This week's music DVDs reviewed

SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES

At the BBC Universal ****

This four-disc package includes a revelatory DVD of some 30 performances culled from BBC archives, including The Old Grey Whistle Test, Top of the Popsand – bring it back! – Rock Goes to College. There's little doubt that Siouxsie and the Banshees were the most visually and sexually dramatic of punk and post-punk bands, and Siouxsie's militant attitude certainly gave the guys something to think about. The music was brilliant, too: from the sonic violence of Playground Twiston an unsuspecting Top of the Popsin 1979 to the black-glam Alice Cooper tribute of Voodoo Dolly in 1981, this is charged-to-the-max post-punk. No extras (unless you count Siouxsie in fishnet stockings). TONY CLAYTON-LEA

TCHAIKOVSKY: EUGENE ONEGIN

Soloists: Renee Fleming, Ramon Vargas, Dmitri Hvorostovsky. New York Metropolitan Orchestra & Chorus. Conductor:Valery Gergiev Decca ****

Based on Pushkin's story of love rejected and subsequently desired, Eugene Oneginis Tchaikovsky's operatic masterpiece. It has a haunting melancholic quality similar to many of the stories of Turgenev and Chekov, and Valery Gergiev brings out this lyricism in an authentic and sensitive reading of the score. Tatiana is one of Russia's great operatic heroines, and Renee Fleming sings the part with refulgent tone. Dmitri Hvorostovsky as Onegin has no peer in this role, and his elegant singing shows a human face to the character that is often missed. Ramon Vargas is suitably ardent and sincere as the unfortunate Lensky. Staging is spare, with sombre colours, making even the ballroom scene look somewhat dull. www.decca. com/dvd COLMAN MORRISSEY