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Description
Author: Tolga Kashif
Brand: EMI
Features:
- Produkttyp: ABIS MUSIC
- Artikelname: The Queen Symphony
- Marke: EMI
Binding: Audio CD
Format: Import
Release Date: 04-11-2002
Part Number: 7243 5 57395 2 0
Details: Amazon.co.uk
Tolga Kashif's The Queen Symphony is described as "a symphony in six movements inspired by the music of Queen". If any rock band was to spark a symphonic work it might as well be Queen, after all this is the group that released an album entitled A Night at the Opera while its lead singer, the late Freddie Mercury, penned the epic "Bohemian Rhapsody".
Kashif's writing tends to lean towards epic film music--high strings, powerful brass, heavy percussion and a rhapsodic chorus with plenty of instrumental solos. But however ambitious his scoring, The Queen Symphony cannot escape being a "spot the tune" exercise.
The mysterious opening figure is taken from "Radio Gaga" which gradually weaves its way into "The show must go on". The second movement starts out as a piano concerto which loses its way via a witty take on the "Killer Queen" verse where pointed woodwind and pizzicato strings answer a sleazy trombone. The fourth is the most abstract movement with more than a passing reference to Stravinsky. The treatment of "Bohemian Rhapsody" in the penultimate movement is pure classic rock (remember those albums?) before the heroic finale which, rather inevitably, quotes "Who wants to live forever?" and "We are the champions". --Rebecca Agnew
Product description
CD: The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Tolga Kashif,The Queen Symphony
EAN: 0724355739520
Package Dimensions: 5.6 x 5.0 x 0.5 inches
Languages: English