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Tony Palmer’s Film About Puccini

Tony Palmer’s Film About Puccini
ID: TPDVD115
CDs: 1
Type: DVD
Subcollection: Biography Movie

This documentary is an intimate look into the story of Doria Manfredi and of her relationship with Puccini, and the opera that came about as a result. “Turandot” tells the story of a local girl that went to work for the Puccinis as a maid. After a few years, Puccini’s wife, Elvira, became convinced that her husband had been having an affair with the young girl. As a result of the rumors she spread, Doria was shunned by the community, and eventually took her own life.

Robert Stevens and Virginia McKenna stars in this Charles Wood film about Puccini. Included is music performed by The Scottish Opera Chorus and Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Sir Alexander Gibson. The film is produced by Simon Channing-Williams. Judith Howarth, Robert Urquhart, Bil Fraser, William Squire, Peter Woodthorpe, Andrew Cruickshank, Phil McCall, Rupert Graves, Ronald Pickup, Linda Esther Gray, Willard White, Eduardo Alvares, Marie Slorach, Alan Okie, Hugh Hetherington, and Gordon Christie also star.

Performance Credits
Robert Stephens -(Films), (Biography), (Music) Actor
Virginia McKenna -(Films), (Biography) Actor
Judith Howarth -(Films) Actor, Doria Manfredi
Eduardo Alvares -(Films) Calaf
Phyllis Cannan - Turandot
Gordon Christie - Pong
Andrew Cruickshank - Father Michelucci
Bill Fraser - Fucini, the Lawyer
Rupert Graves - Tomio, Puccini's Son
Linda Esther Gray - Turandot
Hugh Hetherington - Pang
Phil McCall - Gnicche
Alan Okie - Ping
Ronald Pickup - Giulio Ricordi
Elvira Puccini - Actor
Marie Slorach - Liu
William Squire - Giacchi, the Doctor
Robert Urquhart - Doria's Father
Willard White - Timur
Peter Woodthorpe - Umberto Manfredi
Sir Alexander Gibson - Conductor

Technical Credits
Tony Palmer Director
Simon Channing-Williams Producer
Charels Wood Screenwriter


Format: Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language: English
Subtitles: French, German, Italian, Spanish
Region: NTSC, All Regions
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Tony Palmer Films
Run Time: 113 minutes
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Tony Palmer's Film of "O Thou Transcendent" - The Life of Ralph Vaughan Williams

Tony Palmer's Film of  "O Thou Transcendent" - The Life of Ralph Vaughan Williams
ID: TPDVD106
CDs: 1
Type: DVD
Collection: Documentary
Subcollection: Biography Movie

Actors: Thomas Allen, Jill Balcon, Barbara Dickson, English Chamber Orchestra, Brian Kay
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Language: English
Region: All Regions
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Tony Palmer Films
DVD Release Date: February 26, 2008
Run Time: 148 minutes

The first ever full-length film biography of the great composer, produced by the multi-award winning director, Tony Palmer.
The Last Ever Interview with Ursula Vaughan Williams

Tony Palmer's film is now complete. Undoubtedly controversial it will also be very important in raising awareness of RVW. Two and a half hours long, it looks at Vaughan Williams' life as a disturbed and frustrated one. Powerful with some harrowing imagery, the film firmly dispels the myth that VW was a cuddly folk song collector and recycler who was affectionately known as "Uncle Ralph". As well as exploring his musical legacy, Palmer also focuses on the human side of VW. His frustration at living in a cosy market town, looking after an invalid wife (which he did devotedly) and the fury as well as the kindness and humanity which were all features of his remarkable character and which in their turn affected his music. The music passages are superbly played and filmed.


Performance Credits
The National Orchestra of Hungarian Radio - (Films) - Participant
The National Youth Orchestra - (Films) - Participant
Adrian Boult - (Films)(Music) - Participant
Nicola Benedetti - (Films) - Participant
The Archbishop of Canterbury - - Participant
Jordi Savall - Participant
The BBC Chorus - Participant
Stephen Jackson Chorus Master
Anna Stéphany - Participant
Simon Keenlyside - Participant
Joan Rodgers - Participant
Martin Carthy - Participant
Eliza Carthy - Participant
Harrison Birtwistle - Participant
English Chamber Orchestra - Participant
London Philharmonic Orchestra - Participant
Gloucester Cathedral Choir - Participant
John Adams - Participant
Neil Tennant - Participant
Richard Thompson - Participant
Mark-Anthony Turnage - Participant
Michael Kennedy - Participant
Roy Douglas - Participant
David Willcocks - Participant
Lady Barbirolli - Participant
Kiffer Finzi - Participant
Imogen Holst - Participant
Michael Tippett - Participant
Lord Armstrong - Participant
Bill Llewellyn - Participant
Milo Keynes - Participant
André Previn - Participant
Brian Kay - Participant
Stephen Johnson - Participant
Jerrold Northrop Moore - Participant
Hervey Fisher - Participant
Jill Balcon - Participant
John Amis - Participant
John Noble - Participant
Tom Allen - Participant
Barbara Dickson - Participant
Sarah Walker - Participant
Hugh Cobbe - Participant
Ursula Vaughan Williams - Participant
Sian Edwards - Conductor
Andrew Nethsingha - Conductor
Tamas Vasary - Conductor


