Classical Music

• Boito - Mefistofele (Ranzani, Filianoti, Theodossiou) | DVD | (01/09/2008) from £21.38   |  Saving you £3.61 (14.40%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Arrigo Boito's Mefistofele performed by Orchestra, Chorus, Corps De Ballet and Children's Chorus Of Teatro Massimo, conducted by Stefano Ranzani.

• Live At AVO Session Basel (2008) | DVD | (15/02/2010) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-2.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A unique phenomenon in popular music history Jethro Tull have been and still are one of the most successful and enduring acts in British rock history and one of the best live performing acts on the world stage rivalling Led Zeppelin Elton John and even the Rolling Stones. With records like Aqualung and Thick Is A Brick (#1 US) they produced two superb concept records and became one of the most successful bands in progressive rock. Surprising really for a group whose more sophisticated and evolved stylistic extravagance was far from the pop and rock norm of the 70's era. Jethro Tull's sound went from a sort of progressive blues with a bit of jazz over to real progressive rock alongside such diverse groups as King Crimson Genesis Camel The Nice Gentle Giant and Yes but is still influenced by world music and a mixture of diverse classical instruments - one of the most experimental Rock groups ever. Their music is characterised by the songs vocals and flute work of Ian Anderson who together with Martin Barre remains at the centre of a group of sometimes changing but highly capable indeed excellent musicians. Currently Doane Perry veteran Tull drummer of some 24 years experience together with John O'Hara on piano and accordion and David Goodier on bass guitar are to be found in the line-up delighting audiences and continuing the legacy of Tull's music with its rich variety and depth of expression wherever fans young and old want to hear rock folk jazz and classical inspired music for grown-ups. After forty years of ever growing success with now some 30-odd albums to their credit and sales totalling more than 50 million Jethro Tull are still performing typically more than a hundred concerts each year. Live At AVO Session Basel is with no doubt one of their best. This recording is really of a typical Tull show with a mixture of classic material from our repertoire particularly the earlier period. (Ian Anderson - Jethro Tull) Approx 90 minutes full of all Jethro Tull classics shown in an amazing live show including one of their best known songs Living In The Past and the classic song Bouree of Johann Sebastian Bach. Track listing: 1. My Sunday Feeling 2. Living In The Past 3. Serenade To A Cuckoo 4. So Much Trouble 5. Nursie 6. Rocks On The Road 7. A New Day Yesterday 8. Too Old To R&R 9. Bouree 10. Nothing Is Easy 11. Dharma For One 12. Heavy Horses 13. TAAB 14. Aqualung 15. Locomotive Breath

• Foreigner - Live at the Rainbow '78 | Blu Ray | (15/03/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• One More | DVD | (27/02/2012) from £3.98   |  Saving you £16.01 (402.26%)   |  RRP £19.99

  It's an all-star DJ line-up that would have cost hundreds of thousands of pounds in its heyday...assembled here for One More celebration. Clubland heavyweights Jeremy Healy, Brandon Block, Graeme Park, Danny Rampling, Norman Cook, Tall Paul, Allister Whitehead, Mark Moore, Sonique, Nicky Holloway and Radio One stalwarts Judge Jules Jules and Dave Pearce, plus many more, dot the 'I's and cross the 'T's on two decades of 'aving 'IT'.We hear from their paymasters too, the promoters of iconic club brands and venues like Renaissance, Hacienda, Venus, Golden, Gatecrasher, Miss Moneypenny's, Trip & Sin, Progess, Turnmills, Wobble, Colours, The Escape Club, The Hippo Club and Lamerica. Fuelled by revolutionary party drug ecstasy, this historic era of UK clubbing changed the lives of millions.Nearly two years in the making, packed with previously unseen archive footage and set to a seminal soundtrack from a pioneering generation, this intriguing documentary quizzes the people who made it all possible. We ask why and how it happened, discuss what brought about the scene's decline, and then pose the unenviable question - If tonight was your last ever gig, what would be your One More track?

