This holiday release features high definition ambient footage of a warm, crackling fireplace, playable with original sound, country style Christmas music, the 101 Strings Orchestra, or the Starlight Orchestra. ~ Cammi...
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Thomas Stewart and Brigitte Fassbaender co-star in this filmed 1978 stage production of Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold, mounted by the Salzburg Festival and the Metropolitan Opera. The Berliner Philharmoniker, u...
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This beautifully illustrated book encourages young readers to join the angels, shepherds, and stable animals as they gather together to celebrate the coming of the Lord.
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In a small village in the south of England, Dick Dewy, a handsome working man, falls in love with Fancy Day, a newly arrived schoolteacher from a wealthy family who happens to be the village beauty. But other, richer ...
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Composed in 1936 to introduce children to the instruments in an orchestra, Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf" is beloved by generations. Now, Caldecott Medalist Raschka gives the original story a new setting--a theater-...
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On an historic night at Rome's Terme di Caracalla in 1990, three of the world's greatest tenors -- Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti -- shared a stage for the first time in this acclaimed recital. P...
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Love and politics cross paths in a most unlikely way in this production of Gilbert and Sullivan's popular comic opera. In Iolanthe, a man who is half-human and half-fairy wishes to wed the woman he loves, but he is to...
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John Travolta stars in this unique blend of comedy, fantasy and romance as an unsuccessful inventor who robs a bank in order to keep up payments to a loan shark. But the fast-thinking bank clerk (Olivia Newton-John) t...
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Bill Bryson, author of the national bestseller The Mother Tongue, takes an informed and affectionate look at the history of the U.S. from the perspective of language and popular culture..
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This EMI release of The Four Seasons gives violinist Sarah Chang top billing (as would be expected) and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra a smaller, less significant listing. As far as the quality of performance goes, how...
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These ten John Denver tracks provide only adequate representation of the late singer/songwriter's best material. Unfortunately, two of his biggest hits from the '70s, "Sunshine on My Shoulders" and "Annie's Song," are...
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For some unexplained reason, letters to Santa Claus are being returned to the children of Junctionville. It seems some sour soul has angered St. Nick, calling Christmas "a fraudulent myth!" The skeptical rodent Albert...
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The Glyndebourne Festival Opera mounted this 1991 performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera seria La Clemenza di Tito (1791), commemorating the 200th anniversary of the work. With the traditional libretto by Piet...
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By the time this performance of Bach's St. John Passion was recorded in 1996, the strict lines dividing the rigorously historically informed performance practice movement and more contemporary practices had sufficient...
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Famed Spanish tenor Jos? Carreras headlines this special classical Christmas concert, performed and filmed at the Basilica di Sant'Ambrogio in Milan, with lavish symphonic accompaniment by the Orchestra Sinfonica Dell...
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Beautifully shaped, wonderfully colored, powerfully dramatic, and lovingly lyrical, Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony's recording of Mahler's Seventh Symphony is not as only as good or better than t...
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If Da' T.R.U.T.H.'s 2007 Stellar Award-winning effort Open Book was his personal, inward-looking album, this 2009 follow-up lives up to its title and pushes outward in epic fashion. Drawing its inspiration from the st...
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The Italian opera of love and disaster between an Oriental woman and the Westerner who takes advantage of her. Produced by J. P. Ponnelle and directed by Karajan. Featuring the music of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchest...
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Beloved Yorkshire veterinarian Herriot delightfully continues where he leaves off in his first book with more marvelous adventures and a whole new menagerie of memorable patients.
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This video presents a performance of William Shakespeare's classic comedy, A Midsummer Night's Dream. The story of fairies and the hapless lovers caught in their magic spells has delighted audiences for centuries. Thi...
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Joan was a child whose country suffered under the horrors of invasion and civil war. By 19, she was called the savior of France--and a heretic who was killed by being burned at the stake. Almost 500-years later, she w...
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Mozart: Greatest Hits features a variety of talented musicians performing the legendary works of the beloved composer. Among the performers who appear on this release are Daniel Barenboim, Angelika Kirchschlager, and ...
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The documentary Harley Davidson: The Spirit of America follow a Harley riding family as they venture from California to Milwaukee. The film presents footage of these popular machines, along with a look at the various ...
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"The Spirit of Christmas" is composed of two classic Christmas stories performed entirely with Marionettes. The first story, "Twas the Night Before Christmas", is based on Clement C. Moore's familiar poem about Santa ...
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Kathleen Battle, Francisco Araiza, and Kurt Moll star in this production of one of Mozart's best-loved operas, staged by the Metropolitan Opera of New York with sets designed by David Hockney. In Mozart's witty and wh...
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This performance of Mozart's opera, Don Giovanni features the Glyndebourne Chorus and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. ~ Cammila Albertson, Rovi. Subtitles: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian.
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The London Symphony Orchestra assists Eric Shilling, Keith Michell, Francis Egerton, and Tom McDonnell in a performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Gondoliers. The story concerns two gondoliers who must choose a wif...
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In the 1990s, Benjamin Zander achieved a high degree of fame through a series of recordings he made of Gustav Mahler's symphonies for Telarc, which combined elegant performances with bonus discs featuring the conducto...
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"Bach purifies me: he offers me a new view on life, never mind what he brings in purely pianistic terms," said U.S.-born and Paris-trained pianist Nicholas Angelich. None of this makes a great deal of sense; Bach of c...
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This production of the opera Samson et Dalila was staged originally in San Francisco. Pl cido Domingo and Shirley Verrett star as the title duo. The storyline follows the Biblical tale of the conflict between the Phil...
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The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra has built up a special relationship with the orchestral music of Tchaikovsky. Its 1941 recording of the Symphony No. 2 under Eugene Goossens was the first ever made of the "Little Rus...
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Archaeological finds become tickets to travel back in time, and our tour guide is host James Woods. Why did three-thousand French troops die in the mountains after Emperor Napoleon's failed invasion of Russia? Did the...
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Astonishingly, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart penned his first opera, Mitridate, Re di Ponto, at the tender age of 14. The work plunges into the dark heart of the inner circle of Mithridates, king of Pontus, the dark tower o...
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A collection of Beatles covers, All You Need Is Love finds the Canadian Brass turning in warm, pretty versions of such Lennon and McCartney staples as "When I'm Sixty-Four," "Michelle," "Penny Lane," "Yesterday," "She...
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