Andre Rieu - Dreaming
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Movie Reviews of Andre Rieu - Dreaming
Movie Review: Maravilloso
Summary: 5 Stars
Cada trabajo musical de André Rieu es simplemente maravilloso.Movie Review: andre Rieu-Dreaming
Summary: 5 Stars
Beautiful Photograghy and relaxing excellent musicMovie Review: Dreaming is lovely and calming...
Summary: 4 Stars
Dreaming is a departure from the norm for Andre Rieu. In two parts, it gives a more personal look at the man and the value of dreams. Commentary from him is interspersed throughout, along with dreamy music played with backdrops of castles and incredible beauty. Sometimes he performs alone, other times he has members of his orchestra around him. In one delightful scene, the orchestra members' children are near their parents as they play. In another, he describes his violin, the second one made by Stradivarius! We also learn more about his family and his father, a conductor who inspired him and then encouraged Andre's desire to convey classical music in a more colorful, inviting way to the public. I would recommend this DVD if you would enjoy 90 minutes of soothing, incredibly beautiful music.Movie Review: None so deaf as those who do not wish to hear...
Summary: 1 Stars
Among the most gluttonous collections of tear-jerking taffy that have ever been put to wax, this watery sea of sweetness stands out in a very crowded ocean (think of the Potts, Boyles and Il Divos of this lonely planet) as a sad high. From the field of light classics and from flicks ancient and recent Monsieur Rieu distilled, after what must have been a most careful selective process, this concoction of lachrymonial bestsellers. "Moon River", from Johnny Mercer's and Henry Mancini's pen, originates from "Breakfast at Tiffany's" where its bittersweet sense of longing was perfectly represented by Mancini's magnificent score, accordion up front and a choir in the second chorus. In the hands of Rieu the bitter has completely vanished in favour of the sweet. "Edelweiss's" inherent sadness from "The Sound of Music" was served very well by non-singer Christopher Plummer; ironed over by Rieu it becomes a sickly bit of insipidness. "True Love", Cole Porter's tender love song for Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly in "High Society" has been transformed into a sticky bit of candy floss, not helped by Rieu's thin violin tone and terrible phrasing (just listen to it; it's an insult to the ears! If you don't hear the difference, then you really don't deserve better). So it's not just the classics that Rieu manhandles into unrecognisability, but also what connoisseurs have come to recognise and admire as the Great American Song Book (in many instances served extremely well by the Sinatras, Fitzgeralds, Crosbys, Darins, Riddles etc. of this world). Such a pity that a basically well-trained musician should steep so low as to try, at all costs, to appeal to the tastes of the common denominator, those people who can be lured into thinking that a slick show, flashy flunkies everywhere (a line from Cole Porter's "Who Wants To Be a Millionaire" in case you'd care to know), some carefully prepared quips and elaborate and expensive stage props represent real music, real sentiment, real talent. To quote Celeste Holm ("High Society"): "No, Sir!"Movie Review: Excruciatingly boring
Summary: 1 Stars
I have been an Andre Rieu fan but not after Dreaming. It is nothing but a collection of out takes which should have been included on his other CDs.One reason I have been a Rieu fan is that his DVDs feature lively concerts. The Dreaming DVD not only does not contain a live concert, the music is dull, poorly arranged and poorly played. And there is just too damn much of Rieu and too little of the orchestra.
"La vie est belle" is one of Rieu's better DVDs. It was a concert in Berlin. The biggest gripe I have with Rieu's DVDs is that they contain only a part of the concerts, concerts which go on for two hours but less than an hour is on the DVD. Not in Dreaming. There are no concerts, only two 42 minute segments and no interesting extra features. The first segment contains some of the later music in the "La vie est belle" concert. Viewers of that DVD will remember that Rieu mentions that it might rain. Well it did rain and portions are shown in Dreaming.
After watching this DVD I was so disgusted that I threw the DVD in the waste basket. Then I thought again. I pulled it out because I mmight give it to someone else. But then that would be such a dirty trick to do to anyone so I again threw it in the trash.