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The invention of the sunken fence or ‘ha-ha’ set designers free to harmonise the surrounding countryside with the garden, while loosening up the regularity of previous gardens. Locations include a...
Radio broadcast. Act I of Verdi’s opera, relayed from Covent Garden, London.
The BUFVC Gateway includes over 1,000 websites relating to moving image and sound materials. These have been subdivided into over 40 subject areas.Visit the Moving Image Gateway at: bufvc.ac.uk/gateway/. To...
Explores the garden of Rousham House, Oxfordshire, designed by William Kent. Gardens in the late 17th century had been formal in design, in imitation of French examples such as Versailles. In the early 18th...
Looks at the influence of Dutch, French and Italian styles after the Restoration. Walls of trees and hedges became the vogue as did the use of statues and terracing. There was much interest in exotic plants...
With the variety and growth of suburban gardens, a gardener could create his own make-believe world, and with Chinese, Egyptian, rhododendron and rock gardens, and this is what he did. The surrounding...
Radio broadcast. Act II of Gounod’s opera, relayed from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. No further information known (1/2008).
After World War I loss of confidence set in. Ideas were adapted from the past and people became more immediately concerned with collecting as many species and hybrids as possible. Immediacy was all and...
Under the reign of George III there was a revival of interest in English gothic with mock castles and ruins becoming the central feature for many landscape gardens. Buildings such as follies and treehouses...
Act I of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Falstaff, relayed from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, conducted by Tullio Serafin.
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