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This 2008 concert in Vienna pays tribute to one of classical music's most legendary figures: conductor Herbert von Karajan, best known for his long tenure with the Berlin Philharmonic. Now under the watchful eye of conductor Seiji Ozawa, Karajan's orchestra here performs pieces by Beethoven, Bach, and Tchaikovsky.
Leonard Bernstein conducts the Wiener Philharmoniker in this performance of Bruckner's Ninth Symphony. Recorded at the Grosser Musikvereinssaal in spring 1990, the performance was the esteemed conductor's last with the orchestra before his death six months later.
Two army buddies (Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye) team up after the war and become a successful song-and-dance act. While on a skiing holiday the pair stage a benefit to save an inn run by their old commander, who is beset by financial difficulties resulting from a lack of snow. The title song, `White Christmas', was actually written 12 years earlier for the film `Holiday Inn' and was already a Christmas standard in 1954.
Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the San Francisco Symphony for this performance of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, which was originally broadcast by the American television channel PBS in 2009 as part of the 'Keeping Score' classical music series.
The music, the dancing, the romance, the leg warmers... Oh, what a feeling! Get ready to re-experience all the drama as Alex bravely fights her way out of the welding gear, off the stripper pole and onto the dance-school floor. Flashdance, the pop-culture phenomenon of the'80s, is back and flashier than ever with brand-new featurettes exploring the history, the look, the music and much more! Academy Award-winner for Best Song, "Flashdance-What A Feeling," it's the hit film that inspired a generation.
Classic 1960s musical starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. Former nun Maria (Andrews) becomes the governess for a family of seven children who live in the shadow of their domineering and repressed widower father Captain Von Trapp (Plummer). Along with the required discipline Maria brings love, music and excitement into the children's lives and also eventually begins to have an effect on their father. But just when things are looking up, the rise of Nazism and the threat of the coming war darkens all their futures. The cast also includes Charmian Carr, Nicholas Hammond and Eleanor Parker.
Classic musical adaptation of the L. Frank Baum novel starring Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr and Jack Haley. A tornado whisks Dorothy (Garland) and her house from Kansas to Munchkin City, squashing the Wicked Witch of the East upon landing. The Wicked Witch of the West (Margaret Hamilton) vows revenge, while Dorothy sets off on the yellow brick road to see the Wizard of Oz (Frank Morgan), hoping he can tell her how to get home. On the way she makes friends with a scarecrow (Bolger), a tin man (Haley) and a cowardly lion (Lahr) - all of whom have specific reasons for wanting to meet the magical Wizard. With the Wicked Witch out to get her, will Dorothy ever get home again?
A priceless classic, My Fair Lady has become one of the most popular musicals of all time. Based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play Pygmalion, the film swept the Academy Awards. Cecil Beaton's lavish sets and costumes and Lerner and Loewe's winning score became the background for George Cukor's striking mix of styles that ranged from the fantastic to the abstract in his telling of the tale of a waif who's educated into being a lady. Egotistical linguist Professor Henry Higgins bets his friend, Colonel Hugh Pickering, that he can transform Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle in time for an important society ball. His gamble could pay off--but the spirited Eliza is more of a handful than the Professor could have predicted. As she slowly becomes more refined, and less reliant upon him, Higgins realizes, to his confusion, that he can't live without her. The film was nominated for 12 Oscars and won eight, including Best Picture and Director.
Renee Zellweger and Catherine Zeta Jones star in this Oscar-winning big screen adaptation of the popular Broadway show. In 1920s Chicago nightclub singer Velma Kelly (Zeta Jones) and aspiring starlet Roxie Hart (Zellweger) are both arrested on the same night for committing two different murders. Placed in jail together, both women accept the advice of lawyer Billy Flynn (Richard Gere) and soon begin using their present circumstances to further their quest for wealth and fame.
