Orchestral & Symphonic

2 x DVD set. NTSC/Region 0. in 2008, Andr? Rieu's DVD Live in Australia, recorded at his concerts in Melbourne, broke all records to become the biggest-selling music DVD in this market. This year, the scene shifts to Sydney, and from his November...

The resounding success Richard Strauss's second opera Feuersnot experienced upon it's 1902 Dresden premiere more than made up for the failure several years prior of his first, Guntram. Feuersnot is a lively one-act drama about the ancient Bavarian...

With this DVD Arthaus Musik presents the live recording of an extraordinary concert: the Bavarian Radio Choir and Orchestra conducted by Mariss Jansons perform Palestrina's motet Tu es Petrus" and Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in a concert given in honour o

Shakespeare's lovers never looked and sounded as good as in this romantic film adaptation of Charles Gounod's beloved opera Rom?o et Juliette, starring one of classical music's most popular and successful couples, Roberto Alagna and AngelaGheorghiu. A sp

In 1964 Deutsche Oper Berlin still had no General Music Director. But Artistic Director Gustav Rudolf Sellner made a virtue out a necessity and - in addition to the permanent conductor Hollreiser, Heinrich and the regular guest conductor Karl B?hm -...

Schubert, Franz's song cycle Winterreise was written late in his life. It is regarded both as a highlight of the genre and as the touchstone by which lieder singers are judged. To succeed in interpreting Winterreise is the artistic equivalent of a patent...

Mozart's masterpiece is presented in a version shortened to 60 minutes for the youngest (from 5 years), young and also adult audiences, thus providing children with their first insight into the fascinating world of opera. Papageno is the presenter, who a

DEAD DREAMS OF MONOCHROME MEN 1989Directed by David Hinton Devised and created collaboratively under the direction of Lloyd Newson Performed by Lloyd Newson, Nigel Charnock, Russell Maliphant and Douglas Wright Music by Sally Herbert... painful, origin

The film "Richard Strauss and his Heroines" explores Strauss' relationship to women. The primary focus lies on his attachment to Pauline, his wife of more than 55 years. Strauss experienced the most varied of epochs in German history, from the Empire to...

Leo Fall was born in Olm?tz (Moravia) in 1873 and died in Vienna in 1925. As with Leh?r, his father was the conductor of an imperial military band. Having inherited the same musical talent, he began playing the violin at the age of five - a further parall

Leh?r, Franz (1870-1948) found remarkably expressive and brilliantly colorful sounds for the drama and romantic moods of this unique topic. The style was decisively influenced by the familiar cadence of Hungarian gypsy music in the composer's native...

The Case of the Three Sided Dream is the documentary film on the life, music and legacy of multi-instrumentalist RahsaanRoland Kirk. Kirk was a one of a kind musician, personality, satirist and windmillslayer who despite being blind, becoming paralyzed