Watched a fantastic Cinema Live presentation of Andre Rieu, "Live in Maastricht 2012" last night. Great concert with some great songs and guest appearances. Seemed strange to watch Andre's orchestra performing the Smurf Song with Father Abraham one minute, and then perform Zorba's Dance with a Russian trio the next.
To round off the weekend I watched a DVD of last years concert in Maastricht - "Under The Stars, Live in Maastricht V" with more fantastic songs, including I Will Follow Him from Sister Act, Ravel's Bolero, Neussen Dorma. I bought this DVD in France, and it is a shame that it is not available in the UK.
I noticed on Amazon.co.uk today that "Songs From My Heart Live in Maastricht" (his first Maastricht concert on DVD) is being released on the 2nd of July for the first time in the UK (it has been available in Europe for quite a while), while at the same time it seems that a lot of Europe is getting a 6 DVD box set of all his Maastricht concerts that are available on DVD. It would be nice if all his latest releases were available in the UK - for example last November his new CD "And The Waltz Goes On" was released in the UK, while in the rest of Europe, they got the same CD, and the DVD "And The Waltz Goes On" filmed at a concert in Vienna. Perhaps I am asking too much to have everything available by Andre Rieu on CD/DVD available to the UK? Perhaps with Andre Rieu's popularity taking off in the UK in the last few years, Universal Music have decided to release some of his back catalogue, that hasn't previously been available to the UK, before latest releases.
No comments:
Post a Comment