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Christmas Glory from Westminster

Actors: Bryn Terfel, Richard Griffiths, Joan Plowright, Andrea Bocelli, Betty Boothroyd
ASIN : B00005NFY6
Sales Rank : 20388
Studio : Homevision
Region Code : 1
Format : Classical, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780780024540
ISBN : 0780024540
UPC : 037429161326
Release Date : December 16, 2001
Publisher : Homevision
Manufacturer : Homevision
Label : Homevision
Running Time : 60

Description

The program:

1. "O Come O Come Emmanuel"--choir procession
2. Fanfare
3. "O Come All Ye Faithful"--choir and congregation
4. HRH intro
5. "Once in Royal David's City"--choir and congregation
6. First Reading: Isaiah--Trevor McDonald
7. Handel: "For unto Us a Child Is Born"--choir
8. Second Reading: Luke, Chapter 2--Betty Boothroyd
9. Handel: "But Who May Abide the Day of His Coming"--Bryn Terfel
10. Eddie's Service (Kipling)--Joan Plowright
11. William Matthias: Sir Christemas--choir
12. Reading: "And there were in the fields..."--Greta Scacchi
13. Schubert: "Ave Maria"--Andrea Bocelli
14. John Gardiner: "Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day"--choir
15. Christmas Campaign (Frederic Coleman reading)--Trevor McDonald
16. "It Came upon a Midnight Clear"--choir and congregation
17. Stephen Adams: "The Holy City"--Charlotte Church
18. "The Lamb" (William Blake reading)--Greta Scacchi
19. "Mille Cherubini in Coro"--Andrea Bocelli
20. "Tna Bethlehem Dref" (Welsh)--Bryn Terfel
21. Christmas Carols (Dickens reading)--Richard Griffith
22. "Silent Night"--Bryn Terfel and Charlotte Church
23. Archbishop of Canterbury
24. "Mascagni: Sancta Maria"--Andrea Bocelli
25. HRH reading: "In the beginning..."
26. Fanfare
27. "Hark the Herald Angels Sing"--choir and congregation
28. The Blessing: Dean of Westminster
29. Widor organ with credits

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It's a marketer's dream to have two PBS superstars, Andrea Bocelli and Charlotte Church, singing in Christmas Glory from Westminster. Bocelli and Church (who don't sing together here) are among a handful of performers in this 1999 service from London's Westminster Abbey, including actresses Greta Scacchi and Joan Plowright and Welsh baritone Bryn Terfel.

Following an introduction to the abbey by HRH the Duke of Edinburgh (his wedding took place there), the first part of the hourlong service tells the Christmas story, alternating poetry and Bible readings with musical selections from the choir and soloists, including Messiah's "For unto us a child is born" and "But who may abide the day of his coming" by Terfel. Bocelli contributes two Schubert selections, "Mille Cherubino in Coro" and the beloved "Ave Maria," as well as "Sancta Maria," a version of Mascagni's famous melody from Cavalleria Rusticana. Church performs Stephen Adams's "The Holy City" (from her second CD) and shares "Silent Night" with Terfel. The program isn't all solemnity, however. Actor Richard Griffiths offers a spirited reading from A Christmas Carol near the abbey's famous Poets' Corner, where Dickens is buried. A blessing from the Dean of Westminster closes the distinguished evening. --David Horiuchi

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Carols From King's / Choir of King's College, Cambridge · Stephen Cleobury

Actor: Stephen Cleobury
ASIN : B001E181W8
Sales Rank : 26020
Director : David Kremer
Studio : KULTUR VIDEO
Region Code : 0
Format : Classical, Color, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0032031082298
UPC : 032031082298
Release Date : December 28, 2008
Publisher : KULTUR VIDEO
Manufacturer : KULTUR VIDEO
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Label : KULTUR VIDEO
Running Time : 146

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Choir of King's College, Cambridge / Stephen Cleobury

