Humphrey Burton

DirectingBorn 1931-03-21 (94)Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, UK

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

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Humphrey Burton

Known For

Elton John: Mr. Superfunk

BBC Young Musician

The Opera House

Glenn Gould: Hereafter

Omnibus

The Golden Ring

Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould

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

Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema

Gordon Jacob

Filmography

How the BBC Began

The Opera House

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

Haydn: The Creation (Bernstein)

Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould

Bernstein conducts Bernstein

Bernstein | Beethoven Symphonies 3,4,5

Bernstein | Beethoven Symphonies 2,6,7

Schumann: The Symphonies - Leonard Bernstein

Herbert von Karajan: Maestro for the Screen

Leonard Bernstein - Schubert: Symphony No. 9 / Schumann: Manfred Overture

Sir Georg Solti The Maestro Vol. 3 (Wagner - Richard Strauss)

Sir Georg Solti The Maestro Vol. 1 (Rossini - Mendelssohn)

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

Bach The Cello Suites

Rostropovich Life & Art

Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos. 3, 4 & 5

Mozart: Requiem

Schubert Final Three Piano Sonatas D958, D959, D960 - Alfred Brendel

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

Glenn Gould: Hereafter

Bernstein in Paris: Berlioz Requiem

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

Vincent in Brixton

A Gala Christmas in Vienna

Rodelinda

Merry Christmas from Vienna

Lulu

Ermione

Candide

La Stupenda

The Very Strange Story of the Legendary Joe Meek

War and Peace

Mozart Requiem

Boris Godunov

Prince Igor

Charles Mingus: Epitaph

Ode to Freedom

Leonard Bernstein - Bernstein - Candide

Candide

Die Entführung aus dem Serail

Krystian Zimerman: Chopin/Schubert

Neujahrskonzert der Wiener Philharmoniker 1987

Herbert Von Karajan - New Year's Concert Vienna 1987

Ivo Pogorelich: Bach, Scarlatti, Beethoven

Liszt Annees de Pelerinage

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

Bach: St. John Passion

The Making Of West Side Story

Andrea Chénier

Brahms The Piano Concertos

Die Fledermaus

Bernstein Brahms Symphonies

Carlos Kleiber: Beethoven - Symphonies 4 & 7

Verdi: Requiem

Bernstein/Beethoven

Bernstein Beethoven Overtures

BBC Young Musician

Beethoven Symphony No. 9

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

The Story of Pantomime

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

Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema

Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 4, 5 & 6

Bernstein Mahler Rehearsal

The Unanswered Question V : The Twentieth Century Crisis

The Unanswered Question VI : The Poetry of Earth