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Pre-Hear [22/09/2012] (2012 Radio)

Series

Pre-Hear

Radio broadcast previewing German composer Hans Werner Henze’s 8th Symphony which is inspired by Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conducted...

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Shostakovich on Trial: From Lady Macbeth to the Fifth Symphony (2022 Video)

Recording of an illustrated lecture by Professor Marina Frolova-Walker FBA (Clare College, Cambridge) on the the censure of Shostakovich’s opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, from Shakespeare’s Macbeth, and...

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Shakespeare and Music (2021 Video)

Series

Ears Wide Open

Video recording of a live event hosted by Mairi Nicolson made as a preview of concerts by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra on 22 and 24 April 2021 devoted to music inspired by Shakespeare. They discuss the...

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Upbeat in Music

Date released

20 Mar 1944

Series name

The March of Time 9th Year

Issue no

8

NoS ID

352239

Story no

1 / 1

The March of Time synopsis: Troops march off to the spirited new style marches of Captain Glen Miller’s Army Air Force Band. Men on leave and their sweethearts crowd around Benny Goodman’s bandstand....

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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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Baraka/Chronos (1985)

Subject

Anthropology; Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 135 minutes), £29.99

Two films from the cinematographer of KOYAANISQUATSI, Ron Fricke. BARAKA (1992) is a visually stunning film shot over 13 months in 24 countries, providing an overwhelming experience that spans the...

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Discovering Music [23/08/2009] (2009 Radio)

Series

Discovering Music

Radio programme. Presenter Stephen Johnson is joined by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Lawrence Renes, to discuss some of the factors that make Verdi’s Otello arguably a dramatic...

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Tempest, The (1959 Radio)

Producer

Dennis Arundell

Radio broadcast of Swiss composer Frank Martin’s (-1974) operatic version of The Tempest, which he composed between 1952-1955, produced for broadcasting by Dennis Arundell. With John Cameron as Prospero....

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