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Tony Palmer’s Classic Film -Bird on a Wire - Leonard Cohen

Tony Palmer’s Classic Film -Bird on a Wire - Leonard Cohen
ID: TPDVD166
CDs: 1
Type: DVD
Collection:
Documentary
Subcollection: Rock, Pop

Actors: Leonard Cohen, Ron Cornelius, Bob Johnston, Peter Marshal, David O'Connor
Directors: Tony Palmer
Studio: Umbrella Entertainment

Region Code: DVD; NTSC; 0 all regions
Screen (Picture) Format: 16:9
Color mode: Colour, B&W, Wide Screen
Sound: Dolby Digital Stereo
Language: English
Subtitles: Français, English
Language Note: With optional English and French subtitles.
Number of discs: 1
Run Time: 106 minutes

Leonard Norman Cohen Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet and novelist.

First time on DVD for this classic concert film. Originally released in 1972 and directed by celebrated British filmmaker Tony Palmer, Bird On A Wire follows Cohen on his 1972 European tour and contains 17 classic performances, four poems and tour footage. After several edits it was re-released in 1974. Like many films from the era, it was thought that the original print had been lost, but in 2009 more than 290 rolls of film in rusted cans were discovered containing much of the original rushes and soundtrack of the 1972 film. Tony Palmer was able to restore much of this footage and it is now available on DVD for the first time. Also includes a limited edition reproduction of the iconic 1972 film poster and is in deluxe digipak packaging.
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Tony Palmer’s Film About The Wagner Family

Tony Palmer’s Film About  The Wagner Family
ID: TPDVD172
CDs: 1
Type: DVD
Collection:
Movies

Tony Palmer - Director, Editor
Rob Ayling - Executive Producer
Region: 0 (All Regions)
Rating: E (Exempt from Certification)
Picture Format: NTSC (all)
Language: English
Number of discs: 1
Studio: Tony Palmer Films
DVD Release Date: May 17, 2011
Duration: 106 minutes


New DVD from director Tony Palmer telling the story of the Wagner family.

This brand new DVD from the acclaimed director Tony Palmer tells the controversial story of the Wagner family. It was originally broadcast in September 2009 on ITV1 as one of the final programmes of The South Bank Show and is now being made available in an extended version.
This is a film about a family, a family which has ruled the theatre in Bayreuth in southern Germany for the last 140 years, some say still the greatest theatre in the world. There's no doubt that Richard Wagner who built it was the most influential composer in the whole of the 19th Century. But his family has survived a mixture of lies, deception, fraud and dangerous political alliances. The story of this family is a soap opera that makes Coronation Street look like Noddy-in-Toyland. It’s a family - in many ways the Royal family of Germany - at war with itself.
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Tony Palmer’s Film - Valentina Igoshina plays Chopin

Tony Palmer’s Film - Valentina Igoshina plays Chopin
ID: TPDVD161
CDs: 1
Type: DVD
Collection:
Documentary
Subcollection: Piano

Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Language: English
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
Screen (Picture) Format: 16:9
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 1
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: United States Dist
DVD Release Date: May 4, 2010
Run Time: 58 minutes


This DVD of a specially recorded recital features the beautiful young Russian pianist, Valentina Igoshina performing much of the music contained in Tony Palmer’s classic film: The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka - The Mystery of Chopin.
Igoshina is an internationally acclaimed pianist who is best known for her interpretations of Chopin and Rachmaninoff. She has appeared as a soloist with many famous orchestras including the Royal Concertegebouw Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra and The Hallé.
In an article in Gramophone (September, 2008) "Chopin Reprogrammed and a Vital Young Russian Relishes the Task," Bryce Morrison said “she relishes every aspect of Chopin's enchanting urbanity, his alternating exuberance and introspection, his light and shade." Her recording “Chopin: Complete Waltzes” was chosen by Classic FM magazine as its November 2008 ‘Disc of the Month’.
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Mendelssohn - A Midsummer Night's Dream - incidental music, Op. 61 Choreography - George Balanchine

Mendelssohn - A Midsummer Night's Dream - incidental music, Op. 61
Choreography - George Balanchine
ID: OAHD5003D
CDs: 1
Type: DVD
Collection:
Documentary

Dancer: Patricia Barker, Paul Gibson, Seth Belliston, Lisa Apple, Julie Tobiason, Ross Yearsley, Jeffrey Stanton, Timothy Lynch
Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Classical, Colour, Dolby, PAL
Language: English
Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.78:1
Number of discs: 1
Classification: Exempt
Studio: Opus Arte
DVD Release Date: 1 Oct 2007
Run Time: 94 minutes

