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  1. In Search of Chopin (2015)

    Director
    Phil Grabsky
    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 115 minutes), £15.99

    Chopin’s grave in Paris remains a place of pilgrimage and his music continues to sell out concert halls worldwide, but who exactly was this composer? He was terrified of public performance; he fled his...

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  2. Benjamin Britten: A Time There was (2013)

    Director
    Tony Palmer
    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 101 minutes), £12.99

    Tony Palmer’s in-depth portrait of composer Benjamin Britten. The English Chamber Orchestra perform extracts from Britten’s works, including ‘The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra’, ‘Peter...

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  3. Mahler (2012)

    Director
    Ken Russell
    Subject
    Film studies; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 111 minutes), £12.99

    Russell’s portrait of the life of one of Gustav Mahler.

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  4. South Bank Show: Vol.1: Ken Russell (2012)

    Director
    Ken Russell
    Subject
    Film studies; Media studies; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 500 minutes), £29.99

    Compilation of the eight films made by Ken Russell between 1983 and 2002 for The South Bank Show, on Vaughan Williams, Arnold Bax, Elgar, a portrait of the widows of four British composers, a found-footage...

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  5. Classical Music and Cold War: Musicians in the Gdr (2012)

    Director
    Thomas Zintl
    Subject
    History; Music; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 5, 52 minutes ), £19.15

    Through case studies of individuals who lived under the system, the documentary explores the fates of both the privileged and the non-privileged, and delivers insight into the influence of the political...

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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. In Search of Beethoven (2009)

    Director
    Phil Grabsky
    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 139 minutes), £40.00

    Juliet Stevenson narrates a documentary account of the life of Ludwig von Beethoven, from his birth in 1770 until his death in 1827. Writer-director Phil Grabsky gives an impressionistic approach, building...

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  9. Mahler (2008)

    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    DVD (Region 2 PAL, 35 minutes), £14.74

    The composer Gustav Mahler was born the son of a poor itinerant Jewish salesman in a tiny village in what is now the Czech Republic. His astonishing and influential career as a conductor and director of...

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  10. God Rot Tunbridge Wells: The Life of Georg Frederic Handel (2008)

    Director
    Tony Palmer
    Subject
    Drama; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 119 minutes), £7.99

    Play by John Osborne about the life of the famous composer. Old and blind and close to death, Georg Frederic Handel looks back over his life, recalling the ups and downs of his life and career.

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