Gynecologic Movie Reviews

This was taped the same year as the Three Tenors performed, also celebarting the same occassion. Luciano sounds fresh and healthy.

Here he sings Puccini, Donizetti, and Neapolotan songs. Dare I say, I have some complaining to do. Could Pavarotti survive if he sung much more Verdi? (Di quella pira, Quest o quella, or La donna e mobile) And also, perhaps, some Rossini? (Ecco rident in cielo, or something from William Tell) The conductor, Leone Magiera, was not the greatest choice ever made. Why not Zubin Mehta or James Levine?

Anyhow, here is La Grande Tenor at his best. Enjoy!

An excellent selection of arias; Wonderfully performed by the great Pavarotti. This is a must-have for any Pavarotti fan, and any fan of opera and wonderful singing.

This is a really good DVD. It was taped during the 1990 World Cup, and in my view it is far superior to the Three Tenors Concert taped a couple of months later in Rome. Those who have read my previous reviews will probably realise that I am a complete unashamedly Pavarotti addict - and this will please all his millions of fans around the globe.

All his standard repertoire pieces are here, including an excellent "Pourquoi me reveiller" and a quite electrifying "Vesti la guibba". The encores are outstanding, and the whole programme has been put together thoughtfully. It is a shame that he couldn't have been persauded to sing "Ch'ella mi creda" or "Che gelida manina", or dare I say, a little bit more Verdi?

Anyway, this is Big Lucy at his best - and the audience love it, as will you if you invest in this DVD. When it arrived, we all settled down to watch it with a glass of wine after dinner one Saturday night. You know, my mother in law insisted that I order her a copy from amazon.com immediately. Which I duly did. Is there a better recommendation that that?

IT COULD HAVE TOUCHED AND HAVE SUNG BETTER THIS SONG
AS WELL AS IT DID IT IN FILLMORE EAST

I was fortunate enough to catch the U.K.'s premier blues shouter fronting Humble Pie twice (The Capital Centre - April 10, 1980 and The Bayou - March 04, 1981). Steve and the boys torn it up in both the arena and the club. It just didn't matter. Sad to say, all 3 (Steve, The Cap Centre, and The Bayou) are now gone. The good news is that he (along with Jim Leverton and Jerry Shirley as The Packet Of Three) was captured live in '85 at the Camden Palace Theatre in London powering through a 9 song set that serves as an excellent record of the power of Marriott. R.I.P. Steve, you'll by sorely missed.

Excellent live show from the late, great, former Humble Pie and Small Faces frontman. This is a 1985 concert from Steve's Packet of Three band which was a power trio that toured Europe from 1983 to 1987. Steve along with Bassist Jim Leverton and former Humble Pie Drummer Jerry Shirley put on an excellent show that rocks from beginning to end. The video quality is excellent and the 5.1 mix is superb. The only negative is that concert clocks in at only about 47 minutes although there is a 15 minute interview with Steve also included. Sadly, Steve passed away in a house fire in 1991 at the age of 44 just as he was beginning to work with Peter Frampton to reform Humble Pie. After seeing this video I think you will agree that Steve was an extraordinary talent who is sadly missed. Songs: What Ya Gonna Do About It, Fool For A Pretty Face, Shame, Shame, Shame, All Or Nothing, Five Long Years, 30 Days In The Hole, I Don't Need No Doctor, Walking The Dog, and Tin Soldier.

if your a true tammy fan,you wont regret buying this concert,a true "concert" dvd, (not a documentary), just a great concert show of songs. video and audio are great!

This 1986 live concert was filmed at the Capitol Music Hall in Wheeling, West Virginia, and shows a mature Tammy, in her early forties, with attractive cropped hair, reed thin in an elegant strapless gown; half-way through, she discards the skirt portion, to reveal sequined pants, and looks simply stunning. She intersperses the music with anecdotes of her life, little verbal "snapshots" that are quite moving, like the story of the first time she went to Nashville looking for work, in 1965, with 3 small children in tow.
Wynette does not have a large voice, but is a supreme country stylist. There is a subtle sadness and vulnerability to her persona, and a delicate beauty, which also add to her appeal.

