"Actor: Hermann Prey"

• Le Nozze Di Figaro - Mozart | DVD | (09/05/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £21.99

  This luxuriously cast film of Mozart's beloved opera buffa features a host of legendary interpretations including Kiri Te Kanawa's exquisite Countess Almaviva Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau as her philandering husband Hermann Prey as the wily title character Mirella Freni a delight as his no less savvy bride Susanna and Maria Ewing hilarious as the lovesick page Cherubino. Director Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's imaginative camera-work tellingly emphasizes character and mood of this immortal story of love intrigue and class struggle set against the historical background of ancien regime Europe sliding inexorably towards revolution.

• Mahler-Complete Symphonies | DVD | (24/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £63.99

• Rossini - Il Barbiere Di Siviglia (Abbado) | DVD | (09/05/2005) from £14.09   |  Saving you £5.90 (41.87%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Jean-Pierre Ponnelle directed this film of Rossini's comic masterpiece four years before filming Mozart's Figaro. The result was an irresistibly entertaining and musically rewarding film starring Hermann Prey as Beaumarchais's scheming barber of Seville. The other main roles in Ponnelle's Barber are taken by four of the most celebrated Rossini interpreters of the past decades: Teresa Berganza as the cunning heroine Rosina Luigi Alva as her devoted suitor Count Almaviva Enzo Dara as the long-suffering outfoxed Dr. Bartolo and Paolo Montarsolo as the shifty music master Don Basilio.

• Wagner - Die Meistersinger (Stein, Horst) | DVD | (15/05/2006) from £19.95   |  Saving you £-4.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Stage and directed by Richard Wagner's grandson Wolfgang at the Bayreuther Festspiele in 1984 this production of Wagner's only comedy dispenses with the common cliches to reveal the humanity of each character. Here Beckmesser is no longer a foolish caricature but a cultivated intellectual; Stolzing emerges as a thoughtful individual rather than aggressive aristocrat; and Hans Sachs sheds his solemn patriarchal veneer to become a likeable middle-aged man.

• Humperdinck - Hansel Und Gretel (Solti, Vpo) | DVD | (14/11/2005) from £16.05   |  Saving you £5.20 (35.16%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Engelbert Humperdinck's beloved musical fairy tale is brought to life by Sir Georg Solti and an illustrious cast - all part of a shimmering production that continues to enchant audiences of all ages.

• Orff - Carmina Burana (Eichhorn, Munich Radio Orchestra) | DVD | (03/05/2002) from £14.69   |  Saving you £-2.70 (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Wine woman and singing on Latin -- on this formula one could bring Carl Orffs Carmina Burana. Nothing could become detrimental the popularity of the Carmina Burana so far also not the circumstance the fact that Carl Orff had itself with this work 'recommended' for a project which the author Fred Prieberg in its book music in the LV state under the chapter 'a summer eight-dream - arisch'

• Rossini - Il Barbiere Di Siviglia (Wunderlich, Keilberth) | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Rossini - Il Barbiere Di Siviglia (Wunderlich Keilberth)

• Silent Night, Holy Night | DVD | (22/10/2004) from £1.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (86.70%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Silent Night Holy Night From the Schauspielhaus Berlin1. Macht Hoch die Tur2. Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen3. Ave Maria4. Jubilate Domino5. Cantique de Noel6. In dulci jubilo7. Herrscher des Himmels (choir from the Christmas Oratorio)8. Russian Orthodox Hymns and Prayers9. Air (from the Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major)10. Bereite dich Zion (Aria from the Christmas Oratorio)11. Concerto in B flat Minor for Harp and Orchestra12. Ombra mai fu (Aria from Xerxes)13. O Jesulein sub14. Joseph Iieber Joseph mein15. Tochter Zion Freue dich16. Stille Nacht heilige Nacht

• Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 7 and 8 (Bernstein, Wiener Po) | DVD | (24/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 7 And 8 (Bernstein Wiener PO)

• Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) -- La Scala | DVD | (19/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Like all successfully filmed operas, Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's 1974 film of his 1972 La Scala production of The Barber of Seville weaves its magic on multiple levels: naturalistic lighting and camera-work which break through the invisible barrier of the proscenium arch and take the viewer to the heart of the action; wonderful casting and magnificent singing; opera singers who can act to the camera (Teresa Berganza, in particular, is luminous); and conducting which simply revels in the richness of a much-loved score (Claudio Abbado wrings every ounce of levity and brilliance from the music). Rossini's 1816 work, based on Beaumarchais' Figaro characters and an earlier libretto by Paisiello, is one of the great joys of comic opera, crammed with familiar arias and duets, all of which drive the galloping pace of the book without ever interrupting the plot. Its ingredients of romance, disguise and intrigue merge in Rossini's extraordinarily vibrant and increasingly explosive score. At the heart of the tale is the love triangle of Count Almaviva (a lusty Luigi Alva), the wilful Rosina (Teresa Berganza at the peak of her mezzo-soprano powers) and her guardian with an ulterior motive Bartolo (Enzo Dara, constantly foiled). Thanks to the machinations of Figaro (Hermann Prey, making the most of his trademark theme "Largo al factotum") they are put through a series of hoops in which love conquers all and no real harm is ever done. On the DVD: If this Barber has dated at all it's largely thanks to Abbado's pudding-basin haircut and the film's inevitable 1970's quality. It is presented in standard 4:3 format with a PCM Stereo soundtrack, producing a merely average video-standard viewing experience. Apart from a good choice of subtitles there are no extras. A history of the production would have been useful. But these shortcomings, and the occasionally dull sound quality, are soon forgotten in the heat of the action.--Piers Ford

• Schubert: Song Cycles (Winterreise/ Schone Mullerin/ Schwanengesang/ Documentary) | DVD | (30/11/2009) from £23.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (25.01%)   |  RRP £29.99

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• Saint Matthew Passion - Bach | DVD | (23/03/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99