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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Nelson Goerner live at Verbier FestivalRecorded at Verbier Festival, July 2009
This series of TV programmes presents the very best of the 16th Verbier Festival with worldwide renowned artists such as Susan Graham, Martha Argerich, Yuri Temirkanov, Stephen Kovacevich, and Philippe Jaroussky. Born in 1969 in San Pedro, Argentina, Nelson Goerner has established himself as one of the foremost pianists of his generation. After studying in Argentina with Jorge Garrubba, Juan Carlos Arabian and Carmen Scalcione, he was awarded First Prize Winner at the Franz Liszt Competition, Buenos Aires in 1986. He was discovered by Martha Argerich. Nelson Goerner is very interested in the music by Frédéric Chopin. His debut CD on EMI was dedicated to him. 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: 54 min FSK: 0 | 
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| |  | Mendelssohn in VerbierRecorded at Verbier Festival, July 2009
This series of TV programmes presents the very best of the 16th Verbier Festival with worldwide renowned artists such as Susan Graham, Martha Argerich, Yuri Temirkanov and Philippe Jaroussky. Furthermore, very gifted artists like Yuja Wang encounter renowned conductors like Kurt Masur to feature Mendelssohn's Third Symphony. These magnificent interpretations of three Mendelssohn works – two orchestral and one chamber – are given by the phenomenally talented young Chinese pianist Yuja Wang and other young performers. Praised in BBC Music Magazine for her ‘keen intelligence’ and ‘staggering technique’, Yuja Wang has also been described by the San Francisco Chronicle as ‘the sort of musician whose combination of talents appears in the world only rarely’. The Verbier Festival Orchestra consists of musicians hand-picked from every part of the world. Here they are directed by the doyen of German Mendelssohn conductors, Kurt Masur. BONUS: Stravinsky: Three Movements from Petrushka performed by Yuja Wang, piano 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: 89 mins (Concert) + 15 mins (Bonus: Concert Yuja Wang / Stravinsky) FSK: 0 |
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| |  | Recorded live at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, London, on 22 May 2009
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski Holst’s The Planets requires little introduction. His inspiration for the piece came from hearing live performances of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring in 1913, and Schoenberg’s Five Pieces for Orchestra in 1914. These two seminal 20th Century works left a strong impression on Holst. The London Philharmonic Orchestra has a long association with The Planets. The Orchestra has recorded it under Principal Conductors Adrian Boult (twice in 1953 and 1978, with Boult also giving the first ever performance in 1918) and Sir Georg Solti, then twice in 1970 with Bernard Haitink and film composer Bernard Hermann. Jurowski continues the association with this recording. What can clearly be heard in this interpretation is the influence of the Boult recordings as well as the recordings Holst himself made conducting the London Symphony Orchestra in the 1920s. The tempi are well-chosen, effectively emphasising the drama and creating a performance that resonated strongly with the concert audience, who left feeling that they had been part of a very special musical event. The recording quality is superb, complimenting the artistic interpretation nicely. It is detailed and spacious - ‘Jupiter’ particularly benefiting from a sense of the ethereal - yet warm and balanced. |
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| |  | The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto50th Anniversary Special Edition
DVD plus bonus CD DVD - Filmed in West Lake, Huangzhou. The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto was written in 1958 by He Zhanhao and Chen Gang, and is here presented on a 24k gold CD. Musically the concerto is a synthesis of Eastern and Western traditions, although the melodies and overall style are adapted from traditional Chinese Opera “Violinist Takako Nishizaki has a fine technique allied to good taste and sensitive all-around musicianship. She has made a career pursuing interesting and unusual repertoire, much of which has appeared on the Naxos/Marco Polo labels. Perhaps her most famous "discovery" was The Butterfly Lovers concerto.” Classics Today |
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| |  | the composer’s cut volume 4: Vertov Sounds
films by Dziga Vertov. Michael Nyman has now completed scores for the three major films that the pioneering Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov made in the late 1920s. To ‘Man with a Movie Camera’ he has added ‘The Eleventh Year’ and ‘A Sixth Part of the World’ and as a unique experiment for MN Records he has created a new Michael Nyman Band work - by making a montage of material from both of the soundtracks into a single, continuous piece which runs for 77 minutes. VERTOV SOUNDS is the fourth release on MN Records as part of the composer’s cut series. |
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| |  | Norway - From Gaupne to SogndalSandbu, Bergen, Ålesund, Maihaugen, Lillehammer & Trolls
Music by Grieg, Sinding & Svendsen Running Time 52:10 • Aspect Ratio 4:3 NTSC – No Region Coding |
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| |  | Italy & AustriaBrixen & Innsbruck
Music by W. A. Mozart Running Time 57:49 • Aspect Ratio 4:3 NTSC – No Region Coding |
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| |  | Austria, Switzerland & GermanyA Christmas Musical Tour
Music by J. S. Bach & Handel Running Time 57:29 • Aspect Ratio 4:3 NTSC – No Region Coding |
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| |  | Recorded at the Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center, Houston, Texas, 17–18 March 2000
Stephanie Novacek (Jo), Joyce DiDonato (Meg), Chad Shelton (Laurie), Stacey Tappan (Beth), Margaret Lloyd (Amy), Daniel Belcher (John Brooke), Chen-Ye Yuan (Friedrich Bhaer), Katherine Ciesinski (Cecilia March), James Maddalena (Gideon March), Gwendolyn Jones (Alma March) & Derrick Parker (Mr Dashwood) Houston Grand Opera Orchestra, Patrick Summers Stage Production Director: Peter Webster Directed for Television by Brian Large Based on Louisa May Alcott’s enduringly popular novel about the adventures of Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy in civil-war era New England, Mark Adamo’s opera Little Women has been performed in more than 70 national and international engagements since its 1998 première by Houston Grand Opera and has achieved the status of an American classic. This recording, with a superb cast expertly directed for television, vividly brings to life an opera that The New Yorker hailed as “A beautifully crafted work, brilliantly molding Alcott’s tale into operatic form,” and The New York Times dubbed a “masterpiece”. Total Running Time: 114:53 NTSC: No Region Coding Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Dual Layer Disc PCM 2.0 Dolby Digital 5.1 DTS 5.1 |
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| |  | Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 3
Rachmaninov: | The Isle of the Dead - Symphonic Poem, Op. 29 Recorded in the Academy of Music, Philadelphia, 20th April, 1929 Vocalise, Op. 34 No. 14 - arrangement for orchestra orch. Rachmaninov. Recorded in the Academy of Music, Philadelphia, 20th April, 1929 Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 44 Recorded in the Academy of Music, Philadelphia, 11th December, 1939 |
The Philadelphia Orchestra, Sergey Rachmaninov Producer and Audio Restoration Engineer: Mark Obert-Thorn An experienced conductor, Rachmaninov nevertheless left only the three recordings to be found on this album showcasing his skill with the baton. Also Available: 8110601, 8110602: Rachmaninov Plays Rachmaninov |
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