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ID: TPDVD120
CDs: 1
Type: DVD
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Kolektion: DocumentarySubkolektion: Biography Movie
Directors: Tony Palmer
Region Code: NTSC. Plays in all territories
Color mode: Colour broadcast system
Screen (Picture) Format: 16:9
Language: English
Duration: 105 mins
Description: 1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Yehudi Menuhin made his debut in Paris at the age of eleven. At fifteen he recorded the definitive performance of the Elgar Violin Concerto, conducted by the composer. Menuhin is acclaimed as one of the great violinists of the century. He was the first artist to play with the Berlin Philharmonic after the overthrow of the Nazis, and the first major Western classical soloist to play jazz and Indian music. A dedicated teacher, the former child prodigy established his own school where he coached young musicians. In this profile of Menuhin, filmmaker Tony Palmer keeps pace with the busy violinist: conducting the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra; working with his own chamber orchestra in Greece; recording with his son Jeremy. Newsreel footage of nine-year old Menuhin and interviews with his family offer an intimate view of a virtuoso.
Menuhin, a name that was legendary for over 60 years, and remains so today. A good man and a great violinist, whose childhood was blessed with happiness and success unparalleled even among child prodigies. At least, that was the legend. The truth was painfully different. The violinist who inspired Einstein to remark; "Now I know there is a God in heaven", was also a man of whom his sister could say: "We have done more harm to people we love than we ever believed ourselves capable of doing to people we didn't love".
Filmed in Berlin, Dresden, Vienna, Moscow, New York, San Francisco and Switzerland, and using much material not seen previously from Menuhin's own archive, this heart-rending and multi-award winning film included all the members of Menuhin's family living at the time, who struggle to piece together what had really happened to the son of Russian/ Tartar parents who was defiantly named Yehudi - ‘the Jew'. |
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ID: DV-CLHK63
CDs: 1
Type: DVD
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Kolektion: DocumentarySubkolektion: Oper
Claire Watson, Fritz Uhl, Josef Greindl (Actor)
Format: PAL
Language: Italian (Dolby Digital 5.1)
Subtitles: German, English, French, Italian, Spanish
Region: All Regions
Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
Number of discs: 1
Rated: G (General Audience)
Studio: TDK
DVD Release Date: 3 July 2006
Run Time: 72 minutes |
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ID: TPDVD125
CDs: 1
Type: DVD
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Kolektion: DocumentarySubkolektion: Biography Movie
Region Code: NTSC. Plays in all territories
Menu screens: English
DVD Format: DVD
Color mode: Colour broadcast system
Screen (Picture) Format: Stereo, 16:9 aspect ratio.
Presentation: Wide Screen
Duration: 103 mins
Made at the request of the Britten Estate, this film - thought to be the definitive portrait of the great composer - tells of one of the most profound love affairs of the 20th Century, between Britten and his lover and life-long companion and inspiration, PETER PEARS. At a time when it was illegal to be openly homosexual, Britten & Pears faced up to a hostile world with unflinching dignity, producing a string of masterpieces that, together with the works of Vaughan Williams, established English music as internationally pre-eminent in the middle years of the 20th century.Among the music featured is extracts from: ‘Peter Grimes’; ‘Billy Budd’; ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’; ‘ The War Requiem’; ‘Curlew River’; ‘Death in Venice’; ‘The Nocturne’ & ‘The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra’.with: BENJAMIN BRITTEN; PETER PEARS; LEONARD BERNSTEIN; SVIATOSLAV RICHTER; JANET BAKER; JULIAN BREAM; HEATHER HARPER; IMOGEN HOLST; JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK; RUDOLF BING & HENRY MOOREThe music conducted by STEUART BEDFORD and played by THE ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA |
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ID: TPDVD167
CDs: 1
Type: DVD
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Subkolektion: Oper
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: OA0817D
CDs: 1
Type: DVD
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Kolektion: DocumentaryActors: Judith Howarth, Christopher Robinson, BBC Philharmonic
Format: Anamorphic, Classical, Colour, DVD-Video, Widescreen, PAL
Language: French
Subtitles: German, English, French, Spanish
Region: All Regions
Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.78:1
Number of discs: 1
Classification: Exempt
Studio: Opus Arte
DVD Release Date: 27 Mar 2002
Run Time: 78 minutes
Francis Poulenc was a tantalising character, part-monk and part-rascal according to the critic Claude Rostand. As in Stabat mater his music reflects this Janus-like persona, tears never far beneath the surface of even his most jovial offerings. Early on he had renounced the devout Catholicism of his family but rediscovered his faith after the premature death of a close friend, the composer and patron Pierre-Octave Ferroud. It was this event that prompted Poulenc's pilgrimage to the Black Madonna of Rocamadour, who nestles benevolently, high up in the rock face.
