Classical Music

• Kasabian Live! - Live At The O2 | Blu Ray | (25/06/2012) from £19.05   |  Saving you £-2.06 (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Filmed in high definition at London's renowned O2 Arena on 15 December 2011, this is Kasabian's first stand alone DVD release. The show came on the back of the band's No.1 album Velociraptor! and the setlist combines tracks from that album with hits and classic album tracks from across their career so far. The concert was part of a sold out arena tour that covered the UK and Ireland at the end of last year. Kasabian are the recipients of numerous awards for Best Live Band and Best British Band in recent years and this new show with its spectacular and innovative staging will be a must have for their huge and dedicated fanbase. Track Listing: Days Are Forgotten Shoot The Runner Velociraptor! Underdog Where Did All The Love Go? I.D. I Hear Voices Thick As Thieves Take Aim Clubfoot Re-Wired Empire La Fe Verte Fast Fuse / Pulp Fiction Goodbye Kiss L.S.F. Switchblade Smiles Vlad The Impaler Fire Bonus Feature: I Hear Voices - documentary following Kasabian on tour around the UK and Ireland in 2011.

• Mascagni/Leoncavallo - Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci | Blu Ray | (05/01/2009) from £34.55   |  Saving you £-4.56 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Giancarlo del Monaco?s acclaimed new production elegantly intertwines Mascagni?s and Leoncavallo?s well-loved operas, masterpieces which brought new levels of realism into opera through their so-called verismo style. Jes?s L?pez Cobos directs a double cast of outstanding talent in a recording filmed with High Definition cameras and with true surround sound. Special Features: Interviews with Giancarlo del Monaco, Jesus Lopez Cobos, Violeta Urmana, Vincenzo La Scola, Vladimir Galouzine and Maria BayoCast gallery

• Tchaikovsky - the Nutcracker (Colomer, Orchestre Colonne) | DVD | (24/11/2008) from £3.31   |  Saving you £5.94 (289.76%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Christmas Night. A little boy sits alone by a small feeble Christmas tree from the branches of which sadly hang garlands salvaged from Christmases past. His mother is dead. Suddenly in a dream or by magic she is there next to him and places a small gift at the foot of the tree. The enchanted night begins: the gift grows bigger and becomes a miraculous icon fiends flood in the mother appears alive followed by two Angels of Light created by Marius-Mephisto. The whole room is dancing and the child begins to laugh. Is it a dream? Reality is that which we feel to be real. Reality is the moment here and now. Freed from his fear the boy watches the Pas de Deux from The Nutcracker directed by Marius his master and danced by the Prince and Princess. ''I remember! Christmas.. .. Marseille the tree the Nativity scene the presents the thirteen desserts -among them my favourite -the NUTS! Above all I loved cracking nuts. My father had shown me that the insides were like a little human brain. I remember.. . My mother. I was seven years old. One evening she said to me 'your mother is going on a long journey. Promise me you will be good. I remember. Christmas.'' '' So wrote Maurice B''jart in his programme notes for his version of the well-loved Christmas ballet The Nutcracker (Casse-Noisette). B''jart''s magical staging transforms the piece into an enchanting and enchanted autobiography and a loving homage to the choreographer''s mother and to his creative hero Marius Petipa. The first part of the performance is punctuated by B''jart on a huge video screen telling something of his childhood. Summing up his approach to creating this ballet B''jart remarked ''You live a life and you dream a life. When you come to write your own life you tell a lie to build the truth.'' Using Tchaikovsky's score in its entirety augmented with popular waltz and accordion music performed on-stage by the legendary Yvette Homer B''jart takes the original St Petersburg story as a springboard from which to evoke the memories emotions and feelings of his own life''s journey: from a Marseille childhood dominated by the memory of his mother to the passionate commitment to dance inspired by the father of classical ballet Petipa. The stage is flooded with allusions to B''jart''s actual and imaginary history: characters both real and symbolic forests scouting bull-fighting bicycles old songs and much more create a universe of feeling reaching its apotheosis in a faithful recreation of the original Pas de Deux -a true declaration of love. The only character in his Nutcracker that relates to the original is Mephisto who replaces Drosselmeyer as the facilitator of fantastical dreams and happenings. Goethe''s Faust fascinated B''jart when he was still very young and the choreographer''s Mephisto is at the same time his creative hero Marius Petipa. Marius-Mephisto opens up a world to the boy Bim (B''jart) in which his dream life and his desire to dance are intertwined. Three performances of B''jart''s Nutcracker were recorded live fiom the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris for the purposes of this television presentation. The showman of modem dance Maurice B''jart''s work has been provocative influential and popular in equal measure. His choreography has always been physically thrilling setting up an immediate emotional combustion between audience and performer and he attracted huge new audiences for dance with the Ballet of the Twentieth Century productions he mounted in sports stadia public squares and circus tents. Since founding the B''jart Ballet Lausanne in 1987 he has been working on a more intimate scale but his style has remained just as electric vivid and direct in its appeal as ever.

