Actors & Directors
- Omara Portundo
- Julia Alberto Fenandez
- Compay Segundo
- Benito Suarez
Run time: 50 min.
RRP: £16.99
Price: £12.99
Review Compay Segundo - Live At L'Olympia / Warner Music Vision:
![Review Universal Pictures UK / Christmas Time In Vienna [1993]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KYRH51DBL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- The Mozart Boys' Choir Of Vienna
- Dionne Warwick
- Placido Domingo
- Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Run time: 75 min.
Price: £10.99
Review Christmas Time In Vienna [1993] / Universal Pictures UK:
Price: £9.70
Review Jean Sibelius / Teldec:
Actors & Directors
- Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Run time: 120 min.
Price: £16.99
Review Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra - New Year's Day Concert 2001 / Teldec Video (Warner Classics):The 2001 Vienna New Year's Day Concert was always bound to strike sparks. Having built his reputation in Baroque and early music, Nikolaus Harnoncourt has recently brought his re-creative insights to the standard Classical repertoire. How typical then that he should open proceedings with the original version of the Radetzky March-urbane compared to the familiar version, whose hearty militarism closes the concert in style. In between there's an enterprising selection of Strauss waltzes and polkas from Johanns I and II, the subtle and underrated Josef, and three numbers by Josef Lanner, whose restrained lilt provides the link between Schubert and the Strauss Family. Harnoncourt brings out the rhythmic vigour of this music, the astringent sound of woodwind and brass often heard over the strings, though there's no doubting the expressive sweep of the inevitable Blue Danube waltz. On the DVD: Directed for video by Brian Large, the atmosphere of the occasion comes over in full, aided by the tangibility of 16:9 picture format and 5. 1 surround sound-though PCM Linear Stereo is also an option. Three ballet sequences, including a hilarious steam train race to Johann II's Excursion Train polka, are sensibly included as an appendix. Each of the 17 concert tracks is separately indexed, but still-frame histories of the event and of the Musikverein venue, edited from Clemens Hellsberg's booklet article, make for a poor special feature. Why no documentary film? However, this remains the best concert of its kind for almost a decade, and can safely be invested in as such. [+]-Richard Whitehouse.
Actors & Directors
- The Schutz Choir of London
- Paul Esswood
- Christopher Robson
- The London Baroque Players
- Patrizia Kwella
Run time: 45 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.99
Review Purcell-Ode on St.Cecilia's [1992] / Picture Music International:
Release date: 1999-10-01
RRP: £12.99
Price: £0.74
Review Odyssey / Richard Strauss:
Actors & Directors
- Mary Sandeman
- Scottish Fiddle Orchestra
- James Nicol
Run time: 59 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £5.99
Review Festival City / Rel Records Ltd.:
![Review Teldec Video (Warner Classics) / Richter - The Enigma [1998]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VYGNV1PCL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Bruno Monsaingeon
- Svyatoslav Richter
Run time: 154 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £4.25
Review Richter - The Enigma [1998] / Teldec Video (Warner Classics):This exemplary 154-minute documentary about the great Russian pianist Sviatoslav Richter includes some wonderful archive footage and a lot of worthwhile discussion of one of the more remarkable of 20th-century concert careers. Richter was an extraordinary combination of poet, mystic and superb technician, as fine in the more spiritually ruminative moments of Johann Sebastian Bach as he was in the more spectacular display pieces of Franz Liszt. He was also in an interesting place at an interesting time-able to interpret the works of Prokofiev and Shostakovich when they were freshly minted, and able to play alongside other great virtuosi like Oistrakh and Rostopovich (there is some wonderful footage here of the three of them performing the Beethoven Triple Concerto under Karajan). Richter was as fine as a soloist with great orchestras as he was as accompanist-we see him with Fischer-Dieskau in Hugo Wolf's quirky song "Der Feierreiter"-but his true love was the recital; much of his long career was taken up with an endless pilgrimage around the civic centres of Soviet Russia, spreading the word of great music. -Roz Kaveney.