An important body of sacred works ensued, not least his Stabat mater, a personal memorial to Ferroud. This is performed here by the combined Cambridge choirs of St John's, Clare and Gonville, and Caius; they're pleasingly mellifluous and disciplined but sound utterly un-French. The work can take it, but this is not the most tender performance. The strange and haunting Motets (Claire and Gonville and Caius Choirs) are dramatically the high point of this concert, while the otherworldly beauty of the ethereal (female-voice) Litanies tugs at the heart-strings. As a visual experience, we get two different locations but there's not a great deal you can do with a bunch of singers. The best things are the close-ups of a fabulous Chagall window (which comes from another church entirely, but who cares?). |
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ID: OAHD5007D
CDs: 1
Type: DVD
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Kolektion: DocumentaryInva Mula, Laura Giordano, Aquiles Machado, Fabio Maria Capitanucci, David Menéndez, Felipe Bou, Gonzalo Fernández de Terán, Juan Tomás Martínez, Alfredo Mariotti, Federico Gallar, Francisco Pardo, Mario Villoria
Chorus & Orchestra of the Teatro Real (Madrid Symphony Orchestra & Chorus), Jesús López Cobos
Recorded live at the Teatro Real, Madrid on 20th, 23rd and 25th March 2006.
Note: This HD-DVD is not compatible with standard DVD players.
Format: Anamorphic, Classical, PAL
Language: Italian
Subtitles: German, English, French, Spanish
Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.78:1
Number of discs: 1
Classification: Exempt
Studio: Opus Arte
DVD Release Date: 3 Mar 2008
Run Time: 149 minutes |
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ID: DVD911595
CDs: 2
Type: DVD
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Kolektion: DocumentaryDVD-Video Album 1
1. Mr. Winter Go Home
2. Le jour ou la pluie viendra
3. C’est en septembre
4. Age tendre et tête de bois
5. C’était moi
6. Le petit oiseau de toutes les couleurs
7. Desperado
8. Les cerisiers sont blancs
9. L’absent
10. Dimanche à Orly
11. Rosy et John
12. Mon père à moi
13. L’indifference
14. L’indien
15. La solitude ca n’existe pas
16. Je reviens te chercher
17. L’orange
18. Et maintenant
19. L’important c’est la rose
20. C’était mon copain
21. Quand le spectacle est terminé
DVD-Video Album 2
1. Mes mains
2. La vente aux enchères
3. Seul sur son étoile
4. Les marchés de Provence
5. Le mur
6. Les tantes Jeanne
7. Marie Marie
8. Le bateau blanc
9. Je t’appartiens
10. Quand tu danses
11. Un peu d’amour et d’amitié
12. Désirée
13. Le pianiste de Varsovie
14. Charlie t’iras pas au paradis
15. Quand il est mort le poète
16. Nathalie
17. La ballade des baladins
18. La corrida
19. Quand le spectacle est terminé
DVD Box:
volume 1: spectacle rouge
volume 2: spectacle bleu
volume 3:
Octobre 1963 - La grosse noce
Octobre 1963 - Pilou pilou hé
Octobre 1963 - Et maintenant
Octobre 1963 - La ballade des baladins
Février 1969 - Je t'attends
Février 1969 - Il s'en va mon garcon
Février 1969 - Badaging beng bong
Février 1969 - Les cerisiers sont blancs
Février 1969 - L'un d'entre eux inventa la mort
Février 1969 - Je reviens te chercher
Février 1969 - Quand il est mort le poète
Février 1969 - Nathalie
Octobre 1970 - La solitude ca n'existe pas
Octobre 1970 - L'homme et la musique
Octobre 1970 - Je t'appartiens
Octobre 1970 - L'aventure
Octobre 1970 - Je t'attends
Octobre 1970 - Rosy et John
Octobre 1970 - La vente aux enchères
Octobre 1970 - Le bain de minuit
Octobre 1970 - Un petit miracle
Octobre 1970 - Charly t'iras pas au paradis
Octobre 1970 - Le petit oiseau de
toutes les couleurs
Octobre 1970 - Quand il est mort le poète
Format: PAL Zone 2
Language: Francais
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Audio Format: 5.1 Dolby Digital
Run Time: 174 min. |
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ID: SL2013
CDs: 1
Type: DVD
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Kolektion: Choral CollectionRegion Code: NTSC. Plays in all territories
DVD release: 2012
Play time: 110 min
Sound format(s): Stereo 2.0
Language(s): Russian, English
Subtitles: No Subtitles
Format: 4:3
Genre(s): Music, Documentary
Menu:
