"Actor: Mehta"

• Blinded by the Light (DVD) | DVD | (09/12/2019) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From writer/director/producer Gurinder Chadha ('Bend It Like Beckham') comes the inspirational drama BLINDED BY THE LIGHT, set to the music and lyrics of Bruce Springsteen's timeless songs. BLINDED BY THE LIGHT tells the story of Javed (Viveik Kalra) a British teen of Pakistani descent, growing up in the town of Luton, England, in 1987. Amidst the racial and economic turmoil of the times, he writes poetry as a means to escape the intolerance of his hometown and the inflexibility of his traditional father. But when a classmate introduces him to the music of'the Boss,' Javed sees parallels to his working-class life in Springsteen's powerful lyrics. As Javed discovers a cathartic outlet for his own pent-up dreams, he also begins to find the courage to express himself in his own unique voice. Based on Sarfraz Manzoor's acclaimed memoir Greetings from Bury Park, BLINDED BY THE LIGHT is a joyful story of courage, love, hope, family and the unique ability of music to lift the human spirit.

• The Far Pavilions | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ash (Ben Cross) and Anjuli (Amy Irving) are two star-crossed lovers caught up in this passionate and haunting love story. Based on the best selling novel by M. M. Kaye The Far Pavilions is set in the India of the British Raj at the end of the 19th Century against the spectacular and epic sweep of battle treachery and intrigue. An all star cast including Omar Sharif Sir John Gielgud Christopher Lee Rossano Brazzi Robert Hardy Saeed Jaffery and Rupert Everett feature in

• Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti In Concert | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £9.29   |  Saving you £0.70 (7.53%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Recorded live in Rome in July 1990 at a special gala performance. The tracklist includes works from Tosca Turandot and L'Africaine before all three tenors sing a specially arranged music medley.

• The Three Tenors - In Concert 1994 | DVD | (29/06/1998) from £13.43   |  Saving you £4.56 (33.95%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Featuring Jose Carreras Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti in concert on July 16th 1994 at the Dodger Stadium Los Angeles California. Zubin Mehta conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and the Los Angeles Music Center Opera Chorus. Tracklist includes: 'America' (West Side Story) 'O Sole Mio' (Di Capua) 'Brindisi' (La Traviata) and 'Tribute To Hollywood' (Medley).

• The Emperor's Club | DVD | (21/03/2005) from £14.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (33.44%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In everyone's life there's that one person who makes all the difference. William Hundert a retired 'old-school' classics teacher is passionate about his subject. Moreover he strongly believes in moulding his students by using principles. However his methods are put to the test by a new student Sedgewick Bell who shakes Hundert's controlled world and threatens to undermine all that he stands for. Hundert's challenge is to change this young man while maintaining his integrity. Les

• Wagner: Tristan und Isolde | DVD | (15/05/2000) from £26.75   |  Saving you £3.24 (12.11%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Waltraud Meier is the stuff of which great Isoldes are made--a passionate actress who sings her heart out at every point and yet somehow keeps something in reserve from the narration and curse of the first act for the love duet of the second and the "Liebestod" of the third. Her Tristan, Jon Fredric West, is more or less her equal--he is particularly impressive in the mad death agony of the third act; his Tristan is an ordinary hero who becomes something larger. Among the other principals, Kurt Moll's Mark stands out in its eloquent heart-break, not so much a cuckold as a man who wants everything to work out right; Weikl's Kurwenal and Lipovsek's Brangane are, credibly, ordinary people caught up in great tragedy. Mehta's account of the score is solid and professional--he gets nothing wrong and everything right in a performance which survives occasionally perversely innovative staging to touch greatness. On the DVD: The DVD includes subtitles in French, German, English and Dutch. --Roz Kaveney

• Puccini: Turandot (Turandot - 2008 Production Staged By Chen Kaige) | DVD | (30/11/2009) from £25.65   |  Saving you £4.34 (16.92%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Turandot

• Puccini: Tosca- In the Settings and at the Times of Tosca | Blu Ray | (03/06/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Vienna State Opera Gala 2005 - Gala Concert 50th Anniversary Of The Re-Opening | DVD | (30/01/2006) from £14.57   |  Saving you £10.42 (71.52%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A 50 year celebration of the re-opening of the Vienna State Opera since the Second World War.

• Handel: Messiah (Handel: Messiah (Staged Version) | Blu Ray | (30/08/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Schubert: The Trout / The Greatest Love And The Greatest Sorrow | DVD | (27/06/2005) from £33.73   |  Saving you £-8.74 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Trout is an exuberant explosion of youthful enjoyment in music: first from Schubert himself who wrote his famous Trout quintet when he was 22 years old and then from five young artists of the highest rank. They pick up the spirit of Schubert's music magnificently both in preparation and rehearsal and in their 1969 performance of the work which has become one of the most remembered ever given.The Greatest Love and the Greatest Sorrow is a film which sets out to bring the viewer closer not to the details of Schubert's life but to the spirit of what he was trying to express with what he called his creative gift and with which he tried to brighten the world. The film begins with the funeral of Beethoven at which Schubert was a torch-bearer and the story is told almost entirely in music that Schubert wrote in the twenty months that remained to him after that date together with quotations from his letters and diaries and the words that he chose to set in some of his songs.

