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Piano Notes with Ronald Brautigam (2013)

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 83 minutes), £9.99

Ronald Brautigam, internationally respected musician, presents a history of piano music. Brautigam discusses and performs a specific piano piece from composers including Scarlatti, JS Bach, Haydn,...

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Edison: The Father of Invention (2015)

Subject

Science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 112 minutes), £14.99

Born on the threshold of Americas burgeoning industrial empire, Edisons curiosity led him to its cutting edge. With just three months of formal schooling, he took on one seemingly impossible technical...

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Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity

Director

Tim Usborne

Producer

Steve Crabtree

Subject

History; Science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £41.99

Three programmes telling the story of electricity and the history of its discovery and applications. The first programme SPARK, is about the very first scientists who studied electricity. Known as ‘natural...

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Mendelssohn’s Dream (1978 Television)

Series

Open University A101

Producer

Robert Philip

Open University programme made to support the A101 Arts Foundation course. The programme shows how Weber’s ‘Der Freischutz’ and ‘Oberon’ influenced Mendelssohn when he came to write the Overture...

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Early Romantic Era Program Music (1995 Audio, Video)

Series

Concert Masterworks

Lecture by Professor Robert Greenberg of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. In programme four of the series Professor Greenberg lectures on Felix Mendelssohn’s Incidental Music, op. 61 and Overture...

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Verdi’s Macbeth (2021 Radio)

Series

Opera on 3

Director

Phyllida Lloyd; Daniel Dooner

Radio broadcast of this 2021 revival (directed by Daniel Dooner) of Phyllida Lloyd’s 2002 production of Verdi’s Macbeth. Simon Keenlyside stars in the title role, with Anna Pirozzi as Lady Macbeth. The...

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Macbeth (1997 Radio)

aka: Royal Opera Verdi Festival: Macbeth

Live recording of Verdi’s opera with Anthony Michaels-Moore and Georgina Lukacs as the Macbeths. Edward Downes conducts the Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

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Verdi’s Macbeth (2009 Radio)

Series

Opera on 3

Radio broadcast of a concerto version of Verdi’s Macbeth with Lado Ataneli in the title role, alongside Susan Neves as Lady Macbeth. The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the Edinburgh Festival Chorus...

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Inventors of the World Series (12 Parts) (2003)

Subject

Technology

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 12 x 23 minutes), £29.95 each

Each programme in the series examines the process of invention through some of the monumental accomplishments of one the world’s greatest inventors and their landmark contributions. Explains that no one...

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BBC Proms 2007 (2007 Radio)

aka: Prom 15

Glyndebourne Opera’s performance of Verdi’s Macbeth broadcast live from the Royal Albert Hall in London. Polish lyric baritone Andrzej Dobber (Macbeth) leads an international cast that is directed by...

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