• Chris Smither - One More Night | DVD | (15/09/2008) from £22.93   |  Saving you £-5.94 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Chris Smither: One More Night

• Nigel Kennedy Plays Bach | DVD | (20/08/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Nigel Kennedy: Kennedy Plays Bach

• Maze: Live - Featuring Frankie Beverly | DVD | (26/08/2013) from £15.69   |  Saving you £0.30 (1.91%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Established in San Francisco during the late 1970's Maze has become one of the world's leading Soul/R&B acts. Three of their albums We Are One Can't Stop The Love and Silky Soul reached the Top 50 in the UK album charts in the 1980s and their 1985 single Too Many Games made it into the UK Top 40 singles charts. The sound is distinctive -- passionate creative original soulful honest and powerful. For nearly thirty years Frankie Beverly and Maze have created a unique sound and become one of the most influential groups in modern history. They continue to attract sold-out audiences shedding a long lived title of best kept secret in the industry. Performing to a sell-out crowd at London's Hammersmith Odeon in 1995 the powerhouse of American Soul that is Frankie Beverly delivers an outstanding performance. Track Listing: Running Away All Night Long Can't Get Over You Back In Stride We Are One The Morning After You Happy Feelin's Laid Back Girl Joy And Pain Before I Let Go What Goes Up Twilight

• Mozart - Piano Concertos No.22-24 | DVD | (05/02/2007) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Mozart:Piano Concertos Nos. 22 23 & 24

• Mstislav Rostropovich | DVD | (03/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Tracklisting: Mussorgsky: Songs and Dances of Death performed by Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano) Mstislav Rostropovich (piano). Prokofiev: Sinfonia Concertante in E minor for cello & orchestra Op 125 performed by Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) and the Orchestre National de l'Opra de Monte-Carlo Okko Kamu. Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No 1 in E flat major Op 107 performed by Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) and the London Symphony Orchestra Charles Groves.

• Verdi - La Forza Del Destino (Tebaldi, Corelli) | DVD | (06/02/2006) from £17.62   |  Saving you £5.37 (30.48%)   |  RRP £22.99

  The legendary 1958 performance of Forza del Destino at San Carlo Theater in Naples available in a completely up-to-date audio and video re-recording.The only authorized re-recording made directly from RAI's original master copy.

• Big Country: Live at the Town and Country Club | DVD | (09/09/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The height of the band's popularity was in the 1980s although it retained a cult following for many years after. The band's music was most recognisable for the sounds it infused with Scottish folk and martial music styles as well as for playing and engineering their guitar driven sound to evoke the inspirational spirit of bagpipes fiddles and other traditional folk instruments. A decade before the untimely death of lead singer Stuart Adamson Big Country provide a unique performance at London's Alexander Palace. The timeless and remarkable sound created by Adamson's guitar riffs were always reminiscent of the band's Scottish roots blending a bagpipe-like sound with a thumping anthemic catalogue of memorable hits including Fields of Fire In a Big Country Look Away and Harvest Home. Released to coincide with the band's recently released album The Journey and 2013 Tour.

• Speak Now World Tour (Blu-ray + CD | Blu Ray | (28/11/2011) from £29.68   |  Saving you £-2.69 (-10.00%)   |  RRP £26.99

  Tracklist:Sparks FlyMineStory of UsOur SongMeanBack to DecemberBetter Than RevengeSpeak NowFearlessLast KissDrops of JupiterYou Belong With MeDear JohnEnchantedHauntedLong LiveFifteenLove Story

• Brahms - Concertos 1 - 2 - Leonard Bernstein/Wiener Philharmoniker | DVD | (13/08/2007) from £13.39   |  Saving you £0.60 (4.30%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Leonard Bernstein: Brahms Cycle II

• Live On The Queen Mary | Blu Ray | (21/10/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  On 26 March this year a dream came true for Hugh Laurie when he took to the stage in the magnificent Art Deco surroundings of the famous liner Queen Mary, now moored permanently at Longbeach, California. The show combines tracks from both of his hugely successful blues albums, Let Them Talk from 2011 (UK #2) and the recently released Didn t It Rain (UK #3), along with other musical gems. Hugh Laurie leads on vocals, piano and guitar and is supported by the Copper Bottom Blues Band, a fantasti...

• Dvorak-Rusalka | DVD | (30/05/2011) from £12.15   |  Saving you £0.84 (6.50%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Antonin Dvorak's most famous opera has the distinction of the largest attendance of any ever shown in the Czech Republic, and has been performed in distinguished opera houses worldwide since its 1901 premier. Dvorak has assumed his place in the canon of great composers, and with RUSALKA he produced the great Czech national opera.

