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Rigoletto to the abject failure of the<br />

premiere of La Traviata.<br />

In the end, history has had the final say on<br />

the career of this true Italian hero.<br />

Item no. : KF00770238<br />

Format : DVD (Region 1, Color)<br />

Duration : 52 minutes<br />

StdBkNo : 9780769792095<br />

Price : USD 50.00<br />

IN IN THE THE FOOTSTEPS FOOTSTEPS OF<br />

OF<br />

VIVALDI<br />

VIVALDI<br />

Today, the music of Vivaldi is universally<br />

adored. His Four Seasons is perhaps the<br />

most recognized piece of Baroque music<br />

ever written.<br />

But the man behind the music was much<br />

less well understood. The celebrated<br />

<strong>com</strong>poser lived with wealth, yet died in<br />

poverty. He led the life of a Catholic priest,<br />

yet was constantly surrounded by an<br />

entourage of beautiful women and had a<br />

love affair with at least one of his young<br />

students.<br />

Our cameras travel from Venice to Vienna<br />

to discover the truth behind his tumultuous<br />

life and his celebrated music.<br />

Item no. : WF00770244<br />

Format : DVD (Region 1, Color)<br />

Duration : 52 minutes<br />

StdBkNo : 9780769792149<br />

Price : USD 50.00<br />

JASCH JASCHA JASCH A HEIFETZ: GOD'S<br />

FIDDLER<br />

FIDDLER<br />

Director: Peter Rosen<br />

In this revealing documentary about the<br />

legendary musician we see vintage filmed<br />

performance clips of Jascha Heifetz and<br />

learn that he was the first truly modern<br />

violin virtuoso, the man about whom Itzhak<br />

Perlman said, "When I spoke with him, I<br />

thought, 'I can't believe I'm talking with<br />

God'."<br />

This insightful film portrays an artist for<br />

whom only perfection would do, a musical<br />

wunderkind who went on to set the<br />

standards for nearly a century.<br />

We get to know Jascha Heifetz through<br />

home movies and personal family photos<br />

taken from 1903-1987, a prestigious<br />

concert artist so well known in popular<br />

culture, his name became shorthand for<br />

greatness, for everyone from Jack Benny<br />

to The Muppets to Woody Allen.<br />

This unique program includes interviews<br />

with the great violinists of his generation,<br />

and from many of his former students,<br />

telling how Heifetz was a legendary but<br />

mysterious figure whose story embodies<br />

the dual nature of artistic genius: the<br />

paradox of how a mortal man lives with<br />

immortal gifts - gifts he must honor, but<br />

which extract a life long price.<br />

Are the man and the artist the same<br />

person? What is the price each pays? And<br />

who was the man behind the music?<br />

This illuminating program helps answer<br />

these questions about one of the greatest<br />

musicians of our time.<br />

Item no. : WG00770265<br />

Format : DVD (Region 1, Color,<br />

Black and White)<br />

Duration : 87 minutes<br />

StdBkNo : 9780769791067<br />

Price : USD 55.00<br />

JOURNEY JOURNEY OF OF DMITRY<br />

DMITRY<br />

SHOSTAKOVICH, SHOSTAKOVICH, A<br />

A<br />

The greatest <strong>com</strong>poser of the 20th century<br />

remains one of its biggest mysteries.<br />

Nine days of the ocean voyage from<br />

Moscow to <strong>New</strong> York <strong>com</strong>prise the nine<br />

chapters of this documentary film about<br />

Dmitry Shostakovich.<br />

Unique, highly personal fragments of the<br />

<strong>com</strong>poser's life are contrasted with the<br />

ideologically charged propaganda of the<br />

Soviet liner's staged shipboard events.<br />

The film reveals the personality of the<br />

quiet, retiring man who disliked publicity<br />

but was obliged to serve as a Soviet public<br />

figure; a genius faced with the choice<br />

between artistic freedom and harsh<br />

ideology, between truth and survival.<br />

