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Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 3 {Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, piano. Recorded for CBC TV, 2/24/70. Color}. Brahms, Intermezzo, Op.116 No. 5. Prokofiev, Piano Sonata No. 2. Ravel, Jeux d'eau; Alborada del Gracioso {Sviatoslav Richter, piano. Recorded for CBC TV, 9/26/64. Black and white}. (Total playing time approx. 65')

BRO Code:

173122

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1

Record Label:

VAI

Record Number:

DVD 4213

UPC:

089948421399

Country:

AMERICA

D/A Code:

Mono

The musical satirist recorded 'live' at the Baltimore Museum of Art, November 7, 1984. Titles: How to Become a Singer; Wind Instruments I Have Known; On Pink Chiffon Drag; A Gilbert & Sullivan Operetta; Wagner's 'Ring' Cycle; 'Jolly Old Sigmund Freud' and Other Folk Tunes. (With Robert Rosenberger, piano. Total running time approx. 85')

BRO Code:

173118

Units:

1

Record Label:

VAI

Record Number:

DVD 4208

UPC:

089948420897

Country:

AMERICA

D/A Code:

Mono

The 1950 film version of Menotti's supernatural thriller. Sung in English by Marie Powers, Anna Maria Alberghetti, and Leo Coleman. The Rome Radio Italiana Orchestra is conducted by Thomas Schippers. This adaptation of the opera includes more than thirty minutes of additional scenes and music which Menotti wrote specifically for the film. (Black and white. Total running time approx. 80')

BRO Code:

172941

Units:

1

Record Label:

VAI

Record Number:

DVD 4218

UPC:

089948421894

Country:

AMERICA

D/A Code:

Mono

A collection of performances by stars of American Ballet Theatre and New York City Ballet, including Jacques d’Amboise, Allegra Kent, Lupe Serrano, Royes Fernandez, Violette Verdy, Andre Eglevsky, Melissa Hayden, as well as international dancers Alicia Alonso and Mia Slavenska. Highlights include New York City Ballet’s production of George Balanchine’s ballet Square Dance, featuring the cast of the 1957 premiere, which included a square dance caller; the rarely performed Pas de Quatre with an all-star cast; the Rose Adagio Scene from Sleeping Beauty [choreographed by Eglevsky]; scenes from Giselle and Sylvia et al. For a complete listing, please visit the VAI website: http://www.vaimusic.com/product/4581.html (Color. Total playing time approx. 68')

BRO Code:

172935

Units:

1

Record Label:

VAI

Record Number:

DVD 4581

UPC:

089948458197

Country:

AMERICA

D/A Code:

Mono

The Four Temperaments [choreography by George Balanchine; music by Paul Hindemith; featured performers include Carol Sumner, William Weslow, Marnee Morris et al. Corps de ballet of New York City Ballet. Recorded 1964]; Ivesiana [choreography by George Balanchine; Music by Charles Ives; featured performers include Sara Leland, Francisco Moncion, Suki Schorer et al. Corps de ballet of New York City Ballet. Recorded 1964]; Afternoon of a Faun [choreography by Jerome Robbins; Music by Claude Debussy; performed by Tanaquil Le Clercq and Jacques d'Amboise. Recorded 1955]. (Black and white. Total running time approx. 65')

BRO Code:

172929

Units:

1

Record Label:

VAI

Record Number:

DVD 4574

UPC:

089948457497

Country:

AMERICA

D/A Code:

Mono

Stars of the New York City Ballet, including Jacques dAmboise, Melissa Hayden, Allegra Kent, Nicholas Magallanes, Janet Reed, Maria Tallchief, and Violette Verdy. Dances performed include The Nutcracker [Grand Pas de Deux], Balanchine's Allegro Brillante and Stars and Stripes, Todd Bolender's Souvenirs, and dance pieces created for the Bell Telephone Hour by choreographers Matt Mattox, Gene Nelson, and Robert Pagent. (Total running time approx. 66')

BRO Code:

172786

Units:

1

Record Label:

VAI

Record Number:

DVD 4587

UPC:

089948458791

Country:

AMERICA

D/A Code:

Mono

Verdi, Puccini, Catalani: Arias from Otello, Macbeth, Don Carlo, Le Villi, Manon Lescaut, Tosca, Gianni Schicchi, La Wally {with Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec/ Raffi Armenian. Recorded 8/21/86). Handel, Scarlatti, Rossini, Verdi, Liszt, Respighi, Puccini, Mascagni: Assorted Songs and Arias {with Thomas Fulton, piano. Recorded Tokyo, 9/2/84}. (All with Renata Scotto, soprano. Total running time approx. 155')

BRO Code:

172784

Units:

1

Record Label:

VAI

Record Number:

DVD 4306

UPC:

