Andre Rieu and his Amazing Silent Violin

Are you claiming a fiddle?

I don't mind admitting I'm SEETHING with incandescent fury about that dance-off result.

Going to need to listen to some silent violin music now to calm me down, played by Louis Armstrong on his trumpet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP52tXl6O8Y

He was miming.  I think the orchestra were miming.  The choir were probably miming too.

Pretty sure the dancers were dancing though.

Is this they guy
http://dancenet.s3.amazonaws.com/images/i777/709967.618015_orig.jpg

violin music is the worse of any music. Got one in the cupboard and it's just bloody awful. If you were trapped in a room with a radio just playing violin music it would drive you nuts. sounds like a cat or a fox getting tortured.

I think you are being very hard on the poor old violin Zorro. What's it done to upset you?

Can I just put in a good word for the instrument with a few examples ?


1. Maybe the apex Beatles track on the apex Beatles album?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuS5NuXRb5Y


2. Possibly the greatest movie score (and opening titles) of them all ?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDm3s4wofpo


3. One of pop's most underrated men creates yet another number one, propelled by his violin

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnMizYEtHyY


4. One of my favourite singer/songwriters has the good sense to write an entire album's worth of music for string quartet.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjp6UWTCR1o


Come on, it's not that bad surely?  Poor old Stradivarius will be spinning in his grave to hear his labours so trashed.

regards etc

Love the violin on this - the acoustic version of Shed Seven's Chasing Rainbows

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqp9ewhHuBc

When the violin comes in at 8.54 on this track I get goosebumps.

Curtain Call - The Damned

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d66rCCoAJB0

sounded like a trapped wasp in a jar, as a kid i used to hold up the jar to my ear and listen to the poor blighters.

There's too much violins in this world, especially in places like Iraq and Syria! I was hoping violins would be Finnish!

Get the bow going! Let it scream to me: Violin! Violin! Violin!

You tell 'em Kate

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoQHVEXODgg