"Actor: Sir Georg Solti"

• Orchestra! | DVD | (10/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Hosted by Sir Georg Solti and Hollywood star Dudley Moore Orchestra! is the landmark Channel 4 TV series from 1991 introducing the modern symphony orchestra. The 2-DVD set traces the development of the orchestra from the time of Bach and Handel to the present day. It includes all eight programmes originally broadcast on Channel 4: 1. Introduction to the Orchestra 2. Upper Strings 3. Woodwind 4. Lower Strings 5. Brass 6. Percussion 7. Piano 8. The Conductor Featuring young musicians from around the world this is an entertaining and educational celebration of the orchestra.

• Bela Bartok - After the Storm | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A detailed and often revealing portrait of the last five years of the composer's life - The Times. The composer's friends and colleagues including Sir Georg Solti and Yehudi Menuhin join his sons Peter and Bela Jr. to tell the story of Bartok's years of exile in America. After his journey to New York in 1940 from war-torn Europe he found himself lost in an unfamiliar culture. He was to spend the rest of his life there fighting sickness poverty and failure. Nevertheless consoled by the cycles of nature his last five years produced some of his greatest and most moving music.

• Solti and Perahia: Bartok's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Sir Georg Solti (1912-97) had a special link with Bartok's 'Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion' - he turned the pages for Bartok's wife when she and her husband premiered the piece in Budapest in 1938. Half a century later with pianist Murray Perahia and percussionists Evelyn Glennie and David Corkhill he produced a recording of this masterwork. This film observes the musicians at work during the marathon CBS recording sessions and includes a performance of the completed work.