Beethoven: The Complete Concertos, Vol 2

Twilight Zone Moments with Mutter

Advantages: The Romances; concerto's third movement.
Disadvantages: Tempo, pitch and volume quirks in Concerto.

of Masur and Mutter, and notes on Mutter, Masur and the NYPO. Thankfully, unlike her ill-conceived "Four Seasons" CD foldout case, one need not remove the CD booklet here to gain access to the disc itself.) LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major, op. 61 (49'81) 1 1. Allegro ma non troppo (27'09) 2 2. Larghetto (10'58) 3 3. Rondo. Allegro (10'11) Cadenzas: Fritz Kreisler 4 Romance for Violin and Orchestra No. 1 in G major, (7'11) op. 40 5 Romance for Violin and Orchestra No. 2 in F major, (8'23) op. 50 ANNE-SOPHIE MUTTER, violin New York Philharmonic KURT MASUR Live recording Recorded at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts 5/2002 (P) 2002 Deutsche Grammophon 289 471 349-2 (G)(H) Digital Stereo ...

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Mr Bean - Vol. 2 DVD

Advantages: Hilarious comedy, good viewing
Disadvantages: only 3 episodes, expensive to buy whole set individually

Another installement to my DVD collection - the epic and classic comedy hero - Mr Bean. I love Rowan Atkinson, especially in Black Adder and also in the classic Mr Bean episodes. Despite my mood before hand, after watching Mr Bean I always feel much better, he always manages to intrigue my imagination with his biazarre mannerisms and abilty to turn the most straight forward of tasks into complete disaters! Having not being able to buy the whollebox set I have had to purchase and review each DVD volume one by one. This DVD contains 3 episodes, each with 3 or 4 sketches in them. All of whihc are brilliant and this DVD includes one of my favourites - the one where he goes to the swimming pool and clings to the diving board. The three episodes are entitled: Episode 1. 'The Curse Of Mr Bean', Episode 2. 'Mr Bean Goes To Town ...

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Kill Bill: Vol. 2

Advantages: Looks nice, final chapter is impressive.
Disadvantages: Lack of originality, entirely dull for most of running time.

Mei, which consists of a batch of strained dialog and a ridiculous fight scene. It doesn't help either that Pai Mei is a character from a number of Chinese films, thus leaving one wondering exactly what Tarantino contributed to the creation of this film aside from a name on which it could be sold on. People wouldn't go out and watch tacky Chinese martial arts by themselves, but throw Tarantino's name on one and they will fall over themselves to see it. On a similarily depressing note to this, Jet Li's Hero will only get a release later this year now it's tagged with a "presented by Quentin Tarantino" label. The fact Tarantino had nothing to do with that film seems to be completely ignored. When watching Kill Bill Vol 2 I just found myself overwhealmed by an amazing sense of boredom on the most part. The dialog is labored to ...

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