Live In Dresden: The Wedding at the Opera

Andre Rieu - Live In Dresden: The Wedding at the Opera

Live In Dresden: The Wedding at the Opera
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Artist: Andre Rieu
Brand: PBS
Composer: Mendelssohn
Conductor: Rieu
Performer: Rieu
Conductor: Andre
Performer: Andre
Orchestra: Johann Strauss Orchestra
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2009-11-03
Music Label: Denon Records
Soundtracks:
  1. Wiener Melange
  2. The Wedding March
  3. Hoch Sollen Sie Leben
  4. Vienna Blood
  5. Plaisir d'Amour
  6. Figaro Cavatina
  7. Dancing Through The Skies
  8. E Lucevan Le Stelle
  9. I'm Off To Chez Maxim
  10. Espana Cani
  11. I Hear The Sound of Cymbals
  12. Wer Uns Getraut
  13. You and You Waltz (Du Und Du)
  14. Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again
  15. All I Ask of You

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Music Review: nice beer mat
Rating: 1 Stars

Mr Rieu 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 that Scottish hag whose name escapes me right now), 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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Description of Live In Dresden: The Wedding at the Opera

You are most cordially invited to a wedding celebration concert with André Rieu in one of the most beautiful opera houses in the world, the famous Semper Opera in Dresden.

As well as the charming bride and bridegroom of this joyous occasion, there are 40 more fabulous pairs of dancers from the famous Vienna Debutantes of the Elmayer Dance School in Vienna. Together with the beautiful sopranos Mirusia Louwerse and Carmen Monarcha, the bombastic Platinum Tenors, the Johann Strauss Orchestra and the inspirational direction of André Rieu, this is sure to be one of his most festive concert performances ever!

André Rieu and his Johann Strauss Orchestra have performed throughout Europe, in North America, and Japan. They have won a number of awards including two World Music Awards and have recordings that have gone Gold and Platinum in many countries around the world. André Rieu plays a 1667 Stradivarius. His repertoire includes a wide range of classical music as well as popular and folk music plus music from famous motion picture sound tracks and theatre musicals. His lively and colorful orchestral presentations have attracted worldwide audiences to classical music.

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