David Garrett: Rock Symphonies

Everything we hoped for.

Great music video from a tremendous Juilliard trained violinist. David Garrett is hugely entertaining and easy listening.

In the early 1970's I went to a concert in Cleveland Ohio and saw the Jefferson Airplane band. I had a near front row seat very close to the band's excellent violin player Papa John Creach. I was so impressed with his violin play that I spent most of the concert with my eyes glued on him, and not Paul Kantner and Grace Slick who are great artists themselves. I always loved violin play and Papa John was amazing. Recently, I watched David Garrett on Public Television and I saw how great a violinist he is, and he plays classical and rock music. So, I bought his DVD Rock Symphonies, and I am more impressed with his violin play each time I watch the DVD. The fact that he is the world's fastest violin player, along with his exceptional violin skills and ability, make the songs that he plays most enjoyable to listen too. It's not very common to have a great violinist play rock music. For me, it does not matter that David does not write most of his music. I am just thrilled to hear his violin play which adds a precise, refreshing, pure classical music quality to the rock music he plays. The violin is a great instrument to hear play, especially when alot of the music is rock.

I am a recent fan Of David Garrett, having discovered him right here on amazon! I love everything he does and needless to say I went a David Garrett shopping spree! I bought some cds as well as some downloads and 2 concert videos! This concert dvd is great. Now I can see him whenever I want. Just love watching him play. Don't know if I'll ever be able to see him live so this is the next best thing. The quality of the video is good as well as the sound. Not sure if there are different versions of the dvd as mine is in english. I've seen some reviews where they say there's is in german. Am looking forward to new music from him. I love everything I've bought. Beautiful music from a beautiful man!!! I must say his band is great also. Thank you.

While this is the full version of the concert performed in Germany (not the condensed English version available thru PBS), I would only recommend this to lovers of Garrett's music. Sound quality is OK, definitely not Blu Ray and Garrett only speaks in Deutsche. As a limited speaker of German I could somewhat interpret, however my 9 year nephew was a little confused after opening his holiday presents. He loves Garrett's violin playing which was a plus.There are a few reasons why I suspect an illegal Chinese bootleg copy. While some of the song titles appear in English at the bottom of the screen, the only two choices for language subtitle selection through your DVD player is Chinese 1 and Chinese 2. There is no internal paperwork and the dirty cardboard flecks between the front cover picture and plastic are like nothing I have seen before. This leads me to believe the likelihood of an illegal bootleg copy.This was sold by Amazing-Concert-DVDs Storefront and while they get a strong 5 of 5 rating, I was not that impressed.I would ask Amazon to seriously investigate whether this is a Chinese bootleg copy being sold, as American standards do notneed to drop to this low in order to obtain possible illegal goods for a low price.

We heard this presentation at a November, 2010 broadcast on PBS. I was able to buy the DVD a few weeks later and also his earlier one(2009)where he speaks German. Both are fantastic!My wife is thrilled with his music. I enjoy it thoroughly myself. For the last few weeks we have watched one or the other DVD almost every night.My wife plays the violin for a local orchestra and she is thrilled with his music. She particularly enjoys his playing two or more chords at once.Although I am not a musician, I enjoy it thoroughly myself. He is amazing and one of his kind. He also has a pleasant and friendly personality.I just enjoy it all. I wish that he had more DVDs available. Yes, addictive is the word. Music is said to be a hint of heaven. This one certainly is.His last piece, Hey Jude, is out of this world. Pure enjoyment! This DVD is highly recommended.

After seeing David Garrett on a PBS special I decided to get his Cd, then decided to get the DVD. Listening to him play is really great, but watching him play is amazing. I really like this DVD. I have always liked classical and rock music so the way he combines them is the best of both worlds. I just recently got his newest classical cd Legacy. Once you start getting his music on cd or DVD you won't want to stop until you have all of them.  Rock SymphoniesDavid GarrettLegacy Update 8/23/13 I've had this for a year now and I play it as much as I did when I first got it. Of course in the past year I have also bought a couple more of his CD's. I play all of them all the time. Great music!!

I first saw David Garrett playing the violin on WHY Channel 12 during a promotional fund raiser where he was a guest after the showing of him playing in Berlin at a concert. It was wonderful to see a musician so talented and playing classical and rock and roll for an audience that was enraptured by his playing and his personality. I ordered the dvd from Amazon but was disppointed that Metallica and another rock song he played was omitted from the disc. I am hoping to get another disc that will include the whole concert. I would recommend this disc to any music lover as he covers music from all realms. His personality and interaction with the audience was splendid. Made me love the violin all over again. Very enjoyable.

