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The Righteous Brothers In Concert
Released in DVD by Kultur (28 January, 2003)
Average review score: 
Most disappointing - but being pre "Ghost" understandableI would suggest that probably 50% of the video is not the Righteuos Brothers I know, and contains only a few of their Greatest Hits album. Why they would want to start and finish with worst song ever written about Rock'n'Roll escapes me.
Righteous Brothers VideoThis tape is very good. The quality of the video is OK but the sound is not up to todays standards of DVDs but it offers a Brothers fan the only taped show of good quality with 1983 video and audio technology.
LOVED IT.I WATCHED IT 4 TIMES IN A ROW. THEY SHOULD HAVE A TAPE OF A CONCERT IN VEGAS THAT IS CURRENT OR JUST ONE OF BILL MEDLEY IN LAUGHLIN, NV AT THE RIVERSIDE HOTEL & CASINO.
The Vienna Philharmonic - New Year's Concert 2000
Released in DVD by Emd/Emi Classics (07 November, 2000)
Since 1941, the first great event in the classical calendar has been the New Year's Strauss concert by the Vienna Philharmonic. January 1, 2000 marked the end of the "Strauss year," 1999 being the centenary of the death of "Waltz King" Johann Strauss II and the 150th anniversary of the passing of his father, Johann Strauss. The previous May, the Vienna Philharmonic gave an outdoor Johann Strauss Gala, though only "The Blue Danube" waltz and "Radetzky March" overlap with this New Year's Concert. Here the orchestra gives an infectiously warm and confident performance, from the opening "Lagunen" waltz to the utterly exuberant "Eljen a Magjar!" polka. Mixing well-loved gems with such rarities as the "Albion" and "Hellenen" polkas, this music-making is a real delight, the lavishly garlanded hall as ravishing to the eye as the music to the ear. In homage to 2001: A Space Odyssey, "The Blue Danube" is wittily shot as a series of graceful aerial pans across the outside of the Musikverein concert hall and over Vienna itself. Riccardo Muti, conducting his third Vienna New Year's concert, thoroughly enjoys himself, and it is clear everyone else does too. --Gary S. Dalkin, Amazon.co.uk
Average review score:
Not goodIf you are looking for some of the most scintillating and idiomatic Strauss playing in resent times. I would stick to the VPO and Carlos Kleiber. Once heard, all others pale in comparison.
A terrific concert.This is a great DVD of a great concert filmed in the Grosse Saal, Musikerein, Vienna on January 1, 2000. Riccardo Muti is great.
The program and the orchestra are terrific with some new pieces that were never performed at a New Year's Concert. There is the "Morning, Noon, and Night in Vienna Overture" which I love. And there are others also to be enjoyed.
In the "An der schonen blauen Donau", the cammeramen take us on a tour of some acoustics, places in Vienna, sunsets/rises in fast-foward, and of the opera house/concert hall that the concert is being performed in.
The ballet in the "Ritter Pasman: Csardas" is terrific and extremly well done.
This DVD is to be enjoyed for many generations to come, and probably to become the most popular and favorite among millions of people. Please buy it, and you'll not regret it...ever...
Very enjoyable.... anytime...I like to watch this DVD whenever I have some extra time. The tracks mainly consist of waltzes and polkas, which amuse me with easy feeling. In particular I love to see the two tracks with multi angles which feature ballet to the music. The photography during the rendition of "On the beautiful blue Donau" is spectacular. Of course to see the very last track "Radetzky March" is also a pleasure. The audience claps in accordance with Muti's conducting. This also includes one "serious" music called "Ein Morgen, ein Mittag, ein Abend in Wien", an overture by Suppe, which is so beautiful and dramatic. I think Muti is charismatic when conducting and did a great job in the concert.
The video/audio quaity is outstandng. The picture has 16:9 letterbox format and the sound format has both 5.1 DD and lineat PCM stereo, which I prefer for classical music.
So... I am sure this DVD can be an all time favorite for anyone who loves music and "peace".
