In Stock Classical DVD
In Stock Classical DVD
Below is a list of all In Stock classical DVD titles.
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![MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Le Nozze Di Figaro [The Marriage Of Figaro] (Complete Opera recorded in 1994) cover](https://images.marbecks.co.nz/_thumbnails/10104/10104667.jpg)
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Le Nozze Di Figaro [The Marriage Of Figaro] (Complete Opera recorded in 1994) Glyndebourne Opera / Gerald Finley, Alison Hagley, Renee Fleming / Bernard Haitink (conductor) [ Warner Music Vision DVD / DVD - released 10/Sep/2009 ] "Pure magic….Bernard Haitink conducted the LPO in an eloquent performance, beautifully played…….One listened, as Haitink, Hagley, and Finley lifted a loving, carefully prepared performance to greatness" Opera Magazine |
RICHARD STRAUSS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Strauss, (R.): Der Rosenkavalier (complete opera recorded in 1985) Royal Opera Covent Garden / Kiri Te Kanawa, Anne Howells, Aage Haugland, Barbara Bonney / Georg Solti (cond) [ Kultur DVD / DVD - released 10/Sep/2009 ] This opulent production by director John Schlesinger, filmed in 1985, marked the 25th anniversary of Sir Georg Solti's spectacular debut at Covent Garden, conducting this very opera. |
Andre Rieu
Romantic Moments [ Universal Music DVD / DVD - released 13/Aug/2009 ] For this breathtaking DVD we travel to Majorca, where it's always sunny... or so they say! The medieval Villa Raixa provides a perfect setting for the sun-drenched and star-spangled melodies of Strauss, Toselli, Chopin, Puccini, Mozart and more.... |
![Stravinsky and the Ballets Russes [the Firebird & The Rite of Spring] (recorded in 2009) cover](https://images.marbecks.co.nz/_thumbnails/10156/10156447.jpg)
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky and the Ballets Russes [the Firebird & The Rite of Spring] (recorded in 2009) Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra & Ballet / Ekaterina Kondaurova, Ilya Kuznetsov, Alexandra Iosifidi / Valery Gergiev (conductor) [ BelAir Classiques DVD / DVD - released 20/Jul/2009 ] G - BBC Music Magazine Awards 2010 - DVD of the Year |
J. S. BACH
Goldberg Variations (recorded at the Gewandhaus zu Leipzig, June 2008) Evgeni Koroliov (piano) [ EuroArts Music / Medici Arts DVD / DVD - released 1/Jul/2009 ] "The Yevgeni Koroliov Euroarts DVD performance of the Goldberg Variations is the most convincing interpretation of this masterpiece I have encountered since the Andras Schiff live recording from 2001 on ECM. It also features the most stunningly... |
RICHARD WAGNER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Gotterdammerung (complete opera recorded in 2004) Gran Teatre del Liceu / Harry Kupfer / Deborah Polaski / John Treleaven / Matti Salminem / Falk Struckmann / Gunter von Kannen / Bertrand de Billy [ Opus Arte DVD / 3 DVD Box Set - released 1/Jul/2009 ] "This is in many respects superb. The acid test is that one should emerge exhausted from Wagner's emotional outpourings, yet uplifted, and this de Billy and his team of soloists do in the final analysis achieve" (MusicWeb Sept 2005) |
RICHARD WAGNER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Wagner: Die Walkure (complete opera recorded in 2003) Gran Teatre del Liceu / Richard Berkeley-Steele / Falk Struckmann / Linda Watson / Bertrand de Billy (cond) [ Opus Arte / Kultur DVD / 3 DVD Box Set - released 1/Jul/2009 ] Filmed at Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu in 2003, Harry Kupfer's acclaimed production, first staged in Berlin, numbers among the greatest productions of modern times and is recorded in sumptuous surround sound. |
CHARLES GOUNOD
Gounod: Romeo et Juliet (complete opera recorded in 2008) Salzburg Festival / Nino Machaidze, Rolando Villazon, Russell Braun / Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, Yannick Nezet-Seguin [ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / 2 DVD - released 4/May/2009 ] "There are some excellent performances...Villazón knows how to turn up the drama several volts...the passion he brings to moments such as the murder of Tybalt at the end of Act 3 raises the quality of the film." (Musicalcriticism.com) |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Maria Stuarda (complete opera recorded in 2008) La Scala Opera / Anna Caterina Antonacci / Mariella Devia / Paola Gardina / Antonino Fogliani (con) [ Arthaus Musik / DVD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] Two queens on one island. A recipe for disaster. Especially as both have a legitimate claim to the other's throne. They are, after all, related… So the power politics are the name of the game. And, for reasons of state, one of the heads that wears a... |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake (Complete ballet