Vanessa-Mae The Violin Player
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Composer: Johann Sebastian BachComposer: Mike Batt
Conductor: Mike Batt
Composer: Ian Wherry
Composer: Mason Williams
Conductor: Mike Batt
Performer: Mike Batt
Orchestra: Mike Batt
Conductor: Vasko Vassilev
Performer: Clem Clempson
Performer: Martin Bliss
Performer: Richard Morgan
Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Performer: Phil Todd
Performer: Maurice Murphy
Performer: Vanessa-Mae
Performer: Vanessa-Mae Vanakorn Nicholson
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-10-30
Music Label: Angel Records
Soundtracks:
- Toccata and Fugue in D minor
- Contradanza - Vanessa-Mae, Batt
- Classical Gas - Vanessa-Mae, Williams, Mason
- Theme From "Caravans" - Vanessa-Mae, Batt, M.
- Warm Air
- Jazz Will Eat Itself
- Widescreen - Vanessa-Mae, Batt, Mike
- Tequila Mockingbird
- City Theme
- Red Hot
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Free Music Review: A touch of the arrogant and the avant garde
Hit: 3 Stars
Republicans will hate it and Democrats will love it ... just kidding, but in a way, not. The Classical purists will hate this type of album anyway and the fusion/acid jazz/avant garde will get behind it and see its relevance and appreciate it's sound effort. However, Ms Mae is not a an Itzhak Perlman or Nigel Kennedy, she is closer to a volvo mechanic than to a violin virtuoso: I have a number of her recordings both live and studio, where she is trying to be the latter; this album is closer to the former. She has had excellent training, sound finger, bow and string work, and precise mechanics, but an ear for the art in the music? Not quite. It does not "flow" out of her, as if it were a part of her, so much as she tries to master the notes, the key, the transitions, the pitch, etc. What she lacks is a creative style she can call her own. She has the skill without the warmth; the ability without the believability. That said, in this album there are hints of it in such pieces as the Toccata and Warm Air, but the rest are over-produced and so arrogantly, overtly refined that it makes it difficult to actually judge her talent, break-out as it tried to be for her. I'd much rather she focus on her erudite talents (as evidenced in her Johann Sebastian Bach work) and come back to this later. A worthy, but a back shelf, effort.
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