Recreation

New Titles March 2011 (arrived in February) Audio and Video

CDs

Classical

Violin concerto no. 2 ; Violin concerto no. 1, op. posth. Bela Bartok.
Violinist Arab ella Steinbacher Gramophone Magazine Editor's Editor's Choice - November 2010, Gramophone. " Arabella Steinbacher's impeccable playing captures the Hungarian flavor of both concertos with vivid accompaniment from Janowski and the Swiss orchestra. Sonic quality is exemplary." (ClassicalCDReview.com)
Songs before sleep Richard Rodney Bennett.
"[Bennett] creates a campy 1920s-ish idiom, well captured by the versatile Iain Burnside...Benjamin Hulett, with Oliver Coates, sings with commendably Pearsian fervour...Susan Bickley adds mezzo bite to Dream-Songs, while Roderick Williams infuses Songs before Sleep with just the right dark warmth." (BBC Music Magazine)
Symphonies no 4 Johannes Brahms.
The Monteverdi Choir under the baton of John Eliot Gardiner recorded in performance in 2008 at London's Royal Festival Hall.
String quartets in G major op. 106 : & in F major op. 96 "American". Dvorak
The most popular Dvorák's chamber repertoire performed by one of the world's most exciting string quartets, The Pavel Haas Quartet.
Violin concerto ; Interlude from The crown of India ; Polonia Elgar.
Featuring Tasmin Little. "If ever a violin concerto deserved the feminine touch, it is Elgar's...[Little] knows just how to make her violin sing, subtly swelling and fading through the solo part's lyrical lines as Elgar penetrates the mysteries and wonder of the feminine soul...[She] is tender, velvet, winsome, always beguiling, never de trop, with complete mastery of the pianissimo caress ." The Times, 12th November 2010
Rapsodia Kopatchinskaja.
The exciting young Moldovan violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaya, who earlier this year won a BBC Music Magazine Award for her recording of Beethoven's Violin Concerto, is here joined by a small group of musicians including her mother, also a violinist, and father, a renowned cimbalom player, in a selection of pieces that reflect Eastern European folk and Gypsy traditions. Amongst the composers represented are Enescu, Ligeti, Kurtág, and Ravel.
Eastern European piano music Gorecki and others
Includes works by Gorecki, Heinrich Schiff and the melodic piece "Concertino bianco" by George Pelecsis.
Under the surface Peter Maunder.
Featuring harpist Helen Webby, soprano Lisette Wesseling and tomrbone by Peter Maunder.
Selva morale e spirituale. Volume 1 Claudio Monteverdi.
Performed by Harry Christophers and The Sixteen.
Piano concerto no. 22 ; Piano concerto no. 18 Mozart.
Pianist Imogen Cooper continues her critically acclaimed series of Mozart concerti, directing the Northern Sinfonia from the keyboard.
Stabat Mater Rossini.
Featuring Anna Netrebko, Joyce DiDonato, Lawrence Brownlee with Antonio Pappano conducting.
Kinderszenen : op. 15 ; Davidsbundlertanze : op. 6 ; Piano sonata no. 2 in G minor. op. 22 Schumann.
'Here from Angela Hewitt comes a disc to make us marvel anew at Schumann's Romanticism; at his troubled and ecstatic poetry. Everything is played as in the heat of first inspiration, a reflection, perhaps, of a recreative richness mirroring Hewitt's encompanssing and versatile repertoire. Few pianists are so brilliantly alive to every passing fancy and whimsicality. And again, few performances could be less studio-bound, more fleet, hallucinatory and above all more deeply imaginative … This is revelatory Schumann-playing - something to cherish' (Gramophone)
Symphonies nos. 1 and 3 Sibelius.
NZSO under Pietari Inkanane recorded at the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington, New Zealand, 3-5 March 2009.

WORLD

The sights & sounds of Nepal and Tibet : the best sounds of Nepal and Tibet on this unique DVD & CD TwinDisc.

DVDs

Cats & dogs. The revenge of Kitty Galore Directed by Brad Peyton.
Cartoon comedy voiced by names like Bette Midler, James Marsden and Nick Nolte.

COMEDY

Choka-Block The Laughing Samoans.
Dad's army, the DVD collection. Disc 22.
Happy birthday Mr Bean : 20 years of Mr Bean.
Prettyfull woman Eteuati Ete and Tofiga Fepuleai.
Stand-up comedy with The Laughing Samoans.

