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African Sanctus Revisited (1995 Video)

Director

Herbert Chappell

Producer

Robin Lough

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 1998 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

Composer and explorer David Fanshawe’s choral work ‘African Sanctus’ is a setting of the Latin Mass incorporating traditional African music. This film presents a performance of the newly updated and...

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Persisting Dreams: Romanticism in Europe (1996 Video)

Producer

G D Jayalakshmi

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 49 min., 1998 sale: £195.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Tells the story of Byron as romantic hero - how he constructed himself and how he influenced later artists including the French painter Delacroix and the composer Giuseppi Verdi. Romanticism is thus shown as...

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Written on Skin (2012)

aka: Benjamin: Written on Skin

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 98 minutes), £24.99

A tale inspired by a medieval legend about an ill-fated troubadour, drawn into a liaison with an innocent maiden. But the couple are observed by the maiden’s jealous protector, who wreaks a shocking...

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Beatrice and Benedict (1998 Radio)

Series

Proms Composer of the Week: Berlioz

Radio broadcast. Roger Nichols examines Berlioz’s approach to his operatic adaptation of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing.

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Retreat to Romanticism (1993 Video)

Subject

Music; Philosophy

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Rousseau’s career in Paris begun as a music critic and composer. Maurice Cranston discusses how Rousseau’s theories on music led to his developing a whole new philosophical approach away from the...

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Music and Shakespeare [02/10/1998] (1998 Radio)

Series

Music Machine

Producer

Christina Pritchard

Radio broadcast. Verity Sharp visits the Royal Shakespeare Company to find out how a composer goes about writing incidental music for a stage production of a Shakespeare play.

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In Between (Video)

Director

Deborah May

Producer

Annie McGeoch

Subject

Dance

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. 48 (30?) min., 1998 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) (VHS)

Features extensive extracts from three pieces by Shobana Jeyasingh, whose choreography draws in classical Bharatha Natyam, contemporary movement and martial arts. ‘Romance...with footnotes’, ‘Raid’...

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Poems, Pictures and Music (1997 Multimedia)

Producer

Kria Popat

Subject

Art; English language and literature; Music

Distribution

CD-ROM

A creative collaboration between poet (Peter Wilson), painter (Gill Robinson) and composer (Antoine Mitchell), presenting an original contemporary work using three media in an interactive format. The CD-ROM...

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Afro-Futurist Shakespeare (2022 Radio)

Series

Behind the Scenes

Documentary following Roy Alexander Weise as he puts together an ‘Afro-Futurist’ production of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Other contributors include...

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Mahler (2008)

Subject

Music

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL, 35 minutes), £14.74

The composer Gustav Mahler was born the son of a poor itinerant Jewish salesman in a tiny village in what is now the Czech Republic. His astonishing and influential career as a conductor and director of...

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