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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Claudio Abbado In Rehearsal
Recording Date: 1985 Place of recording: Church of San Marco, Milano, Italy Running Time: 119 min Picture Format: 4:3 Sound Format: Mono Menu Languages PAL: D, GB, F, SP Subtitle Languages PAL: D, GB, F, SP Menu Languages NTSC: GB, F, SP, JP Subtitle Languages NTSC: GB, F, SP, JP Specials: Arthaus Musik Trailer 8 min | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Lux AeternaClaudio Abbado in Rehearsal
A film by Norbert Beilharz This Documentary shows Claudio Abbado as he is rehearsing Giuseppe Verdi’s Messa da Requiem with world-famous singers Montserrat Caballé, Cecilia Gasdia, Lucia Valentini-Terrani, Peter Dvorsky, Chris Merritt , Samuel Ramey and the Choir and Orchestra of the Scala di Milano. It documents rehearsals in at three different locations: the church of San Marco in Milan, the main stage at Teatro alla Scala and in one of the rehearsal rooms of the opera house, recorded in 1985. An opportunity to see and directly compare the performances of the well acclaimed sopranos Montserrat Caballé and Cecilia Gasdia and the tenors Peter Dvorsky and Chris Merritt. Director Norbert Beilharz is a worldwide renowned specialist for classical music documentaries. DVD release comes right in time for the 80th Anniversary Celebrations of Claudio Abbado in June 2013 and will be accompanied by two further EuroArts June releases: Claudio Abbado Anniversary Box (Item. No.: 2059588 and the Abbado Beethoven Box (Item No.: 2057374) Special Packaging: Digipak with hotfoil embossing + Sticker 8Oth Anniversary Edition Picture format DVD: NTSC 4:3 Sound format DVD: PCM Stereo Region code: 0 Subtitles: English, French, German, Spanish Booklet notes: English, French, German Running time: 119 mins | 
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| |  | Live Recording from The Wiener Staatsoper, 1990
Set Design by RUDOLF and REINHARD HEINRICH Wagner set the action of his “romantic opera” Lohengrin in the “first half of the 10th century” – an instruction which director Wolfgang Weber and his stage designers Rudolf and Reinhard Heinrich clearly took very seriously when they produced it at the Vienna State Opera in 1990. We do indeed experience the early, gloomy Middle Ages: muted colours, dark clouds, barren landscapes and simple shapes dominate the scene. Weber’s simplicity succeeds in evoking clear symbolism; his staging does not impress by means of the spectacular, but underlines the dramatic sense embodied in the music, allowing the outstanding singers full scope to express themselves in this remarkable production under Claudio Abbado. The main roles are taken by Cheryl Studer as Elsa, and Plácido Domingo as Lohengrin – which he first performed as his debut role at the Hamburg State Opera in 1968, at the age of 27. Sound Format: PCM Stereo Picture Format: 4:3 DVD Format: 1 x DVD 5 & 9, NTSC Subtitle Languages: DE (Original Language), GB, FR, IT, ES Running Time: 219 mins FSK: 12 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Recorded live at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Rome, February 2001 (Nos. 1-8); Recorded live at the Philharmonie, Berlin, May 2000 (No.9)
These recordings are the fruit of decades of Claudio Abbado’s deep involvement with Beethoven. Many years of shared artistic experience create a tangible harmony and understanding between the orchestra and Abbado. His musical intentions and the orchestra’s musical expression become one, leading to an outstandingly beautiful unity of sound. The live performances were an overwhelming success with standing ovations after each of the concerts. Critics considered the concerts as seminal moments in the history of music. A conductor camera option allows to see Abbado from the perspective of the orchestra. Includes Abbado’s interview about Beethoven. All in all: a priceless document of the work of one of the greatest artists of our time. Picture format: NTSC 16:9 Sounds formats: PCM Stereo, DD 5.1, DTS 5.1 Region code: 0 Booklet notes: English, German, French Subtitles: German, English, French, Italian, Spanish Running time: 413 mins (DVD1 106 mins, DVD2 78 mins, DVD3 