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 APOCALYPSE KISS APOCALYPSE KISS 658826016127 SGLE2601612BR 32945478 24.67 26.99 .14 SGL ENTERTAINMENT BLU-RAY MOVIE HORROR / SCI-FI / FANTASY 06/13/2017 https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/36/3205736-3347555.jpg 0 1 N SUMMER STOCK SUMMER STOCK There's an unusual harvest at Falbury Farm: beans, hay show tunes. It's a bumper crop, too, with Judy Garland and Gene Kelly leading all the hoofing, singing and sparking. In her final MGM musical, Garland plays Jane Falbury, a farm owner more than a bit riled when her aspiring-actress sister (Gloria de Haven) shows up with a theatrical troupe that wants to stage a musical in the familys barn. Any guess who becomes the shows sudden star after it's lead runs off with a Broadway actor? Highlights include Kellys shuffle-and-squeak You, Wonderful You dance solo, making use of loose boards and newspaper on the floor; tuxedo-topped Garlands leggy, joyous Get Happy; and a Kelly/Phil Silvers country-bumpkin bit of Heavenly Music, backed by woofing canines. After a show like this, howre you gonna keep these kids down on the farm? 888574489311 WARA8451000642730DVD 32946109 17.12 19.99 .14 WARNER ARCHIVES DIGITAL VIDEO DISC MOVIE DRAMA 06/13/2017 https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/02/3205802-3659647.jpg 1 1 N YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN With a secondhand trumpet and the loving guidance of a brilliant bluesman, a lonely boy grows into manhood as a superb musician whose talent carries him from honky-tonks to posh supper clubs. But his desperate search for an elusive high note - trapped in his mind but impossible to play - starts him on a boozy downward slide. Charged with dynamic performances by Kirk Douglas (the title role), Doris Day, Lauren Bacall and Hoagy Carmichael, and pitch-perfect direction by Michael Curtiz (Casablanca), the film is a feast of hot, cool, moody jazz. Legendary Harry James dubbed Douglas hornwork. Day brings another fine instrument - her voice - to four standards. Movie and music lovers will be glad to meet this Man. 888574489342 WARA8451000642733DVD 32946116 17.12 19.99 .16 WARNER ARCHIVES DIGITAL VIDEO DISC MOVIE DRAMA 06/06/2017 https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/03/3205803-3659650.jpg 2 1 N ROMAN SCANDALS ROMAN SCANDALS Young Eddie (Eddie Cantor), amateur historian of Ancient Rome and full-time resident of West Rome, Oklahoma, finds himself facing uncertain exile after crossing the ruthless oligarchs that run his town. Declaring that such corrupt shenanigans would never have been tolerated in the Rome of yore, Eddie soon collides with a cart after his banishment and is rendered unconscious. Transported across aeons in his dream state, Eddie, now Oedipus, is quickly sold into slavery and embroiled in senatorial shenanigans against the life of the emperor (Edward Arnold). Based upon the rollicking Broadway show by George S. Kaufman and Robert E. Sherwood, Scandals songs include All of Me, Take All of Me, Dinah, Is There Anyone But Dinah? and No More Love. It's stars include Ruth Etting, Gloria Stuart, and the Goldwyn Girls, not to mention a very young Lucille Ball making her feature debut as one of the slave girls. 888574293215 WARA1000569012DVD 28705581 19.19 21.99 .16 WARNER ARCHIVES DIGITAL VIDEO DISC MOVIE COMEDIES 08/04/2015 https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/71/2815171-3659103.jpg 2 1 N THOMAS,LEON FULL CIRCLE Digitally remastered edition. Jazz vocalist Leon Thomas' final album for Flying Dutchman was recorded when he was a member of Santana. The singer created a modern blend of blues, jazz and soul. A firm favorite of current jazz star Gregory Porter, Thomas is sometimes overlooked. Produced by Bob Thiele, Thomas is backed by an all-star New York band that includes Pretty Purdie, Joe Beck, Richard Davis and James Brown alumnus Pee-Wee Ellis. As well as featuring ambitious covers of Motown songs now associated with Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder, the album features two tracks now popular with a new generation of fans. 'Just In Time To See The Sun' and 'It's My Life I'm Fighting For' have an excitement and groove that has led to their revival by DJs. Remastered from fresh 24/96 transfers, this is the finest that this album has ever sounded. 029667529525 IMT2971697.2 28706847 6.31 9.99 .20 IMPORTS COMPACT DISCS POP R&B / SOUL / FUNK 10/02/2015 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/7/9/6/1/2971697.jpg 1 1 N SCOFIELD,JOHN PAST PRESENT John Scofield updates his early-'90s quartet with drummer Bill Stewart, saxophonist Joe Lovano and bassist Larry Grenadier for his impulse! Debut, Past Present. For an artist equally adept at jazz fusion, funk, blues, soul and rock getting to the root of jazz means channeling the blues. Scofield describes Past Present" as "futuristic blues": he and Lovano craft unison melodies before separating then intertwining invigorating improvs.