Paul McCartney: Ecce Cor Meum
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Free Music Review: Paul and Ecce Cor Meum
Hit: 5 Stars
This is by far Paul's very best classical work to date. A loving tribute to Linda McCartney and their lives together. A must for any Macca Collector!Free Music Review: Kate Royal - what a voice!
Hit: 4 Stars
Paul is not really a composer; he's a songwriter and that's an entirely different skill set, so the critics here are at least partially right. As a whole, ECCE COR MEUM is not that strong. Neither is it entirely successful in all its detail. I myself find the 1:50 of ostinato beginning at the 11:00 mark of the third movement, "Musica", tiresome and much of the organ work in the finale underwhelming. But...
Let's not be too critical. This music is not without beauty. Maybe it isn't particularly deep, but all four movements (and the "Interlude") contain some appealing writing and there's a real bang-up finish to it. In particular, the second movement, "Gratia", has one of the more tenderly arresting melodies of Paul's career (I like it as much as "Long and Winding Road" and "Here, There and Everywhere") and Kate Royal has a voice to melt you - sweet, clear and youthful. Very different from Kiri Te Kanawa who did the Liverpool Oratorio. Paul loves this kind of voice. (Remember Mary Hopkin's "Those Were the Days" and "Goodbye"?) I've been a classical musician for thirty-five years and I'm genuinely moved by both the piece and her performance. The orchestra and chorus do an outstanding job, too. As was the case with Paul's other "classical" works, it seems that the opportunity to perform Paul McCartney's music inspires the whole cast and crew. There's just a lot of love here.
So, maybe Paul's not Brahms. Does it really matter?
Free Music Review: Reviewing the reviewers
Hit: 4 Stars
I haven't purchased this CD yet and was just reading the reviews and wanted to comment on them. When I buy a piece of music, or a book, or a movie DVD, I'm not in the least interested in the education of the creator. McCartney may not have a PhD, but he has immense and gorgeous raw talent. That's all he needs, and a darn site more than most graduates of musical academies.Free Music Review: Paul McCartney: Ecce Cor Meum
Hit: 5 Stars
Paul is a natural. I love his music. This Classical piece is I think his best, it brought tears to my eyes.Free Music Review: Commentary to Lady Prudence ...
Hit: 5 Stars
Mrs Prudence, you seem very knowledgeable of Academic music so you feel you have the authority of such a rant about Paul McCartney, and call him mindless, etc. Well I just want to let you know my opinion. When people like you put someone against the wall like Paul McCartney is because you feel a very deep resentment against rocknroll and pop music. PM is a living legend and you should respect that. I read your words and what you transmit from them is a deep heartless intellectual rant probably product of your inner uglyness, trying to hate people who have achived a remarkably status for his/her legacy. Well yes, he had someone who transcribed his whistling, so what? He can't write musical notation BUT he's a great musician and composer and lyricists. He has created one of the most beautiful melodies ever written. So, Why don;t you stick to Mozart and Beethoven and leave us alone, so we stick to Paul?
Respect and tolerance is the key .... there are lots of music I don't like, which I almost hate, but I don't go critizing it, you know why? Because I spend my time doing what I like instead of doing what you do!