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Jun 30, 2015 - 4:04 PM
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MKRUltra
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Well, this sounds interesting:
Director and co-writer John Milius's intention with the 1982 adventure Conan the Barbarian was to create an opera in the form of film. With its power, energy and moments of tenderness, Basil Poledouris's music supports the storyline in a similar way to a work written for the stage. The superb Glatter-Götz/Rosales organ in Claremont, California was designed to inspire creativity and innovation, and Philipp Pelster's vision in making a complete film-score transcription especially for the unique possibilities of this instrument transforms the orchestral colours of the original to generate a completely new and richly rewarding musical experience.
The adaptation of film music for concert performance has been a popular phenomenon for many years. There are few organists who take up this challenge however, and in most cases these take the form of shorter excerpts or are used as rousing encores. In transcribing the entire music for the richly scored film Conan the Barbarian, Philipp Pelster introduces an entirely new approach to the future of the pipe organ. His creative resourcefulness with the spectacular sounding Glatter-Götz/Rosales organ in Claremont, California delivers an inspiring impulse which takes the organ as far beyond its church associations as Charles-Marie Widor did with his Organ Symphonies in the 19th century.
Amazon UK:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Poledouris-Barbarian-Philipp-Pelster-8573444/dp/B0101BKB8S/
No Amazon US preorder yet, but it releases in August here according to Naxos Direct.
http://naxosdirect.com/items/poledouris-conan-the-barbarian-arr.-p.-pelster-for-organ-316816
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Ooh, I love this kind of thing, always delighted to see someone do it. Rather hear it live with a great organ, but this'll do! thanks for posting.
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This seems rather bizarre, but for about £6 I'm game!
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I'd guess samples will be up in a few weeks - Naxos usually has them up right before or when something is released.
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Huh.
It's hardly uncommon to have music arranged in a different setting.
I must confess I'm quite interested in hearing what he has come up with.
Ford A. Thaxton
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This makes me think of Liszt organ transcriptions - who knows, he might have had a nice go at this himself if he were still around (and if any composer could have been immortal, its Liszt!).
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Best post that looks like an April's Fool but isn't... Ordered.
If you want a proper film music April Fool (sorry for a slight tangent) then classical review site Classics Today once had a solo piano compilation which purported to have three tracks from Predator by Alan Silvestri arranged for solo piano. I would definitely buy that... if it were real. Dammit.
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Actually, it's from Predator 2, so the reviewer said. (I loved the specificity of the joke.) It's a great April Fool's gag for Classical lovers, and I don't even like April Fools jokes.
Here's the opening:
"Good as Credo, Hélène Grimaud’s first album for DG was, its sequel is better still. Even the album title, “Agnus”, somehow suits the artist. After all, Grimaud is well known for her personal crusade to save the wolf, and wolves just love lamb, right? Perhaps this is what led her to select four highly varied works (as on Credo) that mix the familiar with the unfamiliar, the new with the old, the carnivore with the herbivore, music with orchestra alongside a couple of piano solos. It’s a mix that will have many listeners howling with delight.
"The most interesting new piece here is the “Predator” Suite, fanciful transcriptions of three selections from Alan Silvestri’s soundtrack to the film Predator 2. Grimaud dispatches these with obvious relish, attacking the persistent ostinatos of the first movement, Lamb Chops, with virtuoso abandon, supplely stroking the keys over the slow central meditation (Steak Tartare), and really sinking her musical incisors into the hellishly difficult finale, Blood Sausage. The contrast with Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 9 “Jeunehomme” could not be more vivid. Keeping her natural aggression memorably in check, Grimaud turns in a sparkling and idiomatic performance characterized by fleet outer movements and a sensitively-sung central Andante. Esa-Pekka Salonen’s accompaniment fits her lively but cool-headed approach like a paw, I mean hand, in a glove."
- See more at: http://www.classicstoday.com/review/review-10231/#sthash.Zi6dysIx.dpuf
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I've worked on this organ. I apprenticed with the organ builder who installed and voiced this instrument.
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I like this one:
So I have high hopes this would work too.
The Star Wars one was on the Austin pipe organ at the cathedral there
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