content: You want a good tone-poem, buy a recording of Smetana's "Ma Vlast" - Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic do a great job on this piece. But this piece is really quite...well, lame. The whole piece (with the possible exception of the choral finale), sounds as though it is trying to line up with a bad version of "Braveheart." McCartney, although an amazingly good performer and one of the century's best songwriters, simply cannot hold his own in the Classical field. As Stravinsky once put it, classical music "is a different fraternity." And it is one in which McCartney does not cut it. If you like cliched movie music, then by all means buy this album, and you will like it. But I just do not feel that this piece has any meat that listeners can sink their teeth into.