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Fishermen at War: Atlantic Trawler (1941)

Director

Ivan Scott; Frank Sainsbury; J.B. Holmes; Frank Elton

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 63 minutes), £16.33

War-time documentaries about the dangers faced in the Atlantic by merchant seamen on convoys and the contribution made to the war effort by all civilian seamen. SAILORS WITHOUT UNIFORM (1940) - The lives...

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Lambert - Orchestral Works (2007 Audio)

Norman Del Mar conducts the English Chamber Orchestra in Romeo and Juliet - A Ballet in Two Tableaux, Constant Lambert’s score for Diaghilev’s ballet. Recording made July 1977 at the Kingsway Hall, London.

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Music from ‘The Fairy Queen’ (1951 Radio)

Producer

Constant Lambert

Constant Lambert arranges and conducts two performances of the music from Purcell’s ‘opera’ (performed by the BBC Chorus and Philharmonia Orchestra) which was first put on stage in 1692.

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Tempest, The; Or, The Enchanted Island (1950 Radio)

Producer

Douglas Cleverdon

Radio version of the Davenant/Dryden/Shadwell adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest for which Henry Purcell wrote the music in 1695. With Robert Harris as Prospero. Constant Lambert conducts the Covent...

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Battle for Music (1943)

Director

Donald Taylor; Len Lye; Ralph Keene; Ralph Bond; John Banting; Dylan Thomas; Charles de Latour

Subject

History; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 186 minutes), £14.99

Dramatised documentary about the trials of the London Philharmonic Orchestra during World War II. The year is 1939. Following the liquidation of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the players form a new...

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