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Cat. No.: 171 4583 |
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KATHERINE JENKINS | Live at Llangollen 2006
Katherine Jenkins mezzo soprano Welsh National Symphony Orchestra Anthony Inglis conductor Katherine’s first DVD! Filmed during the 2006 60th Gala Concert at the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod. In a concert which features music from her three hugely successful CD's and her favourite Welsh Songs there can be no better culmination to the Eisteddfod's diamond festivities. A small Welsh town of some 3000 people, Llangollen is seeped in myth and legend. In many ways it is best known for hosting the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod every July which brings in some 120,000 visitors and turns the town into a vibrant international stage. As with so many ancient Welsh towns, it takes its name from its founding Saint; Collen, a seventh century saint. Llangollen, was established in the 7th Century when The monk St. Collen was instructed to find a valley by riding a horse for one day and then stop and mark out a "parish" a place to build his hermitage or cell in the custom of the times, with tiny church, hospice and outhouses all enclosed within a wall. |
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Cat. No.: 073 4191 |
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LANG LANG | Dragon Songs
Lang Lang has fascinated audiences all over the globe - now he takes them home to show them "his" China with a DVD documentary and soundtrack CD. Discover the musical culture that forged one of the most acclaimed classical musicians of our day The Yellow River Concerto, a large-scale, highly virtuosic piano concerto with colourful sound scales, is juxtaposed with miniature pieces for piano solo and with chamber pieces, each combining the piano with traditional Chinese instruments Though all the pieces were written in the early 20th century, most of them are based on much older sources, merging traditional Chinese melodies and idioms with the Western classical music tradition - the result is music of astonishing beauty and ease that will strongly appeal to a broad audience The DVD features a full-length documentary offering a fascinating look behind the scenes of Lang Lang's latest China tour, from the privacy of his parents' flat (where Lang Lang revisits his very first piano), to a Lang-family lunch and a visit to the local temple, to his successful master classes and stage performances. Additionally this DVD includes a concert of the piano solo and chamber music pieces from the CD, all filmed during the recording sessions in Beijing In recent years, there has been a huge rise of interest in Chinese culture, a phenomenon that will continue to build up to the Peking Olympics in 2008 - with this project Lang Lang makes himself the perfect ambassador between the Chinese and Western worlds, a mission that is very close to his heart DVD Format: DVD-9 ALSO AVAILABLE
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Cat. No.: 074 3154 |
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JACQUES LOUSSIER | Loussier Trio Play Bach
Jacques Loussier Trio
TRACK LISTING DVD: Fugue No.5 in D Major Italian Concerto Pastorale in C minor Gavotte in B minor Choral: "Jesu joy of man's desiring" Gavotte in D Major Brandeburg Concerto no.5 in D major CD: Prelude No. 1 C Major (Well Tempered Clavier Book 1, BWV 846) Fugue No. 1 C Major Well Tempered Clavier Book 1, BWV 846 Prelude No. 2 C minor Well Tempered Clavier Book 1, BWV 847 Fugue No. 2 C minor Well Tempered Clavier Book 1, BWV 847 Prelude No. 5 C minor Well Tempered Clavier Book 1, BWV 850 Fugue No. 5 C minor Well Tempered Clavier Book 1, BWV 850 Prelude No. 6 D minor Well Tempered Clavier Book 1, BWV 851 Prelude No. 8 E flat minor Well Tempered Clavier Book 1, BWV 853 Prelude No. 16 G minor Well Tempered Clavier Book 1, BWV 861 Fugue No.16 G minor Well Tempered Clavier Book 1, BWV 861 Prelude No. 21 B Flat major Well Tempered Clavier Book 1, BWV 866 Two-parts invention no.1 in C Major BWV 772 Two-parts invention no.13 in A minor BWV 784 Two-parts invention no.8 in F Major BWV 779 Two-parts invention no. 14 In B flat BWV 785 Two-parts invention no.15 In B minor BWV 786 Fantasy in C minor BWV 906 Partita No. 1 B flat major BWV 825 Air (Orchestral Suite No.3 D Major, BWV 1068) |
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Cat. No.: 073 4302 |
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PLÁCIDO DOMINGO / ANNA NETREBKO / ROLANDO VILLAZON
ARTISTS Anna Netrebko, soprano Rolando Villazón, tenor Plácido Domingo, tenor
