how clever! my friends would have a kick out of it if played in a birthday party!!!!

This album is so much fun! Gidon Kremer is brilliant! The variations on Happy Birthday are true to style and played impeccably, and the Auld Lang Syne variations are hilarious! Each one of the styles that the music is composed in is so true to form that they could have been written by the composers themselves! The Czardas variation of Happy Birthday is especially brilliant. It sounds like you are being serenaded by a real gypsy violinist! Kudos to Gidon Kremer!

Blah they don't even sound like Happy Birthday, and the music is so short you don't even need to purchase because you can listen to the whole thing on the iTunes sampler. All this is is a run-down of the real pieces.