Composer of the Week Irving Berlin (1888-1989) Clips

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Zoltan Kodaly (1882-1967)
Zoltan Kodaly (1882-1967)
Women of the MacDowell Colony
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
William Walton (1902-1983)
William Walton (1902-1983)
William Sterndale Bennett (1816-1875)
William Schuman (1910-1992)
William Mathias (1934-1992)
William Byrd (1543-1623)
William Byrd (1543-1623)
William Alwyn
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710-1784)
Wagner and His World
Vitezslava Kapralova (1915-1940)
Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835)
Vincent d'Indy
Vienna on the Brink
Verismo
Verdi 200
Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996)
Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni (1671-1750/51)
Tomas Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)
Tomas Luis de Victoria
Thomas Tallis (1505-1585)
Thomas Arne (1710-1778)
Thelonious Monk (1917-1982)
The Women of Renaissance Ferrara
The Three Choirs Festival at 300
The Sammartini Brothers
The Neapolitan Golden Age
The MacDowell Colony (1907-)
The Chapel Royal
Stravinsky and the Symphony
Strauss Portraits
Strauss 150
Steve Reich (b.1936)
Stephen Sondheim (1930-)
Spanish Baroque (1600-1750)
Soviet Russia (1953-1991)
Soviet Russia (1917-1953)
Sound of Cinema: British Film Music
Sofia Gubaidulina (b 1931)
Sir Michael Tippett
Sir Granville Bantock (1868-1945)
Sibelius the Finn
Sibelius - The Rest is Silence? (The Years 1925-1957)
Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev (1856-1915)
Scott Joplin (1867-1917)
Schubert - Swansong
Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810-1876)
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912)
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
Sally Beamish (1956-)
Russian Opera
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Robert Schumann
Richard Wagner
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Reinhold Gliere (1875-1956)
Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979)
Ravel and His World
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Rachmaninov and Medtner (1873-1943 and 1880-1951)
Rachel Portman (1960-present)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Purcell's Contemporaries
Prokofiev - Back in the USSR
Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945)
Pietro Locatelli (1695-1764)
Philip Glass (1937-)
Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-2016)
Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
Paul Hindemith
Paul Dukas (1865-1935)
Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)
Ottorino Respighi
Orlande de Lassus (1532-1594)
Opera-Comique
Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)
Olivier Messiaen
Oliver Knussen (1952-)
Ole Bull (1810-1880)
Nikos Skalkottas (1904-1949)
Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)
Niels Gade (1817-1890)
Nicolay Yakovlevich Myaskovksy (1881-1950)
Nicola LeFanu (1947-)
Niccolo Paganini (1782-1840)
Niccolo Jommelli (1714-1774)
Napoleon's Music
Muzio Clementi (1750-1832)
Music in the Great War: Ivor Gurney (1890-1937)
Music at Versailles
Moritz Moszkowski (1854-1925)
Monteverdi to Rossini - Italian Opera
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839-1881)
Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)
Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev (1837-1910)
Miklos Rozsa (1907-1995) and Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957)
Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-1996)
Michael Praetorius (1571-1621)
Michael Nyman (1944-present)
Michael Haydn
Meredith Monk (b. 1942)
Max Christian Friedrich Bruch (1838-1920)
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937)
Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704)
Manuel Ponce (1882-1948)
Manuel de Falla (1876-1946)
Manuel de Falla
Malcolm Arnold
Luigi Cherubini (1760-1842)
Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Luciano Berio (1925-2003)
Louise Farrenc (1804-1875)
Louis Spohr (1784-1859)
Lord Berners
Liszt and His World
Lili Boulanger (1893-1918)
Leos Janacek (1854-1928)
Leos Janacek (1854-1928)
Leos Janacek (1854-1928)
Leopold Mozart (1719-1787)
Leonard Bernstein
Le Concert Spirituel
Kurt Weill (1900-1950)
Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)
Karol Szymanowski
Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007)
Jules Massenet (1842-1912)
Judith Weir (1954-)
Josquin (c1450/1455-1521)
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745-1799)
Jonathan Harvey (1939-)
John Williams (1932-)
John Tavener (1944-2013)
John Rutter (b.1945)
John McCabe (1939- )
John Ireland (1879-1962)
John Adams (1947-)
John Adams
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Johannes Brahms
Johann Strauss I and II
Johann Stamitz and sons
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706)
Johann Pachelbel
Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837)
Johann Michael Haydn (1737-1806)
Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782)
Johann Baptist Vanhal (1739-1813)
Johan Svendsen (1840-1911)
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683 - 1764)
Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687)
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Jean Sibelius
Jean Coulthard (1908 -2000)
Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760-1812)
Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745)
Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880)
Ivor Novello (1893-1951)
Isaac Albeniz (1860-1909)
Irving Berlin (1888-1989)
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Iceland
Hubert Parry (1848-1918)
Hubert Parry (1848-1918)
Hubert Parry
Hoagy Carmichael (1899-1981)
Herold, Adam and Delibes
Herbert Howells
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Henry Cowell (1897-1965)