The music: The songs are My Man / Another Chance / Apartment No. 9 / I Don't Want to Play House / Your Good Girl's Gonna go Bad / D-I-V-O-R-C-E / Singing My Song / 'Til I Make it on My Own / Rocky Top / Alive and Well / Turn Around / What a Difference You Made in My Life / You Light Up My Life / Makin' Love / You and Me / Take Me to Your World / Womanhood / Crying in the Rain / Fairy Tales / Amazing Grace / I'll Fly Away / Will the Circle be Unbroken / I Saw the Light / Stand by Your Man.

The musicians. Tammy is backed by an excellent band, and they are: Rick Murrell, bass and vocals; David Sloas, guitar and banjo; Mike Douchette, steel guitar and harmonica; Charlie Carter, rhythm guitar; Steve Samuels, keyboard; Ken Janson, drums; and Sue Richards and Paula Murrell, vocals.
This is straight concert footage, with no fancy camera angles and no endless cuts to the audience as in some live films; it is an hour long, and though the appreciation of this concert will be limited to Tammy's fans, they will love it, and it is a nice way to remember this great country legend, who took leave of this earth plane in 1998.

I wish I had of been at this concert,the dvd is the next best thing. To sayTammy had talent would be an understatementafter you see this. This dvd is a musthave for any true fan of country musicor anybody who just loves darn good music by a darn great performer!!

Nobody told me how funny this guy was until I actually viewed this concert on DVD. I hadn't seen him in person before so I didn't realize how much time he spent chatting between songs. He's quite funny. In fact when he recounted the George Carlin joke about "Yogurt" I just almost sprayed yogurt through my nose I laughed so hard. He's quite the comedian this Carman fellow.

I've been a Carman fan for years, so when I saw this DVD, I had to buy it! It's from the last night of his Heart of a Champion tour, and he performs a lot of his best older songs, as well as his new ones. My favorite is the song "Jesus Period" which says that the answer to the problems in the world is not some new program, not some psychic hotline, but is Jesus Period! The show is spectacular and the message is even greater! I fully enjoyed this dvd and trust that you will too!

First of all, this DVD was aired live in March of 2003. If you've seen Hall & Oates live in concert or just seen a live video of them, you will totally appreciate this spontaneous concert. Hall & Oates blend music brilliance with comedy and audience interaction. Yes, they play smaller venues now, but the show has gotten better and the songs have evolved throughout the years. They did new songs with many re-worked classics, some even in acoustic form, which entertained the NY crowd and America "live" for 90 minutes, providing great Rock 'N Soul music. Daryl Hall proves to be one of the best vocalists of the 70s through the present, especially with his rendition of the "caught-off-guard" phone request, Me & Mrs. Jones.

What a difference in sound quality as compared to the original A&E Live By Request aired program. The producers of this DVD removed all the phone calls and allowed the final song (No Can Do) to play until it was completed. So, it was like the phone calls never existed. The broadcast had a lot of replaying song parts for commercial breaks. These are no longer present. The DVD also includes an exclusive interview and 5 bonus songs after the show went "off the air." They included most of the phone calls in a separate section of the DVD. The only song that was not included was "Method of Modern Love," which was only played for a few seconds in between commercials.

I recommend this DVD as, hopefully, one of many to come in the future by the most successful Philly-influenced Pop/Rock duo of all times!

Hall & Oates are fantastic, after over 30 years of performing together.

This CD/DVD shows them at their best. It's a great concert, based on the "A&E Live By Request" call-in show in spring 2003. This set includes an audio CD of the concert, as well as a DVD with the concert, bonus songs, and an interview.

Excellent!!!!!