089948430698

Country:

AMERICA

D/A Code:

Analog

Performances by Claudio Arrau {Movement 3, Beethoven's 'Emperor' Concerto}, Jorge Bolet {Gershwin's 'Rhapsody in Blue' with Paul Whiteman conducting}, John Browning {Movement 3, Brahms' Piano Concerto No.1}, Robert Casadesus {Movement 3, Beethoven's 'Appassionata' Sonata; Movement 4, Chopin's Sonata No.3; Movement 3, Bach's Concerto for Three Pianos [with Gaby and Jean Casadesus]}, Van Cliburn {Schumann-Liszt 'Widmung'; Movement 2, Brahms Piano Concerto No.2}, Philippe Entremont {Movement 2, Saint-Saens Piano Concerto No.4}, Lorin Hollander {Chopin's Waltz in c-sharp; Movement 3, Saint-Saens Piano Concerto No.5}, Jose Iturbi {Falla's 'Ritual Fire Dance'; Liszt's 'Hungarian Fantasy' [abridged]}, Byron Janis {3rd Movements of Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No.3 and Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No.3} and Grant Johannesen {Finale, Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F; Movement 1, Grieg's Piano Concerto}. (Running time approx. 129')

BRO Code:

171193

Units:

1

Record Label:

VAI

Record Number:

DVD 4216

UPC:

089948421696

Country:

AMERICA

D/A Code:

Mono

A 1966 program from the archives of the Bell Telephone Hour series, profiling George Szell and his relationship with the Cleveland Orchestra. Among the highlights are segments showing Szell rehearsing the Orchestra in works of Brahms {'Academic Festival Overture'}, Berg {'Violin Concerto', with the Orchestra’s concertmaster, Rafael Druian, as soloist}, and Beethoven {'Symphony No. 5'}. In another segment, Szell coaches three apprentice conductors, among them James Levine. The program ends with footage of Szell and the Orchestra in performance, playing the final movement of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. (Running time approx. 55')

BRO Code:

171190

Units:

1

Record Label:

VAI

Record Number:

DVD 4271

UPC:

089948427193

Country:

AMERICA

D/A Code:

Mono

Paul Tortelier, cello. Recorded 'live' at the Abbay St. Michel de Cuxa, Festival Pablo Casals of Prades, 7/90. (Total running time approx. 156')

BRO Code:

171189

Units:

1

Record Label:

VAI

Record Number:

DVD 4481

UPC:

089948448198

Country:

AMERICA

D/A Code:

Mono

Rachmaninov, The Twenty-Four Preludes for Piano, Opp. 3, 23 & 32. Prokofiev, Piano Sonatas Nos. 7 & 8. Ilya Itin, piano. 'Live' performances, recorded Fort Lauderdale, 3/7/2010. Includes a post-recital interview with the pianist. (Running time approx. 175')

BRO Code:

171184

Units:

1

Record Label:

VAI

Record Number:

DVD 4561

UPC:

089948456193

Country:

AMERICA

D/A Code:

Analog

Mozart, Serenade, K.525 ‘Eine Kleine Nachtmusik’. Walton, Variations on a Theme of Hindemith. Bruckner, Symphony No.3 {1888/89 version}. (Vienna Philharmonic/ George Szell. Recorded at Vienna’s Grosser Musikvereinsaal, 6/5/66 {Bruckner} & 12/2/68. Black & white. Running time approx. 100′)
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BRO Code:

171181

Units:

1

Record Label:

VAI

Record Number:

DVD 4566

UPC:

089948456698

Country:

AMERICA

D/A Code:

Mono

Narrated by Regina Resnik, this award-winning documentary tells the story of the Venice Ghetto, one of the most interesting chapters in Jewish history. The Jewish presence in Italy dates back to the Roman era, and it was only in 1516 that the Jews of Venice were compelled to live in the walled area known originally as the 'Geto'. The program depicts life inside the Ghetto with images of the striking architecture of the synagogues and multi-story residences, and accounts of the artistic activities which encouraged visits from Christian Venetians and travellers. Despite their limitations, the Jews also made their mark on the outside world, through advances in science and commerce. Geto continues with the story of the liberation of the Ghetto by Napoleon, in 1797, and details the events leading up to the Holocaust. The documentary is framed by footage of ceremonies marking the installation of modern-day contributions to the Ghetto by Lithuanian artist Arbit Blatas: a series of large bronze bas-reliefs honoring the Venetian Jews who died in World War II, entitled The Monument of the Holocaust and The Last Train. Written and produced by Ms. Resnik and Michael Philip Davis. (Running time approx. 54')

BRO Code:

171179

Units:

1

Record Label:

VAI

Record Number:

DVD 4569

UPC:

089948456995

Country:

AMERICA

D/A Code:

Mono