Recorded in December 2000 with true surround sound mix

Once in royal David's city
Quem pastores laudavere
In dulci jubilo
Angels from the realms of glory
In the bleak mid-winter
Quittez, pasteurs
While shepherds watched
Silent night
The Shepherd's Carol
The Angels and the Shepherds
Riu, riu, chiu
O little town of Bethlehem
The Shepherds Farewell
I wonder as I wander
Small wonder the star
Sussex Carol
Gloria in excelsis Deo
God rest ye merry gentlemen
Hark! the herald angels sing

Historic 45-minute recording of the 1954 King's Carol Service, conducted by Boris Ord

New 30-minute conversation between Sir David Willcocks, Sir Philip Ledger and Stephen Cleobury, the three Directors of Music at King's College since 1957, filmed in 2001

Carols only or complete service user options

plus carol texts from 2000 service

Extra features and readings with subtitles in French and German

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Suicide Club (Suicide Circle)

Actor: Ryo Ishibashi; Akaji Maro; Masatoshi Nagase; Saya Hagiwara; Hideo Sako; Takashi Nomura (II); Tamao Satô; Mai Hosho; Yoko Kamon; Rolly; Kimiko Yo; Yuhei Okabe; Asami Hidaka; Miyu Sawada; Himeno Maeda; Harina Hata; Hiromi Eguchi; Kikuko Sakurai; Tatsuo Moriyasu; Seiko Hashimoto
ASIN : B0000CC885
Sales Rank : 27620
Director : Sion Sono
Brand : TLA RELEASING
Studio : TLA Releasing
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0807839000580
UPC : 807839000580
Release Date : December 18, 2003
Publisher : TLA Releasing
Manufacturer : TLA Releasing
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Label : TLA Releasing
Running Time : 94

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A wave of unexplainable suicides sweeps across Tokyo after 54 smiling high school girls join hands and throw themselves from a subway platform into an oncoming train. Are the jumpers part of a cult? What is the connection to the website that chronicles suicides...before they happen? And, what is the connection to the Japanese all-girl pop group "Desert?" Suicide Club is a stylish, bizarre thriller that examines pop culture and disaffected youth.

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Verdi - Requiem / Price, Pavarotti, Cossotto, Ghiaurov, von Karajan, Teatro alla Scala

Actors: Herbert von Karajan, Luciano Pavarotti, Leontyne Price, Fiorenza Cossotto, Nikolai Ghiaurov
ASIN : B0009DBXXQ
Sales Rank : 27294
Director : Henri-Georges Clouzot
Studio : Philips
Region Code : 1
Format : Classical, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0044007340554
UPC : 044007340554
Number Of Discs : 1
Release Date : December 13, 2005
Publisher : Philips
Manufacturer : Philips
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Label : Philips
Running Time : 85

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We Are Together

Actors: Paul Simon, Alicia Keys, Slindile Moya, Sifiso Moya, "Grandma" Zodwa Mqadi
ASIN : B001CK7OO2
Sales Rank : 26263
Director : Paul Taylor
Studio : Palm Pictures / Umvd
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0660200316327
UPC : 660200316327
Release Date : December 09, 2008
Publisher : Palm Pictures / Umvd
Manufacturer : Palm Pictures / Umvd
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Label : Palm Pictures / Umvd
Running Time : 86

Description

WE ARE TOGETHER tells the remarkable and moving story of a group of children who overcome hardship and loss with music. Filmed over a period of three years, it is the story of an orphanage unlike any you've ever seen, where the young singers of the Agape Choir lift their voices to create the home and family they so very much need.

Life has not been easy for 12-year-old Slindile and her siblings living at the Agape Orphanage in South Africa, where most of the children have lost their parents to AIDS. These toddlers and teens squabble and stumble just like any other youths, discovering themselves and craving stability. Having already borne great hardships, Slindile along with here sisters and baby brother must endure the fact that their elder brother Sifiso had been diagnosed with AIDS and is slowly wasting away due to lack of medical care. And yet, when they lift their voices in song, something extraordinary happens-they overcome their fears, band together as a family and better their lives.

