André Rieu - La vie est belle (Life is Beautiful)

André Rieu - La vie est belle (Life is Beautiful)

André Rieu - La vie est belle (Life is Beautiful)
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Composer: Andre / Rieu, Jean-Philippe Rieu
Composer: Franz Lehar
Composer: Fred Raymond
Composer: Andre / Huijts, Jo Rieu
Composer: Malando
Composer: Russian Traditional
Composer: Mabel Wayne
Composer: Emmerich Kalman
Composer: Maurice Jarre
Composer: Frank/ Harline, Leigh/ Smith, Paul J. Churchill
Composer: John Newton
Composer: Polish Traditional
Composer: Andre / Vlasveld, Ward Rieu
Composer: Andre Rieu
Composer: Maurice Ravel
Conductor: André Rieu
Performer: Trio St. Petersburg
Orchestra: André Rieu Orchestra
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2001-09-04
Music Label: Sin-Drome Records
Soundtracks:
  1. La Vie Est Belle
  2. You Are My Hearts Desire
  3. Juliska From Budapest
  4. Danube Love
  5. Ole Guapa
  6. Kalinka
  7. Ramona
  8. Heia In The Mountains
  9. Stenka Rasin
  10. I Want To Dream Of You, My Darling
  11. Lara's Theme
  12. Snowwhite
  13. Amazing Grace
  14. Poliushko Polka
  15. Glenn Miller Melody
  16. The Andre Sisters
  17. Bolero

Music reviews of André Rieu - La vie est belle (Life is Beautiful)

Music Review: Life would be much more beautiful without this.....
Rating: 1 Stars

That is of course not a personal remark against Mr Rieu who is quite a nice fellow with a pleasant, if at times slightly insipid, sense of humour and a keen business acumen. He got bored as the leader of a provincial Dutch symphony orchestra (no great wonder, what with their programming of the perennial favourites over and over again and pedestrian standard of musicianship, Rieu included; they have in the mean time mended their ways though), started a small string band which led an only marginally successful existence and every once in a while toured with a pick-up band recreating the music of the Strauss family and like composers. Since his chance hit "The Second Waltz", a watered down version of a Shostakovitch composition, he has seen the light and has since that time carefully edited, truncated and simplified the lighter classics and "classified" all kinds of overly familiar music. He dressed-up the lady musicians as fairy princesses, made his male musicians smirk, and have them all gaily wave their instruments and display publicly what a good time they all seem to be having (all carefully rehearsed, as are Rieu's carefully edited jokes; very little happens spontaneously). This eclectic mixture seems to hold an enormous appeal for millions of CD and DVD buyers and concert goers. No problem there. I do however have a problem with the fact that many "fans" seem to think that what Rieu presents is classical music, the real stuff. Actually, no, it's not. They also seem to think that Rieu is the world's greatest violinist; well, he plays a Stradivarius, so he should be, shouldn't he?. Well, no, he's not. Why do these "fans", without knowing Mozart from Wagner and a symphony from a concerto, so vociferously state that Rieu is the greatest, without ever having taken the trouble to listen to classical music (other than perhaps a Strauss waltz or a Puccini aria by Paul Potts or Ms Boyle), and that all who say otherwise are snobs, elitist, intellectual, arrogant and grumpy old men, who sit in cheerless concert halls listening to penguins playing music that no one understands? It's that ill-informed, lazy, overawed and reveling-in-an-underdog-position what irks me about the hype around Mr Rieu (for which he himself can hardly be blamed) and is reason for me to counterbalance the silly raving reviews ("me mum likes it, so it must be good") with one star.
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