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• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Requiem | DVD | (28/08/2006) from £20.01   |  Saving you £-0.02 (-0.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The present recording of Mozart's final work is taken from the ORF archives and is set in the Goldener Saal of the Vienna Musikverein, a scene familiar to millions of television viewers from the Vienna Philharmonic's annual New Year Concerts. And yet, although the present concert also took place during the late morning, the occasion could hardly have been more different in terms of its seriousness of purpose and concentration on music that is devoted not to pleasure but to thoughts of death and eternity.- Equally unusual is the combination of the Vienna State Opera Chorus and the reduced forces of the Concentus Musicus playing on period instruments.- Even after a quarter of a century, the listener and spectator can still be thrilled by the attentiveness with which the soloists and members of the Vienna State Opera Chorus react to these different sounds and to the often unfamiliar phrasing of the Concentus Musicus, whose players support the conductor's interpretation to the hilt. Harnoncourt, it will be noted, conducts without a baton.- The first part of the concert also comprises a performance of Bach's Cantana 161, Komm, du suBe Todesstunde, in which two solo singers (alto and tenor) and a four-part choir are set against an instrumental ensemble made up of strings, organ and continuo, together with two concertante recorders.

• Special Needs | DVD | (02/04/2007) from £2.80   |  Saving you £11.45 (743.51%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Shot in New Zealand Finland Sweden USA Norway Canada Austria and Swirzerland this DVD features the most reknowned snowboarders around ; and they really push back the boundaries of possibility. The riders undertake such challenges as the Arctic Challenge Skating the Battle Ice Race and Base Jumping.

• Tender Is The Heart | DVD | (18/02/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Sometimes the gods punish us by answering our prayers.; ; Dr. Thomas Freeman married the girl of his dreams. But fate took his wife from him. After years of brooding he has finally reopened himself to love. However, instead of finding one good woman, he finds himself having to choose between two. Christy is a vivacious young tennis pro spoiling for a love match, and Raquel is a woman as wise in the ways of pleasure as she is gentle, nurturing and true. Tender Is The Heart is the delicious sto...

• Snowbound | DVD | (07/10/2019) from £7.43   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  British film noir made in 1948 by the Gainsborough Studio, set in the Italian alps and full of post war intrigue and espionage. Engles (Robert Newton), a film director, offers his old friend and film extra Neil Blair (Dennis Price), an intriguing assignment. Blair is to travel to a remote Italian ski lodge and pose as a film script writer working on his next project. The real purpose of Blair s visit is to observe the visitors to the resort who include Wesson (Stanley Holloway) a photographer, and the mysterious Countess Forelli, who Blair quickly realises is travelling under an alias. The story begins to unfold with the arrival of Keramiko (Herbert Lom), a mysterious Greek gentleman, and when an attempt is made on Blair s life the real reason for his presence at the resort, and that of the other guests, soon becomes clear...