Roberta Flack - In Concert
Released in DVD by Image Entertainment (02 January, 2002)
Starring: Roberta Flack
This DVD captures the legendary singer-songwriter Roberta Flack live in Black Entertainment Television's Washington, D.C., studio. In the '60s and '70s, Flack's silky, Nina Simone-derived vocals and compositions beautifully blended jazz, gospel, and soul, crossed all musical boundaries, and paved the way for today's adult contemporary and quiet storm radio formats. Flack's sophisticated and earthy classics like "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face," "Killing Me Softly with His Song," and "The Closer I Get to You" are brilliantly reborn with a sleek contemporary jazz feel. Her renditions of blues standards "Stormy Monday" and "Sweet Georgia Brown" showcase Flack's velvet embrace of the African American musical tradition, which she has refined for years. --Eugene Holley Jr.
Average review score:
Where's the Beef?This DVD gives us less than an hour of Roberta Flack on stage performing with her band and she talks through a full 25% of that time! Don't expect a satisfying concert experience from this disk. The performances are disappointingly perfunctory and a shadow of the inspired music found on those treasured early recordings. The sycophantic audience seems to make the performance seem even less satisfying. Well....maybe you had to be there. If you are a Roberta Flack fan stick to the audio recordings for now. Perhaps a video performance worthy of her talent is yet to come. This DVD has too much talk, too little music, and none of the old Roberta Flack fire.
AS LONG AS THERE IS ROBERTA, THERE IS ROMANCEI was two years old when Roberta Flack's first album, First Take, was released in 1969. However, in 1987,at the age of 19, I heard her 1971 album,Quiet Fire, and my life changed forever. I love the vocal talents of Nina Simone, Billie Holdiay, Sarah Vaughan, Ella F, Aretha, etc. Roberta Flack, however, has a way to getting to the soul of man with her lovely storytelling approach. Her music is HONEST! This DVD is the best that I've ever seen her. Her voice is as smooth and lovely as when I first heard her. Her delivery and timing is impeccable.
Thank you, Ms. Roberta Flack, for giving the WORLD romance, mystery, and love. This DVD proves that she is still the queen of her craft!!!
KILLING ME SOFTLY WITH YOUR SONG!!!!!, THAT SONG IS MY LIFE!THANK YOU ROBERTA FLACK FOR HAVING WRITTEN MY LIFE IN YOUR SONG, BELIEVE ME. I REMEMBER THAT I ALWAYS LIKED THAT SONG SO MUCH EVEN WHEN I DIDN'T KNOW ANY ENGLISH IT WAS MY FAVOURITE SONG!, NOW THAT I KNOW ENGLISH YOUR SONG HAS FULLED UP MY LIFE WITH LOVE, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT "KILLING ME SOFTLY" BECAUSE THAT SONG IS 100% MY LIFE,I LOVE YOU AND GOOD LUCK ON WHATEVER YOU DO!, (BY THE WAY, I AM 22 YEARS OLD)
Concert at Saint-Severin - Mozart Mass in C Major / Pergolesi Stabat Mater
Released in DVD by Image Entertainment (08 June, 1999)
Starring: Georges Bessonnet and Bernard Le Monnier
This disc is part of a series produced by Georges Bessonnet in which the regional orchestras of France are presented. These orchestras range from the very, very good (Picardy Sinfonietta) to the pretty good (Montpellier Philharmonic) to the group featured on this disc--the Versailles Soloists. This group needs some work. The violins tend to play just enough out of tune that you begin to feel little muscles (especially the one at the far end of your digestive tract) tightening up as you listen. They are joined by a chorus with some pitch problems of their own. If this sort of thing doesn't bother you, there are some good qualities to the disc. First of all, the music itself is excellent. It¹s especially nice to have an available performance of the Pergolesi Stabat Mater. The lower strings and the winds sound pretty good, and the ensemble is mostly OK. The video is a pristine transfer of a HDTV production so it looks great. --Seth Krimsky
Average review score:
Not so good, but...A interesting sacred programme: Pergolesi's Stabat Mater coupled with Mozart's Coronation Mass. The interpreters are four very good soloists (only the two ladies in Pergolesi); a regular orchestra (with some troubles, like violins out of tune); and an irregular choir, alternating bad and good moments (e.g.: bad in Kyrie, good in Gloria). Also, there's a notorious predominance of female voices.
