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Summary: Unlike the nay-sayers...
Review: I thought this DVD was terrific and exciting! It was "Live at the Royal Alber Hall" DVD that first introduced me to Rieu, and from there I bought several more of his DVDs. It would be a dream come true to physically attend a live concert, and someday I hope to do that.
If you are one who thinks classical is boring, think again! This DVD will put a step in your toes, and when it's all over, you'll feel like you've really partied! (Without the effects of a hangover..)
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Summary: It's Live and Lively
Review: Of the three DVD's that I have seen this one is the best. The last of the DVD is awsome. He plays Glenn Miller, "Andre Sisters" La Bamba (take off on Beetoven), Stars and Stripes forever etc. More diversity with this one than the others.
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Summary: Buy It For The Music -- Ignore The Flaws
Review: The most musically interesting of the Rieu concerts -- and the most painful to watch. The DVD director (or the post-production team -- it's impossible to tell who's-doing-what-when anymore) have endowed it with a frantic, constant-motion, MTV music-video edit, reminding you every two seconds that someone somewhere is pushing buttons! New angle. New angle. New angle. Ad nauseum... Thank goodness for the music: everything from Hava Nagila to Glenn Miller and the "Andre" Sisters (as noted by another reviewer, the track list given here is totally wrong) and it's all wonderful! Even the repeat stuff like the Strauss & Co. medley and the Shostakovitch Second Waltz. Interestly, the one visual element that could have been -- and would only be possible in this particular venue -- is missing. The ground floor of Royal Albert Hall does not have permanent seats. Where we would have "Orchestra" tickets, or the British buy "Stalls" seats, there's nothing -- just a flat floor. It's done that way to provide a large but well-located "standing room" section for the famous summer Proms Concerts. Wow! Instead of the portable seats that were brought in for this occasion, wouldn't it have been fantastic to see the WHOLE ground floor dancing round and round to this wonderful music. Oh, well...
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Summary: listing of selections for this DVD is incorrect
Review: This DVD is a must have in your collection
And here is the right Listing
Side #1 --
2. Voices of Spring [3:15]
3. Vienna Blood [5:35]
4. Seventh Heaven of Love [3:12]
5. Hava Nagila [2:19]
6. Tea for Two [4:16]
7. The Skaters Waltz [5:34]
8. Funiculi Funicula [6:28]
9. Nun's Choir [5:18]
10. Salomé Sabredance [4:29]
11. The Blue Danube [7:12]
12. Radetzky March [3:37]
13. Strauß & Co. [4:06]
14. The Second Waltz [4:42]
15. Glenn Miller Melody [2:34]
16. The André Sisters [4:12]
17. Sirtaki (Zorba's Dance) [3:57]
18. Stars and Stripes [5:29]
19. Auld Lang Syne [4:21]
20. Brasil Symphony [3:41]
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Summary: A great concert
Review: This DVD is absolutely wonderful! The music is varied and well-played. Ive seen Andre & Company in concert and this DVD is almost as good as being there. The "chapter" of the Andre Sisters is a classic. The quality of the DVD is amazing. I play it frequently and I am charmed all over again by these very talented and lively musicians. The ladies colorful gowns are a welcome change from the plain black gowns that most female classical musicians wear. Andre Rieu and the Johann Strauss Orchestra are proof that classical musicians dont have to be stodgy and solemn.
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Summary: A great concert
Review: This DVD is absolutely wonderful! The music is varied and well-played. Ive seen Andre & Company in concert and this DVD is almost as good as being there. The "chapter" of the Andre Sisters is a classic. The quality of the DVD is amazing. I play it frequently and I am charmed all over again by these very talented and lively musicians. The ladies colorful gowns are a welcome change from the plain black gowns that most female classical musicians wear. Andre Rieu and the Johann Strauss Orchestra are proof that classical musicians dont have to be stodgy and solemn.
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Summary: A great concert
Review: This DVD is absolutely wonderful! The music is varied and well-played. Ive seen Andre & Company in concert and this DVD is almost as good as being there. The "chapter" of the Andre Sisters is a classic. The quality of the DVD is amazing. I play it frequently and I am charmed all over again by these very talented and lively musicians. The ladies colorful gowns are a welcome change from the plain black gowns that most female classical musicians wear. Andre Rieu and the Johann Strauss Orchestra are proof that classical musicians dont have to be stodgy and solemn.
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Summary: Good Music, Poor Quality DVD
Review: This is another one of Andre's live performances. The music is superb as is the music on his other DVD's and CD's. However, the colors are really terrible and the glare very apparent. The DVD should have been reworked so that viewing the performance would not be such a pain. This is really poor photography. Advice: skip this DVD and get the "Live in Dublin" DVD. That one is really a jewel, in every way!
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