Classical Music

• Classics on a Summers Evening | DVD | (08/04/2003) from £10.82   |  Saving you £5.17 (32.30%)   |  RRP £15.99

• John Renbourn And Jacqui Mcshee In Concert | DVD | (01/01/2000) from £17.65   |  Saving you £7.34 (41.59%)   |  RRP £24.99

  'àa true celebration of great and heartfelt music.'û Acoustic Guitar'John Renbourn and Jacqui McShee are two pivotal figures in the history of British folk music. Founding members of the British folk-rock group Pentangle in the 1960s, guitarist

• Marilyn Manson - Guns, God and Government World Tour | DVD | (01/12/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

• Kool And The Gang | DVD | (30/03/2009) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Disc 1: The Greatest Hits Concert Disc 2: Bonus Feature - Kool And The Gang History Of A Legend (74 Minutes) Kool And The Gang At Cafe Wha (50 Minutes)

• La Scala Opera Collection - Mozart: Cosi Fan Tutte - Various Artists | DVD | (12/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Teatro Alla Scala Muti: Mozart - Cosu Fan Tutte

• Mozart: Requiem | DVD | (05/04/2000) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The packaging labels this disc Mozart Requiem, but the actual programme on the DVD bears the title "Herbert Von Karajan Memorial Concert", a document of a concert given on July 16, 1999 in Salzburg Cathedral to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the death of the conductor. Mozart's unfinished Requiem, as completed by Süssmayr, is obviously the main work. We are told that other works were performed, but not what they were, the only additional pieces being two short arias for soprano, Betrachte dies mien Herz un Frage Mich, KV42 and Laudate Dominum, KV339 beautifully sung by Rachel Harnisch. In the Requiem Claudio Abbado summons a deeply atmospheric performance from the Berlin Philharmonic and Swedish Radio Choir, and equally expressive singing from his finely matched soloists. Bass Bryn Terfel is powerfully communicative, soprano Karita Mattila hauntingly resigned. If not as fiery as if Karajan himself were conducting, this is still a memorable and rewarding tribute.On the DVD: There is a wonderfully three-dimensional Dolby-Digital 5.1 sound mix which brings the Salzburg Cathedral ambience alive, and a stunningly detailed and clear anamorphically enhanced picture. Documentation is minimal; no texts, subtitles or information about either Von Karajan or Rachel Harnish is given. There is only one special feature, which is not documented on the disc: by default the disc offers a standard multi-camera view, but at a press of the "angle" button it switches to a second set of cameras focused entirely on Abbado. --Gary S. Dalkin

• Yehudi Menuhin - Concert Magic | DVD | (02/09/2005) from £15.05   |  Saving you £9.94 (66.05%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Previously unreleased footage from the legendary Hollywood music film Concert Magic from the year 1947 the first ever concert filmed for movie audiences - World premiere at the Stagedoor cinema San Francisco

• Elvis -Golden Greats | DVD | (18/10/2010) from £5.38   |  Saving you £-1.39 (-34.80%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Tracklist: 1 Shake Rattle And Roll (Flip Flop And Fly) 2 Burning Love 3 Ready Teddy 4 Long Tall Sally / Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On 5 Hound Dog 6 Steamroller Baby 7 Too Much 8 Johnny B. Goode 9 Dont Be Cruel 10 You Gave Me A Mountain 11 Love Me Tender 12 Big Hunk O' Love 13 Money Honey 14 I Cant Stop Loving You 15 Baby Let's Play House 16 Im So Lonesome I Could Cry 17 Heartbreak Hotel 18 What Now My Love 19 Blue Suede Shoes 20 Welcome To My World 21 Tutti Fru...

