Greatest Hits

Andre Rieu - Greatest Hits

Greatest Hits
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Artist: Andre Rieu
Composer: Various Composers
Conductor: André Rieu
Performer: André Rieu
Orchestra: Johann Strauss Orchestra
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2009-03-03
Music Label: Denon Records
Soundtracks:
  1. Nun's Choir from Radio City Music Hall
  2. Komm, Zigany from New Years In Vienna
  3. All Men Shall Be Brothers (from Beethoven s 9th Symphony) from Live in Dublin
  4. Bolero from At The Movies
  5. Wolgalied from Live In Vienna
  6. Second Waltz from In Wonderland Limited Edition
  7. My Heart Will Go On from Dreaming
  8. The Blue Danube Waltz from Dreaming
  9. Air on a G String from Love Songs
  10. Glen Miller Medley from Live At The Royal Albert Hall
  11. Toselli Serenade from Homecoming
  12. Ode to Maastricht from Homecoming
  13. O mio babbino caro from Tuscany
  14. 'Opera Potpourri' from Tuscany
  15. Vienna, City of My Dreams from Flying Dutchman

Music reviews of Greatest Hits

Music Review: Great present for someone you dislike
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 Greatest Hits

To commemorate Andre's 30-year anniversary on stage, Denon is honored to release his Greatest Hits on CD, chosen by his devoted fans and collected from all of his chart topping Denon releases.

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