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• The Great Singers of Russia - Vol 2 | DVD | (23/02/2004) from £9.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (150.15%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A video series of epic proportions documenting Russia's illustrious vocal tradition over the course of the 20th century. Hosted by soprano Ljuba Kazarnovskaya the videos feature interviews with Ivan Petrov Irina Arkhipova and Joan Dornemann and extensive performance segments includingIvan petrov - FaustZurab Andzhaparidze - RigolettoIrina Arkhipova - Carmen (with Mario del Monaco)Galina Vishnevskaya - AidaYuri Mazurok - Un Ballo in MascheraBella Rudenko - LakmeEvgeni Nesterenko - Prince IgorElena Obrazrsovas - Carmen; Don CarloVladimir Atlantov - Pagliacci; ToscaMakvala Kasrashvili - Un Ballo in MascheraOlga Borodina - Il Barbiere di SivigliaDmitri Hvorostovsky - Il Barbiere di SivigliaLjuba Kazarnovskaya - Song of Zemphira La Traviata; Salome

• The Tchaikovsky Cycle Vol. 6 | DVD | (29/10/2007) from £13.15   |  Saving you £1.84 (13.99%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The Tchaikovsky Cycle, performed by The Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Mikhail Pletnev.

• 100 Days Before The Command | DVD | (02/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  If it's high-action thrills and spills or an engaging plot line that you're after, then Hussein Erkenov's bleak art film 100 Days Before the Command may not be your first choice. However, students of the uniquely Russian school of filmmaking should make a point of seeing this stark, unhurried piece of work (the film's actual 67-minutes seems to last a lot longer). Detailing the experiences of a handful of young Russian soldiers, the various narrative strains barely tie together as a whole, leaving the viewer struggling to follow the action. But the plot would seem to be secondary to Erkenov's visuals, understandably low-tech given that the film was shot in 1990, a mere year after the fall of the Iron Curtain. Long, slow tracking shots abound and there are many periods of absolute silence and little action, although the film captures military brutality just as well as the likes of Full Metal Jacket. This is hard work but rewarding viewing. --Phil Udell

• Sparta | DVD | (16/10/2017) from £3.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Inside a rectangular ring, two teams of fighters face off against each other in a fierce competition. When one fighter runs out of steam, unable to continue, his teammate steps in to take his place... This is Sparta! For Nikolai, a former MMA champion, this new spectator combat sport may be the only chance to return to professional fighting and to dig his way out of all the problems that crashed down on him three years ago: a fight to defend his girlfriend's honour followed by a stint in prison, his girlfriend's betrayal, and his coach's refusal to let him back on the team. With his true friends behind him, the athlete challenges the world and stakes his entire future on his next fight.

• Gavrilin/Maximova/Vasiliev - Anyuta Ballet (Bolshoi Ballet) | DVD | (02/08/2007) from £19.25   |  Saving you £3.74 (19.43%)   |  RRP £22.99

• Dmitri Shostakovich - Shostakovich - Cherry Town | DVD | (14/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Cherry Town (Cheryomushki) - is a delightful musical comedy written in 1959 and set in the suburbs of Moscow.

• Don Giovanni - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | DVD | (12/05/2008) from £12.93   |  Saving you £-2.94 (-29.40%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Don Giovanni is a young nobleman with an insatiable desire for women and few scruples as to how he feeds his passion. Mozart's famous opera is a story of moral retribution as Don Giovanni's victims seek vengeance.

• The Stone Flower - Prokofieff/Bolshoi Ballet | DVD | (18/06/2007) from £21.45   |  Saving you £1.54 (7.18%)   |  RRP £22.99

• Eugene Onegin - Tchaikovsky | DVD | (27/06/2005) from £40.48   |  Saving you £-10.49 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Tchaikovsky - Eugene Onegin (Ermler Gavrilova Redkin)

• Bigonzetti: Caravaggio | DVD | (01/06/2009) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-1.99 (-8.00%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Germany released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: LANGUAGES: German ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), German ( Dolby Digital Stereo ), German ( Dolby DTS 5.1 ), English ( Subtitles ), French ( Subtitles ), German ( Subtitles ), Italian ( Subtitles ), Russian ( Subtitles ), Spanish ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN (1.78:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Behind the scenes, Cast/Crew Interview(s), Interactive Menu, Making Of, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Dancer Vladimir Malakhov leads the Stattsballett Berlin in this production of Claudio Monteverdi's opera Caravaggio, as adapted by Italian composer Bruno Moretti and choreographed by his creative partner, Mauro Bigonzetti. The Staatskapelle Berlin performs the music under the direction of conductor Paul Connelly. ...Caravaggio (2008)

• Vladimir Horowitz: The Video Collection | DVD | (05/03/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £61.99

  Vladimir Horowitz's standard-setting virtuosity and boundless imagination resonate throughout a remarkable collection of films gathered together for the first time on DVD. It includes the first London and Vienna recitals Horowitz gave in decades, along with his celebrated historic return to Moscow after more than sixty years' absence. The Last Romantic features Horowitz in his New York home, playing and speaking about Liszt, Chopin, Schumann, Scriabin and Rachmaninoff - all composers with whom he had a lifelong affinity. By contrast, a behind-the-scenes documentary of Horowitz's only Mozart concerto recording conveys the veteran pianist's palpable joy and freshness of approach in rediscovering this composer late in life. Vladimir Horowitz - A Reminiscence interweaves rare footage from concerts, interviews and private archives into a loving, insightful portrait narrated on screen by the pianist's widow, Wanda Toscanini HorowitzDVD 1 Vladimir Horowitz - The Last RomanticA HOME RECITAL and musical discussion with Vladimir Horowitz and Wanda Toscanini Horowitz DVD 2Horowitz in London - THE CONCERT at the Royal Festival Hall in 1982 - Includes an intermission interview with HorowitzDVD 3Horowitz in Moscow - HIS LEGENDARY CONCERT at the Moscow Conservatory in 1986DVD 4Horowitz in Vienna - THE CONCERT at the Musikvereinssaal in 1987DVD 5Horowitz Plays Mozart- HOROWITZ'S FIRST RECORDING EVER of a Mozart concerto: No. 23 in A majorCarlo Maria Giulini Orchestra della ScalaDVD 6Vladimir Horowitz - A Reminiscence - A film with and about Vladimir Horowitz and Wanda Toscanini HorowitzPerformances of SCRIABIN Vers la flamme CHOPIN Scherzo No. 1 in B minor

