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Age of the Diva Albinoni Almost Christmas Arias, Hampson, Harnoncourt Bach Keyboard Concertos Bach Viola Bach, Barenboim Bach, Cantatas Bach, Concertos Bach, JS, Keyboard Works Bach, Mass in B Minor Bach, Mutter Bach, trio-sonatas Baroque Christmas Album Baroque Trumpet Bartok, Concertos Bartoli Bartoli, Opera Proibita Bax, Baroque Beethoven Piano Beethoven String Quartets Beethoven and Brahms Beethoven, piano Bella Donna: Courtly Love Belle Epoque Melodies Berlioz, Les Troyens Binchois, Dufay Boccherini, Cello Concertos Boxed Baroque Boyce, Eight Symphonies British Light Classics British Piano Concertos Brubeck, The Gates of Justice Bruch, Violin Concerto Callas Canteloube, Chants d'Auvergne Carols Chanticleer, Sound in Spirit Charpentier Charpentier, Lebegue Christmas 04 Christmas Vespers Contemporary and Medieval Copland Delius Der Rosenkavalier Dukachev - Beethoven, Prokofiev, Rachminov Elgar Elgar, Marches Elgar, The Enigma Variations Faure songs French Medieval Songs Fux Gounod, Faust Graham: Causon, Ravel, Debussy Great Ballets Grieg, Franck Handel Arias Handel, Deborah Handel, Messiah Handel, The Triumph ... Handel, Water Music DVD Hapsburg Music Haydn Haydn, Handel DVD's Herz Piano Jane Austen's Songbook Josefowicz Recital King's Singers La Fille Mal Gardee Lang Lang and Yo Yo Ma: Farewell Isabella and Chinese things Lauridsen Llibre Vermell Luci, Bartoli, and a dead diva Lully, Comedies-ballets, Phaeton Maerzmusik sampler Mahler Symphony No 7 Mahler, Berg Mantovani Matsudaira Medieval French Songs Mendelssohn Sacred Mendelssohn, Dvorak Messa di Gloria Michael Haydn Miles Davis ... sorta Monterverdi, Orfeo Monteverdi Vespers Monteverdi, Poppea Monteverdi, The Sacred Music 3 Monteverdi, Vivaldi, Handel Montiverdi Vespers Morricone Mozart Symphonies Mozart, Cosi fan tutte Mozart, Exsultate Jubilate Mozart, Mass in C Minor Mozart, symphonies 40, 41 Mozart: Die Zauberflote Mozart: the string quartets Mozrt Requiem Mutter Mozart New English Hymnal New RSS system and Feeds Nikolay Roslavets Peerson, Latin Motets Penguins March Pergolesi, La Serva Padrona Philip Glass, Symphonies 2 and 3 Poulenc concerto Proms Purcell - Dido and Aeneas Purcell Sonatas Purcell: Dido and Aeneas Rachmaninov, Piano Ramallah - Beethoven No. 5 Rameau, Les Paladins Reger, Bach and Telemann Variations Renaissance Organ Music Romantic Cello Concertos Romantic Violin Russian Album -Anna Netrebko Rutter Mass Sanctuary, the heart has its reasons Scarlatti, The complete Keyboard Sonatas Schubert and Mozart piano Schubert Ð Death and the Maiden Shostakovich Shostakovich and Schnittke, Cello Shostakovich/Josefowicz Sibelius String Quartets Sixteen: Ikon South American Baroque Stainer, The Crucifiction Sting does Dowland Strauss tone poem Takemitsu Tallis Tchaikovsky, Symphony No 5, Verdi, Sibelius The Kirov celebrates Nijinsky Toshiro Mayazumi Vaughan Williams Verdi View from a dark tunnel Virginal -Susann van Soldt Vivaldi Cello Vivaldi, Motezuma Vivaldi, Sacred Music Vivaldi: Dixit Dominus Von Otter Wagner, Das Rheingold Wagner, Gotterdammerung DVD Water Music, Music for the Royal Fireworks Weir, Gillian Weiss / Lindberg Lute Whitacre, Cloudburst Williams, Bingham: Mass von Weber, Chamber Music

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 Purcell - Dido and Aeneas Purcell - Dido and Aeneas special dance version by Sasha Walz DVD, Arthaus Musik Quite recently I had a look at two DVD's from Arthaus and I'm back with another so soon after coming across this one quite by accident. If a DVD demands some visual value for it to be worthwhile then this one has that in spades. It will also upset Puritans ... which is completely fine with me. It opens with a big tank in which people are swimming in a sort of dance-like way. There are pretty limbs and the occasional breast and, of course, Purcell's gorgeous music. In case you're wondering, yes, this version is different to the original in a few ways, not least of which is that it's about fifty minutes longer and has all the dance things going on. The original had room for Divertisements - baroque dance interludes - but these are, of course, gone. There are some nice moments in the modern dance - the lovely dance of Cupid done by a young boy and various other writhings and jumpings about. There is a nice restrained eroticism that runs through it all, which is highly appropriate as this is a love story after all. I wonder if the puritan thought police have been attacking it. Just parenthetically, I recently came across a story where an Armani Junior ad had been withdrawn because some people had complained that it made them feel funny, and that such an ad was certain to get paedophiles heading straight for the local playground. These people are quite certifiable I think and should be put in nice clean white rooms where they can set about cleaning out their polluted hearts. Yes, I digress: the eroticism here in this DVD is quite mild and unlikely to upset anyone with even a mild degree of sophistication. It's not for everyone though - traditionalists might regard it as akin to an unknown musician using samples from someone famous to advance themselves. And Baroque Opera is lovely in its own right. The dance that rightfully accompanies it is also beautiful, light and elegant - like the music itself. Another aspect was the idea of having both singers and dancers on the stage. This works quite well for the chorus but looks a little silly when you have two Didos and two Aeneas (Aeneai?) on stage at the same time - this was particularly noticeable (shall we say) during Dido's lament. If you're a Purcell fan then you should just have it as it is at the very least interesting. And if you're not a Purcell fan it is interesting in its own right. Now I'm waiting for a full and proper version of Fairey Queen. (Baron K) [] permanent link