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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Gran Teatro La Fenice New Year’s Concert 2012Live Recording From The Gran Teatro La Fenice, 2012
Jessica Pratt (soprano), Walter Fraccaro (tenor) & Alex Esposito (bass) Orchestra and Chorus of The Gran Teatro La Fenice, Diego Matheuz As is now customary, the first part of the 2012 New Year‘s Concert from Teatro La Fenice is exclusively orchestral, with Symphony No.5 by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. The second part, with soloists Jessica Pratt, Walter Fraccaro and Alex Esposito as well as the choir, is dedicated to melodrama, ending with the traditional chorus “Va pensiero” from Nabucco and the toast “Libiam ne lieti calici” from La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi. The twenty-seven year old conductor and violinist Diego Matheuz is a graduate of the internationally known Venezuelan Sistema and is already widely known as one of the most promising developing talents from the Americas. In 2005 he began studying conducting and soon attracted the attention of Sir Simon Rattle and Claudio Abbado, with whom he worked in Caracas, Lucerne and Bologna. In September 2011 he was appointed as Principal Conductor of the Teatro La Fenice. Sound Format: PCM Stereo, dts-HD Master Audio 5.1 (Blu-ray) Picture Format: 16:9, 1080i High Definition Format: DVD 9, NTSC, 25 GB (Single Layer) Running Time: 108 mins + 27 mins (bonus) FSK: 0 Region Code: Worldwide Worldwide available | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Renée Fleming in ConcertRecorded live at the Salzburg Festival, August 2011
Gloriously affirming the Salzburg Festival’s long-standing reputation as a supreme musical event, this concert honours one of its founding fathers, Richard Strauss. Renée Fleming, Christian Thielemann and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra unite for a programme of song, opera and tone poem, genres central to the composer’s extraordinarily fruitful career. Fleming interprets four of his songs with orchestra, including the deeply moving Befreit, and provides a substantial taste of perhaps her finest operatic role, Arabella. New vistas then open as Thielemann and the Vienna Philharmonic take the spectacular mountain journey mapped by the composer in his titanic Alpine Symphony. Running time: 84 minutes Subtitles: EN/FR/DE/ES Sound format: 2.0LPCM + 5.1(5.0) DTS “This is a rare case of visuals enhancing the listening experience, and the Vienna Philharmonic’s Strauss tradition is there for all to see. Thielemann doesn’t push or pull the music, but he is not a pretty sight: his left hand remains inexpressive...there is still no soprano I would rather hear in the soaring lines of “Traum durch die Dämmerung” and “Gesang der Apollopriesterin”.” Financial Times, 19th May 2012 **** “You can immediately hear the classiness of the orchestral support...Thielemann's journey up the mountain is more a question of inner feeling than outward tone-painting...But the summit sequence and the epilogue rival Herbert von Karajan's Berlin Philharmonic for tonal opulence...the cameras always know what to pinpoint in order to highlight visually Strauss's most ingenious orchestral passages.” BBC Music Magazine, August 2012 ***** “Thielemann, whose reading is satisfyingly spacious, reveals the work's structural mastery in intermingling and transforming its many themes. The excellent video director Michael Beyer expertly lays out the orchestra in front of us, following the music sensibly so that we can relish Strauss's detailed scoring...[Fleming] sings gloriously and the result is ravishing” Gramophone Magazine “it is more fun to actually see the players (kudos to video director Michael Beyer) than merely to listen...And no one will accuse the reading [of Ein Alpensinfonie] of not being exciting and the playing superb...In all, this is clearly a treat for Straussians and Fleming fans; she has been both better and worse, but overall, she's lovely here.” International Record Review, September 2012  BBC Music Magazine
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| |  | Eastern VoicesRecorded at the Morgenland Festival Osnabrück 2009
Live Performances by Alim & Fargana Qasimova, Ibrahim Keivo, Salar Aghili, Hanir Shariatzadeh & Yulduz Turdieva Morgenland Chamber Orchestra, Nader Mashayekhi Documentary by Frank Scheffer and Günter Wallbrecht. In this colourful documentary East meets West at the Morgenland Festival Osnabrück 2009 Musicians from the Middle East encounter the Western tradition of music and showcase their own beautiful musical traditions, in a programme that interweaves concert recordings and rehearsal footage with in-depth interviews with the performers. "Worldmusic" in the truest sense of the word. Performances: three tracks of concerts recorded live at the Morgenland Festival, including a 35 mins performance of Alim and Fargana Qasimov. This Blu-ray release include a native 5.1 surround mix, especially mixed for this disc by renowned sound Designer Mark Glynne. “Qasimov is simply one of the greatest singers alive” New York Times Picture format: 1080i Full HD - 16:9 Sounds formats: PCM 2.0, DTS-HD Master Audio Surround Region code: 0 Booklet notes: English, German, French Original Language: German (Persian, English- German subtitled) Subtitles: English, French Running time: 110 mins (49 mins Documentary + Concert tracks: 18 mins Keivo, 35 mins Qasimov, 8 mins Aghili) | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Pierre Boulez conducts Mahler
