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Filmography

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Films:​

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  • Isadora [as Producer - Director Ken Russell] (1966)

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  • Alice in Wonderland [as Producer - Director Jonathan Miller] (1966)

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  • The Art of Conducting - with Georg Solti (1966)

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  • Up the Theatre - with Judi Dench (1966)

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  • Conceit (1967)

  • Benjamin Britten & his Festival (1967)

  • Burning Fiery Furnace (1967)

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  • Corbusier (1967)

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  • Twice a Fortnight - with Terry Jones & Michael Palin (1967)

  • All My Loving (1968)

  • CREAM Farewell Concert (1968)    

     

  • How It Is (1968)

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  • The World of Peter Sellers (1969) 

        

  • Rope Ladder to the Moon - Jack Bruce (1969)

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  • Fairport Convention & Colosseum (1970)   

    

  • Glad All Over (1970)

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  • National Youth Theatre  - Michael Croft (1970)

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  • 200 Motels - Frank Zappa (1971)

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  • Brighton Breezy (1971), Birmingham (1971), and The Pursuit of Happiness (1972)​​

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  • Mahler 9 (aka Four Ways to Say Farewell) - with Leonard Bernstein (1971)

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  • Ginger Baker in Africa (1971)​​​​​​

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  • Bird on a Wire - with Leonard Cohen (1972)

   

  • The World of Liberace (1972)

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  • The World of Hugh Hefner (1973) 

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  • International Youth Orchestra (1973)

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  • Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour (1974)

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  • The World of Miss World (1974)

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  • Harriet at the Circus / Harriet at Sea / Harriet in a Balloon / Harriet at War / Harriet at the Opera / Harriet at Butlins (1974)​​​​

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  • Tangerine Dream - live in Coventry Cathedral (1975)

  • All You Need is Love - 17 part series on the history of American Popular Music, with Bing Crosby, Sinatra, Rolling Stones, Dylan, Muddy Waters etc. (1975/76)

  • All This & World War II (1976)

  • The Wigan Casino - the story of break-dancing (1977)

  • Biddu (1977)

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  • The Edinburgh Festival (1977)

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  • The Mighty Wurlitzer (1978)

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  • The Edinburgh Festival Revisited (1978)

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  • The Space Movie - NASA's official 10th anniversary film, music by Mike Oldfield (1979)

 

  • Pride of Place [6 parts] (1979)

  • A Time There Was - profile of Benjamin Britten  (1979)

  • First Edition (1980)

  • At the Haunted End of the Day - profile of William Walton (1980)

  • Death in Venice - opera by Benjamin Britten  (1981)

  • Once, at a Border... - profile of Igor Stravinsky  (1982)

  • Wagner - by Charles Wood, music conducted by Georg Solti, photographed by Vittorio Storaro; with Richard Burton, Vanessa Redgrave, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, etc. (1983)

  • Primal Scream - Art Janov (1984)

  • Puccini - with Virginia McKenna & Robert Stephens (1984)

  • God Rot Tunbridge Wells - by John Osborne, with Trevor Howard (1984/85)

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  • Mozart in Japan - with Mitsuko Uchida (1986)

  • Testimony - starring Ben Kingsley (1987) 

  • Maria Callas (1987)

  • In From The Cold?  - Richard Burton (1988)

  • Dvořak in Love? - with Julian Lloyd Webber (1988) 

  • Hindemith - a Pilgrim's Progress - with John Gielgud (1989)

  • The Children - starring Kim Novak, Ben Kingsley, Geraldine Chaplin (1989)

  • Menuhin, a Family Portrait (1990)

  • I, Berlioz - with Corin Redgrave (1992)

  • The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs - Gòrecki (1993)

  • A Short Film About Loving - with Peter Sellars (1994)

  • England, my England - Henry Purcell, by John Osborne & Charles Wood; with Simon Callow and Michael Ball; music conducted by John Eliot Gardiner (1995)

  • Brahms and The Little Singing Girls - with Warren Mitchell (1996) 

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  • The fantastic World of Michael Crawford (1996)

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  • Hail Bop! - a profile of John Adams (1997)

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  • Parsifal - with Domingo & Gergiev (1997)

  • The Harvest of Sorrow - Rachmaninoff, with the Kirov Opera (1998)

  • The Kindness of Strangers  - André Previn (1998)

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  • Valentina Igoshina plays Chopin (1999)

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  • The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka - Chopin, with Penelope Wilton (1999)

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  • Foreign Aids - Pieter-Dirk Uys on tour (2001)

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  • Ladies & Gentlemen, Miss Renée Fleming     (2002) 

  • Hero - The Story of Bobby Moore - produced by David Frost (2002)

  • Toward the Unknown Region - Malcolm Arnold. A Story of Survival (2003)

  • John Osborne and The Gift of Friendship (2003)

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  • Ivry Gitlis and The Great Tradition (2004)

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  • The Adventures of Benjamin Schmid (2005)

  • Margot - Margot Fonteyn (2005)

  • The Salzburg Festival (2006)

  • O Thou Transcendent - The Life of Vaughan Williams (2007)

  • O, Fortuna! - Carl Orff  & Carmina Burana (2008)

  • Vangelis and the Journey To Ithaka (2009)

  • The Wagner Family (2010)

  • Holst - In The Bleak Midwinter (2011)

  • Wagner Boxset (2011) - 6 DVDs consisting of the Burton/Wagner epic, Domingo's Parsifal, The Wagner Family, and a bonus disc Silent Wagner, the original 1912/13 silent biopic.

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  • Falls the Shadow... - Athol Fugard (2012)    Winner of the Gold Medal at the New York Film & TV Festival 2013

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  • Britten at 100 Boxset (2012) - 4 DVDs

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  • Beware of Mr Baker (2012) - [as Executive Producer, Director Jay Bulger] Grand Jury Prize, SXSW Film Festival

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  • Nocturne - Britten (2013) Winner of the Gold Medal at the New York Film & TV Festival

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  • Great English Composers boxsets (2014)
    Italia Prize winning films
    Vol. 1: Vaughan Williams & Malcolm Arnold
    Vol. 2: Britten & Handel
    Vol. 3: Purcell & Britten's Festival

       Vol. 4: Walton & Holst

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  • Music Under The Nazis boxset (2014)  
    The Wagner Family, Carl Orff & Hindemith - a Pilgrim's Progress

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  • Cohen In Concert (2014/15)

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  • Silent Wagner - now with the original 1913 music by Giuseppe Becce (2015)

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  • The Pursuit of Happiness (2015)
    includes Brighton Breezy, Shirley MacLaine & Birmingham

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  • The Space Movie - music by Mike Oldfield  (remastered 2015)  Gold Medal, New York

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  • The Beatles and World War II (2016)

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  • Bird On A Wire - with Leonard Cohen.   Originally filmed in 1972; rescued & restored in 2010; now including the home movies (2016)   Winner of the GRIERSON PRIZE 2011

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  • Vangelis - The Tony Palmer Interviews (2016)

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  • Rachmaninoff - his letters, his home movies and his recordings (2017)

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  • Tangerine Dream in Coventry Cathedral (revised version) (2017)

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  • Instruments of the Orchestra (2017)

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  • BRITTEN box-set (2017)

       6 DVDs + CD + booklet: Britten in his own                   Words

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  • STRAVINSKY 50th anniversary box-set (2021)     DVD + double CD + booklet: Stravinsky in his own Words

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CDS - Music from the films:

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  • Music from the films compilation

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  • Stravinsky

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  • Rachmaninoff

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  • Shostakovich

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  • Fairport Convention

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  • Cohen in Concert

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  • Wagner

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