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First Haydn Il Mondo della Luna (which has blissful Mozartian spirit) available on DVD and Blu-ray! Live recording from Theatre an der Wien, 2009. Nikolaus Harnoncourt created an interpretation in which Haydn’s work can become a veritable gem of opera literature. Renowned actor and director Tobias Moretti relates the story as a light-footed, magical fairy tale infused with slapstick, witty details and fantasy costumes. Bonus Interview with Harnoncourt (26 min.) “Harnoncourt on top form” 4 star rating Financial Times Running Time Total: 193 minutes (Opera ´167 + ´26 Bonus ´) Picture 16:9, HD Sound DVD/BD: DTS 5.1, PCM Stereo Subtitles Italian, English, German, French Booklet English, German, French “With the ever-responsive Concentus Musicus, [Harnoncourt] duly mines the comically disruptive potential of Haydn's music with unabashed glee... The comic leads are ideally cast...an inventive, thoroughly entertaining performance of a zany, sometimes touching comedy. If you're still sceptical about Haydn's operas, this may convert you.” Gramophone Magazine, January 2010 “[Genaux] sings with easy flexibility and sophisticated style...The rich-voiced mezzo Maite Beaumont's Lisetta does well with the patter...Bahrmann sings strongly, with fine coloratura...[Harnoncourt] is at the helm of his ensemble, the Concentus Musicus Wien, which responds to his every intention with spirited accomplishment.” International Record Review, January 2011 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Recorded live at the Etaatsoper unter den Linten, Berlin, 8th May 2009
Nigel Lowery / Amir Hosseinpour, staging Nigel Lowery, set & costume design Re-Release of the successful DVD on Blu-ray Disc. For more than 25 years René Jacobs has dedicated his life to baroque operas and works with the best ensembles for early music. On the occasion of the Haydn Year the renowned Freiburger Barockorchester and outstanding baroque opera singers such as Marlis Petersen, Alexandrina Pendatchanska, Pietro Spagnoli and Tom Randle presented Haydn’s most successful opera from the Berliner Staatsoper. "Orlando Paladino", written in 1782, was Haydn's most famous opera during his lifetime, with thirty performances in Esterháza in the first two years after its composition. The libretto, a "drama eroicomico", gives scope to Haydn's frequently puckish sense of humour, as well as his inventive melodic expression. Most semi-serious operas of the period typically inserted comic characters into an essentially serious story but Haydn expanded the comic elements even into the more serious scenes. Another very colourful and vivid staging by the successful team Nigel Lowery and Amir Hosseinpour. Picture format Blu-ray: 1080i Full HD, 16:9 Sound formats Blu-ray: PCM Stereo, DTS-HD Master Audio Region code: All (worldwide) Booklet notes: English, German, French Subtitles: English, German, French, Italian Running time: 168 mins | 
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| |  | Cecilia & Bryn at GlyndebourneRecorded live in Glyndebourne Opera House, Lewes, Sussex, 24th April 1999.
Note: This Blu-ray Disc (BD) is not compatible with standard DVD players.
PICTURE FORMAT: 16:9
LENGTH: 90 Mins
SOUND: DOLBY SURROUND / LPCM STEREO
SUBTITLES: EN/FR/DE
“Sparkling harmony …the combined talents of Bryn Terfel and Cecilia Bartoli… raise the temperature… Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro… is charged with intrigue and sexual tension and they captured the mood with pinpoint vocal interplay and assured comic acting…a formidable display of coloratura technique and lasersharp intonation.” The Guardian ***** | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Daniel Barenboim - New Year’s Concert 2009
Haydn: | Symphony No. 45 in F sharp minor 'Farewell': 4th movement first performance at a New Year’s Concert | Hellmesberger: | Valse espagnole first performance at a New Year’s Concert | Strauss, J, I: | Zampa-Galopp, Op. 62a first performance at a New Year’s Concert Radetsky March, Op. 228 Encore | Strauss, J, II: | Eine Nacht in Venedig Overture first performance at a New Year’s Concert Märchen aus dem Orient. Walzer, Op. 444 Annen-Polka, Op. 117 Saat und Ernte Schnell-Polka, Op. 159 first performance at a New Year’s Concert Rosen aus dem Süden, Op. 388 Freikugeln-Polka, Op. 326 Der Zigeunerbaron Overture Der Zigeunerbaron: Einzugsmarsch Schatz-Walzer, Op. 418 Alexandrine-Polka francaise, Op. 198 first performance at a New Year’s Concert Unter Donner und Blitz, Op. 324 Eljen a Magyar Schnell-Polka, Op. 332 So ängstlich sind wir nicht! - Polka, Op. 413 Encore An der schönen, blauen Donau, Op. 314 Encore So ängstlich sind wir nicht! - Polka, Op. 413 Ballet Extra Unter Donner und Blitz, Op. 324 Ballet Extra | Strauss, Josef: | Sphärenklänge, Op. 235 Sphärenklänge, Op. 235 Ballet Extra |
The New Year's Concert in Vienna has been a glorious tradition for over six decades. A best-selling classical event year on year, the concert has unique global appeal. It is broadcast on TV and radio to over 50 countries, and is viewed by tens of millions of people all over the world. The 2009 New Year's Day Concert will be conducted by the Argentinean-Israeli pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim for the first time. From 1991-2006 Barenboim was the principal conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and since 1992 has been the General Music Director of the State Opera Unter den Linden in Berlin. Barenboim's debut with the Vienna Philharmonic took place in 1989, and he has since been a regular guest. In 1999, Barenboim and the late Palestinian academic Edward Säid founded the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, in which young musicians from the Middle East and Israel perform together. Among the many awards Barenboim has received, was the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize