In Stock Classical Blu-Ray Disc

In Stock Classical Blu-Ray Disc

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Mahler: Symphony No. 6 in A minor 'Tragic' BLU-RAY cover
add to cart $70.00 Low Stock
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 6 in A minor 'Tragic' BLU-RAY
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
[ EuroArts Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 21/Dec/2010 ]
"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
The Flames of Paris (complete ballet) BLU-RAY cover
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BORIS ASAFIEV
The Flames of Paris (complete ballet) BLU-RAY
Bolshoi Ballet / Natalia Osipova / Denis Savin / Ivan Vasiliev / Pavel Sorokin (cond)
[ Bel Air Classiques Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Dec/2010 ]
Under the aegis of its now acting artistic director, Alexei Ratmansky, the Bolshoi Theatre Ballet Company, continues its foray into the history of Russian ballet with a revival of The Flames of Paris.
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71 (recorded at Bregenz Festival, 2009) BLU-RAY cover
add to cart $60.00 Low Stock
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71 (recorded at Bregenz Festival, 2009) BLU-RAY
Royal Ballet / Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Peter Wright (choreographer) / Miyako Yoshida / Ricardo Cervera / Steven McRae
[ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 19/Nov/2010 ]
'One of the very best seasonal treats for children and adults alike, the Royal Ballet's Nutcracker is a handsome, magical, thoroughly traditional rendering of ETA Hoffmann's immortal if deeply strange story.' Sunday Express
Cilea: Adriana Lecouvreur (complete opera recorded in 2009) (Blu-ray) cover
add to cart $90.00 Low Stock
FRANCESCO CILEA
Cilea: Adriana Lecouvreur (complete opera recorded in 2009) (Blu-ray)
Teatro regio Torino / Michaela Carosi / Marcelo Alvarez / Marianne Cornetti / Alfonso Antoniozzi / Renati Palumbo
[ Arthaus Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Aug/2010 ]
"Carosi may lack some smoothness of line in her arias but she delivers them with fervour and strong tone and does not hold back in the Phaedra monologue, so the character which she projects is well drawn...Marianne Cornetti blazes forth in an...
Salome (complete opera recorded in 2009) BLU-RAY cover
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RICHARD STRAUSS
Salome (complete opera recorded in 2009) BLU-RAY
Royal Opera House / Nadja Michael, Michael Volle, Michaela Schuster, Thomas Moser / Philippe Jordan
[ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Aug/2010 ]
"Nadia Michael… is an attractive Salome, moving like a dancer, as physically unafraid as she is vocally… Michael Volle is an imposing, rich-toned Narraboth" (Gramophone)
Brahms The Violin Sonatas (Blu-ray) cover
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms The Violin Sonatas (Blu-ray)
Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin) & Lambert Orkis (piano)
[ Deutsche Grammophon Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 29/Jul/2010 ]
"Never before have Mutter and Orkis seemed so joined at the hip, giving and taking, conducting dialogue, chasing each others' thoughts . . . She plays with a new degree of maturity and depth, especially visible in the slow movements." (The Times)
Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet (recorded live at the Globe Theatre London in August 2009) BLU-RAY cover
add to cart $65.00 Low Stock
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet (recorded live at the Globe Theatre London in August 2009) BLU-RAY
Globe / Andrew Vincent / Philip Cumbus / Michael O'Hagan / Atetomiwa Edun, Ellie Kendrick
[ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Jun/2010 ]
Dominic Dromgoole's production brings refreshing clarity to one of Shakespeare's most famous and best-loved tragedies, drawing out the contemporary relevance of this passionate teenage love story. Ellie Kendrick, a truly youthful Juliet, and...
Donizetti: Don Pasquale (complete opera recorded in 2006) BLU-RAY cover
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GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Don Pasquale (complete opera recorded in 2006) BLU-RAY
Ravenna Festival / Claudio Desderi, Mario Cassi, Francisco Gatell & Laura Giordano / Riccardo Muti (conductor)
[ Arthaus Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/May/2010 ]
Watching this realistic, young and vital production, directed by the young Andrea da Rosa and listening to a high potential and unspent young cast, you feel how powerful, charming and timeless this score by Gaetano Donizetti is.
Mozart: Cosi fan Tutte (complete opera recorded in 2009) BLU-RAY cover
add to cart $70.00 Low Stock
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Cosi fan Tutte (complete opera recorded in 2009) BLU-RAY
Zurich Opera / Malin Hartelius, Anna Bonitatibus, Martina Janková, Javier Camarena / Franz Welser-Most (conductor)
[ Arthaus Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/May/2010 ]
"The singing is uniformly excellent. Malin Hartelius is a terrific Fiordiligi, her vibrato prominent but never bothersome, her inflections ideal, her sense of silliness sublime." 10/10 highest rating Classicstoday.com
Wagner: Die Walkure (complete opera recorded in Valencia, 2009) BLU-RAY cover
add to cart $63.00 Low Stock
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Die Walkure (complete opera recorded in Valencia, 2009) BLU-RAY
Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia / Peter Seiffert / Juha Uusitalo / Matti Salminen / Jennifer Wilson / Zubin Mehta (cond)
[ C Major Blu-Ray / 2 Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Apr/2010 ]
"…this is the most exciting staging I've seen - slightly recalling Cirque du Soleil, perhaps, except that here the spectacle is wholly and intelligently at Wagner's service." BBC Music Magazine, March 2010 *****
Beethoven: Fidelio (complete opera recorded in 2008) BLU-RAY cover
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Fidelio (complete opera recorded in 2008) BLU-RAY
Zurich Opera / Krešimir Stražanac, Lucio Gallo, Roberto Sacca, Melanie Diener, Alfred Muff / Bernard Haitink, conductor
[ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Apr/2010 ]
Translucence, transparency - warmth' are the qualities identified by Bernard Haitink as necessary for an ideal sound performance of Beethoven's only opera, and all are present in this fantastic recording of Katharina Thalbach's new production.
