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Handel: Messiah - The 250th Anniversary Performance | DVD | (13/10/2003)
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| RRP This 1992 performance of Handel's masterpiece was filmed at The Point Theatre Dublin. Conducted by Sir Neville Marriner.
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Gunter Wand - Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 8 | DVD | (28/11/2005)
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| RRP Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival 2000 - Recorded Live At The Musik - und Kongresshalle Lubeck 9 July 2000.
Billy Budd | DVD | (01/04/2004)
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| RRP Benjamin Britten's opera 'Billy Budd' in two acts tells of the sadism and injustice abroad a British man-of-war.
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Carl Orff: Carmina Burana / Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Choral) | DVD | (10/05/2004)
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| RRP This DVD uniquely presents maestro Seiji Ozawa conducting two great choral masterpieces beloved by audiences and singers the world over. Carl Orff's 'Carmina Burana' by turns boisterous and lyrical sets ribald medieval songs in a celebration of life's pleasures. Also includes Ludwig van Beethoven's monumental Ninth Symphony the Choral which famously concludes with the uplifting 'Ode to Joy' a timeless plea for universal brotherhood. Performed in Latin singers include Kathleen Battle Frank Lopardo and Thomas Allen. Conducted by Seiji Ozawa and directed by Barrie Gavin.
Guitarra! - The Guitar In Spain | DVD | (03/01/2006)
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| RRP Julian Bream is celebrated as one of the world's leading classical guitarists. He is featured in this series of 8 half-hour films shot entirely on location in Spain playing some of the finest pieces in the repertoire of the spanish guitar. The programmes trace the evolution of the Spanish guitar over five centuries from 1500 to the present day and includes among other compositions by Albeniz Granados de Falla Tarrega and Rodrigo.
Mahler - Symphony No. 3 (Haitink) | DVD | (12/06/2006)
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| RRP Renowned as one of the great Mahler interpreters of our age Bernard Haitink conducted a now-legendary Mahler cycle with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in the early 1990s. This DVD offers a powerful record of this memorable undertaking presenting the monumental six-movement Third Symphony described by the composer as my most individual and richest work.
Bizet - Carmen | DVD | (07/03/2005)
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| RRP Bizet's powerful opera staged at London's Earls Court in Steven Pimkott's production.
Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 4 and 7 (Haitink) | DVD | (12/06/2006)
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| RRP Renowned as one of the great Mahler interpreters of our age Bernard Haitink conducted a now-legendary Mahler cycle with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in the early 1990s. This DVD offers a powerful record of this memorable undertaking bringing together the composer's pastoral Fourth Symphony with the often enigmatic but ultimately joyous Seventh Symphony.
Berlin Philharmonic -- New Year's Gala 1996 | DVD | (14/11/2001)
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| RRP The New Year's Gala Concert given by the Berlin Philharmonic is one of the fixtures of the German music scene, as much as the Vienna Philharmonic concerts are of the Austrian one. This concert from 1996 is typical of the genre, including a selection of highbrow lollipops, a brilliant internationally renowned soloist (Maxim Vengerov) and a generous helping of waltzes with which to swing in the new year. Claudio Abbado brings his usual unflashy savoir-faire to the job of conducting, and the orchestra responds with some gorgeously silky, perfectly executed, if not always electrifying, playing. Vengerov makes Ravel's Tzigane flash and thunder with gypsy passion and gives an equally fiery performances of Brahms' Hungarian Dances Nos. 7, 17 and 21. If the Swedish Radio Choir aren't quite as thrilling in Brahms' Liebeslieder Waltzes and Gypsy Songs they still do a fine job with a remarkably tight sense of ensemble and excellent phrasing. All in all, this is an attractive (if not earth-shattering) performance from one of the world's finest orchestras. On the DVD: there are no pleasant surprises here. The visual content includes concert shots of the orchestra, choir and soloist in the Philharmonie Hall. There are no subtitles in any language for the choral sections, and the special features comprise two trailers for Cecilia Bartoli's Vivaldi album and a recording of Penderecki's The Seven Gates of Jerusalem. --Warwick Thompson
Berlioz Rediscovered - Gardiner | DVD | (16/07/2007)
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| RRP This new DVD brings together two concert performances with Gardiner a leading Berlioz interpreter conducting his Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique. This is a new and unique coupling of two fabulous live concerts! The Symphonie Fantastique is a glorious orchestral tour de force which is central to the repertoire of every major orchestra. It is performed here on original instruments in its original 1830's orchestration in the atmospheric old hall of the Paris Conservatoire where it was first heard. The other work is the first performance of the newly discovered Messe Solennelle. Written when Berlioz was just 20 years old it was thought lost until its rediscovery in 1992. The first performance of this large-scale Mass for 150 years was filmed in London's Westminster Cathedral and is a very special musical occasion. Gardiner's period-instrument orcehstra gives characteristically idiomatic performances of these seminal works (which are also linked thematically through Berlioz's extensive re-use of material from the Messe).
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Blood On The Floor - Mark Anthony Turnage | DVD | (03/04/2006)
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| RRP Improvisation and jazz-style melodies have been part of Turnage's work for many years but this is the composer's first large-scale attempt to obliterate artificial boundaries between one 'type' of music and another. A brutally powerful high octane fusion of jazz and classical styles Blood on the Floor concentrates on themes of urban alienation and drug abuse and is described by Turnage as probably the nastiest thing I have written.
