Virtuoso

Product Details

Artist : David Garrett
Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0028947800804
Label : Universal Classics
Number of Discs : 1
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 2008-03-24
Running Time : 49minutes
UPC : 028947800804

ASIN : B0010NX274

Track Listings for

Disc-1
1. La Califfa
2. Carmen Fantaisie
3. Nothing Else Matters
4. Csardas - Gypsy Dance
5. Duelling Banjos
6. Canon
7. Paganini Rhapsody (on Caprice 24)
8. Somewhere
9. The Flight of The Bumble Bee
10. Serenade
11. Toccata
12. You Raise Me Up
13. Eliza's Song
14. Csardas - Gypsy Dance

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Customer Reviews

Very enjoyable (2008-05-06)

This album might not viewed differently by classical music enthusiasts but for a middle-roader like me, it was great. I bought it before my exams and instead of my usual dead silence studying technique, i had this playing in the background. It is very beautiful music and David is obviously well-gifted. I think i will go ahead and get his earlier stuff.Relating to the tracks, I can never get bored of any 'Carmen' version, Maria Callas et al, so I obviously loved his take on it. Also the track 'Nothing else matters' simply blew me away and I wish it lasted longer. The Paganini Rhapsody is also another winner.definitely 5 stars for me.

very disappointing (2008-04-24)

I don't usually write reviews but I'm so disappointed and angry with myself for believing the marketing, that I just have to vent my spleen. The advertising overemphasis on DG's cover of a "Metallica" song implies that this is an album with an edge. Or a genuinely new approach. Or a vision. It isn't. I should have looked at the tracks more carefully, or been warned off by the soft-focus Michael-Ball-esqe cover picture. There is no doubting his technical ability, he is impressive in a rather flashy, "look-at-me-look-at-me" way, but he hasn't yet learned that sometimes less is more. And do we really, really need yet another cover of "flight of the bumble bee"? or "Carmen - Fantasie"...again (Anne-Sophie Mutter's version is much more impassioned anyway)? or (oh puhleease!) "You Raise Me Up"? or "Somewhere"? The orchestral arrangements are okay but the Opera Babes did it first, and better. What offends me most is the sheer lack of ambition, and imagination, in this dreary, lazy middle-of-the-road populist pap. Come on man, get a grip, ditch the marketing drones and produce something genuinely worthy of your talent. I'm sure it will do very well but my advice is "move along now, nothing to see here".(Thanks all - I feel better now)

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