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In this Section we have inserted some documents in DVD and VHS support, some of them are
extremely rare and important, such the ones performed by David Munrow and The Early Music
Consort of London; the legendary countertenor Russell Oberlin, Thomas Binkley and the Studio der
Frühen Musik and others. Some soundtracks are as well extremely rare, because performed by
musicians specialized in ancient music.
Music on DVD 1
Great movies in DVD with original ancient music 6
Thomas Binkley & Studio der Frühen Musik 8
Music on VHS 8
David Munrow & The Early Music Consort of London 9
MUSIC ON DVD
“Early Music Instruments”. Written and introduced by David Munrow. Complete six-part
series on early musical instruments. Reed Instruments / Flutes & Whistles / Plucked
Instruments / Bowed Instruments / Keyboard & Percussion / Brass Instruments
The Early Music Consort of London David Munrow
VIKING NEW MEDIA DM 001 (1976-2007)
“Russel Oberlin”. American Legendary Countertenor. St. Gotric / G. F. Haendel / B. Britten /
H. Purcell / A. Scarlatti / H. Wolf / R. Schumann
Various Orchestras
VAI (VIDEO ARTIST INTERNATIONAL) 4305 (1961,1962-2004)
Claudio Monteverdi “L’Orfeo”. Favola in musica staged at Barcellona’s Grand Teatre del
Linceu.
Montserrat Figueras / Furio Zanasi / Arianna Savall / Sara Mingardo / Cécile van de Sant / Antonio
Abete / Adriana Fernádez / Daniele Carnovich / Furio Bettini / Mercedes Fernádez / Marília Vargas
/ Gerard Türk / Francesc Garricosa / Cáarlos Mena / Iván Garcia / Le Concert des Nations / La
Cappella Reial de Catalunya Jordi Savall
BBC OPUS ARTE OA 0842 D (2002)
Vivaldi “Ercole su’l Termodonte”. Dramma per musica in three acts (Like rapresented at the
Spoleto Festival)
Zachary Stains / Mary-Allen Nesi / Laura Chierici / Luca Dordolo / Marina Bartoli / Randall
Scotting / Filippo Mineccia / Il Complesso Barocco Alan Curtis / John Pascoe
DYNAMIC 33525 (2006-2007)
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Antonio Vivaldi “The Four Seasons”. Filmed at Magnificent Venetian Villas
I Solisti Veneti Claudio Scimone
TDK-RAI TRADE (2003-2004)
“Viva Vivaldi”. Arias and Concertos. From the Théâtre des Champs-Élisées. Paris
Cecilia Bartoli / Il Giardino Armonico Giovanni Antonini
ARTHAUS MUSIK 100 228 (2000)
John Gay “The Beggar’s Opera”. A Ballad Opera in Three Acts
Stratford Johns / Patricia Routledge / Bob Hoskins / Carol Hall / Rosemary Ashe / Peter Bayliss /
The English Baroque Soloists Sir John Eliot Gardiner
ARTHAUS MUSIK 102 001 (2009)
“Cadmus & Hermione”. Tragédie lyrique de Lully et Quinault
André Morsch / Claire Lefilliâtre / Arnaud Marzorati / Jean-François Lombard / Isabelle Druet /
Arnauud Richard / Camille Poul / Mise in scene Benjamin Lazar / Chorégraphie Gudrun
Skamletz / Orchestre, Coeurs & Danseurs du Poème Armonique Vincent Dumestre / Un film de
Martin Fraundeau
ALPHA 701 (2008)
Jean-Philippe Rameau “In Convertendo”. Including the biographical documentary “The Real
Rameau”
Nicolas Rivenq / Sophie Daneman / Jeffrey Thompson / Olga Pitarch / Les Arts Florissants
William Christe
OPUS ARTE OA 0956 D (2004)
Jean-Philippe Rameau “Platèe”. A lyric comedy in one prologue and three acts
Paul Agnew / Mireille Delunsch / Yann beuron / Vincent Le Texier / Doris Lamprecht / Laurent
Naouri / Valérie Gabail / Frank Leguerinel / Orchestra and Chorus of Les Musiciens du Louvre –
Grenoble Marc Minkowsky
TDK RECORDING MEDIA EUROPE DV-OPPLT2 2 DVD (2002-2003)
“A Night with Handel”. Great Handel arias set in contemporary London by night
