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.
New York, New York - Saturday in SoHo/Watching My Name Go By
(Presenter)
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
(Self - Host)
The Golden Ring
(Himself - Narrator)
Gordon Jacob
(Commentator)
Glenn Gould: Hereafter
(Self)
Marevna and Marika
(Himself)
Karajan's Magic and Myth
(Self)
La Stupenda
(Self)
Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould
(Self (archival footage))
Herbert von Karajan: Maestro for the Screen
(Self)
Elton John: Mr. Superfunk
(Self)
The Story of Pantomime
(Self)
The Opera House
(Self - BBC Arts Reporter)
How the BBC Began
(Self)
BBC Young Musician
(Self - Host)
Trouble in Tahiti
(Executive Producer)
The Marriage of Figaro
(Producer)
Das Lied von der Erde: A Personal Introduction
(Director)
Vincent in Brixton
(Director)
Bernstein Gerhswin & Ives
(Director)
Eugene Onegin
(Director)
The Little Drummer Boy: An Essay on Mahler by Leonard Bernstein
(Director)
Neujahrskonzert der Wiener Philharmoniker 1987
(Director)
Die Fledermaus
(Director)
Ermione
(Director)
Die Entführung aus dem Serail
(Director)
Lulu
(Director)
Merry Christmas from Vienna
(Director)
The Making Of West Side Story
(Producer)
Rodelinda
(Director)
Manon Lescaut
(Director)
Andrea Chénier
(Director)
Verdi: Requiem
(Director)
Leonard Bernstein - Bernstein - Candide
(Director)
The Return of Ulysses to his Homeland
(Director)
Boris Godunov
(Director)
The Golden Ring
(Producer)
Krystian Zimerman: Chopin/Schubert
(Director)
Joseph Haydn Mass: In Tempore belli
(Director)
Benjamin Britten and His Festival
(Executive Producer)
Candide
(Director)
War and Peace
(Director)
The Unanswered Question V : The Twentieth Century Crisis
(Director)
The Unanswered Question VI : The Poetry of Earth
(Director)
The Unanswered Question I : Musical Phonology
(Director)
The Unanswered Question II : Musical Syntax
(Director)
The Unanswered Question IV : The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity
(Director)
The Unanswered Question III : Musical Semantics
(Director)
Carlos Kleiber: Beethoven - Symphonies 4 & 7
(Director)
Leonard Bernstein conducts Stravinsky & Bach
(Director)
Candide
(Director)
Falstaff
(Director)
Bernstein Brahms Symphonies
(Director)
Beethoven Symphony No. 9
(Director)
Liszt Annees de Pelerinage
(Director)
Bach The Cello Suites
(Director)
Brahms Academic Festival, Tragic Overtures/ Variations on a Theme by Haydn/Serenade No. 2
(Director)
Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos. 3, 4 & 5
(Director)
Mozart Requiem
(Director)
Mozart Great Mass in C Minor; Ave Verum Corpus; Exsultate Jubilate
(Director)
Rostropovich Life & Art
(Director)
Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 4, 5 & 6
(Director)
Bernstein Mahler Rehearsal
(Director)
Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 & 3
(Director)
Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 9 & 10 / Das Lied von der Erde
(Director)
Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8
(Director)
Bernstein: Tchaikovsky: Symphonies No. 4 & 5
(Director)
Bernstein Beethoven Overtures
(Director)
Antonio Gaudí
(Producer)
Brahms The Piano Concertos
(Director)
The Very Strange Story of the Legendary Joe Meek
(Producer)
Herbert Von Karajan - New Year's Concert Vienna 1987
(Director)
The Golden Ring
(Director)
Beethoven's Birthday: A Celebration in Vienna with Leonard Bernstein
(Writer)
Beethoven's Birthday: A Celebration in Vienna with Leonard Bernstein
(Director)
Bernstein in Vienna: Beethoven, The Ninth Symphony
(Director)
Beethoven's Birthday: A Celebration in Vienna with Leonard Bernstein
(Producer)
Leonard Bernstein: Chichester Psalms Symphony No's 1 & 2
(Director)
Ivo Pogorelich: Bach, Scarlatti, Beethoven
(Director)
Bach: St. John Passion
(Director)
Prince Igor
(Director)
Ode to Freedom
(Director)
Haydn: The Creation (Bernstein)
(Director)
A Gala Christmas in Vienna
(Director)
The Unanswered Question - Six Talks at Harvard by Leonard Bernstein
(Consulting Producer)
BBC Young Musician
(Creator)