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  1. Music in the Air: A History of Classical Music on Television (2012)

    Director
    Reiner E Moritz
    Subject
    Media studies; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 85 minutes), £19.15

    Documentary covering the history of classical music on television which examines how the televisual medium has been instrumental in popularising music, preserving performances and making events accessible to...

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  2. Classical Music and Cold War: Musicians in the Gdr (2012)

    Director
    Thomas Zintl
    Subject
    History; Music; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 5, 52 minutes ), £19.15

    Through case studies of individuals who lived under the system, the documentary explores the fates of both the privileged and the non-privileged, and delivers insight into the influence of the political...

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  3. David Hockney Collection: Art and Life of David Hockney (2012)

    Director
    Alan Benson; Gero von Boehm; Beatrice Monti della Corte; Don Featherstone
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 157 minutes), £39.99

    Collection of documentary films about David Hockney, revealing the artist at three different stages of his career. PLEASURES OF THE EYE looks at Hockney’s philosophy, life and work, discussing the large...

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  4. Britten: War Requiem (2012)

    Subject
    English language and literature; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 97 minutes), £29.99

    2012 sees the 50th anniversary of Britten’s War Requiem and the building it was written for, Coventry Cathedral. The work combines the words of the Latin Mass for the Dead and poems by the First World War...

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  5. Alexander Glazunov: Raymonda (2012)

    Director
    Sergei Vikharev
    Subject
    Dance
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 154 minutes), £24.99

    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...

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  6. Dancer’s Dream: The Great Ballets of Rudolf Nureyev (2011)

    Director
    Francois Roussillon
    Subject
    Dance
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 323 minutes), £29.99

    A set of four documentaries chronicling the ballet productions of Rudolf Nureyev - Raymonda, Romeo and Juliet, Sleeping Beauty and La Bayadere. The films follow the production processes involved, as the...

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  7. Andreas Gursky (2011)

    aka: Long Shot Close Up Andreas Gursky

    Director
    Jan Schmidt-Garre
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 100 minutes), £19.30

    Andreas Gursky is a German visual artist known for his enormous architecture and landscape colour photographs, often employing a high point of view. Often likened to paintings, his photographs reflect a...

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  8. Falstaff (2011 Television, Video)

    Director
    Ellen Fellmann; Bernd Weikl
    Subject
    Drama; Music

    Verdi’s opera performed by the Orchestra and Chorus of the Pflaztheater Kaiserslautern conducted by Uwe Sandner. Directed for television and video by Ellen Fellman and for stage by Bernd Weikl. Weikl sings...

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  9. Songe, Le (2011 Video)

    Director
    Jean-Christophe Maillot
    Subject
    Dance

    Ballet based on A Midsummer Night’s Dream choreographed by Jean-Christophe Maillot and performed by Les Ballets de Monte Carlo. The Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra is conducted by Nicolas Brochot and...

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  10. Goya (2011)

    aka: Gian Carlo Menotti-Goya

    Director
    Kasper Bech Holten
    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 101 minutes), £22.97

    Italian composer Gian Carlo Menotti (1911-2007) was far from being a musical revolutionary - and yet he had a crucial influence on the history of 20th century opera. He wrote his first opera at the age of...

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