Choreographed by the artistic genius George Balanchine, Shakespeare's comedy of magic and love's delusions, set to the music of Felix Mendelssohn, is a guaranteed favourite. The Pacific Northwest Ballet is recorded live at London's newly restored Sadler's Wells Theatre in February 1999, with the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Stewart Kershaw in this award-winning production. Filmed in High Definition BLU-RAY.
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Tony Palmer's Film About Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow

Tony Palmer's Film About Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow
ID: TPDVD152
CDs: 1
Type: DVD
Subcollection: Biography Movie

Director: Tony Palmer
Producer: Mike Bluett

Format: Classical, Color, DVD, NTSC
Language: English
Subtitles: English, Italiano
..Region: All Regions
Screen (Picture) Format: 16:9
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number of discs: 1
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Tony Palmer Films
DVD Release Date: September 15, 2009
Run Time: 102 minutes


Rachmaninoff’s passionate music is more popular today than it has ever been. This 100-minute documentary, filmed in Russia, Switzerland and America, made with the full participation of the composer’s grandson, Alexander Rachmaninoff, celebrates the life and work of a remarkable musician and composer of genius who, forced into exile in 1917, became the greatest pianist of his day.
Featuring soloists Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Mikhail Pletnev (with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Claudio Abbado, and his own Russian National Orchestra),Valentina Igoshina, Peter Jablonski, Nikolai Putilin and the Kirov Orchestra and Chorus of the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg (with which Rachmaninoff was intimately associated) are conducted by Valery Gergiev. Tony Palmer’s film, with Rachmaninoff’s own words spoken by Sir John Gielgud, is a unique and loving insight into a world long gone, but definitely not forgotten.
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Tony Palmer's Classic Film About The Wigan Casino - Northern Soul

Tony Palmer's Classic Film About The Wigan Casino - Northern Soul
ID: TPDVD156
CDs: 1
Type: DVD
Collection:
Documentary

Actors: Various Artists
Directors: Tony Palmer
Format: PAL
Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
Screen (Picture) Format: 16:9
Number of discs: 1
Classification: Exempt
Studio: Tony Palmer
DVD Release Date: 1 Feb 2010
Run Time: 26 minutes


Not just 'a' Wigan Casino documentary, Tony Palmer's The Wigan Casino is still the definitive documentary about northern soul's most famous venue, purely because the filmmaker was in the right place at the right time. Admittedly, it's been around on bootlegs for a few years, but this is the first official release. For the uninitiated, Tony Palmer went into the Wigan Casino in 1977 to produce a short documentary for Granada as part of its 'This England' series of shows, mixing footage of the club with vintage photos of a deprived Wigan and reminiscenes of elderly folk of that time. It wasn't much better in the mid-70s, but the Casino footage shows how life can be better - even just for a night.

Product Description
The Wigan Casino was not a gambling den near Manchester, anymore than The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell is about a funfair by the seaside, although curiously the two are inextricably related. The Wigan Casino was a dance hall and home to Northern Soul' at the height of its fashion in the mid- to late 70s in the centre of a once prosperous manufacturing town, once bursting with cotton mills, now brought low by economic hard times. It remains the most famous club in Northern England. From Friday night, non-stop until early Sunday morning, it was packed with kids from all over Britain who had come together to enjoy their music in their environment without interference (or so they hoped) from either parents or the police. The police were convinced it was a druggies paradise, and although they never found a shred of evidence, used this blind suspicion (and the excuse of a minor fire) to eventually close it down in 1981. What they could never close, however, was the sound and even more importantly an incredible style of dancing invented there which became known worldwide as breakdancing'. Again a grim background of industrial slums, unemployment and social deprivation, this dancing expressed inner joy and fulfilment, and this film, made in 1977 for the now defunct Granada Television, is a celebration of that joy.
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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Tony Palmer's Film About the World of Peter Sellers

Tony Palmer's Film About the World of Peter Sellers
ID: TPDVD147
CDs: 1
Type: DVD
Collection:
Documentary
Subcollection: Biography Movie

Actors: Peter Sellers
Directors: Tony Palmer

Format: Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English
Region: 0, All Regions
Screen (Picture) Format: 16:9
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Number of discs: 1
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Tony Palmer Films
DVD Release Date: September 15, 2009
Run Time: 48 minutes

The original 1971 (uncut) intimate study with and about the legendary actor which, as he later admitted, was “the only portrait which really understood me”. Banned by the BBC at the time, this devastating film reveals the full tragedy of a man who had everything, but believed he had nothing. With contributions from RINGO STARR, RAQUEL WELCH, LAURENCE HARVEY, YUL BRYNNER, HARVEY ORKIN, KENNETH TYNAN, GRAHAM STARK and especially SPIKE MILLIGAN and other friends who loved him.

