2012 New Releases Catalogue November - Learningemall.com
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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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