DVD: Daniel Barenboim ...     DVD:       Barenboim on Beethoven - The Complete Piano Sonatas Live from Berlin17 reviews Daniel Barenboim EMI Classics, 2007 A real trasure Barenboim's Beethoven is more intelligent and more musical than others. His sense of structure, his touch, his ability to make the piano "sing", everything is superb. The masterclasses give us the oportunity to understand the performer's points of view not only on Beethoven but also on music. A TREASURE just like this, in capital letters!!!             Jules Massenet: Manon10 reviews Anna Netrebko, Rolando Villazon Deutsche Grammophon, 2008 Paris in Hollywood Here is the second major production of Jules Massenet's "Manon" to come out on DVD in 2008. Earlier, we had David McVicar's gritty, unsentimental production, set in the story's own period of the early 18th century, from Barcelona's Liceu Opera House. Now comes a much "prettier" production, updated to the 1950s in a glamorous Hollywood treatment by Vincent Patterson for Los Angeles Opera and the ...             Vladimir Ashkenazy: Master Musician2 reviews Vladimir Ashkenazy, Daniel Barenboim Christopher Nupen, 2008 Outstanding and Highly Innovative DVD The title above says it all! This DVD is not only enjoyable but wonderfully innovative as well given the talent, humility and "down to earth" persona of Vladimir Ashkenazy. In my opinion, a must buy!!             Wagner - Tristan und Isolde20 reviews Daniel Barenboim, Johanna Meier Deutsche Grammophon, 2007 An inspired production This is indeed a very satisfying performance of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. It is a performance filmed on the stage of Bayreuth, but without the audience, in order to give the camera a greater freedom of movement. The staging of Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, shows you clearly what a good director could achieve, as opposed to the intolerable nonsense one has so often to put up with some modern ...             Maxim Vengerov: Playing By Heart/Masterclass3 reviews Maxim Vengerov, Daniel Barenboim KULTUR VIDEO, 2008 You can have so much from this !!! I watched clips of Playing by Heart and Master Class first in youtube and wished there will be the DVD one day soon. Watching this DVD was far more exciting and I feel lucky because I will never have the opportunity to watch him playing live not because he is focussing to other things right now but because the opportunity of his concert in my country is very very small. We could see the real ...             Manon [Blu-ray]1 review Jules Massenet, Anna Netrebko Deutsche Grammophon, 2008 Fantastic Blu-Ray debut for DG What a difference blu-ray makes! If there was ever a production of an opera to want in stunning high defintion, it may be this one, and DG does not disappoint. The colors leap off the screen and the beautiful cast, costumes and scenery are just a feast to behold. The DTS-HD track is very good for the most part, occasionally the singers feel too close and there are occasional balance issues, ...             The Ramallah Concert - Knowledge Is the Beginning/West-Eastern Divan Orchestra/Barenboim7 reviews Daniel Barenboim Warner Classics, 2006 Hope for peace Through this project, Said and Barenboim have done something that no politicians are able to accomplish. It's an amazing story that revived the dream (despite the current bleak reality) that one day Arabs and Israeli may be able to reconcile and live in harmony.             Tangos Among Friends / Daniel Barenboim, Carlos Gardel4 reviews Tangos Among Friends-Daniel Barenboim Kultur Video, 2007 stealth riches There's a bunch of fabulous music in this film of concert tangos with the great Argentinian on piano, Rodolfo Mederos and Hector Console on bandoleon and double bass. Opening with three Carlos Gardel tangos, interspersed is a rich segment on Gardel and the city of Buenos Aires, fascinating old footage of the city, and tales of Gardel's pivotal historical place in the development of the tango in ...             Sibelius - Violin Concerto /De Falla - Nights in the Gardens of Spain14 reviews Maxim Vengerov, Daniel Barenboim Arthaus Musik, 2000 Sibelius as Sibelius would have wanted it Sibelius was a failed virtuoso violinist. He poured his love for the violin into this concerto, which is full of difficulties beyond his own ability as a performer. It is a virtuoso concerto in the Romantic tradition, and in Vengerov it has found the ideal interpreter. Whether or not you find the visuals off-putting is a matter of personal taste (I don't mind them, while I can't stand Joshua ...             Jacqueline Du Pre: A Celebration of Her Unique Enduring Gift1 review Vladimir Ashkenazy, Daniel Barenboim Christopher Nupen, 2007 WONDERFUL!!!!!! For me this is the best Nupen's film about Jackie. It has "Who was Jacqueline du Pré?", "Interlude with Johannes Brahms" a previously unpublished interview and "Remembering Jacqueline du Pré". It's more than 3 hours of music and words of people who knew her best to enjoy and remember the best cello player of all times. "Heart-Stopping arcchive footage" The Times             Renee Fleming: A Film by Tony Palmer17 reviews Renée Fleming, Daniel Barenboim Decca, 2002 I LOVED this DVD! I could not disagree more with the below reviewer! I am a huge Renee Fleming fan; as a young singer myself (21), I look to her for inspiration. Yes, her voice is gorgeous ... but what this DVD does amazingly well is to capture a bit of Renee Fleming, the person. We see in this a woman who lives an incredibly hectic life with grace that most of us only dream of. It is an amazingly honest view of ...             