"LEONARD BERNSTEIN" - Volume I
C MAJOR DVD COLLECTIUON (5 disks)
BUY
NOW FROM ARKIVMUSIC
MICHELANGELO - Love and Death. The True Story of a Visionary Artist
A film by David Bickerstaff produced by Phil Grabsky
SEVENTH ART DVD SEV 199 TT: 91 min.
BUY
NOW FROM ARKIVMUSIC
PUCCINI: La
Bohème
Irina Lungu (Mimi). Georgio Berrugi (Rudolfo). Kelebogile Besong (Musetta).
Massimo Cavalletti (Marcello). Benjamin Cho (Schaunard). Gabriele Sagona
(Colline). Matteo Peirone (Benoit/Alcindoro). Cullen Gandy (Parpignol).
Chorus and Orchestra of Teatro Regio Torino / ianandrea Noseda, cond.
C MAJOR DVD TT: 112 min.
BUY
NOW FROM ARKIVMUSIC
This boxed Leonard Bernstein set includes a number of his recordings
as identified below. It also includes a documentary Larger Than Life
that includes interviews, rehearsal excerpts and commentaries by severlal
of today's best-known conductors. Dick 5 actually is focuses on Tanglewood
including a wide range of performers recorded on the occasiuon of the
75th anniuversary of the Festival July 14, 2012. Here is a list of contents:
This multiple-disk set is available at near-budget price.
SIBELIUS: Symphony No. 1 in E minor, Op. 39. Symphony No. 2
in D, Op. 43. Symphony No. 5 in E flat, Op. 82. Symphony No.7 in C,
Op. 105 (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra). DEBUSSY: Images. Prelude
to The Afternoon of a Faun. La Mer (Orchestra Dell'Accademia Nazionale
di Santa Cecilia). BEETHOVEN: String Quartet No. 16 in F, Op. 135.
HAYDH: Mass in Time of War (Judith Blegen, soprano. Brigitte Fassbender,
contralto. Claes H. Ahnsjó, tenor. Hans Sotin, bass. Bavarian
Radio Chorus and Orchestra) .
TANGLEWOOD 75TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT: COPLAND: Fanfare for
the Common Man. BERNSTEIN: Three Dances from On the Town (Boston
Pops Orchestra / Keith Lockhart\). The Great American Songbook (selections)(
(Boston Pops Otrcherstra / James Taylor / John Willianms). HAYDN: Excerpts from
Piano Concerto in D (Emanuel Ax, piano / Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra /
Stefan Asbury). TCHAIKOVSKY: Andante Cantabile (Yo-Yo Ma, cello) / Tanglewood
Music Cebnter Orchestra). SARASATE: Carmen Fantasy (Anne-Sophie Mutter,
violin. Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra / Andris Nelsons, cond.). RAVEL: La
valse (Boston Symphony Orchestra / Andris Nelsons) .BEETHOVEN: Choral
Fantasy(Peter Serkin, piano. Tanglewiood Festival Chorus / Boston Symphony
Orchestra / David Zinman).
'THE HISTORY OF TANGLEWOOD" - John Williams on Tanglewood.
Seventh Art Productions has another fascinating issue in their
Exhibition on Screen series. This is devoted to the life of
the legendary Michelangelo. This beautifully filmed documentary
displays many of his magnificent
sculptures and paintings filmed in great chapels, museums, drawing
rooms and the Vatican. . This is an important DVD
La Bohème had its premiere at Teatro Regio
di Torino in February 1896. Now this venue presents an updated modernized
version
of Puccini's
masterpiece, directed by Alex Ollé. Alfons Flores' designs feature
a huge "attic" with multiple small windows that on occasion change
color. I found it distracting. Singing is unexceptional, particularly
tenor Giorgio Berrugi as Rodolfo—no tenor fireworks here. Video qualiy
is fine, as is audio, but this is a forgttable Bohème.
There are numerous videos os this opera that are superior to this ill-fated
effort—check our DVD VIDEO INDEX.
R.E.B. (January 2018)
(NEXT DVD VIDEO REVIEW) |