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BERLIOZ / CHOPIN / GLUCK / ROUSSEL / RAVEL
Live at the Royal Albert Hall (recorded in 2010) Nelson Freire (piano) / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Lionel Bringuier [ Bel Air Classiques DVD / DVD - released 20/Mar/2013 ] Leading Chopin interpreter Nelson Freire is the soloist in Chopin's lyrical and brilliant Second Piano Concerto. |
JOHANN STRAUSS 11
Die Fledermaus (complete operetta recorded in 2003) Glyndebourne Opera / Pamela Armstrong, Thomas Allen, Ragnar Ulfung, Hakan Hagegard / Vladimir Jurowski (cond) [ BBC / Opus Arte / Kultur DVD / 2 DVD - released 1/Dec/2010 ] "Malena Ernman is a stunning Orlofsky (at the end, Lawless reveals that the prince was really a princess after all), and Håkan Hagegård and Pamela Armstrong are very satisfying as Dr. Falke and Rosalinde, respectively." ClassicalNet |
JOHN TAVENER
Fall and Resurrection Patricia Rozario / Michael Chance / Martyn Hill / Stephen Richardson / Richard Hickox [ BBC / Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 10/Jan/2003 ] G :- Fall and Resurrection is a deeply religious work. It tries to encompass, in brief glimpses the events which have taken place since the beginning of time, but with reference to Christian doctrine. |
W.A. MOZART
Mozart in Turkey - Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail Paul Groves / Yelda Kodalli / DACsirACe Rancatore / Lynton Atkinson / Peter Rose / Oliver Tobias / Scottish Chamber orchestra / Charles Mackerras (con [ BBC / Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 22/Mar/2004 ] G :- More than just a performance film featuring Mozart's opera, Mozart in Turkey also studies the history of opera's fascination with Turkish culture and some illuminating biographical information about Mozart's life during the composition of... |
DELIBES / ADAM / HEROLD
Ballet Spectacular: Coppelia, Giselle, La Fille Mal Gardee (Complete ballets recorded 2000-2006) The Royal Ballet / Leanne Benjamin, Carlos Acosta, Alina Cojocaru, Johan Kobborg, Marianela Nunez / Opera House Orchestra [ BBC / Opus Arte DVD / 3 DVD Box Set - released 20/Dec/2014 ] "La fille mal gardée is sheer perfection, Nuñez and Acosta are unsurpassable respectively in the feminine grace and masculine confidence of Ashton's Lise and Colas, and their mimetic skills are delicious" BBC Music |
LEO DELIBES / FERDINAND HEROLD / JOHN LANCHBERY
The Frederick Ashton Collection Vol 2: Delibes: Sylvia / Herold: La Fille Mal Garde / Lanchbery: Tales of Beatrix Potter The Royal Ballet / Darcey Bussell, Roberto Bolle, Thiago Soares, Marianela Nuñez, Carlos Acosta, Victoria Hewitt, etc [ BBC / Opus Arte DVD / 3 DVD Box Set - released 1/Oct/2019 ] Three classic full-length ballets are brought together in the special collection celebrating Frederick Ashton's work. |
LEO DELIBES
Coppelia (Complete ballet recorded in 2000) The Royal Ballet / Leanne Benjamin, Carlos Acosta / Opera House Orchestra, Nicolae Moldoveanu [ BBC / Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 11/Apr/2002 ] G:- "Highest-quality image and resolution." (Four Stars AudAud.com) |
TCHAIKOVSKY
The Ballets - The Nutcracker / Sleeping Beauty / Swan Lake (complete ballets recorded in 2000 - 2004) The Royal Ballet / the Royal Swedish Ballet / Het Nationale Ballet [ BBC / Opus Arte DVD / 4 DVD Box Set - released 1/May/2012 ] Extra features include interviews with Sir Peter Wright, a portrait of Sofiane Sylve, and a featurette about fairy tales. |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Salome (complete opera recorded in 2008) Royal Opera House / Nadja Michael, Thomas Moser, Michaela Schuster / Philippe Jordan (cond) [ BBC / Opus Arte DVD / 2 DVD - released 1/Dec/2008 ] "One of the most hotly anticipated, controversial and downright exciting opera productions of this year arrives quickly onto DVD. David McVicar, one of the most in-demand opera directors at work today, produces a visceral, exciting realisation of... |
