In this 1986 performance available for the first time on DVD Alfred Brendel - among the world's foremost pianists and leading experts on Liszt - gracefully melds the technical and poetic aspects of one of the most rewarding of all Romantic piano works.
Monteverdi - Il Ritorno D'Ulisse
Debussy's haunting opera Pelleas et Melisande based on a tragic fairy tale recounts the ill fated love of half brothers Golaud and Pelleas for the same woman the enigmatic Melisande. Graham Vick's beautiful fin-de-siecle production for Glyndebourne Festival Opera filmed in 1999 stars Christiane Oelze as Melisande Richard Croft as Pelleas and John Tomlinson as Golaud.
Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in D minor.Recorded at the Schauspielhaus Berlin on 25 December 1989.
Leonard Bernstein conducts three of his finest orchestral works: Serenade and The Age of Anxiety (from the Royal Gale Concert in the 1986 Bernstein Festival at London's Barbican) and Divertimento (from Vienna's Musikverein in 1985), plus the illuminating hour-long documentary Teachers and Teaching, in which Bernstein rehearses, reminisces about his mentors and interacts with pupils and colleagues (including Lukas Foss, Seiji Ozawa, Michael Tilson and Krystian Zimerman) in the US and Europe.
NEW YEAR'S EVE CONCERTO 19841. OpeningCONCERTO FOR VIOLIN STRINGS AND CONTINUO IN E MAJOR BWV 1042 (E-DUR / EN MI MAJEUR)2. 1. Allegro3. 2. Adagio4. 3. Allegro Assai5. OpeningMAGNIFICAT BWV 2436. 1. Magnificat anima mea 7. 2. Et exsultavit spiritus meus8. 3. Quia respexit humilitatem 4. Omnes generationes9. 5. Quia fecit mihi magna10. 6. Et misericordia11. 7. Fecit potentiam12. 8. Deposuit potentes13. 9. Esurientes impevit bonis14. 10. Suscepit Israel15. 11. Sicut Iocutus est16. 12. Gloria Patri
Leonard Bernstein: Brahms Cycle
Manon Lescaut Puccini's first major success is a work of impassioned emotions based on the 18th-century novel by Abb Prvost depicting the doomed infatuation of Chevalier des Grieux for beautiful fun-loving Manon. Puccini clothes the story in warmly passionate music that makes a direct appeal to the listener's emotions. This production by Graham Vick for Glyndebourne Festival Opera which was filmed in 1997 stars Romanian soprano Adina Nitescu as the ill-fated Manon American tenor Patrick Denniston as Des Grieux and Italian baritone Roberto de Candia as Lescaut. The conductor is John Eliot Gardiner.
A Gala Concert recorded live at the Golden Hall of the Musikverein Vienna Performed in the opulence and grandeur of Vienna's foremost concert hall the Musikverein Salute To Vienna celebrates some of the world's greatest composers in one spectacular concert. Now for the first time on DVD experience this exclusive one-time-only Salute To Vienna gala concert featuring exuberant favorites by Strauss and Gershwin as well as the music of Lehar and Copland performed by some of Europe's and America's leading singers and musicians! This memorable event hosted by legendary Academy Award'' winning actor Gregory Peck also includes the historic world-premiere pairing of the Vienna Choir Boys and The Boys Choir of Harlem as well as Peck's own show-stopping performance of the Finale from Copland's Lincoln Portrait.
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