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Standing Stone | 
 enlarge | Director: Christopher Swann
Actor: Paul Mccartney
Studio: Capitol
Category: Video
List Price: $24.98
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 78564
Format: Classical, Color, Ntsc
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 60
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 630483800X
UPC: 724347785436
EAN: 9786304838006
ASIN: 630483800X
Theatrical Release Date: November 27, 1997
Release Date: February 17, 1998
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: BRAND NEW STILL IN FACTORY SHRINKWRAP
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Amazon.com
This DVD presents the 1997 world premiere of Paul McCartney's Standing Stone, a 75-minute concert work performed by the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, coupled with a 50-minute documentary based around the writing and studio recording of the piece. The music was composed as a follow-up to McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio, and is inspired by McCartney's own poem. For this Celtic creation myth, the documentary explains how McCartney worked with computers to develop the score, and also features contributions from John Harle and Sir Richard Rodney Bennett. Revealing a lot of McCartney's personality, the epic-musical fantasia Standing Stone is dynamically filmed in the Royal Albert Hall and shows just how far Sir Paul has come from simple three-chord love songs. There are elements of landscape music from the classic English tradition, passages of high musical drama by way of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, jazz sensibilities, and sentimental melodies straight out of Hollywood. If the sum is less than the impressive parts, Standing Stone is still a considerable achievement and the LSO performs with fire and eloquence. --Gary S. Dalkin, Amazon.co.uk
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 BIEN FAIT September 14, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
C'EST SEULEMENT DOMMAGE QU'IL N'Y EST PAS DE SOUS TITRAGE POUR LE DOCUMENTAIRE
 Painful to review January 13, 2005
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
Now if you ask me, and plenty of folks what are interested in this here type of music do now and again, this here type of music is certainly interesting... but unlike what you might could except from Sir Paul.
In fact, I can recognize how beautiful the music is... but at the same time I don't want to hear it... or see it. It pains me to have to write that because I love Paul McCartney's work and I also appreciate symphonic ditties now and again, but combining Paul McCartney and the symphony just don't crack my whip. I hereby apologize to all them fans out there who were expecting me to come up with some flattering effluvium at this point. Ain't gonna happen.
I say; buy this DVD if you want to, but be prepared for it to not sound nothin' like what you are used to and be prepared to also not watch it ever again ifin you ain't a particular fan of the symphony sound. Again, I want to stress that this sure enough is right beautiful, but it just ain't my jug of corn squeezins.
Mama don't like this one because she says it's too high falootin' for her blood, so I pretty much leave it off the DVD player gizmo whenever she's around.
 what an enhancement to the enjoyment of this piece of music! March 20, 2001
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
In some cases, enjoyment and appreciation of a work is enhanced by increased knowledge of the work. That is certainly the case with this video. For twenty-some dollars, you get a really insightful documentary of how Standing Stone came to be, rehearsals for the big Albert Hall concert, and the concert itself. Revelatory - that is the only word. Plus it's kind of cool to actually have so much material on a DVD that I have to flip it over. I get that retro feeling through my bones!
Fascinating! May 21, 2000
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
I missed the telecast of this performance on A&E in 1997 when it came out, and it finally came out on DVD! Seems like Paul has a documentary film on everything he does, but this one was the best I've seen. One section shows how he wrote the piece on a computer, without reading music. Mostly though, it shows Standing Stone as a work in progress through subsequent rehearsals, etc, and variations made "on the fly" to the piece. A great documentary fitting to a great, under-appreciated musician who, since Flowers In The Dirt, is undoubtedly a better songwriter and more varied musician then he ever was as a Beatle. Some may disagree, but Flaming Pie gets more listens than Abbey Road around my place. The video of the concert is captivating, and the camera work is fairly active so you dont fall asleep staring at one musician! All else said, this is a great DVD which is packed with alot of good material and is well worth the (price).
Incredible work January 13, 2000
15 out of 20 found this review helpful
I've waited two years for this DVD...and it was well worth it.. an incredible experience of sight and sound. Not only do you get the Albert Hall concert but a documentary on the flip side...and i swear it looks like Steve Miller hanging out beside Paul during the recording session!BUY IT!
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