Customer Review: During his lifetime, Beethoven's early Septet, opus 20, became one of his most popular compositions. The Septet was played incessantly in its original form and in arrangements, some of them unauthorized, ... Read More
Customer Review: As a music educator, I've found the recorded excerpts to be wonderfully and logically organized and presented. I've always been an instrumental music teacher only, but find myself teaching general music classes this year, ... Read More
Customer Review: Others have ably summarized the plot of the film. One need not love opera--or even have to like it--to fully enjoy this movie. And those who do, will love the beautifully rendered Tannhauser selections. When I saw it 25 years ago, ... Read More
Sunshine isn't perfect, but its story of 100 years in Hungarian history told through the eyes of a grandfather, father, and son (all played by Ralph Fiennes) is consistently compelling and replete with moments that ... Read More
Customer Review: Klaus Maria Brandauer gives a great performance as a soldier that discovers his psychic powers after a headinjury. Hanussen's career is on the right path until he starts predicting that Hitler will be the next German chancellor and until he ridicules a Nazi party member ... Read More
Sunshine isn't perfect, but its story of 100 years in Hungarian history told through the eyes of a grandfather, father, and son (all played by Ralph Fiennes) is consistently compelling and replete with moments that linger in my brain; if you're a 20th century ... Read More
Customer Review: This is a story of a short Czech boy grown up in a manipulator flexibly seizing opportunities in pre-socialist Czechoslovakia, both professional and sexual, having the alike buddy "unsinkable" and supportive, which made a viewer sure a character had succeed in a new post-war environment either.