122 mins, DVD4 81 mins + 26 mins Bonus) German FSK: 0 “Abbado, a Furtwängler admirer in principle, seems ever more Italian, his tauter lyricism allied to a sense of forward movement influenced, we are told, by period practice. The surprise is not the Mediterranean luminosity and scrupulous attention to instrumental detail - one expects nothing less from this source - but the animating sense of line. The Seventh Symphony... knows precisely where it's going and why... The sense of joy present throughout is overwhelming by the close.” Gramophone Magazine, May 2009 “the joy and the life behind these performances makes it pretty plain why he chose this set as his “legacy set” for Beethoven...the peerless playing and outstanding direction make it a joy to experience.” MusicWeb International, March 2012 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Beethoven: | Fidelio, Op. 72 Live from the Opernhaus Zürich, 2004 Camilla Nylund (Leonore), Jonas Kaufmann (Florestan), László Polgár (Rocco), Christoph Strehl (Jaquino) Alfred Muff (Pizarro), Elizabeth Rae Magnuson (Marzelline), Günther Groissböck (Fernando), Boguslaw Bidzinski (First Prisoner) & Gabriel Bermúdez (Second Prisoner) Chorus & Orchestra of the Zurich Opera House, Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor) & Jürgen Flimm (director) | Bizet: | Carmen Live from the Wiener Staatsoper, 1978 Elena Obraztsova (Carmen), Isobel Buchanan (Micaëla), Yuri Mazurok (Escamillo), Isobel Buchanan (Micaëla), Cheryl Kanfoush (Frasquita), Axelle Gall (Mercédès), Kurt Rydl (Zuniga), Hans Helm (Moralès), Heinz Zednik (Remendado) & Paul Wolfrum (Dancaïre) Stage Orchestra, Orchestra and Chorus of the Wiener Staatsoper, The Vienna Boys’ Choir and Ballet of the Wiener Staatsoper, Carlos Kleiber (conductor) & Franco Zeffirelli (stage director) | Massenet: | Werther Live from the Wiener Staatsoper, 2005 Marcelo Álvarez (Werther), Elina Garanca (Charlotte), Ileana Tonca (Sophie), Adrian Eröd (Albert), Alfred Sramek (Le Bailli), Peter Jelosits (Schmidt), Marcus Pelz (Johann), Clemens Unterreiner (Brühlmann) & Maria Gusenleitner (Käthchen) Orchestra, Stage Orchestra and Chorus der Wiener Staatsoper & Children of the Opernschule der Wiener Staatsoper, Philippe Jordan (conductor) & Andrei Serban (director) | Mozart: | Die Zauberflöte, K620 Live from the Opéra national de Paris, 2001 Piotr Beczala (Tamino), Dorothea Röschmann (Pamina), Detlef Roth (Papageno), Matti Salminen (Sarastro), Désirée Rancatore (Königin der Nacht), Gaële Le Roi (Papagena), Wolfgang Schöne (Sprecher), Uwe Peper (Monostatos), Cécile Perrin, Helene Schneiderman & Hélène Perraguin (Drei Damen) Chorus and Orchestra of the Opéra National de Paris, Iván Fischer (conductor) & Benno Besson (stage director) | Puccini: | Tosca Live from the Arena di Verona, 2006 Fiorenza Cedolins (Floria Tosca), Marcelo Alvarez (Mario Cavaradossi) & Ruggero Raimondi (Il Barone Scarpia), Fabio Previati (Sagristano), Marco Spotti (Angelotti), Enrico Facini (Spoletta), Giuliano Pelizon (Sciarrone), Ottavia Dorrucci (Un pastore) & Angelo Nardinocchi (Un carceriere) Arena Di Verona, Daniel Oren (conductor) & Hugo de Ana (stage director) | Rossini: | Il barbiere di Siviglia Live from the Opéra national de Paris Joyce DiDonato (Rosina), Roberto Saccà (Graf Almaviva), Dalibor Jenis (Figaro), Carlos Chausson (Bartolo), Kristinn Sigmundsson (Basilio), Nicholas Garrett (Fiorello), Jeannette Fischer (Berta) & Denis Aubry (Polizeioffizier) Chorus and Orchestra of the Opéra National de Paris, Bruno Campanella (conductor) & Coline Serreau (stage director) | Strauss, J, II: | Die Fledermaus Live from the Wiener Staatsoper, 1980 Bernd Weikl (Gabriel von Eisenstein), Lucia Popp (Rosalinde), Erich Kunz (Gefängnisdirektor Frank), Brigitte Fassbaender (Prinz Orlofsky), Josef Hopferwieser (Alfred), Walter Berry (Dr Falke), Anton Wendler (Dr Blind), Edita Gruberova (Adele), Karin Göttling (Ida), Helmut Lohner (Frosch) & Karl Caslavsky (Iwan) Orchestra, Ballet and Chorus of the Wiener Staatsoper, Theodor Guschlbauer (conductor) & Otto Schenk (director) | Strauss, R: | Elektra Live from the Wiener Staatsoper, 1989 Eva Marton (Elektra), Brigitte Fassbaender (Klytämnestra), Franz Grundheber (Orest), James