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Jean Sibelius (2018)

Subject

Music

Podcast series. Host Edward Seckerson is joined by BBC Symphony Orchestra conductor Sakari Oramo to discuss his fellow countryman Jean Sibelius, and the themes of nature and Finnish national identity woven...

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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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Made in Sheffield: The Birth of Electronic Pop (2001)

Subject

Music; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 52 minutes), £14.00

Documents the Sheffield music scene from 1977 to 1982, which saw the emergence of the Human League, Cabaret Voltaire, Heaven 17 & ABC with their brand of electronic music. The film captures the essence of...

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Aa302 Videocassette B (1998 Video)

Producer

Robert Philip

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale?, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 98 min.

Music performance: Alison Bury, violin; the Eroica String Quartet; Crispian Steele-Perkins, trumpet; the Gamelan Galura (Sundanese gamelan); ‘Lucia de Lammermoor’ (Italian opera)

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Classical Music of North India (1967 Film)

Subject

Music

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The master musician of North India, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, demonstrates a short example of North Indian classical music. He plays the instrument which he has helped to make famous in India and abroad, the...

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Ensembles in Performance (1994 Video)

Subject

Music

Distribution

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

Performances of the Corelli’s Concerto Grosso in D Major, and the first movement of the Schubert Octet Opus 6 No 4.

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John Adams - A Portrait and Concert of American Music (2002)

aka: John Adams - American Classic - A Portrait

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 101 minutes), £19.99

A look a the life and work of John Adams, one of America’s most frequently performed living composers who has managed to write accessible music that still surprises and challenges his listeners. Includes...

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Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter (2011)

Director

Tony Palmer

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 137 minutes), £12.99

Tony Palmer’s documentary is the first ever film about the composer Gustav Holst.

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Africa I Remember (1995 Video)

Director

Paul Balmer

Producer

Paul Balmer

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 30 minutes), £50

Nigerian-English musician and composer Tunda Jegede spans the African and western music traditions in ‘The Cycle Recokoning’, the world’s first full-scale work for African harp lute (kora) and western...

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David Starkey’s Music & Monarchy (2017)

Subject

History; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 135 minutes), £7.99

Presented by renowned historian David Starkey, this BBC series reveals how British kings and queens shaped the story of the nation’s music as patrons and taste makers, and even as composers and performers....

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