Piano & Keyboard

Manilow Live [Blu-ray]

Barry Manilow is a master showman who makes each lyrical passage an intimate gift to his fans. His sold-out performance in the heart of Nashville proves why this performer's lengthy career has been so exceptional. From the first standing ovation to the last, Barry Manilow's diverse style will enchant any music enthusiast.

Zach Galifianakis - Live at the Purple Onion

Zach Galifianakis started his so-called career in back of a hamburger joint in New York. Well-known and loved by the Comedy Central crowd he is one of the Comedians of Comedy played director Alan Finger in the series Dog Bites Man and wowed the critics with his acclaimed VH1 show Late World With Zach.A master of the one-liner with an absurd rambling style Zach's sharp resonating humor makes his show at the famed Purple Onion in San Francisco one of the funniest performances in recent comedy.Off-stage you will meet Seth Galifianakis Zach's "twin brother." In an emotional interview with Brian Unger he sheds some light on his "brother" Zach revealing how he came to be who he is today.Extras:The Awkward Slapping Bit (outtake)Zach ShavesOuttakes From Brian Unger's Interview With Seth GalifianakisMore...Performance recorded June 9 and 10 2005 at The Purple Onion in San Francisco CASystem Requirements:Run Time: 90 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: NR UPC: 826663103656 Manufacturer No: DVD10365

Zach Galifianakis' stand-up comedy DVD spoofs the classic recorded stand-up performance film format by interjecting road trip footage of Zach and buddy in their red VW bus, and fake interviews with Zach's fake brother, "Seth," between his live stage bits. The splintered, slackerish feel that this editing lends the film reinforces Galifianakis's cool, enigmatic stage presence. Galifianakis' self-deprecating, sensitive guy-persona suits his love of deadpan one-liners in the tradition of Steven Wright. Sketches of the forgetful vegan who accidentally eats meat, or the pretentious illiterate who indignantly proclaims that he can't read, satirically poke fun at the self-righteous. Cut to a shot of the comedian's bus broken down off the freeway, then back to stage, where Zach riffs on his failed efforts to barter jokes for a fixed vehicle. Some segments, such as when Seth confesses his brother's affinity for making homemade ecstasy, are funnier than the Purple Onion performance. Like those on the Chappelle Show, these pre-taped skits rescue slow moments and elevate the stage act into more heavily crafted commentary. Graced with a dry wit, Zach Galifianakis, the self-professed "man who is bored by everything," won't bore lovers of good sarcasm. --Trinie Dalton

The Goldberg Variations - Glenn Gould Plays Bach

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - God Is in the House

Tchaikovsky - Piano Concertos Nos. 1&3 - Acoustic Reality Experience [7.1 DTS-HD Master Audio Disc] [Blu-ray]

THIS BLU-RAY SURROUND MUSIC DISC DELIVERS AN AMAZING ACOUSTIC REALITY EXPERIENCE THROUGH PLAYSTATION 3 (LPCM OUTPUT) OR BLU-RAY PLAYER WITH DTS-HD MASTER AUDIO OUTPUT CONNECTED THROUGH 1.3 HDMI CABLE WITH DTS-HD MASTER AUDIO CAPABLE RECIVER. THE FULL RANGE 7.1 (6.1;5.1) SURROUND SPEAKER SET-UP IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED FOR FULL PERCEPTION OF ACOUSTIC REALITY AND LOW FREQUENCY CHANNEL (LFE) THAT IS VERY CRITICAL FOR THIS RECORD. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS RECORD WAS ORIGINALLY PRODUCED FOR 5.1 AND PRESENTED FOR 7.1 SURROUND SOUND REPRODUCTION TO PROVIDE YOU WITH UNIQUE ACOUSTIC REALITY EXPERIENCE.

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Fats and Friends

Rock and roll piano players and singers, Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Ray Charles perform together at the Storyville Nightclub accompanied by Ron Wood, Paul Shaffer, and the All-Star Band.
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Media Type: DVD
Artist: FATS & FRIENDS
Title: FATS & FRIENDS
Street Release Date: 03/06/2007
Domestic
Genre: ROCK/POP

Grieg, Chopin & Saint Saens Piano Concertos / Previn, Rubinstein, London Symphony Orchestra

Beethoven: The Piano Concertos [DVD Video]

Artur Rubinstein in Concert

First DVD release of this legendary performance by a legendary artist. "Rubinstein's superb form is matched by the incredible musical sensitivity of Haitink and the orchestra...Sounds and images are expertly cued to the split second... Rubinstein's face, body and hands are captured in a smooth flow of shots and reflections...The Beethoven takes on an almost Mozartean delicacy, the Brahms is infused with all the power it requires." --The New York Times A vibrant and revealing interview, "Rubinstein at 90" conducted by Robert MacNeil, is included as a bonus. Filmed in the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, August 1973 (concert) and at Rubinstein's home in Paris, 1977 (interview) Artur Rubinstein, piano Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam Bernard Haitink, conductor Directed by Hugo Käch

The Art of Piano - Great Pianists of 20th Century

The Art of the Piano is a feature-length, 106-minute documentary that presents in refreshingly straightforward fashion a portrait of 20th-century piano playing. The format is simple: short segments on virtually all of the great pianists who have ever been captured on film, augmented by extracts from interviews, sometimes with the pianists themselves, or with later conductors and musicians of international stature, including specially filmed contributions from Daniel Barenboim, Sir Colin Davis, Evgeny Kissin, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, and Tamás Vásáry. The narration by John Tusa offers an overview of piano music through the century, though the heart of the film is the great quantity of rare archive historic footage, with extracts from performances by Gould, Horowitz, Paderwski, Rachmaninoff, Richter, Rubinstein, and many others. The interviews are short, but offer considerable insight, while the film of so many revered pianists brought together is a literal eye-opener, especially for those who have previously only known these masters from LP and CD. This is, like the companion program The Art of Singing, as close to definitive as a single film can get, even going so far as to include footage from the "silent" era with sound from corresponding recordings. --Gary S. Dalkin, Amazon.co.uk