• Eve Graham-Mountains Welcome | DVD | (23/07/2007) from £11.41   |  Saving you £1.58 (13.85%)   |  RRP £12.99

• Heart - Live | DVD | (13/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Heart - Live captures sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson's complete uncut performance on the acclaimed PBS concert series Soundstage. Smash hits like Barracuda and Even It Up share equal billing with the '80s ballad-tinged These Dreams along with songs off their latest album Jupiter's Darling. From the band often hailed as the female Led Zeppelin this incredible 23 song set also features rare covers of The Battle Of Evermore Black Dog and Misty Mountain Hop as well as Elton John's Love Song. Tracklist: 1. Sand 2. Kick It Out 3. Straight On 4. Oldest Story In The World 5. Perfect Goodbye 6. These Dreams 7. The Battle Of Evermore 8. Love Song 9. Lost Angel 10. Magic Man 11. Crazy For You 12. Bebe Le Strange 13. Fallen Ones 14. Make Me 15. Even It Up 16. Dog & Butterfly 17. Alone 18. Things 19. Love Alive 20. Enough 21. Barracuda 22. Black Dog 23. Misty Mountain Hop

• Haydn - The Creation - Orchestra Of The Academy Of Ancient Music | DVD | (12/11/2007) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-3.24 (-19.10%)   |  RRP £16.99

  A unique concert performance of Haydn's popular choral work set to beautiful BBC images of the natural world and great works of art by Haydn's contemporaries such as Blake and Turner chosen to match Haydn's own literal vision of the Bible's verse. Christopher Hogwood leads the Academy of Ancient Music and soloists Emma Kirkby (soprano) Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) and Michael George (bass) in this original-instrument performance from the beautiful cathedral of Gloucester in the West of England. Tracklisting: 1. Haydn: The Creation - Opening Credits 2. Overture-The Representation Of Chaos 3. In The Beginning God Created The Heaven 4. Now Vanish Before The Holy Beams-Despairing..Rage 5. And God Made The Firmament 6. And God Said: Let The Waters Under The Heavens... 7. And God Said:Let The Earth Bring Forth Grass 8. And The Heavenly Hosts Proclaimed 9. And God Said: Let There Be Lights In The Firmament 10. The Heavens Are Telling The Glory Of God 11. And God Said: Let The Waters Bring Forth 12. And God Created Great Whales 13. And The Angels Struck Their Immortal Harps 14. The Lord Is Great 15. And God Said: Let The Earth Bring Forth 16. Now Heaven In Fullest Glory Shone 17. And God Created Man 18. And God Saw Everything 19. On Thee Each Living Soul Awaits 20. Achieved Is The Glorious Work 21. In Rosy Mantle Appears 22. By Thee With Bliss O Bounteous Lord 23. Of Stars The Fairest 24. Our Duty We Performed Now 25. Graceful Consort! At Thy Side 26. O Happy Pair 27. Haydn: The Creation - Closing Credits

