"Actor: Orchestra"

• Donizetti - La Favorita (Cossott) | DVD | (04/11/2008) from £25.70   |  Saving you £-0.71 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

• Il Matrimonio Segreto - Cimarosa | DVD | (31/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  'Il Matrimonio Segreto' is Cimarosa's most famous opera which is reputed to have won immense admiration from Emperor Leopold II at its first performance in 1792. T Austrian Emperor liked this masterpiece so much that he ordered it to be played again from the beginning! Domenico Cimarosa's opera about the amorous bumblings of Bolognese gentry is performed by the Cologne Opera at the 1986 Schwetzingen Festival.

• Adriana Lecouvreur - Cilea | DVD | (27/02/2006) from £31.16   |  Saving you £-14.91 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Francesco Cilea's most popular work is based on the 1849 play by Eugene Scribe and Ernest Legouve. Adriana Lecouvreur is a star of the stage who could seemingly have any man she desires but when she falls hopelessly in love with the Count of Saxony she discovers he's already been promised to the Princess of Bouillon leading to a battle of wills between them.Filmed at Sydney Opera House Australia.

• Gala From Berlin - Invitation To The Dance 2001 | DVD | (03/03/2003) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The New Year's Eve concert from Berlin under the musical direction of Daniel Barenboim.

• Fidelio | DVD | (05/10/2006) from £22.15   |  Saving you £2.84 (12.82%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A performance of the Beethoven's Fidelio. James Levine conducts the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus.

• Europa Konzert From Lisbon | DVD | (28/06/2004) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-1.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  European Concert recorded live at the Mosteiro dos Jeronimos Lisbon.Maurice Ravel - Le Tombeau de CouperinWolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor K466Bela Bartok - Concerto for Orchestra Sz116Claude Debussy - Fetes (from Trois Nocturnes)

• Beethoven - Emperor Concerto Op. 73 (Michaelan) | DVD | (26/07/2007) from £12.98   |  Saving you £10.01 (43.50%)   |  RRP £22.99

• Fiddler's Party | DVD | (23/07/2007) from £14.86   |  Saving you £-4.87 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Scottish dancing with music by The Scottish Fiddle Orchestra, conducted by John Mason MBE... This DVD is a collection of the finest Scottish Fiddle Dance music carefully put together to make it easy for everyone to select the music for their favourite dances. Filmed with a superlative group of dancers in the magnificent Great Hall of Borthwick Castle, the viewer can immediately see the overall movement and shape these wonderful dances take on. Coupled with beautiful scenic footage of Scotland and danced to the music of the Scottish Fiddle Orchestra with their inspiring and charismatic conductor, John Mason MBE, 'The Fiddlers Party' gives you a unique feeling for the dancing and music of this great country. 17 dances featuring The Bluebell Polka, The Military Two Step, Canadian Barn Dance, Strip the Willow, Lomond Waltz, The Dashing White Sergeant, The Eva Three Step, The Gay Gordons, Highland Schottische, The Britannia Two Step, St Bernards Waltz, The Boston Two Step, The Duke of Perth, The Eightsome Reel & more...

• Waldbuhne 1997 Saint Petersburgh Night | DVD | (10/04/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Recorded at the Waldbuhne Berlin June 25 2000. Tracklist: He Got Rythm (Hommage a George Gershwin) - Jean Pascal Beintus La Valse - Maurice Ravel Hi-Ten-Yu - Isao Matsushita Utage - Eitetsu Hayashi My Favourite Concubine - Zhao jiping Daphnis et Chloe Suite No. 2 - Maurice Ravel Fascinating Rhythm - Gershwin The Man I Love - Gershwin Nice Work - Gershwin Someone To Watch Over Me - Gershwin Summertime - Gershwin I Got Rhythm - Gershwin Berliner Luft - Paul Lincke

• Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 - Choral | DVD | (23/09/2002) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-1.59 (-8.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A performance of Beethoven's renowned symphony under the baton of Kurt Masur.

• Clavigo | DVD | (20/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Ballet in two parts after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.Clavigo - Nicolas Le Riche.Marie - Clairemarie Osta.The Stranger - Marie-Agnes Gillot.Carlos - Yann Bridard.Beaumarchais - Yann Saiz.A stage performance by the Opera National de Paris.

