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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Charles Munch conducts Beethoven
Access to the publicly broadcast BSO concerts from this era has been extremely difficult even for researchers. This series of DVDs will make these performances available for the first time since they were broadcast. Munch launched the BSO into television in 1955. He was an immensely popular conductor and well suited to being filmed. This material represents some of the earliest televised concerts with the Boston Symphony and Charles Munch, and has been restored using the greatest care and state-of-the-art techniques. It is of exceptional musical interest and historical value. This performance of extracts from The Creatures of Prometheus is a rare one, Munch having only conducted the ballet at the BSO in one season (four performances in total). In addition to the overture, Munch added two further movements from the ballet, which are not performed as frequently. According to Richard Dyer, Munch’s performance of the Fourth Symphony is both fiery and fun, gracious and exhilarating. The fifth symphony perfectly encompasses Munch’s exuberance and panache. 1DVD Sound format: LCPM mono Picture format: 4:3 Running time: 83’ Subtitles: n/a Menu languages: English Booklet languages: E/F/G Region code: 0 Territory Restrictions: None “Some of the most expert playing here comes in the Beethoven Symphonies, in which strings demonstrate effortless synchronisation and winds pass phrases between one another seamlessly....[Munch] seems perpetually engaged and is liable to break into a grin or ecstatic grimace at any moment.” BBC Music Magazine, July 2011 **** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Conductor and Teacher: Marek Janowskia film by Michel Follin
Experience is all, but, Janowski advises Olivier Dejours, firstly be a good musician, be an excellent player, good coach and reach out to others. “Janowski works thoughtfully with Dejours on translating musical ideas into sound through unselfconscious gestures.” BBC Music Magazine, August 2011 **** “Follin's documentary...neither fuels nor fells the famous "maestro mystique" of the conductor's podium. Although much time is devoted to interpretative matters...much of their discussion turns to nuts-and-bolts matter like technique and personnel management” Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2011 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Claudio Arrau 'The Emperor'Recorded live at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Santiago in Chile, May 1984
Claudio Arrau (piano) The Symphony Orchestra of the University of Chile (Performance) / The Philharmonic Orchestra of Santiago (Documentary), Victor Tevah (Performance) / Juan Pablo Izquierdo (Documentary) Claudio Arrau has been playing the piano to great international acclaim for almost eighty years. From Tokyo to Berlin to Paris to London to New York, he has won the love and admiration of music-lovers around the world. He has built his career largely without the help of hype or hysteria. Arrau’s repertoire is larger than that of any other pianist of his time. He is known universally as “The Emperor”. Although he has performed everywhere in the world except China, there is one country that is especially dear to Arrau’s heart: and that is his native Chile. His triumphant return to Chile in 1984 after an absence of 17 years was an event of national importance, ranking with Franz Liszt’s return to Hungary. In this program, we’ll join Maestro Arrau as he returns to the land of his birth. And we’ll also go back and trace the events in the life of this extraordinary artist. And finally, we’ll hear Maestro Arrau perform his signature work, Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major, the “Emperor” Concerto. This programme includes a 40-minute documentary tracing Arrau's life and career. Picture format DVD: NTSC 4:3 Sounds formats DVD: DD 2.0 Region code: 0 Subtitles: English, German, French, Spanish Booklet notes: English, German, French Running time: 85 mins FSK: 0 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Stephen Kovacevich - Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2Piano Masterclass from the Verbier Festival Academy
Stephen Kovacevich's international reputation as a pianist has been built both on his concert appearances, renowned for their thoughtfulness and creative intensity, and on the highly acclaimed recordings he has made throughout his career. He is considered as one of the most searching interpreters of the core classical repertoire and he has won great admiration for his recordings of Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert and Chopin. In this masterclass he works with a student on Beethoven's second Piano Concerto. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Boris Berman - Beethoven: Eroica Variations