TCHAIKOVSKY
Eugene Onegin (complete opera recorded in 2013) Royal Opera House / Simon Keenlyside, Krassimira Stoyanova, Peter Rose / Robin Ticciati (cond) [ Opus Arte / BBC DVD / DVD - released 20/Oct/2013 ] Gramophone Magazine DVD of the Month - December 2013 |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Macbeth (complete opera recorded in 2011) Royal Opera House / Simon Keenlyside, Liudmyla Monastryrska, Raymond Aceto / Antonio Pappano (cond) [ Opus Arte / BBC DVD / DVD - released 20/Apr/2012 ] "Lloyd's Covent Garden staging of Verdi's opera has a good deal going for it; there's plenty of atmosphere in Anthony Ward's aptly dark-toned sets...Keenlyside sings the title role with imagination and insight" (BBC Music) |
TCHAIKOVSKY
Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66 (complete ballet recorded in 1994) Royal Opera House / Viviana Durante, Zoltán Solymosi, Anthony Dowell, Benazir Hussein / Barry Wordsworth (cond) [ BBC / Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 1/Sep/2009 ] G - 'Viviana Durante is outstanding as Aurora. Radiant and youthful, she dances with an ease and naturalness that is enchanting.' Evening Standard |
MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi in Mantua (Special Edition with 2 CD recording of the Vespers of 1610) Simon Russell Beale (presenter) / The Sixteen, Harry Christophers [ BBC / Coro DVD / 2 DVD/CD - released 1/Sep/2015 ] Single DVD / 2CD Set The BBC's celebrated Sacred Music journey continues with Monteverdi in Mantua - the story of a Renaissance duke and the composer who worked for him and how their volatile relationship would create one of the most revolutionary... |
TOMAS LUIS de VICTORIA
God's Composer: Sacred music Simon Russell Beale / The Sixteen, Harry Christophers [ BBC / Coro DVD / DVD - released 10/May/2012 ] |
SACRED MUSIC
Sacred Music: a story spanning six centuries Simon Russell Beale / The Sixteen, Harry Christophers [ BBC / Coro DVD / 2 DVD - released 1/Mar/2010 ] Series One of the BBC's groundbreaking classical music programme follows renowned actor and former chorister Simon Russell Beale as he explores the flowering of Western sacred music. |
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi in Mantua: the Genius of the Vespers The Sixteen, Harry Christophers [ BBC / Coro DVD / DVD - released 10/Jul/2016 ] The BBC's Sacred Music journey continues with Monteverdi in Mantua - the story of a Renaissance duke and the composer who worked for him and how their volatile relationship would create one of the most revolutionary and beautiful collections of music |
Adam Adamant Lives! - The Complete Collection
[ BBC DVD / 5 DVD Box Set - released 12/Nov/2009 ] Adam Adamant Lives! Complete Collection DVD Boxed Set (5 discs). The cult BBC '60s detective drama lives again! Adam Adamant is a dandy Edwardian adventurer who wakes up in the swinging Sixties, having been frozen in a block of ice by his nemesis,... |
All Creatures Great And Small Complete Collection
[ BBC DVD / 28 DVD - released 11/Apr/2024 ] All 91 episodes of the 1980's BBC drama series following events in a veterinary practice supporting the local farming community in the Yorkshire Dales in the 1930s. Based on James Herriot's autobiographical bestsellers 'If Only They Could Talk' and... |
Ballykissangel: Complete Collection
[ BBC DVD / 15 DVD - released 10/Apr/2025 ] The complete series of the BBC comedy drama starring Stephen Tompkinson and Dervla Kirwan, about an English priest who is transferred to a small Irish community. |
Bergerac - The Complete Seventh Series
[ BBC DVD / 3 DVD - released 11/Jul/2013 ] M - Violence, sexual references & offensive language: Handsome, blue-eyed and brooding, maverick cop Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac of Jersey's Bureau des Étrangers is one of television's most popular detectives. |
