New DVDs & Blu-ray CDs

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!

Following on from the mega successful solo debut, Slash releases Apocalyptic Love. This time around he has foregone the song-by-song collaboration with some of his all time favourite vocalists and friends, and used the bulk of his touring line up to create the new record.Slash is joined by his bandm...

VOWS, the debut album from Kimbra, has already been certified GOLD in New Zealand and PLATINUM in Australia and now the 22-year-old girl from Hamilton is set to release VOWS in the United States on May 22. To celebrate the success of our biggest Kiwi export, a deluxe edition of VOWS will be avail...

Marking the centenary of Kathleen Ferrier's birth, Diane Perelsztejn's specially-extended feature-length film traces the remarkable life - and tragically brief career - of one of the greatest singers of all time. Drawing on recently-discovered material, and supported by a companion CD featuring unre...

Widely considered to be one of the quintessential Glam Rock releases, Electric Warrior features two of T-Rex's most popular songs "Get It On" (Known as "Bang a Gong (Get it On)" in the US) and "Jeepster" and we now celebrate its 40th anniversary. Originally released in September 1971, sparked a move...

Rufus Wainwright releases his eagerly anticipated new album, ‘Out of the Game’, April 23rd on Polydor. Produced by Mark Ronson, this is the 7th studio album from one of the very best contemporary songwriters. DVD includes behind the scenes.

During the spring of 1995, Woody Guthrie's daughter Nora contacted British urban folk troubadour Billy Bragg about writing music for a selection of completed Guthrie lyrics. This was no minor task -- Guthrie left behind over a thousand sets of complete lyrics written between 1939 and 1967 that had n...

Everyday I'm shufflin'... You know the song. LMFAO's massive single "Party Rock Anthem" features on their 'Sorry for Party Rocking' album. Also included are their other biggest hits "I'm in Miami B**tch" and "Champagne Showers". Expect excellent party anthems from these guys! This limited tour ...

Air have been making electro ambient music that’s as simple and necessary as their name since their formation in a suburb of Paris in 1995, and now they’re gearing up to release their seventh album, Le Voyage Dans La Lune. Le Voyage Dans La Lune is notably inspired by the seminal Georges Méliès s...

Strangeland is the upcoming fourth studio album by English alternative rock band Keane. It will be released from 4 May 2012 through Island Records. It is their first full length album since Perfect Symmetry (2008), as well as the first to feature bassist Jesse Quin as a permanent official member. ...

Storm Corrosion is the long-discussed and highly anticipated collaboration between two of the modern progressive rock scene's most innovative and multi-talented artists: Mikael Akerfeldt of Opeth and Porcupine Tree's Steven Wilson. Wilson has mixed and contributed to several Opeth albums over th...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...