"Director: Enrique Sanchez Lansch"

• Gustavo Dudamel-the Promise of Music | DVD | (11/08/2008) from £10.18   |  Saving you £-0.19 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In this new full-length documentary on Venezuela's visionary music-education system, its ''miraculous'' orchestra(Die Zeit), and their ''brilliant'' conductor (Financial Times), we meet these young musicians, hear their stories, andwatch them prepare for and perform at the 2007 Bonn Beethoven Festival, where their concert was hailed as ''sensational.......a standing ovation after every piece'' (Sueddeutsche Zeitung).Plus concert performance at the 2007 Bonn Beethoven Festival.

• The Reichsorchester - the Berlin Philharmonic | DVD | (28/01/2008) from £39.77   |  Saving you £-19.78 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From the years 1933 to 1945, financed by the German Reich and answerable directly to the Reich Ministry for Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda, the Berlin Philharmonic was not only Germany's flagship orchestra; it also became an ambassador for the National Socialist regime, particularly on foreign tours.First-hand accounts delivered by contemporary witnesses, as well as a wealth of previously unevaluated archive material, provide a highly authentic glimpse into the period under the swastika.

• Schubert: Die Winterreise | DVD | (02/03/2009) from £13.72   |  Saving you £7.53 (60.43%)   |  RRP £19.99

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• Christa Ludwig - The Birthday Edition | DVD | (28/01/2008) from £22.18   |  Saving you £2.81 (11.20%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The intimate auditorium of the magnificent neo-baroque Volkstheater in Vienna was packed with a discerning and enthusiastic audience when Christa Ludwig gave two master classes there.The first master class focuses on Mozart and concludes with a performance extract featuring the young Christa Ludwig as Dorabella in Cosi fan tutte (1970). The second includes pieces by Beethoven, Bizet and Massenet and, at the end, the greatness of her art is recalled as she is seen singing Mistress Quickly in a production of Verdi's Falstaff (1982).

• Various Artists - Neue Stimmen 2003 | DVD | (12/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  10th International Singing ConcertDVD:A film by the WDR directed by Enrique Sanchez-Lansch and Michael Ciniselli featuring all six arias of the prize-winners plus Neue Stimmen the years from 1987 to 2003 in retrospect.CD:Arias performed by Yang Yang Miao Hao Franco Fagioli Iwona Sobotka Phandulwazi Maseti Anna Virovlansky Maxim Mironov Erika Buchholz Tae Joong Yang Ekaterina Schcherbachenko Gunter Papendell Roxana Constantinescu and Song-Hu Liu.

• Rhythym Is It! | Blu Ray | (17/05/2010) from £24.28   |  Saving you £-6.29 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Rhythm Is It! is the story about Marie Martin Olayinka and 250 other teenagers who have never danced or listened to classical music faced with their biggest challenge: to perform Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring' with Sir Simon Rattle and the legendary Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra! This documentary follows these diverse youngsters few of whom had prior knowledge of classical music and dance as they make their first efforts at dancing. Through the teenagers' eyes we watch the project's developments its ups and downs doubts and enthusiasms uncertainties and renewals of self-confidence. Marie 15 is desperately trying to pass her secondary school exams; Olayinka 16 has recently arrived as a war-orphan from Nigeria and Martin 19 who is battling to overcome his inhibitions. They have never had a chance so far but as dancers they suddenly discover their real potentials. Rhythm Is It! is a fascinating journey and a beautiful cinematic experience full of passion respect and zest for life.