TRACK LISTING 1 Giuseppe Verdi: Nabucco: Overture 7 Les Pêcheurs de perles: "Au fond du temple saint" Rolando Villazón (Nadir) · Plácido Domingo (Zurga) 9 MARIA GREVER: Júrame Anna Netrebko (Giuditta) Rolando Villazón · Plácido Domingo Rolando Villazón (Rodolfo) · Anna Netrebko (Mimì) 14 Furio Rendine: Vurria Plácido Domingo 15 Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) West Side Story: "Tonight" Rolando Villazón (Tony) · Anna Netrebko (Maria) Encores: Gioacchino Rossini 16 La danza Rolando Villazón Giacomo Puccini 17 La Bohème: "Quando men vo" Anna Netrebko (Musetta) Pablo Sorozabál (1897-1988) 18 La tabernera del puerto: "No puede ser" Plácido Domingo (Leandro) Giuseppe Verdi 19 La traviata: "Libiamo ne' lieti calici" Anna Netrebko (Violetta) · Rolando Villazón / Plácido Domingo (Alfredo) Franz Lehár 20 Das Land des Lächelns: "Dein ist mein ganzes Herz" Rolando Villazón / Plácido Domingo / Anna Netrebko (Sou-Chong) On July 7, the Waldbühne amphitheatre in Berlin was host to "the greatest voices of their day" (Die Welt am Sonntag) as more than 20,000 spectators gathered to hear Anna Netrebko, Rolando Villazón, and Plácido Domingo in an open-air concert celebrating the close of the World Cup tournament Deutsche Grammophon is bringing this extraordinary event - described by the Berliner Morgenpost as "the stuff of myth" - to DVD as a special rush release This high-price DVD features the three mega-stars performing music by Verdi, Puccini, Lehár, and many other beloved melodies This live broadcast had an international audience of more than 8 million viewers in Germany, Austria, Norway, France, Italy, Mexico, India and South America, generating waves of enthusiastic acclaim in the international press - considered as the biggest live classical broadcast event since The Three Tenors The greatest voices of their day came together again on Friday evening. . . Domingo still works his magic . . . Netrebko symbolizes the combination of skill, charisma and naturalness . . . Villazón is the perfect masculine counterpart. . . Great opera needs protagonists like these" (Die Welt am Sonntag, Berlin) "The vocalism consistently stood out as superior . . . Domingo at 65 remains a phenomenon; . . . His junior colleagues never lapsed vocally below their wonted high levels" (MusicalAmerica.com)
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Cat. No.: 170 4304 |
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ANDREA BOCELLI | Under a Desert Sky
1. Amapola 2. Besame Mucho 3. Somos Novios (It's Impossible) 4. Canzoni Stonate 5. Pero Te Extrano 6. L'Appuntamento 7. Estate 8. September Morn 9. Can't Help Falling In Love 10. Mi Manchi 11. Jurame 12. SolamenteUna Vez 13. Les Feuilles Mortes (Autumn Leaves) 14. Porque Tu Me Acostumbraste 15. Cuando Me Enamoro 16. The Prayer - with Heather Headley 17. Momentos 18. Because We Believe
Interviews: The making of Amore with Andrea Bocelli, David Foster, Humberto Gatica & Toni Renis Photo Gallery Lake Las Vegas: Out of the Blue
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Cat. No.: 074 3147 |
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VARIOUS ARTISTS | BELLINI: Norma
Starring leading Armenian singers, including international soprano Hasmik Papian as Norma and Mariinsky star Gegam Grigorian as her lover Pollione Vincenzo Bellini's, Norma, is the tale of a Druid high priestess who breaks her vows of chastity through love for a Roman officer. When he falls in love with a younger priestess, she rouses her people to rise up against the foreign invaders before sacrificing herself (together with her repentant Roman lover) on a blazing pyre. Film director Boris Airapetian has now taken his stage production out of the opera house into the open air and turned it into a full-length opera film. Filmed on location in his native Armenia this film is shot in places where historical events like those described in Bellini's opera actually took place over two thousand years ago; and around the ancient temple of Garni, built by the Romans to celebrate their conquest of Armenia. The principal singers -- Hasmik Papian as Norma, Gegam Grigorian as Pollione, her Roman lover, and Varduhi Khachatrian as Adalgisa, Norma's rival for his affections -- are all, like Airapetian, Armenian-born.
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Cat. No.: 074 3153 |
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VARIOUS ARTISTS | Mozartballs
TRACK LISTING 1 The Overture 2 The Players 3 Meet Mozart 4 The Journey 5 The Vienna I Remember 6 Ear Squinting 7 Incredible Feeling 8 The Eyes of Mozart 9 The Reunion 10 Going Wonderfully 11 Memories of My Death 12 5,183 Steps 13 From Dreams 14 Confession 15 The Coda 16 End Credits
1 CBC Interview 2 Rondo Capriccio rehearsal & performance 3 Steph & Lynette's Story 4 Steph's Vienna Tour 5 Mozart for Cello & Piano 6 Death Museum
Larry Weinstein's witty yet moving film traces the eccentric paths of five contrasting "Mad about Mozart" devotees. Meet Wolfgang and his lover Nancy (aka, Steph Waller and Lynette Erwin), David Cope and Emmy (his Mozart-composing software), number-obsessed grave-side pilgrim Konrad Rich, and the man who put Mozartballs into orbit, astronaut Franz Viehböck. Check whether your love of Mozart matches theirs... The programme is witty, ironic and often moving, as director Larry Weinstein refuses to send up his subjects, but allows them to speak for themselves against a musical backdrop of the composer's greatest music. The DVD is an English-language film, with French and German subtitles |
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