Shostakovich's music, full of dark sarcasm<br />

and breathtaking lyricism, exaggerated joy<br />

and frightening celebration, plays the<br />

leading part in the film.<br />

Item no. : DU00770282<br />

Format : DVD (Region 1, Color,<br />

Black and White)<br />

Duration : 56 minutes<br />

StdBkNo : 9780769791357<br />

Price : USD 50.00<br />

LA LA RESURREZIONE RESURREZIONE -<br />

GEORGE GEORGE FRIDERIC<br />

FRIDERIC<br />

HANDEL<br />

HANDEL<br />

George Frideric Handel's 1708 oratorio is<br />

performed in the magnificent Chiesa del<br />

Gesu in Rome, Italy.<br />

Walter Attanasi conducts the Coro Aramus<br />

Orchestra di Roma e del Lazio, along with<br />

soloists Cecilia Gasdia (Angelo), Elena<br />

Biavati (Maddelena), Carla Lana (Cleofe),<br />

Marcello Nardis (San Giovanni), and<br />

Stefanos Koroneos (Lucifero).<br />

Item no. : VS00770283<br />

Format : DVD (Region 1, Color)<br />

Duration : 118 minutes<br />

StdBkNo : 9780769791586<br />

Price : USD 60.00<br />

LEGACY LEGACY OF OF ROSINA<br />

ROSINA<br />

LHEVINNE, LHEVINNE, THE: THE: A A<br />

A<br />

PORTRAIT PORTRAIT OF OF OF THE THE<br />

THE<br />

LEGENDARY LEGENDARY LEGENDARY PIANIST<br />

PIANIST<br />

The Legacy of Rosina Lhevinne: A Portrait<br />

of the Legendary Pianist explores the<br />

nature of art, creativity and the human<br />

potential through the extraordinary life and<br />

ac<strong>com</strong>plishments of the legendary<br />

Russian pianist and master teacher<br />

Rosina Lhevinne (1880-1976).<br />

In this film we will learn how her career<br />

blossomed after age 65, as she taught<br />

such now world-famous pupils as John<br />

Browning, Van Cliburn, Misha Dichter,<br />

James Levine, Hiroko Nakamura, Kun<br />

Woo Paik, Daniel Pollack, Jeffrey Siegel,<br />

and John Williams. They recount how<br />

Lhevinne profoundly influenced them with<br />

her 19th century pianistic tradition,<br />

inspired them with her humanity, and<br />

encouraged them to develop their<br />

individuality.<br />

Rosina Lhevinne's remarkable solo<br />

performing career began at age 75 and<br />

climaxed at age 82 when she made her<br />

spectacular debut with the <strong>New</strong> York<br />

Philharmonic under the direction of<br />

Leonard Bernstein, playing Chopin's Piano<br />

Concerto in E minor.<br />

This extraordinarily beautiful performance,<br />

as well as her previously unreleased<br />

chamber music recordings, is heard<br />

throughout the film.<br />

The Lhevinne story is told in her own<br />

words through informal conversations,<br />

recording sessions, archival film and<br />

teaching footage. Adding a special<br />

dimension are her students' performances<br />

and many insightful interviews with her<br />

colleagues: pianist Arthur Rubinstein,<br />

musicologist Nicolas Slonimsky, violinist<br />

Robert Mann, and her daughter Marianna<br />

Lhevinne Graham.<br />

Mme. Lhevinne's passion for life and<br />

music infuses the documentary, educating<br />

and inspiring the viewer. The Legacy of<br />

Rosina Lhevinne: A Portrait of the<br />

Legendary Pianist stands as a testament<br />

to the resiliency of the human spirit and its<br />

ability to endure, transform, nurture and<br />

flourish.<br />

Item no. : RM00770284<br />

Format : DVD (Region 1, Color)<br />

Duration : 56 minutes<br />

StdBkNo : 9780769791432<br />

Price : USD 55.00<br />

PHILIPPE PHILIPPE HERREWE<br />

HERREWEGHE:<br />

HERREWE<br />

HERREWEGHE:<br />

GHE:<br />

AND AND THE THE WORD WORD BECAME<br />

BECAME<br />

SONG<br />

SONG<br />

Philippe Herreweghe is first and foremost<br />

the choir-master who put back all the<br />

freshness and purity into Baroque choral<br />

music.<br />

He is also the orchestra leader who<br />

constantly seeks out new material, from<br />

the Romantic to the Contemporary<br />

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