An innocent young couple is stranded at the home of a mad scientist who is building the perfect man. The castle is filled with a most bizarre group of characters who worship their master, Dr.Frank-N-Furter, played magnificently by the fabulously sexy Tim Curry, in leather jacket, pearls, fishnet stockings, and heavy makeup. Brad and Janet are forced to examine their own sexuality as the voluptuous doctor releases the hidden desires in each of them.
Documentary directed by Robert Mugge about the turning point in the career of physician and musician Dr. John 'Doc' Peterson. In 1992, Doc purchased a derelict building in downtown Muncie, Indiana, with a vision of creating a much-needed live music venue. Featuring interviews with Doc and his wife Vicki, archive footage and live performances, the documentary looks at what made Doc's Music Hall such a popular venue and why, after 20 years, Doc decided to close its doors for good.
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
An American in Paris (1951)
Anchors Aweigh (1945)
On the Town (1949)
Violin virtuoso Itzhak Perlman performs pieces by Prokofiev, Edward Elgar, and Camille Saint-Saëns in a pair of classic performances filmed in London.
Set high atop the Swiss Alps, Verbier offers a splendid destination for classical music lovers during its annual summer festival. This compilation presents the 2007 Verbier Festival's best moments, including performances by violinist Renaud Capuçon and pianists Nelson Freire, Martha Argerich, and Gabriela Montero.
Famed conductor James Levine leads the Ensemble Wien-Berlin in interpretations of several key works by grand masters Mozart and Beethoven in this classical performance release. Selections include: Mozart's Quintet for Piano and Wind Instruments in E Flat Major, K. 452, Beethoven's Quintet für Klavier mit Blasinstrumenten Es-Dur, and Beethoven's Quintet for Piano and Wind Instruments in E Flat Major, op. 16.
Claudio Abbado leads the Berliner Philharmoniker in performances of Beethoven's Symphonies Nos. 4and 7, recorded live at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, in February 2001.
Set high atop the Swiss Alps, Verbier offers a splendid destination for classical-music lovers during its annual summer festival. This compilation presents the 2008 Verbier Festival's best moments, including performances by cellist Mischa Maisky and pianists Yuja Wang, Martha Argerich, and Nikolai Lugansky.
Karl Bohm conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and Vienna Symphony Orchestra in this pair of concert performances. Included here is both a rehearsal and performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92 as well as a performance of Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, B. 178, "From the New World."
Daniel Barenboim leads the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, made up of young musicians from the Middle-East, in a performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9. The soloists featured include Angela Denoke, Waltraud Meier, Burkhard Fritz and René Pape.
Pianist Michael Gees and tenor Christoph Prégardien perform Schubert's famed song cycle, based on the poems of Wilhelm Müller.
With equal bursts of yelpy noise and stop-start dynamics, Los Angeles-based indie quartet the Mae Shi ably tread the line between the post-hardcore and math-rock genres. LOCK THE SKULL, LOAD THE GUN presents a collection of 33 music videos and an hour-long documentary chronicling the band's 2004 U.S. tour through interviews, behind-the-scenes footage, and live performance clips.
A teenager with a criminal record becomes a pop singer in New Orleans but is pursued by the local crime boss.
Dancer Bob Fosse directed this stylised, semi-autobiographical musical about a brilliant stage musical director (Roy Scheider) who drives himself to exhaustion. With Jessica Lange, Ann Reinking and Ben Vereen. Winner of four Oscars.
Jim Hardy (Bing Crosby) and Ted Hanover (Fred Astaire) are a successful song and dance double act until Jim decides to retire and become a gentleman farmer following Ted's seduction of his girlfriend. Jim fails as a farmer, but decides to convert his property to an inn that is only open on public holidays. He also finds happiness with the lovely Linda Mason (Marjorie Reynolds) - that is, until Ted shows up! Packed with Irving Berlin songs, including 'Let's Say It With Firecrackers' and 'Easter Parade'. This is also the film which introduced 'White Christmas', a song that won an Oscar and spawned the movie with the same title in 1954. |
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