In celebration of the 150th anniversary of Mahler’s birth and just one month short of his own 85th birthday, composer-conductor Pierre Boulez marked his forty-five-year collaboration with the Cleveland Orchestra by directing this very special Mahler-only concert at Ohio’s splendid Severance Hall. Following the Adagio from the unfinished Tenth Symphony, he presented Twelve Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn with soloists Magdalena Kožená and Christian Gerhaher, both much-sought-after opera and concert singers on the world’s leading stages. BONUS: Interview with Pierre Boulez Picture Format Blu-ray: FULL HD Sound Formats Blu-ray: DTS HD Master Audio PCM Stereo Region Code: 0 (worldwide) Running Time: 88:06 Disc Format: BD 25 FSK: 0 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Mahler: Symphony No. 4Recorded live at the Concert Hall of the Culture and Convention Centre Lucerne, 21/22 August 2010
In Summer 2010 Claudio Abbado and his outstanding Lucerne Festival Orchestra performed another symphonic work by Gustav Mahler: the Symphony No. 4. Abbado combines the orchestral work (which features a solo soprano in the finale) with Mahler’s “Rückert-Lieder”. Soloist in both works is the Czech soprano Magdalena Kozena. Magdalena Kožená does not only make the “heavenly joys” resound in the final movement of Mahler’s fourth symphony. Before that, she devotes herself to the seraphic beauty and intimate simplicity of Mahler’s Rückert Lieder. Practically all the songs that Mahler composed prior to 1900 were based on texts from “Des Knaben Wunderhorn”, a collection of folk poems published by Clemens Brentano and Achim von Arnim. From then on, Mahler turned exclusively to a single poet - the Franconian orientalist and translator Friedrich Rückert. Mahler confessed that the poems moved him so deeply that he sometimes felt he had written them himself. In the transcendent final Lied, “Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen”, he also quoted a phrase from the Adagio of his 4th symphony. Asked what it meant, he said that it personified himself. Claudio Abbado is undeniably a supreme Mahler conductor and his best selling recordings with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra – symphonies No. 2, 3, 5, 6 and 7 have already been released on EuroArts – have set new standards in interpretation of works by Gustav Mahler. Picture format BD: 1080i Full HD - 16:9 Sounds formats BD: PCM 2.0, DTS HD Master Audio Region code: All Subtitles: English, German, French Booklet notes: English, German, French Running time: 88 mins FSK: 0 “there's no-one...who lifts the phrases so beguilingly (and without a baton) as does Abbado. You'll never see a first movement done with bigger smiles or more wide-eyed wonder, nor the poco adagio heaven inflected as artistically as here from the master's goodlooking love-in orchestra, filmed with ingenuity as always by Michael Beyer's camera team.” BBC Music Magazine, April 2011 **** “There are innumerable incidental beauties from all sections: the woodwind nothing short of sublime, the brass tactfully reticent, the strings perhaps most remarkable of all with their radiant pianissimos...Kožená sings with consummate technical control and intellectual understanding...Here is profoundly affecting artistry which for once lives up to the hype.” Gramophone Magazine, February 2011 “The most remarkable thing of all is the sense of intimacy that he achieves: this is Mahler conducting of the greatest insight, matched by playing of the highest quality, matched by pacing of the highest quality...I can't think of any other filmed performance of this symphony that I'd rather hear and watch...This is a DVD to cherish.” International Record Review, March 2011 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | An Evening with Renée FlemingRecorded live at Waldbühne, Berlin, 2010
The Waldbühne in Berlin, one of the most appealing outdoor amphitheatres on the European continent, is the home of the Berliner Philharmoniker’s summer concerts. With over 20,000 attendances, these are some of the most popular classical music concerts in the world. This year the Berliner Philharmoniker play under the baton of Ion Marin, one of the most exciting conductors on today’s musical scene. They welcome "America's Beautiful Voice", Grammy Award winning soprano Renée Fleming, who has a devoted international following wherever she appears. Her career has been built on success across a wide range of musical styles, but she is best-known for her excellence in opera worldwide. The device of the evening was “Night of Love”- the most beautiful Opera Arias in combination with atmospheric instrumental pieces. | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | An Evening With Il Divo - Live in Barcelona
