"Director: Peter Butler"

• The Merry Widow - The Australian Ballet | DVD | (01/12/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Recently widowed and seeking a new husband Hanna Glawari is one of Pontevedro's wealthiest women. If she marries a foreigner Pontevedro will be left bankrupt...so the bureaucats plot to ensure that Hanna marries a suitable national. The Merry Widow is sheer entertainment with lifting melodies breathtaking decor and glorious dancing!

• Mary Stuart | DVD | (30/05/2005) from £24.28   |  Saving you £-6.29 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £17.99

  This famous production of Donizetti's Mary Stuart was one of English National Opera's most memorable from the 1980's. Dame Janet Baker chose the title role of Donizetti's Scottish queen for her farewell to the London operatic stage in 1982. It was a triumph for Dame Janet in one of the most rewarding of operatic roles. As Mary she displays her full range as a great singing actress at times imperious and confrontational yet during the quieter reflective moments intensely moving. H

• Little Drummer Boy - An Essay On Gustav Mahler By And With Leonard Bernstein | DVD | (16/07/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  This television essay from 1985 was written by Leonard Bernstein to commemorate the 125th anniversary of Gustav Mahler's birth. The essay recorded in Israel Vienna and later in London is punctuated by biographical interludes and illustrated by musical examples drawn from the cycle of Mahler's works recorded by Leonard Bernstein. Bernstein talks plays and conducts various orchestras (Israel Philharmonic Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra Wiener Philharmoniker) and soloists (Janet Baker Christa Ludwig Edith Mathis Lucia Popp Walton Groenroos) in performances spanning 17 years. Leonard Bernstein also examines the roots of Gustav Mahler's inspiration. This DVD features music from the nine symphonies The Song of the Earth and the Wunderhorn Cycle.

• Orphee Et Eurydice | DVD | (03/04/2006) from £16.18   |  Saving you £-1.19 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Gluck: Orphee Et Eurydice (Guidarini)

• Lieder - Mahler/Bernstein | DVD | (16/07/2007) from £22.98   |  Saving you £-8.99 (-64.30%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Leonard Bernstein conducts masterworks by Gustav Mahler from the Grosser Musikvereinssaal in Wien and the Mann Auditorium in Tel Aviv. In 1984 Bernstein conducted Lucia Popp Walton Groenroos and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in a remarkable performance of Des Knaben Wunderhorn in Tel Aviv. A few months before his death Bernstein led Thomas Hampson and the Wiener Philharmoniker in three of Mahler's masterworks in a concert at Vienna's Musikvereinssaal - the Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen the R''ckertlieder and the Kindertotenlieder. Tracklisting: 1. Credits / Mahler: Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen / Bernstein 2. Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht 3. Ging heut' morgen ''bers Feld 4. Ich hab' ein gl''hend Messer 5. Die zwei blauen Augen von meinem Schatz 6. Credits / Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn / Bernstein 7. Der Schildwache Nachtlied 8. Wer hat dies Liedlein Erdacht? 9. Der Tamboursg'sell 10. Das irdische Leben 11. Verlor'ne M''h 12. Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt 13. Revelge 14. Rheinlegendchen 15. Lob des hohen Verstandes 16. Wo die sch''nen Trompeten blasen 17. Lied des Verfolgten im Turm 18. Trost im Ungl''ck 19. Credits / Mahler: R''ckert-Lieder / Bernstein 20. Liebst du um Sch''nheit 21. Ich atmet' einen linden Duft 22. Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder 23. Um Mitternacht 24. Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen 25. Credits / Mahler: Kindertotenlieder / Bernstein 26. Nun will die Sonn' so hell aufgeh'n 27. Nun seh' ich wohl warum so dunkle Flammen 28. Wenn dein M''tterlein 29. Oft denk' ich sie sind nur ausgegangen 30. In diesem Wetter