Actors & Directors
- Barbara Willis Sweete
- Mark Morris
- Yo-Yo Ma
Run time: 54 min.
Price: £10.99
Review Falling Down Stairs - suite No 3 - YO-YO Ma inspired by Bach / Sony Classical UK:
Release date: 1992-11-02
Run time: 127 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £19.97
Review Handel's Messiah In Dublin [1992] / 2 Entertain Video:
Actors & Directors
- Deborah Voight
- Akiko Suwanai
- Gustav Rivinius
- Hans Choi
- Boris Berezovsky
Run time: 114 min.
Price: £10.99
Review The International Tchaikovsky Competition 1990 - The Winners' Gala Concert / Teldec Video (Warner Classics):
Actors & Directors
- Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
- Mstislav Rostropovich
- Alexis Weissenberg
Price: £14.99
Review Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto No. 2 / R. Strauss - Don Quixote [1974] / Deutsche Grammophon:
Actors & Directors
- Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
- Andre Previn
- Zoltan Kocsis
Run time: 153 min.
Price: £12.99
Review Mozart On Tour Vol. 5 - Vienna / Prague / Philips:
Actors & Directors
- Igor Talankin
- Kirill Lavrov
- Evgeni Leonov
- Vladislav Strzhelchik
- Innokenti Smoktunovsky
- Antonina Shuranova
Price: £14.99
Review Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto - Romeo And Juliet [1979] / Philips 070 110-3:It's a common complaint that opera singers can't act, and actors can't sing opera. In this handsome 1988 film of Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin, director Petr Weigl attempts to solve the problem by letting each group of performers do what they do best. Thus the music is a studio recording with some great voices in the principal roles, and the film is a lip-synched performance shot in stunning locations by a good-looking cast of players. On the positive side this means that the whole thing looks gorgeous, and sun-drenched dachas, glittering ballrooms and snowy steppes are all captured with painterly verve. The musical performances are also splendid, with Bernd Weikl making a passionate, tortured Onegin, Teresa Kubiak a honeyed, fresh-sounding Tatyana, and Solti conducting with driven intensity. But realism and opera rarely make happy bed-fellows, and the down-side of this film is that the naturalistic "speaking-style" lip-synching and understated acting are entirely at odds with the grand musical gestures, and occasionally give rise to a somewhat absurd alienation effect. Thus while Kubiak's voice is at full blast, Magdalena Vasaryova looks like she's making polite chit-chat at a cocktail party. But the project feels like a brave experiment, nonetheless, and if the whole isn't quite the sum of its different elements, those elements are still jolly good. On the DVD: Eugene Onegin on disc has excellent picture quality (which is fortunate in such a visually exquisite film), though the sound is a little distant and muffled. The film starts with the entry of the peasants in Act 1, but the DVD includes the Prologue and music before this point as an audio bonus. [+]There are subtitles in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Chinese, and a series of trailers for other Decca DVDs. -Warwick Thompson.
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Actors & Directors
- Graham Clark
- John Tomlinson
- Bodo Brinkman
- Linda Finnie
- Harry Kupfer
- Bayreuth Festival Choir And Orch
Run time: 153 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £9.98
Review Das Rheingold - Wagner - Bayreuther Festspiele [1991] / Teldec Video (Warner Classics):
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Actors & Directors
- Jose Carreras
- Placido Domingo
- Luciano Pavarotti
Run time: 86 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £2.74
Review Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti In Concert [1990] / Decca:
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Actors & Directors
- David Helfgott
- Melvyn Bragg
Run time: 98 min.
Price: £14.99
Review David Helfgott - A Musical Journey [1997] / Warner Music Vision:
Actors & Directors
- Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Price: £14.99
Review Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra - Beethoven: Symphonies No. 5 & 6 - Pastoral / Overture - Leonore III [1979] / Deutsche Grammophon:
Run time: 60 min.
Price: £10.99
Review Joan Sutherland in Concert / CHANNEL 5:PERTH CONCERT
Actors & Directors
- Plácido Domingo
- Prince Charles
- Ofra Harnoy
- Kenneth Branagh
- Mike Mansfield
- Charlton Heston
Run time: 60 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £4.75
Review Symphony For The Spire [1991] / Abbey Home Media:
Release date: 1999-05-03
Run time: 102 min.
Price: £16.99
Review Sergei Rachmaninoff - Memories / Rachmaninoff:
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Actors & Directors
- Judith Nelson
- Carolyn Watkinson
- David Thomas (XII)
- Paul Elliott (III)
- Roy Tipping
- Emma Kirkby
Run time: 155 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £25.76
Review Messiah - G.F. Handel [1982] / Warner Music Vision:
Actors & Directors
- Michael Rabin
- Mischa Elman
- Isaac Stern
Run time: 90 min.
Price: £21.99
Review Great Violinists Of The Bell Telephone Hour 1959-64 / Video Artists International:
Release date: 2002-11-11
Run time: 91 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £1.95
Review Russell Watson : The Voice (Live In New Zealand) / Universal Pictures UK:
Actors & Directors
- Australian Ballet
- Maina Gielgud
- Fiona Tonkin
- David McAllister
Run time: 104 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £12.46
Review La Fille Mal Gardee / Quantum Leap:
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Actors & Directors
- Thomas Beecham
- Chicago Symphony Chorus
Run time: 48 min.
Price: £14.99
Review Beecham In Chicago - Vol. 2 [1960] / Warner Music Vision:
Actors & Directors
- Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
- Krystian Zimerman
Price: £14.99
Review Brahms: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 [1984] / Deutsche Grammophon:
Actors & Directors
- Domingo Cura
- Socorro Basilica Choir
- Cuarteto Andino
- Jose Carreras
Price: £14.99
Review Misa Criolla - Ariel Ramirez - Jose Carreras / Philips:
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