Well, you can find reasons to buy this one: first of all, the music - although these two works deserves better interpretations, here we can listen some pleasant moments. Isn't a first class perfomance (like in Messiah's DVD with Cleobury, or The Creation's DVD with Schreier), but an accetable one. Other reasons are a good work from a young conductor, the quality of soloists, good sound and images (a beautiful church in Paris), and the director's work.
So, if we don't have a definitive version of this couple, let's enjoy this one (two curiousities: mistakes at subtitles informing the dates of the death of both composers, and there is interventions of woman's choir at some parts of Stabat).
Well, you can find reasons to buy this one: first of all, the music - although these two works deserves better interpretations, here we can listen some pleasant moments. Isn't a first class perfomance (like in Messiah's DVD with Cleobury, or The Creation's DVD with Schreier), but an accetable one. Other reasons are a good work from a young conductor, the quality of soloists, good sound and images (a beautiful church in Paris), and the director's work.
So, if we don't have a definitive version of this couple, let's enjoy this one (two curiousities: mistakes at subtitles informing the dates of the death of both composers, and there is interventions of woman's choir at some parts of Stabat).
A most enjoyable concertThe soloists have beautiful voices, the whole program is played with appropriate dynamics and enthusiasm. The sound is excellent and the filming is also good, giving viewers a sense of "being there".
Ohne Filter - Musik Pur: Walter Trout in Concert
Released in DVD by Mvd (13 November, 2001)
Starring: Walter Trout
Average review score:
Great guitarist killed in the mix/editWalter is one of the top 10 blues guitarists alive, unfortunately whoever mixed and edited this dvd had the organ and drummer pumped higher than the guitar and the film edit heavily favored the organist. If you''re a blues guitar fan this is worth owning but be warned-there are times you can hardly hear Walter play. A drummer must have mixed the audio.
Walter's Da ManAlong with the Johnny Winter DVD I also received this Walter Trout in Concert DVD today. Feels just like Christmas. Again this DVD is from the German TV show OHNE FILTER-MUSIK PUR. Several of the other DVDs I have purchased are also taken from this same show. The overall quality of the DVD is good. Clear picture and very good 5.1 sound. Would have been exceptional with DTS, but I digress. Along the lines of Stevie Ray Vaughan or Gary Moore and Johnny Winter, Walter Trout is a blistering, blazing Blues Rock guitar God. The only thing he lacks from the others I mentioned Is the fame. He also has a pretty decent voice and writes really good tunes to boot. If your a fan of this genre of blues music buy this DVD. You won't be sorry you did.
Buscarino Players in Concert
Released in DVD by Mel Bay Publications, Inc. (19 May, 2003)
Average review score:
Great Playing, OK sound qualityThis DVD has some great performances. I would have liked to have seen more duo performances however. Solo guitar takes the stage for more than half of the sets and I started missing the interaction that two jazz guitarists can share. There are acoustic and electric performances by Ron Affif and Gene Bertoncini. Barry Green and Cory Christiansen play electric only.
My only real complaint is the less than perfect sound and picture quality. If you've ever seen Cafe' Benedetto, you know what I mean. It is better than that video, but not by much. The performances are sincere and very well played, but the so so sound quality is hard to overcome. Overall, the DVD is well worth the money and is a great buy for jazz guitar fans.
Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed: In Concert at The Bottom Line - June 22, 1992
Released in DVD by Stefan Grossman Guit (20 June, 2002)
Starring: Chet Atkins and J Reed
Average review score:
Charming Momento for Chet Atkins & Jerry Reed fansAs a fan - this DVD is priceless. It's literally like being in the living room with long time friends. Their performances are excellent, relaxed, humorous, and impromptu. For example Chet says, "Play something, Jerry. I forgot my capo," and walks off the stage; and where everyone tries to help Jerry plug in his guitar.
