Judex (Criterion Collection)The characters and plot convolutions of the classic silent French serial JUDEX are thrust into a 1960s framework in this Georges Franju concoction. Channing Pollock plays a mysterious masked avenger who kidnaps evil banker Michel Vitold, then sets about to turn the banker's friends and loved ones against him. At first appearing to be as wicked as his captive, Pollock is actually motivated by familial love: his father had been driven to suicide by

melancholia and pure joy

This is a unique musical celebration in which the piano legend performs new repertoire like Prokofiev's Overture on Jewish Themes

Roger Chase

in which a dramatic piece is the work of several hands

DVD contains a full length concert shot live in Europe in summer 2004

but in fact the SONGS that are sung by such

Recorded in February of 1974 and featuring Catherine Christer Hennix (recitation

the Renner Ensemble has been successful at many national and international choral competitions

three years his junior

one of the last children in a world where no more can be born

this legendary British band

while at the same time looking down into the dark abyss of Romanticism