Customer Reviews
Very enjoyable - By: renie1981, 06 May 2008 
This album might not viewed differently by classical music enthusiasts but for a middle-roader like me, it was great. I bought it before my exams & instead of my usual dead silence studying technique, i had this playingin the background. It is very beautiful music & David is obviously well-gifted. I think i will go ahead & get his earlier stuff.
Relating to the tracks, I can never get bored of any 'Carmen' version, Maria Callas et al, so I obviously loved his take on it. Also the track 'Nothing else matters' simply blew me away & I wish it lasted longer. The Paganini Rhapsody is also another winner.
definitely 5 stars for me.
very disappointing - By: tim ward, 24 Apr 2008 
I don't usually write reviews but I'm so disappointed & angry with myself for believing the marketing, that I just have to vent my spleen. The advertising overemphasis on DG's cover of a "Metallica" song implies that this is an album with an edge. Or a genuinely new approach. Or a vision. It isn't. I should have looked at the tracks more carefully, or been warned off by the soft-focus Michael-Ball-esqe cover picture. There is no doubting his technical ability, he is impressivein a rather flashy, "look-at-me-look-at-me" way, but he hasn't yet learned that sometimes less is more. And do we really, really need yet another cover of "flight of the bumble bee"? or "Carmen - Fantasie"...again (Anne-Sophie Mutter's version is much more impassioned anyway)? or (oh puhleease!) "You Raise Me Up"? or "Somewhere"? The orchestral arrangements are okay but the Opera Babes did it first, & better. What offends me most is the sheer lack of ambition, & imagination,in this dreary, lazy middle-of-the-road populist pap. Come on man, get a grip, ditch the marketing drones & produce something genuinely worthy of your talent. I'm sure it will do very well but my advice is "move along now, nothing to see here".
(Thanks all - I feel better now)
