Product Description

Accessory for Christmas village Man playing violin and dancing monkey Made of porcelain Hand-painted 3 inches tall Broad base for stability has violin case and ball

Track Listing

1. Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
2. Contradanza
3. Classical Gas
4. Theme from 'Caravans'
5. Warm Air
6. Jazz Will Eat Itself
7. Widescreen
8. Tequila Mockingbird
9. City Theme
10. Red Hot

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #21999 in Music
• Released on: 1998-10-30
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Customer Reviews

Highly Listenable
Let's get this straight upfront: Vanessa Mae is a good violin player, but I've heard plenty better in the classical world today. You buy this CD not for Mae's technique as a violinist (frankly, I'd give her just a 6 or 7 out of 10), but for her innovation - her ground-breaking album that blends the old-style classical music with pop/techno/jazz, and gives that genre of music (which had there for a while even before Mae) the kind of visibility that it did not use to have. This album is novel and upbeat, and is highly listenable both to people who like classical music and those who find it intimdating (or boring). Would especially recommend this to people in their 20s and 30s.

Not For Traditionalists
This is a fantastic cd. Vaness-Mae has managed to captured the sound of jazzed-up violin without distorting it, and the result is a truly unique sound. Many fans of classical music may criticize this cd for it's lack of "proper" tone and composition, but they fail to realize that this is a FUN cd, and if they want to hear traditionally classical stuff, put On a Classical Music CD! I'm not dissing classical music, I grew up on it, but I was also encouraged to listen to and appreciate a variety of music. Buy this cd if you want to broaden your horizons.

Classical With a Twist
The first notes of Vanessa Mae's The Violin Player sound like a dramatic beginning to a classical composition, but it's not. This album in fact is anything but traditional classical. It's unique, creative, energetic and alive and I give Vanessa props for being brave enough to come out with it. It's hard to be different. The fact that Vanessa did make the music and did it so well says that she's a true artist, something sadly lacking in a world where technical mastery is considered more important than artistic invention. This is a fantastic, fun album that you'll want to listen to again and again, the music hitting something within you and bringing all sorts of energy you didn't know you had bubbling to the surface. If you won't buy it for that reason, then buy it for it's historical significance. It's already plain to me, Vanessa Mae with this album changed the one sided face of classical music forever.