• Live at the El Mocambo | DVD | (29/06/2010) from £8.08   |  Saving you £-2.09 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In 1990, Texas bluesman Stevie Ray Vaughan was just emerging from a long period in which drugs had taken their toll: the previous year's In Step album was the first he had made "clean", and the results were a marvel. But then, after sharing a stage with Buddy Guy, Robert Cray and Eric Clapton, he boarded a helicopter to Chicago. It crashed and the career of one of the great blues guitarists was ended.Rewind to 1983 and here is Stevie Ray at the beginning of his fame, his first album with his backing band Double Trouble, Texas Flood, having just been released to critical and popular acclaim. The venue is the El Mocambo club in Toronto, a dark, smoky joint with a laid-back but appreciative clientele. Vaughan, drummer Chris Layton and bassist Tommy Shannon share the tiny stage. The guitarist, bedecked in trademark hat and alligator-skin boots, is pale of complexion, sweating from the heat and physical exertion, and physically much smaller than Shannon, who towers over him. But Vaughan dominates, as much by the magnetism of his flamboyant personality as his guitar playing. And what playing: by turns fiery, funky, then limpid and surprisingly graceful. Here is an authentic blues artist captured in the throes of living through his music. At this early stage in his career he was still very much in thrall to Jimi Hendrix (the flower-power shirt gives it away), as covers of "Voodoo Chile" and "Third Stone from the Sun" (the latter a Hendrix-inspired guitar-abuse session) indicate. The highlight of the show, however, is his rendition of "Texas Flood" which turns out to be an amazing essay on the art of blues guitar. This is a raw, intimate and spontaneous record of a one-off event. All fans of the blues will be grateful to those who had the foresight to capture it on film. On the DVD: The disc allows the viewer to chose a lyrics on/off option, as well as different audio mixes (Dolby Surround or Stereo). There's also a short interview with Double Trouble's Clayton and Shannon, recorded in 1999, in which they reveal that Stevie never bothered with a set list, and a biography, discography and timeline. --Mark Walker

• Randy Travis - Christmas On The Pecos | DVD | (17/11/2008) from £9.81   |  Saving you £-0.82 (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

  Country music superstar and multiple GRAMMY-award winner Randy Travis presents this brand-new Christmas treat for the whole family. Enjoy all-time seasonal favourites and a wealth of bonus features in a warm natural setting you will want to visit over and over again ! Randy Travis is a multiple Grammy Award-winning American country singer. Active since 1985 he has recorded more than a dozen studio albums to date in addition to charting more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts of which sixteen have reached Number One. Considered a pivotal figure in the history of country music Travis broke through in the mid-1980s with the release of his album Storms of Life; the album which sold more than three million copies made Travis the first country music act in history to achieve multi-platinum status. It also established him as a neotraditionalist country act and was followed by a string of several more platinum and multi-platinum albums throughout his career. Tracklist: 1. Santa Claus Is Coming to Town 2. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen 3. Rock of Ages 4. How Do You Wrap Up My Heart for Christmas 5. Forever and Ever 6. Winter Wonderland 7. Pretty Paper 8. Silent Night 9. The Christmas Guest 10. The Christmas Song 11. Sopapilla 12. Christmas Time''s A-comin''

• Live From Austin Tx | DVD | (26/03/2012) from £14.45   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Tracklist:1. Roy's Bluz2. Soul Dressing3. Sweet Dreams4. Hey Joe5. The Messiah

• Bob Dylan -Weary Blues From Waitin' | DVD | (19/04/2010) from £3.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (50.13%)   |  RRP £5.99

  This mix of rare historic footage and insightful review and criticism from friends, fellow musicians and Dylan experts, sheds new light on the 66-78 period of Bobs career an era that covers his alleged motorcycle accident and recuperation thereafter, the hugely creative sessions recorded with The Band at Big Pink - later to be known as the Basement Tapes - , his appearance at the Isle of Wight festival and return to the live arena and the release of albums including John Wesley Harding, Nashv...

• The Fall - Punkcast 2004/Live | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  THE FALL Punkcast 2004/Live At The Garage 2002 2DVD

• Ginger Baker And Friends -Live At The Jazz Cafe(Dvd+cd) | DVD | (10/05/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  In August 2009 legendary rock drummer Ginger Baker (of Graham Bond Organisation Cream Blind faith Airforce Baker-Gurvitz Army et al) miraculously reached his 70th Birthday. In October he also published his long awaited autobiography Hellraiser' (pub: John Blake) a book that for various reasons has taken him over twenty-years to complete. To coincide with these two momentous events a gig with special friends' was held at London's Jazz Cafe on 4th November 2009. This CD & DVD commemorates this historic & prestigious event & invites you to share the music & atmosphere of the venue. Ginger demonstrates his musical fluidity & prowess with a range of numbers spanning the back catalogue of his phenomenal career. He is helped in this by guitarist/singer Chris Goss (Masters of Reality) bassist extraordinaire Jonas Helborg percussionist Dodoo Abass world renowned saxophonist Peter King along with Ginger's daughter Leda Baker (Rubella Ballet/various) on guitar/backing vocals. For the last two numbers Ginger is joined by his surprise' guest & very special' friend Steve Winwood in a moving reconciliation that sees them play two show-stopping Blind Faith numbers and re winds time to when they last played together in Ginger Bakers Airforce in 1970.