Technical Credits
Tony Palmer Director, Editor
Kim Peat Executive Producer
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Tony Palmer's Film About The Fantastic World of Michael Crawford

Tony Palmer's Film About The Fantastic World of Michael Crawford
ID: TPDVD123
CDs: 1
Type: DVD
Collection: Documentary
Subcollection: Biography Movie

Michael Crawford has starred in some of the biggest box-office hits of all time. From Frank Spencer in Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, to the original Phantom in Phantom of the Opera, both in London's West End and on Broadway; from circus showman in Barnum to EFX, the multi-million extravaganza at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, the biggest hotel in the world, which he dominated for over two years, playing Merlin, Houdini and H.G.Wells, and which broke all existing box office records. He is the only actor to have won an Olivier Award as 'Best Actor' at the same time as 'Best Actor in a Musical'. And then there was Hello Dolly with Barbra Streisand, The Knack, How I Won the War with John Lennon… And all this for a man whose first stage role was in an opera by Benjamin Britten!
This is a behind-the-scenes intimate portrait of one of the funniest and most versatile of actors, whose popularity in the United States outshines any other British entertainer in the last 30 years, and whose television shows in Britain are just repeated and repeated in all English-speaking countries purely by public demand.

Actors: Michael Crawford
Directors: Tony Palmer

Format: Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English
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: November 11, 2008
Run Time: 91 minutes
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Tony Palmer’s Film About Holst - In The Bleak Midwinter

Tony Palmer’s Film About Holst - In The Bleak Midwinter
ID: TPDVD173
CDs: 1
Type: DVD
Collection: Documentary
Subcollection: Biography Movie

Tony Palmer - Director, Editor
Region Code: 0, All regions, NTSC
Screen (Picture) Format: 16:9
Presentation: Wide Screen
Language: English
Time: 2:17:00
This new DVD from director Tony Palmer telling the story of Gustav Holst is the first ever film about this extraordinary composer.


The first ever film about this extraordinary man - who taught himself Sanskrit, lived on a street of brothels in Algiers, cycled into the Sahara Desert, allied himself during the First World War with a "red priest"who pinned on the door of his church "prayers at noon for the victims of Imperial Aggression," who hated the words used to his most famous tune "I Vow to Thee My Country" because it was the opposite of what he believed, who distributed a newspaper called The Socialist Worker, whose music - especially The Planets - owed little or nothing to anyone, least of all the English folk song tradition, but was a very great composer who died of cancer, broken, and disillusioned, before he was 60.
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Tony Palmer's Film About Stravinsky - Once, at a Border...

Tony Palmer's Film About Stravinsky - Once, at a Border...
ID: TPDVD126
CDs: 1
Type: DVD
Collection: Documentary
Subcollection: Biography Movie

Made at the request of the Stravinsky Estate to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Stravinsky’s birth, this highly-praised and award-winning film celebrates one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century. As Paul Griffiths said in The Times, “this is a wholly wonderful film…much of this portrait is a like a miraculous image, filled with the sense of Stravinsky as man and musician, above all as Russian and believer”.R ’ S a b o u tThis autobiographical film includes documents, photographs and film neverseen publicly before. Stravinsky’s three surviving children talk about their father, and there are contributions from the late Madam Vera Stravinsky, his musical associates Robert Craft, Marie Rambert, Balanchine, Benny Goodman, Serge Lifar, Jean Cocteau, Diaghilev’s secretary, Nijinsky’s daughter, Rimsky Korsakov’s granddaughter, Nadia Boulanger, Georges Auric and many friends and colleagues. Also included in the film are important performances: Les Noces, heard here for the first time in its original scoring, Petrushka, specially recreated for the film by the Bolshoi ballet in its 1911 choreography, The Rite of Spring, the Symphonies, the Violin Concerto, The Rake’s Progress, The Symphony of Psalms…and much else.