John Mark Ainsley / Sarah Connolly / Rosa Mannion / Claron McFadden / Alaister Miles /
Christopher Robson / The Orchestra of the Age of Einlightenment Harry Bichet
NVC ARTS 0630-15900-2 (1996-1999)
G. F. Händel “Rinaldo”. Opera seria in tre atti
David Walker / Debora York / David Daniels / Axel Köhler / Eglis Silins / Noëmi Nadelmann /
Charles Maxwell / Bayerisches Staatsorchester Harry Bicket
ARTHAUS MUSIK / OPERA CLASSIC VOICE 2 DVD (2001-2006)
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G. F. Händel “Theodora”. Oratorio
David Daniels / Dawn Upshaw / Lorraine Hunt / Glyndeebourne Festival Opera
NVC ARTS / OPERA CLASSIC VOICE 0630-15481-2 (1996-2008)
William Christe
“Les Enfants de Molière & de Lully”. L’ Histoire du Bourgeois Gentilhomme, par le Poème
Harmonique. 1 L'ornementation ou l'elegance du Chant / 2 L'élève de musique,
composition / 3 “Coudre ensemble” / 4 Mise en espace du chant / 5 Rythme du corps et
gestuelle baroque / 6 Le geste et le mot / 7 Le navire / 8 La déclamation baroque / 9
Madame Jourdain / 10 Comédie, le sens d’une scène / 11 Costumes, premieres
impressions / 12 Les costumes à l’épreuve de la danse
Le Poème Harmonique Vincent Dumestre
DOC PASSION EDV 434 (2005)
“Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme”. Comédie-Ballet de Molière et Lully. Version originale &
integrale de 1670. Supplément “Les Enfantts de Molière et Lully”. Festival international du
Creusot 2005
Comédiens / Chanteurs / Danseurs / Musica Florea Marek Stryncl / Le Poème Harmonique
Vincent Dumestre
ALPHA 700 2 DVD (2005)
“La petite musique de Marie-Antoiniette”. Concert au petit Théâtre de la Reine. François-
Joseph Gossec / André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry
Sophie Karthäuser / Pierre-Yves Pruvot / Les Agrémens Guy van Waas
ARMIDE ARM 010 (2006)
Marc-Antoine Charpentier “Un Automne Musical à Versailles”. Un merveilleux vojage
musical du XVIIe siècle, dans le plus beau des châteaux…
Le Folies Françoises Patrick Choën-Akenine / Le Parlament de Musique Martin Gester /
L’Académie Baroque Européenne d’Ambronay Christophe Rousset / Le Concert Spirituel Hervé
Niquet / Les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles Olivier Schneebeli / Le
Concert des Nations Jordi Savall / Il Seminario Musicale Gérard Lesne / L’Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi / L’Arpeggiata Christina Pluhar
ARMIDE ARM 006 (2005)
“Alfred Deller”. Portrait of a voice - Porträt einer Stimme - Portrait d’une voix
A film directed by Benoit Jacquot with Deller Consort
HARMONIA MUNDI HMD 9909018 1 DVD + MUSICAL CD “Solo Songs” (1976-2009)
“Sacrificium”. The Art of the Castrati. A cinematographie vision by Olivier Simonnet
Cecila Bartoli / Il Giardino Armonico Giovanni Antonini
DECCA 074 3396 (2009-2010)
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Giovanni Battista Pergolesi “Lo frate ‘nnamorato”
Alessandro Corbelli / Nuccia Focile / Amelia Felle / Bernadette Manca di Nissa / Luciana D’Intimo
/ Ezio di Cesare / Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz / Nicoletta Curiel / Bruno De Simone / Luca Bonini /
Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro alla Scala Riccardo Muti
BRILLIANT 93045 (1989-)
Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi “Le Vicende dell’Amore”. Intermezzo in musica a cinque voci
Mirella De Vita / Tania Bussi / Gianluca Moschetti / Roberto Covatta / Massimiliano Galli /
Ensemble Guidantus Paolo Biancalana
PRODUZIONE TEATRO COMUNALE MASSA (2006)
Wolfang Amadeus Mozart “Le Nozze di Figaro”.
