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• Mahler - What the Universe Tells Me | DVD | (22/07/2004) from £21.44   |  Saving you £3.55 (16.56%)   |  RRP £24.99

  What The Universe Tells Me:Is a one-hour documentary exploring how music and philosophy combined to create an all-encompassing panoramic experience aimed at moving it audience toward personal and communal transformation.One of the largest and most ambitious symphonies ever composed. Mahler's Third requires off-stage instruments children's and women's choirs vocal soloist and a six-part scheme that incorporates folk poetry and philosophical text. The emotional charge of the work steadily mounts from the chaos of creation in the first movement to the summit the highest level from which the world can be surveyed in the last.From the volcanoes of the South Pacific to the Alpine peaks and meadows where Mahler composed dramatic images from the natural world give shape to the symphony's evolutionary saga. Performances combine with illustrative artwork computer animation historical film clips and the insights of world-renowned historians philosophers and biographers. Thinkers such as Howard Garder Stan Brakhage and Catherine Keller join Mahler experts Henry-Louis de La Grange Donald Mitchell Moten Solvik Peter Franklin and Edward Reilly to explore an artwork so rich and emotionally compelling that it mirrors the entire world!Featuring performances by Grammy nominated baritone Thomas Hampson internationally acclaimed mezzo-soprano Mignon Dunn and the Manhattan School of Music Symphony Orchestra conducted by Glen Cortese this double DVD set is a must for all music lovers and those new to the world of the symphony.

• Beethoven - String Quartets Op. 59 No. 3 and Op. 95 | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £9.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (70.07%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Founded in 1964 the Guarneri String Quartet is considered preeminent in its interpretations of the Beethoven string quartets and has presented the complete cycle to audiences around the world.Part of the magic of a string quartet is that it is simultaneously vast yet intimate. As broad in its form as a symphony a quartet relies on a small group of players to articulate thoughts and feelings as personal as a conversation between friends or lovers. No other musical form not the symphony or the sonata spans Beethoven's life so fully as his sixteen string quartets.The Quartet in F minor played first on this program is a visionary work which looks toward the 20th century. An economy of gesture and intense psychological probing create a powerful new world of high tension and fury. The Quartet in C Major last of the Rasumovsky trio of quartets Beethoven merged the expansive canvas of the symphony with the more intimate world of chamber music to convey a very powerful yet deeply personal vision of the human condition.This program was videotaped at the magnificent Old Westbury House and surrounding gardens on Long Island thirty miles east of Manhattan. The mansion built in the style of a late 17th-century English manor house provides an environment similar to the settings for which Beethoven's quartets were written and first performed.Contains the following works:Quartet No. 9 in C Major Op. 59 No. 3 RasumovskyQuartet No. 11 in F minor Op. 95 Quartetto serioso

• Mahler - Symphony No.2 In C Minor - Resurrection | DVD | (27/11/2007) from £19.59   |  Saving you £-0.60 (N/A%)   |  RRP £18.99