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	SOUL MAKOSSA - Manu Dibango Label: IMMORTAL DVD 940065 Our Price: $21.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Tracks: Echos Beti; Migilbawe; Afric Sans Fric; Ashiko Dumba; Marabout; Mangabolo; Wana Di Lambo; Soul Makossa; Waka Juju Dolby Digital; 4:3; All Region NTSC; Approx. 66 mins Afro-pop star Manu Dibango is an exciting live concert packed full of percussive counter-rhythms, intense sax, drums, vibes, powerful call-and-response singing and sexy dancing - all elements that have long made Manu Dibango and his Soul Makossa crew such a sophisticated yet always earthy and riveting presence in global dance pop. “Soul Makossa”, Dibango’s breakout 1973 hit, became a worldwide dance-club sensation and pioneered the Afro-pop explosion. Here, Dibango and his amazing ensemble - multiple drums, singers, keyboards, vibes, and more - perform “Soul Makossa” along with eight other extended numbers full of deep groove and sharp interplay among advanced musicians.
	GALA DE REYES – ZARZUELA ROYAL GALA CONCERT Label: IMMORTAL DVD 950002 Our Price: $21.50 Quantity in Basket: none
TOMAS BRETON: El bateo: Prélude; La Dolores: Jota FEDERICO MORENO TORROBA: Luisa Fernanda: Coro de Vareadores FEDERICO CHUECA: La Gran Via: Chotis FRANCISCO ASENJO BARBIERi: El Barberillo de Lavapiés: Canción de Paloma PABLO SOROZABAL: La del
	PLACIDO DOMINGO – LIVE FROM MIAMI Label: IMMORTAL DVD 950003 Our Price: $21.50 Quantity in Basket: none
G. MEYERBEER: L’africaine: “O paradis!” G. DONIZETTI: Lucia Di Lammermorr: “Fra poco a me ricovero”; Don Pasquale: “Quel guardo il cavaliere”; L’Elisir D’Amore: “Esulti pur la Barbara” G. PUCCINI: Manon Lescaut: Intermezzo; Tosca: “E lucevan le stel
	OPERA STARS SING BRAODWAY Label: IMMORTAL DVD 950005 Our Price: $21.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Songs from West Side Story; My Fair Lady; Porgy and Bess; Cats; Girl Crazy; The Merry Widow Tracks: America; Maria; Tonight; Somewhere from West Side Story; On The Street Where You Live; I Could Have Danced All Night from My Fair Lady; My Man's Gone No
	OPERA STARS IN CONCERT Label: IMMORTAL DVD 950006 Our Price: $21.50 Quantity in Basket: none
GIUSEPPE VERDI: I Vespri Siciliani: Overture; La Traviata: “Lunga da lei”; Don Carlos: “Per me giunto e il di supreme” VINCENZO BELLINI: I Puritani: “Il rival salvar tu dei” JACQUES OFFENBACH: Les Contes D’Hofffmann: Barcarole & Duet GIACOMO PUCCINI: Tosca: “Vissi d’arte” GIOACCHINO ROSSINI: Semiramide: “Eccomi alfine in Babilonia” GAETANO DONIZETTI: Lucrezia Borgia: “Vieni la mia vendetta”; CHARLES GOUNOD: Faust: “Alerte, alerte” Ruggero Raimondi, bass; Paolo Coni, baritone; Alfredo Kraus, tenor; Katia Ricciarelli, soprano; Lucia Valentini-Terrani, mezzo Symphonic Orchestra of Madrid/Gian Paolo Sanzogno NTSC - All regions - Dolby Digital - 4:3, Approx. 55 mins Concert operatic performances from some of the greatest singers of our time – including Alfredo Kraus, Katia Kicciarelli, and Ruggero Raimondi – on one stage, in one superb evening, superbly shot on video. With the Symphonic Orchestra of Madrid (Gian Paolo Sanzogno, conductor) providing nuanced support, the stars appear in solo, duet and trio settings, taking on well-loved works by great and varied masters of the grand operatic tradition: Puccini, Gounod, Offenbach, Bellini, Donizetti among them. Three pieces by Giuseppe Verdi – including and orchestral overture – give the concert an unusual degree of unity.
