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The feature-length portrait of one of Britain's greatest 20th-century composers, Michael Tippett, The Shadow and The Light is now available on Amazon Prime Video.  Tippett's friends and colleagues talk openly about his characteristics as a composer and a conductor, and also the complications of his personal life.  The documentary features extensive specially-shot excerpts of some of his greatest music.

Hubert Parry is one of the King's favourite composers, and The King and the Composer is an updated version of Crux's original film, made by the then Prince of Wales.  In The Prince and the Composer, he explored the life and music of Hubert Parry, famous for the tune of 'Jerusalem' and the anthem 'I was glad', which is traditionally sung when the monarch enters Westminster Abbey for his or her coronation.  This documentary is believed to be the only time in which the King has spoken about previous coronations, and it gives extensive clues to the musical passions which lay behind his personal commission of music by twelve different contemporary composers for his own coronation service.  The film was the idea of Prince Charles himself.