Classical Music

• Songs From Tsongas -The 35th Anniversary Concert | Blu Ray | (22/09/2014) from £19.64   |  Saving you £-2.65 (-15.60%)   |  RRP £16.99

  It's not everyday that music lovers get the opportunity to witness one of rock's most enduring acts take the stage to celebrate its 35th reunion, but now viewers who weren't able to make the show in person can witness the magic firsthand as the classic Yes lineup of Jon Anderson, Steve Howe, Chris Squire, Rick Wakeman, and Alan White celebrate over three decades of music and memories. In addition to a full set that includes such classic Yes tunes as "Going for the One", "Turn of the Century", "Owner of a Lonely Heart" and many more, viewers will feel the full impact of the classic live performance set against the backdrop of a new stage design by none other than Roger Dean himself. --Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

• The Rolling Stones Some Girls Live In Texas 78 (DVD+CD Set) | DVD | (21/11/2011) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-7.99 (-42.10%)   |  RRP £18.99

  The Rolling Stones 1978 tour of the USA in support of that year’s “Some Girls” album is considered by fans to be one of their very best. The tour followed immediately on the release of the “Some Girls” album and by the time the band arrived in Texas in mid-July the album had hit the No.1 spot on the US charts. The tour took a “back to basics” approach, with the band and their music very much at the forefront and little or no elaborate staging.Filmed at the Will Rogers Memorial Center in Fort Worth, Texas, on 18 July 1978, this concert is typical of the tour with the Rolling Stones delivering a raw, energetic performance in front of a crowd who are clearly loving the show. Many of the tracks from “Some Girls” are included in the live set with a sprinkling of Stones classics from earlier albums. Originally shot on 16mm film, the footage has been carefully restored and the sound remixed and remastered by Bob Clearmountain from the original multitrack tapes. This is undeniably the Rolling Stones at the peak of their form. Track listing: 1) Let It Rock2) All Down The Line 3) Honky Tonk Women 4) Star Star 5) When The Whip Comes Down 6) Beast Of Burden 7) Miss You 8) Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me) 9) Shattered 10) Respectable 11) Far Away Eyes 12) Love In Vain 13) Tumbling Dice 14) Happy 15) Sweet Little Sixteen 16) Brown Sugar 17) Jumpin’ Jack Flash. Special Features: Newly filmed interview with Mick Jagger Additional bonus features to be confirmed.

• Legendary British Performers (Classic Archive): Various Artists | DVD | (26/03/2007) from £3.52   |  Saving you £11.73 (519.03%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Tracklisting 1. Song Without Words Op. 109 : Cello And Piano (1845) 2. Goyescas : Opera: 1 Act : New York (1916) 3. Allegro Appassionato Op. 43 : Cello And Piano (1875) 4. Go Not Happy Day H34 : Song (1916) 5. (6) Folksongs From Norfolk : 1v And Piano (1923) 6. Quartet For Keyboard Violin Viola And Cello K478 (1785) 7. Folk Song Arrangements : 1v And Piano (Unless Otherwise Stated) 8. Folk Song Arrangements : 1v & Orchestra 9. What Then Is Love But Mourning : Ayre (Pub 1601) 10. Have You Seen The Whyte Lilie Grow : Folksong 11. Ah Heav'n What Is't I Hear : Duet (Pub 1700) 12. Birthday Ode 'Come Ye Sons Of Art Away' Z323 : For Mary II (1694) 13. Scherzo Capriccioso B131 (Op. 66) : Orchestra (1883) 14. Annees De Pelerinage_Annee 2: Italie S161 : Piano (1837-49) 15. Impromptus : Piano (1828) 16. Cantata No. 147 'Herz Und Mund Und Tat Und Leben' BWV147 (1723) 17. Sonata For Piano No. 31 Op. 110 (1821-2) 18. Toccata Adagio And Fugue BWV564 (1708-17)

• That One Night: Live In Buenos Aires | DVD | (20/07/2009) from £13.35   |  Saving you £-0.36 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Track Listing:1. Blackmail The Universe2. Set The World Afire3. Wake Up Dead4. In My Darkest Hour5. She Wolf6. Reckoning Day7. A Tout Le Monde8. Hangar 18 & Return To Hangar9. I'll Be There10. Tornado Of Souls11.Trust12. Something That I'm Not13.Kick The Chair14.Coming Home15.Symphony Of Destruction16.Peace Sells17.Holy Wars18.Symphony Of Destruction (Alternate Version)Disc 1 - Bonus Features 1. Symphony Of Destruction (Alternate Version)

