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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | John Scott Whiteley plays the Grand Organ of York Minster
Albinoni: | Adagio for Strings and Organ in G minor arr. Giazotto | Cochereau: | Improvisation sur Haec Dies | Dubois, T: | Fiat Lux | Duruflé: | Fugue sur le thème du Carillon des Heures de la Cathédrale de Soissons Op. 12 | Elgar: | Imperial March, Op. 32 | Gigout: | Pièces (10) pour orgue, 1892: Scherzo (No. 8) Pièces (10) pour orgue, 1892: Toccata in B minor | Mozart: | Fantasia in F minor for a mechanical organ, K608 | Mulet: | Esquisse Byzantine: No. 3 'Rosace' | Mushel: | Toccata | Peraza, F: | Medio Registro Alto, 1er Tono | Thalben-Ball: | Variations on a theme of Paganini for pedals | Vierne, L: | Pièces de fantaisie, 2nd suite, Op. 53: No. 6, Toccata | Wood, C: | Prelude on York Tune |
DVD & CD Recorded and filmed in York Minster on 25-28 February and 28 April-1 May 2008 “…the emphasis is on the player's physical interaction with the manuals and pedalboard. With reference to the latter, this performance of Thalben-Ball's Paganini Variations should be compulsory viewing. Richard Knight's camerawork is superb and Paul Crichton's sound beautifully balanced and warm. A delightful production throughout.” Gramophone Magazine, February 2009 | | | Usually despatched in 8 - 10 working days. |
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World Première Recording on DVD La Partenope is a rich and colourful production, superbly performed here by I Turchini Orchestra and conductor Antonio Florio, world-renowned specialists of Baroque repertoire. In this version comic intermezzi have been added, as was customary in the eighteenth century. Sound Format: LPCM 2.0 – DOLBY DIGITAL 5.1 Picture Format: 16:9 Running Time: 168 mins Subtitles: French, English, German, Spanish, Italian, Korean Menu Languages: Booklet Languages: Italian, English, French, German Region Code: 0 “Albeit truncated and uneven, this confirms Vinci as a meritorious opera composer.” Gramophone Magazine, October 2012 “The singing here is above all dramatically coloured...Prina has exceptional technical control and the cumulative addition of ornaments throughout her arias is genuinely exciting...Partenope is a sure bet for all lovers of Baroque opera, tightly controlled by Florio, dominated by the indomitable Prina, and a thrilling testimony to a Vinci whose prodigious talents are only just being rediscovered” International Record Review, October 2012 | 
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| |  | Le Violon D'ingresA documentary by Cécile Favier
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An innovative DVD presenting two picture edits over one sumptuous soundtrack of Vivaldi’s perennial work. Users can choose between the ‘performance’ edit, featuring German violinist sensation Julia Fischer with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, or the ‘picture poetry’ edit, which overlays the music with images filmed throughout the year at the National Botanic Gardens of Wales. Specials: •''WHEN YOU REACH A GOAL...' Interview with Julia Fischer •FAVOURITE SEASONS - Views on the seasons’ moods and Vivaldi’s music •20 page illustrated booklet in English, French and German PICTURE FORMAT: 16:9 LENGTH: 105 MINS SOUND: DOLBY SURROUND / LPCM STEREO SUBTITLES: PAL: FR/DE/ES NTSC: LA “Fischer's playing is stylish and technically strong... with some gorgeously sonorous passage-work. The Academy's accompaniments are mint-condition.” Classic FM Magazine “It's no surprise that Julia Fischer, with her looks of classic beauty, has been treated to a video debut... This recording...is clear and refreshing in a traditional way, with immaculate intonation from the soloist” Gramophone Magazine | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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This stunning visualisation of Vivaldi’s most famous concerto, The Four Seasons, is shot in Venice, where the composer conceived the work. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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David Le Page Orchestra of the Swan In performance from Warwick Castle | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Cecilia Bartoli - Viva Vivaldi