1. THEME AND VARIATIONS FOR ORCHESTRA, Opus 42 (1953) was Erich Wolfgang Korngold's final concert composition. Seven years earlier, he had composed/selected/arranged music for the film DECEPTION (made and released in 1946). This was his final film-symphonic composition. These events are more inter-related than they may first appear. The title of Opus 42 is what Korngold did for a living. He was a master (arguably an unparalleled master) composer of themes and seemingly endless variations for the concert/operatic hall and the motion picture theater. Themes from Korngold's pre-Hollywood catalog were often recycled as variations in his films; key components in concert compositions written while in America (and especially after he left the sound stages of Warner Bros.) often turn out to be variations of themes initially composed for the cinema. Korngold's process of circular composition (musical invention/re-invention on the fly as it were) is apply illustrated in A PORTRAIT AND CONCERT. And although less that 20 percent of this DVD directly deals with Korngold's film scores, from a theme-and-variations perspective, most of the music presented really does.
2. This is only the third release on DVD of Korngold's film music. The PORTRAIT portion (a documentary on Korngold's life) was made in 2001 and initially shown on German television. Of special interest to film-score enthusiasts is the "Emigration to Hollywood" segment (Chapter 8, 11:46). It includes superbly sounding music from extant, "original" sound tracks (OST) (prior to being intentionally destroyed decades ago, Korngold's optical film recordings were transferred to open-reel tapes) including THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD as well as newly-recorded performances of music from ANOTHER DAWN, ANTHONY ADVERSE, DECEPTION, ESCAPE ME NEVER, and THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER. Even the sound (and visual footage) from film clips (going back to A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM) is well above average. But this is not quite musical nirvana, as we shall soon see. The CONCERT portion of the DVD consists of four works (three have opus numbers) recorded in 2001. CELLO CONCERTO IN C MAJOR, Opus 37 (1946) is of special interest, since Korngold initially composed this one-movement work as the concluding center piece for the film DECEPTION (in part consisting, of course, of variations on themes from some of his previous films). The concerto in the film is about six minutes end-to-end, and Korngold doubled its length for the concert hall. It is the latter that we hear (and see) on the DVD conducted by the American conductor Hugh Wolff and performed by the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra (FRSO). In the film, Eleanor Aller Slatkin--mother of future conductor Leonard Slatkin--played the cello on the OST as well as in the world premiere of Opus 37 in 1946 (over coast-to-coast radio). On the DVD, the cello soloist is Quirine Viersen, about whom more is to come.
3. The documentary on Korngold's life is a one-of-a-kind, epoch-defining event! Regrettably (and ironically), the same can not be said for the music. PORTRAIT is needlessly bloated with gratuitous (dare I say "boring"?) repetitions of the music presented in the CONCERT portion--if you first watch PORTRAIT, you have pretty much heard (and seen) a large part of the CONCERT. The "Emigration to Hollywood" segment also suffers from a case of the bloats with the exception of the Opus 37 excerpt. But the video editing of this excerpt seriously distracts from the music. Other film-score music is mostly a frustrating collection of musical snippets and fragments (only two have complete cues). Now this could be a teaser/preview of things to come (such as future releases of full, historical OSTs from Leslie Korngold's Korngold Archive and/or new recordings of OSTs from Wolff and the FRSO); or it may be just the result of staying short of copyright infringement. Compensating for disappointments in the film-score domain, "Emigration to Hollywood" contains a plethora of on-camera insights and observations from a stellar group of Korngoldian subject matter experts (just about all who are still alive and kicking are heard from). They include: Korngold's biographer Brendan Carroll; film historian Rudy Behlmer; Korngold's daughter-in-law Helen Korngold; composer and arranger John Morgan; conductor William Stromberg; Warner Bros. VP of Music Daniel Gould; and archivist Bernd Rachold. Plus the first public showing of Korngold in color (from family home movies). A must see!
4. Opus 37 in the CONCERT portion is only the latest in a series of modern recordings (all others have been on CD). Using BMG RCA Victor GD80185, 1973 (conducted by Charles Gerhardt, and performed by Francisco Garbarro [cello] and the National Philharmonic Orchestra) as the analog-mode reference recording, the conducting on this DVD is workman like, somewhat labored, and slow in tempo; the orchestra, though, seems well rehearsed and disciplined; the sound (miking, recording, and mixing) is outstanding (no doubt due in very large part to the digital format selected--see below); and the video (camera coverage and editing direction) is repetitious, but fully professional. The cello soloist, Quirine Viersen, brings new meaning to the term "dramatic instrumentalist." Her playing is certainly competent (and, perhaps, close to outstanding), but her histrionics (seen in much too many quarter and head shots) is way over-the-top. It seriously distracts from her instrumental skills (unless you turn off the video and just listen--highly recommended!).
5. On a closing technical note, squeezing linear (uncompressed) PCM stereo onto a DVD with live-action video is not an easy audio-engineering feat. The German label Arthaus Musik has now done this for an impressive number of releases covering several musical genres. The sound leaves CDs in the dust! But to fully enjoy, you may want to turn off the effects channels. Otherwise Dolby ProLogic kicks in and spoils the ear candy.

