Barrie Gavin Movies

Documentary on 84-year old Marevna; painter, friend of Picasso and one-time mistress of Diego Rivera; and her daughter by Rivera, Marika; former...

1968 interview with Lord Harewood.

An interview with film director Roman Polanski, recorded for BBC TV in 1967.

The Threepenny Opera proclaims itself "an opera for beggars," and it was in fact an attempt both to satirize traditional opera and operetta and to...

The opera takes place on the doorstep of a tenement on the East Side of Manhattan on two brutally hot days in 1946. The story focuses on two...

Documentary film on Arnold Schoenberg

A documentary on the life and work of the composer Sofia Gubaidulina.

Film of Morton Feldman's short opera (libretto by Samuel Beckett).

A film based on Beyond a Boundary, the classic book by C. L. R. James,

In 1906 the young Bela Bartok set out to discover the forgotten music of his people. He found a vast treasure of folk music all over Eastern Europe,...

An opera by Benjamin Britten, on a libretto by E.M. Forster and Eric Crozier, adapted from the story by Herman Melville. Billy Budd is a young sailor...

Com: BBC for documentary 'Sound on Film'.Derived from music and dance filmed in Transylvania.

A. L. Lloyd

Portrait of the composer, Peter Maxwell Davies, set in the context of the islands of Orkney. George Mackay Brown is featured reading his own verse...

Friend, instructor and student of Picasso, a welder at Renault, a painter and goldsmith – Julio González was all of these. The...

"Grainger is music's natural man... a noble savage of music." That quote describes Percy Grainger, the Australian-born composer and pianist. Grainger...

Benjamin Britten's opera as performed by the English National Opera, with Philip Langridge in the title role.

One public housing flat in Moscow stood out above all others: the home of George Costakis, the foremost collector of early 20th century Russian...