Humphrey Burton Director DVDs


Ode to Freedom- Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 For those who have been dying to own a video-recording of Leonard Bernstein conducting...	Charles Mingus: Epitaph Best Price: $8.49 Mingus fans should not hesitate to pick this up. It nicely captures the premier performance of...	Puccini - Manon Lescaut Best Price: $16.81 ... to rescue the music of Manon Lescaut, Puccini's earliest success, from mediocrity. I had...	Ode to Freedom- Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 For those who have been dying to own a video-recording of Leonard Bernstein conducting...	Charles Mingus: Epitaph Best Price: $8.49 Mingus fans should not hesitate to pick this up. It nicely captures the premier performance of...



Puccini - Manon Lescaut Best Price: $16.81 ... to rescue the music of Manon Lescaut, Puccini's earliest success, from mediocrity. I had...	Bernstein on Beethoven: A Celebration in Vienna/Bernstein in Vienna: Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1 Best Price: $10.44 Conducted, performed, written and narrated by Leonard Bernstein. In this documentary portrait...	Prokofiev - War and Peace / Gergiev, Othotnikov, Kirov Opera Best Price: $17.80 Warching this wonderful DVD makes it obvius that "War and Peace" is truly a great...	Bernstein in Paris: Berlioz Requiem Best Price: $10.92 At long last Kultur has released on DVD this 1975 film of the Grande Messe des morts as...	Le Retour D'Ulysse Dans Sa Patrie - Christie



A Gala Christmas in Vienna Best Price: $7.24 Without mincing words, an unexpected dissapointment. Domingo is charming as always and the...	Die Fledermaus: The Royal Opera Covent Garden - Music by Johann Strauss, Conductor Placido Domingo [ PAL Format ].	The Golden Ring - The Making of Solti's "Ring" (Wagner Ring Cycle) Best Price: $63.06 This DVD consists of two separate contents. The first is the video documentary on the...	A Gala Christmas in Vienna [VHS] Best Price: $2.50 I thought that placido was over bearing. Sarah deserves all the credit for that preformance. She...	Mozart - conducted by Georg Solti, with The Royal Opera, Covent Garden [VHS] Best Price: $3.49 I found this a very fine production of Mozart's masterwork "The Abduction from the...

Berg - Lulu / Davis, Schafer, Bailey, Kuebler, Harries, Schone, Bardon, Glyndebourne Best Price: $16.85 I cannot say enough good about Glyndebourne's 1996 production of Berg's opera recently...	Tchaikovsky - Eugene Onegin / Prokina, Drabowicz, Thompson, Winter, Minton, Olsen, Davis, Glyndebourne Opera Best Price: $16.06 Filmed in the then new opear house at Glyndebourne, this production of Eugen Onegin starts off...	Johann Strauss' Die Fledermaus (2 Tape Set) Produced by the BBC TV/ and Royal Opera House. Full color. Stereo Hi-FI	Leonard Bernstein: Haydn - Die Schopfung Best Price: $14.16 Filmed in 1986 amongst the breath-taking Baroque splendor of the Benedictine Abbey of...	Mozart - Requiem Best Price: $14.73 This DVD is a performance of Mozart Requiem to celebrate the composer's Bicentenary. It is...

The Leonard Bernstein Concert Collection Best Price: $59.89 As I went through music school in the eary fifties I was confronted with "Lenny". Now...	Verdi - Requiem / Margaret Price, Jose Carreras, Jessye Norman, Ruggiero Raimondi, Claudio Abbado, London Symphony Orchestra Best Price: $47.97 This is not by far the best Verdi Requiem I have seen and/or heard. The negatives leap at you:...	Verdi: La Traviata (Special Edition with Highlights CD) Best Price: $18.77 The reason to own this Traviata is for the spellbinding performance of Angela Georghiu. This is...	Herbert Von Karajan - His Legacy for Home Video: New Year's Eve Concert 1985 One who is familiar with the works of Herbert von Karajan will know about his unique power with...	Krystian Zimerman: Chopin/Schubert Best Price: $12.43 Krystian Zimerman interpretations of these pieces are simply superlative and unique, I really...

Monteverdi - Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria / William Christie, Les Arts Florissants, Adrian Noble (Aix-en-Provence Festival) Best Price: $12.88 It is quite amazing to see that this production is reviewed dozens of times more than another...