FILM

48 hours 2010 : furious filmmaking.
High noon Directed by Fred Zinnemann.
The classic western with Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly.
It's a wonderful life Directed by Frank Capra.
American classic with James Stewart and Donna Reed.
Letters to God Directed by David Nixon.
Letters to Juliet Directed by Gary Winick.
With Amanda Seyfried, Christopher Egan and Vanessa Redgrave.
Matching Jack Directed by Nadia Tass.
Australian movie with James Nesbitt and Richard Roxburgh.
Meet the Fockers Directed by Jay Roach.
Mother and child Written and directed by Rodrigo Garcia.
Annette Bening and Naomi Watts.
Osama Written and directed by Siddiq Barmak
A 12-year-old Afghan girl and her mother lose their jobs when the Taliban closes the hospital where they work. The Taliban have also forbidden women to leave their houses without a male "legal companion." With her husband and brother dead, killed in battle, there is no one left to support the family. Without being able to leave the house, the mother is left with nowhere to turn. Feeling that she has no other choice, she disguises her daughter as a boy. Now called 'Osama,' the girl embarks on a terrifying and confusing journey as she tries to keep the Taliban from finding out her true identity. Inspired by a true story, Osama is the first entirely Afghan film shot since the fall of the Taliban
Our family wedding Directed by Rick Famuyiwa.
Romantic comedy with America Ferrera and Forest Whitaker.
Redbelt Written and directed by David Mamet.
Chiwetel Ejiofor, Tim Allen, Emily Mortimer and Alice Braga.
Saving God Directed by Duane Crichton.
Ving Rhames as a reformed pastor.
Sparkle Written and directed by Neil Hunter & Tom Hunsinger.
Romantic comedy with Stockard Channing, Shaune Evans and Bob Hoskins.
Stagecoach Directed by John Ford.
Classic western set on the stagecoach to Cheyenne with John Wayne and Claire Trevor.
Streets of Laredo Directed by Leslie Fenton.
Classic 1949 western with William Holden and Macdonald Carey.
The concert Directed by Radu Mihaileanu.
Thirty years ago, Andrei Simoniovich Filipov, the renowned conductor of the Bolshoi orchestra, was fired for hiring Jewish musicians. Now a mere cleaning man at the Bolshoi, he learns by accident that the Châtelet Theater in Paris invites the Bolshoi orchestra to play there. He decides to gather together his former musicians and to perform in Paris in the place of the current Bolshoi orchestra. As a solo violin player to accompany his old Jewish or Gypsy musicians he wants Anne-Marie Jacquet, a young virtuoso. If they all overcome the hardships ahead this very special concert will be a triumph.
The mummy. Tomb of the dragon emperor Directed by Rob Cohen.
Brenda Fraser and John Hannah.
They who dare Directed by Lewis Milestone.
World War II drama with Dirk Bogarde and Denholm Elliott.
Tomorrow never dies Directed by Roger Spottiswoode.
PIerce Brosnan as James Bond, Teri Hatcher and Judi Dench as M.
Vampires suck Written and directed by Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer.
Determinedly outrageous spoof of the vampiure craze.
Wall Street : money never sleeps Directed by Oliver Stone.
MIchael Douglas, Carey Mulligain, Shia LaBoeuf.
Octopussy Directed by John Glen.
Roger Moore, Louis Jourdan, Maud Adams.
Scott Pilgrim vs. the world Directed by Edgar Wright.
Michael Cera in an adaptation of the graphic novel.

MUSIC

Johnny Cash : greatest hits.
Les miserables in concert : the 25th anniversary.

Non-fiction

Photography : as told by Life magazine photographers.
For valour
The stories of winners of Australia's Victoria Cross.
Richard Hammond's invisible worlds.
Underwater hotel : life on artificial reefs Big Fish Productions.
Dolphins in the wild Big Fish Productions.
Ballet workout
The body reshape plan
Dance off the inches. Dance it off & firm up!
Chasing classic cars.
Jimi Hendrix, voodoo child Directed by Bob Smeaton.
5 crown islands of the Pacific.
Highwater Written, narrated & directed by Dana Brown.
Shipwrecks of the Pacific and Tasman Sea Big Fish Productions
Exploring New Zealand coast to coast. North Island Big Fish Productions.
Exploring New Zealand coast to coast. South Island Big Fish Productions.
Discover New Zealand Big Fish Productions.

TV SERIES

Doctor Who. Series 5, volume 2.
Doctor Who. Series 5, volume 3.
Return to Cranford Directed by Simon Curtis.
With Judi Dench, Imelda Staunton, Julia McKenzie, Martin Shaw. Michael Gambon, Francesca Annis, etc.

Videos-DVDs

MUSIC

The Harvey Girls Directed by George Sidney.
Classic Hollywood musical with Judy Garland, Ray Bolger and Angela Lansbury.

Non-fiction

Spirit of the marathon Directed by Jon Dunham.
Portrait of the Chicago Marathon.