Dvořák’s Prophecy – DVD Documentaries

Film 1: Dvořákʼs New World Symphony – A Lens on the American Experience of Race

This first film in the series keys on Dvořákʼs prophecy and explores its present-day pertinence. Acclaimed and ridiculed at the time, it remains inspirational. (Naxos)

1DVD# 2110703

$12.99

Film 2: Charles Ives’ America

A musical Whitman or Melville, Charles Ives embodies the American trope of the “self-made genius,” heeding Emerson’s call to cut the cultural umbilical cord with Europe, forging an original path. (Naxos)

1DVD# 2110701

$12.99

Film 3: The Vexed Fate of Black Classical Music

If George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess embodies a glorious fulfillment of Dvořákʼs prophecy, there also exists a lineage of exceptional compositions by Black composers following in Dvořákʼs wake. (Naxos)

1DVD# 2110700

$12.99

Film 4: Aaron Copland – American Populist

This film highlights Aaron Copland’s ingenious music for Lewis Mumford’s 1939 World’s Fair film The City, itself a complex product of the Popular Front. (Naxos)

1DVD# 2110698

$12.99

Film 5: Beyond Psycho –The Genius of Bernard Herrmann

Hollywood’s supreme film composer Bernard Herrmann was a casualty of the standard narrative – as he was also a formidable concert composer. (Naxos)

1DVD# 2110702

$12.99

Film 6: Lou Harrison & Cultural Fusion

Sampling gamelan-inspired works by Debussy, Poulenc, Messiaen, and McPhee, we arrive at Lou Harrison – and a pair of concertos, for violin and piano, unsurpassed by those of any other American. (Naxos)

1DVD# 2110699

$12.99

Shakespeare: Henry VI – Parts 1–3 [DVD]

Experience the thrill of rebellion, the brutality of battle, and ambition without boundaries in Shakespeare’s epic trilogy about one of the most turbulent periods in English history. This box set trilogy is available together for the first time in this 3-DVD collection. (Opus Arte)

3DVD# OA 1365BD $39.99

Shakespeare: Richard III [8 DVDs]

Richard III is a savagely comic analysis of the exercise of power. It reminds us both of the dangers of tyranny and of our duty not to let it go unchecked. Directed by Gregory Doran and featuring Arthur Hughes as Richard, this is the thrilling climax to Shakespeare’s first great history cycle. (Opus Arte)

1DVD# OA 1298D $24.99

Bruckner 11 – Christian Thielemann & Weiner Philharmoniker

On the occasion of the Bruckner bicentenary, the Wiener Philharmoniker recorded its first ever complete Bruckner cycle under the baton of Christian Thielemann. This uniquely complete edition from the Musikverein and Salzburg Festival, featuring 11 symphonies, also includes extensive conversations with Christian Thielemann about each symphony and insights into his rehearsal work. (Unitel)

2DVD# 807508 $37.99

1Blu-ray# 807604 $42.99

Ficcari, Gigout & Zimmer: Hazel’s Story

The iconic Hazel Wright Organ of Christ Cathedral in Garden Grove, California, is the world’s most widely heard pipe organ and the fifth largest. First built in 1982 and heard worldwide by millions on the Rev. Robert Schuller’s “Hour of Power” broadcast, Hazel now enjoys a renewed musical life following her full restoration in 2022. This is Hazel’s Story. (Gothic)

1Blu-ray# G-DVD-0100

$19.99

Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen [8 DVDs]

Richard Wagner’s extraordinary cycle of four operas, Der Ring des Nibelungen, is epic in every sense of the word. Sofia Opera’s acclaimed productions bring Wagner’s shimmering and opulent vision to life in a spectacle that is thrilling from beginning to end in both its daring visual language and its overwhelming musical intensity. (Dynamic)

8DVD# DYN-37964 $74.99

Le Chevalier de Saint-George –The Enlightened Violinist [DVD]

An emancipated slave, the Chevalier de Saint-George managed to elevate himself to the highest spheres of the Enlightened 18th-century French society, thanks to his incredible accomplishments as a fencer, horseman, and musician. This film narrates his extraordinary adventures. (Belair)

1DVD# BAC190 $19.99

Home Music Berlin – Documentary & Concerts

[DVD or Blu-ray Video]

When lockdown was imposed in 2020 many artists began streaming performances from their own homes. In response, pianist Francesco Piemontesi and director Jan Schmidt-Garre launched a concert series to showcase artists living in Berlin, given in the renowned Schinkel Pavillon with an expert technical team assembled at short notice. (Naxos)

2DVD# 2110681-82 $24.99

2Blu-ray# NBD0124-25V $24.99

Pavarotti in Central Park [Blu-ray]