• Vivaldi: The Four Seasons | DVD | (30/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Birds sing and all is well in the huge glass dome of the National Botanical Garden of Wales in this visual performance of Vivaldi's Four Seasons. Here we have fine, stylistically middle-of-the-road readings from the young and talented Julia Fischer and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. It's remarkable to discover that this is her first recording, so assured does she seem, and so at ease in front of the camera. But how do you add visual spice to a work that is so well known? Well, the answer here is two-fold. For a start, the soloist gets a new outfit for each season (though the poor old orchestra are dressed in what looks like Hessian sacking), and the lighting is done with sensitivity--"Winter" is most affectingly set in a darkened dome. Second, there is a neat "Director's Cut" option, featuring the same performance but with different visuals. While the camera returns frequently to the action inside the glass house, it's complemented by scenes of visual beauty (not always nature's own): dew on a spider's web, playful fountains, meadows of wild flowers. The effect is thoroughly pastoral, but was it a good idea to record this work complete with trickling water and a leitmotiv of tweeting birds? Perhaps not. However, if you can get round these distractions, the performance itself is eminently recommendable. On the DVD: The Four Seasons, as usual with Opus Arte DVDs, is generously filled with extras. As well as two complete performances of the work, there's a 13-minute interview with Julia Fischer (charming but relatively unenlightening) and "Favourite Seasons", a man in the street-type survey of the public's favourite times of year. Fischer adds her own comments to this but it's probably something that will pall after a single viewing. The surround sound recording is excellent and superbly balanced, and the visuals are a delight: sharp and in pristine colour. --Harriet Smith

• BONEY M.-FANTASTIC BONEY M. - ON STAGE | DVD | (15/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Euro-disco group Boney M. (created by the German record producer Frank Farian) first became a UK and European phenomenon during the '70s. ' Daddy Cool ' reached the U.K. Top Ten in February 1977, followed in April by ' Sunny.' In July, ' Ma Baker ' just missed the U.K. number one spot, and ' Belfast ' hit the Top Ten in December. In 1978, Boney M. were at the height of their popularity with ' Rivers of Babylon '/' Brown Girl in the Ring, ' which became the secon.

• Live From Japan | DVD | (08/10/2012) from £17.26   |  Saving you £-1.27 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Johnny Winter has done and seen just about everything. One thing he had yet to do was play in Japan. This is one of the few places that his touring hadn't taken him, until now. This show was recorded on April 15, 2011, the third night of three sold out shows, at the famed Zepp Tokyo Music Hall in the heart of the world's largest city. The songs Johnny played during his stellar set are soaked with more blues riffs in this one night than most guitar players can match in their career. If you lis...

• Spirit - Rockpalast - West Coast Legends Vol.3 | DVD | (11/04/2009) from £24.28   |  Saving you £-6.29 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Tracklist: 1. Rockpalast-Intro 2. Rockpalast Jam 3. Mr. Skin 4. Nature's Way 5. Like A Rolling Stone 6. Hollywood Dream 7. 1984 8. Looking Down From A Mountain 9. Hey Joe 10. Animal Zoo 11. Love Charged 12. It's All The Same (Incl. Drum-Solo) 13. I Got A Line On You 14. All Along The Watchtower 15. Wild Thing 16. Downer (Tampa Jam) 17. If I Miss This Train/Rockpalast Jam (/With Dickey Betts)

• Smetana Quartet | DVD | (03/03/2003) from £13.81   |  Saving you £1.18 (8.54%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Features the works: 'String Quartet No.1 In E Minor' 'String Quartet No.2 In D Minor' and 'Sextet In A Minor Op.48.

• 5036369811792 | DVD | (26/09/2011) from £5.11   |  Saving you £-0.12 (-2.40%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Founded in 1967, Tangerine Dream is the single most significant act in the history of electronic music. Their groundbreaking albums in the early seventies paved the way for a whole range of keyboard driven acts and they continue to influence the genre to this day. This DVD was filmed at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle on 25 October 1992 during the Rockoon tour. The concert film, directed by Michael Boydstun, features the live concert intercut with behind the scenes footage and incorporates the films and graphics used as backstage projections during the show to dramatic effect. Track List: 1) Two Bunch Palms2) Dolls In The Shadow3) Treasure Of Innocence4) Oriental Haze5) Graffiti Street6) Backstreet Hero7) Phaedra8) Love On A Real Train9) Hamlet10) Purple Haze11) Logos