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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Menahem Pressler in RecitalRecorded at the Cité de la Musique, Paris, March 2011
For more than 50 years, Menahem Pressler was the driving force of the legendary Beaux Arts Trio, giving 6.000 performances until the trio stopped concertizing in 2009. Menahem Pressler is now returning to a solo career. During this recital filmed at Paris’ Cité de la Musique 2011, Menahem Pressler plays two of the most imposing works in the piano repertoire: Beethoven’s penultimate sonata and Schubert’s last sonata which both require unusual emotional involvement from the performer. Menahem Pressler is the last representative of a pianistic tradition directly connected with the great German and French piano schools: he studied with several pupils of the illustrious Ferruccio Busoni but also received valuable advice from Robert Casadesus or Paul Loyonnet who opened the world of Ravel and Debussy to him. “Pressler’s ability to give all the voices prominence while simultaneously isolating the melody was amazing. His fingers still retain a youthful facility.” The Washington Post Picture format DVD: NTSC 16:9 Sound formats DVD: PCM Stereo Region code: 0 Booklet notes: English, German, French Running time: 88 mins “His technique may be somewhat dimmed, but the twinkle of his distinctive sound remains as fresh and beautiful as ever; so, too, his astute pointing of musical structure, and the sheer love with which he communicates these great works...Pierre-Martin Juban's straightforward, well-judged direction provides a fine match between style and subject.” BBC Music Magazine, August 2012 **** “at this recital one can only celebrate a blessedly old-fashioned freedom and intensity...Beautifully and simply filmed, this DVD is a classic tribute to a great artist still active in the autumn of his career, and with only a passing and marginal frailty to suggest his age.” Gramophone Magazine, August 2012 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | The Galileo Project
Bach, J S: | Cantata BWV1 'Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern': Sinfonia Cantata BWV29 'Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir': Overture | Galilei, M: | Toccata | Handel: | Concerto Grosso Op. 3 No. 6 in D major, HWV317: Allegro | Lully: | Phaeton: excerpts Phaëton: Air pour les suivants de Saturne | Marini, B: | Passacaglia à 4, Op. 22 | Merula: | Ciaccona | Monteverdi: | Ciaccona Moresca (from Orfeo) | Purcell: | Rondeau from Abdelazer | Rameau: | Hippolyte et Aricie: Entrée de Jupiter Les Surprises de l'Amour: Entree de Venus Platée: Entree de Mercure | Telemann: | Concerto in D major, TWV 40:202 for 4 Violins without Basso Continuo: Allegro | Vivaldi: | Concerto, Op. 3 No. 5 'Con due Violini obligati', RV 519 | Weiss, S: | Lute Concerto in C major: Allegro | Zelenka: | Sonata in F, ZWV181 No. 1: Adagio ma non troppo |
DVD + CD Director: Marshall Pynkoski “The fascination of this for general viewers is in a resonant linking of the preoccupations and of 17th- and 18th-century music and culture with the radical scientific discoveries of the time, while for lovers of Baroque music there is a simpler joy in hearing familiar music in new contexts...Further pleasure comes from the playing of Tafelmusik, an uplifting mixture as ever of ensemble excellence and open generosity of spirit.” Gramophone Magazine, June 2012 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Friedrich Gulda: I Love Mozart, I Love BarbaraLive Recording from The Münchner Klaviersommer 1990
plus: Friedrich Gulda (piano) & Barbara Dennerlein (organ, synthesizer) “Rosenarie” from the “Marriage of Figaro” (W.A. Mozart) Aria (Friedrich Gulda) Exercise No. 9 (Friedrich Gulda) Killer Joe (Benny Golson) Stormy Weather Blues (Barbara Dennerlein) Du und i (Friedrich Gulda)
This live recording from the Munich Philharmonie, shows off the talents of both piano virtuoso Friedrich Gulda and the world-renowned jazz organist Barbara Dennerlein. Her appearance on stage is preceded by Gulda‘s accomplished performances of two Mozart pieces and he heralds her entrance by playing his arrangement of a passage from Le nozze di Figaro. Together they perform a number of their own compositions and some jazz standards, delighting the audience with the romantically-charged atmosphere they create. Sound Format: PCM Stereo Picture Format: 4:3 DVD Format: DVD 9, NTSC Running Time: 92 mins FSK: 0 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | A Musical Journey: GermanyA Musical Visit to the Munich Puppet and Nuremberg Toy Museums
