Track Listing

1. Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
2. Destiny
3. Nessun Dorma {From Turandot}
4. I'm A-Doun for Lack O' Johnnie (A Little Scottish Fantasy)
5. Storm
6. I Feel Love
7. Bach Street Prelude
8. Aurora
9. Original Four Seasons - Winter (II)
10. Contradanza
11. White Bird
12. Original Four Seasons - Summer (I)
13. Happy Valley
14. Devil's Trill
15. Solace

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6926 in Music
• Released on: 2003-03-10
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued
• Dimensions: .23 pounds
• Running time: 62 minutes

Customer Reviews

THA REEVUE
STUNNING- I HAD HEARD VANESSA MAE BEFORE BUT THIS BRINGS ALL HER BEST WORK TOGETHER IN ONE ALBUM. WHETHER YOU'RE ON THE WAY TO WORK OR RELAXING AT HOME THIS WILL MAKE YOU FEEL GREAT.
A DEFINITE "MUST HAVE"!

Wonderful Music
You get a bit of everything music to energise with the first one then on to Nessun dorma more uplifting music (storm) followed by The four seasons more uplifting to keep you going ending with track 14 to bring you back to earth like a good wine nice and relaxed ready for love

Half a decent album
I'm not against pop/classical albums and artists per se, because I quite like to hear some of the world's greatest tunes given a good roll-over, but Vanessa Mae's contributions to the genre have always seemed far too forced and mechanical.

She is undeniably a gifted and technically brilliant violinist, and she is shown at her best when letting rip on Bach's Toccata, I'm A-Doun, Storm and Devil's Trill. However, Vivaldi's Four Seasons is such an overworked piece and the two movements included here are coarse and lacking in any musical feeling, certainly nowhere near the league of Kennedy for ostentation or Vengerov for warmth. And I'm sorry but her own compositions (Destiny, Aurora, Solace) are so bland they could be TV test card music.

Above all her singing voice, soft and gentle as it is, has never been put to best use - her version of Donna Summer's "I Feel Love" is feebly feeble, to put it mildly.

Oddly, two of her half-dozen pop chart hits, "Red Hot", and Mason Williams's "Classical Gas" are missing from this collection; I think they should have been included at the expense of some of the driftwood, and would have earned it a fourth star.