	ALFREDO KRAUS IN CONCERT Label: IMMORTAL DVD 950007 Our Price: $21.50 Quantity in Basket: none
R. STRAUSS: Liebeshymnus; Zueignung; H. DUPARC: Extase; L’invitation au voyage; J. MASSENET: Ouvre tes yeux bleus; Elegie; J. TURINA: Dedicatoria (piano solo); Nunca Olvida; Cantares; Los dos miedos; Las locas por amor; R. DE LUNA: En el fondo
	OPERA STARS LIVE IN BARCELONA Label: IMMORTAL DVD 950009 Our Price: $21.50 Quantity in Basket: none
GIUSEPPE VERDI: Linda Di Chamounix: "O luce di quest'anima"; Macbeth: "Pieta, rispetto, amore"; Don Carlo: "O don fatale"; Rigoletto: "La donna e mobile"; La Traviata: "Libiamo ne'lieti calici" RUGGIERO LEONCAVALLO: "Mattinata" FRANCESCO PAOLI TOSTI
	ALFREDO KRAUS, RUGGERO RAIMONDI, KATIA RICCIARELLI IN CONCERT Label: IMMORTAL DVD 950010 Our Price: $21.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Also featuring: Paolo Coni & Lucia Valentini-Terrani GEORGES BIZET: Carmen: Suite No. 1; “Chanson Boheme” GAETANO DONIZETTI: Lucrezia Borgia: “Soli noi siamo”; L’Elisir D’Amore: “Una furtive lagrima”; GIUSEPPE VERDI: Rigoletto: “Un di, se ben ra
	LEOS JANACEK: Das Schlaue Fuchslein (The Cunning Little Vixen) Label: IMMORTAL DVD 960001 Our Price: $21.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Rudolf Asmus; Ruth Schob-Lipka; Werner Enders; Josef Burgwinkel; Herbert Rossler; Walter Staps; Ida Hemmerling; Jorg Albishausen; Edgar Pelz; Helga Naujoks; etc. Orchester und Chorsolisten der Komischen Oper, Berlin/Vaclav Neumann NTSC - All regions - Mono B&W - Dolby Digital + Dolby Surround 5.1 - DVD-9 Approx.103 mins.
	ACHTERLAND, a film by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker Label: IMMORTAL DVD 960004 Our Price: $21.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Modern XX Dance Company – Rosas NTSC All Region; Dolby Digital Sterio; B/W; Approx. 69 mins A brilliantly filmed version of Achterland, the stunning, adventurous dance work from the avant-garde Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. Unlike many filmed dance pieces, Achterland is directed by De Keersmaeker herself, who brings a choreographer’s talent to the camera, reflecting the work’s structures and themes in highly developed cinematic form. The original cast was largely reassembled for the film; the piece was adapted to the new medium, with choreographic revisions appropriate to cinematic expression. First performed at La Monnaie in 1990, Achterland has become a critical part of the repertoire of Rosas, De Keersmaeker’s acclaimed company. More than eighty versions have been staged in cities throughout the world. Set to music by contemporary composers Eugene Ysaye and Gyorgy Ligeti, the piece evinces and exuberant mood – a departure for De Keersmaeker’s at the time of the work’s premiere – as it explores tensions between man and woman and movement and music with playful, athletic dancing and striking imagery and costumes. Winner: Dance Screen Award (Lyon, 1994) & Best Adaptation, Festival International du Film sur l’Art (Montreal, 1995)
	GRAND PAS IN THE WHITE NIGHT Label: IMMORTAL DVD 960005 Our Price: $21.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Selections from Romeo et Juliette, Suite Grecque, La Bayadere, Notre Faust, Don Quixote, and other Ballets and Dances Ballet of the XXth Century/Maurice Bejart The Kirov Ballet/Oleg Vinogradov NTSC All Region; Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround; Approx.
	CESARE PUGNI: Esmeralda Label: IMMORTAL DVD 960006 Our Price: $21.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Dancers: Elvira Khabibullina; Kirill Myasnikov; Angella Kondrashova; Andrei Kuligin; Aleksei Konstantinov; Andrei Bregvadze; Igor Soloviev Ballet Company and Symphony Orchestra of the St. Petersburg Mussorgsky State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre Andrei Anikhanov, conductor NTSC All Region; Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround; Approx. 60 mins Subtitled in English, French and German A beautiful production of the classic ballet Esmeralda, from a great Russian ballet company: the Mussorgsky State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre of St. Petersburg. At once steeped in tradition and amazingly fresh, this production - vibrantly documented in a tasteful video presentation - presents the company’s lively, graceful lead ballerina Elvira Khabibullina in the role of the doomed gypsy dancer Esmeralda, first created by the nineteenth-century novelist Victor Hugo for his classic work The Hunchback of Notre Dame. The production benefits from colorful, storybook set-design and constume, as well as from the ballet’s romantic music of 1844, composed by Cesare Pugni and deftly played by the Mussorgsky’s symphony orchestra. Under the direction of the company’s artistic director Nikolai Boyarchikov, the great Russian ballerina Tatyana Vecheslova - who danced Esmeralda to great acclaim in the early and mid-twentieth century - provided her own memories of nineteenth-century realizations of the ballet. The program also includes an evocative documentary introduction, covering Esmeralda’s history, featuring and interview with the company’s artictic director and reminiscences from the great nineteenth-century ballerina Matilda Kshesinskaya.
