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Andre Previn - The Kindness of Strangers (DVD) £9.99

"André Previn at 80! It scarcely seems credible. This is the man who won 4 Oscars almost 50 years ago, and still maintains a full conducting, playing and composing schedule, each disci...

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Benjamin Britten - Burning Fiery Furnace (DVD) £12.99

In January 1956, on a visit to Tokyo, Britten saw a Nô-drama for the first time. In fact, he saw two different performances of the same play – Sumidagaw...

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Benjamin Britten - Death in Venice (DVD) £12.99

Death in Venice was to be Britten's last full-length opera, first performed at Snape Concert Hall on June 16, 1973. Britten was already ill, suffering from a botched heart operation, and ...

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Benjamin Britten - Benjamin Britten and His Festival (DVD) £12.99

A behind-the-scenes look at the Aldeburgh Festival and the opening by The Queen of the new concert hall at Snape. "A superb film (which) may well achieve the status of a classic, repeated a...

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Benjamin Britten - A Time There Was (DVD) £12.99

There are always dates that resonate forever in our lives – “I remember exactly what I was doing when….”; or even “I was there……” The death of Ke...

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Berlioz - I, Berlioz (DVD) £9.99

Berlioz died in 1869, broken by the failure to get his masterpiece, on which he had laboured for thirty years, performed. It was not staged complete until twenty-one years after his death. ...

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Brahms - Brahms and the Singing Girls (DVD) £9.99

I had long admired Warren Mitchell as an actor. In spite of being crippled to some extent by his most famous creation, Alf Garnett in 'Til Death Us Do Part, brilliant though he was, one ...

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Chopin - The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka (CD) £9.99

The soundtrack of Tony Palmer's film was described by the Professor of Film at Kansas University as "the most trenchant statement concerning the appropriation of art by the authoritarian state" a...

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Chopin - The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka (DVD) £9.99

In 1945, the new Polish government asked for the heart of Chopin, previously buried in Paris. A woman called Paulina Czernika approached the Polish government claiming to have some love letters fr...

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Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich - Testimony - The Story Of Shostakovich (DVD) £9.99

"Testimony is one of those comparatively rare events nowadays - a real piece of cinema. Palmer's prowess as an editor, his knack of juxtaposing image and music - something which has remained hi...

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George Frideric Handel - God Rot Tunbridge Wells - The Life Of Georg Frederic Handel (CD) £9.99

Taken from the soundtrack of the film God Rot Tunbridge Wells, this unforgettable collection of Handel’s ‘hits’ was rightly praised at the time for making Handel sound,...

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George Frideric Handel - God Rot Tunbridge Wells - The Life Of Georg Frederic Handel (DVD) £9.99

This film was originally shown in 1985 on British television, (Channel Four) to commemorate the 300th anniversary of Handel’s birth. Written by John Osborne, it strips away what ...

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Gorecki - Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs (DVD) £9.99

The Symphony actually dates from 1976 when Górecki was (as he tells us in the film) a 'non-person' in the political sense, when his music was banned in his native Katowice in Poland. H...

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Henry Purcell - England, My England (CD) £9.99

Henry Purcell is a mystery. We know where he's buried (next to Vaughan Williams in Westminster Abbey), but that's about it. We don't even know who paid for his memorial stone in the Abbey. ...

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Henry Purcell - England, My England (DVD) £9.99

Tony Palmer directs this prize-winning film 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...

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Holst - In The Bleak Midwinter (DVD) £9.99

The first ever film about this extraordinary man - who taught himself Sanskrit, lived in a street of brothels in Algiers, cycled into the Sahara Desert, allied himself during the First World War wi...

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Holst - In The Bleak Midwinter (DVD) £12.99

The first ever film about this extraordinary man - who taught himself Sanskrit, lived in a street of brothels in Algiers, cycled into the Sahara Desert, allied himself during the First World War ...

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Ivry Gitlis - Ivry Gitlis And The Great Tradition (DVD) £9.99

He is a legend even among other violinists and has been at the top of his profession for over sixty years. Probably the last of a great tradition, he is both our link to the past and our guide fo...

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John Adams - Hail Bop! A Portrait of John Adams (DVD) £9.99

He is the most performed composer of his generation. His operas Nixon in China and The Death of the Klinghoffer have been international hits, although not without a touc...

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John Osborne - The Gift of Friendship (DVD) £9.99

On May 8th 1956, Look Back in Anger changed theatrical history. It's a fact. But why? And in what ways? And could it possibly be true that Osbo...

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