Musical Comedy in Two ActsRecorded live at the Philharmonia Berlin 30-31 December 2002.
La donna del lagoGiachino Rossini (1792-1868)Director Werner Herzog and conductor Riccardo Muti combine with the finest of casts to lavish Rossini's rarely performed Neapolitan masterpiece set in feudal sixteenth-century Scotland with the genius it deserves. June Anderson is an outstanding Elena (the Lady of the Lake) in the 1992 production of the melodrama based on Sir Walter Scott's poem. Unlocked from the archives of RAI television this is a classic recording from one of the world's great opera houses.
Kenneth MacMillan's tragic lyric ballet to sumptuous music by Jules Massenet orchestrated for the ballet by Leighton Lucas is a Royal Opera House favourite returning season after season. The story of Manon Lescaut is a moving tale of corrupted innocence in early 18th century Paris in which the lovely girl finds both happiness and grief at the hands of men who love and abuse her. Manon is one of MacMillan's most highly regarded works featuring several passionate and moving pas
Zoom Tour Live is a superlative concert video that will be a godsend for fans of Electric Light Orchestra, since ELO's Zoom tour was sadly cut short due to lacklustre ticket sales. Judging from this tour-opening performance (in May 2001 at the CBS studios in Los Angeles), those cancelled gigs were a major loss, because Jeff Lynne's revamped ELO is in top form, playing six new songs from Zoom (ELO's first release in 15 years) and 17 hits from the band's beloved legacy. Like the meticulous producer he is, guitarist-composer Lynne plays cordial frontman to an appreciative audience, and his re-creation of ELO's classical-rock sound is astonishing in its fidelity to the studio recordings. From the moment ELO's signature space-ship stage blossoms to reveal Lynne's eight-piece ensemble (including, of course, two cellists), there's not a weak song in the brisk 98-minute set. Zoom Tour Live is ample compensation for those who bought useless tickets to an ill-fated show. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com
Simon Rattle conducts the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in a performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 5: Ades-Aslya.
A performance of Wagner's Die Walkure at the Wiener Festwochen in 1963. The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra is conducted by Hans Knappertsbusch.
Produced by the BBC in association with RM ARTS from the Usher Hall, Verdi's 'REQUIEM'.
Adriana LecouvreurFrancesco Cilea (1866-1950)Cilea's four-act opera of jealousy and tangled love first performed in Milan in 1902 is based on the true story of Adriana Lecouvreur an 18th-Century actress at the Comedie Francaise whose rival for the love of Maurizio count of Saxony is the married Principessa di Bouillon. Unlocked from the archives of RAI television this 1989 classic recording comes from one of the world's great opera houses.
BBC Symphony Orchestra - Leonard Bernstein, direction
The New Year's Concert recorded in Vienna featuring the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Riccardo Muti. The theme of this concert is Johann Strauss Father and Sons and celebrates the two hundredth anniversary of the elder Johann Strauss' birth.
The first-ever release on any video format of the Kirov's 1996 production of Tchaikovsky's Mazeppa. Valery Gergiev directs the Kirov Opera and Ballet in this dramatic staging of Tchaikovsky's historical opera based on Pushkin's verse tale of the legendary Cossack chieftain. Tchaikovsky's dark musical setting intertwines the political drama of Mazeppa's ill-fated betrayal of the Tsar with the personal tragedy of his love for Maria the young daughter of his hapless opponent Koc
Vladimir Jurowski conducts Rachmaninov's dark setting of Alexander Pushkin's 'little tragedy' with an outstanding performance from Sergei Leiferkus in the role written for the great Russian bass Fyodor Chaliapin.Rachmaninov's dramatically brooding score - beautifully recorded in an atmospheric surround sound - portrays the miser consumed by the power of his glinting gold as it pushes him to his ultimate collapse.
Tracklisting:Dig That Crazy Santa ClausThis Cat's On A Hot Tin Roof Boogie Woogie Santa Claus The Dirty BoogieWinter WonderlandSleigh RideSanta Claus Is Back In TownEverybody's Waiting' For The Man With The BagCaravanPipelineStray Cat Strut/You're A Mean One Mr. GrinchJump Jive An' Wail'Zat You Santa Claus?Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!Run Rudolph RunGene & EddieBlue ChristmasJingle Bell RockRat Pack BoogieFishnet StockingsRock This TownNutcracker SuiteRumble In BrightonGettin' In The MoodJingle Bells
Views of France including Paris Burgundy Arles Nimes and Franche-Comte accompany the music of Chopin conducted by Robert Statonsky.
Giacomo Puccini's Gianni Schicchi performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra and conducted by Vladimir Jurowski.
Solistes - Chur de garçons de Varsovie - Chur & Orchestre Philharmonique de Varsovie - Antoni Wit, direction
The Flemish Opera Symphony Orchestra conducted by Silvio Varviso perform The Manon Lescaut opera in four acts.
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