In Stock Classical Blu-Ray Disc
In Stock Classical Blu-Ray Disc
Below is a list of all In Stock Classical Blu-Ray Disc titles.
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THE STRAUSS FAMILY
New Year's Concert 2012 BLU-RAY Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Mariss Jansons [ Sony Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 25/Feb/2012 ] |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: La forza del destino (complete opera recorded in 2008) BLU-RAY Vienna State Opera / Salvatore Licitra, Nina Stemme, Carlos Alvarez, Alastair Miles / Zubin Mehta (cond) [ C Major Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 15/Feb/2012 ] "Nina Stemme's Leonora? A hugely well-acted assumption of the role, with (in the 'Pace! Pace, mio dio' scena) the uncanny presence and vocal fury offered by Price, Barstow or Freni." Gramophone |
MINKUS
La Bayadere (Complete ballet recorded in 2009) BLU-RAY The Royal Ballet / Carlos Acosta, Marianela Nunez, Tamara Rojo / Valeriy Ovsyanikov [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Feb/2012 ] There wasn't a single physical gesture that didn't mean something, that didn't speak of love trying and failing to blossom.' The Daily Telegraph |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Symphonies 4, 5 & 6 (recorded in Paris in 2010) BLU-RAY Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev [ Mariinsky Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 12/Dec/2011 ] "Not a note is out of place, even in the most desperate and hectic passages of these performances...Yet the overall impression is of a paradoxical combination of coolness and hysteria" (BBC Music) |
VARIOUS ECM COMPOSERS
Sounds and Silence - Travels with Manfred Eicher BLU-RAY Lisa Batiashvili (violin) Truls Mork (cello) / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Simon Rattle [ ECM Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Dec/2011 ] Over a period of five years, Swiss filmmakers Norbert Wiedmer and Peter Guyer followed producer Manfred Eicher and the artists of ECM around the world. |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 2 Christiane Oelze (soprano) / Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano) / Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and Chorus / Riccardo Chailly [ Accentus Music / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Dec/2011 ] "this one is something special. The acoustic of Leipzig's Gewandhaus hall is a star in itself: the offstage horn and trumpet fanfares sound as thrilling as the orchestra's playing, itself near-fabulous from start to finish." ClassicFM Five Stars |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E flat (Blu-ray) Sunnegardh / Merbeth / Oelze / Braun / Romber / Gould / Henschel / Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and Chorus / Riccardo Chailly [ Accentus Music / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Dec/2011 ] "these are red-blooded performances. The Italian conductor has long been a respected Mahlerian, capable of welding the symphonies' huge structures and quixotic moods into a coherent musical statement...They also convey the physical thrill of the... |
BEETHOVEN / BRUCKNER / BOULEZ
Salzburg Opening Concert 2010 - Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 / Bruckner's Te Deum / Boulez's Notations BLU-RAY Daniel Barenboim / Dorothea Roschmann / Elina Garanca / Klaus Florian Vogt / René Pape / Chorus State Opera Vienna / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra [ C Major Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 26/Oct/2011 ] "there is no doubting the powerful authority that characterizes Barenboim's direction of Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto from the keyboard. Perhaps rather unexpectedly, the magic really starts with a reading of Boulez's Notations I-IV and VII" IRR |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro [The Marriage of Figaro] (complete opera recorded in 2010) BLU-RAY Teddy Tahu Rhodes / Taryn Fiebig / Peter Coleman-Wright / Rachelle Durkin / Opera Australia / Patrick Summers [ Opera Australia Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 12/Oct/2011 ] Recorded live at the Sydney opera House, this Blu-Ray, DVD and CD performance received the following review: "Stellar cast.....from the first bars of the overture you know you are in for a good time...a spectacular cast on every level...." The Daily... |
VARIOUS ECM COMPOSERS