I respect the original review of this DVD, but believe it to be a little bit short-sighted. Korngold was much much more than just a composer of 18 film scores, he was a composer of opera, symphony and soloists. If you are looking for a story simply about Korngold's years in Hollywood, then this DVD is not it.

It is however a wonderful exploration into the music of this forgotten composer, and very thoughtfully done I believe.

I feel it to be somewhat of a slight to the entire life work of this man, who could compose music of this sophistication and yet retain such a child-like heart. And 'bloated' would not be the adjective that I would associate with any his music.

If Anne Sophie Von Otter does not tear your heart out with her singing of Marietta's Song, then you have no hope.

Watch, listen and understand.

Not all take delight on the conductor Kurt Masor but the orchestra itself is gorgeous. This violinist is comparatively young who looked to be in his mid-thirties. I first came across him right after I've heard Heifetz. Interestingly this violinist's hand/fingers resemble that of Heifetz, albeit it that his are slightly larger. Of course, he has less drama and less facility than Heifetz. But he didn't come out too badly in comparison. He reminds me more of Zimmermann who is of about the same age, and one couldn't really say who is better. But then the latter is so popular now. He also reminds me of Suk who shares his fate by not having the due recognition of the American market. Broadly speaking, his approach is more classical than romantic and he is just graceful on the stage, quite a contrast to Gidon who hops and gasps on the stage. The recording is very good but it's nothing like a DG. Recommended.

if you like to hear the violin it`s will be the great dvd ...

ALL I KNOW WAS I WAS AT THE SHOW THEY TAPED THE DVD FOR AND IT WAS THE MOST BRUTAL SHOW EVER LITTLE TO NO SECURITY, GLASS BOTTLES SERVED BY THE STAGE I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE IT WILL SURELY BE {HEAVY} METAL THE WAY IT SHOULD VIOLENT GOTTA LOVE IT

We came to the 13th episode of 6FU last night and lament that we'll have to wait a year before the next year come available.

It is brilliant, quite the most involving and challenging series currently in our ken. And whilst great entertainment series like "The Sopranos", and "Sex and the City" are, well, great entertainment, they don't involve you so completely and caringly in the characters the way 6FU does.

One of the wonderful Duke Ellington numbers in the boxed anthology from France that I have, has the occasional track prefaced by the great man introducing it. Sometimes there is a little anecdote, as in the case of a particularly nice number called "The Tattoed Lady". With his usual insouciant charm, Ellington explains that the lady was tattooed all over, not with pictures or words or things but with a series of zig-zag lines, each like a W.