King (Aegisth), Goran Simic (Attendant of Orest), Waltraud Winsauer (Confidant), Noriko Sasaki (Train Bearer), Wilfried Gahmlich (Young Servant), Claudio Otelli (Old Servant), Gabriele Lechner (Attendant) & Margarita Lilowa, Gabriele Sima, Margareta Hintermeier, Brigitte Poschner-Klebel, Joanna Borowska (Maids) Chorus and Orchestra of the Wiener Staatsoper, Claudio Abbado (conductor) & Harry Kupfer (stage director) | Verdi: | Aida Live from the Teatro alla Scala 1985 Maria Chiara (Aida), Luciano Pavarotti (Radames), Ghena Dimitrova (Amneris), Juan Pons (Amonasro), Paata Burchuladze (The King of Egypt), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Ramphis), Francesca Garbi (Priestess) & Ernesto Gavazzi (Messenger) Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala, Lorin Maazel (conductor) & Luca Ronconi (stage director) | Wagner: | Tannhäuser Live from the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden 2008 Robert Gambill (Tannhäuser), Camilla Nylund (Elisabeth), Roman Trekel (Wolfram von Eschenbach), Waltraud Meier (Venus), Stephen Milling (Hermann, Landgraf von Thüringen), Marcel Reijans (Walther von der Vogelweide), Tom Fox (Biterolf), Andreas Hörl (Reimar von Zweter), Florian Hoffmann (Heinrich der Schreiber), Katherina Müller (Ein junger Hirt), Claudia Chmelar, Anna-Katina Tilch, Manuela Leonhartsberger, Martina König (Edelknaben) & Reinier van der Eng (Geist des Tannhäuser) Philharmonia Chor Wien & Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Philippe Jordan (conductor) & Nikolaus Lehnhoff (stage director) |
With »Magic Moments of Opera« Arthaus Musik has launched the opera sensation of the year. Stars like PLÁCIDO DOMINGO, JOYCE DIDONATO, JONAS KAUFMANN, LUCIANO PAVAROTTI and ELI¯NA GARANCˇA offer a coruscating display of singing from the world’s foremost opera houses. Love and passion; wrath and wit; revenge and regret. Legendary recordings of ten operatic masterpieces offer both cognoscenti and the uninitiated an opportunity to experience truly great stage performances. Magic moments of opera. Sound Format: various Picture Format: 4:3 /16:9 DVD Format: 11 x DVD 9, NTSC Subtitle Languages: various Running Time: ca. 1500 mins FSK: 0 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Introducing Beethoven Symphony No. 9
Host: Wulf Konold A new way of experiencing and enjoying the great works of music from the Baroque to the Modern Period – thanks to a new educational series of audio-visual concert guides, Introducing Masterpieces of Classical Music. Each release includes extensive documentation and a complete performance of the work or works in question. Famous masterpieces from the standard repertoire of the greatest international orchestras are brought closer to the viewer through first class concert broadcasts (Berliner Philharmoniker, Wiener Philharmoniker, Gewandhaus Orchester…) in a timely visual style. Includes 26 mins introductory feature + full concert performance of the masterpiece! Ludwig van Beethoven’s ninth and last symphony is considered one of the highlights of symphonic music. Through using the human voice, Beethoven questions the effect of purely instrumental music, and he exerted a sustained influence on all generations of composers after him. The German Beethoven expert Wulf Konold explains the central characteristics of this exciting masterpiece. Picture format DVD: NTSC 16:9 Sounds formats DVD: PCM Stereo, DD 5.1, DTS 5.1 Region code: 0 Subtitles: English, German, French, Spanish Booklet notes: English, German, French Running time: 26 mins (documentary) + 69 mins (performance) FSK: 0 “An exceptionally good introduction to the Choral Symphony, succinctly providing insight into the music and a sense of how it confounded the expectations of Beethoven's contemporaries.” BBC Music Magazine, June 2011 ***** | | | 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 DVD: NTSC 16:9 Sounds formats DVD: PCM Stereo, DD 5.1, DTS 5.1 Region code: 0 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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| |  | Claudio Abbado conducts Prokofiev, Berg & TchaikovskyLucerne Festival at Easter 2010
