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O Thou Transcendent - The Life Of Ralph ...
on DVD
(2007)
Director: Tony Palmer
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The award-winning Tony Palmer directs this feature-length biography of influential English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. Features specially recorded extracts from Vaughan Williams work, archive performances by Sir Adrian Boult, interviews and rare footage of the man himself.
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77%
from 157 members
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Benjamin Britten - A Time There Was
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears, Leonard Bernstein
Director: Tony Palmer
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Tony Palmer's in-depth portrait of one of the greatest English composers of the 20th century, Benjamin Britten. The English Chamber Orchestra perform extracts from Britten's works, including 'The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra', 'Peter Grimes', 'Death in Venice' and 'Billy Budd', and more.
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74%
from 90 members
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The Salzburg Festival
on DVD
(2006)
Director: Tony Palmer
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The Salzburg Festival has hosted every great star of the opera and concert hall, from Toscanini to Anne-Sophie Mutter, from Fischer-Dieskau to Barenboim, from Pollini to Mitsuko Uchida. In this film, the first to tell the story of this remarkable Festival, set in the birthplace of Mozart, director ..read more »
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67%
from 24 members
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Toward The Unknown Region - Malcolm Arno...
on DVD
(2004)
Director: Tony Palmer
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The documentary celebrates Malcolm Arnold, one of Britain's most underestimated and yet most popular composers, who wrote scores to altogether 132 films including 'Whistle Down the Wind', 'Hobson's Choice' and the Oscar winning 'Bridge Over the River Kwai'. Sir Malcolm also composed ballets, ..read more »
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75%
from 14 members
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Kindness Of Strangers, The - A Portrait ...
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Andre Previn
Director: Tony Palmer
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Classical music conductor-composer-pianist Andre Previn has been a noteworthy presence in the music world for five whole decades. This fine documentary, directed by seasoned musical film director Tony Palmer, tells Previn's remarkable story. Chronicling his rise from a dispossessed Berlin refugee ..read more »
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38%
from 29 members
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Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Rory Gallagher
Director: Tony Palmer
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Irish rocker Rory Gallagher is a talented singer-songwriter whose guitar powered rock is laced with a boogie woogie, blues sensibility. Sporadically popular through the 1970's and 1980's, Gallagher is filmed here in 1974, playing throughout his homeland of Ireland. 9 tracks including "Cradle Rock," ..read more »
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72%
from 252 members
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Henry Purcell - England My England
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Michael Ball
Director: Tony Palmer
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Tony Palmer directs this unique film drama 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 - solves this problem by launching a group of actors in the 1960s on a voyage of discovery into the 1660s & late-..read more »
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57%
from 49 members
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Testimony - The Story Of Shostakovich
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Ben Kingsley
Director: Tony Palmer
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A dramatisation of the turbulent life of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich (here excellently essayed by Ben Kingsley), based on the book by Solomon Volkov.
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55%
from 109 members
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Callas
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Maria Callas, Franco Zeffirelli, John Ardoin
Director: Tony Palmer
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Extensive performance footage including some real rarities. Newsreel footage: her funeral cortege; the Rome Walkout ("I would spit in the faces of my enemies...and make them go on their knees in front of me! I can! I will! And I must!"); her break with Ghiringhelli, Callas reading Bing's ..read more »
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67%
from 9 members
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Puccini
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Virginia McKenna, Rupert Graves, Robert Stephens
Director: Tony Palmer
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The composer of some of the world's most popular operas became involved in an appalling scandal which nearly ruined his career. Puccini's tragic story unfolds in this dramatic programme.
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56%
from 13 members
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Wagner - Movie
(3 discs)
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Richard Burton, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud
Director: Tony Palmer
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A seven-hour epic film of the life of the composer Richard Wagner. The musical score is performed by the London, Vienna and Budapest Philharmonic Orchestras, conducted by Sir Georg Solti.
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57%
from 210 members
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The Space Movie
on DVD
(1979)
Director: Tony Palmer
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Commissioned by NASA to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the moon landings, THE SPACE MOVIE contains footage culled from the library at NASA and the United States Archive and set to music by Mike Oldfield, including reworkings of 'Tubular Bells' and 'Hergest Ridge'.
