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Once, at a border Tony Palmer's film about Stravinsky
Title
Once, at a border [videorecording] : Tony Palmer's film about Stravinsky.
Published
[England] : Digital Classics, 2006.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (166 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Biographical documentary film.
Some Russian and French dialogue with English voiceovers.
Directed & edited by Tony Palmer.
Previously issued on videocassettes, sub-titled Aspects of Stravinsky.
Track guide & credits listed on insert.
Variant and related titles
Aspects of Stravinsky.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 20, 2007
Performers
In the musical excerpts: Makavala Kasrashvilli ; Kyung Wha-Chung ; London Sinfonietta & London Symphony Orchestra, David Atherton, conductor ; John Shirley-Quirk ; Felicity Lott ; Moscow Radio & Television Orchestra, Vladimir Fedoseyev, conductor ; Westminster Abbey Choir, Simon Preston, conductor ; State Choir of Riga, Imants Cepetis, conductor ; Elephants of Sir Robert Fossett's Circus.
System details note
DVD; NTSC; region code 0.
Contents
Includes footage with Stravinsky, his wife Vera, his children, Robert Craft, Marie Rambert, George Balanchine, Jean Cocteau, Nadia Boulanger, & others, intercut with performance excerpts, some conducted by the composer from: The Firebird, Petroushka (choreography by Fokine, restaged by Igor Belsky), The Rite of Spring (choreography by Kenneth MacMillan), Mavra, Les Noces (choreography by Bronislava Nijinska), Violin concerto, Requiem canticles, Oedipus Rex, The Fairy's Kiss, The Rake's Progress, Pastorale, Circus polka, Mass, Introit.
Issue number
DC10015 Digital Classics
Also listed under
London Sinfonietta.
London Symphony Orchestra.
Vsesoi︠u︡znoe radio. Simfonicheskiĭ orkestr.
Westminster Abbey. Choir.
Sir Robert Fossett's Circus. Elephants.
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