	VIRTUOSOS OF ST. PETERSBURG Label: IMMORTAL DVD 960007 Our Price: $21.50 Quantity in Basket: none
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART: Serenade in D, KV 239 ‘Serenata Notturna’; Divertimento in B minor; SAMUEL BARBER (1910 – 1981): Adagio for Strings Orchestra de Camara de Los Jovenes/Vladimir Altshuler NTSC All Region; Dolby Digital Sterio; 5.1 Surround; C
	PLACIDO GRANDISIMO Label: IMMORTAL DVD 960008 Our Price: $21.50 Quantity in Basket: none
GEORGES BIZET (1838 – 1875): Carmen: Overture GEORGE GERSHWIN (1898 – 1937): Porgy & Bess: “Sumertime” MANUEL PENELLA (1880 – 1939): El gato montes ISAAC ALBENIZ (1860 – 1909): Asturias GIACOMO PUCCINI (1858 – 1924): Tosca: “E lucevan le stelle”; La Rondine: “Ch’il bel sogno di doretta” PABLO SOROZABAL (1897 – 1988): La Tabernera del Puerto: “¡No puede ser!” MARIAN BEIGBEDER & MANUEL ALEJANDRO: Cancion para una reina; El grito de America Placido Domingo with Guadalupe Sanchez & Julia Migenes-Johnson Ernesto Bitetti, guitar National Symphonic Orchestra of Spain/Eugene Kohn/Manuel Alejandro NTSC All Region; Dolby Digital Sterio; 5.1 Surround; Color; Approx. 58 mins An evening of opera, zarzuela, and a wealth of other musical treats from the great Spanish tenor Placido Domingo – joined by a host of special guests. Filmed in Seville before an excited audience, this concert brings together selections from great composers like Bizet, Puccini, and Gershwin; romantic zarzuelas like El Gato Montes and La Tabernera del Puerta; classic of Spanish guitar like “Asturias”; and Latin pop hits like “El Grito de America. Joining Placido for this musically varied event are the sultry American singer Julia Migenes – with whom the tenor appeared in the critically acclaimed film version of Carmen – as well as soprano Guadalupe Sanchez and the dazzling guitarist Ernesto Bitetti. Placido performs big arias, charming operetta numbers, and duets; he encores with Manuel Alejandro’s “El Gato de America”, a contemporary work for ensemble and voices. A fascinating and satisfying concert from one of the great vocal artists of the age.
	THE MOSCOW VIRTUOSI Label: IMMORTAL DVD 960010 Our Price: $21.50 Quantity in Basket: none
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685 – 1750): Concerto for Two Violins in D minor BWV 1043; Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor BWV 1041 WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756 – 1791): Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra in C major KV 314; Symphony No. 24 in B major KV 182; Divertimento in B major KV 137: Allegro di molto Arkady Futer & Vladimir Spivakov, violin; Alexey Utkin, oboe The Moscow Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra/Vladimir Spivakov NTSC All Region; Dolby Digital Sterio; 5.1 Surround; Color; Approx. 67 mins The Moscow Vrituosi – Russia’s internationally beloved chamber ensemble, drawn from the cream of the country’s greatest soloists – presents a beautiful all-Bach-and-Mozart program for an enthusiastic audience at Torrejon de Ardoz, Spain. Founded and led by the legendary violinist Vladimir Spivakov, the Moscow Virtuosi have been delighting audiences around the world since 1979. Featured in this program are two of the most exciting of the Virtuosi stalwarts: violinist Arkady Futer and oboist Alexey Utkin. Futer collaborates with Spivakov on the Bach double-violin concerto in D minor, and Utkin brings his gorgeous tone and crowd-pleasing brilliance to the Mozart C major oboe concerto. Also featured are the Bach single violin concerto (with maestro Spivakov as soloist), a complete Mozart Symphony, and the allegro movement of Mozart’s Divertimento in B major. To all of these pieces, the Moscow Virtuosi bring their fabled precision, polish, and sense of pure pleasure.