Humphrey Burton Movies

  • 1976
    The Unanswered Question IV : The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity

    The Unanswered Question IV : The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity

    The Unanswered Question IV : The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity

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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 IV : The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity
  • 1976
    The Unanswered Question V : The Twentieth Century Crisis

    The Unanswered Question V : The Twentieth Century Crisis

    The Unanswered Question V : The Twentieth Century Crisis

    91976HD

    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 V : The Twentieth Century Crisis
  • 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
  • 1976
    Bernstein Gerhswin & Ives

    Bernstein Gerhswin & Ives

    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'...

    Bernstein Gerhswin & Ives
  • 1982
    Verdi: Requiem

    Verdi: Requiem

    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,...

    Verdi: Requiem
  • 1976
    The Unanswered Question VI : The Poetry of Earth

    The Unanswered Question VI : The Poetry of Earth

    The Unanswered Question VI : The Poetry of Earth

    91976HD

    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 VI : The Poetry of Earth
  • 1967
    Benjamin Britten and His Festival

    Benjamin Britten and His Festival

    Benjamin Britten and His Festival

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    A behind-the-scenes look at the Aldeburgh Festival and the opening by The Queen of the new concert hall at Snape.

    Benjamin Britten and His Festival
  • 1998
    Rodelinda

    Rodelinda

    Rodelinda

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    Jean-Marie Villegier's modern interpretation of Handel's "Rodelinda" – filmed live at the world-renowned Glyndebourne Opera House in the United...

    Rodelinda
  • 1972
    Das Lied von der Erde: A Personal Introduction

    Das Lied von der Erde: A Personal Introduction

    Das Lied von der Erde: A Personal Introduction

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    During a break in rehearsals with the Israel Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein sat down at the piano to film an introduction to the poetry and music of...

    Das Lied von der Erde: A Personal Introduction
  • 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
  • 1976
    The Unanswered Question III : Musical Semantics

    The Unanswered Question III : Musical Semantics

    The Unanswered Question III : Musical Semantics

    91976HD

    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 III : Musical Semantics
  • 1976
    The Unanswered Question II : Musical Syntax

    The Unanswered Question II : Musical Syntax

    The Unanswered Question II : Musical Syntax

    91976HD

    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 II : Musical Syntax
  • 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

    01976HD

    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
  • 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
  • 1991
    War and Peace

    War and Peace

    War and Peace

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    The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov, is intertwined with the "Great Patriotic War" of 1812 against the...

    War and Peace
  • 1985
    Bach: St. John Passion

    Bach: St. John Passion

    Bach: St. John Passion

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    Johannes-Passion St. John Passion Equiluz · Moser · Holl · Scharinger Soloists of the Tölzer Knabenchor Tölzer...

    Bach: St. John Passion
  • 1965
    The Golden Ring

    The Golden Ring

    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...

    The Golden Ring
  • 1990
    Boris Godunov

    Boris Godunov

    Boris Godunov

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    Modest Mussorgsky's opera in prologue and four acts is performed by the Kirov Opera with performances from Olga Borodina, Alexei Steblianko and...

    Boris Godunov
  • 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
  • 1996
    Lulu

    Lulu

    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...

    Lulu