The Bell Telephone Hour - Re-issues On DVD

Re-issues On DVD

Beginning in 2001, DVDs of performances from the television series have been released by Video Artists International . To date, VAI has issued more than two dozen DVD compilations. The range of the artists represented on these discs bears testament to the stunning array of performers who appeared on the Bell Telephone Hour television program:

• Singers: Barbara Cook, Franco Corelli, Régine Crespin, Victoria De Los Angeles, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Eileen Farrell, Nicolai Gedda, Dolores Gray, Mahalia Jackson, Carol Lawrence, George London, Thomas Hayward, Gordon MacRae, Ethel Merman, Robert Merrill, Anna Moffo, Birgit Nilsson, Roberta Peters, Leontyne Price, John Raitt, Dinah Shore, Risë Stevens, Joan Sutherland, Renata Tebaldi, Richard Tucker, Leslie Uggams, Jon Vickers, and Gretchen Wyler.

• Pianists: Claudio Arrau, Jorge Bolet, Robert Casadesus, Alicia de Larrocha, Van Cliburn, Philippe Entremont, Lorin Hollander, Byron Janis, Grant Johannesen, and José Iturbi.

• Violinists: Mischa Elman, Zino Francescatti, Yehudi Menuhin, Erica Morini, David Oistrakh, Michael Rabin, Ruggiero Ricci, and Isaac Stern. (Also, the famed cellist Gregor Piatigorsky and master of the guitar Andrés Segovia.)

• Dancers: Alicia Alonso, Erik Bruhn, Jacques d'Amboise, Rudolf Nureyev, Matt Mattox, Edward Villella, Violette Verdy, and Maria Tallchief.