Following Il Divo’s largest worldwide tour, encompassing 81 cities and 32 countries, they release An Evening With Il Divo – Live In Barcelona, a sublime 10-track CD and accompanying DVD. The Barcelona show was Il Divo’s biggest capacity performance in Europe and took place at Palau Sant Jordi (20,000). The 10-track CD boasts rich and diverse repertoire from their five studio albums, featuring songs from their latest record The Promise. Accompanying the CD is a live DVD of the show in English and Spanish versions. The DVD features two songs never before recorded by the band, "Bridge Over Troubled Water" and "The Impossible Dream", as well as insightful behind the scenes footage and a making of the tour interview with Il Divo. The dazzling live show was staged and choreographed by William Baker (Kylie) on a state of the art set. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Gala Concert: 300 Years of St. Petersburg
This festive gala concert was held to mark the city's 300th anniversary, bringing together some of the greatest Russian artists: young soprano Anna Netrebko, baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky, such great instrumentalists as cellist Mischa Maisky and violinist Viktor Tretyakov. World-famous St Petersburg Philharmonic under Yuri Temirkanov in repertoire of fascinating variety. Available for the first time on Blu-ray Disc. NTSC · 16:9, PCM 2.0 · PCM 5.1 Region Code:All Booklet Notes: English, German, French Languages: Spanish, Italian, Russian Subtitles: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian Running Time: 112 mins Audiences: all | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Twin SpiritsPortraying the love of Robert & Clara Schumann in words & music
Devised and directed for the stage by John Caird. Recorded at the Royal Opera House, London, December 2007 Twin Spirits is a unique and intimate, live theatrical performance by a chamber ensemble of actors, singers and musicians, portraying the deep and ultimately tragic love between the composer Robert Schumann and his pianist wife Clara Wieck. In this intensely moving performance of words, song and music, the Schumanns’ long separation, so formative an influence on their lives, is reflected in the division of the ensemble into male and female groups. Robert’s letters to Clara are read by Sting and his songs sung by Simon Keenlyside, with accompaniments and instrumental music played by Iain Burnside and Sergej Krylov. Clara’s letters to Robert are read by Trudie Styler and her songs sung by Rebecca Evans, with accompaniments and instrumental music played by Natalie Clein and Natasha Paremski. The narrator, Derek Jacobi, links together the letters and lyrics to complete the essential outline of the story. Conceived and directed by John Caird, Twin Spirits was first performed in June 2005 at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London and has since been experienced only at private performances for charity by small audiences of all ages and interests, leaving them deeply touched and inspired. Picture 1080i High Definition / 16:9 Sound 2.0 & 5.0 PCM Video codec AVC/MPEG-4 Disc size BD50 Subtitles EN/FR/DE/ES/IT + EN (songs only) Menu language EN Region code All regions Running time 206 mins Dimensions W135 H170 D12 (mm) | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Amor, Vida De Mi VidaZarzuelas with Plácido Domingo and Ana María Martínez
Excerpts from: El bateo, La maravilla, El niño judío, La chulapona, La marchenera, El amor brujo, Luisa Fernanda, Los claveles, La del Soto del Parral, La boda de Luis Alonso, La noche del encierro, Don Gil de Alcalá, La tabernera del puerto, El sombrero de tres picos, La canción del olvido, Las hijas del Zebedeo, María la O, El gato montés & Die lustige Witwe
Recorded live at the Salzburger Festspiele (Großes Festspielhaus), 9/10 August 2007 The many passionate, fiery or lyrical vocal pieces of Spanish zarzuelas have continued to thrive in concerts and recitals all over the world. One of the most renowned and ardent supporters of zarzuela melodies is Plácido Domingo. Belying his 66 years, the world-famous tenor sings these rousing, seductive melodies with the beguiling sweetness of a much younger man and transports the enraptured listener to the calles and plazas of Madrid and Seville. Domingo is accompanied by the Mozarteum Orchestra under Jesús López Cobos and, above all, by his partner for the evening, soprano Ana María Martínez. Martínez is appearing this summer in the title role of Rusalka at Glyndebourne. Martínez and Domingo serve up an evening of infectious good spirits and exquisite vocal treats. "The dazzle of genuine stars shone brightly over Salzburg!" (Die Welt) "The most beautiful voice of Latin America…" Berliner Zeitung on Ana María Martínez "a beautiful woman with a fascinating voice, full of velvety mezzoish half-tints in the middle and bottom ranges, with a gleaming top." The Times on Ana María Martínez "The greatest operatic artist of modern times" The Guardian on Plácido Domingo “A live concert of zarzuela, the genre in which Domingo cut his teeth, with the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra delivering stylish playing and soloists assured.” BBC Music Magazine, July 2009 ***** | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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