Advantages: Excellent Cast, Amusing Disadvantages: Slightly Weak Plot, Slow To Get Going
's suffering from writer's block, a phenomenon known to many of us when trying to think of something to put down in verse. That is until he discovers Viola De Lesseps - the beautiful Gwyneth Paltrow - and falls deeply in love. Unfortunately for the infatuated pair, Viola discovers she's affianced to the rather insufferable Lord Wessex (Colin Firth) thanks to a deal cut between Wessex and De Lesseps' father and, as the marriage is approved by the Queen herself, it makes it rather difficult for Viola to say no.
Still, she's in love with Will Shakespeare, the egomaniacal playwright with an unquenchable thirst for bedroom frivolities and a propensity to forget to mention to the women in his life that he's already married to a woman in Stratford. Desperate to appease both her desire for Shakespeare and the stage itself, Viola takes to the boards as ...
Advantages: Classic Concertos for Everybody Disadvantages: Strings only!!!no woodwind...boo!
prominent.
Thus Vivaldi wrotes sonnets to accompany his music and to establish each thought in his mind.
It is obvious to say then that Concerto is labelled Spring through to Winter, with three movements within each season.
Most form again adopts the ABA construction, a favorite of Vivaldi.
These are as follows:
1: Spring: Concerto No.1 in E Major
Allegro / Largo / Allegro
This I think, is the most well known of the Concertos, and has been used on numerous car adverts and airline adverts. This is what most people remember Nigel Kennedy playing at the very beginning of Nigel Mania!!!!
The string compostion reflects the freshness of spring and depending on what recording you buy (trust me there is loads of
choice!) this normally sells the album, this movement is the most played also by a leading Classical Radio.
2: Summer: Concerto ...
Advantages: Spitting Image, lots of laughs, great intro to classical music Disadvantages: Deflates a little in the middle, wanted more
such as Mozart, Haydn, Wagner and others... everyone - from actors to musicians and even Claudio himself gets involved in some merry pranks - lots of funny visual gags which will appeal to all and which I won't give away here and in the end Prokofiev himself is invited to join the illustrious band of classical composers as one of them, the music reverts to the March that we started off with and the film set is dismantled before our very eyes, everyone takes a flamboyant bow from Wolf to Maestro and we realise that it was all a dream after all...!
So how was it for me?
I desperately, desperately wanted to love this DVD to bits and give it 5 stars. There is so much which is totally, utterly brilliant - such as Sting's wonderfully vivid narration and characterisations aided and abetted by his frenetic feline friend. There are loads ...
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