Classical Music

• Lehar - the Merry Widow (Serafin, Morbisch Orchestra) | DVD | (09/09/2013) from £24.06   |  Saving you £0.93 (3.87%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The opera The Merry Widow opera in 3 Acts.

• ITV Sessions, the: Wishbone As | DVD | (21/03/2011) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-5.59 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Incredible live performance filmed at the ITV studios.

• Natalie Dessay - Greatest Moments on Stage | DVD | (30/10/2006) from £14.38   |  Saving you £1.61 (11.20%)   |  RRP £15.99

  While hearing Natalie Dessay is great: seeing her is even better. There is no other singer in the opera world today who knows how to inhabit the character like Natalie. Whether playing Manon Lakm'' Oph''lie or Lucia she always manages to find some element to satisfy her incredible talents as an actress. She has also an immediate rapport with the audience a presence which enables her to light up the stage and communicate so eloquently that she deserves every one of her accolades. The DVD brings together excerpts of Natalie performing in productions worldwide which have made her name including her signature role of Olympia in Offenbach's Le Contes d'Hoffman the Queen of Night in Mozart's The Magic Flute the character of Fire in Ravel's L'Enfant et les sortileges and many more. In addition to the live footage Natalie offers little anecdotes on the productions prior to each performance.

• Portrait of St. Petersburg | DVD | (09/02/2018) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-3.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

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• Best Of - A Centenary Celebration | DVD | (20/09/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

• 35th Anniversary Tour - Live In Poland | Blu Ray | (28/04/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Live From Wembley 2012 | DVD | (01/06/2014) from £11.98   |  Saving you £2.01 (16.78%)   |  RRP £13.99

  The English acoustic singer-songwriter captured live in performance at the Wembley Arena on the 13th of April 2012. Turner began his musical career in the hardcore band, Million Dead, but found greater success when he embarked upon a solo acoustic career in 2005. His rise to prominence was embodied by his invitation to perform at the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games and his ability to sell out the 12,000 capacity venue at Wembley.

• Beethoven - The Violin Sonatas | DVD | (09/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Ludwig Van Beethoven has played a major role in the professional development of the violin virtuosa Anne-Sophie Mutter: She devoted 1998 to Beethoven undertaking an enthusiastically received worldwide recital tour playing the complete cycle of the composer's violin sonatas as well as recording them for audio and audio-visual release. Lambert Orkis was her pianist for this marathon venture. On this documentary Anne-Sophie Mutter talks about her development as a musician: playing the

• Live At Shepherds Bush, London | Blu Ray | (09/09/2013) from £16.98   |  Saving you £0.01 (0.10%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Mike & The Mechanics were formed in 1985 by Mike Rutherford as a separate project to run alongside his work with Genesis. They released their eponymous debut album the same year featuring vocals from both Paul Carrack (Ace) and Paul Young (Sad Caf�) and had an immediate hit with Silent Running. This was followed by a string of further hit singles and albums including 'The Living Years', a US No.1 single that remains one of the most played songs of all time on FM radio. In 2004 the band reunit...

• Black & White Night | DVD | (13/07/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Few early rockers were more gifted or less honoured in their prime than the late Roy Orbison, whose vaulting tenor and vulnerable love songs conjured heartbreak and desire with operatic intensity. This 1987 concert special came two decades after Orbison had retreated from pop's front lines, yet neither Orbison nor his music coasts on mere nostalgia: in every respect, A Black and White Night survives as a triumphant performance and a superb video production, as well as a first-rate retrospective of Orbison's hits.Filmed in black and white against the streamlined art deco stage of the since-demolished Coconut Grove in downtown Los Angeles, the concert is buoyed by a remarkable cast of A-list Orbison fans who signed on as his accompanists. Under the direction of producer T-Bone Burnett, the stage band thus includes Jackson Browne, Burnett, Elvis Costello, k.d. lang, Bonnie Raitt, J.D. Souther, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits and Jennifer Warnes, along with the rhythm section from Elvis Presley's fabled late 60s and early 70s touring band. That astonishing line-up is all the more noteworthy for the restraint with which they collaborate--it's evident that those superstars came to honour Orbison, not upstage him, resulting in a gratifying cohesion to the performances.Orbison himself sounds as powerful as ever, his soaring falsetto cresting as dramatically as it did on the studio versions of the hits that inevitably dominate. Those songs meanwhile confirm that his blue-chip admiration society came as much for the calibre of his writing as for his ravishing voice: if he remains best known for the jaunty come-on of "Pretty Woman", Orbison was first and foremost a rock balladeer, capable of bringing lumps to our throats with such classics as "Crying" and "Only the Lonely", or conjuring romantic trances through such gentle charmers as "Dream Baby". On this night, he handled all of them with fervour and finesse. --Sam Sutherland, Amazon.com

• Gounod: Faust | DVD | (10/07/2006) from £31.37   |  Saving you £-16.38 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Erich Binder conducts the Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper in Ken Russell's unconventional production of Faust. Filmed in Wiener Staatsoper 1985. Set and costume design by Carl Toms.

