Great Choral Classics presents a unique collection of four sublime masterpieces for solo voices, choir and symphony orchestra. Each performance features top international singers, including Cecilia Bartoli, Kathleen Battle, Anne Sofie von Otter, Thomas Allen and Robert Lloyd, accompanied by four of the world's greatest orchestras and conducted by Sir Georg Solti, Sir Neville Marriner and Maestro Seiji Ozawa. All three DVDs are also available separately, and all have proved best-selling VHS titles, with over 30,000 units shipped of the top-selling Carmina Burana. All three DVDs newly-feature a DTS 5.1 surround.
Recorded: 31December 1989, Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany (Carmina Burana) 5 December 1991, Stephandsom, Vienna, Austria (Mozart Requiem) 13 April 1992, Point Theatre, Dublin, Ireland (Messiah) Spetember 2002, Saito Kinen Festival, Matsumoto, Japan (Beethoven) |