• We Are The World | DVD | (03/08/2009) from £23.76   |  Saving you £-8.77 (-58.50%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A dream that became a song, an event, and a worldwide movement. See the making of a miracle as 45 of the biggest names in pop combine to record a once-in-a-lifetime song - written by Michael Jackson & Lionel Richie and produced by Quincy Jones - to benefit the starving millions in Africa and America. Featuring exclusive behind-the-scenes footage of Michael Jackson and never-before-seen out-takes, with a supporting cast of pop superstars including Stevie Wonder, Bob Dylan, Ray Charles, Diana Ross, Paul Simon, Tina Turner, Bruce Springsteen and many more. Narrated by Jane Fonda, this moving documentary provides a unique and intimate look at the night of January 28, 1985 to provide more than a moving collection of words, pictures and music - it's a living piece of history.

• Cecilia Bartoli - Maria | DVD | (17/03/2008) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-4.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £21.99

  Disc 1: Cecilia Bartoli - The Barcelona ConcertDisc 2: The Documentary - Malibran Rediscovered - The Romantic Revolution: This unique film follows Cecilia Bartoli as she plays tribute to her predecessor, the legendary singer Maria Malibran - the first female superstar in music history, muse to composers and adored public goddess or Romanticism.

• Get All You Deserve | DVD | (24/09/2012) from £14.83   |  Saving you £-2.84 (-23.70%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Get All You Deserve è la testimonianza audio e video in alta definizione del concerto a Città Del Messico, durante il tour di supporto al secondo album da solista di Wilson Grace For Drowning.

• Go Ride The Music + West Pole | DVD | (11/06/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Tracklist:Jefferson Airplane:1) We Can Be Together 2) Voulnteers 3) Mexico 4) Plastic Fantastic Lover 5) Somebody To Love 6) Emergency 7) Wooden Ships Quicksilver Messenger Service: 8) Warm Red Wine 9) Baby Baby 10) Subway 11) MonaWest PoleAce Of Cups: 12) Music 13) Simplicity 14) Gospel Song The Grateful Dead: 15) New Potato Caboose Jefferson Airplane: 16) Greasy Heart Sons Of Champlin:17) Freedom Steve Miller Band: 18) Roll With It 19) Sittin' In Circles Quicksilver Messenger Service: 20) Dino's Song

• A Midsummer Night's Dream - Pacific Northwest Ballet | DVD | (26/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  This performance of George Balanchine's ballet A Midsummer Night's Dream was filmed live at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, in February 1999 and won the award for "Best Television Realisation of a Stage Production" at IMZ Dance Screen. The music is from Mendelssohn's youthful overture plus later theatre music, and five other pieces by the composer all selected by the great Russian choreographer Balanchine in 1962. In a fine ensemble cast, Paul Gibson as Oberon and Patricia Barker as Titania are suitably aloof, at least until the latter dances with the ass Bottom (Timothy Lynch) in a highlight of touching comedy. After all the quarrelsome entanglements of the first act, the finale ensures celebration and richly deserved happy endings all round. The simple sets have a picturesque charm, the costumes a fairytale glamour and the large cast, including many children, dance with flair and enthusiasm; this is clearly one production where everyone was having a fine time. In fact it is rather more enjoyable than Hollywood's A Midsummer Night's Dream of the same year. Ballet aficionados may also want to explore the BBC's wonderful Coppélia (2000). On the DVD: There are no special features on the disc, but the 12-page booklet is entirely in English and is well presented, offering track and cast lists, a synopsis and notes on Balanchine, Mendelssohn and the creative talents and directors of the Pacific Northwest Ballet. The sound is atmospheric--Dolby Digital 5.0--and the anamorphically enhanced 16:9 image is good, though slightly soft, and does occasionally reveal some compression artefacting. In defiance of regional encoding regulations, not only is this DVD region free, but includes the normal PAL UK television system programme material on one side and on the reverse includes the same content in NTSC format, suitable for American playback. Anyone curious to see if one format is better will find that the UK PAL transfer contains just a little more picture detail. --Gary S Dalkin