Some time ago I’ve been approached by a Swedish Rock’n'Roll band from Malmö asking me to write about them. It went somewhere along the lines: “If you like our music it would be splendid if you wanted to help us out by writing a couple of lines about us on your blog”. Well, I do like their music and although it’s not prog I thought I’ll try to help them spread the word.
This is a bit off-topic, but for me classical music is equally interesting to prog and even though I spend more time listening to the later I do enjoy the former as well. After listening to Ray Manzarek’s interpreation of Carmina Burana today (I’ll try to write something about it soon) I put on one of my favorite classical recordings, Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, played by non other but the English Chamber Orchestra and Nigel Kennedy himself.
To make this day even better I just saw on local TV a great two-piece version–the first part being a jazz-like interpretation of original score and the second a heavy metal one–of Beethoven’s Für Elise performed by one of my favorite Polish cabarets Grupa MoCarta:
They are all well educated instrumentalists who graduated from prestigious Academies of Music in Warsaw and Łódz, but they decided to play classical music in a humorous way. What is more, they created something like a musical cabaret, one in which the music, not the words were the source of laughter.
I didn’t manage to find the complete recording on the web so here’s only the second–heavy–part.
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