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.
Filmography (17)
How the BBC Began
The Opera House- Karajan's Magic and Myth
Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould
Herbert von Karajan: Maestro for the Screen
Glenn Gould: Hereafter
La Stupenda
BBC Young Musician- Marevna and Marika
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
Omnibus
Conversations with Glenn Gould
The Golden Ring
Gordon Jacob
Crew (84)
- Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 5 & 7 - Leonard Bernstein & Wiener Philharmoniker
- Haydn: The Creation (Bernstein)
- Bernstein | Beethoven Symphonies 3,4,5
- Schumann: The Symphonies - Leonard Bernstein
- Bernstein | Beethoven Symphonies 2,6,7
- Leonard Bernstein - Schubert: Symphony No. 9 / Schumann: Manfred Overture
- Bernstein conducts Bernstein
- Rostropovich Life & Art
- 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
- 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
- The Return of Ulysses to his Homeland
- Falstaff
- Rodelinda
- A Gala Christmas in Vienna
- Manon Lescaut
- Merry Christmas from Vienna
- Lulu
- Ermione
- Eugene Onegin
- War and Peace
- The Very Strange Story of the Legendary Joe Meek
- Candide
- Mozart Requiem
- Prince Igor
- Boris Godunov
- Charles Mingus: Epitaph
- Leonard Bernstein - Bernstein - Candide
- Ode to Freedom
- Candide
- Herbert Von Karajan - New Year's Concert Vienna 1987
- Die Entführung aus dem Serail
- Neujahrskonzert der Wiener Philharmoniker 1987
- Krystian Zimerman: Chopin/Schubert
- Ivo Pogorelich: Bach, Scarlatti, Beethoven
- Liszt Annees de Pelerinage
- The Making Of West Side Story
- 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
- Bernstein/Beethoven
- Verdi: Requiem
- Bernstein Beethoven Overtures
- Leonard Bernstein: Chichester Psalms Symphony No's 1 & 2
- Beethoven Symphony No. 9
- Leonard Bernstein conducts Stravinsky & Bach
- Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 4, 5 & 6
- 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
- The Unanswered Question V : The Twentieth Century Crisis
- Bernstein Mahler Rehearsal
- Bernstein Gerhswin & Ives
- The Unanswered Question - Six Talks at Harvard by Leonard Bernstein
- Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8
- Bernstein: Tchaikovsky: Symphonies No. 4 & 5
- The Marriage of Figaro
- Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 & 3
- Trouble in Tahiti
- Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, “Resurrection” – Leonard Bernstein – Ely Cathedral
- Das Lied von der Erde: A Personal Introduction
- Bernstein in Vienna: Beethoven, The Ninth Symphony
- Beethoven's Birthday: A Celebration in Vienna with Leonard Bernstein
- Benjamin Britten and His Festival
- Elgar
- Antonio Gaudí
- Pelléas and Mélisande
- Mahler Bernstein Das Lied von Der Erde