"Actor: Leonard Bernstein"

• Bernstein - the Making of Westside Story (Te Kanawa) | DVD | (11/07/2005) from £14.29   |  Saving you £2.70 (18.89%)   |  RRP £16.99

  27 years after its Broadway premiere Leonard Bernstein went into a New York studio for Deutsche Grammophon to conduct his most famous work for the first time. In selecting his cast he decided to go for sound with the sumptuous operatic voices of Kiri Te Kanawa Jose Carreras and Tatiana Troyanos. This spellbinding film winner of the Prix Italia and the British Academy's Flaherty Award documents the stresses and strains exhilaration and eventual triumph in the making of a landmark recording.

• Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 4, 5 and 6 (Bernstein, Wiener Po) | DVD | (24/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £21.99

  Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)Symphonies Nos. 4 5 and 6Mathis Wiener PhilharmonikerDirected by Humphrey Burton

• Mozart-Piano Concerto 17 | DVD | (30/10/2006) from £11.69   |  Saving you £13.30 (113.77%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Mozart:Piano Concerto Mo.17 Symphony No.39

• Mahler-Complete Symphonies | DVD | (24/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £63.99

• Brahms - Symphonies 1 - 4 - Leonard Bernstein/Wiener Philharmoniker | DVD | (13/08/2007) from £18.95   |  Saving you £3.04 (13.80%)   |  RRP £21.99

  Leonard Bernstein: Brahms Cycle I

• Beethoven - Piano Concertos - Leonard Bernstein/Wiener Philharmoniker | DVD | (05/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Tracklisting: Disc One: Beethoven: Piano Cto No.1: Zimerman 1. Allegro con brio 2. Largo 3. Rondo (Allegro scherzando) Beethoven: Piano Cto No.2: Zimerman 1. Allegro con brio 2. Adagio 3. Rondo (Molto allegro) Disc 2 : Beethoven: Piano Cto No.3: Zimerman 1. Allegro con brio 2. Largo 3. Rondo (Allegro) Beethoven: Piano Cto No.4: Zimerman 1. Allegro moderato 2. Andante con moto 3. Rondo (Vivace) Beethoven: Piano Cto No.5: Zimerman 1. Allegro 2. Adagio un poco mosso 3. Rondo (Allegro)

• Leonard Bernstein - The Gift Of Music | DVD | (13/08/2007) from £15.85   |  Saving you £4.13 (32.12%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Leonard Bernstein: The Gift Of Music

• Leonard Bernstein conducts West Side Story -- The Making of the Recording | DVD | (04/02/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Filmed in 1984 for the BBC, the feature-length documentary Leonard Bernstein conducts West Side Story follows the composer through one week as he records the first-ever complete album of his musical theatre masterpiece. (The previous Broadway cast and original soundtrack albums had both been cut down to single LP length.) Virtually the entire documentary takes place in a New York recording studio with a pick-up orchestra, session singers and headliners Kiri Te Kanawa (Maria), José Carreras (Tony), Tatiana Troyanos (Anita) and Kurt Ollmann (Riff). The 89-minute programme alternates rehearsal footage with complete final takes of the main numbers--including "Tonight", "America", and "Maria"--with a limited amount of comment from the principal players. Te Kanawa explains how much the music means to her, Troyanos notes how she grew-up in the very streets depicted on stage and Carreras provides a rare moment of tension when a session ends unsatisfactorily. Bernstein himself is by turns commanding, charming, enthusiastic or weary. For anyone wanting an extensive insight into what happens as a major album is recorded this is fascinating, though others who just want to enjoy the wonderful music will be better served by the resultant two-CD set. On the DVD: Though filmed for British television, Deutsche Grammophon have chosen to release a single region-free (Region 0) DVD for the entire world. Unfortunately this means the disc is in NTSC format rather than PAL, and requires an NTSC-compatible television for playback. It also means that while the sound has been effectively remastered for PCM stereo the picture shows all the signs of a bad NTSC copy--weak, washed-out colours and poor definition with a serious lack of detail. Most videos are far better. The DVD has subtitles in German, French, Spanish and Chinese. There are no extras, though the booklet adapts an interesting article by producer Humphrey Burton which originally appeared in Gramophone magazine in 1985.--Gary S Dalkin

• Schubert - Symphony No. 9/Schumann - Manfred Overture - Bernstein | DVD | (31/03/2008) from £17.69   |  Saving you £7.30 (29.20%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Schubert:Symno.9/Schumann:Manfred Ov