• War | DVD | (27/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Jet Li and Jason Statham go head to head in this all action spectacular as an FBI Agent seeks revenge on a mysterious assassin.

• Night Watch | UMD | (24/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

• Great Tenor Performances | DVD | (04/04/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A glittering collection of performances from the extensive NVS ARTS catalogue and beyond. Including Jose Carreras ""La mia letizia infondere"" Robert Alagna ""Fontainebleu!..."" Placido Domingo ""Ch'ella mi creda"" Giacomo Aragall ""E lucevan le stelle"" John Mark Ainsley ""Dalla sua pace"" Vladamir Atlantov ""Nuin mi tema"" Max-Rene Cosotti ""Ecco ridente in cielo"" Luciano Pavarotti ""Celeste Aida"" Neil Shicoff ""Che gelida manina"" Placido Domingo ""Il etait une fois a la cour d'Eisenach""

• Prokofiev - Romeo And Juliet | DVD | (26/07/2007) from £21.59   |  Saving you £1.40 (6.48%)   |  RRP £22.99

• Tchaikovsky - the Tchaikovsky Cycle Vol. 4 | DVD | (27/08/2007) from £9.29   |  Saving you £6.96 (86.68%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The Tchaikovsky Cycle - Live from the Alte Oper Frankfurt, 1991.Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893)Symphony No, 4 in F minor Op. 36The Year 1812, Festival Overture in E-flat major Op. 49.Violin Concerto in D Major Op. 35.

• Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth (Live Recording From The Teatro Comunale Firenze 2008) | Blu Ray | (28/09/2009) from £32.38   |  Saving you £-2.39 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  ARTH 101388; ARTHAUS MUSIK - Germania; Classica Lirica

• Scarlet Street | DVD | (17/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  In a way, Scarlet Street is a remake. It's taken from a French novel, La Chienne (literally, "The Bitch") that was first filmed by Jean Renoir in 1931. Renoir brought to the sordid tale all the colour and vitality of Montmartre; Fritz Lang's version shows us a far harsher and bleaker world. The film replays the triangle set-up from Lang's previous picture, The Woman in the Window, with the same three actors. Once again, Edward G Robinson plays a respectable middle-aged citizen snared by the charms of Joan Bennett's streetwalker, with Dan Duryea as her low-life pimp. But this time around, all three characters have moved several notches down the ethical scale. Robinson, who in the earlier film played a college professor who kills by accident, here becomes a downtrodden clerk with a nagging, shrewish wife and unfilled ambitions as an artist, a man who murders in a jealous rage. Bennett is a mercenary vamp, none too bright, and Duryea brutal and heartless. The plot closes around the three of them like a steel trap. This is Lang at his most dispassionate. Scarlet Street is a tour de force of noir filmmaking, brilliant but ice-cold. When it was made the film hit censorship problems, since at the time it was unacceptable to show a murder going unpunished. Lang went out of his way to show the killer plunged into the mental hell of his own guilt, but for some authorities this still wasn't enough, and the film was banned in New York State for being "immoral, indecent and corrupt". Not that this did its box-office returns any harm at all. On the DVD: sparse pickings. There's an interactive menu that zips past too fast to be of much use. The full-length commentary by Russell Cawthorne adds the occasional insight, but it's repetitive and not always reliable. (He gets actors' names wrong, for a start.) The box claims the print's been "fully restored and digitally remastered", but you'd never guess. --Philip Kemp

• Prokofiev - Cinderella | DVD | (19/05/2008) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-1.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

• Night Watch/Alien Vs Predator/Resident Evil | DVD | (16/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Nightwatch (Dir. Timur Bekmambetov 2004): Embrace the day. Fear the night. With a centuries old truce beginning to break down the forces of light and darkness come to do battle in modern day Moscow... Based on the first of Sergei Lukyanenko's trilogy of sci-fi horror novels Night Watch is a groundbreaking new phenomenon the highest-grossing Russian film of all time! Alien Vs Predator (Dir. Paul W.S. Anderson 2004): It may be our planet but it's their war! The deadliest creatures from the scariest sci-fi movies ever made face off for the first time on film beginning when the discovery of an ancient pyramid buried in Antarctica sends a team of scientists and adventurers to the frozen continent. There they make an even more terrifying discovery: two unstoppable alien races engaged in the ultimate battle... Resident Evil (Dir. Paul Anderson 2002): Something rotten is brewing beneath the industrial mecca known as Raccoon City. Unknown to its millions of residents a huge underground bioengineering facility known as The Hive has accidentally unleashed the deadly and mutating T-virus killing all of its employees. To contain the leak the governing supercomputer Red Queen has sealed all entrances and exits. Now a team of highly-trained super commandos including Rain Alice and Matt must race to penetrate The Hive in order to isolate the T-virus before it overwhelms humanity. To do so they must get past the Red Queen's deadly defenses face the flesh-eating undead employees fight killer mutant dogs and battle The Licker a genetically mutated savage beast whose strength increases with each of its slain victims.