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52%
from 17 members
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Tony Palmer's Film About The World Of Pe...
on DVD
(1972)
Director: Tony Palmer
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Documentary filmmaker Tony Palmer reveals a disarmingly intense portrait of the great British comic actor Peter Sellers in this original, uncut presentation from 1971.
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13%
from 3 members
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Stravinsky - Once At A Border
on DVD
Director: Tony Palmer
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A film biography of the famed 20th century composer, Igor Stravinsky. Includes commentary by Robert Craft, Marie Rambert, George Balanchine, Nadia Boulanger and others, plus footage of Stravinsky on stage at the Champs-Elysees Theatre in Paris. Included in the film are important performances: 'Les ..read more »
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68%
from 41 members
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All You Need Is Love - Series 1 - Complete
(5 discs)
on DVD
Starring: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Elvis Presley
Director: Tony Palmer
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Features all 17 episodes of the series ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE, which looked in detail at popular music throughout the 20th century up until the mid 1970s. The show looked at various genres including country, rock n' roll, jazz, vaudeville, ragtime, blues, folk, musicals, and swing.
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72%
from 89 members
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Renee Fleming
on DVD
Starring: Renee Fleming
Director: Tony Palmer
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An insight into the life of Renee Fleming, the much celebrated American soprano.
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54%
from 39 members
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Sergei Rachmaninoff - The Harvest Of Sorrow
on DVD
Director: Tony Palmer
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Used in films like BRIEF ENCOUNTER and SHINE; on TV in THE SOUTH BANK SHOW and PANORAMA; on radio in Semprini Serenade; and including some of the most famous melodies of the 20th century, Rachmaninoff's romantic, passionate music is as popular today as it has ever been. This 100-minute documentary ..read more »
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63%
from 16 members
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Tony Palmer - Margot
on DVD
Starring: Margot Fonteyn
Director: Tony Palmer
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A celebration of the life of Margot Fonteyn commemorating the 40th anniversary year of Nureyev and Fonteyn's ROMEO AND JULIET. Fonteyn is widely considered to be the nation's greatest ever dancer, yet her life story is as tragic as it is inspiring. Tony Palmer's film uses archive performance ..read more »
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70%
from 37 members
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Margot
on DVD
Director: Tony Palmer
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A celebration of the life of Margot Fonteyn commemorating the 40th anniversary year of Nureyev and Fonteyn's ROMEO AND JULIET. Fonteyn is widely considered to be the nation's greatest ever dancer, yet her life story is as tragic as it is inspiring. Tony Palmer's film uses archive performance ..read more »
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40%
from 2 members
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William Walton - At The Haunted End Of T...
on DVD
Starring: William Walton
Director: Tony Palmer
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AT THE HAUNTED END OF THE DAY celebrates the life and work of British composer William Walton with the release of a SOUTH BANK SHOW special in 1981. Includes an exclusive full-length interview with Walton, plus performances and contributions from the likes of Simon Rattle, Yehudi Menuhin, Laurence ..read more »
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65%
from 42 members
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Hero - The Bobby Moore Story
on DVD
Starring: Bobby Moore
Director: Tony Palmer
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A detailed profile on the footballer Bobby Moore. Includes interviews with Alan Ball, Jack Charlton, Bobby Charlton, George Best, Terry Venables, Alan Shearer, Franz Beckenbauer and Pele.
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65%
from 53 members
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Ginger Baker In Africa
on DVD
Director: Tony Palmer
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In November 1971, legendary rock drummer of Cream and Blind Faith, Ginger Baker, decided to set up a recording studio in Lagos, then capital of Nigeria. Tony Palmer's film follows Baker across the Sahara desert, capturing all of his unique experiences up until his arrival in Nigeria, where he sets ..read more »
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55%
from 16 members
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Yehudi Menuhin - Classic Archive
on DVD
Director: Tony Palmer
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Contains:
Beethoven Concerto with Colin Davis (1962)
Mozart 3 directed by Menuhin (1967)
Bruch 1 with Fricsay (1961)
Beethoven Romance in F with Adrian Boult (1966)
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68%
from 9 members
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Excellent musicians at ease... 26 November 2007
...d sound quality are not the best but when combined with the talents of director Tony Palmer the 'festival feel' is captured perfectly. John Peel provides a gentle comment...
Customer Review 23 June 2008
It's All Too Much 26 September 2008
