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Andre Previn - The Kindness of Strangers

"André Previn at 80! It scarcely seems credible. This is the man who won 4 Oscars almost 50 years ago, and still maintains a full conducting, playing and composing schedule, each disci...

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Anthony Phillips - PPP 5&6

Anthony was a founder member of the British Rock band Genesis. Ant was born in December 1951 in London. In 1965 Ant found himself at Charterhouse Public School. It was here that h...

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Anthony Phillips - Sail The World
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Anthony Phillips - Ahead of the Field

Anthony was a founder member of the British Rock band Genesis. Ant was born in December 1951 in London. In 1965 Ant found himself at Charterhouse Public School. It was here that he met up with Pete...

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Anthony Phillips - PPP 7 & 8

Anthony recorded the albums From Genesis To Revelation and Trespass and also performed a great many gigs with the band before deciding to leave the band...

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Anthony Phillips - Missing Links 4: Pathways and Promenades

Anthony Phillips is perhaps best known as the original guitarist in Genesis. Ant left the band in 1970 following the release of Trespass. He began his solo career in earnest in the mid seventies wi...

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Benjamin Britten - A Time There Was

Made at the request of the Britten Estate, this film - thought to be the definitive portrait of the great composer - tells of one of the most profound love affairs of the 20th Century, between ...

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Berlioz - I, Berlioz

Berlioz died in 1869, broken by the failure to get his masterpiece, on which he had laboured for thirty years, performed. It was not staged complete until twenty-one years after his death. ...

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Brahms - Brahms and the Singing Girls

I had long admired Warren Mitchell as an actor. In spite of being crippled to some extent by his most famous creation, Alf Garnett in 'Til Death Us Do Part, brilliant though he was, one ...

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Chopin - The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka

The soundtrack of Tony Palmer's film - described by the Professor of Film at Kansas University as "the most trenchant statement concerning the appropriation of art by the authoritarian state" and...

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Chopin - The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka

In 1945, the new Polish Government asked for the heart of Chopin previously buried in Paris. A woman called Paulina Czernika approached the Polish Government claiming to have some love lett...

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Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich - Testimony - The Story Of Shostakovich

"Testimony is one of those comparatively rare events nowadays - a real piece of cinema. Palmer's prowess as an editor, his knack of juxtaposing image and music - something which has remained his fo...

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Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich - Testimony - The Story Of Shostakovich

"Testimony is one of those comparatively rare events nowadays - a real piece of cinema. Palmer's prowess as an editor, his knack of juxtaposing image and music - something which has remained hi...

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George Frideric Handel - God Rot Tunbridge Wells - The Life Of Georg Frederic Handel

Taken from the soundtrack of the film God Rot Tunbridge Wells, this unforgettable collection of Handel’s ‘hits’ was rightly praised at the time for making Handel sound, well, li...

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George Frideric Handel - God Rot Tunbridge Wells - The Life Of Georg Frederic Handel

This film was originally shown in 1985 on British television, Channel Four, to commemorate the 300th anniversary of Handel’s birth. Written by John Osborne, it strips away what ...

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Gorecki - Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs

The Symphony actually dates from 1976 when Górecki was (as he tells us in the film) a 'non-person' in the political sense, when his music was banned in his native Katowice in Poland. He t...

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Henry Purcell - England, My England

Tony Palmer directs this prize-winning film about the great English composer Henry Purcell. Very little is known about his life, but the script - by Charles Wood and the late John Osborne - solve...

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Henry Purcell - England, My England

Henry Purcell is a mystery. We know where he's buried (next to Vaughan Williams in Westminster Abbey), but that's about it. We don't even know who paid for his memorial stone in the Abbey. ...

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Holst - In The Bleak Midwinter

The first ever film about this extraordinary man - who taught himself Sanskrit, lived in a street of brothels in Algiers, cycled into the Sahara Desert, allied himself during the First World War ...

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Holst - In The Bleak Midwinter

The first ever film about this extraordinary man - who taught himself Sanskrit, lived in a street of brothels in Algiers, cycled into the Sahara Desert, allied himself during the First World War wi...

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