Buywell Just Classical - 'Velery Gergiev - Shostakovich Against Stalin: The War Symphonies' DVD Label: Philips, Cat. No. 074 3117 (or 0743117)

Australia's Classical Music CD Store
All prices in Australian dollars (excl. GST).
For Australian customers only - GST is added at checkout.
Credit card charges are made when orders are despatched, not before.

HOME

Title tracking is ON Turn OFF


You are viewing the FULL BUYWELL Catalogue	Display the Just ABC Classics Catalogue	*Contact us*

	General searches
	Quick search Cat. No. search Advanced search

	Global searches
	• Search by artist • Search by composer • Search by conductor • Search by orchestra

	Australian / NZ Labels
	• *Titles added recently*
	• ABC Classics • Australian *Eloquence* • Jade / Revolve • Morrison Music Trust • Move Records • Tall Poppies • Walsingham Classics • Independent Editions

	A/NZ Artists & Composers
	• Australian/NZ Artists • Aust./NZ Composers

	International Labels
	• *Titles added recently*
	• Labels - see below right • Series -see below right

	DVDs & SACDs
	• DVDs • SACDs

	Other browses
	• Browse by Category • Browse by Instrument • For the young

	Miscellaneous
	• Your Security • Shipping & Tax • Currency Conversion • G.S.T. (Australia only)

[Back]

Velery Gergiev - Shostakovich Against Stalin: The War Symphonies

SKU: 04056

Price:
AU $30.57

Label: Philips Cat. No.: 074 3117 Medium: DVD No. Discs: 1

Format: NTSC DTS 5.1 Surround & PCM Stereo.

Winner international Emmy -- Best arts documentary
Winner Best performing arts program, gemini awards
Winner Golden Prague award

'The War Symphonies is a documentary of great power and originality' Citation for the Film Of The Year Award, American Historical Association.

This DVD presents Larry Weinstein's award-winning film 'Shostakovich against Stalin', which tellingly examines the harrowing subject of Stalin's bloody purges and Shostakovich's musical response. Described by the composer as his 'tombstones', Symphonies 4 to 9 represented the composer's weapons against Stalin's tyranny, and remain powerful testimony to a great artist's struggle against oppression. Shot on location in St Petersburg and Moscow, the film brings together archive film, personal recollections from Shostakovich's family, friends and colleagues, and key extracts from the symphonies, performed by the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, conducted by Valery Gergiev.

As a substantial bonus feature, the DVD includes complete movement extracts from all six symphonies*, in the acclaimed performances recorded by Valery Gergiev and the Kirov Orchestra. They are featured on this disc in both DTS 5.1 surround sound and PCM stereo.

An additional bonus feature is the famous wartime radio broadcast given by Shostakovich himself, to introduce a performance of his Seventh Symphony, the 'Leningrad'.

The film feature, which is spoken in English and Russian, is subtitled on this DVD in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Chinese.

Composers:

Shostakovich.

Conductors:

Valery Gergiev.

Orchestras:

Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Kirov Orchestra.

Tracks:

DIMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH (1906-1975)
Symphony no.4, 3rd movement (conclusion) 7.24
Symphony no.5, 1st movement 16.26
Symphony no.6, 2nd movement 6.07
Symphony no.7, 1st movement 27.32
Symphony no.8, 3rd movement 7.10
Symphony no.9, 1st movement 5.54
Shostakovich Wartime Radio Broadcast 0.54
Shostakovich Chronology

Medium:

DVD

No. of Discs:

SKU #:

04056

Label:

Philips

Catalog #:

074 3117

Price: AU $30.57

[Back]

Some other DVDs