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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Recorded live at the Etaatsoper unter den Linten, Berlin, 8th May 2009
Nigel Lowery / Amir Hosseinpour, staging Nigel Lowery, set & costume design Re-Release of the successful DVD on Blu-ray Disc. For more than 25 years René Jacobs has dedicated his life to baroque operas and works with the best ensembles for early music. On the occasion of the Haydn Year the renowned Freiburger Barockorchester and outstanding baroque opera singers such as Marlis Petersen, Alexandrina Pendatchanska, Pietro Spagnoli and Tom Randle presented Haydn’s most successful opera from the Berliner Staatsoper. "Orlando Paladino", written in 1782, was Haydn's most famous opera during his lifetime, with thirty performances in Esterháza in the first two years after its composition. The libretto, a "drama eroicomico", gives scope to Haydn's frequently puckish sense of humour, as well as his inventive melodic expression. Most semi-serious operas of the period typically inserted comic characters into an essentially serious story but Haydn expanded the comic elements even into the more serious scenes. Another very colourful and vivid staging by the successful team Nigel Lowery and Amir Hosseinpour. Picture format Blu-ray: 1080i Full HD, 16:9 Sound formats Blu-ray: PCM Stereo, DTS-HD Master Audio Region code: All (worldwide) Booklet notes: English, German, French Subtitles: English, German, French, Italian Running time: 168 mins | 
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| |  | The Berliner Philharmoniker in Singapore (Blu-ray in 3D)Recorded live at Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay, Singapore, 22 & 23 November 2010.
Spectacular filming, 3D Blu-ray release! The Berliner Philharmoniker, one of the worlds leading orchestras, and their Artistic Director Sir Simon Rattle, are highly acclaimed all over the world. Their 2010 tour concluded with their first visit to Singapore. The orchestra presents Mahler’s unique and breathtaking First Symphony and Rachmaninov’s late Symphonic Dances,. The Philharmonic’s beautiful rendering of Mahler’s homage to nature and Rachmaninov’s nostalgic ode to Russia is taken to a new level in this 3D recording using state-of-the-art video and audio technology. Join Sir Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker on a musical journey that takes the concert experience to a breathtaking new level – a feast for eyes and ears in 3D! Picture format Blu-ray: 1080i Full HD Sound format Blu-ray: PCM Stereo, DTS-HD Master Audio Surround Sound Region code: 0 Booklet notes: English, German, French Running time: 120mins Blu-ray case in slipcase + Sticker: plays on all Blu-ray players |
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| |  | Zubin Mehta conducts Dvořák, Mozart & BartókRecorded live at the Music Center, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, 1977
Zubin Mehta, at the age of only twenty-six, became the youngest person ever to head a major American Orchestra. In sixteen years as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic he elevated the orchestra to international top rank. These acclaimed concerts from 1977 with works from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries show them at their best, fully proving Mehta’s words: "Not only do we play great music together, but we are individually proud of one another.” Zubin Mehta Picture format Blu-ray: 1080i Full HD 16:9 Sound format Blu-ray : PCM Stereo Region code: 0 Booklet notes: English, German, French Running time: 110mins |
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| |  | Recorded live at the Nationaltheater, Munich, 10 & 14 July 2009
Requiring 38 soloists, chorus and large orchestra, "Palestrina", Hans Pfitzner's (1869-1949) "most important work" (Süddeutsche Zeitung), is a challenging opera to stage. Written in a lush late-Romantic idiom, the masterpiece weaves a fictitious tale around Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, one of the most important Renaissance composers and renovators of sacred music, who fears losing his creative powers and his role in society. In Munich, the city in which it was given its world premiere in 1917, the Bavarian State Opera succeeded – director Christian Stückl, best known for his staging of the Oberammergau Passion Play and the Salzburg Festival's "Jedermann", transformed the monumental work into an optical pop art event. Conductor Simone Young maintains a silky, organic orchestral texture, and expertly holds the reins of the many vocal and instrumental parts. Heading the many outstanding soloists are the imposing Christopher Ventris as Palestrina, Bayreuth regular Falk Struckmann and baritone Michael Volle. Picture format Blu-ray: 1080i Full HD Sound format Blu-ray: PCM Stereo, DTS-HD Master Audio Region code: All (Worldwide) Booklet notes: English, German, French Running time: 197 mins Performance + 9 mins Bonus |
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| |  | Nobuyuki Tsujii at White Nights
The blind up-and-coming Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii - an astonishing virtuoso on his instrument – performs with the Russian conductor Valery Gergiev at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg. In 2009 he hit the Top Ten of the Japanese Charts with his first album “début”. He also won the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2009. At the White Nights Festival he played works by the Russian composers Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and Shostakovich. Here he plays Tchaikovsky’s famous Piano Concerto No. 1. As a bonus Nobuyuki Tsujii performs his own Elegy for the Victims of the Tsunami of March 2011, a stirring and moving piece dedicated to his home country Japan. This performance also includes Shostakovich Symphony No. 14. Live recording from the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg, 8 July 2012. Picture format Blu-ray: 1080i Full HD 16:9 Sound format Blu-ray: Dolby Digital 5.1, PCM Stereo Region code: All Booklet notes: English, German, French Running time: 110 mins “The camera lingers revealingly on close-ups of his neat hands, showing how flat the fingers are, and how relaxed their action, and underscoring the fact that through his finely-judged rubato he exercises total authority over tempo. The cadenza has lovely delicacy...But the principal memory one comes away with is his engagingly child-like presence.” BBC Music Magazine, April 2013 **** |
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