Humphrey Burton

Known for DirectingBorn 1931-03-21Died 2025-12-17Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, UK

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 9 & 10 / Das Lied von der Erde

War and Peace

BBC Young Musician

Leonard Bernstein: Chichester Psalms Symphony No's 1 & 2

Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 4, 5 & 6

Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 & 3

Elton John: Mr. Superfunk

Bernstein in Vienna: Beethoven, The Ninth Symphony

Manon Lescaut

Eugene Onegin

Candide

Beethoven Symphony No. 9

The Unanswered Question VI : The Poetry of Earth

The Unanswered Question I : Musical Phonology

The Unanswered Question II : Musical Syntax

The Unanswered Question IV : The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity

The Unanswered Question III : Musical Semantics

Beethoven's Birthday: A Celebration in Vienna with Leonard Bernstein

The Opera House

The Making Of West Side Story

The Return of Ulysses to his Homeland

Glenn Gould: Hereafter

Die Fledermaus

Falstaff

Merry Christmas from Vienna

Ermione

The Very Strange Story of the Legendary Joe Meek

Prince Igor

The Little Drummer Boy: An Essay on Mahler by Leonard Bernstein

Bernstein/Beethoven

Marevna and Marika

Lulu

Bernstein | Beethoven Symphonies 3,4,5

The Unanswered Question V : The Twentieth Century Crisis

Candide

Boris Godunov

Andrea Chénier

Haydn: The Creation (Bernstein)

Rostropovich Life & Art

Rodelinda

Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould

Omnibus

Herbert Von Karajan - New Year's Concert Vienna 1987

Bernstein Mahler Rehearsal

The Golden Ring

Elgar

Antonio Gaudí

Vincent in Brixton