|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
2 Reviews
|
Average Customer Review
Share your thoughts with other customers
Create your own review
|
|
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The life of Richard Strauss--in about 30 minutes
This is very good for what it is: a thirty-minute story of the life and work of composer Richard Strauss. With photographs of Strauss and many of the people and places in his life, and video of present-day sights, this program does a better than expected telling of the Strauss story in 30 minutes. How much can you accomplish in a half hour...
Published on January 18, 2007 by Mr John Haueisen
|
 |
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Just not enough
Very dissappointing purchase. Merely a 28-minute slideshow of black-and-white photographs with a British-sounding professor, reading out loud a biography. No interviews with conductors, performing musicians, whatsoever. Not one excerpt from his works being played, except for endless repetition of the "Capriccio" string sextet in the background. Very, very poor, indeed.
Published on August 4, 2008 by R. F. M. Kassenaar
|
|
Most Helpful First | Newest First
|
|
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The life of Richard Strauss--in about 30 minutes,
By
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)
This review is from: Famous Composers - Richard Strauss (DVD)
This is very good for what it is: a thirty-minute story of the life and work of composer Richard Strauss.
With photographs of Strauss and many of the people and places in his life, and video of present-day sights, this program does a better than expected telling of the Strauss story in 30 minutes. How much can you accomplish in a half hour? They tell about his music, dividing it into six categories, for which the very-talented Strauss wrote: orchestral music chamber music choral music songs ballet music operas It was probably Strauss' unique combination of talent and longevity that permitted him to write in so many genre. The program also deals fairly with the question of Strauss' association with the Nazi party--it doesn't whitewash him, but neither does it excoriate him for his life in very trying times. In addition to the 30 minute "life of Strauss," there is a five minute musical overview of his many varied works.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Just not enough,
By R. F. M. Kassenaar "Marko Kassenaar" (Amsterdam, Netherlands, Europe) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Famous Composers - Richard Strauss (DVD)
Very dissappointing purchase. Merely a 28-minute slideshow of black-and-white photographs with a British-sounding professor, reading out loud a biography. No interviews with conductors, performing musicians, whatsoever. Not one excerpt from his works being played, except for endless repetition of the "Capriccio" string sextet in the background. Very, very poor, indeed.
|
|
Most Helpful First | Newest First
|
|
Famous Composers - Richard Strauss by Richard Strauss (DVD - 2005)
$19.99 $17.99
In Stock | |
 
| ||