choreographed by Peter Wright) Royal Swedish Ballet / Nathalie Nordquist, Anders Nordstrom / Michel Queval (cond) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] 'outstandingly performed under Michel Queval's baton - and that's just the start. …staging, choreography and dancing (by both corps de ballet and soloists) are all excellent…yet another superb Opus Arte release.' DVD best buy Classic fM |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: Owen Wingrave (complete opera recorded in 2001) Kent Nagano / Gerald Finley / Peter Savidge / Hilton Marlton / Josephine Barstow / Anne Dawson / Elizabeth Gale / Charlotte Hellekant / Martyn Hill / [ Arthaus Musik / Kultur / DVD - released 1/Mar/2009 ] G - GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE RECORDING OF THE YEAR FINALIST 2004: DVD |
J. S. BACH / DOMENICO SCARLATTI / LUDWIG van BEEETHOVEN
Ivo Pogorelich : Recital - Live in Castello Reale di Racconigi Ivo Pogorelich (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / DVD - released 10/Feb/2009 ] "Pogorelich has a reputation for willful interpretations, very idiosyncratic tempo choices, etc. I was half-prepared to see some of that here, but it was just the opposite. The sobriety, absolute technical mastery, and musical depth on display... |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Water Music - Recreating a Royal Spectacular The English Consort, Andrew Manze [ Kultur / BBC / Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 2/Feb/2009 ] Filmed on the River Thames with the English Concert. Directed by Andrew Manze. |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Cinderella (complete ballet recorded in 2003) Zurich Ballet / Karine Seneca / Stanislav Jermakov / Marine Castel / Jozef Varga / Vladimir Fedoseyev (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques / DVD - released 1/Dec/2008 ] G - Heinz Spoerli's Zurich Ballet Cinderella production, filmed as a musical from Hollywood, turned out to be a huge success at its premiere and must rank as one of the most 'dancerly' stagings Prokofiev's popular ballet has ever received. |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Cosi Fan Tutte (complete opera recorded in 2002 at the Deutschen Staatsoper Berlin) Dorothea Roschmann, Katharina Kammerloher, Hanno Muller-Brachmann, Werner Gura / Daniel Barenboim (cond) [ TDK/Euroarts DVD / 2 DVD - released 1/Nov/2008 ] "It is very well performed. All the singers are on good form, and work well together in this most ensemble-based of Mozart operas. The picture quality and sound quality are both excellent, and there are loads of index points." (MusicWeb) |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: La Boheme (complete opera directed by Franco Zeffirelli recorded in 2008) Metropolitan Opera / Angela Gheorghiu, Ramon Vargas, Ludovic Tezier, Ainhoa Arteta / Nicola Luisotti (Cond) [ Warner Classics / DVD - released 29/Sep/2008 ] "[Gheorghiu] was superb as Mimì… distinctive and alluring. She sang with extraordinary precision, subtlety, control, nuance, and, above all, musicality" (New York Sun). |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Macbeth (complete opera recorded in 2008) Metropolitan Opera / Zeljko Lucic, Maria Guleghina, John Relyea, Dimitri Pittas / James Levine (Cond) [ Warner Classics DVD / 2 DVD - released 29/Sep/2008 ] "An auspicious issue in first rate sound and vision further enhanced by an excellent "behind the scenes" documentary featuring the mainstays of this memorable January 2008 night at the MET." (ClassicalNet) |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Manon Lescaut (complete opera recorded in 2008) Metropolitan Opera / Karita Mattila, Marcello Giordani, Dwayne Croft, Dale Travis / James Levine (Cond) [ EMI Classics DVD / DVD - released 29/Sep/2008 ] "Ever willowy and ever inventive, Karita Mattila enacted the heroine's progress from gawky innocent to greedy charmer to tragic victim brilliantly." (Financial Times) |
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GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: La Fille du Regiment (The Daughter of the Regiment) [complete opera recorded in 2007] Natalie Dessay, Juan Diego Florez, Felicity Palmer, Alessandro Corbelli, Donald Maxwell, Dawn French, Orchestra & Choir of the Royal Opera House, Brun [ Erato / Warner Classics DVD / DVD - released 29/Sep/2008 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD FINALIST 2008 - DVD - "The Royal Opera's new staging of La Fille du régiment will probably go down in history as one of the company's great achievements ... Laurent Pelly's production casts Natalie Dessay and Juan... |
ANDREAS SCHOLL
Andreas Scholl - A Portrait Andreas Scholl (counter-tenor) [ Arthaus Musik / DVD - released 1/Sep/2008 ] Bonus: - Andreas Scholl sings John Dowland's "Lute Songs" and Dietrich Buxtehude's "Jubilate Domino". |
