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.
Cast
New York, New York - Saturday in SoHo/Watching My Name Go By
Presenter
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
Self - Host
The Golden Ring
Himself - Narrator
Gordon Jacob
Commentator
Glenn Gould: Hereafter
Self
Marevna and Marika
Himself
Karajan's Magic and Myth
Self
La Stupenda
Self
Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould
Self (archival footage)
Herbert von Karajan: Maestro for the Screen
Self
Elton John: Mr. Superfunk
Self
The Story of Pantomime
Self
The Opera House
Self - BBC Arts Reporter
Crew
Trouble in Tahiti
Executive Producer
The Marriage of Figaro
Producer
Das Lied von der Erde: A Personal Introduction
Director
Vincent in Brixton
Director
Bernstein Gerhswin & Ives
Director
Eugene Onegin
Director
The Little Drummer Boy: An Essay on Mahler by Leonard Bernstein
Director
Neujahrskonzert der Wiener Philharmoniker 1987
Director
Die Fledermaus
Director
Ermione
Director
Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Director
Lulu
Director
Merry Christmas from Vienna
Director
The Making Of West Side Story
Producer
Rodelinda
Director
Manon Lescaut
Director
Andrea Chénier
Director
Verdi: Requiem
Director
Leonard Bernstein - Bernstein - Candide
Director
The Return of Ulysses to his Homeland
Director
Boris Godunov
Director
The Golden Ring
Producer, Director
Krystian Zimerman: Chopin/Schubert
Director
Joseph Haydn Mass: In Tempore belli
Director
Benjamin Britten and His Festival
Executive Producer
Candide
Director
War and Peace
Director
The Unanswered Question V : The Twentieth Century Crisis
Director
The Unanswered Question VI : The Poetry of Earth
Director
The Unanswered Question I : Musical Phonology
Director
The Unanswered Question II : Musical Syntax
Director
The Unanswered Question IV : The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity
Director
The Unanswered Question III : Musical Semantics
Director
Carlos Kleiber: Beethoven - Symphonies 4 & 7
Director
Leonard Bernstein conducts Stravinsky & Bach
Director
Candide
Director
Falstaff
Director
Bernstein Brahms Symphonies
Director
Beethoven Symphony No. 9
Director
Liszt Annees de Pelerinage
Director
Bach The Cello Suites
Director
Brahms Academic Festival, Tragic Overtures/ Variations on a Theme by Haydn/Serenade No. 2
Director
Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos. 3, 4 & 5
Director
Mozart Requiem
Director
Mozart Great Mass in C Minor; Ave Verum Corpus; Exsultate Jubilate
Director
Rostropovich Life & Art
Director
Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 4, 5 & 6
Director
Bernstein Mahler Rehearsal
Director
Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 & 3
Director
Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 9 & 10 / Das Lied von der Erde
Director
Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8
Director
Bernstein: Tchaikovsky: Symphonies No. 4 & 5
Director
Bernstein Beethoven Overtures
Director
Antonio Gaudí
Producer
Brahms The Piano Concertos
Director
The Very Strange Story of the Legendary Joe Meek
Producer
Herbert Von Karajan - New Year's Concert Vienna 1987
Director
Beethoven's Birthday: A Celebration in Vienna with Leonard Bernstein
Writer, Director, Producer
Bernstein in Vienna: Beethoven, The Ninth Symphony
Director
Leonard Bernstein: Chichester Psalms Symphony No's 1 & 2
Director
Ivo Pogorelich: Bach, Scarlatti, Beethoven
Director
Bach: St. John Passion
Director
Prince Igor
Director
Ode to Freedom
Director
Haydn: The Creation (Bernstein)
Director
A Gala Christmas in Vienna
Director
Elgar: Portrait of a Composer
Producer
Schumann: The Symphonies - Leonard Bernstein
Director
Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 5 & 7 - Leonard Bernstein & Wiener Philharmoniker
Director
Schubert Final Three Piano Sonatas D958, D959, D960 - Alfred Brendel
Director
Mozart: Requiem
Director
Sir Georg Solti The Maestro Vol. 3 (Wagner - Richard Strauss)
Director
Sir Georg Solti The Maestro Vol. 1 (Rossini - Mendelssohn)
Director
Bernstein | Beethoven Symphonies 3,4,5
Director
Bernstein | Beethoven Symphonies 2,6,7
Director
Leonard Bernstein - Schubert: Symphony No. 9 / Schumann: Manfred Overture
Director
Bernstein in Paris: Berlioz Requiem
Director
Bernstein conducts Bernstein
Director
Pelléas and Mélisande
Director
Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, “Resurrection” – Leonard Bernstein – Ely Cathedral
Director