Humphrey Burton Movies
- 2009

Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould
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A documentary on the mysterious and influential pianist.
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- 1965

The Golden Ring
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Watching the Vienna Philharmonic, Georg Solti, and a stellar cast record Wagner's immense Götterdämmerung for Decca in the fall of 1964...
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- 2007

Bach The Cello Suites
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Johann Sebastian Bach composed his Six Suites for Solo Cello in the early 1720's. Unlike the Six Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, composed...
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- 2003

Vincent in Brixton
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Based on Nicholas Wright's 2002 play exploring the life of the young Vincent Van Gogh during a stay in Brixton, London in 1873. In the play, which is...
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- 1989

Leonard Bernstein - Bernstein - Candide
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This is the historic concert performance of the final operatic version of Bernstein's Candide. It was recorded on December 13, 1989 at the Barbican...
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- 1991

La Stupenda
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Dubbed ‘La Stupenda’ thirty years ago by an Italian critic, Dame Joan Sutherland and her husband Richard Bonynge talk at length about her...
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- 1976

Bernstein Gerhswin & Ives
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Leonard Bernstein conducts four pieces by American composers: George Gershwin's 'An American in Paris' and 'Rhapsody in Blue' and Charles Ives'...
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- 1996

Lulu
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Alban Berg's black, satirical opera is one of the masterpieces of the 20th Century. It charts the rise and fall of a femme fatale "created to make...
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- 1959

Gordon Jacob
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A portrait of the English composer Gordon Jacob.
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- 1976

The Unanswered Question V : The Twentieth Century Crisis
The Unanswered Question V : The Twentieth Century Crisis7.51976HD
This series comprised six lectures on music, which cumulatively took the title of a work by Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question. Bernstein drew...
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- 1994

Eugene Onegin
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The cynical young Onegin rejects Tatyana, a dreamy, bookish country girl. But Onegin lives to regret it when, years later, he re-encounters Tatyana,...
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- 1973

Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, “Resurrection” – Leonard Bernstein – Ely Cathedral
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Directed by Sir Humphrey Burton, this 90-minute powerhouse features Sheila Armstrong (soprano), Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), the Edinburgh Festival...
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- 1990

Charles Mingus: Epitaph
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Conductor Gunther Schuller leads 30 renowned musicians in this spectacular world-premiere performance of Charles Mingus's epic composition,...
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- 1985

The Making Of West Side Story
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A documentary which shows, in great detail, the making of the 1985 Bernstein-conducted recording of the entire score of "West Side Story", featuring...
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- 1991

The Very Strange Story of the Legendary Joe Meek
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Documentary about the influential pop composer and record producer Joe Meek, who died in dramatic circumstances in 1967 after a bizarre childhood and...
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- 1982

Verdi: Requiem
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Live performance of Verdi's Missa da Requiem at the Edinburgh Festival in 1982. An all-star quartet of soloists under the baton of Claudio Abbado,...
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- 2008

Bernstein | Beethoven Symphonies 3,4,5
Bernstein | Beethoven Symphonies 3,4,57.52008HD
Leonard Bernstein conducts three symphonies by Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no. 3 in E flat major, op 55 ('Eroica'), Symphony no. 4 in B flat...
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- 2014

Karajan's Magic and Myth
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Over twenty-five years after his death in July 1989, the controversial Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan remains an enigma. He was the most...
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- 1976

The Unanswered Question III : Musical Semantics
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This series comprised six lectures on music, which cumulatively took the title of a work by Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question. Bernstein drew...
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- 1978

Marevna and Marika
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Documentary on 84-year old Marevna; painter, friend of Picasso and one-time mistress of Diego Rivera; and her daughter by Rivera, Marika; former...
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