Internationally regarded as one of the great keyboard teachers of our time, Boris Berman is well known to the audiences of nearly fifty countries. Since 1979 he has lived in the U.S. and has taught at Boston University, Brandeis University,Indiana University, and is currently head of the piano department at the Yale School of Music. Among other acclaimed CDs he has recorded the complete piano works of Sergei Prokofiev for the Chandos label. In this masterclass he works on Beethovens rousing Eroica Variations, Op 35. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Glenn Gould on Television: Complete CBC Broadcasts 1954 - 1977
DVD 1 1954 1974 Early TV performances and program excerpts (1954 1974) The Subject is Beethoven DVD 2 1962 Music in the U.S.S.R. Glenn Gould on Bach DVD 3 1962 & 1963 Richard Strauss A Personal View The Anatomy of the Fugue DVD 4 1964 & 1966 Anthology of Variation Duo Glenn Gould & Yehudi Menuhin DVD 5 1966 Conversations with Glenn Gould Humphrey Burton Interviews Bach & Beethoven DVD 6 1966 Conversations with Glenn Gould Humphrey Burton Interviews Schoenberg & R. Strauss DVD 7 1967 Music for a Sunday Afternoon Mozart & Beethoven The Canada Centennial Concert DVD 8 1970 The Idea of North a film by Judith Pearlman The Beethoven Bicentennial Concert DVD 9 1974 & 1975 Musicamera Music In Our Time The Age of Ecstasy: 1900 1910 The Flight from Order: 1910 1920 DVD 10 1975 & 1977 Musicamera Music In Our Time New Faces, Old Forms: 1920 1930 The Artist as Artisan: 1930 1940
By the time he reached his mid-20s, Glenn Gould had changed the way the world listened to the keyboard works of Johann Sebastian Bach. By the time of his fatal stroke in 1982, two days after he turned 50, this daring and visionary artist had successfully challenged many of the most cherished conventions of classical music. Now, for the first time, the dozens of film and television programs Gould made with the Canadian Broad casting Corporation from 1954 to 1977 are collected in their entirety in Glenn Gould on Television The Complete CBC Broadcasts. More than 19 hours of TV specials, concert performances, interviews and discussions collected on 10 DVDs make it possible to discover what Gould always considered some of his most significant and original life?s work, most of which has not been seen since it was first telecast. Includes: The Subject is Beethoven, Music in the USSR, Glenn Gould on Bach, Richard Strauss - A Personal View, The Anatomy of a Fugue, Anthology of Variation, Duo: Gould and Menuhin, all four Conversations with Glenn Gould films, The Idea of North, the four Music in Our Time programs, and more. “This is really special. Nearly 20 hours of Gould's eclectic CBC programmes full of wit, insight and visual flair across a wide range of music...this is a salutary lesson in truly serious broadcasting that is both approachable and engaging.” Classical Music, 7th April 2012 ***** “Among the highlights of this magnificent collection are the BBC interviews with Humphrey Burton from the 1960s...The discussions on the future of recording, the demise of the concert hall, on Bach, Beethoven, Schoenberg and Richard Strauss remain compelling viewing and as contentious and provocative today as when they were recorded.” Gramophone Magazine, September 2012 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Erich Leinsdorf conducts Beethoven, Tchaikovsky & MozartVolume 3
This series of DVDs will make the publicly broadcast BSO concerts from this era available for the first time since they were broadcast. This rare material represents some of the earliest televised concerts with the Boston Symphony and Erich Leinsdorf, and has been restored using the greatest care and state-of-the-art techniques. It is of exceptional musical interest and historic value. The BSO’s Music Director for seven seasons, Leinsdorf had a long and distinguished career, having worked with Toscanini and Walter, conducting at the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Cleveland Orchestra and Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra in addition to his tenure at the BSO. This 1969 performance of Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony has been the object of some attention from internet bloggers, with one site featuring an almost complete audio recording of the performance. Readers were astonished at the intensity and drive behind Leinsdorf’s interpretation. Because he didn’t perform the work regularly (on only 14 occasions with the BSO) the performance is fresh and insightful – the emotional commitment is great both from Leinsdorf and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, which Richard Dyer describes as ‘solid, flexible and brilliant’. All three featured works are new to Leinsdorf’s discography. Two of ICA’s BSO DVDs featuring Charles Munch as conductor have been awarded the Diapason d’Or in France’s Diapason magazine. 