New Music & Concerts DVDs

One Direction release Up All Night: The Live Tour DVD featuring 70 minutes of live footage, videos plus never before seen behind the scenes footage!

Celtic Woman return with their newest album, Believe, a beautiful collection of classic Irish songs (-The Water Is Wide, Green Grow the Rushes, A Woman‘s Heart, The Parting Glass), timeless pop anthems (Bridge Over Troubled Water, Sailing), and inspirational songs (You‘ll Never Walk Alone, Ave Maria...

Marco Armiliato conducts the Met in this version of Giuseppe Verdi's opera. The Count Di Luna still harbours hopes that his younger brother may be alive, despite the fact that he has been missing and presumed dead for a number of years. When the Count sets out to court the beautiful Leonora, he is e...

With Joyce DiDonato as Cinderella capturing all hearts – not just Prince Charming’s – Massenet’s enchanting, sophisticated retelling of the classic fairytale makes its debut at Covent Garden in a charming and witty production by Laurent Pelly. The Cinderella story seen through the eyes of the bel...

Covering Eno’s influential solo records through to his more experimental musical styles, and his collaboration with Genesis where his intensely creative work is credited as Enossification.

British heavy metal band Judas Priest was formed in 1969. It wasn't until August 1974 that they released their debut single Rocka Rolla after five years of what is termed in the music industry as paying their dues ! The immediate success of the single was followed by their first album of the same na...

To celebrate his Australian tour, Prince releases his ‘Hits Collection’ DVD, featuring ‘Cream’, ‘1999’, ‘Kiss’, ‘Little Red Corvette’, ‘Raspberry Beret’ and many more.

Natalie Dessay made her first European appearances as Violetta in La Traviata in a new production at the 2011 Aix-en-Provence Festival. This DVD captures her amazing performance, together with American tenor Charles Castronovo as Alfredo, and French baritone Ludovic Tézier as his father, Giorgio Ger...

Recorded at the number 1 Country Music Venue in the USA, Church Street Station, this DVD features some of America's finest country performers.

The Sex Pistols were an English punk rock band that formed in London in 1975. They were responsible for initiating the punk movement in the United Kingdom and inspiring many later punk and alternative rock musicians. Although their initial career lasted just two-and-a-half years and produced only fo...

"The Legendary Red Rocks Amphitheatre provides the awe-inspiring backdrop for Rob Thomas in one of the most memorable stops on his “Something To Be Tour.” Featuring the multi-platinum recording artist performing 18 hits from his solo career and Matchbox Twenty, this incredible set also includes a sp...

Deborah Voigt stars in the title role of Puccini's wild west opera - in a spectacular performance seen live in cinemas worldwide as part of the Metropolitan Opera 'Live in HD' series. Giancarlo Del Monaco's richly authentic production, with spectacular sets by Michael Scott, brings the wild west to ...

Starring Angela Gheorghiu as the celebrated French actress Adriana Lecouvreur and Jonas Kaufmann as her lover Maurizio, Count of Saxony, Cilea s verismo drama explores celebrity, romance, jealousy, and death. The trio of sublime voices is completed by Russian mezzo-soprano Olga Borodina as Adriana s...

“The Freak Out List” puts Zappa under the microscope, featuring rare footage of Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, plus archive film and exclusive interviews with The Mothers Of Invention’s Ian Underwood, Don Preston and George Duke.

Franz Lehár (1870-1948) found remarkably expressive and brilliantly colorful sounds for the drama and romantic moods of this unique topic. The style was decisively infl uenced by the familiar cadence of Hungarian gypsy music in the composer‘s native country. This is not only evidenced by the csárdás...

Arthaus presents a sensational filmed document from the musical legacy of Carlos Kleiber: The wonderful staging of Carmen by director Franco Zeffirelli in a live recording from the Vienna State Opera in 1978. The meticulous conductor only ever conducted a highly selected repertoire and among his ver...

Recorded live from the Festspielhaus, Baden-Baden, 2004 Bonus: - Another Love Death (Der andere Liebestod) – A film by Norbert Beilharz, including an interview with John Neumeier and rehearsal footage

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 Heinrich Hollreiser and the regular guest conductor Karl Böhm – brought in further conductors from home and abroad ...

Giuseppe Verdi’s drama of love and destiny in times of war remains one of the best–known operas by this Italian master. In the „Milan version“ of 1867 it has become an essential part of the repertoire of great opera houses, both in Europe and further afield. This DVD video recording, however, is qui...

These two virtuoso keyboard musicians met for the first time at the Munich Klaviersommer 1982 and gave a concert in the Congress Hall of the German Museum. Alongside various improvisations they perform jazz standards and end with a lyrically rendered paraphrase of Brahms‘s Wiegenlied.

The last great work from the glorious era of the Imperial ballets has never before been performed by the La Scala ballet. Its La Scala premiere marks the most faithful version of Raymonda yet to the original, which met with triumphant success in St. Petersburg in 1898. Based on a medieval legend,...

This is the only available documentary about Mariss Jansons from his early career until present day. Jansons himself relates the story of his youth and education, historical footage shows the young maestro with his mentor Herbert von Karajan and taking his first steps towards an international career...

Staged by Christoph Marthaler One of the highlights from the 2011 Salzburg Festival. With Angela Denoke in the lead role, this emotionally powerful opera was given superior treatment at the hands of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra under Esa-Pekka Salonen. The staging by Christoph Marthaler rece...

Already brimming with symbols and transformations, the epic fairytale recounted by Strauss and his librettist Hofmannsthal in Die Frau ohne Schatten acquires a further allegorical dimension in Christoph Loy’s inventive production for the Salzburg Festival. The central character, the Empress – half-s...

Love conquers all – ruthlessly and irresistibly – as Emperor Nero and his mistress Poppea remove the obstacles to their union. At Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu David Alden’s visually sumptuous production, with its suggestions of a giant game of chess, puts the opera’s potent blend of sex and pol...

**The Places:** On a hill above the ancient town of Kulmbach stands the imposing 12th-century Hohenzollern fortress of Plassenburg. Among various collections on display is the remarkable Tin Soldier Museum, with various figures and dioramas that recreate battles and mirror the great castle itself, ...

A new release from the series of Metropolitan Munich programs, ahead of the Celibidache and Barenboim Anniversaries to come in 2012. In 1992 Daniel Barenboim had just been appointed Artistic Director and General Musical Director of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin and was Music Director of ...

A new release from the series of Metropolitan Munich. Parsifal represents the culmination of Wagner’s work as a revolutionary composer of opera. In it he created a powerful allegory on the conflict between Christianity and paganism, good and evil, light and dark, physical passion and spiritual ab...

**The Places:** Ludwig II of Bavaria followed family precedent in undertaking an extravagant building programme during his relatively short reign from 1864 to 1886. The castles constructed on his orders included the romantic Neuschwanstein and the magnificent Schloss Linderhof, with its elaborate fo...

Contains the 2 titles: * The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall * Les Miserables at the O2