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• Wagner: Das Rheingold -- Stuttgart/Zagrosek | DVD | (24/11/2003) from £35.82   |  Saving you £-10.83 (-43.30%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The First part of Wagner's magnum opus comes to dvd this month with a starkly contemporary feel. For the first time in the history of the ring cycle each of Rheingold's four sections was given to a different stage-director providing an exciting range of varying perspectives with a unified theme. Without a winged helmet in sight this unique production casts Wotan as a coolly calculating businessman with his wife a director on the board. The whole was directed by Joachim Schlomer an

• Siegfried | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £23.99   |  Saving you £7.26 (31.94%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Stuttgart Ring / Siegfried

• Mozart - The "Haydn" Quartets (Hagen Quartett) | DVD | (28/04/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Mozart:The Haydn Quartets (2 Discs)

• Spaghetti Western Collection - A Fistful Of Dollars/The Good, The Bad And The Ugly/For A Few Dollars More | DVD | (14/05/2007) from £29.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (33.34%)   |  RRP £39.99

  A Fistful Of Dollars (1964): In his own way he is perhaps the most dangerous man who ever lived! The first of the ""spaghetti westerns"" A Fistful Of Dollars became an instant cult hit. It also launched the film careers of Italian Writer-Director Sergio Leone and a little known American television actor named Clint Eastwood. As the lean cold-eye cobra-quick gunfighter - Clint became the first of the ""anti-heroes"". The cynical enigmatic loner with a clouded past is the same character Eastwood fans have been savouring ever since. A Fistful Of Dollars is the western taken to the extreme - with unremitting violence gritty realism and tongue-in-cheek humour. Leone's direction is taut and stylish and the visuals are striking - from the breathtaking panoramas (in Spain) to the extreme close-ups of quivering lips and darting eyes before the shoot-out begins. And all are accented by renowned film composer Ennio Morricone's quirky haunting score. For A Few Dollars More (1965): The man with no name is back... The man in black is waiting... a walking arsenal - he uncoils strikes and kills! Clint Eastwood had proven so successful in his first foray into European Westerns with A Fistful Of Dollars that a follow up sequel was inevitable. Superbly scripted by Luciano Vincenzoni featuring an unforgettable alliance between ruthless gun-slingers Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef. For A Few Dollars More tells the tale of a ruthless quest to track down the notorious bandit El Indio played by Gian Maria Volonte. The film is also noted for its array of weaponry a veritable arsenal of rifles that became so operatic and Ennio Morricone's atmospheric score keeps the tension taut as the action moves from Jail breaks and hold-ups to spectacular gun battles. The Good The Bad And The Ugly (1966): For three men the civil war wasn't hell. It was practice! The Good The Bad And The Ugly written by Age Scarpelli Luciano Vincenzoni and Sergio Leone is the third and last western in Clint Eastwood's spaghetti trilogy. Director Sergio Leone substitutes for the upright puritan Protestant ethos so familiar in Hollywood westerns a seedy cynical standpoint towards death and mortality as a team of brutal bandits battle to unearth a fortune buried beneath an unmarked grave. Joining Clint clearly ""The Good"" is the irredeemably ""Bad"" Lee and the resolutely ""Ugly"" Eli Wallach. The complete plot of bloodshed and betrayal winds its way through the American Civil War filmed to resemble the French battlefields of World War One to end in the climatic Dance Of Death. Arguably the quintessential Italian Western this 1966 film boasts a fine Ennio Morricone score featuring a main theme that reached No. 1 in the world's pop charts. This special edition DVD has been restored to its full length with the addition of three missing scenes from the original Italian version.

• Wagner - Das Rheingold (Zagrosek, Staatsoper Stuttgart) | DVD | (02/04/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Wagner: Das Rheingold

• Strauss - Die Frau Ohne Schatten | DVD | (26/02/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

• Gluck - Alceste | DVD | (02/01/2007) from £24.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Vienna version of Alceste was Gluck's second reform opera after Orfeo ed Euridice. The libretto and music revolve around a self-sacrificing main character, and it is quite probable that the courageous bearing of Empress Maria Theresia while mourning her husband provided Gluck with the impetus for this material.Alceste is reminiscent of Beethoven's subsequent Fidelio as a pure anthem to conjugal love. As Orfeo before it, Alceste did not achieve major success at the first performance of the Vienna version on 20 December 1767, but instead became widely-known when performed as a tragedie opera nine years later in Paris, after the addition of ballet music in French, the version we see performed here.This production from 2006 was acclaimed as the Opera Production of the Year, by German magazine Opernwelt. The title role is played by Catherine Naglestad, voted Female Opera Singer of the Year 2006.

• Fischer-Dieskau-Autumn Journe | DVD | (16/07/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Autumn Journey is a filmed portrait of the life and work of the great German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau one of the great musical giants of the 20th century. Along with Richter Oistrakh Menuhin Rostropovich Casals and Callas he represents a truly golden era of great artists not only remembered for their extraordinary live performances but whose musicianship has also left to the world an unrivalled legacy of recordings. Filmed on the occasion of his 70th birthday Fischer-Dieskau reveals for the first time many of the secrets of his outstanding success. In typically modest style this prolific singer talks about his life the remarkable influences which have guided his career musical interpretation his colleagues and his attitude towards Italian Russian and French repertoire. Performance extracts include works by Schubert Schumann Strauss Brahms Mahler Wolf Bach Verdi Mozart Wagner Reimann Berg Henze and Britten. This special DVD package includes an 85-minute recital of 23 songs by Franz Schubert from the Opera Theatre of Nuremberg in which Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau is accompanied by Hartmut H''ll.

