Barrie Gavin

10.0 MovieBenjamin Britten's opera as performed by the English National Opera, with Philip Langridge in the title role.

Peter Grimes

1994

10.0 MovieA documentary on the life and work of the composer Sofia Gubaidulina.

The Fire and the Rose

1990

5.0 MoviePortrait of the composer, Peter Maxwell Davies, set in the context of the islands of Orkney. George Mackay Brown is featured reading his own verse and there are...

One Foot in Eden

1978

9.0 MovieBizet's masterwork, Carmen, directed for stage by the Spanish actress Núria Espert. Royal Opera House in Covent Garden in 1989.

Carmen by Georges Bizet

1991

3.0 MovieIn 1906 the young Bela Bartok set out to discover the forgotten music of his people. He found a vast treasure of folk music all over Eastern Europe, and he called his...

The Miraculous Circumstance: Bartok, Folklorist

1983

10.0 MovieThe Baronet of Ruddigore, Sir Despard Murgatroyd, has inherited a family curse which forces him to commit a crime every day — or die in agony. He hates the curse,...

Ruddigore

1982

10.0 Movie2003 documentary film capturing the creative genesis and premiere of Scorched, a major crossover musical work by British classical composer Mark-Anthony Turnage and...

Turnage: Getting Scorched

2003

7.0 TVA monthly series of highly personal documentary films in which individuals are given a platform to discuss issues close to their heart.

One Pair of Eyes

1967

Movie1968 interview with Lord Harewood.

The Callas Conversations

1968

MovieA film based on Beyond a Boundary, the classic book by C. L. R. James,

Beyond a Boundary

1976

MovieA portrait of Eric Lyons and Span, under the scrutiny of Ian Nairn, as well as the residents of their estates.

The More We Are Together

1969

MovieBBC 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

Movie"Grainger is music's natural man... a noble savage of music." That quote describes Percy Grainger, the Australian-born composer and pianist. Grainger is remembered as...

The Noble Savage: Percy Grainger

MovieOne public housing flat in Moscow stood out above all others: the home of George Costakis, the foremost collector of early 20th century Russian avant-garde art. Its...

Costakis: The Collector

1983

MovieA documentary about the life and work of the composer Hans Werner Henze followed by a performance of Requiem

Hans Werner Henze: Memoirs of an Outsider

MovieFriend, instructor and student of Picasso, a welder at Renault, a painter and goldsmith – Julio González was all of these. The Catalonian gained fame as the father of...

Quiet Man with Welding Torch: A Portrait of the Sculptor Julio Gonzalez 1876-1942

1985

MovieCharts a journey through various `memory' productions such as murals, monuments, TV histories, commemorations etc, and in so doing questions the role that historical...

For Memory

1986

MovieFilm of Morton Feldman's short opera (libretto by Samuel Beckett).

Neither

1980