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BRAHMS, Johannes - Composers, page 28

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Wanderer Guitar Duo: M.Tedesco and G.Copiello

Wanderer Guitar Duo: M.Tedesco and G.Copiello
ID: STR37069
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Instrumental
Subcollection: Guitar

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Fantasien op.116, Intermezzi op.117, Klavierstücke op. 118 & 119

Fantasien op.116, Intermezzi op.117, Klavierstücke op. 118 & 119
ID: TLS016
CDs: 1
Type: CD

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Joseph Joachim, Klara Schumann, Johanes Brahms

Joseph Joachim, Klara Schumann, Johanes Brahms
ID: TLS064
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Subcollection: Violin

Brahms: Sonate für Klavier und Violine d-moll / D minor, Op. 108
Joachim: Drei Stücke für Violine und Klavier, Op. 2; Romanze C-Dur / C major, Bewegt
Schumann: Drei Romanzen für Violine und Klavier, Op.22
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Tony Palmer's Classic Film: Warren Mitchell as Brahms and the Singing Girls

Tony Palmer's Classic Film: Warren Mitchell as Brahms and the Singing Girls
ID: TPDVD117
CDs: 1
Type: DVD
Subcollection: Biography Movie

Source: TONY PALMER FILMS
Region Code: NTSC, Plays in all territories
Screen (Picture) Format: 16:9
Color mode: Colour
Digital re-mastering: Isolde Films 2009
Presentation: Wide Screen
Sound: Dolby Digital Stereo
Language: English
Duration: 90 mins

Starring:
Warren Mitchell as Johannes Brahms
Lori Piitz as Clara

Directed:
Tony Palmer

Music conducted:
Peter Leonard with NDR Symphony Orchestra and Choir

90 minute film directed by the acclaimed, award-winning director Tony Palmer and starring Warren Mitchell.

Brahms’ first musical experience had been playing an upright piano in the brothels of Hamburg; at the end he lived a bachelor in Vienna

I had long admired Warren Mitchell as an actor. In spite of being crippled to some extent by his most famous creation, Alf Garnett in 'Til Death Us Do Part, brilliant though he was, one always felt instinctively there was an extraordinary actor struggling to get out. And sure enough, when I saw him as Willy Loman in Miller's Death of a Salesman at the National Theatre, I knew (as did everyone else who was lucky enough to see him) that I was in the presence of greatness.

He threw himself into the part of Brahms will enormous gusto. He recognised that this was to be no ‘ordinary' composer portrait, and when the shit hit the fan as the English critics initially rubbished the film, he was its most vigorous advocate, for which I have always been grateful. What had offended more-or-less everyone was the film's affirmation that the familiar image of the stodgy old Brahms was a million miles from the truth. His first musical experience had been playing an upright piano in the brothels of Hamburg where he had grown up, and at the end of his life (in fact for the last 15 years) he had lived a bachelor in Vienna having his every need satisfied by the prostitutes of the city whom he always affectionately described as his ‘little singing girls'. None of this was thought either factually correct or (worse) relevant to his music - which of course is nonsense.

"Palmer at his most ridiculous",was one of the kinder reviews. Of course, the musical establishment was outraged. The Head of Music at the BBC (which of course refused to show the film) was heard to say "the film was disgusting."

Indeed it is, and I am glad it is so because it helped explode the myth of ‘stodgy old (bearded) Brahms' as perpetuated by dreary films such as Song of Love with Robert Walker, or Spring Symphony with Nastassja Kinski, or all those turgid, mawkish documentaries about the supposed ‘love affair' between Clara Schumann and Brahms. I've counted three made by the BBC alone. In spite of some success around the world, this film has still never been shown in Britain.

And, surprise surprise, some years after the film was finished, a new biography of Brahms by Jan Swafford, the American composer and musicologist at Boston Conservatory, was published ‘proving' (if that is the word) that everything I had ventured about Brahms' life turned out to be essentially true.

