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DONNY OSMOND IS TOURING IN MAY - CHECK TOURING ARTISTS SECTION FOR DATES TRACKLISTING Extras: Recorded at picturesque Edinburgh Castle, Donny Osmond performs to thousands of adoring fans. A concert of hits from days gone by and from his new album What I Meant To Say.
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TRACKLISTING DVD Features: Three generations of listeners have been turned on to the music of mystic singer/ songwriter Terry Callier. During the 1960s, concerts at the "Bitter End" New York, made him a leading figure in the early folk boom. In the 1970s, recordings for Chess/Cadet crystallised his style - a unique brand of soul, folk, jazz and a deeply moving poetry. It gained him an impassioned following among R&B hipsters and reinforced his reputation as a vocal legend. Following a series of disillusioning experiences amid the disco-craze in the early 1980s, Callier took his leave from the music business, swapping the roller-coaster life of a musician for the stable life of a computer-programmer to provide his daughter with a safer life-style. For almost 20 years,Terry Callier will lead his life unnoticed. In the mid 1990s, disco is over and the blossoming Clubs in Britain are looking for outstanding musical inspirations. London based DJ Gilles Peterson happens to find a single that blows his mind and that is soon to reach cult status in the clubs. It is Terry Calliers very last single " I don 't Want to See Myself Without You ".The man who has written music history in the 1960s and 1970s is awakened from his musical coma. Callier gives way to the calls of a new generation of both musicians and fans like Paul Weller or Erykah Badu. In 1995, he returns to the stage after a 15 year break, literally talked into a comeback by an audience that had kept on asking relentlessly: "Whatever happened to Terry Callier?" The overwhelming success of his concerts led to new record deals for the next decade including cooperations with Paul Weller, Gran Tourism, Jazzanova, Koop, 4Hero and Zero7. Constantly writing songs for over 40 years now has seen Terry producing some of his best work of late-notably 2004 album "Lookin´Out" (Universal) . "Terry Callier- Live in Berlin" covers the unique work of this legendary singer/songwriter - including his latest album "Lookin´Out " - showing him as a now celebrated entertainer. Many of the great soul performers have passed away: Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye, Ray Charles or Minnie Riperton. This is a story of a man who has survived and thrived. |
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There's an untold number of oft-played, oft-heard songs in the jazz canon -- and then there's John Coltrane's epic suite A Love Supreme. Cover versions abound of everything else. Every horn player with a mute tackles Miles Davis's oeuvre. Barely passable beboppers perform Charlie Parker's songs. Studious musicians live for the high-speed harmonic contortions of Coltrane's Giant Steps. But A Love Supreme, recorded 40 years ago, stands alone. It's sing-song simple on paper, with basic melodies and rhythms evoking Africa and Asia taken as a starting point for Coltrane's personal ode to God. But over its 35 minutes, Coltrane testifies through his saxophone like no other, imbuing his masterpiece with such sustained intensity and spirituality that few jazz musicians dare follow in his footsteps. Branford Marsalis is a rare exception. Best-known as Wynton's older, saxophone-playing sibling and as Jay Leno's musical sidekick a few years back, Marsalis recorded A Love Supreme in 2001. Now, he has tried to top himself with a live version, packaged on DVD. He knows how high the bar was set. In this month's JazzTimes, Marsalis calls A Love Supreme "a perfect piece of music." "What makes it work is your heart," he continues. "It ain't nerd music. It ain't like listening to Giant Steps, the anthem of nerd music. Playing that piece (A Love Supreme) forced us to deal with humanity and spirituality." Marsalis's 2001 version did him proud. But the live outing, recorded last year at Amsterdam's Bimhuis jazz club, is stellar. More than in 2001, Marsalis fulfils two seemingly divergent ambitions. He and his quartet (his long-time powerhouse drummer Jeff Watts, pianist Joey Calderazzo and bassist Eric Revis) make potent music that is true to Coltrane's deeply personal affirmation. They are also true to themselves, personalizing and secularizing A Love Supreme without radically altering it. It's as if Marsalis and his sidemen have found themselves within A Love Supreme's musical world, stretching the piece to be more than 10 minutes longer than Coltrane's version, without a dull moment. Naturally, the serious and imposing piece is more vivid and immediate when Marsalis's quartet can be seen as well as heard. You can better appreciate Watts's ferocity when you see the look on his face and marvel at the flurry of Calderazzo's flattened fingers. Most of all, Marsalis, rocking back and forth, shows a stately calmness even as his horn blazes. It's stirring stuff to give a Coltrane (or Marsalis) fan goosebumps, with camera work and editing that puts the viewer in the Bimhuis's best seat. This outing is demanding fare, leavened and bolstered by DVD extras including interviews with Marsalis, his musicians, and even Coltrane's widow, Alice. The most revealing bonus is a reel of backstage footage showing that for their serious music and thunderous abilities, Marsalis and his quartet can be cussing, smoking goofs too. |
