Musicals & Music Films > Classical Musicals & Music Films > DTS 5.1 > 5 GBP to 10 GBP

Advantages: Excellent performances in a perfect setting
Disadvantages: Very minor quibbles

Background: When it comes to prodigious over-achievers, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has to be placed somewhere at the top of the list. Despite his tragically short life from 1756-1791, his musical creativity has assured him of eternal fame as long as human civilisation performs Western classical music. But when one considers Mozart's background, one can understand where his genius came from. His father Leopold Mozart was a virtuoso violinist whose treatise ...
...aspiring violin student today. It is also worth considering how things might have been different had female instrumentalists been able to pursue a professional career as adults - as his beloved sister Nannerl was no mean keyboard player, but obviously once she became an adult it was not really considered the done thing for her to continue her career... As children, Mozart and Nannerl had toured over Europe under the strict supervision of their father ... Read review

Advantages: Wonderful performance of the Korngold Violin Concerto
Disadvantages: Content repetition, speech over music, disappointing extras, etc

...The Artist - Hilary Hahn - violinist: Hilary Hahn is an acclaimed American violinist who was born in 1979, she started studying the instrument at the age of 4 and after studying at the renowned Curtis Institute of Music she started her phenomenal career which has taken her around the world working with a raft of world class orchestras and performing in all the top concert halls. She has won a Grammy for her recordings of the violin concerti of Brahms ...
...Hilary Hahn has pursued an original approach to her highly informative website at www.hilaryhahn.com where she maintains a travel blog giving a fascinating insight into her touring musical life around the world and a further indication of her interest in stretching the limits of her career is her collaboration with various non-classical musicians from the world of rock and country. Anyone who enjoyed M. Night Shyamalan's terribly scary movie "The ... Read review

Advantages: you will be finding new videos for weeks
Disadvantages: a bit weird at first

...got me so crazy about korn it has everything from making of music videos/them larking about an live music plus all of there music videos to date. for all korn fans this is a must buy i love it but have to admit at first i was a little lost by the screen lay out the way you have to find all the hidden videos around this creepy place way kinda like a game an little things happen on screen to keep you on your toes so all in all it is crazy value for ... Read review

Advantages: funny, ful of energy and the great timeless ABBA songs
Disadvantages: bit too silly in places, no really surprising plot turns

...elsewhere, but here in Prague Mamma Mia! has become a symbol of this summer, full of fun, dancing and singing, love, sun, friends, joy and happy ends. It was my first time that sitting in the cinema I would feel all the ppl there shared sth and created such a happy and cheerful atmosphere like this time when everybody sang along to the songs. Cast Meryl Streep - Donna Amanda Seyfried - Sophie Pierce Brosnan - Sam Colin Firth - Harry Stellan ...
...I think her performance of Mamma Mia! was the best song in the whole movie and the little show she gave with Christine Baranski and Julie Walters as The Dynamos was sheer fun, without any depth, but fun. As Streep herself said: "I'm really doing this to embarass my 20-sth-year-old children. The dancing will mortify them and they'll have to move to Alaska or some place like that." Streep's duet of The Winner Takes It All with Pierce Brosnan felt a ... Read review

Advantages: A brilliant version for all the family
Disadvantages: You end u singing to yourself for days

...yuorself for days. Something all the family can enjoy as it holds a cast of so many well known names, including Gerard Butler (Tomb raider-cradle of life and 300). Minnie Driver (The riches). It's always good to see a musical that everyone can enjoy and not just your avid theatre goers. Music, dance and costumes a delight, as well as a few chuckles and a few tears, this is one toenjoy and keep so that you can watch it over and over again. A great ...
...Theatre Populaire, The young Christine Daae and her envious talent. While she is in love with the Viscomte de Changy she is also struggling to fight off the affections of the theatres notorious Phantom, Who see's Christine as his prodigae and his property. A spectacular version of the famous Lloyd-Webber show. ... Read review