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Takemitsu & Shostakovich / Yutaka Sado, Berlin PO [DVD]

1 DVD Video / EuroArts / 2011-11-15

Works: Toru Takemitsu: From me flows what you call time, for 5 percussionists & orchestra; Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony no 5 in D minor, Op. 47
Performers: Haeger, Raphael; Rossler, Simon; Schindlbeck, Franz; Schlichte, Jan; Welzel, Wieland
Conductors: Sado, Yutaka
Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

This recording is from a charity concert dedicated to the victims of the Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster in Japan on March 11, 2011. The profit...continue...
Run Time: 107 min.
Region: All
Picture Format: NTSC, 16:9, Color
Sound Format(s): LPCM Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS 5.1
Subtitles: English
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Knappertsbusch Conducts Bruckner Symphonies nos 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9; Wagner

6 CD / Music & Arts / 2011-11-08

Works: Anton Bruckner: Symphony no 3 in D minor, WAB 103; Symphony no 4 in E flat major, WAB 104 "Romantic"; Symphony no 5 in B flat major, WAB 105; Symphony no 7 in E major, WAB 107; Symphony no 8 in C min...
Performers: Aldenhoff, Bernd; Cunitz, Maud; Rohr, Otto van
Conductors: Knappertsbusch, Hans
Ensemble: ; Bavarian State Orchestra; Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; Munich Philharmonic Orchestra; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

A newly restored collection of previously released (and no longer available) Knappertbusch best sellers from the Music and Arts catalog. Bruckner's Symphony No. 3 was...continue...
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Sophia - Biography of a Violin Concerto / A Film by Jan Schmidt-Garre [DVD]

1 DVD Video / Arthaus DVD / 2011-01-25

Works: Sofia Gubaidulina: Concerto for Violin "In tempus praesens"
Performers: Mutter, Anne-Sophie
Conductors: Rattle, Simon
Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

In August 2007, Anne-Sophie Mutter premiered Sofia Gubaidulina's 2nd violin concerto in Lucerne with Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic. Gubaidulina (b. 1931) is one...continue...
Run Time: 56 min.
Region: All
Picture Format: NTSC, 16:9, Color
Sound Format(s): LPCM Stereo,
Subtitles: German, Italy, English, French, Spanish, Japane...continue...

Open Air: A Night with the Berlin Philharmonic / Vadim Repin, Mariss Jansons [DVD]

1 DVD Video / EuroArts / 2010-02-23

Works: Stanislaw Moniuszko: Halka; Henryk Wieniawski: Polonaise brillante for Violin and Piano no 1 in D major, Op. 4; Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Souvenir d'un lieu cher; Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Valse-Sch...
Performers: Repin, Vadim
Conductors: Jansons, Mariss
Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

As the cameras reveal the scale of this open-air event, held at Berlin's Waldbuhne in 2002, it is not only the music that is transmitted...continue...
Run Time: 116 min.
Region: All
Picture Format: NTSC, 16:9, Color
Sound Format(s): LPCM Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS 5.1
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Staud: Apeiron, Violent Incidents, Peras, etc / Rattle, Zagrosek, Vavic, Berlin PO, et al

1 CD / Kairos Music Production / 2008-11-01

Works: Johannes Maria Staud: Aperion; Incipit no 3 "Esquisse retouche no 2"; Towards a Brighter Hue; Violent Incidents "Homage à Bruce Naumann"; Peras
Performers: Dierksen, Uwe; Kovacic, Ernst; Vavic, Anika; Weiss, Marcus
Conductors: Rattle, Simon, Sir; Zagrosek, Lothar; Roo, Kasper de
Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; Cologne West German Radio Orchestra; Windkraft Tirol

Holst: The Planets / Rattle, Berliner Philharmoniker

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2006-09-12

Works: Gustav Holst: The Planets, Op. 32/H 125; Colin Matthews: Pluto, the Renewer; Kaija Saariaho: Asteroid 4179; Matthias Pintscher: Towards Osiris; Mark-Anthony Turnage: Ceres; Brett Dean: Komarov's Fall...
Conductors: Rattle, Simon, Sir
Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; Berlin Radio Chorus

A high-profile release of the Holst masterpiece 'The Planets' is long overdue, the Berlin Philharmonic having last recorded it with the legendary Herbert von Karajan...continue...

