"Director: Gustavo Dudamel"

• Birthday Concert For Pope Benedict XVI - Hilary Hahn/Gustavo Dudamel | DVD | (16/07/2007) from £27.99   |  Saving you £-18.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Filmed at the Vatican on 16 April 2007 this DVD reproduces the concert that formed the centrepiece of Pope Benedict XVI's 80th-birthday celebrations. Also included are the welcoming speeches and the Pope's words of thanks in German and Italian The concert programme in part selected by the music-loving Pontiff himself brings together two of classical music's brightest young stars for their first joint appearance - American violinist Hilary Hahn and Venezuelan firebrand conductor Gustavo Dudamel. Mozart's sparkling G major Violin Concerto and Dvo''''k's stirring 'New World' Symphony are two of classical music's best-loved masterpieces neither of which had been recorded before by these artists.