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Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music - Volume 2: Classical to Modern (6 CDs)

This audio complement to "A History of Western Music" includes recordings of all the works appearing in "The Norton Anthology of Western Music". As in the previous edition, the recordings are of the...
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Herbert Von Karajan - His Legacy for Home Video - Mozart - Don Giovanni

Herbert Von Karajan, Music Director of the BerlinPhiharmonic from 1956 until his death in 1989, is one of the pre-eminent musical figures of the century. He conducted some of the most technically...
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Ernest Hemingway - Wrestling With Life [VHS]

His novels are among the most influential and acclaimed ever written. His life is obscured behind the myth that grew up around him. Ernest Hemingway claimed he didn't want his biography written...
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Mozart - Don Giovanni / Kreizberg, Cachemaille, Glyndebourne Festival Opera [VHS]

This 1995 Glyndebourne Festival Opera production uses an orchestra of period instruments but modern costumes. Scenery is virtually nonexistent, lighting is garish, without fine nuances; the title...
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Verdi - La Traviata / Levine, Stratas, Domingo

Customer Review: This film looks beautiful and the performances by Domingo and Stratas are wonderful (although she is not in her best voice). James Levine's conducting and the playing of the...
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Meyerbeer - Les Huguenots / Bonynge, Sutherland, Thane, Australian Opera [VHS]

Customer Review: Come on, guys. This is just about as good as you're gonna get nowadays. Yes, the ol' girl is past her prime. Yes the tenor is squally. But when will you hear a better cast? Not in...
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Verdi - Luisa Miller / Arena, Anderson, Ichihara, Plishka, Opera National de Lyon [VHS]

In this intense, beautifully sung but minimally staged melodrama, Verdi ventures into the theme of parent-child relations, a motif that runs through his subsequent work and provides much of its...
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Monteverdi/Henze - Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria / Jeffrey Tate, Salzburg Festival (1985) [VHS]

This classic production of Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria ("The Return of Ulysses") from the 1985 Salzburg Festival updates the Renaissance orchestration to a distinctly modern sound but conveys the...
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Christoph Willibald Gluck - L'Innocenza ed il Piacer [VHS]

UPC: 032031008236 Manufacturer: Kultur Video Director: Claus Viller Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) ISBN: 1561270822
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Gilbert & Sullivan - The Mikado, The Pirates of Penzance, Iolanthe [VHS]

A set of three stage performances taped in the theater by Canada's Stratford Festival in the 1980s, these productions of the Gilbert & Sullivan favorites The Mikado,The Pirates of Penzance, and...
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Gilbert & Sullivan - Iolanthe [VHS]

From a 1984 performance (live, but with many voices dubbed) at Canada's Stratford Festival comes this version of Iolanthe, the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta in which the residents of Fairyland...
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