As a musician - I was disappointed with the camera work. Too many close ups of faces during key guitar solos. Close ups of the right hand picking, but never a close up of the left hand soloing. The camera person was obviously not a guitar player and didn't seem to know when a solo started or ended, or sometimes who was even playing it. Nevertheless, Chet's hilarious, but very credible distorted whammy bar rock solo, and his inability to pull off a riff in The Claw, were just two priceless moments of humor and humanity from these two flawless masters of the guitar.
Loretta Lynn in Concert - Coal Miner's Daughter
Released in DVD by Empire Music Group (08 October, 2002)
Starring: Loretta Lynn
Average review score:
Awesome Show - Glad to have Loretta on DVDHow great it is to have Loretta Lynn on DVD!!! Done in 5.1, the sound is pretty good, the picture is tacky late 70's early 80's with the bad glare. But the point is the music. This is Loretta sounding her best and singing her greatest hits.
Track Listing:
Hey Loretta
You're Looking At Country
We've Come A Long Way Baby
Let Your Love Flow
You Ain't Woman Enough
Medley: I Fall To Pieces/Walking After Midnight/Crazy
Me And Bobby McGee
Outta My Head And Back in My Bed
Coal Miner's Daughter
They Don't Make em Like My daddy Anymore
Medley: One's on The Way/The Pill
Don't Come Home A Drinkin
Track Listing:
Hey Loretta
You're Looking At Country
We've Come A Long Way Baby
Let Your Love Flow
You Ain't Woman Enough
Medley: I Fall To Pieces/Walking After Midnight/Crazy
Me And Bobby McGee
Outta My Head And Back in My Bed
Coal Miner's Daughter
They Don't Make em Like My daddy Anymore
Medley: One's on The Way/The Pill
Don't Come Home A Drinkin
Now if we can get the movie Coal Miner's Daughter on DVD, that would be music to my ears!!!
Paul Carrack: In Concert
Released in DVD by Red Distribution, In (15 July, 2003)
Starring: Paul Carrack
Average review score:
A solid productThe sound quality is great. Paul's voice is smooth as silk. The video image is good but at times amateurish. The song selection is good. Not too up-tempo, which should satisfy those like me who enjoy having concert DVDs as background but not the centerpiece of their living room. It does not compare to a Diana Krall Live in Paris in meeting that requirement, however.
I like when concert DVDs offer subtitles to follow the words, but this DVD does not offer them. But this is definitely a worthwhile purchase.
I like when concert DVDs offer subtitles to follow the words, but this DVD does not offer them. But this is definitely a worthwhile purchase.
Ohne Filter - Musik Pur: America in Concert
Released in DVD by Music Video Distribu (26 March, 2002)
Average review score: 
Don't Waste Your Money!The only good thing about this turkey (and why I have even given it one star)is due to the video,because the audio is awful! It is as if microphones were set up in different parts of the venue in order to capture the audio.
Do not,I repeat,do not waste your money. (I hope that Gerry,and Dewey have not watched this turkey)
Do not,I repeat,do not waste your money. (I hope that Gerry,and Dewey have not watched this turkey)
Sol
AMERICA IN CONCERTTHIS IS THE ONLY DVD TO VIEW AMERICA SO I GOT IT, HOWEVER THE VOICES SEEM WEEK AND THE SOUND IS NOT MUCH BETTER THEN A CD,5.1. THERE PERFORMANCE LACKS THE PUNCH OF THERE LIVE ONS I HAVE SEEN. OVERALL I LIKE THIS DVD BUT DON'T LOVE IT.
JUST LIKE BEING THERE!Recently attended the America concert at Stone Mountain GA and this DVD performance brought it all back. They maintained the same band members for YEARS and they sound tight. Gerry and Dewey are in Prime voice. To hear Last Unicorn and From a Moving Train live...well worth the purchase. The rest of the solid gold nuggets just add more glisten to this DVD. Goes without saying...it is a must for America fans. Again, just like being there! Thanks to the boys, once again for signing my guitar. Can't wait for the Christmas CD!!!