Wagner - Die Walkure / Secunde, Elming, Tomlinson, Evans, Holle, Finnie, Close, Johansson, Kupfer, Barenboim, ...9 reviews Daniel Barenboim, Poul Elming Warner Classics, 2005 Powerful stuff, utterly compelling ... As I have written in other reviews for this production of Der Ring des Nibelungen in both its CD/audio-only and DVD formats, I must here say again that I am truly captivated and ultimately quite bowled over by this production of Der Ring des Nibelungen, making me believe that this must be one of the greatest musical monuments in existence (as created by Wagner and as performed by Barenboim et ...             Debussy La Mer / Boulez Notations / De Falla El Sombrero de Tres Picos / Barenboim, Chicago Symphony Orchestra1 review Daniel Barenboim Image Entertainment, 2001 premiere record of Boulez's Notations is wonderful The high point here is Boulez's "Notations" I,II,III,IV. This creative odyssey began with the original early piano solo miniatures.The Boulez aesthetic constantly searches for re-readings,transmogrifications of music materials that reveal other more interesting implications. This is as if the agricultural seeds in an Egyptian tomb were discovered and planted and thus can still produce life. The ...             Wagner - Das Rheingold / Tomlinson, Clarke, Holle, Finnie, Johansson, von Kannen, Svenden, Barenboim, ...6 reviews Harry Kupfer, Daniel Barenboim Warner Classics, 2006 Barenboim and Bayreuth Opera are excellent Any new Ring Cycle attracts attention much like the proverbial elephant in the room. In this recently released Das Rheingold the elephant is not the music, which is presented with matchless professionalism by Daniel Barenboim and the legendary Bayreuth Opera. For me, at least, it is the production that is the pachyderm wandering throughout the house, occasionally smashing the good porcelain. ...             Wagner - Gotterdammerung7 reviews Daniel Barenboim, Siegfried Jerusalem Warner Classics, 2007 matrix Wagner I saw this on VHS complete many years ago, well when it first came out, and the production, the concept of Kupfer directly parallels what Herr Wagner wanted as well as Barenboim's large massive scale sound he prefers to Boulez's more chamber-like reading.Boulez also had faster tempi and Daniel. I am sure they both discussed it together. . . . What did Herr Wagner Want?, a scaled down stage, ...             Schubert - Winterreise / Thomas Quasthoff, Daniel Barenboim5 reviews Thomas Quasthoff, Daniel Barenboim Deutsche Grammophon, 2005 Singing my way.... Schubert's Winterreise is a cycle that, for many music lovers, has a single name and voice: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. In the last years we are discovering young singers whom are approaching this lieder in a new, fresh and master way, specially Mathias Goerne and Thomas Quasthoff. Goerne performance for Hyperion was really very good, but this one I really think it's even better, among the ...             Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake / Barenboim, Scherzer, Matz, Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin12 reviews Steffi Scherzer, Oliver Matz Arthaus Musik, 2000 A Nontraditional Version of Immense Quality! It is not entirely fair to compare this version of Swan Lake with other more traditional versions, otherwise I would rate this as the single finest Swan Lake in all of discography! First of all, how is this different from the usual offerings? The setting has been moved to the late 19th century still in Europe. More significantly, The part of the Queen has been made into a dancing part(danced ...             Beethoven: Triple Concerto, Choral Fantasy [Region 2] Daniel Barenboim, The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra EMI Classics France, 2008             Mozart - Cosi Fan Tutte / Barenboim, Roschmann, Kammerloher, Bruera, Gura, Chausson, Berlin Opera6 reviews Daniel Barenboim, Werner Gura Tdk DVD Video, 2003 Unorthodox but thrilling Cosi fan tutte Of the three Mozart/da Ponte collaborations, Cosi fan tutte is perhaps the most puzzling. Ostensibly, the story is simple: two sisters (Fiordiligi and Dorabella) are engaged to two young men (Ferrando and Guglielmo). The men, egged on by a sinister Don Alfonso, decide to "test" their sweethearts' love by disguising themselves as soldiers and switching partners. The women do not pass this ...             Daniel Barenboim: 50 Years On Stage9 reviews Daniel Barenboim Euroarts, 2005 a supreme gift Disc 2 of this double DVD set is a pulsing look at Daniel Barenboim and his immense world of music and art and indeed fine living - friends, discoveries, everything a gifted and elegant intelligence can thrive within. He comes across an interested, intriguing man of tremendous gifts and sensibilities. It's a joy to watch him work and relax, to witness his world, and it's easy to understand his ...              search for DVDs ashkenazy, barenboim, bayreuth, beethoven, beginning, celebration, chausson, complete, concerto, deutsche, enduring, gotterdammerung, jacqueline, johansson, kammerloher, knowledge, massenet, masterclass, notations, orchestra, quasthoff, rheingold, roschmann, schubert, sibelius, staatsoper, tchaikovsky, tomlinson, west-eastern, winterreise DVD:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. 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