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...rule, the reviewing of a greatest hits compilation should be left to an individual who is not intimately comfortable with a band’s music. The biases and judgments that tend to take hold in such reviews offer little for the supposed audience for such a disc, the newbie...
That is what it's like to experience an opera the DVD way--in this case, on a three-disc set released by BBC/Opus Arte. And we haven't even mentioned the surround sound, the subtitles in your choice of four languages, the plot synopses--all only a click or two away on your remote. No wonder conductor James Levine says that of all recording technologies, "this medium is, up to now, the best. DVD gives a really amazing, thrilling and altogether remarkable result...
...producers shrink from a whopping price tag if the material is strong enough. Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts with the New York Philharmonic, a series that was a milestone of cultural-TV programming between 1958 and 1973, has been released by Kultur as a nine-disc, 25-hr.-long set. Price: $149.95. It's selling "phenomenally," says Hedlund...
Among living performers, the Three Tenors, singer Andrea Bocelli, Levine with his many Metropolitan Opera productions and the vivacious soprano Cecilia Bartoli are just a few of the leading DVD sellers. Cases in point: Levine's two-disc version of Tristan and Isoldewith the Met, featuring tenor Ben Heppner and soprano Jane Eaglen, on Deutsche Grammophon ($39.98), and Cecilia Bartoli Sings Mozart and Haydn,a two-disc set with the Concentus Musicus Wien conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, on BBC/Opus Arte...
...decision the doctor made,” Sabin said. “After herniating a disc, I can’t do that much in practice anymore. If I put lots of stress on my back, it hurts...