The Places The Puppet Museum in Munich houses a remarkable display of puppets of all kinds, from string and hand puppets to the shadow puppets of China. Nuremberg, famous for its toys, has a Toy Museum, with exhibits ranging from the earliest times to the more nearly contemporary. From this collection we see a doll’s house, accurate in every detail, and some of the museum’s mechanical toys, in working order. The Music The tour is accompanied by a series of popular piano pieces, ranging from Mozart and Beethoven to Saint-Saëns and Debussy. Mozart’s Turkish March is followed by Beethoven’s so-called Rage over a Lost Penny. Included is a Chopin Waltz, a Mendelssohn Song Without Words and Tchaikovsky’s Chanson triste. The music ends with Liszt’s piano transcription of the Danse macabre of Saint-Saëns. Video Format • NTSC / Colour / 4:3 Audio Format • DTS 5.1 / Dolby Digital 5.1 / PCM Stereo 2.0 Region Coding • No Region Coding | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | A Musical Journey: ItalyA Musical Tour of South Tyrol
The Places Northern Italy has been variously ruled, over the centuries. South Tyrol, seen here, retains much of its Austrian past, with some regions predominantly German-speaking and others Italian. Scenes are shown of Brixen (Bressanone), with its Cathedral and Bishop’s Palace, and various historic castles, including Castel Tirolo. The Music Music for the tour is by Mozart, with two Piano Concertos, one written in Salzburg in 1777 for a visiting French pianist and the other composed during the last year of Mozart’s life, at the end of a decade spent in independence in Vienna. Video Format • NTSC / Colour / 4:3 Audio Format • DTS 5.1 / Dolby Digital 5.1 / PCM Stereo 2.0 Region Coding • No Region Coding | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | A Musical Journey: SwitzerlandA Musical Visit to the Abbey of Einsiedeln
Music by JS Bach and Vivaldi
The Places The scenes shown are of the Benedictine Abbey and Church at Einsiedeln, in the Swiss canton of Schwyz. The monastery, in origin dating from the 10th century, was largely rebuilt in the 18th century to designs by Caspar Moosbrugger of Vorarlberg, a former lay brother in the community, and has long been an important centre of pilgrimage to the shrine of the Black Madonna, now in a black marble chapel built in the early 19th century. The impressive interior of the church contains frescos by Cosmas Damian Asam and stucco work by his brother Egid Quirin Asam. The Music The tour is accompanied by the third and fourth of the four Orchestral Suites by Johann Sebastian Bach and a Concerto for oboe, violin and continuo by Antonio Vivaldi. Video Format • NTSC / Colour / 4:3 Audio Format • DTS 5.1 / Dolby Digital 5.1 / PCM Stereo 2.0 Region Coding • No Region Coding | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | The Ballet Workout (shaping and toning)The elegant way to tone and reshape your body with the beauty of dance
Melissa Lowe (School of American Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Houston Ballet) The Ballet Workout with Melissa Lowe (American Ballet Theatre), will help you condition, shape and tone your body. The first level is designed for those with little or no ballet experience, and for the second level, previous ballet experience is helpful but not necessary. | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | Sviatoslav Richter in Moscow (Great Hall)
Beethoven: | Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 2 No. 1 Piano Sonata No. 7 in D major, Op. 10 No. 3 Piano Sonata No. 9 in E major, Op. 14 No. 1 Piano Sonata No. 12 in A flat major, Op. 26 'March Funebre' Bagatelles (6), Op. 126: No. 1 | Chopin: | Polonaise No. 7 in A flat major, Op. 61 'Polonaise-fantaisie' Waltz No. 4 in F major 'Grande Valse Brillante', Op. 34 No. 3 Waltz No. 13 in D flat major, Op. 70 No. 3 Mazurka No. 41 in C sharp minor, Op. 63 No. 3 Mazurka No. 44 in C major, Op. 67 No. 3 Mazurka No. 48 in F major, Op. 68 No. 3 Mazurka in A minor, Op..posth. Étude Op. 25 No. 7 in C sharp minor Scherzo No. 4 in E major, Op. 54 |
