Barrie Gavin

Filmography

Barrie Gavin - filmography

Getting Scorched - Mark-Anthony Turnage on DVD (2004)
Starring: Mark-Anthony Turnage, John Scofield
Director: Barrie Gavin
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Turnage is a distinctive and powerful voice in contemporary music. His collaborations with celebrated jazz musicians have obliterated artificial musical boundaries to create new sound worlds. The focus of this programme is the genesis of Scorched, a work by Turnage and American jazz guitarist-..read more »

43% from 3 members

Carmina Burana - Carl Orff on DVD (2002)
Starring: Kathleen Battle, Thomas Allen, Frank Lopardo
Director: Barrie Gavin
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A collection of medieval poems set to music by Carl Orff, performed by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and the Shinyukai Choir. Singers include: Kathleen Battle, Frank Lopardo and Thomas Allen. Conducted by Seiji Ozawa and directed by Barrie Gavin. Sung in Latin.

67% from 101 members

Hans Werner Henze - Memoirs Of An Outsid... on DVD (2001)
Starring: Hans Werner Henze
Director: Barrie Gavin
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This programme examines both the music and the motivations of the twentieth century German composer Hans Werner Henze, whose requiem has been performed by many orchestras around the world. This package also includes a working version premiere of the Requiem at Covent Garden.

55% from 20 members

Blood On The Floor - Mark Anthony Turnage on DVD (1996)
Starring: John Scofield, Peter Erskine, Martin Robertson
Director: Barrie Gavin
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Improvisation and jazz-style melodies have been part of Turnage's work for many years, but this is the composer's first large-scale attempt to obliterate artificial boundaries between one 'type' of music and another. A brutally powerful high octane fusion of jazz and classical styles, Blood on the ..read more »

42% from 4 members

New Year's Gala on DVD (1996)
Starring: Maxim Vengerov, Swedish Radio Choir, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Director: Barrie Gavin
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A filmed performance of the 1996 Berlin Philharmonic's New Year's Gala, which highlighted many compositions which were inspired by German composer Johannes Brahms, French composer Maurice Ravel, and French composer Hector Berloiz. Based primarily on dance and Gypsy tunes derived from Hungarian ..read more »

53% from 15 members

Handel: Messiah - The 250th Anniversary ... on DVD (1992)
Starring: Jerry Hadley, Robert Lloyd, Michael Chance
Director: Barrie Gavin
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A performance of Handel: Messiah, by the Academy and Chorus Of St. Martin In The Fields; conducted by Sir Neville Marriner. Singers include: Jerry Hadley, Robert Lloyd, Michael Chance and Anne Sofie Von Otter.

65% from 75 members

Guitarra! - The Guitar In Spain (2 discs) on DVD
Starring: Julian Bream
Director: Barrie Gavin
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A programme which follows the history of the Spanish guitar from 1500 to the present day in eight half hour films.

71% from 102 members

Mahler - Symphony No.1 And 2 on DVD
Starring: Sylvia McNair
Director: Barrie Gavin
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Renowned as one of the great Mahler interpreters of our age, Bernard Haitink conducted a now-legendary Mahler cycle with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in the early 1990s. This DVD offers a powerful record of this memorable undertaking, bringing together the composer's ground-breaking First ..read more »

73% from 31 members

Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 on DVD
Starring: Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta
Director: Barrie Gavin
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Bruckner's eighth symphony (and his last with a complete final movement) is performed in this live recording by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Zubin Mehta.

38% from 19 members