• Handel's Messiah: Ensemble Matheus (Spinosi) | DVD | (28/09/2010) from £23.74   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Hum Tum | DVD | (06/11/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Karan Kapoor (Saif Ali Khan) who works as a cartoonist with one of India's leading newspapers. Karan runs a cartoon strip in the paper under the name of Hum Tum. He sees the world is divided by Boy and Girl not by country not by religion. It's the only divison Karan sees in this world. Karan met Rhea (Rani Mukerjee) for the first time in Amsterdam. There they disagreed on everything. So to put things right Karan innocently kissed her to confirm their friendship. But things went worse and the meeting ended on a bad note. Six months later they again meet in New York the Amsterdam kiss is still fresh in Rhea's mind and she spills the beans to Karan's steady girlfriend. From then he meets Rhea on a regular basis at various stages in their lives. But every meeting has ended on a bad note. During this period Rhea has gone through some personal tragedies and also passed several ups and downs but Karan has always been there for her. During this time she has moved all over the place from Mumbai to Paris to New York and back to Mumbai. Karan even tried fixing her up with a friend of his - with her mothers permission of course - but as with everything else this didn't quite work out either. As luck would have it Karan's career as a cartoonist was soaring and so one thing led to another and Rhea took off once again on a bad terms. But despite their mishaps destiny has bigger plans for Karan and Rhea......

• Handel: Theodora | Blu Ray | (25/04/2011) from £15.09   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Road, Movie | DVD | (15/07/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Wiener Philharmoniker - Best of Neujahrskonzert | DVD | (03/12/2007) from £13.39   |  Saving you £2.60 (16.30%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The very first DVD collection of highlights of one of the most popular classical music events in the world; the famous anual New Year's concert of the Vienna Philharmonic . This is a true 'best of' in terms of the conductors: ranging from the legendary era of Willy Boskovsky in the 70's to the enthusiastically acclamation of this year's 2007 concert under the baton of Zubin Mehta including unforgettable interpretations of Carlos Kleiber Mariss Jansons Seiji Ozawa and Lorin Maazel. Best of New Year's Concert is a visual feast: great waltzes with ballet the most famous sights of Vienna such as the Prater Hofburg Belvedere Riesenrad Spanish Riding school and Sch''nbrunn. Track Listing: 1. Overture 2. Voices Of Spring Op.410 (Fr''hlingsstimmen) 3. Elisen - Polka Fran''aise Op.151 4. Geschichten Aus Dem Wienerwald Op.325 5. Die Libelle - Polka Mazur Op.204 (1867) 6. Wo Die Zitronen Bl''h'n Op.364 7. Auf Wiener Art. Polka Francaise O.Op. 8. Tritsch Tratsch Polka Opus 214 9. Kaiserwalzer Op.437 10. Accelerationen Waltz Opus 234 11. Du Und Du - Waltz Op.367 (1874) (Based On Themes From 'Die Fledermaus') 12. Pizzicato Polka (1870) 13. Tausend Und Eine Nacht-Walzer Op.346 14. Unter Donner Und Blitz Polka Opus 324 15. Wiener Blut Op.354 16. An Der Sch''nen Blauen Donau Op.314 17. Radetzky-Marsch Op.228 - Arr. Leopold Weninger

• Gluck: Orfeo Ed Euridice | Blu Ray | (05/05/2014) from £29.89   |  Saving you £0.10 (0.30%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The Baroque Theatre of Cesk Krumlov Castle provides an ideal setting for one of the most important operas in music history, Christoph Willibald Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice. Director Ondrej Havelka captures much more than a stage performance: combining period details with modern psychological interpretation he chooses a cinematic approach that literally takes us behind the scenes of this unique venue. Bejun Mehta, 'arguably the best countertenor in the world today' ( Sueddeutsche Zeit.

• Zubin Mehta Meets Mitsuko Uchida | DVD | (27/08/2007) from £2.96   |  Saving you £14.29 (840.59%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra play together with renowned pianist Mitsuko Uchida. Her interpretation of a wide range of repertoire has gained her a formidable reputation as a pianist who brings intellectual acuity and musical insight to her performances. Concert includes repertoire by Beethoven Schubert Bach and Stravinsky. A classical and musical delight.

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Mozart - Mitridate | DVD | (19/03/2007) from £11.17   |  Saving you £5.08 (51.26%)   |  RRP £14.99

• Johann Strauss Gala | DVD | (05/04/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Not only did 1999 mark the 150th anniversary of the death of Johann Strauss Sr., but the centenary of the passing of his son, Johann Strauss, "The Waltz King". To commemorate, on the evening of May 29, 1999 in Vienna's grand Heldenplatz almost 8,000 people gathered for a gala concert. This Wiener Philharmoniker performance was conducted by Zubin Meta (who had previously conducted the The Three Tenors, one of whom, José Carreras is here joined by soprano Andrea Rost for two duets from Strauss operettas). At 103 minutes this DVD offers 19 selections, but either there was an interval after just six pieces, or considering how rapidly it gets dark between "Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka" and the "Overture" from Die Fledermaus, there has been some cutting. Given such a great orchestra and the wonderful setting, it would have been nice to see people dancing to what is after all, real dance music. Despite the static nature of the event, the music is still uplifting, moving even the staid Vienna audience to clap along by the finale of the rousing "Radetzky March".On the DVD: Other than some useful booklet notes there are no special features, and unlike most other Arthaus titles the sound is offered only in stereo Dolby Digital and PCM stereo. This is presumably due to the difficulties associated with outdoor acoustics and live recording which nearly prevented the concert going ahead. The anamorphically enhanced picture generally makes the most of the spectacular location, having a clarity in the close-ups such that it is virtually possible to count the hairs on the musicians heads.--Gary S. Dalkin