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After eight Sunday (1980)

Genre

Interview; Music; Vox pop

Peter Taylor presents this edition of After Eight Sunday on the orthodox church in Britain and animal rights. With leader of the Russian Orthodox Community in Britain, Metropolitan Anthony, on Eastern...

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Tchaikovsky Uncovered (2010)

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes), £15.00

This DVD aims to bring a fresh perspective to the interplay between Tchaikovsky’s life and works. Conductor Charles Hazlewood explores two of the composer’s key works: the Fantasy Overture from "Romeo...

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England, My England: The Story of Henry Purcell (2010)

Director

Tony Palmer

Subject

Drama; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 152 minutes), £13.49

A dramatisation of the life and times of Henry Purcell. Little is known about the enigmatic composer, but director Tony Palmer makes up for this by contextualising his story in late 17th Century England, and...

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In Search of Beethoven (2009)

Director

Phil Grabsky

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 139 minutes), £40.00

Juliet Stevenson narrates a documentary account of the life of Ludwig von Beethoven, from his birth in 1770 until his death in 1827. Writer-director Phil Grabsky gives an impressionistic approach, building...

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What the Universe Tells Me - Unraveling the Mysteries of Mahler’s Third Symphony (2007)

Director

Jason Starr

Producer

Jason Starr

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 240 minutes), £23.99

The 60-minute documentary WHAT THE UNIVERSE TELLS ME - UNRAVELING THE MYSTERIES OF MAHLER’S THIRD SYMPHONY focuses on the intricate story surrounding the composition of German composer Gustav Mahler’s...

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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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South Bank Show: Vol.1: Ken Russell (2012)

Director

Ken Russell

Subject

Film studies; Media studies; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 500 minutes), £29.99

Compilation of the eight films made by Ken Russell between 1983 and 2002 for The South Bank Show, on Vaughan Williams, Arnold Bax, Elgar, a portrait of the widows of four British composers, a found-footage...

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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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Great Russian Composers (6 Parts) (1995)

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (PAL, 180 minutes), £162.00

This six-part series looks at the life and times of some of Russia’s greatest composers. GREAT RUSSIAN COMPOSERS is a series of documentary biographies, using film, archive documents, portraits, music and...

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Seven Ages of Man, The - A Pageant in Speech and Music (1925 Radio)

Radio programme in which pieces of classical music and speech illustrate the seven ages of Jaques’s speech from Shakespeare’s As You Like It. The Wireless Orchestra is conducted by Stanford Robinson....

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