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  1. International Women’s Day Concert 2018 (2018)

    aka: BBC Concert Orchestra and Jane Glover: International Women’s Day Concert

    Subject
    Music; Women’s studies

    A group of academics spent 12 months tracking down the lost music of five forgotten women composers, who range from an 18th-century Viennese child prodigy to an award-winning African-American symphonist. All...

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  2. George Frederic Handel (2018)

    Subject
    Music

    Podcast series. Ed Seckerson is joined by countertenor Lestyn Davies to discuss Handel, the German- born composer whose prolific portfolio of operas and hits such as ‘Water Music’ and ‘Messiah’ won...

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  3. Benjamin Britten (2018)

    Subject
    Music

    Podcast series. Baritone and composer Roderick Williams discusses Benjamin Britten, a complex and often contradictory character, and one of the 20th century’s greatest opera composers. This is the second...

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  4. Gustav Mahler (2018)

    Subject
    Music

    Podcast series. Conductor and pianist Sir Antonio Pappano discusses Gustav Mahler, whose extreme, powerful and raw symphonic writing stretches both conductors and orchestras to their limits. This is the...

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  5. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (2018)

    Subject
    Music

    Podcast series. Host Edward Seckerson is joined by violinist, composer and Australian Chamber Orchestra artistic director Richard Tognetti to discuss the genius, larger than life character, and prodigious...

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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. Ken Russell: The Great Composers: Elgar; The Debussy Film; Song of Summer (2016)

    Director
    Ken Russell
    Subject
    Music; Television studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 56 minutes + 82 minutes + 73 minutes), £29.99

    This collection brings together three of Ken Russell’s films which were made at the BBC during the sixties, for award-winning arts documentary series Monitor and Omnibus. The first of the three films,...

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  9. Secrets of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, The (2016)

    Subject
    Music

    Ian Hislop and John Eliot Gardiner present a documentary about the circumstances behind the writing of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. [89 minutes]

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  10. 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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