When more than 500,000 people gathered in New York’s Central Park on 26 June 1993, they wanted to hear only one thing: The voice of the greatest tenor of the twentieth century: the voice of Luciano Pavarotti. He is accompanied here by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra under Leone Magiera, featuring the flutist Andrea Griminelli and The Boys Choir of Harlem. (C Major)

1Blu-ray# 762704 $32.99

Beethoven and His Contemporaries, Vol. 1 [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)

1DVD# 2110704 $22.99

1Blu-ray# NBD0135V $22.99

Bruckner 11, Vol. 2 [DVD or Blu-ray Video]

On the occasion of the Bruckner bicentenary, the Wiener Philharmoniker recorded its first ever complete Bruckner cycle under the baton of Christian Thielemann. In addition to the well-known canon of nine symphonies, the two earliest Bruckner Symphonies in F minor and D minor were also recorded for the first time in the orchestra’s history. (Unitel)

2DVD# 806908 $36.99

1Blu-ray# 807004 $41.99

The Scarlatti Book (feat. Fabrizio Cassol, Stéphane Galland)

The intrepid experimental jazz trio Aka Moon has represented an approach to jazz that has seen them collaborate with a multitude of artists from different backgrounds in their richly filled career. Their new collection ‘The Scarlatti Book’ is devoted to the music of Italian Baroque composer Domenico Scarlatti. (Outhere)

1CD# OUT658

$18.99 $15.19

Dutch Hidden Gems / Anna Fedorova, Phion Orchestra

This program is a wonderful little treasure chest overflowing with musical gems for the viola, all composed in Holland in the twentieth century. Even more delightful is the thought that these pieces and their four composers abide in the twilight of Dutch musical life and seldom if ever come to the attention of soloists and orchestras. (Channel Classics)

1CD# CCS41222 $18.99 $15.19

Musique classique persane / Mohammad Firouzi

The present release is a wonderful concert by Mohammad Firouzi, a master of Persian classical singing, both composer and performer at the same time: inspired improvisation, poems chosen with great taste, subtle instrumental accompaniment. Traditional Iranian music is a message, a call from the artist’s inmost consciousness, which is tightly linked to his age-old history and culture. (Ocora)

1CD# C582097 $18.99 $15.19

Sibelius: The Complete Symphonies [DVD or Blu-ray Video]

Paavo Berglund, born in Helsinki in 1929, was, until his death in 2012, the greatest of all the contemporary interpreters of Sibelius’s music. His idiomatic and convincing recordings have done much to fire the revival of interest in the composer, with vivid performances that capture its unique qualities of grandeur and instrumental color. (ICA Classics)

1Blu-ray# ICAD5163 $41.99 $33.59

2DVD# ICAD5162 $38.99 $31.19

Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven & Brahms / Chamber Orchestra of Europe [4 CDs]

This set is a testament to a remarkable collaboration between the conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt (1929–2016) and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe (COE) and its release this year marks the Orchestra’s 40th anniversary. These recordings also trace the relationship between Harnoncourt and the Styriarte Festival which started in 1987 and lasted for over 30 years. (ICA Classics)

4CD# ICAC5161 $41.99 $33.59

Beethoven: Rondino & Wind Octet - Mozart: Serenade

/ MIB Wind Ensemble

This is the first recording on Channel Classics with the Italian based MIB Ensemble. Comprising the best players from the top orchestras of Italy, the ensemble felt the need to create their own ensemble to fill the gap in repertoire and concert possibilities for wind instruments. (Channel Classics)

1CD# CCS44122 $18.99 $15.19

Formidable! (French Chansons)

Thomas Oliemans writes: “I have had French chansons in my head for as long as I can remember: on a scratchy car radio or a cassette player. I moved primarily into the world of classical singing, in opera, lied and oratorio, but the chanson was never far away. Indeed, at almost each stage of my musical development it appeared to grow with me.” (Channel Classics)

1CD# CCS43321 $18.99 $15.19

Playlist / Ensemble Perspectives

Ensemble Perspectives, an a cappella vocal quintet founded and directed by Geoffroy Heurard, creates programs that blend the mainstream classical repertory with lesser-known composers and folk and pop songs. These pieces are sung in transcriptions ‘tailor-made’ for Perspectives, which works with world-renowned arrangers and composers of all aesthetic persuasions. (Outhere)

1CD# OMF704 $18.99 $15.19

Fabrizio Cassol: I Silenti

I Silenti is conceived around the Gypsy jazz singer and multiinstrumentalist Tcha Limberger. He embodies a musical and literary nomadism that extends into the geographical and timeless depths of orality. The fact that he has been blind from birth has protected him from the superfluity of appearances, so that he has always remained connected to the essential. (Outhere)

