Classical Music

• Mozart - Die Zauberflote | DVD | (20/11/2006) from £19.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (20.00%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Hamburg Philhharmoni State Orchestra and Chorus of the Hamburg State Opera.

• A Night With Handel | DVD | (25/10/1999) from £16.24   |  Saving you £0.01 (0.07%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Sultry sopranos and contraltos brood in candle-lit churches or at the top of a shopping mall escalator; a shaven-headed tough menaces enemies with a knife, singing of vengeance and death in a terrifying counter-tenor rasp; a couple sing of fulfilment in the back of a limousine. Jonathan Keates remarks in his accompanying lecture that the heroes and heroines of Handel's opera are real people, whose passions transcend the baroque libretti they are singing; by taking them out of full-bottomed wigs and panniered frocks and putting them at large in contemporary London at night, this interesting documentary reminds us of the immediacy of these arias. This would not work, of course, were not the performances exemplary in their own right and presented with a driving urgency that takes us away from the pieties of the oratorio tradition and reminds us what a superb and popular man of the theatre Handel was. --Roz KaveneyOn the DVD: The DVD comes with the narration in English, French and German, and subtitles in those languages. The arias are also playable as audio only. --Roz Kaveney

• Sylvan - Posthumous Silence | DVD | (29/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £18.99

  Sylvan: Posthumous Silence - Live At Kampnagel

• Ringo Starr and His All-Starr Band: Live at the Greek Theater 2019 | Blu Ray | (09/12/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Powerwolf: The Metal Mass Live | Blu Ray | (29/07/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Live in Offenbach 1978 | DVD | (20/06/2011) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-5.24 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £14.99

  To commemorate the 40th anniversary of Weather Report the Zawinul estate isproud to release this live DVD document of the band‘s performance in Offenbach, Germany, on September 29th, 1978.The recording features arguably the most individual group ever to mix elements of jazz, rock and electronics and they‘re captured here at their absolute best. Led by two musical visionaries, pianist and keyboard player Joe Zawinul and tenor and soprano saxophonist Wayne Shorter, the group was also unique in that it eschewed the then fashionable guitar.Also on board were flamboyant electric bassist Jaco Pastorius, a genuine innovator, and newly arrived drummer Peter Erskine a master technician brought into the group to add more of a jazz feel. Prior to this line up an additional percussionist had always been present but this auxiliary role was dropped to allow greater space in the music. Track listing: 1. Black Market2. Scarlet Woman3. Young and Fine4. The Pursuit of the Woman with the Feathered Hat5. A Remark You Made6. River People7. Thanks for the Memories8. Dolores / Portrait of Tracy / Third Stone from the Sun9. Mr. Gone10. In a Silent Way11. Waterfall12. Teen Town13. I Got It Bad and That Ain’t Good / The Midnight Sun Will Never Set On You14. Birdland15. Introductions16. Fred and Jack17. Elegant People18. Badia.

• Donizetti: Don Pasquale | Blu Ray | (12/07/2011) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-4.99 (-22.70%)   |  RRP £21.99

  John Del Carlo’s impressive singing and acting chops as the Don are given every boost by Otto Schenk’s hilarious staging and James Levine’s witty conducting. Leading this opera for the first time at the Met, the renowned maestro demonstrates that his gifts suit Donizetti as perfectly as Wagner. Mariusz Kwiecien and Matthew Polenzani scintillate as Malatesta and Ernesto.When Norina slaps Pasquale, the old man sees how deluded he has been to believe that the young beauty loves him. The San Francisco Chronicle paid homage to this turning point thus: “Netrebko captures the moment that gives the opera a heart it otherwise would lack”.

• Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concertus Musicus Vienna : A Concert of Music By Bach | DVD | (03/12/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Glorious Bach is a simple, straightforward record of a concert at the Benedictine Abbey of Melk of three Bach works for the season of Advent. All of them are, in different ways, meditations on the imminent arrival of Christ, both as child and as Messiah, and on the role of Mary as his mother. Nikolaus Harnoncourt has this music in his bones and so do his impressive team of soloists and the Arnold Schoenberg Choir; the Concentus Musicus of Vienna by now play original-style instruments so smoothly that one has almost to remind oneself of how shocking the authenticity movement sounded a few short years ago. Ian Bostridge is especially fine in the extended tenor part of the less well-known piece Nun Komm, der Heiden Heiland; Bostridge combines an absolute vocal purity with a fierce intelligence in his approach to the words--the advantage of the DVD is that it lets us see him and his fellow soloists thinking as well as singing. Christine Schafer is particularly fine in the Magnificat in D, in which Harnoncourt lets his orchestra rip, reminding us why this is such a popular festival piece. On the DVD: The DVD, presented in 16:9 visual ratio, has sumptuous Dolby Digital sound, subtitles in English, German, Italian, Spanish and French and no other frills whatsoever. --Roz Kaveney

• Poulenc/Menotti - La Voix Humaine/the Telephone (Serebrier) | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £25.45   |  Saving you £2.54 (9.10%)   |  RRP £27.99

  Carole Farley in LA VOIX HUMAINE and THE TELEPHONE or L'amour a trois.

• Beethoven String Quartets Vol.1 | DVD | (07/11/2005) from £15.23   |  Saving you £0.76 (4.80%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Ludwig Van Beethoven String Quartets Played By Alban Berg Quartett.Recorded Live At The Mozart-Saal, Konzerhaus, Vienna, 9 and 11 June 1989.

• Jacqueline Du Pre - Remembering Jacqueline Du Pre | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Jacqueline Dr Pre was an artist with an exuberant personality and seemingly infinite talent who already in her youth was recognised as one of the finest cellists of the century. It is a tragedy that her career was cut short when she was 28 years old. She died in 1987 as the age of 42. This film directed by Christopher Nupen and now available on DVD for the first time contains previously unpublished footage that is at once inspiring and intimately revealing - you can see the musician her friends knew and how spontaneous and natural was her response to the music. The film also contains landmark performances of great music including an excerpt from her memorable performance of Elgar's Cello Concerto.

• 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 £3.56   |  Saving you £11.69 (508.26%)   |  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 £15.64   |  Saving you £5.61 (39.01%)   |  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.