• Miles Davis The Definitive Miles Davis At Montreux DVD Collection 1973-1991 | DVD | (24/10/2011) from £82.87   |  Saving you £39.38 (48.25%)   |  RRP £120.99

  This historically important 10 DVD set captures all of Miles Davis’ performances at the renowned Montreux Jazz Festival between 1973 and 1991, the last being less than three months before his death. It is an unparalleled archive of live Miles Davis performances and is now being released on a visual format for the first time ever. Although many tracks are repeated across the years the concerts are strikingly individual with extensive improvisation and frequent rearrangements. The final concert from 1991 sees Miles Davis paying tribute to his collaborator and close find Gil Evans who had died in 1988. With Miles’ philosophy of “never look back” it was extraordinary that he would agree to perform such a show and it was a truly unique occasion captured here for posterity. Miles Davis is undeniably one of the most important and successful jazz figures of the 20th century. This unrivalled DVD box set of his live performances at Montreux is a release to be truly cherished. Bonus Features On disc one there are full interviews with Claude Nobs, Carlos Santana and Herbie Hancock plus shorter interviews about Miles Davis with Monty Alexander, Helen Merrill, Betty Carter, Charlie Haden, Gil Goldstein, Stanley Clarke, Jean Luc Ponty and Al Di Meola and Michel Petrucciani.

• Blues Caravan 2024 | DVD | (27/09/2024) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Mozart - Mass in C Minor | DVD | (15/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  This DVD presents three of Mozart's best-loved sacred works filmed in the magnificent Baroque Basilica of Waldsassen Bavaria. Featuring superb soloists his inspirational performance of the great C minor Mass found widespread critical acclaim.

• Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, A True Star...Live (DVD & CD Pack) Region 0 DVD | DVD | (25/09/2020) from £20.15   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Brahms / Schoenberg / Beethoven - 2013 Lucerne Festival | DVD | (12/05/2014) from £25.92   |  Saving you £-5.93 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

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• The Hidden Heart - Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears | DVD | (24/11/2008) from £15.48   |  Saving you £-6.49 (-72.20%)   |  RRP £8.99

  Benjamin Britten (1913-76) was the leading British composer of the twentieth century and his reputation is international. Although his life was marked with many 'establishment'' honours he remained at heart an outsider alienated by his homosexuality his pacifism his genius his uncompromising commitment to his own judgement and even his extraordinary success. But the story told in this documentary is above all a love story one that tells of Britten''s passion for music and the intensity of his union with the tenor Peter Pears his companion in life and creativity. It explores his talent triumph trials and tribulations by focusing on three of his major works - Peter Grimes the War Requiem and Death in Venice - and draws on specially-staged and newly-filmed performance extracts; clips from productions recorded in Britten''s day including several featuring Pears; archive material; and newsreel footage. A picture is drawn of the public''s perception of and reaction to the man and his music while contributions from friends and close associates reveal much about the very private person he remained in spite of his fame.

• Verdi: La Traviata (Aix-en-Provence, 2011) | DVD | (12/03/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Natalie Dessay made her first European appearances as Violetta in La traviata in a new production by the French director Jean-Franois Sivadier at the 2011 Aix-en-Provence Festival. This DVD captures her intense performance in the company of American tenor Charles Castronovo as Alfredo and French baritone Ludovic Tzier as his father, Giorgio Germont. Her theatrical impact is devastating, wrote the Financial Times. With this new production of La traviata at the 2011 Aix-en-Provence Festival, Natalie Dessay made her first European appearances as Verdi's Violetta, a pinnacle of the soprano repertoire. She made her debut in the role in 2009 at the Santa Fe Festival in the US, and subsequently sang Violetta in Japan. Dessay's 2011-12 season will include La traviata at the Vienna State Opera (in this Aix-en-Provence production by French theatre and opera director Jean-Franois Sivadier) and the New York Metropolitan. Violetta makes tremendous demands on a singer, both vocally and dramatically, and signals Dessay's transition from lighter coloratura roles to the more full-blooded lyric repertoire. I'm tired of playing weeping girls, she told the French magazine Tl 7 Jours, Violetta is a real woman. That makes a nice change! The change was clearly successfully achieved: describing Dessay’s performance, the Financial Times wrote that her theatrical impact is devastating. Sivadier's production was staged in the open air, in Aix-en-Provence's exquisite Thtre de l'Archevch with its huge spiral staircases, medieval arches and 18th-century wings. The stage dcor was minimal, the simple costumes evoked the 1940s or 1950s, and the prime focus was on intense characterisation.

