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Benjamin Britten: A Time There was (2013)

Director

Tony Palmer

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 101 minutes), £12.99

Tony Palmer’s in-depth portrait of composer Benjamin Britten. The English Chamber Orchestra perform extracts from Britten’s works, including ‘The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra’, ‘Peter...

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Benjamin Britten: Peter Grimes (2012)

aka: Benjamin: Written on Skin

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 168 minutes), £24.99

An opera by Britten with a libretto by Montagu Slater from George Crabbe’s poem ‘Peter Grimes’, which appeared in his book, The Borough. The borough in the opera is a fictional village which shares...

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Britten: War Requiem (2012)

Subject

English language and literature; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 97 minutes), £29.99

2012 sees the 50th anniversary of Britten’s War Requiem and the building it was written for, Coventry Cathedral. The work combines the words of the Latin Mass for the Dead and poems by the First World War...

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Benjamin Britten (2018)

Subject

Music

Podcast series. Baritone and composer Roderick Williams discusses Benjamin Britten, a complex and often contradictory character, and one of the 20th century’s greatest opera composers. This is the second...

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Turn of the Screw, The (Opera) (2004)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 110 minutes), Subscription only

Benjamin Britten’s opera based on the Henry James novel about a governess who discovers that the house in which she lives and works is haunted by the evil spirits of two former employees, and that her two...

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Instruments of the Orchestra/Steps of the Ballet (1995 Video)

Subject

Dance; Music

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 45 min., 1995 sale: £9.95 (inclusive)

Two classic education films of the 1940s from the Crown Film Unit. INSTRUMENTS OF THE ORCHESTRA features Sir Malcolm Sargent and the London Symphony Orchestra and centres around specially composed music by...

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War Requiem (2008)

Director

Derek Jarman

Subject

English language and literature; History; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 89 minutes), £19.99

Based on the life of Wilfred Owen, the poet, who died in 1918, this film is a blend of Benjamin Britten’s music, Owen’s poetry and director Derek Jarman’s visuals. The film includes wartime footage...

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Norman Conquest, The (1982 Video)

Director

Colin Grimshaw

Producer

Kathleen Burk

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 28 min., 1997 sale: £14.95 (+VAT +p&p) (World Microfilms)

Professor H R Loyn looks at the European and English contexts of the Norman conquest, at the organisations and military strengths of the Normans, and at the personalities involved. He describes the battle of...

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Instruments of the Orchestra (1946 Video)

aka: Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra

Subject

Music

Distribution

Out of Distribution, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 21 min.

Contains the Benjamin Britten composition ‘Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Purcell’ better known as ‘The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra’. Through the co-operation of the composer,...

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Maria Martin, Or Murder in the Red Barn (1999 Video)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

REFERENCE ONLY, Videocassette. col. 120 min.

Video recording using a single camera of a performance of ‘Maria Marten, or Murder in the Red Barn’ and Victorian Music Hall, directed by John Caird, recorded at the Britten Theatre in December 1999, and...

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