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Famous Composers (12 Parts) (1996 Video)

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 12 x 35 min., 1999 sale: £19.95 (+VAT inc. p&p) each

Lives and work of noted composers, set within the context of their respective ages, presented through the use of film, archive material, music and commentary. Music is performed by members of the Elysium...

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Mastersingers of Nuremberg, The (1989 Film, Video)

Subject

Music

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Excerpts of a production of Wagner’s grand opera ‘Die Meistersinger’, performed by the Bonn Opera Company.

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International Women’s Day Concert 2018 (2018)

aka: BBC Concert Orchestra and Jane Glover: International Women’s Day Concert

Subject

Music; Women’s studies

A group of academics spent 12 months tracking down the lost music of five forgotten women composers, who range from an 18th-century Viennese child prodigy to an award-winning African-American symphonist. All...

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Wagner’s Dream: The Making of the Metropolitan Opera’s New ‘Der Ring des Nibelungen’ (2012)

Director

Brian Large

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £14.99

This documentary by Susan Froemke follows theatre director Robert Lepage as he takes on opera’s most monumental challenge: a back-to-back production of Wagner’s epic Ring cycle, the four-part, 16-hour...

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Søren Kierkegaard (1994)

Director

Anne Regitze Wivel

Subject

Philosophy

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 157 minutes), 26.54 Euros

This film about Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855) features experts Paul Müller, Johannes Møllehave, Joakim Garff, Niels Barfoed, Jørgen Carlsen and Ole Morsing speaking about five major...

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Richard Wagner: Power, Sex and Revolution (Part 2) (2013)

Subject

History; Music

Two hundred years after the composer’s birth, journalist Paul Mason takes a fresh look at Wagner. In the second part of his journey through his music, Mason turns to the seemingly conventional world of a...

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Claverton Pump (1979 Video)

Director

Mark Price

Producer

N D C Harris

Subject

Archaeology; Technology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. U-matic. col. 15 min.

Describes the history and operation of the Claverton pumping engine, built in 1813 to pump water from the River Avon up to the Kennet and Avon canal near Bath. This was reputedly the largest water driven...

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Richard Wagner: Power, Sex and Revolution (Part 1) (2013)

Subject

History; Music

What’s really going on in Wagner? Two hundred years after the composer’s birth, journalist Paul Mason takes a fresh look at the man whose music has gripped him for as long as he can remember. The...

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