• Wagner: Der Ring Des Nibelungen (Lisa Gasteen/Robert Gambill/Stuttgart Opera/Lothar Zagrosek) | DVD | (27/09/2010) from £83.68   |  Saving you £-13.69 (N/A%)   |  RRP £69.99

  Wagner: Der Ring Des Nibelungen

• Kienzl - Der Evangelimann (Eschwe, Fink, Reinprecht, Muller) | DVD | (11/11/2006) from £20.89   |  Saving you £5.10 (24.41%)   |  RRP £25.99

• Mozart - Die Zauberflote | DVD | (29/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Zauberfloete, performed by various performers and conducted by Ivan Fischer.

• The Expert | DVD | (02/04/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  John Lomax a special operations expert finds out that his sister has been murdered. In his attempt to discover the perpetrator he helps the police. However when the killer gets a minor sentence Lomax turns vigilante and decides to take justice into his own hands.

• Symbiophonies: Montagna Con Forza | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Montagna con Forza first part of an upcoming quatrology of movies is a unique presentation that combines classical music fiction drama and nature. Around a beautiful lake in the midst of the untouched and dramatic landscape of Northern Norway we follow a wooden boat's venture across the lake. In the course of its journey we will absorb the vast array of temperate sensations and beautiful harmonies from this unique landscape. The brutality and mercilessness of life are central elements as the story unfolds into what can be seen as nature's own death mass. The shots are harmonious to the original compositions of Fred Jonny Berg (b.1973). Fred Jonny Berg's music reaches into your heart and soul and it presents you with many surprises. The music is fascinating - that is what is essential to me. It creates reactions and is appealing. I know that an increasing number will become aware of this special and talented composer. I hope that more orchestras will perform his music. says conductor Ari Rasilainen about Berg's work. The Norwegian Radio Orchestra conducted by Ari Rasilainen performs two piano concertos and two symphonic poems. Piano soloists are Joachim Knoph and Wolfgang Plagge. The DVD comes in a Digipack together with an Audio CD containing the original music by Fred Jonny Berg. As special features the DVD presents the documentary A Symbiophony Making as well as the multiangle option Fireplace a cosy setting by the fire accompanied either by authentic fire crackling or by music.

• Various Artists - Berlin Super 80 | DVD | (21/03/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £27.99

  A DVD-flashback of early 80s Berlin subculture featuring output by virtuosos of the city's underground movie scene who rediscovered Super 8 as an adequate outlet for their creative endeavours. Accompanied by a compilation of music, covering a huge range of styles and currents - from punk to ingenious dilettantes, this lavish package recalls the walled in city's unique feel and lifestyle. By no means a nostalgic review of times long gone, but rather an appraisal (with no claim to completeness) of a creative Berlin which to this day exerts its influence on German pop culture and beyond. Featuring 'Die tdliche Doris', 'Einstrzende Neubauten', 'Malaria' and many others of the scene's protagonists. Besides the DVD featuring elaborately restored Super 8 films (running time: approx. 120 minutes, NTSC), the luxurious package (special digipak) also contains a CD compilation of Berlin bands from the period of '79-'84 as well as a 48 page booklet with lyrics, essays, background information and photographs by Peter Gruchot. In addition, the DVD itself features extensive bonus material: discographies and photo series (more than 250 photos!) plus interview with Wolfgang Mller (of Die Tdliche Doris).

• Slavonic Dances/Swan Lake Suite (Sawallisch) | DVD | (01/12/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Slavonic Dances/Swan Lake Suite (Sawallisch)

• Expect No Mercy / The Expert | DVD | (21/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Expect No Mercy: Federal Service Agent Justin Vanier has been assigned to infiltrate the Virtual Arts Academy in search of another operative Eric. In this high-tech facility controlled by Warbeck a new generation of assassins trains for actual killings in a virtual reality arena. Penetrating the organization as a new recruit Justin finds Eric and joins forces with the idealistic Vicki. Together they must bring down Warbeck before another assassination is committed. Combatting holographic programs of limitless power Justin and Eric combine their skills to escape the computer generated world and confront Warbeck in an explosive battle where the pain is very real. The Expert: John Lomax a special operations expert finds out that his sister has been murdered. In his attempt to discover the perpetrator he helps the police. However when the killer gets a minor sentence Lomax turns vigilante and decides to take justice into his own hands.

• A Fistful Of Dollars | Blu Ray | (03/06/2013) from £17.53   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Oscar Winner Clint Eastwood blends a quiet steadiness with a palpable ferocity as the iconic gunslinger The Man With No Name in Sergio Leone's gritty spaghetti western. When a steely blue-eyed mercenary arrives in a dusty border town where two rival bands of smugglers terrorize the impoverished citizens he pits the gangs against each other in one of the most exhilarating frontier adventure films in cinema history. Special Features: The Christopher Frayling Archives: Fistful of Dollars Feature Commentary by Noted Film Historian - Sir Christopher Frayling A New Kind of Hero A Few Weeks in Spain: Clint Eastwood on the Experience of Making the Film Tre Voci: Fistful of Dollars Not Ready for Primetime: Renowned filmmaker Monte Hellman Discusses the Television Broadcast of a Fistful of Dollars The Network Prologue - with Harry Dean Stanton Location Comparisons: Then to Now' 10 Radio Spots Double Bill Trailer Fistfull of Dollars Trailer

• EIN LEBEN FUER DEUTSCHLAN - MO | DVD | (03/08/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Raumpatrouille Orion - Kult-Kollektion | DVD | (05/08/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A