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.

Known For
Directing
Born
March 21, 1931 (age 94)
Place of Birth
Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, UK
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1976

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

1976

Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema

1965

The Golden Ring

1959

Gordon Jacob

2006

Glenn Gould: Hereafter

1978

Marevna and Marika

2014

Karajan's Magic and Myth

1991

La Stupenda

2009

Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould

2008

Herbert von Karajan: Maestro for the Screen

1971

Elton John: Mr. Superfunk

1976

The Story of Pantomime

2017

The Opera House

2023

How the BBC Began

2023

BBC Young Musician

2023

Conversations with Glenn Gould

1973

Trouble in Tahiti

1974

The Marriage of Figaro

1972

Das Lied von der Erde: A Personal Introduction

2003

Vincent in Brixton

1976

Bernstein Gerhswin & Ives

1994

Eugene Onegin

1985

The Little Drummer Boy: An Essay on Mahler by Leonard Bernstein

1987

Neujahrskonzert der Wiener Philharmoniker 1987

1998

Rodelinda

1996

Merry Christmas from Vienna

1996

Lulu

1995

Ermione

1987

Die Entführung aus dem Serail

1984

Die Fledermaus

1985

The Making Of West Side Story

1997

Manon Lescaut

1985

Andrea Chénier

1982

Verdi: Requiem

1989

Leonard Bernstein - Bernstein - Candide

2002

The Return of Ulysses to his Homeland

1990

Boris Godunov

1965

The Golden Ring

1987

Krystian Zimerman: Chopin/Schubert

1984

Joseph Haydn Mass: In Tempore belli

1967

Benjamin Britten and His Festival

1988

Candide

1991

War and Peace

1976

The Unanswered Question V : The Twentieth Century Crisis

1976

The Unanswered Question VI : The Poetry of Earth

1976

The Unanswered Question I : Musical Phonology

1976

The Unanswered Question II : Musical Syntax

1976

The Unanswered Question III : Musical Semantics

1976

The Unanswered Question IV : The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity

1983

Carlos Kleiber: Beethoven - Symphonies 4 & 7

1977

Leonard Bernstein conducts Stravinsky & Bach

1991

Candide

2000

Falstaff

1984

Bernstein Brahms Symphonies

1977

Beethoven Symphony No. 9

1986

Liszt Annees de Pelerinage

2007

Bach The Cello Suites

2007

Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos. 3, 4 & 5

1991

Mozart Requiem

2007

Brahms Academic Festival, Tragic Overtures/ Variations on a Theme by Haydn/Serenade No. 2

2006

Mozart Great Mass in C Minor; Ave Verum Corpus; Exsultate Jubilate

2007

Rostropovich Life & Art

1976

Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 4, 5 & 6

1976

Bernstein Mahler Rehearsal

1973

Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 & 3

2005

Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 9 & 10 / Das Lied von der Erde

1975

Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8

1975

Bernstein: Tchaikovsky: Symphonies No. 4 & 5

1978

Bernstein Beethoven Overtures

1961

Antonio Gaudí

1984

Brahms The Piano Concertos

1991

The Very Strange Story of the Legendary Joe Meek

1987

Herbert Von Karajan - New Year's Concert Vienna 1987

1965

The Golden Ring

1970

Bernstein in Vienna: Beethoven, The Ninth Symphony

1970

Beethoven's Birthday: A Celebration in Vienna with Leonard Bernstein

1970

Beethoven's Birthday: A Celebration in Vienna with Leonard Bernstein

1970

Beethoven's Birthday: A Celebration in Vienna with Leonard Bernstein

1977

Leonard Bernstein: Chichester Psalms Symphony No's 1 & 2

1987

Ivo Pogorelich: Bach, Scarlatti, Beethoven

1985

Bach: St. John Passion

1990

Prince Igor

1989

Ode to Freedom

2009

Haydn: The Creation (Bernstein)

1998

A Gala Christmas in Vienna

1962

Elgar: Portrait of a Composer

2008

Schumann: The Symphonies - Leonard Bernstein

2010

Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 5 & 7 - Leonard Bernstein & Wiener Philharmoniker

2023

The Unanswered Question - Six Talks at Harvard by Leonard Bernstein

2023

BBC Young Musician

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