Performance Credits
Peter Sellers - (Films)(Biography)(Music) - Participant
Technical Credits
Tony Palmer Director, Editor
Graham Bunn - Editor
John Hooper - Cinematographer
Dave King - Editor
John Pike - Cinematographer
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Tony Palmer's Masterpiece -H. Gorecki: Symphony of Sorrowful Songs

Tony Palmer's Masterpiece -H. Gorecki: Symphony of Sorrowful Songs
ID: TPDVD102
CDs: 1
Type: DVD
Collection:
Documentary
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra

Region Code: NTSC color broadcast system : Plays in all territories
Presentation: Wide Screen
Color mode: Colour
Screen (Picture) Format: 16:9, Aspect Ratio
Duration: 53 mins
Language Note: Performance and commentary in Polish with optional subtitles in English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish.
Sound Format: Dolby Digital Stereo
DVD Format: DVD VIDEO
Notes: Booklet with program notes and English translation of texts inserted in container.

The Symphony actually dates from 1976 when Górecki was (as he tells us in the film) a 'non-person' in the political sense, when his music was banned in his native Katowice in Poland. He told me that its inspiration had come from a book he had found about the Nazi occupation of Poland. In the footnotes there was an example of the different messages scratched on the walls of a Gestapo prison. One, written by a young girl, said only: "Mama, don't cry". Very simple. Nothing melodramatic or even tragic, but a heartfelt cry that scorched the soul. At an early performance in Paris, a music critic whispered in Górecki's ear "Merde!" At the first screening of the film in 1993, the then commissioning editor of music programmes on Channel FOUR said: "what rubbish is this?" Now, only a few years later, no-one can remember either of their names. Melvyn Bragg showed the film on The South Bank Show, and even managed to persuade the hierarchy of ITV that it would be an abomination to disrupt the film with any commercial breaks for, say, Durex. The 53 minute film was shown uninterrupted, an acceptance perhaps of the urgency of its content. "I wanted to express a great sorrow", Górecki says. "The war...the rotten times under Communism...our life today...the starving. What madness! This sorrow, it burns inside me. I cannot shake it off".
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Tony Palmer's Film About Callas - M. Callas: La Divina - A Portrait: 30th Anniversary:

Tony Palmer's Film About Callas - M. Callas: La Divina - A Portrait: 30th Anniversary:
ID: TPDVD103
CDs: 1
Type: DVD
Collection:
Documentary

Region Code: NTSC Plays in all territories
Medium:DVD Video
Presentation: Wide Screen
Sound: Dolby Digital Stereo
Language: English
Subtitles: French, Italian, German, Spanish
Color mode: Colour
Screen (Picture) Format: 16:9, Aspect Ratio
Duration: 92 mins



There are so many astonishing facts about Maria Callas...

First, she was born not in Greece but in Manhattan and went to school there. Second, considering her colossal influence and in contrast to the pumped-up, preposterous, overpaid pipsqueak divas of today, her actual international career was tiny - 18 years at most. Third, and in spite of her reputation, her cancellation record was the lowest of any great singer of her day. Fourth, she rarely looked at the conductor during an opera, simply because she could not see him - she was very short-sighted, and often appeared (partly as a result) to be in a trance while on stage. Fifth, she was betrayed by most of those intimate with her throughout her life, and eventually abandoned by many of those who should have known better and who claimed to have loved her. Sixth, she died almost penniless - even her grotesquely rich long-time lover, Onassis, whose marriage to Jackie Kennedy she only discovered by watching the 6 o'clock news, had invested her money in half a cargo boat, which sank. Paradoxically, although she died 30 years ago, her records today outsell every other recorded classical artist, and single handedly keep EMI Classics afloat. Last, hers was not the most beautiful voice of her time, as she frequently admitted. Some days it worked; other days it just didn't.

In the end, those who met her in Paris in the seventies agree that she was one of the loneliest, most desperate of women they had ever encountered, slowly drugging herself to death. "Every day, thank God, is one day less", she told Di Stefano. A summons to tea (for half an hour at most) often lasted until the early hours, with the guest or guests pleaded with not to leave.

It was pathetic and horrible, but it was Callas. It was always Callas, and that was the secret and the magic. We witness on stage a broken woman who sings nakedly from her heart, about herself and her life, who acts with such incredible power and unashamed truth that we stagger back before what we know, in our hearts, is all of her. No artifice here; no vulgar posturings to which her absurd imitators - and there are many - aspire. Gheorghiu, Battle, Garrett - they cannot touch her hem.

Maria - just a woman, who often spoke of Callas in the third person, in trouble, asking, begging sometimes, for our understanding and our love. She deserves it, because there was no greater singing actress in our time. And she was only 53 when she died.Tony Palmer
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