Duration: 60' Live from the Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Paris With subtitles in Italian, English, French and German A full-length concert from the Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Paris, featuring beautiful and rare arias from Vivaldi's operas. This Brian Large film showcases the repertoire from the bestselling Vivaldi Album (Decca, 1999) which catapulted Cecilia Bartoli to worldwide stardom. Bartoli's spectacular vocal pyrotechnics are supported by world-class Baroque ensemble and collaborators on the Decca album, Il Giardino Armonico. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Willem Bruls (dramaturg) Patrick Kinmonth (set & costume design) Peter van Praet (lighting) Based on the most famous episode from Ludicovo Ariosto's epic poem, Vivaldi’s opera Orlando Furioso (first performed in Venice in the autumn of 1727) depicts a set of astoundingly lively and very individual characters in a plot that moves at a breathless pace. This unforgettable gallery features not only Orlando himself - here a female contralto, sung by Marie-Nicole Lemieux, much acclaimed for her sumptuous voice and dramatic commitment - who is given a series of astounding virtuoso arias - but also the tragic figure of the sorceress Alcina (Jennifer Larmore), the voluptuous Angelica (Verónica Cangemi), the valiant Ruggiero (a stunning Philippe Jaroussky), and the proud female warrior Bradamante (Kristina Hammarström). Orlando Furioso is perhaps the most dramatically satisfying of the dozen or so Vivaldi works to be re-staged since interest in seeing the Venetian master’s operas took hold over the past 15 years or so. The action is set on the island of Alcina, an enchanted place of which the sorceress has gained control by stealing the ashes of Merlin. These are now in an urn conserved in the temple of Infernal Hecate, and jealously guarded by the invulnerable Arontes. Alcina has offered the hospitality of her palace to the beautiful Angelica, daughter of the king of Cathay. Angelica is in love with Medoro but pursued by the attentions of the paladin Orlando, whose ardours she has fled, at the same time losing touch with her beloved. As the drama begins, Orlando, whose mentor Malagigi has instructed him to take possession of Merlin’s ashes in order to destroy Alcina’s power, has just arrived on the enchanted island. Astolfo, Orlando’s faithful companion, is already there, having fallen victim to the sorceress’s perverse love. Ruggiero and his spouse Bradamante, who are also followers of the paladin, are about to land… Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Jennifer Larmore, Verónica Cangemi and Philippe Jaroussky also headed the cast of the acclaimed, award-winning Vivaldi Edition recording (OP30393) of the opera which Naïve released on CD in 2004, and three of these outstanding singers also appeared in Jean-Christophe Spinosi’s much-lauded concert performance at the Barbican in London in early 2011, at the time this stage production from the Théatre des Champs-Elysées in Paris was recorded for DVD. “[Lemieux] creates a tour de force in dealing successfully with bravado arias and in her expenditure of physical energy as she portrays Orlando in the throes of his madness...The vocal delights do not end there, for other soloists perform with panache, each showing a worthy technique...Spinosi's lively direction of the music as inspiriting as his orchestra's playing.” International Record Review, March 2012 “It's a tour de force: I didn't enjoy it much, but then I don't 'enjoy' King Lear either...[Lemieux] gives a knockout performance (despite the handicap of facial hair more suitable to Stravinsky's Baba the Turk)...Not a bundle of laughs, but you shouldn't miss this - it's a real eye-opener.” Gramophone Magazine, June 2012 “Alcina's is an 'isle full of noises' and conductor Jean-Christophe Spinosi knows exactly how to extract every last dramatic nuance from them...Jaroussky is a winsome Ruggiero...Larmore's Alcina is the triumph it ever was...[Lemieux's Orlando's] madness holds the eye and ear with every heart-wrenching syllable. It a performance as vital as this, however counterintuitive it might seem, Vivaldi can give Handel a run for his operatic money any day.” BBC Music Magazine, July 2012 ***** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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