1DVD Sound format: Enhanced Mono Picture format: 4:3 Running time: 57’ Subtitles: n/a Menu languages: English Booklet languages: E/F/G Region code: 0 Territory Restrictions: None “A hard-driven but very exciting Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 and Beethoven's Egmont from 1969 is countered by a delightful, stylish Mozart's Posthorn Serenade.” BBC Music Magazine, May 2012 **** “The standard of playing is little short of sensational and Leinsdorf's actual interpretation...possesses prodigious energy, drama and sweep. Granted, the maestro's disconcertingly exaggerated podium manner takes some getting used to, but his authority is never in doubt. The closing pages shoot off like a rocket, Leinsdorf's audible exhortations merely intensifying the giddy rush of adrenaline.” Gramophone Magazine, June 2012 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Andris Nelsons, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Yefim Bronfman at the Lucerne Festival, 5th September 2011
Andris Nelsons is one of the most sought-after young conductors on the international scene today and once again served notice of his extraordinary talent in Summer 2011 when he conducted two concerts with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam at the prestigious Lucerne Festival. This concert, available on DVD and Blu-ray features, amongst a programme of Rimsky-Korsakov, Beethoven and Dvořák, the Grammy Award-winning pianist Yefim Bronfman performing Beethoven’s majestic Fifth Piano Concerto and Chopin’s Etude in F major. Andris Nelsons is a regular conductor with many of the world’s top orchestras. Total: 110 minutes DVD: DTS 5.1, PCM Stereo 16:9, HD “every gesture and expression dovetails with what we hear. Subtle yet soaring, these orchestral performances are shaped by a conductor who enjoys every second of his job, and equally enjoys the musicians before him - the superb Concertgebouw players, peerless in technical finesse and the elegant colouring of phrase and line.” BBC Music Magazine, October 2012 *** “Nelsons is engrossed in the music, and it’s impossible not to succumb to his obvious and infectious enthusiasm...That’s one of the unexpected joys of this concert; everyone is clearly having fun...A delightful overture, a competent concerto, and a Scheherazade to die for.” MusicWeb International, July 2012 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Valentina Lisitsa: Live at the Royal Albert Hall
Beethoven: | Für Elise (Bagatelle in A minor, WoO59) Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2 ‘Moonlight' | Chopin: | Nocturne No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 9 No. 2 Nocturne No. 13 in C minor, Op. 48 No. 1 Nocturne No. 8 in D flat major, Op. 27 No. 2 | Liszt: | Grande Étude de Paganini, S. 141 No. 3 'La Campanella' Un Sospiro from 3 Concert Studies, S144 No. 3 Liebestraum, S541 No. 3 (Nocturne in A flat major) | Rachmaninov: | Prelude Op. 23 No. 5 in G minor Prelude Op. 32 No. 5 in G major Prelude Op. 32 No. 12 in G sharp minor Prelude Op. 32 No. 10 in B minor Étude-Tableau, Op. 39 No. 6 in A minor | Scriabin: | Deux poèmes, Op. 32 Étude Op. 42 No. 3 in F sharp major 'La Moustique' |
Valentina Lisitsa (piano) The DVD recording of Valentina’s Lisitsa’s 19th of June 2012 Royal Albert Hall concert. With more than 43 million views and over 52,000 subscribers to her YouTube channel, the young pianist is not only one of the fastest-rising stars of the international concert scene but probably the single most-watched classical musician, having rapidly overtaken long-established giants of the piano world in terms of global online viewing figures. “Critics love to trash this kind of 'semi-pops' programme, yet Lisitsa often plays beautifully. While her opening salvo, Rachmaninovs G minor Prelude, is rather rushed and glib, the pianist quickly settles down to a direct and eloquent Fur Elise, followed by a breathtakingly brisk, imaginatively shaded La campanella.” Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2012 “there's an admirable lightness of touch and appreciation of rhythmic flow to her "Für Elise", and her negotiation of Liszt's "Un Sospiro" is captivating.” The Independent, 7th July 2012 **** “ This recital disc of short piano pops proves Lisitsa's technical skill rather than the potential depth or reach of her musicality. She opens, in reckless mood, with Rachmaninov's Prelude in G Minor, then settles into an elegant Für Elise” The Observer, 9th July 2012 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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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 DVD: DTS 5.1, PCM Stereo Subtitles Haydn: English, German, French, Spanish, Korean, Chinese “Beethoven's last quartet, expanded for full strings, sounds nicely urgent but unsuitably Romantic. Haydn's Mass is almost upstaged by its glorious setting, the Baroque basilica at Ottobeuren.” BBC Music Magazine, December 2012 *** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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