Jose Feliciano Band
New Morning - The Paris Concert [ Inakustic / DVD - released 27/Mar/2009 ] |
DVORAK / STRAVINSKY / RICHARD STRAUSS / BERNSTEIN / SHOSTAKOVICH
New Year's Eve Concert 2017 Joyce DiDonato (mezzo) / Berliner Philharmoniker [Berlin Philharmonic], Sir Simon Rattle [ EuroArts DVD / DVD - released 1/Apr/2018 ] With her flexible, slender but dark-timbred mezzo-soprano, Joyce DiDonato is the star guest at Sir Simon Rattle's side during the New Year's Eve Concert, singing Richard Strauss's lavishly beautiful orchestral songs. The programme also includes works... |
Judith Durham
Live in Concert at the Royal Festival Hall, London [ Magna Pacific DVD / DVD - released 17/Jan/2005 ] Recorded live at the Royal Festival Hall, this concert includes 29 popular songs by Australian singer/songwriter Judith Durham. She travels through her own musical history with Gospel, Jazz, Blues, Folk, Rock, Pop and inspirational songs. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral' - Ode to Freedom June Anderson, Sarah Walker, Klaus König & Jan-Hendrik Rootering / Various orchestras, Leonard Bernstein [ EuroArts / Medici Arts DVD / DVD - released 1/Oct/2016 ] The historic concert in celebration of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989: re-issued with new packaging, now available at midprice! Leonard Bernstein spontaneously accepted an invitation to conduct a performance to celebrate freedom.Adding to the... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Grand Organ of Coventry Cathedral (concert recorded in 2014) [plus free Blu-ray & CD] Kerry Beaumont (Grand organ of Coventry Cathedral) [ Priory DVD Blu-ray + CD / 3 Blu-ray Disc/DVD - released 10/Aug/2015 ] The superb Harrison and Harrison Organ is under the spotlight in a recital with a theme of the damage to the city in World War 2 and the reconsiliation thereafter. |
KIRI te KANAWA
I Could Have Danced all Night (Concert & Portrait) Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) / New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, John Hopkins / Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Stephen Barlow [ Arthaus DVD / DVD - released 1/Oct/2015 ] The Portrait Dame Kiri Te Kanawa's story has all the best elements of an operatic fairytale. Coming from a part-Maori background she went on to become one of the world's most famous opera stars. In this exciting portrait, Kiri Te Kanawa talks about... |
MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER
Marc-Antoine Charpentier at the Royal Chapel in Versailles [2 SACDs plus DVD & large book] La Capella Reial de Catalunya & Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall, with Monterrat Figueras [ Alia Vox SACD / 3 Hybrid SACD/DVD - released 1/Sep/2014 ] "If you don't have any of the repertoire on your shelves this is an attractive way to acquire it…all the music is top drawer Charpentier with his rich harmony and lively counter-point." (Early Music Review). |
Larry Carlton & Steve Lukather Band
New Morning - The Paris Concert [ Inakustic / Blu-ray Disc - released 8/Oct/2010 ] |
JOSEF HAYDN
The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross [Orchestral version, 1786] Le Concert Des Nations / Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox DVD / DVD - released 15/Jan/2010 ] G - "…this live 2006 performance… is given in its original orchestral form in the location for which it was intended - the chapel of Santa Cueva in Cádiz… Played on period instruments the performance… expertly motivated by Jordi Savall, achieving a... |
HENRY PURCELL
Purcell: King Arthur (complete opera recorded in 2009) Ana Maria Labin, Chantal Santon-Jeffrey, Melodie Ruvio / Le Concert Spirituel / Herve Niquet [ Glossa DVD / DVD - released 16/Mar/2010 ] G - "Directed by French comedy duo Corinne and Gilles Benizio… conductor Hervé Niquet's knockabout rewrite of King Arthur is as much a tribute to Monty Python as it is to Henry Purcell. Purists beware." (BBC Music) |
MONTEVERDI
L'Orfeo (complete opera recorded in 2002) Les Concert des Nations / Furio Zanasi, Arianna Savall, Montserrat Figueras, Sara Mingardo / Jordi Savall [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 11/May/2015 ] Jordi Savall directs Le Concert des Nations, La Capella Reial de Catalunya and the leading soloists of early opera in a beautiful period production of Monteverdi's favola in musica staged at Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu in 2002. Gilbert Deflo's... |
