G. Puccini - Boheme - Orchestrated and Directed by Tony Britten |
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Collection: Opera Collection DVD Format: DVD5 Duration: 93 mins AC3 5.1 PCM stereo Screen Format: 16:9 Region Code: PAL. Region 0, Plays in all territories Menu screens: English Colour mode: Colour The third DVD to be released between the collaborative foce of Signum Vision and Tony Britten. Puccini's original masterpiece has been brought up to date in this moving English speaking version filmed in South East London. Mary Lincoln - Mimi Graham MacKay-Bruce - Rudolfo Darryl Knock - Marcello Ian K, Jervis - Colline Simon Masterton-Smith - Alcindoro Maria Kesselman - Musetta Nigel Planer - Benoit |
| 15.00 eur Buy | |
21st - Century Bach - The Complete Organ Works of J.S. Bach - John Scott Whiteley |
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Collection: Organ Collection Region Code: PAL.Region 0, Plays in all territories Menu screens: English Color mode: Colour Screen Format: 16.9 DVD Format: DVD 9 Duration: 162 mins Subtitles: none Sound Format: AC3 5.1, Dolby Stereo DDD - 24 bit digital recording The indisputable master of Baroque music, Johann Sebastian Bach’s reputation is greater now than ever. Now his entire organ works are to be made available on DVD for the first time through the release of the highly-acclaimed BBC2 television series, 21st - Century Bach. Played by the organist of York Minster, John Scott Whiteley, one of the world’s most accomplished Bach interpreters. This disc includes some of Bach’s greatest organ works. Bonus features include interviews with Harvard University Professor Christoph Wolff, and commentaries by the performer. |
| 15.00 eur Buy | |
Touch the Sound - From the Director of River with Tides, A Sound Journey with Evelyn Glennie , A Film by Thomas Riedelsheimer |
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Collection: Movies Subcollection: Documentary Region Code: PAL.Region 0, Plays in all territories Menu screens: English Color mode: Colour Screen Format: 16.9 DVD Format: DVD 9 Duration: 98 mins Subtitles: none Sound Format: AC3 5.1, Dolby Stereo DDD - 24 bit digital recording "A mystical exploration of the sensory world as experienced by a renowned musician" (San Jose Mercury News), Touch the Sound passionately and delightfully shatters the way we think about sound. Gracefully guided by Grammy Award-winning percussionist Evelyn Glennie, who also happens to be deaf, this groundbreaking film opens the door to a world where sight, sound and touch magically converge to elevate our everyday sensory experiences. |
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The King's Singers - Live at the BBC Proms - Royal Albert Hall, London |
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Collection: Choral Collection Region Code: PAL.Region 0, Plays in all territories Menu screens: English Color mode: Colour Screen Format: 16.9 DVD Format: DVD 9 Duration: 62 mins Subtitles: none Sound Format: AC3 5.1, PCM stereo DDD - 24 bit digital recording General Subject : Performing Arts - Concerts, Vocals The King's Singers celebrate their 40-year anniversary with a live BBC Proms performance from the Royal Albert Hall. This disc demonstrates the skill, flair and versatility you would come to expect from a King's Singers performance, sampling the besrt from their vast repertoire. The King's Singers have maintained their place at the apex of a cappella singing and are amongst the world's elite classical performers. Following this concert The Daily telegraph said "every edge was bevelled smooth" and the Guardian described it as "flawlessly realised". |
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Peter Warlock - Some Little Joy - A Film By Tony Britten |
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Subcollection: Songs Region Code: PAL.Region 0, Plays in all territories Menu screens: English Color mode: Colour Screen Format: 16.9 DVD Format: DVD 5 Duration: 88 minutes Subtitles: none Sound Format: AC3 5.1, PCM stereo DDD - 24 bit digital recording A film about a man who, by his death at thirty six, had composed some of the most perfect gems of English songwriting and elevated hedonism to an art form. The present day: Two prospective members of the eccentric Peter Warlock Society have arrived at the Antelope, an old fashioned pub in Eaton Terrace London. They are welcomed by members of the society, who introduce them to the story of Philip Heseltine - pen name Peter Warlock. We go back to the bohemian world of mid twenties England, riotous episodes where Warlock and cronies such as composers Jack Moeran and Lord Berners mix with artists of the magnitude of Augustus John, and folk singer Harry Cox. Warlock’s relationships with women are explored with specific reference to his long time girlfriend Barbara Peache, his exotic ex-wife Puma and spiritual soul mate Winifred Baker. As the roaring twenties race towards their conclusion, Warlock realises that he has to make an attempt to settle down and accept the reality that despite his undoubted genius, the musical elite will never welcome him. By 1930 he has largely ceased composing, and whilst remaining a monumental thorn in the side of the musical and literary establishment has ceased to be a creative force in his own right. As we come back to the present day the Chairman of the Peter Warlock Society describes Warlock’s suicide to the new recruits - a loose gas tap, an open verdict and the