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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...
Jan Sibelius was born into a middle class family in a small country town in Finland. He was encouraged in developing his musical talent but he was fifteen before it began to really interest him. At first he...
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...
Film-maker Steve Jackman followed Russell Maliphant and Company as they create a commission for the Barbican in 2004; it shows the process of collaboration between the choreographer and his dancers, lighting...
A two-part film on the life and work of Malcolm Arnold, made by Tony Palmer for the South Bank Show. Arnold is last survivor of a generation of great British composers who dominated the musical landscape in...
Lives and work of noted composers, set within the context of their respective ages, presented through the use of film, archive material, music and commentary. Music is performed by members of the Elysium...
The music for ‘Bergerac’, ‘The Trials of Life’ ‘Gandhi’, ‘Memphis Belle’ and many other plays, films and television shows was written by George Fenton, who talks about how he approaches...
A dramatisation of the life of Abbess Hildegard of Bingen, a 12-century nun and visionary known for her musical compositions, whose music is being rediscovered by modern scholars and musicians. With Patricia...
Examines the relationship between the rigours of theoretical training and the ‘inspirational’ image of the ‘great’ composers. Using surviving harmony exercises used by Beethoven and Handel, and set...
Examines some of the issues raised when a composer sets words to music, looking at the way a composer balances the words, which need to be heard and understood, with the music, which needs to make sense on...
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