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Hans Werner Henze - Memoirs Of An Outsider - A Portrait And Concert | DVD | (25/03/2003)
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| RRP Henze pours his very soul in to this portrait. Interviewed at his home just outside Rome his life story is one of political protest and struggle in many guises. It is clear that his many experiences both terrible and wonderful are deep-dyed into the fabric of his music.Henze's dramatic and moving Requiem begins in gentle tender mood and ends with a radiant hymn-like Sanctus. It contains fierce and satirical passages but also ones which express penetrating or suppressed sorrow.
Milada - Bolshoi Opera | DVD | (01/01/1993)
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| RRP Rimsky-Korsakov s fantasy opera-ballet with its tale of the early Slavs prior to Christian conversion could be described as a ballet with a vocal score equally well as an opera with dancing. This acclaimed production from the Bolshoi by Boris Pokrovsky was filmed in 1992. The choreography is by Andrei Petrov who has created an amazing variety of ritual dances. The colourful blend of dance and music is a reminder of the Diaghilev ballets in which Rimsky-Korsakov s music played such a
Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 | DVD | (28/01/2002)
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| RRP Listening to Bruckners monumental Eighth Symphony, here running some 88 minutes, is like scaling Everest. The summit doesnt come into sight until well into the third, slow movement, then its not until the third approach via other vistas that we arrive with a clash of cymbals at the peak. En route there are diversions into Alpine meadows where its not too fanciful to suggest an Edelweiss is in flower. Zubin Mehta recorded Bruckners Ninth Symphony early on in his career but neither his name nor that of this orchestra has been much associated with the Austrian composer. It was therefore something of a gamble for ArtHaus to release this 1987 performance. Mehta pleads and cajoles his orchestra to give of their all, but ultimately the demands of the music and the unsympathetic acoustic of the Alte Oper Frankfurt defeat them. The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra at key moments isnt always playing as one in a symphony where there are so many entries that require a unison response. One senses that the conductors forward pacing of the music takes its toll on the precision within the huge waves of sound Bruckner launches throughout the work. Anxiety brings with it the wrong sort of tension, so that when the music drops into one of the pastoral episodes theres little sense that weve moved into gentler terrain despite the heroic efforts of the principal flautist to add a scenic diversion. --Adrian Edwards
Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 (Haitink) | DVD | (12/06/2006)
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| RRP Renowned as one of the great Mahler interpreters of our age Bernard Haitink conducted a now-legendary Mahler cycle with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in the early 1990s. This DVD offers a powerful record of this memorable undertaking bringing together the composer's ground-breaking First Symphony (the Titan) with its mighty successor the Resurrection Symphony.
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Hans Werner Henze - Memoirs Of An Outsider - A Portrait And Concert | DVD | (28/03/2003)
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| RRP Memoirs Of An OutsiderHans Werner HenzeRequiem (1990 - 1992)
Giuseppe Sinopoli And The Dresden Staatskapelle - The Two Eyes Of Horus / Dreampaths Of Music | DVD | (02/05/2005)
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| RRP The Two Eyes Of HorusArnold Schonberg: Verklarte Nacht (Transfigured Night) Op. 4.Richard Strauss: Metamorphosen.Dreampaths Of MusicRobert Schumann: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major ('Rhenish') Op. 97.Richard Wagner: Prelude to Parsifal.Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major Op. 92
Gunter Wand | DVD | (30/05/2005)
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| RRP This box set includes: Symphony No. 5 in B flat major by Anton Bruckner recorded live at the Musik- und Kongresshalle Lubeck 11 July 1998Symphony No. 6 in A major by Anton Bruckner recorded live at the Musik- und Kongresshalle Lubeck 7 July 1996Symphony No. 8 in C minor by Anton Bruckner recorded live at the Musik- und Kongresshalle Lubeck 9 July 2000Symphony No. 9 in D minor by Anton Bruckner recorded live at the Musik- und Kongresshalle Lubeck 8 July 2001Symphony No. 76 in E flat major Hob. 1:76 by Joseph Haydn recorded live at the Musik- und Kongresshalle Lubeck 7 July 1996Symphony No. 8 in B minor D 759 Unfinished recorded live at the Musik- und Kongresshalle Lubeck 8 July 2001
Getting Scorched: Mark-Anthony Turange | DVD | (06/04/2009)
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| RRP Turnage is a distinctive and powerful voice in contemporary music. His collaborations with celebrated jazz musicians have obliterated artificial musical boundaries to create new sound worlds. The focus of this programme is the genesis of Scorched a work by Turnage and American jazz guitarist-composer John Scofield. The cameras observed rehearsals the first experimental run-through and also shot footage at the premi''re at the Alte Oper Frankfurt. Other aspects of Turnage's work are woven into the programme through an in-depth interview and musical quotations as well as extracts from recordings of his operas.
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Erich Wolfgang Korngold - The Adventures Of A Wunderkind - A Portrait And Concert | DVD | (03/03/2003)
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| RRP A child prodigy in Habsburg Vienna Erich Wolfgang Korngold was the musical sensation of Europe's opera houses and concert hall in the 1920s. Later stranded in America by the rise of fascism in Europe he found new fame and won Oscars as the inventor of the lush Hollywood film score. Including extracts from many of the Warner Brothers productions he scored (among them the Errol Flynn swashbucklers Robin Hood and The Sea Hawk) this lavish award-winning film which includes previous
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