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ID: TPDVD167
Disk: 1
Type: DVD
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Podkolekce: Opera
Region Code: NTSC. Plays in all territories
Classification: Exempt
Presentation: Wide Screen
Picture Format: 16:9
Sound Format: Dolby Digital Stereo
Language: English
Subtitles: None
Duration: 116 mins
Recorded: Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg, Ravello, Siena, Bayreuth
Placido Domingo (Parsifal)
Violeta Urmana (Kundry)
Matti Salminen (Gurnemanz)
Nikolai Putilin (Klingsor) & Anna Netrebko
Tony Palmer’s documentary about Richard Wagner’s opera ‘Parsifal’, with extracts from Tony Palmer’s stage production of Parsifal starring Placido Domingo, Violeta Urmana, Matti Salminen and Anna Netrebko.
The Grail - the cup which Jesus Christ is said to have used at The Last Supper - is one of the most powerful symbols in Western culture. Wagner’s three-act opera, Parsifal, is the most famous work which celebrates the search for the Grail. Parsifal is an opera about ideas, about philosophical questions rather than answers, where the questions themselves are what is important, and the power and eloquence with which they are expressed. With the help of a rare interview with Wolfgang Wagner, Richard Wagner’s grandson, who explains what his grandfather intended and why, plus an all-star cast including the first performance on film of Anna Netrebko, this documentary explores the explosive nature of Wagner’s dangerous ideas. Wagner was virulently anti-Semitic - to this day, it is not possible to perform Parsifal in Israel - and thus provided the Nazis with some powerful cultural propaganda, because for Hitler, Parsifal, the hero of the opera, was pure Aryan blood. When the film was originally released on DVD, the Germans censored 30 minutes of the film which they considered ‘political’, ‘uncomfortable’ and ‘irrelevant’. This is the original version, uncensored, as approved by Domingo.
“It succeeds in exploring the legend of Parsifal quite brilliantly, while making it brutally relevant to us today.” John Ardoin, Great Performances (PBS)
Interviews: With Placido Domingo, Wolfgang Wagner, Robery Gutman & Karen Armstrong |
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ID: PTC5186363
Disk: 1
Type: SACD
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Kolekce: Vocal CollectionPodkolekce: Voices and Orchestra
Multichannel Hybrid SACD - DSD
Berg’s chamber music version of the Strauss waltz ‘Wine Women and Song’, Op.333 is considered one of the curiosa of his oeuvre, and even today is seldom performed. Coupled here with Berg’s more substantial orchestral works, Christaner Iven is a great singer and is equally talented as an actress. |
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ID: ERP6412
Disk: 1
Type: DVD
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Podkolekce: Harpsichord
Stereo, PAL, 16:9
European Union Baroque Orchestra
Lars Ulrik Mortensen, director & harpsichord
Maria Keohane, soprano
Sebastian Philpott, trumpet
Huw Daniel (concertmaster)
European Union Baroque Orchestra on tour: a short introduction
G. F. Handel Cantata Ah! Che troppo ineguali HWV 230
G. F. Handel Concerto Grosso in F major, Op 6 No 2 HWV 320
G. B. Ferrandini Cantata Il Pianto di Maria HWV 234
G. Torelli Sonata in D major for trumpet, strings & basso continuo
J. S. Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 3 in G major BWV 1048
J. S. Bach Cantata Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen BWV 51
G. F. Handel Aria Tu del Ciel ministro eletto from Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno HWV 46a |
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ID: PTC5186017
Disk: 1
Type: SACD
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Kolekce: Vocal CollectionMultichannel Hybrid SACD - DSD |
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ID: PTC5186090
Disk: 1
Type: SACD
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Podkolekce: Opera
Multichannel Hybrid SACD - DSD |
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ID: PTC5186077
Disk: 1
Type: SACD
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Podkolekce: Opera
Multichannel Hybrid SACD - DSD |
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ID: PTC5186089
Disk: 1
Type: SACD
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Podkolekce: Opera
Multichannel Hybrid SACD - DSD
Highlights of the Russian opera
During the eighteenth century, especially at the time of Catherine the Great, Russia enjoyed a lively opera life; however, it was not until the nineteenth century that the national Russian opera was created. Musical life at the court of the Czar was predominantly oriented towards the West and attracted, for example, many Italian composers to St. Petersburg. The works they wrote there were also mostly based on Italian libretti, and if a Russian opera was ever performed, it followed on musically in the tradition of the operas that could be heard in Naples, Milan or Vienna.
A slow change came about in this situation during the first half of the nineteenth century, after Russia also began to be influenced by the sense of nationhood which was spreading through great parts of Europe in that period. Furthermore, this was the time during which the well-to-do middle class began to participate increasingly in the cultural life, and therefore, it is not just a coincidence that the birth of the national Russian opera more or less concurred with the opening of the ‘Great’ or ‘Bolshoi’ Theatre in Moscow in 1825. |
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