In his debut recording on LSO Live, Sir Simon Rattle conducts a stunning performance of Schumann's rarely recorded Das Paradies und die Peri featuring a superb line-up of soloists. Rattle is well-known for being a champion of this rarely-heard work, and yet this is the first audio recording he has made of it. Here it is brought to life by the LSO under his baton, and the starry line-up makes the best possible case for Schumann's great oratorio. Sir Simon Rattle says of the piece, 'It's the great masterpiece you've never heard, and there aren't many of those now... This is just something else, a complete anomaly if you think about it. In Schumann's life it was the most popular piece he ever wrote, it was performed endlessly. Every composer loved it. Wagner wrote how jealous he was that Schumann had done it and he'd stolen this subject that he wanted to do and how extraordinary it was... It was a playground for composers and the piece was extraordinary. Based on an episode from Thomas Moore's epic poem Lalla Rookh, itself inspired by exotic, colorful tales taken from Persian mythology, Writing about the work in a letter to a friend, Schumann said, 'at the moment I'm involved in a large project, the largest I've yet undertaken - it's not an opera - I believe it's well-nigh a new genre for the concert hall.' Conceived in three beautifully sequenced parts, it is unlike any oratorio of Schumann's day. Sustained melodic invention is clear throughout, with Peri's high C in the finale forming a deftly timed climax. Soprano Sally Matthews gives a soaring performance as Peri, showcasing Schumann's imaginative and emotive vocal writing, and there are superb supporting performances from Mark Padmore, Kate Royal, Bernarda Fink, Andrew Staples and Florian Boesch. 822231178224 LSOL782SACD 28948452 17.66 25.98 .60 LSO LIVE SUPER-AUDIO CD CLASSICAL CLASSICAL VOCALS 10/09/2015 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/0/1/0/2/3012010.jpg 0 3 N MAN WHO BROKE THE BANK AT MONTE CARLO MAN WHO BROKE THE BANK AT MONTE CARLO Paul Gaillard is a Russian prince who makes a killing in Monte Carlo. However, the owners of the casino want their money back. They hire beautiful Helen Berkeley to seduce Gaillard and entice him back to the casino, where he ends up gambling away all the money he won, at her behest. However, when she learns that he was gambling in order to earn money for his own countrymen who are living in poverty, she repents and confesses. The pair, now in love, head off together. 024543969891 FXMD4396989DVD 28956716 19.19 21.99 .14 FOX MOD DIGITAL VIDEO DISC MOVIE COMEDIES 10/01/2015 https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/00/2841200-3636637.jpg 0 1 N TABU TABU Just as the film industry was converting to sound, two of the silent era's most visionary artists fled to the South Seas to collaborate on a work of pure visual beauty untainted by Hollywood's latest technical obsession. F.W. Murnau was a supreme stylist who had crafted dreamlike fables both in Germany (Faust) and the U.S. (Sunrise). Robert J. Flaherty was a groundbreaking documentarian whose Nanook of the North and Moana defined the ethnographic film movement. Over the course of nine months, they immersed themselves in Tahitian culture. Drawing inspiration from the topography and people of the surrounding islands, they (with Murnau at the helm) fashioned an emotionally rich story of the flowering romance between a young man and woman, as the shadow of civilization begins to fall upon their island paradise. Initially released in the U.S. by Paramount in a shortened and censored form, this restoration (produced by Luciano Berriatua for the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung) represents Murnau's approved version, and is presented in the historically correct 1.15:1 aspect ratio. 738329201937 KINO20193BR 28956839 19.19 29.95 .14 KINO CLASSICS BLU-RAY MOVIE DRAMA 12/08/2015 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/8/4/2/3/3013248.jpg 1 1 N CHEKHOV'S BAND - EASTERN EUROPEAN KLEZMER / VAR CHEKHOV'S BAND - EASTERN EUROPEAN KLEZMER / VAR 5036098010039 RNAI129.2 28959113 12.46 19.98 .25 RENAIR COMPACT DISCS POP INT'L & WORLD MUSIC V/A COMPILATIONS 10/30/2015 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/7/5/0/3/3013057.jpg 0 1 N BASEBALL'S SEASONS: 2000 BASEBALL'S SEASONS: 2000 The Yankees meet the Mets in the World Series for the first Subway Series in 44 years. Also, featuring the Mariners, Athletics, White Sox, Cardinals, Giants and Reds. 826663176834 SUTF6317683DVD 33173252 20.11 21.99 .16 SHOUT FACTORY DIGITAL VIDEO DISC MOVIE COMEDIES 06/27/2017 https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/22/3222222-3646207.jpg 0 1 N GEMINIANI / VON DER GOLTZ,GOTTFRIED ART OF PLAYING ON THE VIOLIN 3149028098426 APTE134.2 33177045 14.94 21.98 .16 APARTE COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 08/11/2017 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/7/5/3/0/3670357.jpg 0 1 N FOX WITH A VELVET TAIL FOX WITH A VELVET TAIL This 1971 Italian/Spanish Giallo is a hugely enjoyable and very stylish murder mystery set on the luxurious Cote d'Azur. Spanish director Jose Maria Forque - who later made the controversial Beyond Erotica - brings together a talented and good looking cast, one of the best cinematographers of the day (Alejandro Ulloa) and a fantastic, lounge style score from Maestro Piccioni to create a twisty, and twisted, tale of deception and revenge. The director's long career at the more prestigious end of Spanish cinema and the presence of award winning scripter Rafael Azcona - who worked with many top European film makers - give the film an edge of sophistication alongside it's enjoyably devious narrative. 843276017590 MOMA175BR 33178196 17.46 29.95 .15 MONDO MACABRO BLU-RAY MOVIE HORROR / SCI-FI / FANTASY 09/12/2017 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/2/5/3/0/3670352.jpg 2 1 N TEST OF TIME / VARIOUS TEST OF TIME / VARIOUS 4039967010407 ATUR50.2 33184975 12.20 17.98 .18 A TURNTABLE FRIEND COMPACT DISCS POP ELECTRONIC V/A COMPILATIONS 07/28/2017 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/9/5/5/1/3671559.jpg 0 2 N DEADLY HEARTS / VARIOUS DEADLY HEARTS / VARIOUS 602557692624 IMT5769262.2 33197272 12.63 19.99 .20 IMPORTS COMPACT DISCS POP INT'L & WORLD MUSIC V/A COMPILATIONS 07/07/2017 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/2/6/0/1/3671062.jpg 0 1 N FULL CYCLE LIVE 2 / VARIOUS FULL CYCLE LIVE 2 / VARIOUS 5060097150304 IMT768685.2 33197654 9.92 15.99 .21 IMPORTS COMPACT DISCS POP DANCE MUSIC V/A COMPILATIONS 09/06/2005 https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/73/596773.jpg 0 1 N GIESEKING,WALTER DEBUSSY: THE COMPLETE PIANO WORKS The affinity of Walter Gieseking for the music of Debussy is nothing less than legendary. As Gramophone magazine wrote: Debussy and Gieseking form an inseparable union where creator and recreator become one and the same person. Had Debussy lived to hear Gieseking he would surely have marvelled at such an uncanny identification with his very spirit." These miraculous recordings, dating from the early 1950s, continue to set a standard in the interpretation of the French master's music.