Humphrey Burton
Born: 1931-03-21 in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, UK
Known For: Directing
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.
Filmography
2022
- How the BBC Began as Self
2017
- The Opera House as Self - BBC Arts Reporter
2014
- Karajan's Magic and Myth as Self
2010
2009
- Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould as Self (archival footage)
- Haydn: The Creation (Bernstein) ... (Director)
2008
- Herbert von Karajan: Maestro for the Screen as Self
- Bernstein conducts Bernstein ... (Director)
- Bernstein | Beethoven Symphonies 3,4,5 ... (Director)
- Schumann: The Symphonies - Leonard Bernstein ... (Director)
- Leonard Bernstein - Schubert: Symphony No. 9 / Schumann: Manfred Overture ... (Director)
- Bernstein | Beethoven Symphonies 2,6,7 ... (Director)
2007
- Bach The Cello Suites ... (Director)
- Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos. 3, 4 & 5 ... (Director)
- Brahms Academic Festival, Tragic Overtures/ Variations on a Theme by Haydn/Serenade No. 2 ... (Director)
- Rostropovich Life & Art ... (Director)
- Sir Georg Solti The Maestro Vol. 3 (Wagner - Richard Strauss) ... (Director)
- Mozart: Requiem ... (Director)
- Sir Georg Solti The Maestro Vol. 1 (Rossini - Mendelssohn) ... (Director)
2006
- Mozart Great Mass in C Minor; Ave Verum Corpus; Exsultate Jubilate ... (Director)
- Glenn Gould: Hereafter as Self
- Bernstein in Paris: Berlioz Requiem ... (Director)
- Schubert Final Three Piano Sonatas D958, D959, D960 - Alfred Brendel ... (Director)
2005
- Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 9 & 10 / Das Lied von der Erde ... (Director)
2003
- Vincent in Brixton ... (Director)
2002
- The Return of Ulysses to his Homeland ... (Director)
2000
- Falstaff ... (Director)
1998
- Rodelinda ... (Director)
- A Gala Christmas in Vienna ... (Director)
1997
- Manon Lescaut ... (Director)
1996
- Lulu ... (Director)
- Merry Christmas from Vienna ... (Director)
1995
- Ermione ... (Director)
1994
- Eugene Onegin ... (Director)
1991
- Candide ... (Director)
- War and Peace ... (Director)
- Mozart Requiem ... (Director)
- The Very Strange Story of the Legendary Joe Meek ... (Producer)
- La Stupenda as Self
1990
- Prince Igor ... (Director)
- Boris Godunov ... (Director)
1989
- Leonard Bernstein - Bernstein - Candide ... (Director)
- Ode to Freedom ... (Director)
1988
- Candide ... (Director)
1987
- Ivo Pogorelich: Bach, Scarlatti, Beethoven ... (Director)
- Die Entführung aus dem Serail ... (Director)
- Herbert Von Karajan - New Year's Concert Vienna 1987 ... (Director)
- Neujahrskonzert der Wiener Philharmoniker 1987 ... (Director)
- Krystian Zimerman: Chopin/Schubert ... (Director)
1986
- Liszt Annees de Pelerinage ... (Director)
1985
- Andrea Chénier ... (Director)
- The Little Drummer Boy: An Essay on Mahler by Leonard Bernstein ... (Director)
- The Making Of West Side Story ... (Producer)
- Bach: St. John Passion ... (Director)
1984
- Die Fledermaus ... (Director)
- Joseph Haydn Mass: In Tempore belli ... (Director)
- Brahms The Piano Concertos ... (Director)
- Bernstein Brahms Symphonies ... (Director)
1983
- Carlos Kleiber: Beethoven - Symphonies 4 & 7 ... (Director)
1982
- Verdi: Requiem ... (Director)
1978
- BBC Young Musician as Self - Host
- Marevna and Marika as Himself
- Bernstein Beethoven Overtures ... (Director)
1977
- Leonard Bernstein: Chichester Psalms Symphony No's 1 & 2 ... (Director)
- Beethoven Symphony No. 9 ... (Director)
- Leonard Bernstein conducts Stravinsky & Bach ... (Director)
1976
- The Story of Pantomime as Self
- New York, New York - Saturday in SoHo/Watching My Name Go By as Presenter
- The Unanswered Question V : The Twentieth Century Crisis ... (Director)
- Bernstein Mahler Rehearsal ... (Director)
- Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 4, 5 & 6 ... (Director)
- Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema as Self - Host
- The Unanswered Question - Six Talks at Harvard by Leonard Bernstein ... (Consulting Producer)
- The Unanswered Question IV : The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity ... (Director)
- The Unanswered Question VI : The Poetry of Earth ... (Director)
- The Unanswered Question II : Musical Syntax ... (Director)
- The Unanswered Question III : Musical Semantics ... (Director)
- The Unanswered Question I : Musical Phonology ... (Director)
- Bernstein Gerhswin & Ives ... (Director)
1975
- Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8 ... (Director)
- Bernstein: Tchaikovsky: Symphonies No. 4 & 5 ... (Director)
1974
- The Marriage of Figaro ... (Producer)
1973
- Trouble in Tahiti ... (Executive Producer)
- Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 & 3 ... (Director)
- Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, “Resurrection” – Leonard Bernstein – Ely Cathedral ... (Director)
1972
- Das Lied von der Erde: A Personal Introduction ... (Director)
1971
- Elton John: Mr. Superfunk as Self
1970
- Bernstein in Vienna: Beethoven, The Ninth Symphony ... (Director)
- Beethoven's Birthday: A Celebration in Vienna with Leonard Bernstein ... (Producer)
1967
- Omnibus as Self - Presenter
- Benjamin Britten and His Festival ... (Executive Producer)
1966
- Conversations with Glenn Gould as Interviewer
1965
- The Golden Ring as Himself - Narrator
1962
- Elgar: Portrait of a Composer ... (Producer)
1961
- Antonio Gaudí ... (Producer)
1959
- Gordon Jacob as Commentator