Customer Reviews

Linda Brava

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I have enjoyed Linda Brava's earlier recordings. However,I found her newest endeavor very disapointing. Her natural creativity and talent was lost as she was trying to prove herself to be an accomplished violinist to her many critics. If you want to hear linda at her best, select an earlier recording like, Aquamarine. I wish she would continue to listen to her own muse and only do independent songs.It is quite evident that her heart, soul, and talent is missing from this recording.

I have never seen such a bad excuse for a classical album

I've heard high school violinists with a better tone and more musical instinct.

Or in other words, really really bad. Occasionally Linda Brava's performance rises to the level of being only moderately bad, but mostly it is really bad.

Her intonation is suspect much of the time, and her bowing technique is deficient, resulting in an often scraping, uneven tone. At time, it even sounds as though her bow is skittering across the strings, which amazes me. That is elementary technique. With universally cautious tempi, it sounds almost as though she is afraid of the music, and it appears as if she did the once necessary take on each piece, called it good, and scurried out of the studio to attend to her other myriad business interests.

Clearly, these short & relatively undaunting pieces are beyond her limited technical capacities. There are no greater heights awaiting her in the world of classical music. Perhaps a crossover album or two might prolong this undeserving career.

I was hoping the CD would have as much life as her rock cd's. Guess I just should stick to buying those. This is my 1st venture into buying a classical CD.

I bought the cd out of curiosity of linda's violin playing. i had no regrets in buying the cd. I quickly fell in love with salu't d'amour which is the first track of the cd. Among those nice pieces are Meditation by Massenet and Humoresque by Sibelius.

The assumption that no one who looks like this can actually play the violin is a seemingly sound one, but is, in this case, very unfair. I found her technique excellent and I enjoyed the selections very much. I note that Gramophone, hardly an undiscriminating source of reviews, was also very positive. So let's stop the dumb blonde jokes, please!