Henri Dutilleux
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959)
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959)
Heinrich Schutz (1585-1672)
Heinrich Schutz
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
Hans Werner Henze
Hans Gal (1890-1987)
Gyorgy Ligeti (1923-2006)
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Gustav Mahler
Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969)
Granados and Albeniz (1867-1916 and 1860-1909)
Gordon Jacob and Joseph Horovitz (1895-1984 and 1926-)
Golden Age of Hollywood
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi
Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643)
Giovanni Paisiello (1740-1816)
Giovanni Gabrieli (c 1554/1557 - 1612)
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)
Gioachino Rossini
Gian Carlo Menotti (1911-2007)
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864)
Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983)
Gerald Finzi
Georges Bizet (1838-1875)
Georges Bizet (1838-1875)
George Lloyd (1913-1998)
George Gershwin (1898-1937)
George Gershwin (1898-1937)
George Gershwin
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
George Enescu
George Dyson (1883-1964)
George Butterworth and His Contemporaries
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Georg Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Georg Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
Gabriel Faure (1845-1924)
Gabriel Faure (1845-1924)
Gabriel Faure
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Fryderyk Chopin
Frederick Delius (1862-1934)
Frederick Delius
Franz Waxman
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Frank Martin
Frank Bridge
Frank Bridge
Francois Couperin (1668-1733)
Francois Couperin
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Francis Poulenc
sco Geminiani (1687-1762)
sco Cavalli
sca Caccini and Her Circle
Five under 40
Five Under 35 - Contemporary British Women Composers
Finnish Composers
Field and Chopin (1782-1837 and 1810-1849)
Ferencz Lehar (1870-1948)
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn (1809-1847 and 1805-1847)
Ethel Smyth (1858-1944)
Ernest John Moeran (1894-1950)
Ernest Chausson
Erik Satie (1866-1925)
Erik Satie (1866-1925)
Eric Coates
Enrique Granados (1867-1916)
Enrique Granados (1867-1916)
English Pastoralists
Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894)
Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre (1665-1729)
Einojuhani Rautavaara (b.1928)
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Edmund Rubbra (1901-1986)
Drottningholm
Dowland and His Legacy
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975): Young Dmitri...and Friends
Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707)
Delalande and Marais (1657-1726 and 1656-1728)
Darius Milhaud (1892-1974)
Court of King James I/VI
Constant Lambert and Alan Rawsthorne
Colin Matthews (1946-present)
Cole Porter (1891-1964)
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Claude Debussy
Clara Schumann and Her Circle
Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787)
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937)
Charles Mingus
Charles Koechlin (1867-1950)
Charles Ives
Charles Gounod (1818-1893)
Charles Gounod (1818 - 1893)
Cesar Franck and his circle
Cesar Franck (1822-1890)
Cecile Chaminade and Augusta Holmes
Carlo Gesualdo (1566-1613)
Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Carl Orff (1895-1982)
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)
Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)
Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)
Carl Maria von Weber (1786 - 1826)
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739-1799)
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
Camille Saint-Saens
Britten 100
British Light Music
Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959)
Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959)
Birth of Polyphony
Bill Evans (1929-1980)
Big Band
Bernstein 100
Bernard Stevens (1916-1983)
Bernard Herrmann (1911-1975)
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Bela Bartok (1881-1945)
Bela Bartok (1881-1945)
Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884)
Bedrich Smetana
Bebop
Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677)
Bach in Weimar
Bach in Cothen
Avison and Stanley (1709-1770 and 1712-1786)
Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
Arvo Part (1935-)
Arthur Honegger
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Arnold Schoenberg
Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)
Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978)
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Antonio Salieri (1750-1825)
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Antonin Dvorak
Anton Webern
Anton Rubinstein (1829-1894)
Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
Anton Bruckner
Anton Arensky (1861-1906)
Anniversary Special: A Welsh Quintet
Andrzej Panufnik (1914-1991)
Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli
Andre Previn (1929-)
Andre Campra (1660-1744)
Amy Beach (1867-1944)
Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998)
Alfred Garrievich Schnittke (1934-1998)
Alexander Zemlinsky (1871-1942)
Alexander Nikolaevich Scriabin
Alexander Mackenzie (1847-1935)
Alexander Goehr (1932-present)
Alexander Borodin (1833-1887)
Alessandro Stradella (1639-1682)
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)
Aleksandr Grechaninov (1864-1956)
Aleksandr Glazunov
Alberto Ginastera
Albert Roussel (1869-1937)
Alban Berg
Addinsell and Coward
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Aaron Copland
70th Anniversary Special: Louise Farrenc (1804-1875)
21st Century Opera
200 Years of the Royal Philharmonic Society

Irving Berlin (1888-1989)

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