![Review Deutsche Grammophon / Candide [1973]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/411YQ37FBXL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- London Symphony Chorus
- London Symphony Orchestra
- June Anderson
- Jerry Hadley
- Adolph Green
Run time: 147 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £14.98
Review Candide [1973] / Deutsche Grammophon:
Run time: 95 min.
Price: £10.99
Review Where The Wild Things Are / Higglety Pigglety Pop! [1985] / Castlevision:
Actors & Directors
- English Chamber Orchestra
- Nigel Kennedy
Run time: 60 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £14.99
Review Vivaldi: The Four Seasons - Nigel Kennedy And The English Chamber Orchestra / Picture Music International:
![Review Deutsche Grammophon / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra - New Year's Concert In Vienna [1989]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/512YXTDBA7L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
RRP: £14.99
Price: £14.99
Review Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra - New Year's Concert In Vienna [1989] / Deutsche Grammophon:
![Review Warner Music Vision / Steve Reich's City Life [1995]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51BVNYXR1FL._SL160_.jpg)
Release date: 1996-12-02
Run time: 61 min.
Price: £12.99
Review Steve Reich's City Life [1995] / Warner Music Vision:
![Review 4 Front Video / Carmen [1985]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/410Z790G21L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Plácido Domingo
- Ruggero Raimondi
- François Le Roux
- Julia Migenes
- Francesco Rosi
- Faith Esham
Run time: 149 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £11.85
Review Carmen [1985] / 4 Front Video:This movie version of Bizet's popular opera Carmen was filmed on location, conveying a kind of atmosphere, a sense of space, movement, and presence that's hard to achieve in a staged performance. It takes the action out of doors for many scenes, with the opening titles superimposed on the bloody conclusion of a bullfight. Elsewhere the changing of the guard, the crowd scenes, the dance number that opens Act 2, and the panoramic scenery of the smugglers' mountain hideout all benefit from the freedom granted by movie cameras. It's an exciting Carmen, too, with a young-looking Placido Domingo in top form for a role he has sung hundreds of times. For Julia Migenes, though, it was her first performance in a role she would have trouble performing in an opera house. Her voice does not fit easily into Carmen's range, and she spent months training it, very successfully, before singing the role in a recording studio where the soundtrack was taped before the film was shot. Casting her in the role was a gamble, but it worked; she is a convincing actress. Unlike most opera-house performances this movie version uses the opera's original opera comique form with some spoken dialogue rather than recitatives. -Joe McLellan, Amazon. com.
Release date: 1990-03-01
Run time: 40 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £15.00
Review The Four Seasons [1989] / Decca:
![Review Philips / Tannhauser [1978]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513DG181PEL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Gwyneth Jones
- Hans Sotin
- Franz Mazura
- Bernd Weikl
- Spas Wenkoff
- Thomas Olofsson
Run time: 189 min.
Price: £24.99
Review Tannhauser [1978] / Philips:
Actors & Directors
- Mike Mansfield
- Kenneth Branagh
- Plácido Domingo
- Charlton Heston
- Ofra Harnoy
- Prince Charles
Run time: 60 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £3.00
Review Symphony For The Spire [1991] / Abbey Home Media:
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.96
Review Requiem-Andrew Lloyd Webber:
![Review Teldec Video (Warner Classics) / Art Of Conducting - Great Conductors Of The Past [1994]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51BV73MAD9L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- George Szell
- Richard Mohr
- Leopold Stokowski
- Peter R. Smith
- Isaac Stern
- Sue Knussen
- Gerald Caillat
- Wilhelm Furtwängler
Run time: 117 min.
Price: £14.99
Review Art Of Conducting - Great Conductors Of The Past [1994] / Teldec Video (Warner Classics):
![Review Warner Music Vision / England, My England - The Story Of Henry Purcell [1995]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/510W5AXMMJL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Simon Callow
- Lucy Speed
- Michael Ball
- Rebecca Front
- Letitia Dean
- Tony Palmer
Run time: 152 min.
Price: £14.99
Review England, My England - The Story Of Henry Purcell [1995] / Warner Music Vision:
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