"Actor: Orchestra"

• Jacques Offenbach; Walter Felsenstein: Hoffmanns Erzählungen | Blu Ray | (01/03/2021) from £40.19   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Zubin Mehta with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in Rehearsal | DVD | (21/01/2002) from £10.47   |  Saving you £10.78 (117.05%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Without being at all tricksy or showy, Arthaus Musik's In Rehearsal documentary series offers enthralling, profound insights into music-making of the highest calibre. In this case, with Zubin Mehta conducting the Israel Philharmonic in a rehearsal of Strauss' Till Eulenspiegel, those insights are sharpened by the knowledge that the orchestra is playing the piece for the very first time: the music of Richard Strauss had been banned in Israel until 1994 as a reaction to his involvement with the Nazi party. Thus, though the initial run-through is somewhat scratchy (and causes an hilariously neurotic hissy fit on the part of the principal horn player), the fact that the ensemble has no performance tradition of this piece means that every phrase has to be taken apart, explained, and put together again. We therefore see Mehta's ability to make a phrase more comic or fuller of pathos by simple nips and tucks of note lengths, and hear his reasons for shaping the piece the way he does. The documentary also offers a window on Mehta's genial but steely relationship with the orchestra: when he criticises the first flute (who is auditioning for a place in the orchestra), her terrified face is like a portrait by Francis Bacon. On the DVD: Mehta rehearses the orchestra in English, and the documentary has subtitles in French, German and Spanish. There are also four trailers for other Arthaus music videos. --Warwick Thomson

• Zoom Tour Live | DVD | (13/07/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  ELO took rock in a new direction, combining lush orchestrations with a pop sensibility, rapidly scoring 17 Top 40 hits. In this much-anticipated concert performance, ELO (headed by Jeff Lynne) kick off the Zoom tour in lavish style at CBS Television City in Los Angeles in 2001, playing both their all-time favourites and material from the just released Zoom album.Tracklist1. Program Start; Do Ya?2. Evil Woman3. Showdown4. Strange Magic5. Livin' Thing6. Alright7. Lonesome Lullaby8. Telephone Line9. Turn to Stone10. Just for Love11. Easy Money12. Mr. Blue Sky13. Ma-Ma-Ma Belle14. One Summer Dream15. Tightrope16. State of Mind17. Can't Get Your Out of My Mind18. Moment in Paradise19. 10538 Overture20. Ordinary Dream21. Shine a Little Lve22. Don't Bring Me Down23. Roll Over Beethoven24. End Credits

• Cavalleria Rusticana/I Pagliacci | DVD | (04/11/2008) from £22.98   |  Saving you £2.01 (8.75%)   |  RRP £24.99

• Waldbuhne in Berlin, 1998 -- Latin American Night | DVD | (08/05/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Maurice RavelBoleroGeorges BizetCarmen Suite No. 1I. PreludeII. AragonaiseIII. IntermezzoIV. Les dragons d'AlcaraV. ToredorsAlberto GinasteraMalambo from Estancia op. 8Ernesto LecuonaLa ComparsaErnesto LecuonaMalaguenaHoracio SalganA Don Agustin BardiAstor PiazollaAdios NoninoCarlos GardelEl dia que me quierasGerardo Matos RodriguezLa CumparsitaAstor PiazollaDecarissimoMariano MoresEl FiruletePaul LinckeBerliner Luft.

• Waldbuhne In Berlin 2000 | DVD | (20/08/2001) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-1.59 (-8.00%)   |  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

• The Map | DVD | (10/01/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Composer Tan Dun's 'The Map' is an ambitious project which draws on his discovery of music from the far-flung corners of the globe. The majority of his discoveries were unearthed in China's Western Hunan region where the talented musician captured a number of field recordings on camera. Using these recordings as a basis for a concerto Tan Dun subsequently split the music he heard into 10 movements named them 'The Map' and reconfigured them with the help of the Boston Symphony Orch

• Pierre Boulez In Rehearsal | DVD | (21/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An insight into the rehearsal techniques of Pierre Boulez plus an extensive interview. Includes 'Berg - Three Pieces For Orchestra - Opus 6' and 'Boulez - Notations 1 To 4'.

• Wagner: Das Rheingold -- Stuttgart/Zagrosek | DVD | (24/11/2003) from £35.82   |  Saving you £-10.83 (-43.30%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The First part of Wagner's magnum opus comes to dvd this month with a starkly contemporary feel. For the first time in the history of the ring cycle each of Rheingold's four sections was given to a different stage-director providing an exciting range of varying perspectives with a unified theme. Without a winged helmet in sight this unique production casts Wotan as a coolly calculating businessman with his wife a director on the board. The whole was directed by Joachim Schlomer an

• Verdi - Aida, La Traviata | DVD | (18/11/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Performed at La Scala in Italy 'Aida' is Guiseppe Verdi's famous grand opera at its very best. 'La Traviata' is Peter Hall's production and comes from the 1988 Glyndebourne Festival under the musical direction of Bernard Haitink.