F. von Stade / K. Skram / I. Cotrubas / K. Te Kanawa / B. Luxon / Glyndebourne Chorus &
London Philharmonic Orchestra John Pritchard
ARTHAUS MUSIK 5 (1973-2010)
Ludwig Van Beethoven “The 9 Symphonies”
Berliner Philharmoniker Herbert Von Karajan
SONY 88697195439 3 DVD (1982,1983,1984-2007)
Luigi Cherubini “Medea”. Opera in three acts
Chiara Taigi / Carlos Llabrés / Montserrat Martì / F. Ellero D’Artegna / Katia Lytting / Claudia
Munda / Margherita Settimo / Coro Alessandro Scarlatti Fabio Ciulla / Orchestra Sinfonica del
Mediterraneo Marco Guidarini
PAN DREAM 2 (2007-2010)
Gaetano Donizetti “Lucia di Lammermoor”
Patrizia Ciofi / Roberto Alagna / Ludovic Ttézier / Nicolas Cavallier / Marc Laho / Orchestra e
Coro dell’Opera National de Lyon Evelino Pidò
ARTHAUS MUSIK 5 (2002-2010)
Gaetano Donizetti “L’Elisir d’Amore”
Brunella Carrari / Roberto Casi / Antonio Menicucci / Massimiliano Galli / Raffaella Marongiu /
Corale Valle dei Fiori già Pacini, Pescia / Coro della Collegiata di Sant’Andrea Apostolo,
Montecarlo / Corale L. Perosi, Montecatini / Girotondo Sonoro / Nuova Orchestra Labronica
Gabriele Micheli
CINES MONTECARLO (2009)
Gioacchino Rossini “Il Barbiere di Siviglia”. Melodramma buffo in due atti
Luigi Alva / Enzo Dara / Teresa Berganza / Hermann Prey / Paolo Montarsolo / et Altr / Coro e
Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala Claudio Abbado
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 073 021 (1972-2001)
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Gioacchino Rossini “Il Barbiere di Siviglia”. Melodramma buffo in due atti
Cecilia Bartoli / David Kuebler / Gino Quilico / Carlos Feller / Robert Lloyd et altr / Coro
dell’Opera di Colonia / Stuttgart Radio Shymphony Orchestra Gabriele Ferro
ARTHAUS MUSIK 6 (1988-2010)
Giuseppe Verdi “Il Trovatore”
Eva Marton / Luciano Pavarotti / Dolora ZaJick / Sherrill Milnes / The Metropolitan Opera Chorus
and Orchestra James Levine
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 073 002-9 (1988-2000)
Giuseppe Verdi “Luisa Miller”
Renata Scotto / Placido Domingo / Sherrill Miles / Jean Kraft / Bonaldo Giaiotti / James Morris /
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus James Levine
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON (1979-2006)
Giuseppe Verdi “Nabucco”
Juan Pons / Maria Guleghina / Samuel Ramey / Wendy White / Gwyn Hughes Jones / The
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus James Levine
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 00440 073 0779 (2001-2005)
Giuseppe Verdi “Rigoletto”
Marcelo Alvarez / Roberto Sérvile / Inva Mula / Andrea Silvestrelli / Svetlana Serdar /Orchestra
della Fondazione Arturo Toscanini Keri-Lynn Wilson
SONY DV 68220 (2005)
Giuseppe Verdi “La Traviata”
Eva Mei / Piotr Beczala / Thomas Hampson / Orchestra e Coro Opernhaus di Zurigo Franz Welser-
Möst
ARTHAUS MUSIK 1 (2005-2010)
Giuseppe Verdi “Aida”
P. Pecchioli / K. Aldrich / A. Aaron / S. Piper / E. G. Iori / G. Garra / M. Carosi / S. Pisani / Regia
Franco Zeffirelli / Orchestra e Coro della Fondazione Arturo Toscanini Massimiliano Stefanelli
ARTHAUS MUSIK 4 (2001-2010)
Giuseppe Verdi “Otello”
Christian Franz / Valery Alexejev / Emily Magee / Stephan Rügamer / Kwangchul Youn /Andreas
Schmidt / Coro della Deutsche Staatsoper di Berlino / Staatskapelle di Berlino Daniel Barenboim
ARTHAUS MUSIK 12 (2001-2010)
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Giacomo Puccini “La Bohème” (Invito all’Opera)
Renata Scotto / Luciano Pavarotti / Marilin Niska / Ingvar Wixell / Allan Monk / Paul Plishka /
Italo Tajo / Andrea Velis / The Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra James Levine
DEA (1977-2006)