in Vienna in 2006. In September 2007 Barenboim was named as United Nations Peace Envoy. The concert programme for 1st January 2009 will be the customary collection of Viennese delights, with six first time performances. The first part of the concert is inspired by the conductor’s biography. For example, the waltz Märchen aus dem Orient (Tales from the Orient), alludes to a modern “fairy tale” – the founding of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, a symbol of inter-cultural tolerance. Other first performances in the first half include J. Strauss II’s Schnellpost-Polka (Express Mail Polka) and J. Hellmesberger’s Valse Espagnole (Spanish Waltz). The second part of the concert makes constant allusions to the life and work of Joseph Haydn, culminating with the final movement of Haydn’s Symphony No.45 - 'Farewell Symphony'. This is the first time a work by Haydn has featured in the New Year’s Concert programme, and it will launch a year of events marking the bicentenary of the death of this great Austrian composerwho died in Vienna in May 1809. Other first appearances in the second half of the concert include J. Strauss I's Zampa-Galopp and J. Strauss II’s Alexandrine's Polka. | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Daniel Barenboim plays The Chopin Piano ConcertosLive Recording from The Philharmonie Essen, 2010
For the 200th anniversary of the birth of Frédéric Chopin, the renowned Ruhr Piano Festival in Essen invited the Staatskapelle Berlin to give a truly special program: the rare combination of Chopin‘s two piano concertos in one concert. For this purpose Daniel Barenboim, the orchestra‘s principal conductor, handed over the reins of „his“ ensemble to up-and-coming young conductor Andris Nelsons, assuming the role of piano soloist instead. The press raved: „Storms of applause for a dream couple: Daniel Barenboim and Andris Nelsons won over the audience […] with their rousing Chopin interpretations“. While Barenboim fi lls the solo parts with pulsating life and dance-like grace, the exciting young talent Andris Nelsons dazzles with his magnetic physical presence and the broad gestures with which he fires on or pulls back his enthusiastic musicians. Nelsons opens the concert with a rousing account of Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No. 44, the “Mourning” Symphony. Chopin wrote the two piano concertos when he was only 19 and 20; they were among the last works that he composed in Poland before leaving for France. Filled with youthful fire and freshness, the works showcase the pianist‘s virtuosity, and contain much of interest for the orchestral musicians as well, including poignant solo interludes for clarinet and bassoon. Sound Format: PCM Stereo, dts-HD Master Audio 5.1 Picture Format: 16:9 Resolution: 1080i FULL HD Running Time: 110 mins Blu-ray Disc: 25 GB (Single Layer) FSK: 0 “One cannot help but admire his effortless command in the two Chopin piano concertos...captured in pin-sharp picture quality and excellent, well-balanced sound...His almost boyish enthusiasm (despite the relaxed tempos) and obvious relish of performing show no sign of waning as he nears his 70th birthday, and (particularly for a part-timer) his technique shows remarkably little evidence of wear and tear.” International Record Review, January 2012 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Leonard Bernstein conducts Beethoven & Haydn
Bernstein delivered a powerful and now legendary live performance of Beethoven’s String Quartet Op. 135 – transcribed for String Orchestra and performed by the Vienna Philharmonic. For the first time ever this performance is now being released on DVD and Blu-ray. Another definitive Bernstein performance debuting now on both mediums is the enigmatic maestro’s reading of Haydn’s Missa in tempore belli, filmed live in concert at Ottobeuren in 1984, using to maximum effect the deeply impressive setting of the monastery’s magnificent Baroque basilica. Running Time Total: 93 minutes BD: DTS-HD MA 5.1, PCM Stereo Subtitles Haydn: English, German, French, Spanish, Korean, Chinese | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | The Virtual HaydnComplete Works for Solo Keyboard
Tom Beghin (performer/historian) Martha de Francisco (Tonmeister/producer) Wieslaw Woszczyk (virtual acoustics architect) Schulich School of Music, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 2009 THE FIRST NAXOS BLURAY - a recording of the complete works of Joseph Haydn for solo keyboard in nine virtual reconstructions of the rooms in which these pieces would have been originally performed, using seven specially-crafted historical keyboards. A trail-blazing project of four Bluray discs featuring fourteen and a half hours of music with an added “picture in picture” option, plus a three-hour documentary on the “making of” the recordings, directed by award-winning director and screen-writer Robert J. Litz. A fully interactive experience, this epic set offers users the opportunity to “direct” their own performance of a short Andante for Musical Clock; by selecting from a choice of rooms and instruments users can freely navigate sixty-three possible combinations to experiment with sound and acoustics as if wandering the 18th century halls themselves. Total Running Time: 18 hours NTSC: Region-free Aspect Ratio: 1080i60 High Definition Four Dual Layer Disc Audio in DTS-HD Master Audio 5.0 and PCM 2.0 Subtitles: Dutch / French / German / Japanese “…in purely musical terms, this is a stimulating, sincere, thoughtful, spirited and joyful a traversal of Haydn's solo keyboard works as you will find anywhere. Tom Beghin simply gives superlative performances, full of individuality, packed into three audio-only Blu-ray discs.” BBC Music Magazine, March 2010 ***** | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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