The Irish Tenors-The Essential Collection
This is a must have for every person of Irish decent and for every music lover. It is great fun!

Going To Buy
We rented This DVD for Saint Patty's Day. Both the wife & I loved it. There was not a song on it that we did not like. The wife commented on how the Tenors were so extremly close on each note, that most of the time they sounded as ONE! We're definately going to buy this one. One song titled " The Last Rose Of Summer " is so beautiful that I want my daughters to sing that at my funeral.

The Irish Tenors - The Essential Collection
This is truly one of the best performances of the Irish Tenors. Having seen all their performances in Boston and enjoyed their music on CDs, I was thrilled to get this DVD. It brought back all the memories of the wonderful concerts. Also having the extra clips about each of The Irish Tenors made it much more personal. They are truly a remarkable singing group.

Two wonderful concerts for the price of one
I can only add to what other reviewers have said: these are two wonderful concerts by truly talented artists who obviously took great pleasure in performing and entertaining their audiences.
The DVD itself is well produced and clear as a bell. There is one shortcoming: As was noted by one reviewer, there is no accompanying hard copy text with the lyrics, etc. But this is a minor glitch.

A definite favorite
This DVD has become staple watching and listening fare in our household, from myself and my wife down through all the children to our four-year-old son, whose favorite song is now "Grace" and who runs around the house singing "...and we'll all go together, to pick wild mountain thyme" from "Go, Lassie, Go" at the top of his lungs.

It is fantastic to have both the Belfast & Dublin concerts together on one DVD with the live concert dead time (pardon the pun) between selections minimized. It is hard to imagine, from the robust and polished (virtually operatic, with the exception of John McDermott, whose presentation is much more suited to popular song than to opera or lieder), that in addition to the many traditional Irish songs, some of these are modern popular ballads. For example, I find Finbar Wright's rendition of the Isle of Inisfree vastly superior to (certainly much more classically styled than) the original version actually in the movie from which it was taken (The Quiet Man). This, of course, is testimony not only to the skill and training that went into developing these voices, but also to the skill and stylistic presentation of the arranger/conductor (Frank McNamara).

This is definitely a five-star production. I have to rate it four stars, however, only because the more I listened, the more I wished that the producers of the DVD (not the concerts) had included one or both of these two things: 1) a printed insert containing the poets' and/or composers' names, the stories behind the poetry, or at least the lyrics themselves or 2) the lyrics as optional subtitles on the DVD itself. I found myself searching the Internet for the lyrics to and stories behind almost all the selections. The interviews in the bonus material are a good start, but this is Irish music, after all, and every poem has a story that demands an emotional response in its own right, even setting aside the superb performances.

Besides all of this, it looked like the artists were just plain enjoying themselves; as much as I enjoy the original Three Tenors (Domingo/Carreras/Paverotti), I find this much more natural and fun.