What's Coming?

(Most of the HDVDs we hear about are available for pre-order right away and go to our Alphalist. The titles you read about here have been talked about or announced, but they have not materialized to the point that vendors are offering them for pre-order in a reliable way. If a "tentative title" languishes too long, we delete it. For example, we recently deleted 3 titles that Decca was supposed to issue because it appears now that Decca has abandoned the classical HDVD market.)

In 1996 Baz Luhrmann directed a Pulp Fiction-like movie version of Romeo & Juliet. Now it appears this will be published in Blu-ray (details still sketchy). My son says it's too hyperactive to go on this site; but I say we will cover it, because it's Shakespeare. But we will wait to post until we learn a bit more about this.

Naxos USA indicated that EuroArts during 2010 would release in HDVD the Mahler 1st Symphony and the Mahler 4th Symphony performed by the Lucerne Festival Orchestra under the baton of Claudio Abbado. They also suggested that there is a long-range plan to release in HDVD all 9 Mahler Symphonies by Abbado and the LSO. Well, turns out that the Mahler 2nd and 6th symphonies were the titles from the LSO to come out in 2010. We assume the yet-unpublished symphonies will come in future years.

Last revised August 15, 2010