But this film is not about scoring points; rather it is a celebration of unabashed, life-enhancing, sexually explosive music. Warren Mitchell, who was more-or-less the same age as the Brahms he portrays in the film, rose to the challenge with fire in his belly. He loved all the naked girls, and who would not? Brahms did, and that's what made him the great composer he is.
TONY PALMER
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All My Loving? The films of Tony Palmer, Classical

All My Loving? The films of Tony Palmer, Classical
ID: TPDVD154
CDs: 1
Type: DVD
Collection: Documentary

Actors: Patrick Allen, Lulu, George Martin, Anthony Burgess, Derek Taylor
Directors: Tony Palmer

Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Language: English
Region: 0, All Regions
Screen (Picture) Format: 16:9
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 1
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Voiceprint
DVD Release Date: July 27, 2010
Run Time: 155 minutes


I, Berlioz --
The world of Peter Sellers --
Margot Fonteyn --
The harvest of sorrow (Rachmaninoff) --
Maria Callas --
Menuhin, a family portrait --
At the haunted end of the day (William Walton) --
O thou transcendent (Vaughn Williams) --
John Osborne and the gift of friendship --
Wagner --
A time there was (Benjamin Britten) --
Testimony (Dmitri Shostakovich) --
In from the cold? (Richard Burton) --
Once, at a border (Igor Stravinsky) --
England, my England (Henry Purcell) --
O, Fortuna! (Carl Orff & Carmina Burana) --
God Rot Turnbridge Wells (Handel) --
Puccini --
Brahms and the little singing girls --
Parsifal --
The kindness of strangers (André Previn) --
Hindemith : a pilgrim's progress --
Hero : Bobby Moore --
The Salzburg Festival.


All My Loving? The Films of Tony Palmer is the first book length study of a man who, in a career of over forty years, has directed and produced more than a hundred documentary and theatrical films, directed stage plays and operas, authored books and columns, hosted radio and television programs, and garnered dozens of awards, including multiple Italia Prizes (television’s most coveted award) - “the best director in television,” according to Ken Russell. Palmer takes us backstage to protest-and-acidfueled rock concerts with his friend John Lennon and Jimi Hendrix, glittering Las Vegas shows with Michael Crawford, legendary ballet performances with Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev, memorable stage productions with Richard Burton and playwright John Osborne, politically-charged operas with John Adams and Peter Sellars, and music festivals with Benjamin Britten in Aldeburgh, Plácido Domingo in Salzburg, Yehudi Menuhin in London, Maria Callas in Paris and Valery Gergiev in St Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre in Russia. Palmer knew them all.
In the words of renowned film critic and historian David Thomson “Palmer has made an absolutely unique contribution to films about art and music. A genius sitting in our own backyard.”
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Brahms & Mendelssohn : Violin Concertos - Walther Schneiderhan, violin

Brahms & Mendelssohn : Violin Concertos - Walther Schneiderhan, violin
ID: TUXCD1005
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Instrumental
Subcollection: Violin

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Johannes Brahms: Fantasias, Intermezzi, Piano Pieses

Johannes Brahms: Fantasias, Intermezzi, Piano Pieses
ID: TUXCD1050
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Subcollection: Piano

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E.Garajova, mezzo-soprano - NOX ET SOLITUDO - RECITAL - M.Lapsansky, piano: P.I. TCHAIKOVSKY - A. DVORAK - L. BRAHMS - S. NEMETH-SAMORINSKY - V. SOMMER - E. SUCHON

E.Garajova, mezzo-soprano - NOX ET SOLITUDO - RECITAL - M.Lapsansky, piano: P.I. TCHAIKOVSKY - A. DVORAK - L. BRAHMS - S. NEMETH-SAMORINSKY - V. SOMMER - E. SUCHON
ID: UP0151
CDs: 2
Type: CD
Collection: Vocal Recital
Subcollection: Vocal and Piano

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R. SCHUMANN - Piano Trio No.1 Op.63 - Four Pieces Op.56 - J. BRAHMS - Piano Trio Op.40 - Petrof Piano Trio - M.Chulmeisterova, piano - J.Schulmeister, violin - K.Zvak, cello

R. SCHUMANN - Piano Trio No.1 Op.63 - Four Pieces Op.56 - J. BRAHMS - Piano Trio Op.40 - Petrof Piano Trio - M.Chulmeisterova, piano - J.Schulmeister, violin - K.Zvak, cello
ID: UP0186
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Trio

Petrof Piano Trio:
Martina Schulmeisterova piano, Jan Schulmeister violin, Kamil Žvak cello
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Lev Markiz and New Synphonietta Amsterdam - Live - Vol. 1

Lev Markiz and New Synphonietta Amsterdam - Live - Vol. 1
ID: VVCD-00133
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Orchestral Works
Subcollection: Orchestra

Recorded: 4.08.1993 (9-10); 1994 (5-8); 18.07.1996 (1-4)
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