scaling Everest. The summit doesn't come into sight until well into the third, slow movement, then it's not until the third approach via other vistas that we arrive with a clash of cymbals at the peak. En route there are diversions into Alpine meadows where it's not too fanciful to suggest an Edelweiss is in flower. Zubin Mehta recorded Bruckner's Ninth Symphony early on in his career but neither his name nor that of this orchestra has been much associated with the Austrian composer. It was therefore something of a gamble for ArtHaus to release this 1987 performance. Mehta pleads and cajoles his orchestra to give of their all, but ultimately the demands of the music and the unsympathetic acoustic of the Alte Oper Frankfurt defeat them. The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra at key moments isn't always playing as one in a symphony where there are so many entries that require a unison response. One senses that the conductor's forward pacing of the music takes its toll on the precision within the huge waves of sound Bruckner launches throughout the work. Anxiety brings with it the wrong sort of tension, so that when the music drops into one of the pastoral episodes there's little sense that we've moved into gentler terrain despite the heroic efforts of the principal flautist to add a scenic diversion. --Adrian Edwards
Advantages: Fascinating insight into a very private conductor Disadvantages: One always wants more concert clips in DVDs like this...
...and colleagues, and of course from Abbado himself - which is perhaps the most fascinating aspect of the DVD as up to now he has always preferred to talk through his music rather than to journalists.
The orchestras featured in the performance extracts are the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, Lucerne Festival Orchestra and the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra.
Performance and rehearsal extracts played during the DVD are by: Luigi Nono - "Prometeo"; Dvorak - Symphony No. 9; Beethoven - Symphonies No. 1, 3 and 9, Egmont Overture; Bruckner - Symphonies No. 1 and 9; Stravinsky - Symphony of Psalms; Brahms - "Ein deutsches Requiem"; Richard Strauss - "Elektra"; Webern - 6 Pieces for Orchestra; Mahler - Symphony No. 2; Debussy - La Mer and Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 5. Some of the extracts are quite brief, but all are incredibly musically...
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Advantages: IMO Depeche Mode's best live DVD to date: a fantastic performance & wonderfully reworked songs. Disadvantages: Can't really think of any!
...). The DVD features are good, and only increase the 'value for money' factor; remastered music videos, tour projections, and an MTV Rockumentary that includes interviews with all band members. But really, the performance alone is worth the price, I reckon. So, if you like Depeche Mode, I strongly recommend you go and buy it (and if you don't, this may well convert you!).
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Disc 1:
- Devotional: A Performance Filmed By Anton Corbijn
1. Higher Love
2. World in My Eyes
3. Walking in My Shoes
4. Behind the Wheel
5. Stripped
6. Condemnation
7. Judas
8. Mercy In You
9. I Feel You
10. Never Let Me Down Again
11. Rush
12. In Your Room
13. Personal Jesus
14. Enjoy the Silence
15. Fly on the Windscreen
16. Everything Counts
17. Death's Door (no video footage, audio only played during the credits)
- Halo...
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Advantages: This is a classic thriller film. Disadvantages: The age of the film means it is in Black and white.
...This is a classic film that I watched again last weekend the first time in many years. The film moves form Italy to Victorian London and tells the story of lost jewels, an old murder case and the haunting pschological abuse.
Ingrid Bergman (Paula Alquist Anton) truly deserved her Oscar for this film. Charles Boyer plays the role of Anton the devious husband seeking destroy his wife. Joesph Cotton plays the role of the Scotland Yard detective, a little unconvincingly with his american accent. Angela Landsbury plays a cheeky and very Cockney Maid, in an outstanding performance.
As the story weaves itself to a climax you are left wondering to the very end what will become of the beautyful Bergman.
Despite its 62 years of age this is truly a fabulous classic and absolutely a must see....
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