BACH / BRAHMS / DVORAK / LUTOSLAWSKI / MOZART / etc
Verbier Festival - The 25th Anniversary Concert (rec 2018) Lisa Batiashvili, Renaud Capuçon, Alexandra Conunova, Vilde Frang, Ilya Gringolts, Leonidas Kavakos, etc / Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 25/Jan/2020 ] The Verbier Festival is one of classical music's greatest events. In celebration of the festival's 25th anniversary, this unique concert brings together 36 classical stars in an unprecedented evening of ingenious programming and captivating... |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Abbado in Lucerne (concert & documentary) Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado [ EuroArts Music DVD / DVD - released 20/Oct/2008 ] "For some the main attraction of Abbado in Lucerne will be the great Italian maestro conducting Debussy at the 2003 Lucerne Festival. For others it's the documentary, with its footage of some of the last century's greatest conductors in action: every... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 6 (Recorded live at the Concert Hall of the Culture and Convention Centre Lucerne, August 2006) Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado [ EuroArts DVD / DVD - released 16/Jul/2007 ] G :- "This is a valuable recording because it "is" filmed, and by people who know the music...this film is a very valuable contribution to "how" we listen to Mahler." MusicWeb |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Original Three Tenors Concert in Rome - 25th Anniversary Edition (CD plus DVD) Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, Jose Carreras / Zubin Mehta [ Decca Music Group / 2 CD/DVD - released 10/Jun/2010 ] To celebrate the event that changed the course of classical music history this is a remastered and repackaged version (on CD plus bonus DVD) of the most famous classical concert ever staged. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Original Three Tenors Concert in Rome (CD plus DVD): 30th Anniversary Edition Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, Jose Carreras / Zubin Mehta [ Decca Music Group / 2 CD/DVD - released 21/Jul/2020 ] Celebrate the most iconic concert of our time with this special edition produced for the 30th Anniversary CD album of original concert + DVD of the complete concert including "making of" documentary 64-page glossy collectors booklet. |
Ludovico Einaudi (piano)
Ludovico Einaudi - The Royal Albert Hall Concert - CD & DVD Edition [ Decca / 3 CD/DVD - released 19/Jun/2020 ] Recorded live at London's legendary Royal Albert Hall at the peak of Einaudi's European and American tour in2010, showcasing his works/albums "Nightbook", "I Giorni"and "Divenire". |
NEW YEARS CONCERT FROM ST PETERSBURG
New Year's Concert from Mariinsky Theatre (recorded in 2007) Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra & Chorus / Valery Gergiev, with Yefim Bronfman (piano) & Yuri Bashmet (viola) [ Bel Air Classiques DVD / DVD - released 10/Jul/2008 ] G : - New Year's 2007 marked the beginning of the seventh year of the opening of the Mariinsky Theater Concert Hall in Saint Petersburg and the new name of the Orchestra and Chorus of the Mariinsky Theater under the direction of Valery Gergiev. |
RAVEL / PROKOFIEV / SHOSTAKOVICH
Nobel Prize Concert 2009 [includes the Ravel Piano Concerto] Martha Argerich (piano) / Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra / Yuri Temirkanov [ Euroarts DVD / DVD - released 10/Oct/2010 ] "Temirkanov's antics make him hugely photogenic, while Argerich's fingers, if not her hair-do, are a revelation. As a musician she cuts a modest, humble figure, which she is." (Bargain of the Month MusicWeb Sept 2010) |
W.A. MOZART
A Mozart concert [incls 'Piano Concerto No. 20'] (Recorded live in Tokyo on 27 January 2005) Martha Argerich (piano) with Renaud Capucon (violin) & Gautier Capucon (cello) / New Japan Philharmonic [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] "This magnificent live concert, taped in Tokyo in 2005, provides a fine opportunity to see and hear the performer some of us regard as the finest female classical pianist and perhaps even the finest living pianist period." (Five Stars AudAud.com) |