Very nice CD

I am a huge fan so I'm delighted to add this to my collection, the combination of his violin playing for classical and rock are a pleasure to my senses.

David Garrett spielt auf eine Art und Weise, der man sich nicht entziehen kann. Ein klasse Album!

Wahnsinn! Er spielt nicht nur traumhaft Geige, er kann den Zuhörer, bzw. den Zuschauer mit der unglaublichen Vielfalt seiner Stücke und seines Könnens regelrecht verzaubern. So auch mich.Es gab und gibt vergleichsweise wenige Ausnahmemusiker in dieser, meiner Zeit. David Garrett ist DIE Ausnahme.Seine Musik erzählt - mir - wunderschöne Geschichten und trägt - mich - in völlig neue, gänzlich andere Welten hinein - und das ist mehr als beeindruckend!Der Musiker Garrett spielt nicht einfach nur Geige, er hat etwas zu "sagen", er "erzählt" seine Musik, egal, ob Klassik oder Rock/Pop. Er bringt seine Musik auf eine Art und Weise zum Zuhörer hinüber, die an Genialität grenzt.Kein mir bekannter Künstler ist so vielseitig wie David Garrett, keiner spannt den Bogen zwischen Pop und Klassik so gekonnt wie er, keiner schafft es, Klassik- und Pop-Fans so sehr zu begeistern, egal, wie alt diese sind.Es ist bei jungen Leuten wohl auch diese Crossover-Mischung aus Klassik und Rock, die sie begeistert. Jung und Alt sitzen nebeneinander und träumen und lauschen fasziniert der Genialität von David Garrett, dem „Wanderer zwischen den Welten“.Wenn es mehr solcher charismatischen Musiker seines Formats gäbe, bräuchte man sich um die Zukunft der klassischen Musik wohl keine Sorgen mehr zu machen. Aber es ist da wohl eine absolute Ausnahme! David Garret hat selbst mich zur Klassik gebracht - und das will schon was heißen...!Die ganzen Effekte bei seinen KOnzerten müssten für mich allerdings nicht unbedingt dabei sein, sie stören mich zwar auch nicht, aber ich könnte sehr gut darauf verzichten.Eigentlich wirkt er doch ganz allein für sich, mit seiner Stradivari, seinem Können und seinen Musikern auf der Bühne. Die Musik zählt, nicht die Effekte, nicht die Supershow. Und deshalb werde ich persönlich wohl auch nur noch seine CD's kaufen und auch kein Konzert mehr besuchen.

Ich habe diese DVD als Geburtstagsgeschenk gekauft, nicht nur die DVD ist großartig, auch das Interview ist wunderbar - David hatte Zeit für seine Antworten, es war mit J.-B. Kerner eine sehr persönliche Atmosphäre entstanden und Fragen und Antworten sehr interessant - zur außergewöhnlichen Schönheit des Künstlers muss man ja nichts sagen....Gleichzeitig ist auch die Bonus-DVD höchst interessant - man bekommt einen kleinen interessanten Eindruck hinter die Kulissen. Persönlich habe ich sie mir die DVD natürlich sofort zum Ersterscheinungstag gekauft - das Konzert ist phantastisch - Crossover und Klassik - einmalig, gespielt mit unbeschreiblichem Gefühl. Die Atmosphäre war unbeschreiblich - alle gingen mit einem Lächeln im Gesicht nach Hause. Ich habe dieses Konzert live erlebt und David Garrett das erste mal im Konzert kennen gelernt - ich war fasziniert - von seiner Persönlichkeit, von seinem Charme und natürlich vor allem von seiner Musik - so schön und berührend hatte ich Geige noch nie gehört. Am nächsten Tag habe ich sofort alle bestehenden Veröffentlichungen von David Garrett gekauft und seitdem bin ich süchtig nach seiner Musik, seinen Konzerten, seinen Veröffentlichungen und auch seiner Persönlichkeit als Künstler. Ich denke, dass ich mit der DVD für meine Freundin ein schönes Geschenk habe, sie ist durch mich auf David Garrett aufmerksam geworden und ich denke, dass auch sie das Konzert genießen wird,.