Five years after first conducting the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra in their Venezuelan home, Claudio Abbado continues his commitment to this stunning ensemble in this first joint audiovisual concert recording. Prokofiev’s extrovert Scythian Suite is a gift for the boundless energy of these young players, while the intricacy and anguish of Berg’s Lulu-Suite are an Abbado speciality, with soprano Anna Prohaska, in her Lucerne Festival debut, singing the heroine’s dazzling statement of self-justification. The concert ends with an impassioned account of Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique, his final symphony, one of the most moving works in music history. Picture Format DVD: NTSC 16:9 Sound Formats DVD: Dolby Digital 5.1., DTS 5.1, PCM Stereo, Region Code: 0 (worldwide) Booklet notes: Songtexts in German Running Time: 111:45 Disc Format: DVD 9 FSK: 0 “It's amazing the way Abbado brings the melodic writing to the fore in the very different worlds of the Prokofiev and the Berg Lulu Suite, crowned by Anna Prohaska's meaningful characterisation...As for Tchaikovsky's Pathétique, I challenge you to sit unshaken through the way Abbado nurtures string tone, body and vibrato from his Latin players.” BBC Music Magazine, January 2011 ***** “Aided by superb camera work, we see him, gaunt but energised, bringing sophistication and élan to Prokofiev’s monster canvas, conjuring magic and fragrance from the Berg and driving the Pathétique to the edge of the abyss.” Financial Times, 14th January 2011 **** “It's scintillatingly communicative. Some of the players are noticeably a touch nervous; it makes the Tchaikovsky grippingly heartfelt while the Berg...has an edgy quality that really brings it alive...Watching Abbado's response to these young Latinos, and vice-versa, reminds you of those transcendental human qualities music has...I can't imagine there being a more engaging audio-visual recording of [these works]” Classic FM Magazine, March 2011 **** “the combination of [Abbado's] sophisticated ear for sonority with the band's raw energy and sheer strength in numbers make for some terrific music-making...his exquisite touch is evident throughout in what is obviously a meticulously prepared account as well as a suitably emotive one...[Prohaska] is marvellous.” International Record Review, April 2011  BBC Music Magazine
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| |  | Introducing Mahler Symphony No. 5
Host: Jeremy Barham A completely new way of experiencing and enjoying the great works of music from the Baroque to the Modern Period – thanks to a new series of audio-visual concert guides, Masterpieces of Classical Music. Each release includes extensive documentation and a complete performance of the work or works in question. Famous masterpieces from the standard repertoire of the greatest international orchestras are brought closer to the viewer through first class concert broadcasts (Berliner Philharmoniker, Wiener Philharmoniker, Gewandhaus Orchester…) in a timely visual style. Each part includes 27 mins introductory feature + full concert performance! The Symphony No. 5 by Gustav Mahler is arguably the best known Mahler symphony. The musical canvas and emotional scope of the work are huge. Herbert von Karajan said once that when you hear Mahler's Fifth, “you forget that time has passed. A great performance of the Fifth is a transforming experience.” The English lecturer and musician Jeremy Barham introduces the work at the piano and reflects on the secrets of the composition. Picture format DVD: NTSC 16:9 Sounds formats DVD: PCM Stereo, DD 5.1, DTS 5.1 Region code: 0 Booklet notes: English, German, French Running time: 30 mins (documentary) + 74 mins (performance) FSK: 0 “Lucerne's acoustically superb KKL hall has this handpicked orchestra sounding most impressive: so is the performance, in its supercharged way.” BBC Music Magazine, December 2010 **** “the recorded sound of this Abbado-handpicked orchestra is something special. So is the playing, which has a full-throated, epic splendour from start to finish, under the unobtrusive command of Abbado's conducting.” Classic FM Magazine, December 2010 **** | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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