BFI Screenonline: Music and Music History

Music and Music History


Subcategories

Classical Composers Musicals Popular Music
Films

Babymother (1998) The first truly Black British musical, set on the streets of Harlesden Bugsy Malone (1976) Delightfully original gangster musical in which all the parts are played by children Commitments, The (1991) Lively, raucous tale of working-class Dublin teenagers forming a soul band Evergreen (1934) Expresso Bongo (1959) Master Singers - Two Choirs and a Valley (1965) Mikado, The (1939) Technicolor adaptation of the Gilbert & Sullivan operetta Myra Hess (1945) The great British pianist performs part of Beethoven's 'Appassionata' sonata Oh... Rosalinda!! (1955) Quirky adaptation of Johann Strauss II's Die Fledermaus Oliver! (1968) Pink Floyd The Wall (1982) Red Shoes, The (1948) Story of Gilbert and Sullivan, The (1953) The stormy creative partnership of the masters of Victorian operetta Tales of Hoffmann, The (1951) Powell & Pressburger's ravishing visualisation of the Offenbach operetta
TV Programmes

Béla Bartók (1964) Ken Russell's imaginative portrait of the great Hungarian composer (1881-1945) Dance of the Seven Veils (1970) Ken Russell's notorious attack on the life and work of Richard Strauss (1864-1949) Debussy Film, The (1965) Ken Russell's complex and controversial study of the French composer (1865-1918) Elgar (1962) Ken Russell's famous film about the life and music of Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934) Gordon Jacob (1959) Portrait of the English composer (1895-1984), made with his co-operation Jacqueline (1967) Profile of the cellist Jacqueline du Pré, including a complete performance of Elgar's Cello Concerto Ken Russell's ABC of British Music (1988) A highly personal and typically eccentric selection Prokofiev (1961) The life and work of the great Russian composer (1891-1953) Song of Summer (1968) Tutti Frutti (1987) Vaughan Williams (1984) Ken Russell's study of the composer's nine symphonies
Collections

Film and Music Hall Musicals Ken Russell's Composers Pop Music TV
People and Organisations

Addison, John (1920-1998) Adler, Larry (1914-2001) Arnold, Sir Malcolm (1921-2006) Astley, Edwin (1922-1998) Auric, Georges (1899-1983) Barry, John (1933-2011) Bart, Lionel (1930-1999) Bliss, Sir Arthur (1891-1975) Bowie, David (1947-) Coward, Noël (1899-1973) Davis, Carl (1936-) Easdale, Brian (1909-1995) Faith, Adam (1940-2003) Fenton, George (1950-) Formby, George (1904-1961) Goehr, Walter (1903-1960) Goodwin, Ron (1925-2003) Gray, Allan (1902-1973) Hall, Adelaide (1901-1993) Holland, Jools (1958-) Jarre, Maurice (1924-2009) Novello, Ivor (1893-1951) Nyman, Michael (1944-) Richard, Cliff (1940-) Robeson, Paul (1898-1976) Sting (1951-) Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958) Walton, Sir William (1902-1983)