• Centennial Gala | DVD | (07/09/2009) from £21.91   |  Saving you £-1.92 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Here are the greatest moments from the 'ultimate in galas' (Opera), a 'roof-rattling vocal display and the kind of cheering and free-flowing, heartfelt emotion on both sides of the footlights that opera evinces more than any other art form' - New York TimesThe gala celebration immediately catches the attention with spectacular performances by stars such as Dame Joan Sutherland, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Mirella Freni, Marilyn Horne, Birgit Nilsson, Luciano Pavarotti, Jos Carreras, PlcidoDomingo, Nicolai Gedda, Alfredo Kraus and many others 'The world's most famous opera singers [in] a dazzlingsequence of performances' - New York Times 'It's always a privilege to sing at the Met, but this is somethingvery special. I don't think there's ever been anything this grand in the history of opera' - Luciano PavarottiThis product features an awesome roster of international star conducters: from James Levine, Leonard Bernstein and Thomas Fulton to Jeffrey Tate, Richard BonyngeTracklistingDisc 11. Opening Credits / MET Centennial Gala2. Overture The Bartered Bride 3. In questa reggia 4. Dove sono i bei momenti 5. Dio! mi potevi scagliar 6. No.6 Aria: La calunnia (Var. di M. Pierre Rode) 7. Chi mi frena in tal momento 8. Bel raggio lusinghier 9. Son io! Son io la Vita! 10. Presentation of the Rose 11. Va! je t'ai pardonn 12. Una furtiva lagrima 13. Ernani! Ernani, involami 14. Hab mir's gelobt 15. Gi nella notte densa (Love Duet) Disc 21. Opening / MET Centennial Gala2. Ouvertre Leonore III op. 72a 3. La nostra morte il trionfo dell'amor 4. Air de Lia 5. Bacchanale 6. Donna, chi sei? 7. No.31 Alerte, alerte! 8. Viene la sera 9. Va sossopra il mio cervello 10. Mon coeur s'ouvre ta voix 11. Wie lachend sie mir Lieder singen 12. Fjorton ar tror jag (When I was seventeen) 13. Teco io sto - Grand Dio! (Gustavo, Amelia) 14. Happy Birthday To You

• Mozart - Requiem | DVD | (13/11/2006) from £21.49   |  Saving you £-4.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

• Leonard Bernstein - 90 Years of Leonard Bernstein | DVD | (04/07/2008) from £36.43   |  Saving you £23.56 (64.67%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Leonard Bernstein 1918-1990 (5 Discs)

• Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 9 and 10, Das Lied Von Der Erde | DVD | (24/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £21.99

  Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 9 And 10 Das Lied Von Der Erde

• Leonard Bernstein: Beethoven - Cycle 7 | DVD | (18/11/2008) from £108.75   |  Saving you £-12.76 (N/A%)   |  RRP £95.99

• Brahms - Concertos 1 - 2 - Leonard Bernstein/Wiener Philharmoniker | DVD | (13/08/2007) from £13.39   |  Saving you £0.60 (4.30%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Leonard Bernstein: Brahms Cycle II

• Little Drummer Boy - An Essay On Gustav Mahler By And With Leonard Bernstein | DVD | (16/07/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  This television essay from 1985 was written by Leonard Bernstein to commemorate the 125th anniversary of Gustav Mahler's birth. The essay recorded in Israel Vienna and later in London is punctuated by biographical interludes and illustrated by musical examples drawn from the cycle of Mahler's works recorded by Leonard Bernstein. Bernstein talks plays and conducts various orchestras (Israel Philharmonic Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra Wiener Philharmoniker) and soloists (Janet Baker Christa Ludwig Edith Mathis Lucia Popp Walton Groenroos) in performances spanning 17 years. Leonard Bernstein also examines the roots of Gustav Mahler's inspiration. This DVD features music from the nine symphonies The Song of the Earth and the Wunderhorn Cycle.

• Shostakovich - Symphonies Nos. 6 and 9 (Bernstein) | DVD | (12/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  For the first time on DVD here are Leonard Bernstein's critically acclaimed mid-1980s live performances with the Vienna Philharmonic - also featuring his spoken introductions to the two symphonies.Includes Symphonies Nos. 6 & 9.

• Brahms - Violin Concerto/Double Concerto - Leonard Bernstein/Wiener Philharmoniker | DVD | (13/08/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Leonard Bernstein: Brahms Cycle III

• Leonard Bernsetin - Mozart - Clarinet Concerto/Symphony No. 25 | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £16.19   |  Saving you £8.80 (54.35%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Mozart:Clarinet Concerto Symphony No.25

• Lieder - Mahler/Bernstein | DVD | (16/07/2007) from £22.98   |  Saving you £-8.99 (-64.30%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Leonard Bernstein conducts masterworks by Gustav Mahler from the Grosser Musikvereinssaal in Wien and the Mann Auditorium in Tel Aviv. In 1984 Bernstein conducted Lucia Popp Walton Groenroos and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in a remarkable performance of Des Knaben Wunderhorn in Tel Aviv. A few months before his death Bernstein led Thomas Hampson and the Wiener Philharmoniker in three of Mahler's masterworks in a concert at Vienna's Musikvereinssaal - the Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen the R''ckertlieder and the Kindertotenlieder. Tracklisting: 1. Credits / Mahler: Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen / Bernstein 2. Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht 3. Ging heut' morgen ''bers Feld 4. Ich hab' ein gl''hend Messer 5. Die zwei blauen Augen von meinem Schatz 6. Credits / Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn / Bernstein 7. Der Schildwache Nachtlied 8. Wer hat dies Liedlein Erdacht? 9. Der Tamboursg'sell 10. Das irdische Leben 11. Verlor'ne M''h 12. Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt 13. Revelge 14. Rheinlegendchen 15. Lob des hohen Verstandes 16. Wo die sch''nen Trompeten blasen 17. Lied des Verfolgten im Turm 18. Trost im Ungl''ck 19. Credits / Mahler: R''ckert-Lieder / Bernstein 20. Liebst du um Sch''nheit 21. Ich atmet' einen linden Duft 22. Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder 23. Um Mitternacht 24. Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen 25. Credits / Mahler: Kindertotenlieder / Bernstein 26. Nun will die Sonn' so hell aufgeh'n 27. Nun seh' ich wohl warum so dunkle Flammen 28. Wenn dein M''tterlein 29. Oft denk' ich sie sind nur ausgegangen 30. In diesem Wetter