loss of an extraordinary figure who rivalled Purcell as a composer, Shaw as a critic and who elevated hedonism to an art form. Shot on high definition entirely on location in England About this title: The curious career of English songwriter Peter Warlock (aka Philip Arnold Heseltine) serves as the subject of this musical biopic starring Mark Dexter as the composer who elevated hedonism to a virtual art form. Present day: As two prospective members of the Peter Warlock Society arrive at an Eaton terrace pub to discover the truth about the notorious songwriter, their thoughts drift back to 1920s-era England, where Warlock and his cronies mingled with such famed composers as Augustus John and Harry Cox. Juggling relationships with his ex-wife Puma, his girlfriend Barbara Peache, and his spiritual soul mate Winifred Baker, the talented outcast wrestles to with the depressing realization that he will never be accepted by the musical elite. By 1930 Warlock had all but quit composing, remaining a sizable thorn in the side of the musical and literary establishments despite ceasing to be a formidable creative force in his own right. Back in the present, the Chairman of the Peter Warlock Society impresses the new recruits by recalling the specifics of Warlock's tragic suicide in vivid detail. Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide |
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Falstaff - In a new version by Tony Britten - Based on the opera by Verdi and Boito |
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Collection: Opera Collection Region Code: PAL.Region 0, Plays in all territories Menu screens: English Color mode: Colour.Dolby Surround AC-3 Sound; Qualiton Imports LTD. Screen Format: 16.9 DVD Format: DVD 9 Duration: 118 mins Subtitles: none Sound Format: AC3 5.1, PCM stereo John Falstaff - Ian Jervis, baritone Alice Ford - Jan Hartley, soprano Francis Ford QC - Julian Forsyth, baritone Doctor Caius - Simon Butteriss, tenor Bardolph - Daniel Gillingwater, tenor Pistol - Simon Masterton Smith, bass Mrs Quickly - Marilyn Cutts, contralto Meg Page - Rosamund Shelley, mezzo-soprano Nanetta Ford - Katie Lovell, soprano Fenton - Andy Morton, tenor Verdi’s timeless masterpiece brought up to date in a hilarious new English version, shot on and around a golf course. At a golf club near Windsor, “Big John” Falstaff props up the bar at the nineteenth hole, (the member’s bar) which is where he is invariably to be found. He doesn’t actually play golf, because no-one wants to play with him - and anyway he’s probably too plump to make it beyond the first green. However he takes comfort in the fact that his bar bill is about to be settled, and all he has to do to achieve this extraordinary feat is to seduce the lovely Alice Ford, a task that he considers himself eminently qualified to undertake. As the big man blunders from one catastrophe to another and the plot races towards its uproarious conclusion, Tony Britten’s trademark wit and accessibility perfectly compliments Verdi’s glorious comedy. Falstaff is an operatic commedia lirica in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi, adapted by Arrigo Boito from Shakespeare's plays The Merry Wives of Windsor and scenes from Henry IV. |
| 15.00 eur Buy | |
Beat Furrer - Begehren |
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Collection: Movies Region Code: PAL.Region 0, Plays in all territories Menu screens: English, German Color mode: Colour Screen Format: 4:3, 16:9 DVD Format: DVD 5 Duration: 94 mins + Interview 15mim 36 sec Subtitles: none Sound Format: Dolby 5.1 Beat Furrer’s opera Begehren was the opening stage production for Graz 2003, with stage design by famous London-based architect Zaha Hadid, and was very well received by national and international press. The opera takes the well-known Orpheus & Euridike theme and transfers it into a contemporary setting. Libretto according to texts of Ovid, Vergil, Hermann Broch, Cesare Pavese and Günter Eich. With the co-operation of Christine Huber and Wolfgang Hofer. Beat Furrer music director Reinhild Hoffmann stage direction and choreography Zaha Hadid, Patrik Schumacher stage design Anna Eiermann costumes Reinhard Traub lighting Thomas Fiedler dramaturgy Dancers Fabien Chas, Annabel Cuny Corinna D’Angelo, Michaela Isabel Fünfhausen Ziv Frenkel, Johanna Hegenscheidt Bibiana Jimenez Przemyslaw Kubicki, Oliver Meyer, Ronaldo Navarro Lorenz Orth, Marco A. Queiroz, Remo Rostagno Yoshiko Waki, Elisa Zucchetti |
| 16.00 eur Buy | |
Olga Neuwirth - Music for films - Long Rain |
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Collection: Movies Subcollection: Chamber Ensemble Region Code: PAL.Region 0, Plays in all territories Menu screens: English, German Color mode: Colour Screen Format: 4:3 - ('Normal' TV), 16:9 DVD Format: DVD 5 Duration: 175 mins Subtitles: none Sound Format: Dolby 2.0 and 5.1 The moving picture and all its artistic possibilities are dominant in Neuwirth's work. This DVD gives insight into her projects from 1991 to today, exploring a broad variety of work from animated films to music project The Long Rain. Soprano Georgette Dee, Ensemble Modern, and Soundforum Vienna are featured. Flora and Olga Neuwirth direct with animation by Quaye Brothers. Also included is music from Canon of Funny Phases, Durch Luft und Meer, Symphonie Diagonate, The Calligrapher, Miramondo Multiplo, Disenchanted Time, No More Secrets No More Lies, and Gefahr Bar. |
| 24.00 eur Buy | |