• Mahler/ Mozart: Tennstedt (Symphony No. 4/ 35) (ICA Classics: ICAD 5072) | DVD | (30/04/2012) from £12.05   |  Saving you £7.94 (65.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

• Various: Nobel Prize Concert | Blu Ray | (26/04/2011) from £25.65   |  Saving you £4.34 (16.92%)   |  RRP £29.99

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• Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake | DVD | (26/07/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

• Waldbuhne 1992 - French Night | DVD | (10/06/2002) from £6.49   |  Saving you £14.76 (282.22%)   |  RRP £19.99

  French Night is subtitled "An Exceptional Summer Concert from Waldbuhne Berlin, 1992" and was recorded on June 27 of that year with the Berlin Philharmonic delivering a programme of French favourites under the baton of Georges Pretre. The concert begins with Berlioz' Roman Carnival Overture and though the orchestra work hard the full daylight in the amphitheatre setting negates any real engagement. Ravel's Concerto for the Left Hand follows and is the most serious part of the programme, soloist Leon Fleischer making the most of his showcase, though Debussy's L'Après-Midi d'un Faune is really too intimate for such an event. Night has descended for Bizet's Carmen Suite and the show really takes off as the famous tunes fill the arena. The audience equally appreciate Ravel's Bolero before the French part of the evening is capped by some lively dance music from Offenbach and Bizet. Then, to restore local patriotic pride, the Berlin Philharmonic launch into an enthusiastic version of Johann Strauss' Radetzky-March, the familiar closing number from the Vienna Philharmonic's annual New Year's Day concerts. The finale is Paul Lincke's Berliner Luft, a whistle-along favourite which produces some entertainingly diverse audience reaction. A fun evening for all which would have been better had they waited for nightfall. On the DVD: French Night on disc has promos for nine further TDK classical music DVDs but otherwise no extras. The 4:3 picture has all the flaws of live concert footage shot on video, with little detail in long shots, highly noticeable light trails and a gauze-like effect across many scenes. The sound defaults to a good PCM stereo mix, but while subtly employed the Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS 5.1 soundtracks offer a much more absorbing atmosphere, the latter in particular providing a real sense of three-dimensional presence. --Gary S Dalkin

• Luciano Pavarotti - The DVD Collection | DVD | (13/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Three features including 'Pavarotti In Central Park' 'Pavarotti - A 30th Anniversary Gala Concert' and 'Pavarotti And Levine In Recital'. Pavarotti - Live In Central Park: One of the three most famous tenors in the world the exceedingly round Luciano Pavarotti has a voice that could shake all of New York City. And it surely shook all of Central Park on the night that the star performed in 1993. As captured on this video Pavarotti is ably backed by members of the New York

• Harlem Roots-Big Bands V1 | DVD | (28/08/2007) from £7.17   |  Saving you £4.08 (69.04%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Big Bands - Harlem Roots Volume One features four key band leaders; Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Cab Calloway and Lucky Millinder. These orchestras represent the cream of the crop. Here we see the swinging blues of Count Basie, the multidimensional beauty of Duke Ellington's compositions, the gospel inflected strains of Sister Rosetta Tharpe singing with Lucky Millinder and the high spirited rhythms of master showman Cab Calloway.

• Deo Gratias and the Best of Antonin Dvorak | DVD | (20/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Documentary Antonin Dvorak - Deo Gratias portrays the famous Czech composer as a man of strong character sensitivity education and Christian faith as a patriot and a man whose talent took him from a very modest family background to the highest peak of fame. Where did Dvorak draw the strength to keep his own identity modesty and faith despite personal tragedy and professional success? The selection of Antonin Dvorak's masterpieces on this DVD manifests the composer's brilliant

• Nielsen - Stokowski Conducts Nielsen | DVD | (04/11/2008) from £9.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (130.13%)   |  RRP £22.99

• Berlin Opera Night | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Kent Nagano conducts some of opera's greatest names in performances of Handels's music for the royal fireworks the Finale to Die Fledermaus.

• Missa Solemnis - Beethoven | DVD | (24/11/2005) from £15.12   |  Saving you £4.87 (32.21%)   |  RRP £19.99

  With his Missa solemnis the composer broke with all conventions for the composition of a mass creating a work that went beyond the normal framework of the liturgy. His treatment and interpretation of the text creates the impression of a coherent set of events and as such the work distances itself from the normal liturgical procedures becoming instead the main focus of interest.In his introduction to the performance given in the Cologne Cathedral as part of the World Youth Day 2005 Pope Benedict XVI states: The Missa solemnis bears overwhelming witness to an unceasing search for belief that refuses to turn its back on God.