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  1. Edinburgh Festival in Technicolor

    Date released
    30 Aug 1962
    Series name
    Pathe News
    Issue no
    62/70
    NoS ID
    110322
    Story no
    1 / 1
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Comprehensive report of Britain’s foremost artistic event of year. Pathe News devotes entire issue to this outstanding subject. We show Earl of Harewood, artistic director, with guest of honour,...

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  2. Dmitri Shostakovich: Sonata for Viola (2005)

    Subject
    Music; Russian studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0, 75 minutes), £16.99

    Banned in the USSR until 1985, Sonata for Viola documents the life of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich. In addition to being a portrait of a musical genius, the film bears witness to the joy of modern...

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  3. Katerina Izmailova (1966 Film)

    aka: Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District

    Director
    Mikhail Shapiro

    Mikhail Shapiro’s official 1966 film of Shostakovich’s opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. The Chorus and Orchestra of the Shevchenko Opera and Ballet Theatre, Kiev are conducted by Konstantin Simeonov....

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  4. Shakespeare roundup

    Date
    25 Oct 2011, 10:39
    Author
    bufvcsergio
    Post Type
    Post

    Roland Emmerich's controversial new film Anonymous is released in UK cinemas this Friday (28 October)  and it explores some of the theories that question whether Shakespeare did, or did not, in fact author...

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  5. Music from the Flames: Shostakovich (1978)

    Producer
    Ian Engelmann
    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 64 minutes), £50.00

    This film tells the story of the Russian composer’s life covering his training during the 1917 revolution, the criticism he faced during the 1930s when he was dubbed a formalist by the authorities, and how...

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  6. Music for the Theatre (2012 Radio)

    aka: Theatre Music: Shakespeare

    Series
    Afternoon on 3

    First in a series of four programmes, presented by Penny Gore, featuring music written for Shakespeare’s plays. A team of actors joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra for specially recorded scenes from Hamlet...

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  7. Hamlet at the Symphony (2008 Radio)

    Series
    Morning Edition
    Director
    Gerald Freedman

    Radio broadcast. As part of the ‘Morning Edition’ news programme, presenter David Bower talks to conductor John Mauceri about his performance of Shostakovich’s 1964 score for Kozintsev’s HAMLET as "a...

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  8. Lady Macbeth at Mtsensk (2006 Television)

    Series
    Forbidden Shostakovich
    Director
    Richard Jones

    The last episode in a series on works by Shostakovich which were influenced by Stalin’s rule. Peter Maniura presents a recording of the award-winning Royal Opera House production by Richard Jones. With...

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  9. Korol Lir (1971 Film)

    aka: Korol Lir

    Director
    Grigori Kozintsev

    Feature film based on a translation by Boris Pasternak and scored by Dmitri Shostakovich. Jüri Järvet is Lear. Kozintsev’s Lear ‘goes for the wide anle, depicting how the insanity of one man...brings...

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  10. Shakespeare and Friends [03/11/2006] (2006 Radio)

    Series
    Afternoon Performance

    Final concert in a week’s series of BBC Radio 3 ‘Afternoon Performances’ dedicated to showcasing music written for and inspired by the works of Shakespeare and other literary authors. The...

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