Re: Bach

Magnus Fiennes (Composer), Lara St. John (Performer), Yoad Nevo (Performer), Matthew Sharp (Performer), Robbie Jacobs (Performer), Christopher Laurence (Performer), Christopher Lawrence (Performer), Andrew Findon (Performer), Anna Noakes (Performer), Phil Todd (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Lara St. John, Yoad Nevo, Matthew Sharp, Robbie Jacobs, Christopher Laurence, et al.
• Composer: Magnus Fiennes
• Audio CD (May 25, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B00023GGLC
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (42 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #231,121 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Lost it., May 30, 2004

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"richard_best" (Oberlin, OH USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Re: Bach (Audio CD)

Selling classical music with sex has never been something I cared for. And St. John always had very questionable CD covers. Nevertheless, I always had to admit that when it came to the music itself, it sounded like she had real integrity. The playing was always first class, with lots of personality and quite unique. Now, she just shattered all this. This CD has no integrity and no music, lowering herself to the level of corny artists like Linda Brava or what have you. Would she soon be posing for Playboy as well? ... Thank god there are still violinists like Hilary Hahn and Sarah Chang around to save the classical grace.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Unlike Vanessa-Mae, and outdated, July 9, 2005

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Arthur Debert (Richmond, VA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Re: Bach (Audio CD)

The reviewer below seems to feel there is an elitist movement against those who put a beat to classical movement. Or, against those who arrange it in a pop or contemporary style. Whether true or not, I feel he totally misses the point here: This album has failed so miserably because those who love this sort of stuff (like I do) realize this album is a total drag. It feels like a mix of outdated styles that don't sit right together at all. It certainly fails to give a listener anything new, fresh or "bold". It also fails to lift the music to any acceptable standard of any style of music, be it pop, contemporary or not.

And as for the comparison to Vanessa-Mae:

1) She WAS bold, original, young, daring and fresh 2) She portrayed great youthful energy 4) She truly knows how to improvises on her instruments (while St. John does not) 5) She did not become famous because of her nude photos (while St. John did). 6) And finally, her albums came out 7-10 years earlier and yet still sound more up-to-date than this mess of an album.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Too much over the top, May 29, 2004

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Roy U. Rojas Wahl (Teaneck, NJ United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Re: Bach (Audio CD)

When I heard the first tunes of the CD, I thought there must have been a mistake and they put the wrong CD in the wrong cover... Then I checked: Yes, I its still reads "Bach" on the CD itself... It was anwakening, if not necessarily rude as a fellow reviewer has sugessted, but certainly a very suprising one.
Well, even if you like crossovers, this one is way over the top. I would not have recognized a single track as being from JSB. Look at other, more laudable crossover-experiments. Maybe the Kronos-quarttet, or recently Pierre Laurant Aimard in his Ligeti-Pygmae music approach. Risk taking, and interesting.

This one here is just lush entertainment, a far too easy listening. No risk taking at all. It's interesting, yes sad, what otherwise serious classical music artists will do for money nowadays...