DVD & Blu-ray Video

Three Tenors – Voices for Eternity [DVD]

The documentary Three Tenors – Voices for Eternity, tells the story of the most successful concert in the history of classical music, featuring recent interviews with Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo, Zubin Mehta, Pavarotti‘s widow Nicoletta Mantovani, and many more. Includes behind-the-scenesfootage, showing the emotional highlights of the first concert and the sequel in Los Angeles. (C Major)

1DVD# 760908 $29.99

Metanoia – Simone Menezes & K –

A Music Documentary [DVD or Blu-ray Video]

Together with her ensemble “K,” the choir Sequenza 9.3, and violinist Manon Galy, Simone Menezes travels across Italy and invites us to experience the thoughttranscending aspects of music, and to uncover the personal journeys of Metanoia of some of the greatest figures in music and art. (Accentus)

1Blu-ray# ACC10550 $39.99

1DVD# ACC20550 $24.99

Beethoven: Missa Solemnis [DVD or Blu-ray Video]

Since 1989, the prestigious Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra’s concerts around Ascension Day (15 August) have firmly been in the hands of Riccardo Muti. Always sold out, they are among the highlights of every festival summer. For this year’s concert and on occasion of his 80th birthday, the maestro was acclaimed for his interpretation of Beethoven’s Missa solemnis. (Unitel)

1Blu-ray# 806604 $41.99

1DVD# 806508 $29.99

Beethoven and His Contemporaries, Vol. 2 [DVD or Blu-ray Video]

The award-winning Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin has become one of the world’s leading chamber orchestras on period instruments. These concerts reveal some of the foundations of Beethoven’s genius, and capture vital performances from the 2020 SWR Schwetzingen Festival, the biggest radio festival for classical music in the world. (Naxos)

1Blu-ray# NBD0136V $22.99

1DVD# 2110705 $22.99

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Composers of the 20th Century [7 DVDs]

The Art of Lauren Cuthbertson [DVD or Blu-ray Video]

This 4-DVD collection includes two iconic roles that Lauren Cuthbertson he created for The Royal Ballet: the funfilled, eponymous Alice in Christopher Wheeldon’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland; and Jacqueline du Pre in the biographical work The Cellist by Cathy Marston. (Opus Arte)

4Blu-ray# OA BD7307BD $54.99

4DVD# OA 1360BD $39.99

Gmeyner: Automatenbüfett [DVD]

Anna Gmeyner’s play Automat dates from 1932 and was inspired by the technological innovations of her age as well as by the reactionary attitudes of the bourgeoisie. The play proved a draw in major theatres in Hamburg, Berlin and Zurich before its author was forced to flee in the face of persecution by the National Socialists. This production is a true rediscovery. (Die TheatreEdition)

1DVD# THE08079 $24.99

Private Concerts with Daniel Barenboim and Martha Argerich [DVD]

This program rekindles the origins of the chamber music by showing itself inside the living rooms of grand artists for original concerts, played in an intimate and privileged setting: at Daniel Barenboim’s in Berlin, where he plays with Michael Barenboim and Kian Soltani; and at Martha Argerich’s in Geneva, with Mischa Maisky. (Belair)

1DVD# BAC189 $24.99

Ballets by Christian Spuck [DVD or Blu-ray Video]

This box set contains three extraordinary ballet choreographies by the successful German choreographer Christian Spuck: Verdi’s Messa da Requiem conducted by Fabio Luisi, Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker and Mouse King, conducted by Paul Connelly, and Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet conducted by Michail Jurowski. (Accentus)

3Blu-ray# ACC60507 $87.99

3DVD# ACC70507 $69.99

This box set comprises award-winning documentaries that shine the light on the lives and works of a few of the most important and most well-known composers of the 20th century. (Accentus)

7DVD# ACC70503 $76.99

Brahms: Symphony No. 2 [DVD]

Rudolf Kempe was well positioned when he began his career as master of the baton, moving from the Leipzig orchestras to Dresden, Vienna and Berlin. (ICA Classics)

1DVD# ICAD 5119 $24.99

Les frères Morozov – The Story of a Russian Collection [DVD]

This film tells the story of brothers Mikhail and lvan Morozov bath major figures in the modern art scene and follows the destiny of their fabulous collections. (Belair)

1DVD# BAC185 $19.99

Leonard Bernstein, Vol. 2 [5 Blu-ray]

This Blu-ray box contains legendary concerts from 1977 – 1990 of Leonard Bernstein conducting the Wiener Philharmoniker and the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks. (C Major)

5Blu-ray# 762304 $95.99