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English National Opera (1991 Video)

Director

Richard Jones

Subject

History; Music

Distribution

Preview, Videocassette. VHS. col. 212 min.

Scenes show the day-to-day running of the English National Opera, plus shows of the elaborate architecture inside the London Coliseum, the setting of the stage, and the Royal Box with its retiring room....

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Visible Messages / Designing for Silicon (1986 Video)

Subject

Engineering

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 55 min., 1995 sale: £95.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Band 1: Deals with optoelectronics - how light, beamed down glass fibres is used to transmit digital information. Shows the properties required in the glass for optimum efficiency in light transmisison, the...

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Music Paradigm, The (1999 Video)

Subject

Business studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 1999 sale: £195.00 (+VAT +p&p)

A lecture given by American orchestral conductor Roger Nierenberg, assisted by the BBC Concert Orchestra, before an audience of Britain’s leading business people, in which he presents his revolutionary...

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Turandot Project, The (1999)

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1, 84 minutes), $29.99

In 1997, documentary film-maker Allan Miller embarked on a film project with renowned conductor Zubin Mehta and celebrated Chinese film director Zhang Yimou as they joined forces in a production of...

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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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Claudio Abbado: Hearing the Silence (2003)

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 67 minutes), £19.99

'Claudio Abbado - Hearing the Silence’ conveys an intensely moving view on one of the leading musicians of our time. In several interviews, Abbado talks about artistic, musical and biographical aspects of...

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Semiconductor Physics (6 Parts) (1968 Film, Video)

Director

Eric Wylam

Producer

Hindle Edgar

Subject

Physics

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Part 1: Insulators, conductors and semi-conductors are compared and the structure of pure germanium. The concept of electrons and holes and the effects of temperature and electric fields on their movements....

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Knowledge is the Beginning (2005)

Director

Paul Smaczny

Subject

Music; Politics & government

Distribution

Hire, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), free for academic use

World-renowned conductor Daniel Barenboim and Palestinian writer Edward Said have generated controversy and admiration with the founding of their West-Eastern Divan Orchestra in 1999. This documentary...

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Mahler: Autopsy of a Genius (2011)

Director

Andy Sommer

Subject

Music

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £22.99

Ths film tackles the mythical Gustav Mahler, proposing a cinematic autopsy of the many facets of this musical genius, who was at once composer, orchestra conductor and opera house director. It takes us on a...

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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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