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Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Scriabin, Rachmaninov, Chopin, Bach, Brahms: Alexis Weissenberg - Classic Archive

Actors: Brahms, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Scriabin, Chopin
ASIN : B0018D894W
Sales Rank : 43308
Studio : Medici Masters
Region Code : 0
Format : Classical, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0899132000626
UPC : 899132000626
Number Of Discs : 1
Release Date : December 24, 2008
Publisher : Medici Masters
Manufacturer : Medici Masters
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Label : Medici Masters
Running Time : 150

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Weissenberg was at the beginning of his substantial international career in these films, mostly made by French television in the 1960s. The one exception is a 1965 version of Stravinsky’s Three Movements from Petrouchka renowned in its time for attempting to mirror the music’s rhythms and moods. Directed by Åke Falck and filmed in a Stockholm studio, the camera is a creative partner with composer and pianist. So all kinds of odd angles are employed. If you want to see what Weissenberg’s chin looks like from the vantage point of the keyboard, here’s your chance. Lighting and backgrounds change often, but there’s an element of art-house kitsch to the film that today seems dated. In a bonus track, Weissenberg speaks about how the film was made and the difficulties of matching finger movements to the prerecorded sound track while he "played" the work on a specially built silent piano, whose inner plumbing is an important visual element here. As for Weissenberg’s playing, this difficult piece is red meat for a virtuoso of his caliber and he’s predictably impressive, although the piano tone can get glassy in the treble and the considerable pounding the piano gets can leave you feeling pummeled. A wild ride perhaps, but a worthwhile one. The remainder of the solo part of the program consists of Weissenberg favorites: an example of Age of Iron Prokofiev via his Sonata No.3, a Scriabin Nocturne that shows the pianist’s lyric side, a Chopin set offering well-played, interpretively squeaky-clean pianism that needs more tonal bloom than the various engineers could supply at the time. Weissenberg programmed a lot of Bach and some of his best playing comes in the Chromatic Fantasy (here shorn of the Fugue). Bach that looks filmed in a dark celler at midnight, Myra Hess’ famed transcription of Jesu, joy of man’s desiring gets a steel-fingered rendition. The biggest piece on the disc, Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 2, with the French Radio Orchestra led by a heavily perspiring George Prêtre, features grainy video and compromised sound that should have been better for its 1969 date. But pianophiles will be interested in this record of a famed virtuoso at his peak. --Dan Davis

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Beethoven - Choral Fantasy and Triple Concerto for Violin, Cello & Piano / Barenboim, Ma, Perlman

Actors: Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman
ASIN : B000087F5C
Sales Rank : 16998
Studio : EMI Classics
Region Code : 1
Format : Classical, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0724349299498
UPC : 724349299498
Release Date : December 11, 2003
Publisher : EMI Classics
Manufacturer : EMI Classics
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Label : EMI Classics
Running Time : 59

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It would be difficult, perhaps impossible, to assemble a better group of musicians to perform Beethoven's Triple Concerto and Choral Fantasy. Daniel Barenboim has been so busy conducting the world's top orchestras and opera companies that there is a danger of forgetting what an excellent pianist he is. He conducts both of these works from the keyboard, as Beethoven would have expected, engaging in chamber music-like dialogue in the concerto and creating a sense of impromptu in the Fantasy's long piano solo, which Beethoven wrote for himself and partly improvised at the first performance. Itzhak Perlman and Yo-Yo Ma are sensitive, alert, and technically superb partners.