• Ozzy Osbourne - God Bless Ozzy Osbourne | Blu Ray | (14/11/2011) from £16.50   |  Saving you £1.75 (11.48%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Ozzy Osbourne is one of the most iconic figures in rock and one of the founding fathers of heavy metal, however to many his Madman persona has overshadowed his considerable musical achievements. God Bless Ozzy Osbourne tells for the first time the story of his career from the founding of Black Sabbath through to solo stardom and his wider fame beyond. These were the wild days of his prodigious drug and alcohol intake, of biting the head from a dove at a record company meeting and biting into a bat on stage but also of the tragic death of Randy Rhoads and the reality TV show The Osbournes. The film follows Ozzy's torturous and emotionally fraught journey from excess to sobriety, which Ozzy regards as his greatest accomplishment. Featuring never before seen footage, new interviews with Ozzy himself, his brothers and sisters, his children, his bandmates in Black Sabbath and those who both inspired him and were inspired by him, this is the first film to take viewers inside the mind and psyche of this legendary figure.

• Soundtrack of Your Life - Vol. 2 | DVD | (07/01/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Armin van Buuren - The Next Level | DVD | (06/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Armin van Buuren - The Next Level [DVD]

• Ray Charles Live In France 1961 | DVD | (24/10/2011) from £26.37   |  Saving you £-12.12 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  By 1961 Ray Charles had established himself at the forefront of popular music. He had several R&B hit singles on Atlantic Records in the fifties and crossed over into the mainstream with his hit What'd I Say in 1959. He then moved from Atlantic Records to ABC and had further success throughout the sixties. The two concerts on this DVD were filmed at the Antibes Jazz Festival in July of 1961 when Ray Charles was at the peak of his powers. Filmed on 16mm film it has been lovingly restored and is released here for the first time.

• Mamma Mia! - Digibook | Blu Ray | (19/11/2012) from £17.53   |  Saving you £0.46 (2.62%)   |  RRP £17.99

  From the smash hit stage show comes this larger than life musical epic. Bringing you an all-star cast, the songs of ABBA and an extravaganza of dancing and laughter, Mamma Mia! The Movie is the feel good film of the decade. Bride-to-be Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) is on a quest to find her father before her big day. There is just one problem... she's just not sure who he is. After secretly reading her mother Donna's (Meryl Streep) old diaries, she discovers he is one of three past loves. Knowing her mother would not approve, she invites them all. Sophie desperately tries to keep their presence hidden but it's not long before the secret is out and the fun begins... Special Features: Deleted Musical Number The Name of the Game The Making of Mamma Mia! Anatomy of a Musical Number Lay All Your Love on Me Becoming a Singer A Look Inside Mamma Mia! Deleted Scenes Outtakes Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! Music Video Bjorn Ulvaeus Cameo Feature Commentary with Director Phyllida Lloyd Blu-ray Exclusive - Behind the Hits: Get the full details and behind-the-scenes trivia on the hit ABBA songs and albums as you watch the performances on screen Collectible 36 Page Book Pack

• Great Conductors - Carlos Kleiber | DVD | (30/08/2004) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-0.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Unique rehearsals and performances in a rare film of conductor Carlos Kleiber.

• For Those Aboot To Rock | DVD | (01/03/2006) from £36.00   |  Saving you £-27.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

  Strapping Young Lad~For Those About To Rock~Live At The CommodoreTracks:1. Dire (Intro)2. Consequence3. Relentless4. Rape Song5. Home Nucleonics6. Syi7. In The Rainy Season8. Beyour9. Aftermath10. Oh My Fucking God11. Force Fed12. Detox13. All Hail The New Flesh13. Far Beyond Metal

• Graham Parker And The Figgs: Live At The Ftc | DVD | (29/09/2014) from £13.69   |  Saving you £2.30 (16.80%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Rock legend Graham Parker ignites the stage with mighty backup from The Figgs in this rip-roaring new show celebrating the release of his 20th bestselling album. Join an enthusiastic audience as Parker and company tear through 21 hit songs including Life Gets Better Mercury Poisoning and My Love's Strong. Features a fascinating career-spanning interview with Parker about his life and music. Captured on 23 April 2010 in Fairfield Connecticut at FTC's StageOne concert hall.