1. Info
2. Film, containing 33 well known songs.
3. Photo gallery
After a long "drought," the last few years have been a boon for fans and lovers of the Don Cossack Choir. A number of releases of rarely heard recordings have appeared on CD, and now comes an even greater "collectors' prize" -- a full-length DVD featuring rare videos of the choir from 1963 through 1969, performing 33 of its most popular selections. Listening to the Don Cossack Choir is one thing. Seeing Serge Jaroff's inimitable conducting gestures face-on and the expressions on the singers' faces, often in close-up, adds an altogether different dimension to the experience. Discover why this choir was arguably the most widely heard and wildly famous Russian musical act in history, beginning their existence as penniless refugees in a Turkish internment camp and going on to sing more than 10,000 concerts throughout the world over a 60-year period.--V.M. |
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ID: DVD743282
CDs: 1
Type: DVD
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Kolektion: Vocal and Opera Collection1.Nessun dorma! Turandot
2.Che gelida manina
3.O soave fanciulla
4.In un coupé ... O Mimì, tu più non torni La Bohème
5.Recondita armonia 6.Gente là dentro! ... Mario! Mario! Mario!
7.E lucevan le stelle Tosca
8.Ch'ella mi creda La fanciulla del West
9.Addio fiorito asil
10.Viene la sera (love duet) Madama Butterfly
11.Ma se vi talenta ... Tra voi, belle
12.Donna non vidi mai
13.Ah! non v'avvicinate! ... No! no! pazzo son!Manon Lescaut
14. Non piangere, Liù! ... Ah! per l'ultima volta Turandot
Format: AC-3, Classical, Colour, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Full Screen, PAL
Language: English
Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
Number of discs: 1
Classification: Exempt
DVD Release Date: 9 Jun 2008
Run Time: 156 minutes |
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ID: TPDVD157
CDs: 3
Type: DVD
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Kolektion: DocumentarySubkolektion: Drama
Actors: Richard Burton, Laurence Oliver, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave, László Gállfi, Gemma Craven, Ekkehardt Schall, Richard Pasco, Marthe Keller, Gabriel Byrne, Franco Nero, Ronald Pickup, Corin Redgrave, Cyril Cusack, Prunella Scales, Andrew Cruickshank, Joan Greenwood, Liza Goddard, Bill Fraser, Arthur Lowe & Joan Plowright
Directed by Tony Palmer
Picture Format: Box set, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC (0, All regions),
Language: English
Subtitles: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese
Screen (Picture) Format: 16:9
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number of discs: 3
Rating: E (Exempt from Certification)
Studio: Koch Entertainment
DVD Release Date: October 11, 2011
Run Time: 420 minutes (7hrs 46mins)
Tony Palmer’s epic film was made in 1982/3 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Wagner’s death. Filmed in 200 locations throughout Europe, many where the actual historical events took place, with a team from 19 different countries, the entire production was completed in less than a year. Sadly Wagner was to be Richard Burton’s last major role, but the stellar cast - including Laurence Oliver, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave, László Gállfi, Gemma Craven, Ekkehardt Schall, Richard Pasco, Marthe Keller, Gabriel Byrne, Franco Nero, Ronald Pickup, Corin Redgrave, Cyril Cusack, Prunella Scales, Andrew Cruickshank, Joan Greenwood, Liza Goddard, Bill Fraser, Arthur Lowe, Joan Plowright, with composer Sir William Walton in a cameo role - assembled partly because of him.
Only now is the film being released on DVD as its director Tony Palmer wishes it to be viewed. Previously it’s been seen in badly edited versions and been made available on DVD (reproduced from poor-quality VHSs) with sub-standard pictures and sound. Finally, here is the restored presentation as it was originally edited by Tony Palmer in its complete 7 hours 46 minutes duration, issued in wide-screen, re-mastered in Hi-Definition. The music, performed by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir Georg Solti with singers including Dame Gwyneth Jones and Peter Hofmann, has never sounded better, and the astonishing images of cameramen Vittorio Storaro and Nic Knowland have never looked better.
The script by Charles Wood remains a miracle of historical compression and accuracy, given that Wagner himself was an appalling fantasist and the truth often hard to ascertain.
And Richard Burton, who towers above the production, reminds us what a great actor he was. This is a fitting tribute to his - and to Wagner’s - genius.
Exhaustive TV biopic of the German composer with Richard Burton in the title role. Recognised early in his career for his groundbreaking talents, Wagner is feted by European society until his scandalous and radical political views force him into exile in Zurich. There he meets the young Nietzsche (Ronald Pickup), and has a major influence on the philosopher. At the same time, Wagner begins a scandalous relationship with the composer Liszt's illigitimate daughter. Reactionary, anti-semitic and obsessed with money, Wagner still goes on to prove himself as a major force in German and European culture after completing his epic 'Ring' cycle of operas. |
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