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HERRCD26 ELWOOD'S CLASSICS Opus: N/A Length: 42:30 Instruments: Korg & Crumar Synthesisers, Yamaha CX5M Music Computer Composed: Various |
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Here's a compilation of the best classical works that I have desecrated over the years. I'm truly sorry, I don't know what I was thinking, and I promise I won't do it again. Probably. Download the whole albumwrapped album free from MegaUpload. |
| Title | Composer | MIDI | Year | Mins | Description of individual pieces on CD. |
| Sinfonia to Cantata no.29 | Bach |  |
1984 | 03:45 | A reworking of one of my Switched-On Bach pieces - The MIDI here isn't as good as the CX5M original on the CD, but it'll do for starters. A good piece for keyboard practice! |
| Air on a G String | Bach | 1984 | 04:30 | Another Switched-On Bach piece. Who doesn't know this one? | |
| Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring | Bach | 1984 | 03:30 | Another classic Bach tune. The CX5M really handled these pieces well, even if the tempos were tricky to get right in places. | |
| Danse Antique | Gounod | 1983 | 02:00 | From Gounod's "Faust". I used the Crumar Stratus polyphonic and the Korg micro combined for this piece. | |
| William Tell Overture (Finale) | Rossini | 1984 | 02:52 | The first piece I sequenced on the Yamaha CX5M computer. I was amazed at the superb digital sound that came out. Not an easy music editor to use though - slow, cumbersome and extremely frustrating! I added some reverb to this piece which made it sound a bit muddy. I need to go back to the original recording and remaster it without the reverb. |
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| Hall of the Mountain King | Grieg | 1979 | 02:22 | My first attempt at a classical piece - using the Korg Micro-Preset synthesiser and multi-tracking. Tricky, but I pulled it off. Remember this was a MONOPHONIC synthesiser! | |
| Adagio from Organ Symphony | Saint-Saens | 1984 | 01:02 | Just a short clip played on the CX5M. I might get around to finishing this off some day. | |
| Marche Militaire from Suite Algerienne | Saint-Saens | 2009 | 04:20 | A bit of a cheat, this one - basically a MIDI file with all the instruments changed. Sounds good though. | |
| March Past of the Kitchen Utensils | Vaughan Williams | 1983 | 03:40 | From the title it sounds like something Frank Zappa might have dreamed up, but actually it's from the suite "The Wasps" by Vaughan-Williams. Same set-up as the Gounod piece. I had a lot of trouble keeping the hiss down with all the multi-tracking in the middle section, as you will no doubt hear. |
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| The Rite of Spring (Opening section) | Stravinsky | 1983 | 01:25 | Back in 1983 I had this crazy idea of recreating Stravinsky's Rite of Spring entirely on synthesisers. This is as far as I got. | |
| Albatross | Fleetwood Mac | 1983 | 04:10 | Fleetwood Mac's Albatross on synthesisers? Say it ain't so! OK, guilty as charged. I deserve a good kicking for doing this. The Crumar only had a four octave keyboard (C to C), and unfortunately the highest note in Albatross is a D. I had to cheat a bit and "bend" the note. It sounds odd when you first hear it, so be prepared! |
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| Left Bank Revisited (arr. Elwood) | Gambit/Hill | | 2008 | 04:50 | I recently decided to have a go at revamping the old "Vision On" gallery theme. It was never heard fully on the programme, and the original is only two minutes long anyway. So I added some improvisations of my own. Try the MIDI version here (and see if you can spot another famous and quite relevant tune I sneaked in at one point!) |
| here i go | Syd Barrett | 1980 | 03:00 | Take Syd Barrett's moody post-Floyd song, strip off the vocals (sorry, Syd), raise the pitch by about a fifth, speed the whole thing up, then add a couple of bubbly synths and this is what you get. | |
| Tribute to Mike Oldfield | Traditional | 1980 | 01:20 | The Sailor's Hornpipe, of course. With a bit of computer manipulation this speeds up at the end to an impossible degree. |