"Actor: Orchestra"

• The Swing Years - Elmer's Tune | DVD | (22/11/2004) from £5.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (183.64%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Track List: 1. Sheik Of The Araby 2. Five Salted Peanuts 3. My Great Great Grandfather 4. Poet And Peasant 5. Cuban Pete 6. Cherokee 7. Ding-A-Lay-O 8. Surrender 9. Sillhouettes 10. I Want A Girl 11. Breeze & I 12. Cielito Lindo 13. Elmer's Tune 14. Little Dutch Mill 15. Whistler & His Dog 16. I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire 17. Rhumba Serenade 18. That Wonderful Worrisome Feeling Billie Joyce 19. Amor 20. K.P. Serenade 21. I D

• Sallinen: The Red Line | DVD | (27/09/2010) from £23.93   |  Saving you £-2.68 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Red Line (The)

• Electric Light Orchestra - Part 2: Access All Areas | DVD | (23/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

• New Year's Concert In Vienna | DVD | (15/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The television broadcast from Vienna of the New Years Day concert has attracted to the podium across the past 40 years or so a number of starry conductors, but none more so than Carlos Kleiber, that elusive maestro who in some respects represents the antithesis of the late-20th century model (consider his slim discography). In this 1989 concert he brings to life the music of the Strauss family in an extraordinarily vital manner. Caught on film under the vigilant eye of director Brian Large, Kleiber, with an economical set of gestures including a seemingly extended left arm that sends the music winging on its way, has the Vienna Philharmonic strings giving off a lustrous shine unique even by their standards, while the brass (trumpets and horns) ring out with an Alpine freshness that sends a tingle down the spine of the listener. The programme blends firm favourites such as the waltzes--Accelerations, The Blue Danube and Artists Life--with less-often played pieces such as the The Dragonfly polka where Kleibers arm at one moment seems to be drawing the insects flight-path. Theres one break from tradition in that there is no dancing in this film. Brian Large knows the music inside out, providing close-ups at key moments such as the lovingly shaped introduction to the Artists Life waltz, which begins with a breathtakingly played account of the opening tune on oboe. The orchestra, in morning dress, join in with song during At Home with Us. Play this at the end of a weary day and be transported to another world of unadulterated musical luxury. On the DVD: there are no extra features, just a set of advertisements for current Deutsche Grammophon DVDs including Kleibers own Der Rosenkavalier. --Adrian Edwards

• Concert from The Church Of St Nicolai, Leipzig | DVD | (20/06/2000) from £6.82   |  Saving you £14.43 (259.53%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Featuring Ludwig van Beethoven Johann Sebastian Bach Chaconne Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.

• Christoph Von Dohnanyi In Rehearsal | DVD | (15/04/2002) from £16.37   |  Saving you £3.62 (18.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In 1997 Christoph von Dohnányi was appointed Principal Conductor of the Philharmonia Orchestra. In Rehearsal is an unflashy but riveting documentary, made in the Royal Festival Hall in 1998, that follows his first experiences of working on Haydn's music with the ensemble. It includes substantial rehearsal footage, his comments on the piece (Symphony No. 88, nicknamed The Bagpipe), and interviews with some of the orchestra's principal players. It will undoubtedly be compulsory viewing for aspiring conductors, but it also makes fascinating watching for anyone who has ever gained pleasure from listening to an orchestra perform. Dohnányi's rehearsal technique is laid bare: his phenomenal attention to the smallest details of phrasing and articulation, his rather severe manner lightened by the occasional pleasantry and his uncanny precision in the matter of wind tuning. (It is fascinating to note that when he joins in with a melody, he hardly ever sings in tune himself.) The changes he creates are startling: in the famous "bagpipe" sequence he transforms the sound from a commonplace into something startling and ear-bending simply by shading the strings down and foregrounding the bassoons. His general comments on the art of conducting and its foundation in human trust are also engrossing. All told this is serious, informative and thought-provoking--and highly recommended. On the DVD: Christoph von Dohnányi in Rehearsal comes equipped with subtitles in French, German and Spanish. Picture is standard 4:3 and sound basic PCM stereo. The disc also contains trailers for three other Arthaus DVDs. --Warwick Thomson

• Various Composers - Victoria De Los Angeles in Concert | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £18.05   |  Saving you £0.94 (4.90%)   |  RRP £18.99

  Various Composers - Victoria De Los Angeles In Concert

• Dvorak: Piano & Cello Concerto | DVD | (26/02/2007) from £21.82   |  Saving you £3.17 (12.70%)   |  RRP £24.99

• The Tchaikovsky Cycle | DVD | (27/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £44.99

• Luciano Pavarotti - the Essential Pavarotti - Live Concert | DVD | (15/11/2004) from £18.98   |  Saving you £-2.99 (-18.70%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A royal gala performance featuring Luciano Pavarotti accompanied by The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Arias include 'Nessun Dorma' from Puccini's 'Turandot' 'Una Una Furtiva Lagrima' from Donizetti's 'Elisir d'Amore' and 'Fra Poco A Me Ricovera' from Donizetti's 'Lucia di Lammermour.' Conducted by Kurt Herbert Adler.