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Nikolaus Harnoncourt directs Mozart's first major opera - for the first time on DVD. Written when Mozart was just 14, Mitridate, Re di Ponte is an endless flow of beautiful melodies and dramatic recitatives. Nikolaus Harnoncourt - whose insistence on authenticity in performance techniques and instruments used has made him world-famous - conducts Concentus Musicus in his first opera production for Unitel - featuring an outstanding international cast including Gösta Winbergh, Ann Murray and Australia's own Yvonne Kenny. The film was directed by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle in March 1986 and took place in one of the most beautiful and venerable theatres in the world, the Teatro Olimpico, Vicenza. Series Microsite: www.deutschegrammophon.com/dvd |
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James Levine conducts legendary Ponnelle production of Mozarts's Clemenza. Mozart's last opera in order of composition, La clemenza di Tito is presented here in historical Roman settings - another one of Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's legendary productions for Unitel. The humanity of Mozart's characters is fully expressed thanks to the conductor James Levine and the outstanding cast led by Tatiana Troyanos, Eric Tappy and Catherine Malfitano. The Wiener Philharmoniker add their rich, colourful sound and give proof once again why they are among the world's leading orchestras. 'The music is magnificent, frequently sublime. And the cast is splendid' (The New York Times, 1981) Series Microsite: www.deutschegrammophon.com/dvd |
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Karl Richter tackles Bach's grandest and greatest sacred work: St. Matthew Passion . Bach's monumental retelling of the story of the Last Supper and the arrest and execution of Jesus is acknowledged to be one of the supreme masterpieces of sacred music. One of the most important Bach interpreters, Karl Richter, leads his remarkable Münchner Bachorchester and choir in an exceptional performance, also starring Peter Schreier as Evangelist. The other soloists include acclaimed artists Helen Donath, Julia Hamari and Walter Berry. Filmed in 1971, this DVD showcases J S Bach's biggest and richest sacred work in the hands of a legendary Bach interpreter. Series Microsite: www.deutschegrammophon.com/dvd |
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ARTISTS TRACKLISTING For the first time on DVD, here are all five Mozart Violin Concertos and the Sinfonia concertante performed by Gidon Kremer and the Wiener Philharmoniker under Nikolaus Harnoncourt. For Harnoncourt, Mozart is 'the most romantic composer of all,' his music 'dramatic, often strikingly and exceedingly emotional.' In Gidon Kremer, Harnoncourt found a musical partner who shares these views. Kim Kashkashian joins the brilliant team of Kremer and Harnoncourt for the Sinfonia concertante. These recordings from the 1980s took place in the marvellous Grosser Musikvereinsaal and the Konzerthaus Wien. Series Microsite: www.deutschegrammophon.com/dvd |
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Portrait of Karl Richter documents legacy of the legendary Bach conductor. The Legacy of Karl Richter documents the main milestones, events and people in the life of this great artist and personality, from his roots in the Saxon-Thuringian musical tradition to the splendour of his interpretations of Bach and Handel, which remain unsurpassed today. Made in remembrance of Karl Richter's 60th birthday by his son Tobias Richter, director of the Bremen theatre, the film was directed by Klaus Lindemann in cooperation with the musicologist Dr. Klaus Peter Richter. The portrait contains parts of TV productions from Unitel (St. John's Passion, St. Matthew Passion, B minor Mass, concertos for organ and harpsichord, the Brandenburg Concertos and the Music for the Royal Fireworks by Handel) and rehearsals and interviews - as well as unpublished material from the archives. Series Microsite: www.deutschegrammophon.com/dvd |
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