Lehar: The Merry Widow (complete operetta recorded in English in 2001) BLU-RAY cover
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FRANZ LEHAR
Lehar: The Merry Widow (complete operetta recorded in English in 2001) BLU-RAY
San Francisco Opera / Yvonne Kenny / Bo Skovhus / Angelika Kirchschlager / Gregory Turay
[ BBC / Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Apr/2010 ]
G : - '…this is about as lavish a production of Franz Lehár's adorable operetta as you are ever likely to see…soprano Yvonne Kenny is perfectly cast in the title role.' Classic FM Magazine
Rossini: Il Turco in Italia (complete opera recorded in 2008) BLU-RAY cover
add to cart $90.00 Low Stock
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Il Turco in Italia (complete opera recorded in 2008) BLU-RAY
La Fenice Opera / Simone Alaimo, Myrto Papatanasiu, Bruno De Simone / Jonathan Webb, conductor
[ Arthaus Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Mar/2010 ]
Il Turco in Italia is one of Rossini's wittiest but most neglected works. It is full of ingenious and freshly composed invention. It is Rossini's first collaboration with Felice Romani - Bellini's librettist - on this opera and Romani understood...
Wagner: Siegfried (complete opera recorded in Valencia, 2008) BLU-RAY cover
add to cart $63.00 Low Stock
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Siegfried (complete opera recorded in Valencia, 2008) BLU-RAY
Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia / Lance Ryan / Jennifer Wilson / Juha Uusitalo / Gerhard Siegel / Zubin Mehta
[ C Major Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Mar/2010 ]
In this production "the visual codes of the digital era become elemental and dazzlingly employed means of narration" (Opernwelt).
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (complete opera recorded live in 2009) BLU-RAY cover
add to cart $90.00 Low Stock
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (complete opera recorded live in 2009) BLU-RAY
Bayreuth Festival / Robert Dean Smith, Robert Holl, Irene Theorin, Jukka Rasilainen / Peter Schneider (cond)
[ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Feb/2010 ]
G - 'In Tristan the standard of conducting and singing is high. Peter Schneider draws seamless playing from the orchestra, contouring Wagner's long arcs of sound as only someone of his experience can do.' The Financial Times
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas (complete opera) BLU-RAY cover
add to cart $65.00 Low Stock
HENRY PURCELL
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas (complete opera) BLU-RAY
Opera Comique / Malena Ernman / Christopher Maltman / Judith van Wanroij / Les Arts Florrisants / William Christie (cond)
[ Fra Musica Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 12/Dec/2009 ]
Brilliant stage direction by Deborah Warner combines various time spaces in the 17th century with the present day, enhanced by the subtle lighting schemes of Jean Kalman.
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Strauss, (R.): Der Rosenkavalier (complete opera) BLU-RAY cover
add to cart $55.00 Low Stock
RICHARD STRAUSS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Strauss, (R.): Der Rosenkavalier (complete opera) BLU-RAY
Renee Fleming / Diana Damrau / Sophie Koch / Franz Hawlata / Munich Philharmonic Orchestra / Christian Thielemann (cond)
[ Decca Music Group Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 5/Nov/2009 ]
Renée Fleming finally appears on DVD in one of her greatest roles - the Marschallin, in Richard Strauss's magnificent period-comedy of ever-changing love, Der Rosenkavalier. Her peerless performance is supported by "a galactic cast" (Thielemann).
Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Op. 20 (complete ballet recorded in 2009) BLU-RAY cover
add to cart $70.00 Low Stock
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOSVKY
Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Op. 20 (complete ballet recorded in 2009) BLU-RAY
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Marianela Nunez, Thiago Soares, Elizabeth McGorian / Valeriy Ovsyanikov, conductor
[ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Oct/2009 ]
G : - 'Anthony Dowell's production…offers the ultimate classical experience, with the sights and sounds of a proud 19th century tradition running at full throttle.' The Times
Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty (Complete ballet recorded in 2006) BLU-RAY cover
add to cart $45.00 In Stock
PYOTTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty (Complete ballet recorded in 2006) BLU-RAY
The Royal Ballet / Alina Cojocaru / Federico Bonelli / Valeriy Ovsyanikov (cond)
[ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Aug/2009 ]
'Alina Cojocaru's Aurora was the ballet's radiant centrepiece, charming, in control and filled with a palpable delight in every pretty step.' Times Online
Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress (Complete opera recorded in 2007) BLU-RAY cover
add to cart $75.00 Low Stock
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress (Complete opera recorded in 2007) BLU-RAY
Theatre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels / Laura Claycomb, Andrew Kennedy, William Shimell / Kazushi Ono (conductor)
[ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Aug/2009 ]
Blu-Ray - 'Lepage has forged a reputation as one of the most visionary theatre directors of our age… The Rake's Progress is heading our way, and it promises to be a highlight of the 2007/8 season.' Sunday Times