• The Gaslight Anthem Live In London | DVD | (14/01/2014) from £5.03   |  Saving you £10.96 (217.89%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Tracklist: American Slang 59 Sound Handwritten '45' Here Comes My Man Too Much Blood Great Expectations Keepsake She Loves You Mulholland Drive

• Zoom Karaoke DVD - Indie, Britpop & Alternative Superhits Karaoke - 60 Songs | DVD | (02/12/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Track Listing A Town Called Malice - Jam Alive And Kicking - Simple Minds Alright - Supergrass Ask - Smiths Baby I Don't Care - Transvision Vamp Babylon - David Gray Breakfast At Tiffany's - Deep Blue Something Common People - Pulp Crash - Primitives Creep - Radiohead Disco 2000 - Pulp Don't Look Back In Anger - Oasis Don't You (Forget About Me) - Simple Minds Everyday Is Like Sunday - Morrissey Friday I'm In Love - Cure Girl From Mars - Ash Girls And Boys - Blur Going Underground - Jam Golde...

• Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake - Valery Gergiev | DVD | (15/10/2007) from £15.85   |  Saving you £-1.86 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Flimed in the Imperial Splendour of the Mariinsky Theatre St Petersburg the first of a new DVD series of classic productions. The Mariinsky (Kirov) Ballet dancing the definitive Swan Lake conducted by Valery Gergiev. Stars the prima ballerina of the Mariinsky Ballet Uliana Lopatkina

• Maurice Ravel - L'Enfant Et Les Sortileges/L'Heure Espagnole | DVD | (07/11/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.25

  Maurice Ravel's one-act operas L'Enfant et les Sortil''ges and L'Heure Espagnole are often performed as a double bill. These two productions for Glyndebourne Festival Opera were first recorded and seen on BBC TV in 1987 and are both designed by the great American children's book writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak and directed by Frank Corsaro. L'Enfant et les Sortil''ges or 'The bewitched child' is an enchanting fantasy which tells the tale of a boy who is angry because he does not want to learn his lessons. He destroys his books and vandalises the room he is in. But the room comes to life - chairs grandfather clock teapot and teacup - and seeks revenge... The staging of this production featured film projection and this has been brilliantly reflected in the electronically-edited television recording. Cynthia Buchan sings the role of the boy and the cast also includes Fiona Kimm Malcolm Walker Fran''ois Loup Hyacinth Nicholls Thierry Dran Louise Winter Nan Christie Jady Pearl Carol Smith Harolyn Blackwell Anna Steiger and Alison Hagley. Simon Rattle conducts The London Philharmonic. L'Heure Espagnole means not only 'the Spanish clock' but also 'the Spanish hour'; every Thursday at the same time the clockmaker Torquemada has an appointment to wind and regulate the town clocks thus leaving his wife alone in the house for an hour... The Spanish adventure is set in a Toledo square over which towers the baroque fa''ade of the town hall where Torquemada winds and minds the clocks. Maurice Sendak's delightfully animated set comprises a huge baroque fa''ade complete with working clocks and carved emblems. The cast includes Anna Steiger Fran''ois Le Roux R''my Corazza Thierry Dran and Fran''ois Loup. Sian Edwards conducts The London Philharmonic.

• Nutcracker | DVD | (31/10/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Schiaccianoci (Lo) / Nutcracker

• A Musical Journey - Venice | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £9.19   |  Saving you £-0.20 (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

  THE PLACES: Venice is one of the most famous of all cities its buildings reflecting its former commercial importance and wealth. It canals and its position at the head of the Adriatic have given it a unique character that has continued to attract visitors.THE MUSIC: The music is either associated directly with Venice or familiar there in the heyday of the Serenissima. It includes music by the Venetian composers Vivaldi and Marcello and by Domenico Scarletti Neapolitan by birth

• Motorhead - The Bronze Era | DVD | (19/08/2013) from £8.08   |  Saving you £-2.09 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £5.99

• Sommernachtskonzert 2023 / Summer Night Concert 2023 | DVD | (14/07/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Anna Netrebko - The Woman The Voice | DVD | (05/07/2004) from £18.98   |  Saving you £-4.99 (-35.70%)   |  RRP £13.99

  The debut album from soprano Anna Netrebko - entitled OPERA ARIAS - is brought into the visual medium with this release. Five videos are set to arias from the album in a production originally shot for television with cutting-edge choreography coming from Vincent Patterson who formerly worked on feature films such as THE BIRDCAGE and DANCER IN THE DARK.