Concerto grosso in the style of Johann Sebastian Bach, based on songs of The Beatles, arrangement by Peter Breiner. Songs: Tha long and winding road, Eight days a week, She's leaving home, We can work it out, Hey Jude, Yellow Submarine
I Overture (Based on The Long and winding Road) 0:00 II Rondeau (Based on Eight days a week) 4:56 III Sarabande (Based on She´s leaving home) 7:29 IV Bourrée (Based on We can work it out) 11:13 V Polonaise (Based on Hey Jude) 13:14 VI Badinerie (Based on Yellow Submarine) 17:36
I first heard this on classical radio station and didn't know it was a beetles song. I thought "this is the most beautiful classical piece I've ever heard" so playful
Finally! I get to see it again! The picture of the four Beatles all staring in the same direction out into the distance. This picture inspired me to write, "There's Something Else Out There".
it is amazing how good music transcends all boundaries, but to make it simple there are only eight notes after all but its how the musicians heart and soul go into playing them will take them off the page no matter if it is Bach, Beethoven,or the Beatles
Cool. I was the weird kid who listened to thd B side of Yellow Submarine with just as much enthusiasm as the A side. It really opened the door for me to explore classical music.
1. The elongated as well as labyrinthine route. 2. An octet of dawn-to-dark cycles in one week. 3. Ze is departing zir condominium. 4. All of us can formulate it. 5. I greet thy, Judith. 6. Xanthous submersible.
Interesting how some people on here argue there isn't a single Bach influence when it uses the same instrumentation and dance movements (not to mention many of the same phrases) as his Orchestral Suite No.2 (BWV 1067).
Many of the melodic materials are direct quotations of the 2nd Suite, artfully inserted. It's done so well, really. I desperately want the arrangement for my HS Orchestra.
@@balk0vic he is hardly canadian composer, he is pure slovakian/jewish composer born in socialistic czechoslovakia, he did all his studies in slovakia, than later in 90s he managed to emigrate to USA.
Fuuny this should be called a "Concerto grosso in the style of Johann Sebastian Bach", since Bach never wrote a concerto grosso. Still, I like it. More than the songs of any other pop group, a good number by the Beatles lend themselves to this sort of treatment, primarily Paul McCartney's, who arguably could be called the Father of Baroque Pop with songs like "Yesterday", "Eleanor Rigby", "She's Leaving Home" and "Penny Lane". John Lennon and George Martin played a part, bu it was mostly Paul.
I agree with what You Say, Paul was definitively the Best composer in the beatles, but Lennon was very close, it was like a Bach - Handel thing, where Paul is Bach and John is Handel, i mean John is also a genius he wrote beautiful perfect melodies like Good Night, Across the univers, Girl, Norwegian Wood, If i Fell, Nowhere man, In My life, Free as a bird, This boy, A day in the life, Because, A Hard Days Night Because etc, all masterpieces of melody, but i agree that Paul was more prolific and a bit more sublime as a melody wruter, like the Mozart - Beethoven case
It's a pastiche of sorts, designed more for ears attuned to pop music than classical connoisseurs. I wonder how much effort arranger Peter Breiner took to make this sound like J. S. Bach. Not much, I'd guess, because it comes off more as using generic Baroque (albeit German Baroque, to be sure) ornamentation, than anything specifically Bach. For me, the Beatles' recording of "Penny Lane", with piccolo trumpet solo reminiscent of Brandenburg 2, is more overtly Bachian than anything here.
Galantski is right, this "like Bach" arrangement is over ridiculous, like a tele novellas music, there is nothing remembering Bach. It is far more like a freestyle interpretation of baroc music by Peruvian Band with pan flute.... Bach is recognizable and strikes us at the first bar.
Beauty ( and merit) is in the 'ear' of the beholder..lighten`up please folks ? It brings pleasure ...check It makes me smile...check Remember that the brilliant George Martin himself was an innovative and ground-breaking arranger/orchestrator for the Beatles (especially Sgt Pepper albums onwards..check-out his arrangement of 'Pepperland' and your gonna carry that load etc) and I know he would have loved these arrangements as would the boys ! So a tribute to him also I would say. Bravo Peter Breiner and your ensemble, and thank you uploader for sharing this wonderful music with us all !
