Image for The Prince and the Composer: A Film about Hubert Parry by HRH The Prince of WalesNot currently available on BBC iPlayer

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes

Sir Hubert Parry is simultaneously one of Britain's best-known and least-known composers. Jerusalem is almost a national song, regularly performed at rugby grounds, schools, Women's Institute meetings and the Last Night of the Proms, while Dear Lord and Father of Mankind is one of Britain's best-loved hymns. Everyone knows the tunes, yet hardly anyone knows much about the man who wrote them.

In this film, HRH The Prince of Wales, a longstanding enthusiast of Parry's work, sets out to discover more about the complex character behind it, with the help of members of Parry's family, scholars and performers. This feature-length documentary by the award-winning director John Bridcut offers fresh insight into the life and work of Hubert Parry through the unique perspective of HRH The Prince of Wales.

Last on

Fri 8 Feb 2013 19:30 BBC Four

Music Played

22 items
  • Image for Aled Jones

    Aled Jones Dear Lord and Father of Mankind

  • Image for Choir of Westminster Abbey

    Choir of Westminster Abbey Laudate Dominum

  • Choir of Winchester Cathedral, Waynflete Singers, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, David Hill Jerusalem

  • Image for BBC Philharmonic

    BBC Philharmonic Mixed Parry Symphony No 5

  • BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC singers and audience Jerusalem

  • Choir and Orchestra at Abbey Anthem 'I Was Glad'

  • Westminster Abbey Choristers I Was Glad When They Said Unto Me

  • Hiroaki Takenouchi Shulbrede Tunes Dolly

  • Hiroaki Takenouchi Bogies and Sprites

  • Westminster Abbey Choristers At The Round Earth's Imagined Corners

  • Image for London Symphony Orchestra

    London Symphony Orchestra Lady Radnor's Suite II Allemande

  • Hiroaki Takenouchi Father Playmate

  • Choir of Winchester Cathedral, Waynflete Singers, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/David Hill Long Since in Egypt's Plenteous Land

  • Peter Jacobs Hands Across the Centuries The Whirling Jig

  • Image for BBC Philharmonic

    BBC Philharmonic Parry Symphony No 5 Stress

  • BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus Blest Pair of Sirens

  • Hiroaki Takenouchi Hands Across the Centuries Suite for Piano Quasi Sarabande

  • Image for BBC Philharmonic

    BBC Philharmonic Parry Symphony No 5 II Love

  • Image for BBC Philharmonic

    BBC Philharmonic Parry Symphony No 5 III Play

  • Image for BBC Philharmonic

    BBC Philharmonic Parry Symphony No 5 IV Play

  • Schola Cantorum, I Carta Orchestra Magnificat

  • Image for Choir of Westminster Abbey

    Choir of Westminster Abbey Lord Let Me Know Mine End

  • Prince Charles and Jerusalem's composer Hubert Parry

    Prince Charles and Jerusalem's composer Hubert Parry

    Director John Bridcut on the Prince of Wales' passion for Parry: "He felt Parry was a neglected figure who had written five marvellous symphonies, which hardly anyone has ever heard, with a quintessentially English flavour."

    Read and comment on John's post on the BBC TV blog

Credits

Presenter
HRH Prince of Wales
Director
John Bridcut
Producer
John Bridcut
Executive Producer
Peter Dale

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