Good for the music, terrible for the tour
If you would like to hear some good music while seing some beautiful images from a beautiful city, this DVD is less than good, the places are shown in a too slow speed, which makes the video boring.
About Vienna on this video, this DVD does not have any subtitle at all to inform you what is the place you are seing. You see beautiful scenes, but don't know whereabouts in the city is the place you are seing. Disapointing. I was looking forward to buy the whole colection (Paris, London, Prague, Rome...), but after this one, I might stop here. Moreover, there are important places in Vienna missing in this DVD. Vienna, city of Strauss' great Blue Danube Waltz, being Danube itself a symbol of Vienna... hold on!, the Danube river is not in this DVD at all! Neither is the Belvedere Palace and Gardens and many other places.
If only the music matters, ok. If you would like to see Vienna in a video, forget about this DVD.
Beautiful audio-visual treat!
Beautifully filmed and arranged! They show some of the best known sights in Vienna and some unusual ones as well. The soprano singing an aria from the Magic Flute is exceptional (couldn't find her name, though). Note that this is not a documentary - it is a musical journey. If you like listening to music and would like some great visual stimulation as well while you do, this is for you. The images are lovely and fit the music well. If you know the old Naxos series most of those were very good as well but you didn't know what you were seeing unless you stopped the disk and went to the menu. They fixed it in this series by inserting a simple slide with a little information at the beginning of each section. As this is not a documentary per say, no more than that is needed, in my opinion -just enough to give some info without stopping the flow of music. No talking! Great!
I enjoy this DVD
I like this DVD. Exactly what I like -- watching all the beatiful scenes, classical architecture, people, and culture, while listening to classical music. Hope I could tour Vienna in near future. This is one the best DVDs in the series of "A Musical Journey". If it makes the DVD even better, I would prefer some of other Bethoven, Mozart, Brahms, Strauss music.
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