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Publisher
Image/Madacy Home Entertainment [distribution]
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"America the Beautiful carries you from the depths of Death Valley to the heights of Mount Rushmore, from the lush forests of the Everglades to the rugged terrain of Yellowstone! The collection is packed with information about the spotlighted parks; and every invigorating vista is captured in High Definition, on beautiful Blue Ray, giving you a front row seat to nature's splendour." -- Back cover of container
Publisher
Time-Life Video & Television
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
My Generation recounts the rise and fall of rock's 60s counterculture including footage of Janis Joplin, Greatful Dead, Santana, Rolling Stones and more. Plugging in recounts how rock reinvented itself in the mid '60s. Includes footage of the Byrds, Bob Dylan and many more.
6) Elvis '56
Author
Language
English
Description
The definitive film about Elvis Presley in his breakthrough year: 1956. Full of performance clips from TV and public appearances, Elvis performs the songs that made him famous. Narrated by The Band's Levon Helm. Including iconic photos by the photographer who toured with Elvis that year (Al Wertheimer) who captured many intimate moments from this one year.
Author
Language
Deutsch
Description
Springtime in Amsterdam is a joyful feature film created by director Christof Loy, world renowned for his work in international opera houses. Meeting accidentally in Amsterdam, a group of four people experience a series of confusions that must be resolved in 48 hours. A richly varied musical score that includes Viennese operetta, Dutch and French chansons, and songs from the American song book, is performed by a renowned cast of singers and conducted...
Author
Language
English
Description
Finnish opera star Camilla Nylund sings masterpieces from the Great American Songbook in this unique collaboration with the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna under their music director Marin Alsop. The classic songs in this film were specially arranged to suit Nylund's performance style, vocals and personality, as if they had been written for her. This is a special edition of the concert film-project by André Heller in black and white.
Author
Language
English
Description
The Beach Boys are America's most successful band. With 56 U.S. Top 100 hits, 36 Top Ten Hits, and 4 Number One singles, their impression on American pop culture is rivaled only by the band that considered them to be their sole competition, The Beatles. To mark the group's 50th anniversary, Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston, and David Marks gathered in 2012 for an emotional reunion to record their first album of new material in 20...
Author
Language
Latin
Description
Both Pizzetti and Stravinsky were drawn to the subject of Oedipus Rex, but in very different contexts. The 24-year-old Pizzetti was commissioned to write Three Orchestral Preludes for use in a theatrical production. He wrote with an austere sense of orchestral colour, devoid of impressionism that favours the vaguely archaic, with modal inflections. Stravinsky's opera-oratorio was written in his neo-Classical style, with a central role for narrator....
Author
Language
English
Description
Recored and filmed on September 28th 2014 at the Fonda theater in Los Angeles, a host of today's best musicians pay tribute to their favorite George Harrison Songs. Among the many performers were Brian Wilson and Al Jardine of the Beach Boys, Dhani Harrison, & Norah Jones.
13) Distant Sky
Author
Language
English
Description
Filmed at Copenhagen's Royal Arena in October 2017, Distant Sky captures an extraordinary and triumphant live concert from Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.
Author
Language
English
Description
This is a fascinating and massively entertaining account of the life of Phil Lynott; a man whose talent is hailed universally but whose early life of poverty is less well documented. The programme seeks to address, with marked success, some of the unanswered questions. We're treated to a rare insight and even rarer interview by his mother Philomena, who speaks fondly of her famous son, ranging from her trauma in the early years to the devastation...
Author
Language
English
Description
Distinguished Bach specialist Sir András Schiff returned to the BBC Proms in 2018 to present Book II of The Well-Tempered Clavier. Extending the variety already evident in Book I (available on Naxos), Bach's effortless brilliance and new-found sonorities push harmony and counterpoint further than ever with a combination of ancient and modern styles, church austerity and galant lightness. Schiff has said that 'no-one combines the sacred and the secular...
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