“Towering virtuosity that triumphs over the primitive Russian technology of the mid-1970s, sending out shockwaves of electrifying pianism, apparently without the slightest effort.” BBC Music Magazine, November 2012 ***** “prospective viewers should be aware that the tape is getting on for forty years old now. The sound quality is certainly pretty reasonable...The [Beethoven] playing is crisp, forthright accenting in the left hand setting up energy and dynamism. His Chopin recital is of lighter material, Waltzes and Mazurkas, all of which are played with commitment and energy.” MusicWeb International, January 2013 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Chick Corea & Friedrich Gulda: The MeetingLive Recording from The Munich Klaviersommer 1982
SOLOPART I // FRIEDRICH GULDA Paraphrase on “Concerto for Ursula” (Friedrich Gulda) Sonata for Piano K 330 (W. A. Mozart) Paraphrase on “Concerto for Ursula” (Friedrich Gulda) Dance (Friedrich Gulda) Play Piano Play No. 1 (Friedrich Gulda) Aria (Friedrich Gulda) Prelude and Fugue (Friedrich Gulda) Paraphrase on “Die Reblaus” (Traditional / Friedrich Gulda) SOLOPART II // CHICK COREA Improvisation on “Round Midnight” (Thelonious Monk / Chick Corea) Improvisation II, III, IV THE MEETING // CHICK COREA & FRIEDRICH GULDA Some day my prince will come (F. Churchill / L. Morey) Put your little foot out (Miles Davis) Poem No. 3 (Fritz Pauer) Wiegenlied (J. Brahms)
These two virtuoso keyboard musicians met for the first time at the Munich Klaviersommer 1982 and gave a concert in the Congress Hall of the German Museum. Alongside various improvisations they perform jazz standards and end with a lyrically rendered paraphrase of Brahms‘s Wiegenlied. Sound Format: PCM Stereo Picture Format: 4:3 DVD Format: DVD 9, NTSC Running Time: 154 mins FSK: 0 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Jascha Heifetz: God's FiddlerA film by Peter Rosen
Not since Paganini had there been such a magician on the violin. We see never-seen-before vintage filmed performance clips and home movies of Jascha Heifetz and learn that he was the first truly modern violin virtuoso, the man about whom Itzhak Perlman said, “When I spoke with him, I thought, ‘I can’t believe I’m talking with God’.” This film portrays an artist for whom only perfection would do. A musical ‚wunderkind’ who went on to set the standards for nearly a century. We get to know through home movies and personal family photos taken from 1903-1987, a prestigious concert artist so well known in popular culture, his name became shorthand for greatness, for everyone from Jack Benny to The Muppets to Woody Allen. Filmed in Vilna, Lithuania, Saint Petersburg, Russia, and in the Heifetz Studio in Los Angeles, this documentary re-creates a life that spanned the 20th Century, a life that both influenced the period, and was affected by its turbulent times. We hear from all the great violinists of his generation, and from many of his former students who are still alive, that Heifetz was a legendary but mysterious figure whose story embodies the dual nature of artistic genius: the paradox of how a mortal man lives with immortal gifts – gifts he must honor, but which extract a lifelong price. Is the man and the artist the same person? What is the price each pays? And who was the man behind the music? Picture format DVD: NTSC 4:3 Sounds formats DVD: PCM Stereo Region code: 0 Original language: English Subtitles: German, French, Spanish Booklet notes: English, German, French Running time: 88 mins “Amazingly, this is the first film to tell the story of Jascha Heifetz, for many the greatest violinist in history...no one has produced anything to match this or, indeed, assembled such a vast array of Heifetz material. It's unmissable.” Gramophone Magazine, July 2012 “Unmissable expose on the so-called 'violinist of the century', including rare newsreel footage, home movies, expert comment, and most importantly, the incendiary virtuosity of an artist whose effortless poise under supreme technical pressure remains a thing of wonder.” BBC Music Magazine, July 2012 ***** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Gramophone Awards 2012