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Humphrey Burton

Author, broadcaster, director and producer. First Head of Music and Arts for BBC Television 1965-1967. Resumed the position again from 1975-1981 after an eight year absence in commercial television as a founder-member of London Weekend Television. For his work as a director, he has won four Emmy Awards, two British Academy Awards and as a presenter received the Royal Television Society Silver medal and Sony Gold Award.

On screen

  • The Opera House
  • Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould
  • Herbert von Karajan: Maestro for the Screen
  • Glenn Gould: Hereafter
  • La Stupenda
  • Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
  • The Story of Pantomime
  • New York, New York - Saturday in SoHo/Watching My Name Go By
  • Elton John: Mr. Superfunk
  • The Golden Ring
  • Gordon Jacob

Behind the camera

  • Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 5 & 7 - Leonard Bernstein & Wiener Philharmoniker
  • Haydn: The Creation (Bernstein)
  • Schumann: The Symphonies - Leonard Bernstein
  • Bernstein | Beethoven Symphonies 3,4,5
  • Bernstein | Beethoven Symphonies 2,6,7
  • Leonard Bernstein - Schubert: Symphony No. 9 / Schumann: Manfred Overture
  • Bernstein conducts Bernstein
  • Bach The Cello Suites
  • Brahms Academic Festival, Tragic Overtures/ Variations on a Theme by Haydn/Serenade No. 2
  • Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos. 3, 4 & 5
  • Rostropovich Life & Art
  • Mozart: Requiem
  • Sir Georg Solti The Maestro Vol. 3 (Wagner - Richard Strauss)
  • Sir Georg Solti The Maestro Vol. 1 (Rossini - Mendelssohn)
  • Mozart Great Mass in C Minor; Ave Verum Corpus; Exsultate Jubilate
  • Schubert Final Three Piano Sonatas D958, D959, D960 - Alfred Brendel
  • Bernstein in Paris: Berlioz Requiem
  • Bernstein in London: Verdi Requiem
  • Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 9 & 10 / Das Lied von der Erde
  • Vincent in Brixton
  • Rodelinda
  • A Gala Christmas in Vienna
  • Lulu
  • Merry Christmas from Vienna
  • Ermione
  • War and Peace
  • Candide
  • Mozart Requiem
  • Boris Godunov
  • Prince Igor
  • Charles Mingus: Epitaph
  • Leonard Bernstein - Bernstein - Candide
  • Ode to Freedom
  • Candide
  • Neujahrskonzert der Wiener Philharmoniker 1987
  • Die Entführung aus dem Serail
  • Krystian Zimerman: Chopin/Schubert
  • Herbert Von Karajan - New Year's Concert Vienna 1987
  • Ivo Pogorelich: Bach, Scarlatti, Beethoven
  • Liszt Annees de Pelerinage
  • The Little Drummer Boy: An Essay on Mahler by Leonard Bernstein
  • Andrea Chénier
  • Bach: St. John Passion
  • Die Fledermaus
  • Joseph Haydn Mass: In Tempore belli
  • Bernstein Brahms Symphonies
  • Brahms The Piano Concertos
  • Carlos Kleiber: Beethoven - Symphonies 4 & 7
  • Verdi: Requiem
  • Bernstein Beethoven Overtures
  • Beethoven Symphony No. 9
  • Leonard Bernstein: Chichester Psalms Symphony No's 1 & 2
  • Bernstein Gerhswin & Ives
  • The Unanswered Question V : The Twentieth Century Crisis
  • The Unanswered Question VI : The Poetry of Earth
  • The Unanswered Question I : Musical Phonology
  • The Unanswered Question II : Musical Syntax
  • The Unanswered Question IV : The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity
  • The Unanswered Question III : Musical Semantics
  • Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 4, 5 & 6
  • Bernstein Mahler Rehearsal
  • Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8
  • Bernstein: Tchaikovsky: Symphonies No. 4 & 5
  • Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 & 3
  • Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, “Resurrection” – Leonard Bernstein – Ely Cathedral
  • Das Lied von der Erde: A Personal Introduction
  • Beethoven's Birthday: A Celebration in Vienna with Leonard Bernstein
  • Bernstein in Vienna: Beethoven, The Ninth Symphony
  • The Golden Ring
  • Pelléas and Mélisande
  • Mahler Bernstein Das Lied von Der Erde

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