The letter W has four strokes, and so he transcribed those four strokes into four notes ( and here he played the four notes). These four notes of course have different timbres, and different qualities. And naturally they gain different feelings depending on the instrument that plays them of course (and here, several instruments took it in turn playing the four notes. Then DE said that they had great fun using these four notes as the basic theme for the following music. And the band played "The Tattoed Lady".

I wondered whether the same idea had hit the fellow who composed the brilliant and stunningly original 6FU theme. There are four central characters, and the calibre and timbre of the note assigned to each reflects their characters - fragile, defiant, cool, conservative... Once I remembered Duke Ellington's introduction to the origins of the "Tattooed Lady" theme lady theme, it never escaped me every time we watched an episode. Of course the tagged on two or three notes were Brenda and Keith... and father.

There are excellent performances by Clapton, Sanborn & Crow. The Blige and Dylan performances were not so good. A mixed bag. The other Clapton dvd's are probably better. Not a keeper but a good 1 off rental.

If you were there you know it was a magical night. If you were not, then this concert is an acceptable substitute. Every minute with Clapton is a gem throughout this performance. The down spots: the aforementioned, in the title, Mary J. Blige (could not wait for her to finish, what makes her a "friend"?), and Cheryl Crow. Cheryl needs a chrome pole and a garter so folks of that kind can place dollar bills in it. She repulses me because she refuses to take singing lessons. Well, if it makes you happy!!! Edit out Mary and Cheryl and you have a great show. At least Eric had the good sense to include Tessa Niles and Katie Kissoon, unlike the 2001 tour! ("Drowning in a)River of Tears" is a high point of the show, as was the appearance of Bob Dylan who performed more than made it on this video. I guess Mary and Cheryl used up his space on the disk!

Well, I loved this DVD. From "Layla" (which, might I add, is not predictable, seeing as how it's the first time he's played the Derek and the Dominos version of the song in who knows how long) to "River of Tears", this is a great concert. The guest artists are excellent. Sheryl Crow and Clapton sound wonderful together, and I was glad to see her there. Mary J. Blige... I don't know, if it suits your fancy... and Bob Dylan was excellent if you like Bob Dylan, as I do. David Sanborn, one of the best rock saxophone players today, is an excellent addition to the house band, which includes standards like Nathan East, Steve Gadd, Andy Fairweather-Low, Tessa Niles, and Katie Kissoon, plus Tim Carmon, a great keyboard player who makes his keyboard solo sound like a guitar solo in "Old Love", and Dave Delhomme, who just sits and plays keyboards. Great companion to "Live in Hyde Park".

I don't own this DVD but based on the reviews I will not be purchasing it. I orginally taped this concert when it was on MTV years ago. Because my TV was a piece of junk at the time, the sound quality was terrible but I still have the tape. I ended up buying the official VHS tape when they released it but found that they had edited out some of the things that were shown on MTV when the concert first aired. Overall the VHS release still kicks... but I was somewhat disappointed. Now it sounds like they have edited out even more for the DVD. I am writing because I would like to see a multiple DVD un-edited version of this concert in it's entirety. I don't care what it costs. Put everything in there. People will buy it.

I originally recorded this concert live using a few VCR tapes off of MTV. With that I got too many commercials and poor quality audio and video. I was hoping this was going to replace my tapes. It might have replaced one.

The footage shown would be awesome to any Queen fan. The DTS (if you have the capability) puts you right there in the crowd. But it's ONLY the last part of an entire day of music.

I was really hoping for the entire concert and if that ever comes out, that'll be the one to own.

As a HUGE Queen fan, I was disappointed there wasn't more!

I was born in 1951 and this is not my kind of music but I've enjoyed the VHS version of this concert again and again for many years now. In this video, the fans are the stars - the crowd is wonderful -10s of thousands of happy-as-can-be fans and all entertainers are at their peak and prime - there's no oldies here! This is real rock and roll; turn up the volume! All the performances are excellent, its a beautiful summer day, the sound and technical aspects are perfect - and it's almost 3 hours long! This is definitely one of the finest concert videos of all times!