The music is not Beethoven's most familiar, but it is absolutely charming. The concerto is appealing in its melodic material and the intricate interactions among the soloists and orchestra. The Choral Fantasy features a long piano solo that Beethoven wrote for himself, plus a choral melody that sounds like a preliminary sketch for the last movement of his Ninth Symphony. Both works pose unusual balance challenges, to which Barenboim and the recording engineers rise impressively. --Joe McLellan

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Christmas with Chanticleer - An Orchestra of Voices

Actor: Chanticleer
ASIN : B0000DI4TD
Sales Rank : 12057
Studio : Rhino / Wea
Region Code : 1
Format : Classical, Color, DVD-Video, Enhanced, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0603497027125
UPC : 603497027125
Release Date : December 25, 2003
Publisher : Rhino / Wea
Manufacturer : Rhino / Wea
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Label : Rhino / Wea
Running Time : 77

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Leonard Bernstein Mass at the Vatican City

Actor: Enrico Castiglione
ASIN : B0002S641Y
Sales Rank : 42747
Studio : Kultur Video
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, DVD-Video, Dolby, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780769728230
ISBN : 0769728235
UPC : 032031282391
Release Date : December 31, 2004
Publisher : Kultur Video
Manufacturer : Kultur Video
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Running Time : 118

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Originally commissioned by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis to commemorate the memory of John K. Kennedy, Leonard Bernstein's Mass is an exhilarating religious and musical masterpiece. The work is a staggering example of musical eclecticism, mixing aspects of classical, pop, jazz, rock, and blues. Rarely performed due to the enormity of the production, Mass features more than two hundred performers among the large orchestra, a rock band, a blues band, 18 soloists, 80 chorus singers, and a company of 45 dancer-singers. This performance was staged at the Vatican as part of the Jubilee 2000 celebrations of the Roman Catholic Church.

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Timeless traditions and contemporary anxieties clash musically and theatrically in Leonard Bernstein's powerful but rather neglected "Theatre Piece for Singers, Players and Dancers," The dancers are omitted in this semi-staged performance, produced for the Vatican's Jubilee 2000 celebration, but the show's eclectic musical brilliance, its adept mingling and clash of musical styles, its contrasts of hope and anxiety, faith and unbelief, ancient serenity and modern dissatisfaction are all brilliantly conveyed. More than 30 years after its premiere, for the opening of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., Mass still has the impact of this morning's newspaper headlines.

Only Bernstein, a crossover genius, could have produced this score, which mingles folk and ecclesiastical styles, choral and solo vocals, spoken dialogue and dramatic gestures, classical, rock, blues, Broadway-style tunes, gospel, electronic effects, Hebrew prayer, a symphony orchestra, and a kazoo ensemble, and made it all work together with shattering impact. The enormous cast of this production is equal to all its stylistic and musical demands, and the cameras and microphones capture it all effectively. --Joe McLellan

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Christmas With the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square

Actor: Mormon Tabernacle Choir; Audra McDonald; Peter Graves
ASIN : B0009R1TAE
Sales Rank : 40040
Studio : Mormon Tabernacle
Region Code : 1
Format : Classical, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0783027000498
UPC : 783027000498
Release Date : December 15, 2005
Publisher : Mormon Tabernacle
Manufacturer : Mormon Tabernacle
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Label : Mormon Tabernacle
Running Time : 100

Description

Four-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald and veteran movie and television star Peter Graves join with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square in an extraordinary musical Christmas celebration. This spectacular performance of the Choir's 2004 Christmas concert also features a special guest appearance by a prima ballerina from Ballet West, Utah's highly acclaimed dance company, performing two selections from The Nutcracker.

Capturing the musical spirit of the season, the program blends traditional and contemporary favorites such as "Angels from the Realms of Glory," "Deck the Halls," "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," "Silver Bells," and "We Need a Little Christmas." Poignant African-American spirituals such as "I Wonder as I Wander" and "Sweet Little Jesus Boy" showcase the remarkable talents of Broadway singer and actress Audra McDonald. A memorable narration of "In Search of the King," based on a story by Henry Van Dyke, and a reading of the Christmas story from the New Testament by Peter Graves, add to the rich variety of the program. This magnificent presentation will be a holiday favorite for years to come.