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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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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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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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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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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) £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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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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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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Mitsuko Uchida - Mozart in Japan (DVD) £12.99

In 1986 the Japanese pianist Mitsuko Uchida burst upon the international scene with an astonishing series of concerts comprising all 27 Mozart Piano Concertos. Conducting the English Chamber Orches...

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Peter Sellers - The World of Peter Sellers (DVD) £9.99

The original 1971 (uncut) intimate study with and about the legendary actor, which as he later admitted, was "the only portrait which really understood me". Banned by the BBC at the time, this de...

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Ralph Vaughan Williams - Vaughan Williams (DVD) £9.99

The first ever full-length film biography of the great man, produced by the multi-award-winning director Tony Palmer, is to be shown on Channel Five on New Year's day. 'Tony Palmer's ...

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Tony Palmer - The Salzburg Festival (DVD) £12.99

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 fil...

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Tony Palmer - All My Loving: Classical Compilations (DVD) £9.99

All My Loving: The Films of Tony Palmer is the first book-length study of a man who, in a career of over forty years, has directed and produced more than a hundred documentary and theatric...

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Tony Palmer - Hindemith - A Pilgrim's Progress (DVD) £9.99

The film was first shown on Melvyn Bragg’s South Bank Show. The critics were divided. Stephen Johnson, writing in The Listener, admitted that while the various thematic strands undo...

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