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Humphrey Burton

Known For
Directing

Known Credits
17

Gender
Male

Birthday
March 21, 1931 (95 years old)

Place of Birth
Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, UK

Humphrey Burton

Biography

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

2010Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 5 & 7 - Leonard Bernstein & Wiener Philharmoniker...Director
2009Haydn: The Creation (Bernstein)...Director
2008Bernstein conducts Bernstein...Director
2008Bernstein | Beethoven Symphonies 2,6,7...Director
2008Bernstein | Beethoven Symphonies 3,4,5...Director
2008Schumann: The Symphonies - Leonard Bernstein...Director
2008Leonard Bernstein - Schubert: Symphony No. 9 / Schumann: Manfred Overture...Director
2007Sir Georg Solti The Maestro Vol. 3 (Wagner - Richard Strauss)...Director
2007Sir Georg Solti The Maestro Vol. 1 (Rossini - Mendelssohn)...Director
2007Brahms Academic Festival, Tragic Overtures/ Variations on a Theme by Haydn/Serenade No. 2...Director
2007Bach The Cello Suites...Director
2007Rostropovich Life & Art...Director
2007Mozart: Requiem...Director
2007Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos. 3, 4 & 5...Director
2006Schubert Final Three Piano Sonatas D958, D959, D960 - Alfred Brendel...Director
2006Mozart Great Mass in C Minor; Ave Verum Corpus; Exsultate Jubilate...Director
2006Bernstein in Paris: Berlioz Requiem...Director
2006Bernstein in London: Verdi Requiem...Director
2005Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 9 & 10 / Das Lied von der Erde...Director
2003Vincent in Brixton...Director
2002The Return of Ulysses to his Homeland...Director
2000Falstaff...Director
1998A Gala Christmas in Vienna...Director
1998Rodelinda...Director
1997Manon Lescaut...Director
1996Merry Christmas from Vienna...Director
1996Lulu...Director
1995Ermione...Director
1994Eugene Onegin...Director
1991Candide...Director
1991War and Peace...Director
1991Mozart Requiem...Director
1990Charles Mingus: Epitaph...Director
1990Boris Godunov...Director
1990Prince Igor...Director
1989Ode to Freedom...Director
1989Leonard Bernstein - Bernstein - Candide...Director
1988Candide...Director
1987Die Entführung aus dem Serail...Director
1987Krystian Zimerman: Chopin/Schubert...Director
1987Neujahrskonzert der Wiener Philharmoniker 1987...Director
1987Herbert Von Karajan - New Year's Concert Vienna 1987...Director
1987Ivo Pogorelich: Bach, Scarlatti, Beethoven...Director
1986Liszt Annees de Pelerinage...Director
1985The Little Drummer Boy: An Essay on Mahler by Leonard Bernstein...Director
1985Bach: St. John Passion...Director
1985Andrea Chénier...Director
1984Brahms The Piano Concertos...Director
1984Joseph Haydn Mass: In Tempore belli...Director
1984Die Fledermaus...Director
1984Bernstein Brahms Symphonies...Director
1983Carlos Kleiber: Beethoven - Symphonies 4 & 7...Director
1982Verdi: Requiem...Director
1982Bernstein/Beethoven...Director
1978Bernstein Beethoven Overtures...Director
1977Beethoven Symphony No. 9...Director
1977Leonard Bernstein: Chichester Psalms Symphony No's 1 & 2...Director
1977Leonard Bernstein conducts Stravinsky & Bach...Director
1976Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 4, 5 & 6...Director
1976Bernstein Mahler Rehearsal...Director
1976The Unanswered Question I : Musical Phonology...Director
1976The Unanswered Question II : Musical Syntax...Director
1976The Unanswered Question III : Musical Semantics...Director
1976The Unanswered Question IV : The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity...Director
1976The Unanswered Question V : The Twentieth Century Crisis...Director
1976The Unanswered Question VI : The Poetry of Earth...Director
1976Bernstein Gerhswin & Ives...Director
1975Bernstein: Tchaikovsky: Symphonies No. 4 & 5...Director
1975Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8...Director
1973Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, “Resurrection” – Leonard Bernstein – Ely Cathedral...Director
1973Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 & 3...Director
1972Das Lied von der Erde: A Personal Introduction...Director
1970Beethoven's Birthday: A Celebration in Vienna with Leonard Bernstein...Director
1970Bernstein in Vienna: Beethoven, The Ninth Symphony...Director
1965The Golden Ring...Director
Pelléas and Mélisande...Director
Mahler Bernstein Das Lied von Der Erde...Director

Production

1991The Very Strange Story of the Legendary Joe Meek...Producer
1985The Making Of West Side Story...Producer
1976The Unanswered Question - Six Talks at Harvard by Leonard Bernstein...Consulting Producer
1974The Marriage of Figaro...Producer
1973Trouble in Tahiti...Executive Producer
1970Beethoven's Birthday: A Celebration in Vienna with Leonard Bernstein...Producer
1967Benjamin Britten and His Festival...Executive Producer
1965The Golden Ring...Producer
1962Elgar...Producer
1961Antonio Gaudí...Producer

Creator

1978BBC Young Musician...Creator

Writing

1970Beethoven's Birthday: A Celebration in Vienna with Leonard Bernstein...Writer

Acting

2022How the BBC Beganas Self
2017The Opera Houseas Self - BBC Arts Reporter
2014Karajan's Magic and Mythas Self
2009Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gouldas Self (archival footage)
2008Herbert von Karajan: Maestro for the Screenas Self
2006Glenn Gould: Hereafteras Self
1991La Stupendaas Self
1978Marevna and Marikaas Himself
1978BBC Young Musicianas Self - Host
1976The Story of Pantomimeas Self
1976New York, New York - Saturday in SoHo/Watching My Name Go Byas Presenter
1976Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinemaas Self - Host
1971Elton John: Mr. Superfunkas Self
1967Omnibusas Self - Presenter
1966Conversations with Glenn Gouldas Interviewer
1965The Golden Ringas Himself - Narrator
1959Gordon Jacobas Commentator