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Made for the 1939 New York World's Fair, this seminal documentary film is distinguished for the organic integration of narration (scripted by city planner Lewis Mumford), cinematography (Ralph Steiner & Willard Van Dyke), and music...

Format: DVD

Release Date: January 27, 2009

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The Music � Violinist, priest and most prolific composer, Antonio Vivaldi was born in Venice in 1678 and spent most of his life there, associated for much of the time with the Ospedale della Piet�,...

Format: DVD

Release Date: August 27, 2013

$21.99 Regular price $29.99

"These historic, engrossing and artistically rich films, directed by Pare Lorentz with original scores by Virgil Thomson, can be seen in a new DVD release from Naxos. Together they tell a grim saga of unchecked...

Format: DVD

Release Date: January 30, 2007

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The Places: The tour relates to the life of Mozart, from his native Salzburg to his final precarious independence in Vienna. There are glimpse of the Salzburg Church of St Peter and of the Cathedral,...

Format: DVD

Release Date: August 28, 2012

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Our tour starts with the Baroque Villa Mansi in Lucca, followed by Hadrian's villa at Tivoli. Other sites include the villages of Cinque Terre on the Ligurian coast, Lake Bolsano and Chianti.

Format: DVD

Release Date: March 26, 2013

$21.49 Regular price $42.99

Wolf-Ferrari's comic opera La Vedova Scaltra (The Cunning Widow), is among the works he based on plays by Goldoni. It matches closely the conventions of 18th-century opera buffa in it's witty if skeptical look at...

Format: DVD

Release Date: June 24, 2008

$8.99 Regular price $13.99

The music chosen for this tour of Norway is by the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg, taken from his many Lyric Pieces, short piano pieces that reflect the culture and life of Norway.

Format: DVD

Release Date: January 29, 2013

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The scenes shown all breathe an air of peace and tranquility. Starting with an evening landscape in Bohemia we move to a lake in the Tyrol to the Museo Vela with it's gesso figures Bavarian...

Format: DVD

Release Date: November 13, 2012

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Our tour of the interlinked islands of Savonlinna in south-east Finland begins with the medieval castle of Ovanlinna, the venue nowadays for an international opera festival, and the town of Savonlinna that has developed round...

Format: DVD

Release Date: July 30, 2013

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The Places: The musical tour of Spain starts at the present capital, Madrid, the principal city of Castile. From Madrid it is not too far to the plains of La Mancha, a region always remembered...

Format: DVD

Release Date: August 28, 2012

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The Places - the scenes shown are of the Benedictine Abbey and Church at Einsiedeln, in the Swiss canton of Schwyz. The monastery, in origin dating from the 10th century, was largely rebuilt in the...

Format: DVD

Release Date: May 29, 2012

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The Places - the Puppet Museum in Munich houses a remarkable display of puppets of all kinds, from string and hand puppets to the shadow puppets of China. Nuremberg, famous for it's toys, has a...

Format: DVD

Release Date: May 29, 2012

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The Places - Northern Italy has been variously ruled, over the centuries. South Tyrol, seen here, retains much of it's Austrian past, with some regions predominantly German-speaking and others Italian. Scenes are shown of Brixen...

Format: DVD

Release Date: May 29, 2012

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The Places � the tour of France takes US to Burgundy to the Pays de la Loire to Franche-Comt� and elsewhere and includes glimpses of the 17th century Ch�teau de Cheverny with it's hunting museum...

Format: DVD

Release Date: November 13, 2012

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The Places: Brittany and Normandy, in Northern France, have a character all their own, preserving, as they do, ancient Celtic traditions in a countryside bounded on one side by a rocky coast-line. The great Abbey...

Format: DVD

Release Date: June 26, 2012