1CD# OUT665 $18.99 $15.19

Opus 111 / Aka Moon

In addition to being one of Beethoven’s most emblematic works, the Piano Sonata Op. 111, No. 32 (1821–22) is a manifesto of radical modernity. It begins the process of disintegration of sonata form, and introduces in its second movement a new method of constructing the musical phrase, to such an extent that some commentators regard it as marking the first stirrings of jazz. (Outhere)

1CD# OUT664 $18.99 $15.19

Dvořákʼs, Mozart: Romance / Munchner Rundfunkorchester

Very appropriately, Valentina Nafornita devotes half of her debut album released on Outhere to Mozart. The second part of the CD is devoted to the Slavonic repertory. With her rich, bronze timbre, she is ideally suited to the tragic depth of expression of Dvořákʼs ‘Song to the Moon’, with which she made her breakthrough at the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition. (Outhere)

1CD# OMF705

Cassol: Requiem pour L.

$18.99 $15.19

Mozart’s Requiem is one of the most iconic works in the history of western music. After exploring its labyrinth of secrets in several years of research, Fabrizio Cassol wanted to reframe the mournful ritual of the Requiem to express other emotions as well. Five African languages intertwine with the ancient Latin text, and invocations to the ancestors ring out – a journey open to the reality of the world today. (Outhere)

1CD# OUT663 $18.99 $15.19

Cassol: Now / Aka Moon

NOW confirms this cohesion thanks to an ongoing counterpoint in which three mysteriously complementary worlds intertwine, revealing their own originalities and styles. The titles of the compositions evoke the themes of travel and the fascination of elsewhere, as well as an artistic and human commitment always in the forefront. (Outhere)

1CD# OUT662 $18.99 $15.19

Constellations Box [20 CDs] / Aka Moon

Since 1992, the year Aka Moon was formed, a series of albums has marked the history of the legendary jazz trio, which this set of twenty albums now gives you a chance to relive. To discover or rediscover this unique music is a very special experience, an inexhaustible source of inspiration. The twentieth album in the box is a previously unreleased recording: Light Ship Trio. (Outhere)

20CD# OUT661 $18.99 $55.99

Songs of Experience / Ensemble Perspectives

Perspectives is an a cappella ensemble comprising five singers who explore every kind of music, from the Renaissance to jazz and popular song. This release is a journey through emotions and sentiments, travelilng on a musical itinerary that begins in the Renaissance, enters Romantic territory with Schubert, then traverses the golden age of choral music in the Victorian age. (Outhere)

1CD# OMF 702 $18.99 $15.19

Strange Fruit / Fabrizio Cassol

Strange Fruit is aproject of the protean composer-saxophonist Fabrizio Cassol, which takes the form of a concept album that could be described as “world opera”. This songbook was elaborated over a period of more than four years, in the company of a group of renowned singers who wrote or co-wrote each piece in their own, very different expressive and stylistic traditions. (Outhere)

1CD# OUT660 $18.99 $15.19

Musiques d’Alep / Wajd Ensemble

The WAJD ensemble is made of five Syrian refugee musicians who recently arrived in Europe. Their repertoire is representative of oriental music from Turkey, Syria and Egypt and revolves around Suffi music from Aleppo. WAJD highlights musical pieces that are little known and rarely played, they are reinventing through improvisation, sung or played, rhymed or unrhymed. (Outhere)

1CD# OUT685 $18.99 $15.19

Live 91 / Nasa Na

Nasa Na was formed in 1989 in Brussels. At De Kaai, all risks were not only permitted but encouraged and a series of musicians experimented together to create a new kind of music. The group broke up in 1992 with three members forming AKA Moon. This release is the answer to cries, based on live recordings from 1991, a must have for all Nasa Na fans from the beginning. (Outhere)

1CD# OUT659 $18.99 $15.19

Cassol: Quality of Joy / Aka Moon

“The question of the quality of joy seems to me today to be increasingly vital.” (Fabrizio Cassol) The instrumental line-up on this outstanding release includes a permanent base of harmonic instruments in addition to the trio of accordion, guitars, cello) as well as guests (trumpet, voice, brass ensemble) on some tracks. The music is accessible, shareable, lyrical and melodic. (Outhere)

1CD# OUT666 $18.99 $15.19

Aka Balkan Moon / AlefBa (Double Live) [2 CDs]

Aka Balkan Moon and AlefBa are two projects, the core of which is the Aka Moon jazz trio. The Aka Balkan Moon project draws its inspiration from the Balkan gypsy tradition. With assistance from a pair of fellow musicians, the trio went in search of musical fellow travelers, finding four virtuoso Bulgarian musicians for this recording. (Outhere)

2CD# OUT657 $27.99 $22.39