Classic FM has attempted to provide the classical music version of `rock anthems' to shake your head and punch the air to, an equivalent of Rainbow's `Long Live Rock 'n' Roll' anthem of the 1970's. Does it work? Yes of course it does because the Classic FM marketing team are in touch with the needs of today's classical music listeners.
The track list is comfortably predictable - Ride of the Valkyries (Wagner), Carmina Burana (Orff), Jupiter (from Holst's Planets), Pomp & Circumstance (Elgar's Land of Hope and Glory), A Night on a Bare Mountain (Mussorgsky) and many, many more.
Those `many more' include three outstanding performances - Alfie Boe's version of Nessun Dorma, David Garrett's virtuoso (and breathtakingly ... Read More:
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This album could have been so good, if only they had sourced original versions, Star Wars and Superman are cover versions by John Williams, but even they don't live up to the originals. Land Of Hope And Glory and the other tracks from "Last Night Of The Proms", where's the live audience that gives life to these recordings.
If you're not really into the tracks on this album and just fancy the compilation because you vaguely recognize them, then you'll probabely enjoy. It doesn't deliver what it promises.
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