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review by A customer from Cupar
Excellent musicians at ease... 26 November 2007
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Customer Review 23 June 2008
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It's All Too Much 26 September 2008
Tony Palmer - filmography
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Falls The Shadow - The Life And Times Of...
(2012)
Starring: Athol Fugard, Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu
Director: Tony Palmer
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Tony Palmer's film marks the 80th birthday of the celebrated South African actor, director and playwright. Fugard is best known for exposing the excesses of the apartheid regime in SA. The film includes interviews with Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, Nadine Gordimer and FW de Klerk.
 
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Tony Palmer - The World Of Liberace
(2012)
Director: Tony Palmer
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Tony Palmer explores the career of Liberace in this film. An extravagant showman equipped with a disarming piano talent, Liberace wowed audiences with his flamboyant act.
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The Wagner Family
on DVD
(2009)
Director: Tony Palmer
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Acclaimed filmmaker Tony Palmer (200 MOTELS) directs this documentary that chronicles the life and times of the first family of classical music, the Wagners.
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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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Mozart - Les Amours De Bastien Et Bastienne
(2007)
Director: Tony Palmer
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Recorded live at the Opera de Rouen, France, in 2007, this production combines Mozart's one-act opera BASTIEN UNDER BASTIENNE with other pieces by the composer drawn from serenades, divertimenti and dance. Elizabeth Calleo and Michael Slattery take on the title roles, under the direction of Anais ..read more »
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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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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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Ivry Gitlis And The Great Tradition
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Ivry Gitlis
Director: Tony Palmer
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Tony Palmer's film about the great violinist who has performed before Presidents of the USA and monarchs, and jammed with Eric Clapton and Stephane Grappelli, amonst others.
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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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Ladies And Gentlemen - Miss Renee Fleming
(2002)
Director: Tony Palmer
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Renee Fleming plus other world-class artists featured in this fascinating personal portrait include: Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, Sir Peter Hall, Daniel Barenboim, Valery Gergiev, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Katarina Witt & Dmitri Hvorostovsky
Tony Palmer’s film presents the first major ..read more »
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The Kindness Of Strangers - A Portrait O...
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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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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I, Berlioz
(1992)
Director: Tony Palmer
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An artist best known for his orchestral compositions Grande messe des morts and Symphonie fantastique, French Romantic composer Hector Berliosz (1803-1869) arguably obtained far greater recognition posthumously than he did during his lifetime. The celebrated music documentarist Tony Palmer tackles ..read more »
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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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Puccini
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Virginia McKenna, Robert Stephens, Bill Fraser
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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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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Britten - Death In Venice
(1981)
Director: Tony Palmer
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Tony Palmer's film of Britten's opera, based on Thomas Mann's novella. In Venice, the novelist, Gustav Von Aschenbach, becomes obsessed with the beauty of a handsome boy. He falls into degradation and death.
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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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Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour
on DVD
(1974)
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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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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Valentina Igoshina Plays Chopin
Director: Tony Palmer
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This DVD of a specially recorded recital features the beautiful young Russian pianist, Valentina Igoshina performing much of the music contained in Tony Palmer's classic film: The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka - The Mystery of Chopin.
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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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Tony Palmer - The South Bank Show
Director: Tony Palmer
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This box set features eleven films made by renowned filmmaker Tony Palmer for the ITV television series The South Bank Show. Includes: 'Maria Callas – Callas', 'William Walton – At The Haunted End Of The Day', 'Margot Fonteyn – Margot', 'Stravinsky – Once At A Border', 'Benjamin Britten – A Time ..read more »
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In From The Cold - The World Of Richard ...
on DVD
Director: Tony Palmer
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Featuring candid interviews with the likes of Elizabeth Taylor, Lauren Bacall, Kate Burton, Mike Nichols, Claire Bloom, Melvyn Bragg and John Neville and featuring extracts from CLEOPATRA, THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD, WHERE EAGLES DARE and THE WILD GEESE, this fascinating documentary, ..read more »
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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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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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Jack Bruce - Rope Ladder To The Moon
on DVD
Director: Tony Palmer
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ROPE LADDER TO THE MOON takes Jack from the Gorbals, via Cream, to his island called Sanda, playing the cello, the sitar and thundering away on the organ of the Albert Hall in London, while featuring many of the tracks from his LP. With his strong socialist principles - his father had been a ..read more »
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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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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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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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Brahms And The Little Singing Girls
on DVD
Director: Tony Palmer
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Tony Palmer's film explores the final period in Johannes Brahms' life, when the German composer lived as a bachelor in Vienna; frequenting the city's prostitutes whom he described as his 'little singing girls'. Warren Mitchell stars.
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Wigan Casino
on DVD
Director: Tony Palmer
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The Wigan Casino was not a gambling den near Manchester, anymore than The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell is about a funfair by the seaside, although curiously the two are inextricably related. The Wigan Casino was a dance hall and home to ‘Northern Soul' at the height of its fashion in the mid-..read more »
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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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from 113 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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...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...
