"Actor: Vladimir Ashkenazy"

• 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.

• Beethoven - The Piano Concertos - Vladimir Ashkenazy/London Symphony Orchestra | DVD | (13/08/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The acclaimed BBC films of Vladimir Ashkenazy playing all five Beethoven Piano Concerts- with Bernard Haitink conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Filmed at London's Royal Festival Hall in March and April 1974, these classic performances of essential piano repertoire are available for the first time on home video. Also includes performances of Beethoven's overtures Leonore Nos.2 and 3 and Egmont, as well as a complete performance of his Symphony No. 8.

• We Want The Light | DVD | (22/10/2004) from £27.95   |  Saving you £-2.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  This is a DVD about many things. It is about freedom and captivity about emancipation acculturation and assimilation; it is about the roles played by Moses and Felix Mendelssohn in the dream of fruitful unproblematic integration of the Jews into German society after their liberation from the ghettos; it is about Richard Wagner his essay Das Judenthum in der Musik (The Jews in Music) and his influence on the thinking of the Third Reich but most of all it is a DVD about how much music can mean to people even in the direst of circumstances or particularly in the direst circumstances.The title We Want The Light is taken from a poem by a 12-year-old girl Eva Pickova written in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Her words provide both the title and the climax - in a setting for two choruses and orchestra by the American composer Franz Waxman in his work The Song Of Terezin. The DVD also contains music by Mahler Bach Schoenberg Bruch Schumann Mendelssohn Wagner Schubert Bloch and Brahms.

• Mozart: Great Piano Concertos - Vol. 1 | DVD | (01/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Tracks Include: Piano Concerto No. 9 in E flat major K.271 'Jeunehomme' Piano Concerto No. 12 in A major K. 414 Piano Concerto No. 26 in D major K. 537 'Coronation'

• Prokofiev - Cinderella | DVD | (19/05/2008) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-1.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99