Humphrey Burton

Birthday: 1931-03-21
Birthplace: Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, UK
Gender: Male

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.

Credits

Year Title
2009-09-14 Haydn: The Creation (Bernstein)
2007-10-07 Brahms Academic Festival, Tragic Overtures/ Variations on a Theme by Haydn/Serenade No. 2
2007-05-09 Bach The Cello Suites
2007-02-05 Rostropovich Life & Art
2007-01-09 Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos. 3, 4 & 5
2006-06-03 Mozart Great Mass in C Minor; Ave Verum Corpus; Exsultate Jubilate
2005-11-22 Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 9 & 10 / Das Lied von der Erde
2003-03-20 Vincent in Brixton
2002-07-15 The Return of Ulysses to his Homeland
2000-07-06 Falstaff
1998-11-24 A Gala Christmas in Vienna
1998-06-30 Rodelinda
1997-05-18 Manon Lescaut
1996-12-24 Merry Christmas from Vienna
1996-07-15 Lulu
1995-06-03 Ermione
1994-01-01 Eugene Onegin
1991-10-15 Candide
1991-01-01 War and Peace
1991-01-01 Mozart Requiem
1990-01-01 Boris Godunov
1990-01-01 Prince Igor
1989-12-25 Ode to Freedom
1989-12-13 Leonard Bernstein - Bernstein - Candide
1988-10-01 Candide
1987-11-27 Die Entführung aus dem Serail
1987-03-01 Krystian Zimerman: Chopin/Schubert
1987-01-03 Neujahrskonzert der Wiener Philharmoniker 1987
1987-01-01 Herbert Von Karajan - New Year's Concert Vienna 1987
1987-01-01 Ivo Pogorelich: Bach, Scarlatti, Beethoven
1986-01-01 Liszt Annees de Pelerinage
1985-11-01 The Little Drummer Boy: An Essay on Mahler by Leonard Bernstein
1985-06-30 Bach: St. John Passion
1985-05-01 Andrea Chénier
1984-12-11 Brahms The Piano Concertos
1984-01-01 Die Fledermaus
1984-01-01 Joseph Haydn Mass: In Tempore belli
1984-01-01 Bernstein Brahms Symphonies
1983-01-01 Carlos Kleiber: Beethoven - Symphonies 4 & 7
1982-08-01 Verdi: Requiem
1978-11-30 Bernstein Beethoven Overtures
1977-12-31 Beethoven Symphony No. 9
1977-01-01 Leonard Bernstein conducts Stravinsky & Bach
1977-01-01 Leonard Bernstein: Chichester Psalms Symphony No's 1 & 2
1976-08-22 Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 4, 5 & 6
1976-07-08 Bernstein Mahler Rehearsal
1976-01-11 The Unanswered Question V : The Twentieth Century Crisis
1976-01-11 The Unanswered Question VI : The Poetry of Earth
1976-01-11 The Unanswered Question I : Musical Phonology
1976-01-11 The Unanswered Question II : Musical Syntax
1976-01-11 The Unanswered Question III : Musical Semantics
1976-01-11 The Unanswered Question IV : The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity
1976-01-01 Bernstein Gerhswin & Ives
1975-07-17 Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8
1975-07-17 Bernstein: Tchaikovsky: Symphonies No. 4 & 5
1973-08-17 Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 & 3
1972-01-01 Das Lied von der Erde: A Personal Introduction
1970-12-16 Beethoven's Birthday: A Celebration in Vienna with Leonard Bernstein
1970-04-04 Bernstein in Vienna: Beethoven, The Ninth Symphony
1965-12-26 The Golden Ring