• Johann Sebastian Bach - Bach: 6 Suites For Violoncello BWV 1007-1012 | DVD | (18/07/2006) from £29.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  A winning combination for this recording is provided by the majestic background of the Bavarian Alps the tiny pilgrimage church of St. Servatius and the highly skilled Swiss cellist with Tawianese roots Wen-Sinn Yang. This is the centre stage for Bach's gorgeous Six Suites for Solo Violoncello composed in 1720.Written during Bach's time in Kothen the Suites are one of the most important series for this instrument and a big challenge for every cellist providing a well-balanced combination of sacral and secular music.Wen-Sinn Yang's play can be characterized as technically at the highest level with a lovely full sound and impeccable intonation. He penetrates completely the philosophical dimensions of the music he plays. Therefore it is possible for him to interpret the Suites in his very unique and accomplished way.

• Wagner: The Ring Without Words | Blu Ray | (31/01/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Bach - Matthaus Passion | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £16.09   |  Saving you £6.16 (41.54%)   |  RRP £20.99

  Performance of Bach's masterpiece St Matthew Passion BWV244.Recorded at the St. Joriskerk Amersfoort 22 and 23 March 2005.

• The Ultimate DVD Karaoke Party 2008 - 60 Songs - From Zoom Karaoke | DVD | (24/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Tracklist: 1. 9 To 5 - Dolly Parton 2. American Boy - Estelle 3. Baby Love - Supremes 4. Bleeding Love - Leona Lewis 5. Call Me - Blondie 6. Chain Reaction - Diana Ross 7. Dancing Queen - Abba 8. Fame - Irene Cara 9. Flashdance. What A Feeling - Irene Cara 10. Girls Just Want To Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper 11. Heaven Is A Place On Earth - Belinda Carlisle 12. Hot Stuff - Donna Summer 13. I Kissed A Girl - Katy Perry 14. I Think We're Alone Now - Tiffany 15. I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Wh...

• Spanish Night | DVD | (04/02/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Plácido Domingo is no stranger to stadium events, though in the old days it was as a singer with his pals, Pavarotti and Carreras. In Spanish Night with baton in hand he has an appealingly avuncular manner, and he couldn't hope for a better class of orchestra than the Berlin Philharmonic, here playing in their annual open-air concert given at the city's Waldbühne. It's a real crowd-pleaser of a programme (and the audience's enthusiasm is immediately apparent and increasingly boisterous as the evening wears on). None of the works stretches the concentration unreasonably, and the views of Spain come not only from home-grown composers (Sarasate, Torroba, Serrano and Vives) but also as viewed through other eyes: Rimsky-Korsakov's Capriccio espagnole, Chabrier's España and Johann Strauss II's Spanish March. A pair of soloists increase the sequin quotient of the evening: the consummately poised violinist Sarah Chang (who has been round for so long it's difficult to believe she's still only 20) and the full-voiced soprano Ana María Martínez, winner of the Plácido Domingo Vocal Competition in Barcelona. Given the visual limitations of such events, the camerawork is imaginative without being distracting, and the sound, if a little boxy, is perfectly acceptable. Above all there's a great sense of fun to the occasion, and in the final number, Lincke's Berliner Lufte, Domingo is unable to resist seizing the microphone and leading the singing. On the DVD Sound options are either Dolby Digital 5.1 or PCM stereo and the picture is formatted for 16:9 TVs. A variety of goodies have been added to the concert itself, including interviews with Domingo and Sarah Chang, footage of flamenco dancing in Berlin (which is vaguely relevant) and a behind-the-scenes documentary.--Harriet Smith

• Dennis Brown: Rockers TV | DVD | (27/10/2014) from £7.15   |  Saving you £5.84 (45.00%)   |  RRP £12.99