Portsmouth Sinfonia-Play The Popular Classics-BRIAN ENO
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Description
RECORD ALBUM
ARTIST: Portsmouth Sinfonia
TITLE: Portsmouth Sinfonia Plays The Popular Classics
LABEL: Columbia KC-33049
CONDITION: Vinyl/VG++, Cover/VG+, Cover has ring-wear. Album Plays Very Nice.
SPECIAL INFO: c1973, c1974
Call them daring musical innovators, or a group of musical comedians. Whatever. The Portsmouth Sinfonia are likely to bring back wonderful memories for folks who happened to attend college during the mid-70s.
Most folks mistakenly think Roxy Music keyboardist/composer Brian Eno was the brains behind this outfit. Wrong. It was actually composer Gavin Bryars who started the ensemble in 1969 while attending the Portsmouth College of Art (hence the name). (Eno was a member of the group during the 1970 - 74 period and helped produce the group's first two LPs.)
In creating The Portsmouth Sinfonia Bryars' notion was the ultimate in musical democracy - namely anyone could join the group; no matter what skill level or musical proficiency they might have. The commitment was that you attended the rehearsals and made an effort to actually learn the material, which was initially limited to the most commonly known parts of well known classical pieces. By 1973 the group had grown to roughly 80 members, spanning the range from accomplished performers to totally incompetent.
SONG LIST:
PEER GYNT SUITE NO. 1 (Morning, In The Hall Of The Mountain King, Grieg)
NUTCRACKER SUITE (Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy, Waltz Of The Flowers, Tchaikovsky)
FIFTH SYMPHONY IN C MINOR, OP. 67 (Beethoven)
WILLIAM TELL OVERTURE (Rossini)
ALSO SPRACH ZARATHUSTRA OP. 31 (excerpt, Richard Strauss)
BLUE DANUBE WALTZ, OP. 314 (Johann Strauss)
"Air" from SUITE NO. 3 IN D MAJOR (J. S. BACH)
"Farandole" from L'ARLESIENNE SUITE NO. 2 (Bizet)
"Jupiter" from THE PLANETS, OP. 32 (Excerpt, Hoist)
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