Barrie Gavin

Beethoven - Choral Fantasy and Triple Concerto for Violin, Cello & Piano (2003)

The music is not Beethoven's most familiar, but it is absolutely charming. The concerto is appealing in its melodic material and the intricate interactions among the soloists and orchestra. The Choral Fantasy features a long piano solo that Beethoven wrote ...

Beethoven: Triple Concerto And Choral Fantasy (1995)

Daniel Barenboim conducts the Berliner Philharmoniker in performances of Beethoven's 'Triple Concerto' and 'Choral Fantasy'. Itzhak Perlman and Yo-Yo Ma are joined by Carola Höhn, Katherina Kammerloher, Andrea Bönig and Endrick Wottrich, amongst others. ...

The Threepenny Opera (1995)

The Threepenny Opera proclaims itself "an opera for beggars," and it was in fact an attempt both to satirize traditional opera and operetta and to create a new kind of musical theater based on the theories of two young German artists, composer Kurt Weill a ...

Peter Grimes (1994)

Benjamin Britten's opera as performed by the English National Opera, with Philip Langridge in the title role. ...

Kurt Weill: Street Scene (1993)

The opera takes place on the doorstep of a tenement on the East Side of Manhattan on two brutally hot days in 1946. The story focuses on two plotlines: the romance between Rose Maurrant and her neighbor Sam Kaplan; and on the extramarital affair of Rose's ...

I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Kurt Weill in America (1992)

The story of Kurt Weill 's relationship with the American popular theatre. During his years in exile on Broadway, the composer of Mack the Knife and The Alabama Song, who personified decadent Berlin, found a new life in New York, creating such standards as ...

Handel: Messiah the 250th Anniversary Performance (1992)

Sir Neville Marriner conducts this 250th Anniversary performance. Soloists include Sylvia McNair, Anne Sofie Van Otter. The performance is supported by an informative background film "For Ever and Ever", explaining the circumstances behind the composition ...

Not Mozart: Bring Me the Head of Amadeus (1991)

Composer H.K. Gruber collaborates with director Barrie Gavin on a commissioned short film to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the death of Mozart. Gods create Man, Music and Mozart. ...

Carmen by Georges Bizet (1991)

Bizet's masterwork, Carmen, directed for stage by the Spanish actress Núria Espert. Royal Opera House in Covent Garden in 1989. ...

The Fire and the Rose (1990)

A documentary on the life and work of the composer Sofia Gubaidulina. ...

Das Mauerkonzert (1989)

Silvesterkonzert der Berliner Philharmoniker 1989 - Carmina Burana (1989)

Dust in the Road (1988)

Com: BBC for documentary 'Sound on Film'.Derived from music and dance filmed in Transylvania. ...

For Memory (1986)

Charts a journey through various `memory' productions such as murals, monuments, TV histories, commemorations etc, and in so doing questions the role that historical memory plays in our society. ...

Quiet Man with Welding Torch: A Portrait of the Sculptor Julio Gonzalez 1876-1942 (1985)

Friend, instructor and student of Picasso, a welder at Renault, a painter and goldsmith – Julio González was all of these. The Catalonian gained fame as the father of modern iron sculpture and as the creator of linear sculptures. Using a welding torch, ...

The Miraculous Circumstance: Bartok, Folklorist (1983)

In 1906 the young Bela Bartok set out to discover the forgotten music of his people. He found a vast treasure of folk music all over Eastern Europe, and he called his discovery 'a miraculous circumstance'. In this film the late A. L. Lloyd retraces Bartok' ...

Costakis: The Collector (1983)

One public housing flat in Moscow stood out above all others: the home of George Costakis, the foremost collector of early 20th century Russian avant-garde art. Its walls were crowded with banned and forgotten works by artists such as Malevich, Tatlin, Kan ...

Ruddigore (1982)

The Baronet of Ruddigore, Sir Despard Murgatroyd, has inherited a family curse which forces him to commit a crime every day — or die in agony. He hates the curse, doing his heinous misdeeds as early as possible and good works for the rest of the day to c ...

Neither (1980)

Film of Morton Feldman's short opera (libretto by Samuel Beckett). ...

But Still We Sing (1979)

This BBC Bristol documentary, Narrated by Bert Lloyd looks at the Gaelic music of the Outer Hebrides. It won the Silver Harp award. Directed by Barrie Gavin. ...

Marevna and Marika (1978)

Documentary on 84-year old Marevna; painter, friend of Picasso and one-time mistress of Diego Rivera; and her daughter by Rivera, Marika; former dancer and actress. ...

One Foot in Eden (1978)

Portrait of the composer, Peter Maxwell Davies, set in the context of the islands of Orkney. George Mackay Brown is featured reading his own verse and there are quotations from the works of Edwin Muir, Robert Rendell and the ancient Orkneyinga Saga. Extrac ...

New York, New York - Saturday in SoHo/Watching My Name Go By (1976)

Humphrey Burton introduces two Omnibus USA reports on the arts in New York... that is the arts in the streets, away from the museums and the concert halls. One film is 'Saturday in Soho', an impression of artists, dancers and musicians' work and of the Soh ...

Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema (1976)

BBC documentary about the rise of the New German Cinema and several of its most important figures. ...

My Homeland (1976)

Perhaps this is Robert Vas' most personal film; a portrait of his country - Hungary - as seen through the eyes of an exile. Robert Vas escaped from his homeland after the brutal crushing of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising by the Russians and he was never able ...

Monsieur Hulot's Work (1976)

Interview with French director Jacques Tati, focusing on his on-screen persona, Monsieur Hulot. Produced for the British television series "Omnibus". ...

Beyond a Boundary (1976)

A film based on Beyond a Boundary, the classic book by C. L. R. ...

The More We Are Together (1969)

A portrait of Eric Lyons and Span, under the scrutiny of Ian Nairn, as well as the residents of their estates. ...

The Callas Conversations (1968)

1968 interview with Lord Harewood. ...

The World of Josef von Sternberg (1967)

Made for BBC Television in 1967, this 20-minute documentary features a rare interview with the director and a unique demonstration of his lighting techniques. ...

The Nomad (1967)

An interview with film director Roman Polanski, recorded for BBC TV in 1967. ...

The Movies: 'Action Speaks Louder Than Words' (1967)

An interview with American director, Anthony Mann. This documentary was first seen as episode 8 of the BBC TV series "The Movies." (A 17-minute excerpt from this show appears on the Criterion Collection's release of "The Furies. ...

Kazimir Malevich (1990)

In 1915 the Russian artist Malevich declared a Black Square on a White Background an icon of his times and thus founded a new form of art, liberated from objects – Suprematism. Supported by the Bolsheviks at first, his 'formalistic' art was soon consider ...