Sounds and Silence - Travels with Manfred Eicher BLURAY Lisa Batiashvili (violin) Truls Mork (cello) / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Simon Rattle [ ECM Blu-Ray / Blu-ray - released 1/Oct/2011 ] Over a period of five years, Swiss filmmakers Norbert Wiedmer and Peter Guyer followed producer Manfred Eicher and the artists of ECM around the world. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Gala Concert from St.Petersburg BLU-RAY Anna Netrebko (soprano), Dmitri Hvorostovsky (baritone), Mischa Maisky (cello), Eliso Virsaladze (piano) & Viktor Tretjakov (violin) [ EuroArts Medici Arts Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Sep/2011 ] This festive gala concert was held to mark the city's 300th anniversary, bringing together some of the greatest Russian artists. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1-5 (recorded in 2007) BLU-RAY Daniel Barenboim (piano and conductor) / Staatskapelle Berlin [ Medici Arts Blu-Ray / 2 Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Sep/2011 ] Recorded live at the prestigious Klavier-Festival Ruhr in May 2007, this Blu-ray recording reflects both a very individual and special reading of Beethoven's music and the artist's life-long dedication to the composer. |
LEOS JANACEK
Janacek: The Cunning Little Vixen (Complete opera sung in Czech recorded in 2008) BLU-RAY Opéra Bastille / Elena Tsallagova, Jukka Rasilainen, Michèle Lagrange / Dennis Russell Davies (conductor) [ EuroArts / Medici Arts BLU-RAY / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Sep/2011 ] "Enchanting staging…The sound is splendid, the video direction simply fabulous. Everyone, Tsallagova above all, responds beautifully to close-ups…make sure your whole family enjoys it with you!" IRR |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Belshazzar (complete opera recorded in 2008) BLU-RAY Festival Aix-en-Provence / Kenneth Taylor, Rosemary Joshua, Bejun Mehta / Rene Jacobs (cond) [ Harmonia Mundi Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Sep/2011 ] "the dramatic essence of the story...comes over in a striking semi-expressionist fashion. There's a strong set of central performances." (BBC Music - Blu-Ray Choice August 2011) |
LISZT arranged LANCHBERY
Mayerling (complete ballet with choreography by Kenneth MacMillan recorded 2009) BLU-RAY The Royal Ballet / Edward Watson, Mara Galeazzi, Sarah Lamb / Barry Wordsworth (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Sep/2011 ] Edward Watson takes the role of Crown Prince Rudolf in Kenneth MacMillan's compelling ballet which lives out the final eight years of Rudolf's life with its relentless downward spiral of political intrigue, drugs and murder. |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Les Troyens (complete opera recorded in 2009) BLU-RAY Daniela Barcellona / Lance Ryan / Elisabete Matos / Gabriele Viviani / Eric Cutler / Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana / Valery Gergiev [ C Major BLU-RAY / Blu-ray Disc - released 25/Aug/2011 ] "The cast in Valencia has its strengths, prime among them the proud, brassy mezzo of Daniela Barcellona as Dido...Elisabete Matos is a properly intense Cassandra." (Gramophone) |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: L'Elisir D'Amore (Complete opera recorded in August 2009) BLU-RAY Glyndebourne Opera / Ekaterina Siurina, Peter Auty, Alfredo Daza / Annabel Arden (Director) / Maurizio Benini (Conductor) [ Opus Arte Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Aug/2011 ] "An enchanting account. Set in Mussolini's Italy...it is wonderfully cast and a perfect team effort." (BBC Music) |
LEOS JANACEK
Janacek: Jenufa (complete opera recorded in 2009) BLU-RAY Teatro Real Madrid / Amanda Roocroft, Deborah Polaski, Nikolai Schukoff / Ivor Bolton (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Aug/2011 ] "Something in the composer's writing brings out the best in [Roocroft's] creamy voice and committed acting, and here she's superb as a young woman who forgives her stepmother for committing a terrible crime." (ClassicFM) |
LAVAILLAT
La Petite Danseuse De Degas (from The Opéra Garnier, Paris 2010) BLU-RAY Clairemarie Osta / Dorothée Gilbert / Mathieu Ganio / Corps De Ballet & Orchestre De L'Opéra National De Paris / Koen Kessels [ ArtHaus Musik Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 8/Aug/2011 ] "An inspired and visually ravishing creation. This ballet deserves to go from success to success." (recording of the Month MusicWeb Aug 2011) |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphonies Nos. 1-7 (Blu-ray) Eteri Gvazava (soprano) / Anna Larsson (contralto) / Magdalena Kožená (mezzo-soprano) / Lucerne Festival Orchestra / Claudio Abbado [ EuroArts Blu-Ray / 4 Blu-ray Disc - released 8/Aug/2011 ] "Has there ever been a suaver, more transparent Mahler performance or one in which everything stays so beautifully in tune? ... Abbado's music-making is a celebration of the purest joy." The Gramophone Magazine |
