"Actor: Fyodor Chaliapin"

• Russian Opera At The Bolshoi - The Vintage Years | DVD | (08/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  This fascinating programme vividly illustrates the glorious history of the Bolshoi Opera: the theatre itself its operatic productions and the world-renowned star singers that it has produced over the years. The programme reveals many jewels in the Russian archives from the Twenties to the Seventies with stills audio recordings and archive footage featuring early scenes of Fyodor Chaliapin Ivan Kozlovsky Mark Reizen and Sergei Lemeshev right through to more recent stars such as Vl

• The Art Of Piano / Singing / Violin | DVD | (25/11/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  The Art Of Piano: This magnificent film includes some of the most fascinating historical and musical footage which has been selected from film and television archives around the world. From Ignaz Jan Paderewski in 1936 to Claudio Arrau in 1970 the program illustrates a broad mixture of interpretative styles as also displayed by Horowitz Rubenstein Cortot Gilels Richter Michelangeli and others. Fascinating and revealing commentaries on all eighteen artists are given by pr