• Wiener Festwochen 1962 - Wiener Philarmoniker - Hans Knappertsbusch | DVD | (29/05/2006) from £47.85   |  Saving you £-31.60 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Beethoven / Wagner: Knappertsbuch At The Wiener Festwochen

• Argerich Verbier (Martha Argerich Live At Verbier Festival ) | Blu Ray | (27/06/2011) from £14.55   |  Saving you £15.44 (106.12%)   |  RRP £29.99

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• Icons Among Us - Jazz In The Present Tense | DVD | (12/07/2010) from £18.29   |  Saving you £-0.30 (-1.70%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Jazz is a living thing a conversation between musicians and each other as well as musicians and the audience. By combining archival footage interviews with 75 jazz artists and live recordings culled from 25 hours of concerts Icons Among Us: Jazz In The Present Tense is a dynamic and engaging document of many of the greatest jazz musicians of today. Featuring: Marco Benevento Terence Blanchard Bill Frisell Herbie Hancock Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Chris Potter Esperanza Spalding and many more...

• The Berlin Philharmonic Story | DVD | (07/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The Berlin Philharmonic are rated the world's best orchestra by many music lovers. This documentation shows them close up.A fascinating documentary telling not only the history of the famed Berlin Philharmonic but the history of 20th Century Berlin as well.There are interviews with conductors Roger Norrington, Simon Rattle and Bernard Haitink, as well as with a number of players in the orchestra, all of which offer fascinating insights into the orchestra's behind-the-scenes activities and convey an impression of how the Berlin Philharmonic reached their remarkably high standard.We follow the string of conductors associated with the BPO including Hans von Bulow, Arthur Nikisch, Wilhelm Furtwangler, Herbert von Karajan and Claudio Abbado.The portrait is rounded off with rare archive recordings and excerpts from great performances including a brief excerpt from an incredible Brahms Symphony No. 4 with Furtwangler and a short sound clip of Arthur Nikisch conducting.

• Joint Concert - Tel Aviv | DVD | (17/07/2001) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-1.59 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Some concerts are important simply as occasions: The Joint Concert--Tel Aviv was a celebration of reconciliation, a performance shared by the Berlin Philharmonic and the Israel Philharmonic that would have been inconceivable a few years earlier. Zubin Mehta takes a massive band consisting of both orchestras through performances of Ben Haim's fascinating Psalm, Ravel's La Valse and Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. The Ravel is particularly impressive--a work that can often slip into feyness or the too overtly sinister--here has a depth of complexity to its sound that saves it from either, and the sheer volume of the harps in a couple of passages gives the performance an interesting and individual strangeness. The Beethoven is monumental in its scale--rarely has the transition between the "Scherzo" and the "Finale" sounded so like Forster's goblins walking across the universe. Young and promising soloists--Viviane Hagner (violin) and Sharon Kam (clarinet)--play the Saint-Saens Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso with the Israel Philharmonic and the Weber Concertino with the Berlin Philharmonic; we grow so rapidly used to the sound of the orchestras playing together that their individual sounds strike us as almost delicate.On the DVD: The DVD has menus in English, French, German and Spanish and is presented in 4:3 screen ratio with PCM stereo sound, relegating a description of the importance of the event to the booklet. --Roz Kaveney

• Aida - Verdi | DVD | (29/11/2004) from £3.04   |  Saving you £23.21 (1,303.93%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A performance of the Verdi opera live and in the open air from the St. Margarethen Festival in Austria. Ernst Marzendorfer conducts.

• Mahler: Symphony No. 1 | DVD | (04/11/2002) from £12.98   |  Saving you £-2.99 (-29.90%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Mahler's music accompanies some of the most beautiful and breathtaking landscapes of Europe. Music conducted by Zdenek Kosler.

• E.L.O.-Access All Areas Part 2 | DVD | (23/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  This new release captures the band on their sell out tour of Australia and features in depth interviews with Bev Bevan, Mik Kaminski, Eric Troyer, Phil Bates, Kelly Groucutt and Louis Clark. They retell the fascinating story of the early days of the band in the late sixties from the move, to ELO, to ELO Part II.; ; Tracklist: Standin' In The Rain, Showdown, Eldorado Overture, Turn To Stone, Do Ya, Don't Wanna, Ain't Necessarily So, Don't Bring Me Down, All Fall Down (music video).

• Various: Garrick Ohlsson (Piano Concerto No.2/ Scherzo/ Polonaise/ Funerailles) | DVD | (04/02/2011) from £12.05   |  Saving you £7.94 (39.70%)   |  RRP £19.99

• Berlin Philharmonic - A Romantic Opera Night | DVD | (05/06/2000) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Recorded at the Waldbuhne in Berlin. Includes the works:- 'Don Juan' & 'Till Eulenspiegels' by Richard Strauss and 'Ride Of The Valkyries' & 'Prelude to Die Meistersinger' by Richard Wagner.