Isolde Films

A biographical look at the career of the acclaimed Margot Fonteyn. As a little girl called Peggy Hookham growing up in Shanghai, she told her mother...

Release : 2005.01.11
Popularity : 2.685

The story of the great Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and his life and career during the rule of Stalin.

Release : 1988.11.01
Popularity : 2.435

Rose Sellars is a middle-aged woman who falls in love with a widower. However, his children believe that their father is too old to start a new...

Release : 1990.05.18
Popularity : 1.023

This emotional film by the award-winning director Tony Palmer includes a performance of the “Third Symphony” by The London Sinfonietta...

Release : 1993.04.04
Popularity : 1.121

Award-winning filmmaker Tony Palmer directs this riveting documentary on the life and times of influential English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams....

Release : 2007.12.31
Popularity : 0.812

Documentary covering the famous Wigan Casino northern soul venue and the working class kids who spend all their money not on alcohol but on records...

Release : 1977.12.12
Popularity : 0.792

This is Palmer's highly controversial portrait of Brahms - a film that exploded the familiar image of 'stodgy old bearded Brahms' - a man whose...

Release : 1996.01.01
Popularity : 0.721

The great composer of The Planets, Gustav Holst also taught himself Sanskrit, lived in a street of brothels in Algiers, cycled into the Sahara...

Release : 2011.04.12
Popularity : 0.253

This autobiographical film about the most important and influential composer of the 20th century includes documents, photographs and film never seen...

Release : 1982.01.01
Popularity : 0.54

A portrait of one of England's greatest composers. Winner of the Prix Italia.

Release : 1979.01.09
Popularity : 0.466

A documentary portrait of composer Malcolm Arnold. Broadcast in two parts on The South Bank Show but premiered in its entirety at the Royal Festival...

Release : 2004.10.03
Popularity : 0.426

There's no doubt that Richard Wagner who built it was the most influential composer in the whole of the 19th Century. But his family has survived a...

Release : 2009.09.14
Popularity : 0.106

Explores the life and career of American soprano Renée Fleming. Share an intimate visit with Renée behind the scenes, at home and on...

Release : 2002.02.03
Popularity : 0.248

Tony Palmer examines the life and legacy of the German composer, Carl Orff.

Release : 2008.01.01
Popularity : 0.098

Tony Palmer’s study of the German composer Paul Hindemith.

Release : 1990.04.14
Popularity : 0.073