10 Best Elgar
A line up of star performers celebrate the very best of Edward Elgar's music in the 150th anniversary year of his birth.
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Benjamin Britten: A Time There Was…
A portrait of one of England's greatest composers. Winner of the Prix Italia.
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Donizetti : Mary Stuart
David Rendall, John Tomlinson, Janet Baker, Peter Butler, Rosalind Plowright, Angela Bostock, Glenn McKeown, Giuseppe Bardari, Tom Hammond, Alan...
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Kathleen Ferrier: An Ordinary Diva
A portrait of the great British contralto who, despite little formal musical training, rose from humble origins to become an internationally...
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The Little Drummer Boy: An Essay on Mahler by Leonard Bernstein
This television essay from 1985 was written by Leonard Bernstein to commemorate the 125th anniversary of Gustav Mahler's birth. Recorded in Israel,...
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Owen Wingrave
A family conflict ensues after Owen, the youngest of the proud military family Wingrave, expected to continue the family tradition and become a...
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Janet Baker: In Her Own Words
In her first documentary for more than 35 years, the great British classical singer Dame Janet Baker talks more openly and emotionally than ever...
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Jacqueline du Pré: A Gift Beyond Words
A tribute to Jacqueline du Pré to mark the thirtieth anniversary of her death thirty years ago, on 19 October 1987. The film contains archive...
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Dame Janet Baker Sings
Mary Marquis introduces a concert recorded in the Queen's Hall, Edinburgh in 1981 with Dame Janet Baker. She performs Mendelssohn's concert aria...
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