Elgar: The Man Behind The Mask
* BAFTA Craft Award Winner * Best Sound Factual
* Golden Prague Award Winner * Best Documentary
"John Bridcut's sensitive, absorbing film reveals startling details and new colours in an old master restored" - Financial Times
"Following his magnificent film Britten's Children John Bridcut has again assembled the great and the good to make this revelatory film" - The Times
"...excellent" - The Guardian
"...a revelation" - The Observer
"...fascinating" - The Express
Documentary - 1 x 90mins
The composer of Land of Hope and Glory is often regarded as the quintessential English gentleman. But Edward Elgar's image of hearty nobility was deliberately contrived. In reality, he was the son of a shopkeeper, who was awkward, nervous, self-pitying and often rude. His marriage to his devoted wife Alice was complicated by romantic entanglements which fired his creative energy. In this revelatory portrait of a musical genius, John Bridcut explores the secret conflicts in Elgar's nature which produced some of Britain's greatest music.
UK Broadcaster
BBC 4
Transmission Date
12th November 2010
A Prospect Pictures/Crux Production