Our Wonderful World [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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A match made in heaven!

Matchbox Twenty - Vh-1 Storytellers [2002]
Matchbox 20
Manufacturer: Bmg
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B00008Y4KX
Release Date: 2003-07-07

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A match made in heaven!.......2006-02-10

This is a must have DVD for any Matchbox Twenty or Rob Thomas fan. Although it is a fairly short set running at just over an hour, the set list is well chosen. The sound quality on Doby 5.1 is the best I have heard on any concert DVD with the full acoustics coming through crisp and clear and perfectly balanced.
It is nice to see the band in a more intimate setting with the audience which even allows for a quick Q & A session with the band. There are some excellent alternative versions of a couple of songs, one being a jazzy version of 'Crutch', and a beautiful version of '3am' which after being told the story behind the song has a few male & female members of the audience in tears.
This is a superb DVD insight into Matchbox Twenty playing in a different format to a full on arena gig. I hope that a band of this calibre will soon be back recording together after recent solo projects, else they will be sadly missed. Fans and new listeners alike will not be disappointed.

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Il Barbiere di Siviglia: The point of a good production of Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia is to have a Rosina and a Figaro who will knock your socks off in their respective arias, while holding back enough in all those crescendo ensembles in which the farce plot reaches its several culminations that the other stars get a chance to shine too. Cecilia Bartoli and Gino Quilico give full-blooded enough performances when on stage by themselves that self-effacement seems far from imminent, yet both are capable of less, and give it when it is needed. Of the others, David Kuebler is an attractively raffish Almaviva, while Robert Lloyd turns Basilio into a memorable cameo. Gabriele Ferro is one of the most intelligent of Rossini conductors--he understands the relationship between the pulse of the music and its dramatic function, and he is also outstanding in the delicacy of phrasing, even in climaxes, that ensures that every voice, every instrument, gets the moment of glory Rossini intended. Michael Hampe's solid reliable unfussy production keeps everything moving without drawing attention to itself.

L'Italiana in Algeri: Rossini's first real hit as a writer of comic opera, L'Italiana in Algeri is one of those almost unsinkable works difficult to get entirely right. Michael Hampe's production for the 1987 Schwetzinger festival captures both its charm and its sense of menace--the court of the Bey is both a setting for farce and a place in which the Italian characters are at the mercy of a despot who will not necessarily find things funny. Gunther von Kannen's Mustafa is a convincing Bey of Algiers, with all the arrogance of power and the vulnerability to mockery that goes with it. His adversary, the tough witty proto-feminist Isabella, is given real presence in Doris Soffel's performance--it is entirely credible, listening to her throaty mezzo, that everyone else should be more-than-a-little in love with her. The slightly effete tenor of Robert Gambill as her lover Lindoro makes him a perfect partner in intrigue for her. Conducting Rossini is not just a matter of winding the crescendos up and letting them go; Ralf Weikert is particularly fine in the complicated finale of Act 1 with its imitations of bells and drums and its complicated vocal lines. --Roz Kaveney

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