Isolde Films Movie Trailers
Most Popular Isolde Films Trailers
Total trailers found: 15
The Children Trailer (1990)
18 May 1990
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 relationship.
Testimony Trailer (1988)
01 November 1988
The story of the great Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and his life and career during the rule of Stalin.
Margot Trailer (2005)
11 January 2005
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 she would one day become the greatest dancer in the world.
O Thou Transcendent: The Life of Ralph Vaughan Williams Trailer (2007)
31 December 2007
Award-winning filmmaker Tony Palmer directs this riveting documentary on the life and times of influential English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.
The Wagner Family Trailer (2009)
14 September 2009
There's no doubt that Richard Wagner who built it was the most influential composer in the whole of the 19th Century.
O, Fortuna! Trailer (2008)
01 January 2008
Tony Palmer examines the life and legacy of the German composer, Carl Orff.
Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter Trailer (2011)
12 April 2011
The great composer of The Planets, Gustav Holst also taught himself Sanskrit, lived in a street of brothels in Algiers, cycled into the Sahara Desert, and allied himself during the First World War with a ‘red priest' who pinned on the door of his church "prayers at noon for the victims of Imperial Aggression".
Hindemith: A Pilgrim's Progress Trailer (1990)
14 April 1990
Tony Palmer’s study of the German composer Paul Hindemith.
Toward the Unknown Region: Malcolm Arnold - A Story of Survival Trailer (2004)
03 October 2004
A documentary portrait of composer Malcolm Arnold. Broadcast in two parts on The South Bank Show butl
Ladies & Gentlemen, Miss Renée Fleming Trailer (2002)
03 February 2002
Explores the life and career of American soprano Renée Fleming. Share an intimate visit with Renée behind the scenes, at home and on stage as she rehearses and performs in Verdi’s Otello and Requiem, and sings Strauss, Mozart, Dvorák, Korngold, Ellington, Gershwin, Puccini, Massenet, and Rachmaninoff.
The Wigan Casino Trailer (1977)
12 December 1977
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 and dancing all night.
Brahms and the Little Singing Girls Trailer (1996)
01 January 1996
This is Palmer's highly controversial portrait of Brahms - a film that exploded the familiar image of 'stodgy old bearded Brahms' - a man whose first musical experience had been playing an upright piano in the brothels of Hamburg where he had grown up, and who at the end of his life lived a bachelor in Vienna having his every need satisfied by the prostitutes of the city whom he always affectionately described as his ‘little singing girls'.
Benjamin Britten: A Time There Was… Trailer (1979)
09 January 1979
A portrait of one of England's greatest composers. Winner of the Prix Italia.
Stravinsky: Once at a Border... Trailer (1982)
01 January 1982
This autobiographical film about the most important and influential composer of the 20th century includes documents, photographs and film never seen publicly before.
Henryk Górecki: The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs Trailer (1993)
04 April 1993
This emotional film by the award-winning director Tony Palmer includes a performance of the “Third Symphony” by The London Sinfonietta alongside powerful footage of Górecki at Auschwitz and Birkenau.
