Verbier Festival Highlights 2008 / Argerich, Bell, Bashmet, Maisky [DVD]

1 DVD Video / EuroArts / 2009-07-28

Works: Dmitri Shostakovich: Quintet for Piano and Strings in G minor, Op. 57; Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for Violin and Piano no 9 in A minor, Op. 47 "Kreutzer"; Symphony no 6 in F major, Op. 68 "Pastoral...
Performers: Accardo, Salvatore; Argerich, Martha; Bashmet, Yuri; Bell, Joshua; Capucon, Gautier; Colombet, Pierre; Eischenbroich, Leonard; Frost, Martin; Gringolts, Ilya; Guerrier, David; Herzog, Mathieu; Kragge...
Ensemble: Ebene Quartet; UBS Verbier Festival Orchestra

The Verbier Festival is one of the most prestigious classical music events, thanks to an outstanding programming in the gorgeous Swiss Alps framework. For the...continue...
Run Time: 100 min.
Region: All
Picture Format: NTSC, 16:9, Color
Sound Format(s): LPCM Stereo,
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Wagner: Siegfried / St. Clair/Weimar State Opera, van Hall, Aurich [2 DVD]

2 DVD Video / Arthaus DVD / 2009-07-28

Works: Richard Wagner: Siegfried
Performers: Aurich, Frieder; Foster, Catherine; Hoff, Mario; Mowes, Tomas; Porstein, Heike; Tsumaya, Hidekazu; van Hall, Johnny; Weissmann, Nadine
Ensemble: Staatskapelle Weimar

'Siegfried' is the Second "day" - and third part - of Richard Wagner's 'Ring', the musical saga that its author spent more than a quarter...continue...
Run Time: 251 min.
Region: All
Picture Format: NTSC, 16:9, Color
Sound Format(s): LPCM Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles: German, English, French, Ital...continue...

Humperdinck: Hansel & Gretel / Davis, Kirchschlager, Damrau, Allen [2 DVD]

2 DVD Video / BBC Opus Arte / 2009-07-28

Works: E. Humperdinck: Hänsel und Gretel
Performers: Allen, Thomas; Connell, Elizabeth; Damrau, Diana; Kirchschlager, Angelika; Matshikiza, Pumeza; Silja, Anja; Watson, Anita
Ensemble: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House; Tiffin School Boys Chorus

"Set (by Christian Fenouillat) and costumed (by Agostino Cavalca) in the recent past (the 1970s or '80s), Covent Garden's new production of this opera contains...continue...
Run Time: 138 min.
Region: All
Picture Format: NTSC, 16:9, Color
Sound Format(s): LPCM 2.0, LPCM 5.1
Subtitles: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian...continue...

Opera Exclusive: Puccini's Femmes Fatales / Manon Lescaut, Tosca, Turandot [3 DVD]

3 DVD Video / TDK / 2009-07-28

Works: Giacomo Puccini: Manon Lescaut; Tosca; Turandot
Performers: Alvarez, Marcelo; Cedolins, Fiorenza; Cura, Jose; DeVol, Luana; Farina, Franco; Frittoli, Barbara; Gallo, Lucio; Guleghina, Maria; Raimondi, Ruggero
Ensemble: Gran Teatre del Liceu Chorus; Orchestra e Coro Dell'Arena di Verona; Symphony Orchestra of the Gran Teatre Del Liceu; Teatro alla Scala Chorus; Teatro alla Scala Orchestra

Run Time: 404 min.
Region: All
Picture Format: NTSC, 16:9, Color
Sound Format(s): LPCM Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS 5.1
Subtitles: English, German, Fre...continue...

Medici Arts Catalogue 2009 / Jansons/Berlin PO / Haydn, Mozart, Berlioz [DVD]

1 DVD Video / EuroArts / 2009-07-28

Works: Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony no 94 in G major, H 1 no 94 "Surprise"; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto for Flute no 2 in D major, K 314 (285d); Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14
Performers: Pahud, Emmanuel
Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Medici Arts brings together two prestigious audiovisual production companies: EuroArts in Germany and Ideale Audience in France. Its current catalogue contains over 250 DVDs and...continue...
Run Time: 132 min.
Region: All
Picture Format: NTSC, 16:9, Color
Sound Format(s): LPCM 2.0, Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS 5.1
Subtitles: English, German, French...continue...

Mozart: Requiem / Sir Colin Davis/Bavarian RSO, Mathis, Schmidt [DVD]

1 DVD Video / Arthaus DVD / 2009-07-28

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K 626
Performers: Howell, Gwynne; Mathis, Edith; Schmidt, Trudeliese; Schreier, Peter
Ensemble: Bavarian Radio Symphony Chorus; Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Mozart's last work, the 'Requiem Mass in D minor K626', receives a strong performance from the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus under Mozart specialist...continue...
Run Time: 60 min.
Region: All
Picture Format: NTSC, 4:3, Color
Sound Format(s): LPCM Stereo,
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Piotr Anderszewski - Unquiet Traveller, A Film by Bruno Monsaingeon [DVD]

1 DVD Video / EuroArts / 2009-07-28

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Various Works; Johann Sebastian Bach: Various Works; Ludwig van Beethoven: Various Works; Johannes Brahms: Various Works; Robert Schumann: Various Works; Karol Szymanowski: V...
Performers: Anderszewski, Piotr
Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

Everything about Piotr Anderszewski is extraordinary: his talent, his repertoire, his constant questioning of his work as a performer. Any film about this highly unconventional...continue...
Run Time: 83 min.
Region: All
Picture Format: NTSC, Color
Sound Format(s): Dolby Digital 2.0,
Subtitles: English, German, French, Polish
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Alfred Brendel Plays Schubert Vol. 5 / Sonatas D959, D960 [DVD]

1 DVD Video / EuroArts / 2009-07-28

Works: Franz Schubert: Sonata for Piano in A major, D 959; Sonata for Piano in B flat major, D 960
Performers: Brendel, Alfred

Alfred Brendel is arguably the most outstanding exponent of Schubert’s piano music currently before the public, a man capable of bringing to vibrant life both...continue...
Run Time: 103 min.
Region: All
Picture Format: NTSC, 4:3
Sound Format(s): LPCM Stereo,
Subtitles: German, English, French, Spanish
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Mahler: Symphony No. 4, Schoenberg / Abbado/Mahler Youth Orch. [DVD]

1 DVD Video / EuroArts / 2009-07-28

Works: Arnold Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5; Gustav Mahler: Symphony no 4 in G major
Performers: Banse, Juliane
Ensemble: Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra

"Together with conductor Claudio Abbado, the cream of young European musicians who make up this outstanding orchestra infused the symphony with a luminosity that glowed...continue...
Run Time: 113 min.
Region: All
Picture Format: NTSC, 16, Color
Sound Format(s): LPCM Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS 5.1
Subtitles: German, English, Frenc...continue...

Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro / Pappano/Royal Opera House, Schrott, Persson, Finley [2 Blu-Ray]

2 Blu-Ray Video / BBC Opus Arte / 2009-07-28

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K 492
Performers: Araya, Graciela; Finley, Gerald; James, Ana; Persson, Miah; Roschmann, Dorothea; Schrott, Erwin; Shaham, Rinat
Ensemble: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House; Royal Opera House Covent Garden Chorus

This is a BLU-RAY disc and it will not play on a standard DVD player. A standard DVD is available as BOA 0990. "This performance...continue...
Run Time: 202 min.
Region: All
Picture Format: Blue Ray, 16:9, Color
Sound Format(s): LCPM 2.0, LPCM 5.0
Subtitles: English, French, German, Spanish, Ita...continue...