• Status Quo: The Last Night Of The Electrics | Blu Ray | (14/07/2017) from £15.13   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Verdi - La Traviata (Netrebko, Villazon) | DVD | (03/12/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Here is the opera event of 2005 the Salzburg Festival's La traviata Rolando Villazon and Thomas Hampson in a dramatic staging by Willy Decker - the thrilling production that prompted riotous ovations not seen since Karajan's heyday.

• Live In Europe | Blu Ray | (14/10/2013) from £9.05   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Live performance by American supergroup Flying Colors. Filmed in the Netherlands as part of their European tour of 2012, the band play a selection of hits from throughout their career including 'Love Is What I'm Waiting For', 'The Storm', 'Hallelujah' and 'Kayla'.

• Buddy Rich -- Jazz Legend (1917-1987): Transcriptions and Analysis of the World's Greatest Drummer (DVD) | DVD | (01/07/2002) from £16.93   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Golden Ring | DVD | (08/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When The Golden Ring was aired on the BBC in 1965, it was the longest music documentary ever made. And though now Humphrey Burton's 90-minute black and white film about Georg Solti's landmark recording of Gotterdammerung seems rather rough and naïve in its use of basic documentary techniques, the excitement it conveys about the gargantuan Ring cycle project is still palpable. Underlings scuttle about, engineers endlessly fiddle with knobs, and Decca producer John Culshaw oversees the largest recording project ever undertaken with the command of a great military general. The technical insights are fascinating: all the sound mixing has to be done immediately, for instance, and echo effects are created by placing certain instruments in different rooms with closed-circuit TV cameras giving them Solti's beat. Culshaw's legendary attention to detail is also noted: he had obsolete stierhorns made especially for Hagen's call to the Gibichung vassals. Burton's documentary style is a little awkward, and his use of cut-aways and fades now seems antiquated. But he is sensible enough to allow generous portions of the music to speak for themselves, and the closing scene--Birgit Nilsson singing Brunnhilde's immolation--is simply heart-stopping. Despite the roughness, this film undoubtedly still captures one of the greatest moments in the history of classical music recording. On the DVD: The Golden Ring, as you might expect from a 1965 documentary, has patchy sound and picture quality (from a mixture of video and 16mm film). Occasionally the tape seems to splinter a little and the microphones fail to catch certain conversations with clarity. But somehow it all adds to the raw excitement and doesn't detract from the subject matter. The DVD also includes 69 minutes of audio highlights from the final recording.--Warwick Thompson

• Mahler: Symphonies Nos 1-10 & Das Lied von der Erde | DVD | (16/06/2017) from £46.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• B-52s With The Wild Crowd! Live In Athens, GA | Blu Ray | (19/03/2012) from £20.95   |  Saving you £-3.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Track listing:1. Pump2. Private Idaho3. Mesopotamia4. Ultraviolet5. Dancing Now6. Give Me Back My Man7. Funplex8. Whammy Kiss9. Deadbeat Club10. Roam11. 52 Girls12. Party Out of Bounds13. Love in the Year 300014. Cosmic Thing15. Hot Corner16. Love Shack17. Wig18. Strobe Light19. Planet Claire20. Rock Lobster.

• Stereophonics Live | DVD | (28/01/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Stereophonics' debut album Word Gets Around was released in August 1997 and instantly charted at number six in the UK aided by the singles Local Boy in the Photograph More Life in a Tramps Vest and A Thousand Trees. The band reached mainstream success with the release of Performance and Cocktails and its promotional singles The Bartender and the Thief Just Looking and Pick a Part That's New in 1999 and have achieved a total of ten top-ten singles as well as one number-one: 2005's “Dakota. The band is praised for their live performances. Filmed live at the Glasgow Academy in 2009: Track Listing: Bank Holiday The Bartender and the Thief A Thousand Trees My Friend Just Looking I Wouldn’t Believe Your Radio Superman Mr. Writer It Means Nothing More Life in a Tramp’s Vest Dakota  

• Hits Vegas | Blu Ray | (16/10/2020) from £25.65   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A