Humphrey Burton Movies

  • 1976
    Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema

    Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema

    Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema

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    BBC documentary about the rise of the New German Cinema and several of its most important figures.

    Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
  • 1976
    Bernstein Mahler Rehearsal

    Bernstein Mahler Rehearsal

    Bernstein Mahler Rehearsal

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    "Four Ways to Say Farewell" is a personal introduction to Mahler and his Ninth Symphony, during which Leonard Bernstein is seen and heard rehearsing...

    Bernstein Mahler Rehearsal
  • 2008
    Herbert von Karajan: Maestro for the Screen

    Herbert von Karajan: Maestro for the Screen

    Herbert von Karajan: Maestro for the Screen

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    Documentary on conductor Herbert van Karajan, focusing on his early adoption of audio and video recording technology and his impetus to make use of...

    Herbert von Karajan: Maestro for the Screen
  • 1987
    Die Entführung aus dem Serail

    Die Entführung aus dem Serail

    Die Entführung aus dem Serail

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    Mozart's famous Singspiel after Christoph Friedrich Bretzner's work "Belmonte und Konstanze", DIE ENTFÜHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL comes to life in the...

    Die Entführung aus dem Serail
  • 1990
    Prince Igor

    Prince Igor

    Prince Igor

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    TV movie version of the famous Prince Igor opera

    Prince Igor
  • 1989
    Leonard Bernstein - Bernstein - Candide

    Leonard Bernstein - Bernstein - Candide

    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...

    Leonard Bernstein - Bernstein - Candide
  • 1988
    Candide

    Candide

    Candide

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    Bernstein's comic opera, based on Voltaire's classic satire, directed by Jonathan Miller and John Wells, is performed in a new production by Scottish...

    Candide
  • 1987
    Krystian Zimerman: Chopin/Schubert

    Krystian Zimerman: Chopin/Schubert

    Krystian Zimerman: Chopin/Schubert

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    As one of the youngest winners ever in the International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition in 1975, Krystian Zimerman went on to an international...

    Krystian Zimerman: Chopin/Schubert
  • 1959
    Gordon Jacob

    Gordon Jacob

    Gordon Jacob

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    A portrait of the English composer Gordon Jacob.

    Gordon Jacob
  • 2006
    Glenn Gould: Hereafter

    Glenn Gould: Hereafter

    Glenn Gould: Hereafter

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    A retrospective of the life and work of Glenn Gould, Hereafter synthesizes an incredible wealth of archival material from various sources.

    Glenn Gould: Hereafter
  • 1970
    Beethoven's Birthday: A Celebration in Vienna with Leonard Bernstein

    Beethoven's Birthday: A Celebration in Vienna with Leonard Bernstein

    Beethoven's Birthday: A Celebration in Vienna with Leonard Bernstein

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    In this documentary portrait prepared for the anniversary of Ludwig Van Beethoven's 200th birthday, Leonard Bernstein illustrates his analysis with...

    Beethoven's Birthday: A Celebration in Vienna with Leonard Bernstein
  • 1990
    Boris Godunov

    Boris Godunov

    Boris Godunov

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    This is the Andrei Tarkovsky production of the famous Pushkin/Mussorgsky opera, performed in 1990. Modest Mussorgsky's opera in prologue and four...

    Boris Godunov
  • 1977
    Leonard Bernstein conducts Stravinsky & Bach

    Leonard Bernstein conducts Stravinsky & Bach

    Leonard Bernstein conducts Stravinsky & Bach

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    Leonard Bernstein conducts Stravinsky & Bach
  • 2014
    Karajan's Magic and Myth

    Karajan's Magic and Myth

    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...

    Karajan's Magic and Myth
  • 1994
    Eugene Onegin

    Eugene Onegin

    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,...

    Eugene Onegin
  • 1985
    The Little Drummer Boy: An Essay on Mahler by Leonard Bernstein

    The Little Drummer Boy: An Essay on Mahler by Leonard Bernstein

    The Little Drummer Boy: An Essay on Mahler by Leonard Bernstein

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    This television essay from 1985 was written by Leonard Bernstein to commemorate the 125th anniversary of Gustav Mahler's birth. Recorded in Israel,...

    The Little Drummer Boy: An Essay on Mahler by Leonard Bernstein
  • 2002
    The Return of Ulysses to his Homeland

    The Return of Ulysses to his Homeland

    The Return of Ulysses to his Homeland

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    Claudio Monteverdi's operatic adaptation of this story from Homer's The Odyssey receives a modern and distinctive staging in this 2002 production...

    The Return of Ulysses to his Homeland
  • 1976
    The Unanswered Question I : Musical Phonology

    The Unanswered Question I : Musical Phonology

    The Unanswered Question I : Musical Phonology

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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...

    The Unanswered Question I : Musical Phonology
  • 1971
    Elton John: Mr. Superfunk

    Elton John: Mr. Superfunk

    Elton John: Mr. Superfunk

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    Short documentary originally featured on Aquarius containing interviews, concert footage, and general information about Elton John and his career up...

    Elton John: Mr. Superfunk
  • 1991
    The Very Strange Story of the Legendary Joe Meek

    The Very Strange Story of the Legendary Joe Meek

    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...

    The Very Strange Story of the Legendary Joe Meek