Product Details

• Actors: Uncommon Bach-Music Experience in 3-Dimensional So
• Directors: Alexander Jero
• Format: HiFi Sound, NTSC, Surround Sound
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 1
• Studio: Surround Records
• DVD Release Date: June 25, 2007
• Run Time: 52 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 1.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000Q6GWOQ
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #238,780 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

This is a presentation of a conceptual work that encompasses nearly 10 years of research in music, sound and technology. The goal was to develop a new view on how music can be presented in Surround Sound. What you will experience is an experimental project that takes orchestration into new dimensions of sound. In producing these classic masterpieces, I have taken a revolutionary approach to showcasing music orchestration with the position of each instrument or group of instruments around the listener. Original orchestral partitures were transcribed in a virtual domain using midi, sampled instruments and synthesis to achieve real separation of the instruments, and also to balance them together in the surround mix. This creates the perception that each individual sound has its unique location in 3-Dimensional Space. Looking to the future of sound and music technology, there is a need for new development to showcase new artist and producers in a revolutionary way. I believe that this new experience will be an exciting and entertaining journey in music and sound.

I would like to thank all my supporters who help me develop and present this idea.

Alexander Jero
Surround Music Artist/Engineer/Producer
*Winner of the First Annual Surround Music Awards for the Best New Surround Music Composition presented by United Entertainment Media.

TRACK LISTINGS:
1. BWV208, Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd!
2. BWV1, Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, No.3 Aria
3. BWV5, Wo soll ich fliehen hin, No.1 Chorus
4. BWV10, Meine Seel' erhebet den Herren!, No.1 Chorus
5. BWV33, Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, No.1 Choral
6. BWV225, Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, No.1 Singet dem Herrn
7. BWV525, Trio Sonata No.1 in Eb, No.1 Allegro
8. BWV530, Trio Sonata No.6, No. 1 Vivace
9. BWV592, Concerto in G, No.1 Allegro Assai
10. BWV812, French Suite, No.1 in D
11. BWV831, French Overture, No.3 Gavotte

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Monotonous Bach, flowers don't help, July 2, 2007

By 

Millard Fullbore (New England) - See all my reviews

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: Uncommon Bach - Music Experience in 3-Dimensional Sound Reality TM [HD DVD DTSHD Surround Music Disc] (HD DVD)

About the best thing I can say for this HD-DVD is that it shows the medium's potential for surround-sound music accompanied by beautiful images -- just barely.

The program starts with a particularly sappy rendition of BWV 208 (sometimes sung in English as "Sheep May Safely Graze"). The rest of the collection isn't quite that bad, but shows little variation of tempo or dynamics, with none of the verve of, say, the Brandenburg Concertos as performed by Wendy Carlos. The "instrument" sounds are mostly flutes and tinkling harps and bells, and their sound, while pleasant at times, is close-in rather than spacious, which I don't feel makes the best use of the surround medium. Bass is all front-and-center with that awful middle-of-your-head quality you get from monaural sound through headphones. Why does it have to be like that in a program billed as "music experience in a three-dimensional sound reality"?

The video portion is a series of close-up stills of flowers. Each one is beautiful by itself, but seeing one right after another through the entire program, with never a pullback to a broader view, gets boring. It's no aesthetic plus that the caption "Uncommon Bach / Music experience...[etc.]" persists throughout the program, as does the "dts-HD" logo in the upper right corner.

If you're visiting a friend who has an HD DVD player, you might want to bring a copy of The Last Samurai to offer just in case he should have Uncommon Bach playing.

11 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Marketing Scam Exposed. Buyer Beware, July 20, 2008

By 

Deep Thought - See all my reviews
(VINE VOICE)   

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: Uncommon Bach - Music Experience in 3-Dimensional Sound Reality TM [HD DVD DTSHD Surround Music Disc] (HD DVD)

This disc is nothing more than midi music recorded on multiple channels, or crap in surround to be blunt about it. If you want to know what this sounds like, just listen to a Casio keyboard playing any ol' public domain classical music. Rubbish of this kind is even available many places for free. All they did here was add the extra channels, but this adds absolutely nothing whatsover to the experience of listening to this and is of very poor quality anyway. Again, it just sounds like an electronic keyboard playing on your sound system (awful). There is nothing artistic or creative here at all. Of course that is the reason that you do not see any samples here, if there were no one would be spending any money on this. The same goes for this entire series.

Here is what really throws up the red flags though: After much research I have concluded that every single one of the positive reviews here are fake, written to convince you that this is a actually a good product worthy of your hard-earned money and time spent listening to. I have carefully investigated the histories of all of these "5 star" reviewers and commenters for this series, and I encourage you to do the same. What this is here is a known guerilla marketing tactic, perpetrated I strongly believe, by one or just a few persons. You can see this for yourself by simply clicking on all of the reviewer's (and commenter's) names and looking at their other reviews, comments and even lists. You will find that they are ALL overwhelmingly and consitantly for this series alone (There very few for others, BUT EVEN THOSE are cross-linked right back to promote these, so you are always directed to these discs!). In comparing them you will see the exact SAME type of language usage, idiosyncracies and mispellings throughout and across all of these, under all of the different aliases. This very same person also seems to lurk here and almost immediately responds to any honest reviews by attacking the reviewer and often posting a new fake review under a different fake alias in an attempt to bury the honest review, again with the very same language characteristics and consistent mispellings. It's likely that the same will happen to this review as well. It has happened to me on my reviews of other discs in this series (Uncommon Bach standard dvd and Uncommon Mozart) where I have been repeatedly attacked as this seller tries to discredit me. You can even find other message boards on other sites with the same exact types of comments, language, etc. If you are doubtful of what I am saying, go ahead and order it anyway and see for yourself. I'd bet you'll find yourself returning it while shaking your head in disbelief after first listen.


I hope that Amazon will take some action against these dishonest and sleazy marketing tactics. Amazon reviewers have steered me clear of other bad products and consumer rip-offs in the past while greatly aiding my many purchase decisions, and I feel happy to be able to give back to the community here.

12 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars To me it is a disappointment !!!, July 11, 2007

By 

FZ (Netherlands) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Uncommon Bach - Music Experience in 3-Dimensional Sound Reality TM [HD DVD DTSHD Surround Music Disc] (HD DVD)

I erased my review as comments only seem to include assumptions of what my motivations and thoughts are on this. It is simple; The soundquality is nice to good, but it is not what I like. That means that I did not enjoy the content of the disc. Isn't that what a review is allowed to reflect?

The uncommon approach to the classical music of Johan Sebastian Bach deserves in my opinion (!!!) more than emotionless tones from synthesizers. As Bach created his music in 17th and 18th century Germany he was highly regarded and respected ,among many others, by W.A. Mozart and L. von Beethoven. Mozart apparantly said about his music: "Listen, this is something we can learn from".

Bach taught many student's in a variety of styles and always demanded that partitures would be written on seperate bars in order to see the melody. A boring melody was not tolerated by him.

To me the performance is flat and boring. With respect to the composer I believe that the music produced does not do justice to his creations.