Giacomo Puccini “Tosca”. Film d’Opera 1956. Regia: Carmine Gallone
Franco Corelli / Maria Caniglia / Gian Giacomo Guelfi / Franco Pugliese / Adelio Zagonara /
Orchestra e Coro e Corpo di ballo del Teatro dell’Opera di Roma Oliviero De Fabritiis
HARDY CLASSIC HCD 4015 (1956-2005)
Giacomo Puccini “Tosca”
Kabaivanska / Domingo / Milnes / New Philarmonia Orchestra Bruno Bartoletti
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 00440 073 4038 (1976-2005)
GREAT MOVIES IN DVD WITH ORIGINAL ANCIENT MUSIC
“Tous le matins du monde”. Marin Marais / Sainte Colombe / François Couperin / Jean
Baptiste Lully
Figueras / Kiehr / Biondi / Coin / J. Hantaï / Lislevand / P. Hantaï / Le Concert des Nations Jordi
Savall
TFI VIDEO 6003550 (1991-2000)
“Louis Enfant Roi”. Musique de Louis Couperin / Jean-Baptiste Lully / Claudio Monteverdi /
Francisco Cavalli / Robert Cambert / Giovanni Battista Riccio / Jean-Pierre Fouquey
Solistes / Orchestre Jupiter & Choeur Bryan Breadtle
UNIVERSAL DVD 053 793-2 (1993)
“Le Roi Danse”. La Musique et la Danse au service du Roi Soleil. Jean-Baptiste Lully /
Jacques Cordier / Michel Lambert / Robert Cambert
Céline Scheen / Goedele Heidbüchel / Ex Tempore Florian Heyerick / Musica Antiqua Köln
Reinhard Goebel
FRANCE TELEVISION DISTRIBUTION (2000)
“Amadeus”. Mozart / Pergolesi / Anonymous
Soloists / Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Neville Marriner
WARNER HOME VIDEO Z8 36218 (1984-2000)
“Moliere”. Écrit et mis en scène par Ariane Mnouckine de la Comedie Françoise. Lully /
Mazzaferrata / Jean Japart / Anonyme / Purcell / Clemencic
Majore Vance / Elisabeth Guy-Kummer / Maurice Bevan / Deller Consort Alfred Deller /
Clemencic Consort René Clemencic
BELAIR CLASSIQUE 2 DVD (1978-2004)
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“Henry VIII and His Six Wives” (Tutte le Donne del Re)
Early Music Consort of London David Munrow
SAN PAOLO DV 55 (1973-2004)
“Farinelli”. Voce Regina. Riccardo Broschi / Nicola Porpora / Johann-Adolf Hasse / Georg-
Friedrich Haendel / Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Derek Lee Ragin / Ewa Mallas-Godlewka / Les Talens Lyriques Christophe Rousset
MG 02488 (1995)
Restoration
Music by Henry Purcell / Marin Marais and Anonymous revised by James Newton Howard
CECCHI GORI PVS 20024 (1995-2007)
“Io, Don Giovanni”. Vivaldi / Salieri / Mozart
Coro de La Escolania de El Escorial Roque Bados / Pedro Estevan / Da Ponte Ensemble / Prague
Baroque Choir / Collegium Marianum Nicola Tescari
LUCKY RED (2006-2010)
“Barry Lyndon”. Paisiello / Schubert/ Handel / Mozart / Vivaldi / J. S. Bach / O’ Riada /
Frederick the Great
Various Ensemble and Orchestras
WARNER BROS DVS Z8 21148 (1975-2001)
“Vatel”. Morricone / Rameau / G.P. Colonna / Haendel
Orchestre La Tempesta Patrick Bismuth
20TH CENTURY FOX 20046DX (2000)
“A Clockwork Orange ”. Beethoven / Rossini / Elgar
Various Orchestras
WARNER BROS DVS Z8 21150 (1971-)
“Il Decameron”. Medieval anonymous / Pasolini / Morricone
Various Ensemble
LA CINETECA REPUBBLICA-ESPRESSO 19 (1971-2003)
“Valmont”. Philidor / Gretry / Charpentier / Haydn / Mozart / Rossini / Galuppi
St. Martin in the Field Orchestra Neville Marriner
BIM (1989-2003)
“Immortal Beloved”. Beethoven
Murray Perahia / London Symphony Orchestra Sir George Solti
MINERVA PICTURES ST04270 (1994-)
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THOMAS BINKLEY & STUDIO DER FRÜHEN MUSIK
The famous ensemble and its director were in the cast of the following movie, as actors and as
instrumentalists of the soundtrack
“Herz Aus Glas” (En Film von Werner Herzog)
Studio der Frühen Musik Thomas Binkley
ANCHOR BAY DV 11566 (1976-2001)
MUSIC ON VHS
“Una Stravaganza dei Medici”. The Florentine Intermedi of 1589. Intermedio I -The
