gaudí's architecture (especially the Church of the Holy Trinity in Barcelona), his sources of inspiration and his influence on Picasso. (BFI)...
- 2000
Falstaff (2000)
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The Graham Vicks production of FALSTAFF opened the new Covent Garden Royal Opera House, and was not to everybody's taste; the garish primary colours of the costumes. The staging is effective--the complicated counterpoint of the ensembles is reflected...
- 2003
Vincent in Brixton (2003)
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Based on Nicholas Wright's 2002 play exploring the life of the young Vincent Van Gogh during a stay in Brixton, London in 1873. In the play, which is largely fictional, he falls in love with an English widow....
- 2002
The Return of Ulysses to his Homeland (2002)
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Claudio Monteverdi's operatic adaptation of this story from Homer's The Odyssey receives a modern and distinctive staging in this 2002 production directed by Humphrey Burton for Les Arts Florissants. Penelope Marijana Mijanovic is left to her own dev...
- 1965
The Golden Ring (1965)
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Watching the Vienna Philharmonic, Georg Solti, and a stellar cast record Wagner's immense Götterdämmerung for Decca in the fall of 1964 provides a thousand lessons in the art of working under pressure. For this classic documentary, The Golden Ring, a...
- 1985
Bach: St. John Passion (1985)
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Johannes-Passion St. John Passion Equiluz · Moser · Holl · Scharinger Soloists of the Tölzer Knabenchor Tölzer Knabenchor Concentus Musicus, Wien Nikolaus Harnoncourt Directed by Humphrey Burton...
- 1976
The Story of Pantomime (1976)
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This 1976 BBC documentary sees Ken Campbell (and his Roadshow) investigate the origins and the development of the traditional British Christmas pantomime....
- 1959
Gordon Jacob (1959)
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A portrait of the English composer Gordon Jacob....
- 1991
La Stupenda (1991)
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Dubbed ‘La Stupenda’ thirty years ago by an Italian critic, Dame Joan Sutherland and her husband Richard Bonynge talk at length about her distinguished singing career and their life together in opera. The film combines documentary, archival material ...
- 1987
Ivo Pogorelich: Bach, Scarlatti, Beethoven (1987)
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Pianist Ivo Pogorelich in a 1987 studio recital of works by Bach, Scarlatti, and Beethoven, recorded at historical palaces of Veneto Villa Caldogno in Vincenza and Eckartsau Castle in Lower Austria. The program consists of: BACH English Suites ##2,3 ...
- 2007
Bach The Cello Suites (2007)
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Johann Sebastian Bach composed his Six Suites for Solo Cello in the early 1720's. Unlike the Six Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, composed around the same time, there is no extant autograph manuscript. Only four copies exist, of which one made b...
- 1996
Lulu (1996)
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Alban Berg's black, satirical opera is one of the masterpieces of the 20th Century. It charts the rise and fall of a femme fatale "created to make trouble", from life as a society hostess to prostitution and eventual bloody death at the hands of Jack...
- 1994
Eugene Onegin (1994)
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The cynical young Onegin rejects Tatyana, a dreamy, bookish country girl. But Onegin lives to regret it when, years later, he re-encounters Tatyana, now a beautiful, worldly woman who has married into wealthy society. Tchaikovsky clothed this tale in...
- 2009
Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould (2009)
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A documentary on the mysterious and influential pianist....
- 1996
Merry Christmas from Vienna (1996)
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Christmas concert from Vienna...
- 1977
Leonard Bernstein conducts Stravinsky & Bach (1977)
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- 1987
Krystian Zimerman: Chopin/Schubert (1987)
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As one of the youngest winners ever in the International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition in 1975, Krystian Zimerman went on to an international career and has performed with all major orchestras and conductors. This 1987 film captures Zimerman at ...
- 1976
Bernstein Mahler Rehearsal (1976)
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"Four Ways to Say Farewell" is a personal introduction to Mahler and his Ninth Symphony, during which Leonard Bernstein is seen and heard rehearsing the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Filmed in 1971, this rehearsal was directed by Humphrey Burton,...
- 1985
The Making Of West Side Story (1985)
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A documentary which shows, in great detail, the making of the 1985 Bernstein-conducted recording of the entire score of "West Side Story", featuring operatic stars....
- 1991
The Very Strange Story of the Legendary Joe Meek (1991)
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Documentary about the influential pop composer and record producer Joe Meek, who died in dramatic circumstances in 1967 after a bizarre childhood and a career, often controversial, which spanned the period from the mid-50s to the rise of the Beatles ...