• Don Giovanni / Cosi Fan Tutte | DVD | (28/11/2005) from £52.63   |  Saving you £-2.64 (-5.30%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Cosi Fan Tutte:Live from the Zurich Opera House 2000Don Giovanni:Live from the Zurich Opera House 2001

• Paul McCartney's Standing Stone | DVD | (07/09/2009) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-1.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A Symphonic Poem for orchestra with chorus. Lawrence Foster conducts the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra who perform a rarely played piece written by ex-Beatle Sir Paul McCartney where he tries to describe the way Celtic man might have wondered about the origins of life and the mysteries of human existence. Unlike the 'Liverpool Oratorio' which features prominent roles for four solo singers 'Standing Stone' relies entirely on colours and effects drawn from orchestral and choral forces

• Beethoven: Symphonies 3 & 9 -- Berlin PO/Abbado | DVD | (31/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The celebrated Claudio Abbado conducts the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in performances of Beethoven's Third and Ninth Symphonies. No. 9 comes first, in a performance given in the Berlin Philharmonie hall for the year 2000 Europe Concert; the finale of Beethoven's masterpiece having been coopted as the anthem of the European Union, this tenth annual concert emphasised unification in an international broadcast seen by millions worldwide. Abbado is as qualified to conduct this music as anyone alive and brings a deeply sympathetic reading from the BPO, eliciting a particularly spirited and uplifting second movement Molto vivace and eloquently moving Adagio. The epic choral finale features the combined forces of the Swedish Radio Choir and Eric Ericson Chamber Choir together with top international soloists, including the soprano Karita Mattila. The result is exhilarating, rapturous music-making which is never overwhelming but which truly captures the joy of Schiller's text. Recorded in February 2001 at the National Academy of St. Cecilia in Rome, a fine performance of Beethoven's Third Symphony, "Eroica" completes the programme. The two venues ensure some visual contrast in both pieces, with Abbado a compelling figure to watch as he delivers this incomparable music. On the DVD: Beethoven Symphonies 3 amp; 9 is presented anamorphically enhanced at 16:9 ratio with a strong, clear picture and sound options covering PCM stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS 5.1. The last of these is the best, the surround speakers being used subtly to give a real sense of live concert-hall ambience and an enveloping spread of the choirs in the Ninth. Other than a reasonably informative booklet the only significant extra is a multi-angle option for No. 3. With this selected the camera remains on Abbado throughout, offering a useful orchestra's eye view for musicians and conducting students. Finally there is a sound-check to test for the correct connection of surround speakers. --Gary S Dalkin

• Valery Gergiev In Rehearsal | DVD | (22/04/2002) from £16.44   |  Saving you £3.55 (17.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The passionately scruffy St Petersburg conductor gets as impressive and fiery a sound out of the Rotterdam Philharmonic as he does out of his own Kirov/Maryinsky theatre orchestra in Valery Gergiev in Rehearsal. The programme here starts with Stravinsky's early showpiece Fireworks and moves into the brooding neo-classical Piano Concerto with Alexander Toradze as soloist. The heart of the concert is Prokofiev's Scythian Suite, his largely successful attempt to produce a ballet score as radical and shocking as Stravinsky's Rite of Spring; Gergiev is passionately committed to this music and sees its heart as being as much caught up with quiet interludes of almost chamber-music dialogues between instruments as it is with the work's huge climaxes. The symphonic fragments from Debussy's oratorio Le Martyre de Saint Sebastien is almost as charismatic a piece of paganism. This is an intelligent concert because it is constructed around an implied dialogue between three composers trying to find a new sound world for the 20th century. The accompanying documentary shows Gergiev at his most charming and Mephistophelean rehearsing the Prokofiev, and gives a full account of the origins of the score. On the DVD: Valery Gergiev in Rehearsal is presented in a standard 4:3 visual aspect and has adequate, though not remarkable, PCM stereo sound. --Roz Kaveney

• Bruckner Symphony No. 9 (Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Most) | DVD | (30/06/2008) from £20.60   |  Saving you £5.38 (30.55%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Bruckner:Symphony No.9

• Berlin Philharmonic - European Concert 1999 | DVD | (08/05/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Enjoy the splendour of the Berlin Philharmoniker led by Bernard Haitink at their 1999 European Concert in Cracow.

• Berlioz - Celibidache Conducts Berlioz Symphony Fantastique | DVD | (21/05/2007) from £18.95   |  Saving you £1.04 (5.49%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The conductor Sergiu Celibidache was a legend in his own lifetime, mesmerising orchestras with his intensity and brilliance, both in rehearsals and in performances - which were always conducted from memory. In this recording, he takes on Berlioz's passionate autobiographical monument to obsessive and unrequited love. The Celibidache Symphonic Series celebrates the historic release on DVD of rare footage of the few performances ever recorded for television.

• Glazunov - Raymonda | DVD | (26/07/2007) from £20.23   |  Saving you £2.76 (12.00%)   |  RRP £22.99

• Marriner Conducts Mozart | DVD | (03/04/2006) from £14.85   |  Saving you £5.14 (34.61%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:Die Zauberflote K620: OvertureConcerto for flute harp and orchestra in C major K299Symphony No. 39 in E flat major K543Recorded live at the Palazzo dei Congressi Lugano 11 November 2005.