Beethoven: Symphonies no 4 & 5 / Klemperer, et al

1 CD / Testament / 2006-03-14

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no 4 in B flat major, Op. 60; Symphony no 5 in C minor, Op. 67; Recorded Sound: Applause
Conductors: Klemperer, Otto
Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Close Encounters with Great Singers - Mirella Freni

1 CD / Video Artists International / 2003-06-24

Works: Mirella Freni / Jon Tolansky: Mirella Freni in Conversation with Jon Tolansky (Interview); Giuseppe Verdi: Aida, opera
Performers: Baltsa, Agnes; Carreras, Jose [Tenor Vocal]; Freni, Mirella; Gedda, Nicolai; Pavarotti, Luciano
Conductors: Frühbeck de Burgos, Rafae; Schippers, Thomas; Klemperer, Otto; Votto, Antonino; Karajan, Herbert von; Levine, James
Ensemble: ; Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; Dresden Staatskapelle; Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra; New Philharmonia Orchestra; Rome Opera House Orchestra; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Close Encounters with Great Singers - Jon Vickers

1 CD / Video Artists International / 2003-06-24

Works: Jon Vickers / Jon Tolansky: Jon Vickers in Conversation with Jon Tolansky (Interview); Giuseppe Verdi: Otello; Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde; George Frederick Handel: Der Messias; Benjamin Britt...
Performers: Freni, Mirella; Glossop, Peter; Hamelin, Marc-André [Piano]; Veasey, Josephine; Vickers, Jon
Conductors: Davis, Colin; Karajan, Herbert von; Stein, Horst; Beecham, Thomas, Sir
Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; Buenos Aires Teatro Colón Orchestra; Royal Opera House Covent Garden Chorus; Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Maurizio Pollini Edition

13 CD / Deutsche Grammophon Import / 2002-03-12

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto for Piano no 23 in A major, K 488; Ludwig van Beethoven: Concerto for Piano no 5 "Emperor"; Concerto for Piano no 3 in C minor, Op. 37; Concerto for Piano no 4 in G ...
Performers: Pollini, Maurizio; Taskova, Slavka
Conductors: Böhm, Karl; Abbado, Claudio; Sinopoli, Giuseppe; Katlewicz, Jerzy; Karajan, Herbert von
Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra

In celebration of thirty years of artistic collaboration with one of the legendary pianists of our time, Deutsche Grammophon has released this special edition boxed...continue...

Mozart, Debussy, Takemitsu / Meyer, Abbado, Berlin PO

1 CD / EMI Classics / 2000-01-11

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto for Clarinet in A major, K 622; Claude Debussy: Première Rhapsodie for Clarinet and Orchestra; Toru Takemitsu: Fantasma/Cantos
Performers: Meyer, Sabine [Clarinet]
Conductors: Abbado, Claudio
Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

"This is Sabine Meyer's second recording for EMI of the great Mozart Concerto. As in the first, made with the Dresden Staatskapelle and Hans Vonk...continue...

The Best Classical Album in the World... Ever!

2 CD / EMI Classics / 1996-04-23

Works: Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for Violin in E major, Op. 8 no 1/RV 269 "Primavera"; Concerto for Violin in F major, Op. 8 no 3/RV 293 "L'autunno"; John Williams: Schindler's List; Giuseppe Verdi: Requiem...
Performers: Brain, Dennis [French Horn]; Callas, Maria; Carreras, Jose [Tenor Vocal]; Ciccolini, Aldo [Piano]; Domingo, Placido; Donohoe, Peter; du Pre, Jacqueline; Erdbeer, Johannes; Galway, James [Flute]; Garr...
Conductors: Marriner, Sir Neville; Kennedy, Nigel [Violin]; Karajan, Herbert von; Sutherland, Iain; Muti, Riccardo; Previn, Andre; Sanderling, Kurt; Tennstedt, Klaus; Myers, Stanley; Cu, Ismael Fernandez de la; ...
Ensemble: ; Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Bath Festival Orchestra; Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos; Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; English Chamber Orchestra (Chamber orchestra); King's Colle...

This set includes both ADD and DDD recordings....continue...