Filmed in communist Russia, France, Switzerland, Latvia, New York and Los Angeles, with the London Symphony Orchestra, the London Sinfonietta, Westminster Abbey Choir, the State Choir of Latvia, the National Radio Orchestra of the U.S.S.R., the Royal Ballet…… Finally, there is priceless film of Stravinsky himself, talking, remembering, conducting, at work and at home and in the room in which he actually composed The Rite of Spring, in this altogether unique portrait.

Directors: Tony Palmer
Format: Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English
Region: All Regions
Screen (Picture) Format: 16:9
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Tony Palmer Films
DVD Release Date: November 18, 2008
Run Time: 166 minutes
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Silent Wagner - Richard Wagner

Silent Wagner - Richard Wagner
ID: TPDVD171
CDs: 1
Type: DVD
Subcollection: Education

Directors: Carl Frohlich
Commentary: Tony Palmer

Format: DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Region: 0, All Regions, NTSC
Number of discs: 1
DVD Release Date: December 6, 2011
Run Time: 82 minutes
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Sound: Stereo
Classification: E (Exempt from Certification)
Release Date 17th October 2011

The film ‘The Life and Works of Richard Wagner’, directed by Carl Fröhlich, was first released on 20th November 1913. It was the first ever ‘bio-pic’, and as such about who else but Wagner? What is extraordinary, however, is that it predates D.W.Griffiths and ‘Birth of a Nation’, usually described as the first ‘long’ silent, at a time when the great majority of silents ran for 10 minutes at most. Fröhlich’s film runs for over 80 minutes! The DVD includes commentary from acclaimed director Tony Palmer.
Starring Giuseppe Becce as the composer (he later became a distinguished composer himself for almost 100 talkies), and made when Wagner’s widow Cosima was still omnipotent in Germany, it raises the question for instance of who exactly was Wagner’s father? Was it Ludwig Geyer, the Jew? Fröhlich went on to have a chequered career. A member of the Nazi party from 1933, he was eventually appointed President of the Reichsfilmkammer, the Nazi trade organisation which controlled access to all film activities. At the end of the war he was arrested and, although de-Nazified in 1948, his studio having been badly damaged during the war never resumed production. His films were then confiscated by the Federal Republic! This film has been fully restored from the original print and keeping the authentic tints to ensure it is as close to what Carl Fröhlich would have wanted.
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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 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 -The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka. The Mystery of Chopin

Tony Palmer’s Classic Film -The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka. The Mystery of Chopin
ID: TPDVD160
CDs: 1
Type: DVD
Subcollection: Biography Movie

Format: DVD, NTSC
Color mode: Colour and Black and White
Language: English, German Voice Over
Subtitles: German, Spanish, English
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
Screen (Picture) Format: 16:9
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Video: Widescreen 1.85:1 Color (Anamorphic)
Number of discs: 1
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: United States Dist
DVD Release Date: May 4, 2010
Run Time: 109 minutes

Performance Credits
Paul Rhys (Films)(Biography) -Chopin
Penelope Wilton (Films)(Biography) - Delfina/Paulina
John Shrapnel (Films) - Iwaszkiewic
Corin Redgrave (Films)(Biography) - Actor
Terence Rigby - Sydow
Patricia Quinn - George Sand
John Fortune -Actor
John Bird - Actor
Peter Woodthorpe - Actor
Michael Gough -Actor
Vernon Dobtcheff - Actor

Technical Credits
Tony Palmer - Director, Editor
Michela Antonello - Producer Writers
Rob Ayling - Executive Producer
Clive Barda -Cinematographer
David Forrest - Executive Producer

Reissue of director Tony Palmer’s 1999 feature film.
In 1945, the new Polish Government asked for the heart of Chopin previously buried in Paris. A woman called Paulina Czernika approached the Polish Government claiming to have some love letters from the composer to her greatgrandmother, the Countess Delfina Potocka. Eventually alarmed, the Ministry began a witch-hunt against Madame Czernika - Delfina Potocka was the only woman to whom Chopin had dedicated any music - these letters were said to be pornographic, anti-Semitic and thoroughly damaging to the image of the composer as a Polish hero. Czernika ‘committed suicide’ on 17th October 1949, 100 years to the day after the death of Chopin - or was she murdered, and if so, why? Were the letters in fact forgeries? And what was the truth about Delfina Potocka?
Tony Palmer’s dramatised film tells the story of Czernika Potocka, probing a veritable mystery in a series of parallel scenes from 1945 and 1845. New light is shed on Chopin himself, not least in the interpretation of the music brought to life miraculously by the beautiful young Russian pianist, Valentina Igoshina.
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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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