Harmony of the Spheres / Intermedio II - Apollo and the Dragon / Intermedio III - The
Golden age is foretold / Intermedio IV - Arion and the Delphin / Intermedio V - The divine
gifts of Rhythm and Harmony
Tessa Bonner / Emma Kirkby / Emily von Evera / Nigel Rogers / Taverner Consort / Taverner
Choir / Taverner Players Andrew Parrot
EMI CLASSICS MVD 99 1232 3 (1988-1991)
“Countertenors”. Bach / Dowland / Ford / Handel / Purcell / Campion / Blow / Vivaldi /
Pergolesi / Butterworth
James Bowman / Michael Change / Andrea Scholl / Jimmy Somerville / David Miller / Julius Drake
/ Sonnerie / Akademie Für Alte Musik
WARNER MUSIC VISION 8573-84094-3 (2000)
“England, My England”. The Story of Henry Purcell
Jennifer Smith / Lynne Dawson / Nancy Argenta / Susan Graham / Michael Chance / Paul Agnew /
Stephen Varcoe / Peter Harvey / David Thomas / Monteverdi Choir / English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner
NVC ARTS 0630-11105-3 (1995)
Purcell “Ode on St. Cecilia’s Day” (‘Hail! Bright Cecilia’)
Patrizia Kwella / Paul Esswood / Christopher Robson / John Mark Ainsley / Michael George / Alan
Ewing / Schütz Choir of London / London Baroque Players Roger Norrington
PMT 7243 4 91031 3 (1992)
Handel “Giulio Cesare”
Jeffrey Gall / Susan Larson / Herman Ildebrand / Mary Westbrook-Gelia / Lorraine Hunt / James
Maddalena / Sachsische Staatkapelle Dresden Craig Smith
DECCA 071 408-3 2 VHS (1990)
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Handel’s Last Chance
Various interpreters and players
SONY SHV 66713 (1996)
“Marquise”. Lully / Marais / Dumanoir / Rossi / Anonymes
Le Concert des Nations Jordi Savall
BMG VIDEO (1996,1997-1997)
Christopher Willibald Gluck “Orfeo ed Euridice”. Opera in tre atti
Magdalena Kožema / Madaline Bender / Patricia Petibon / Monteverdi Choir / Orchestre
Revolutionnaire et Romantique Sir John Eliot Gardiner
FABBBRI VIDEO (1995-2000)
Antonio Vivaldi “Orlando Furioso”. San Francisco Opera
Marilyn Horne / Susan Petterson / Kathleen kuhlmann / Sandra walker / Jeffrey Gall / William
Matteuzzi / Kevin Langan / Orchestra e Coro dell’Opera di San Francisco Randal Behr
VIDEOSUONO HI-FI 061081 (1990)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart “Così fan tutte”. Opera in due atti
Ann Christine Biel / Maria Höglind / Lars Tibell / Magnus Lindén / Ulla Severin / Enzo Florimo /
Drottningholm Court Theatre Arnold Ōstman
VIDEOSUONO HI-FI 061022 (1984)
DAVID MUNROW & THE EARLY MUSIC CONSORT OF LONDON
David Munrow with his famous ensemble performed various soundtracks, some of theme already
quoted in the Subsection Music in DVD
“I Diavoli” di Ken Russel
The Early Music Consort of London David Munrow
WARNER HOME VIDEO PIV 11110 (1971-1992)
“Zardoz” (A Film by John Boormann)
The Early Music Consort of London David Munrow
CBS FOX 120815 (1974-1991)
“Elisabeth R”. The Lionn’s Cub and The Marriage Game (Part One). Glenda Jackson star as
Queen Elisabeth I in one of the most popular and acclaimed series ever made by BBC TV
The Early Music Consort of London David Munrow
BBC BBCV5585 (1971-1995)
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“Elisabeth R”. Shadow in the Sun and Horrible Conspiracies (Part Two). Glenda Jackson
star as Queen Elisabeth I in one of the most popular and acclaimed series ever made by BBC
TV
The Early Music Consort of London David Munrow
BBC BBCV5641 (1971-1995)
“Elisabeth R”. The Enterprise of England and Sweet England‘s Pride (Part Three). Glenda
Jackson star as Queen Elisabeth I in one of the most popular and acclaimed series ever made
by BBC TV
The Early Music Consort of London David Munrow
BBC BBCV5642 (1971-1995)
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