Mike, you've captured all the emotion and intensity of the piece
beautifully.
Looking forward to the rest of 'em.
Paul
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newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dickson
<mike.dickson@...> wrote:
>
> It's a fairly open secret among a few people here that I'm workng
on a
> fifth and (if planning is right, final) album which I hope to have
> released some time soon.
>
> The album will be my take on a number of well-known classical
works,
> recorded by me over the preceding five months or so. I don't read
music
> and so it has been a slow and painful process at times, with me
> invariably surrounded by musical charts of my own creation as well
as
> coloured scores, annotated manuscripts and post-it notes everywhere
in
> sight. However, I have pressed on despite all the difficulties as I
> think the end result is going to be extremely worthwhile and comes
with
> a bit of a twist.
>
> The one major difference between this and other attempts to record
these
> pieces is that /everything /on the album will be played on the
Mellotron.
>
> The album is to be called ∗/mellotronworks /∗and I've taken the
bold
> step of giving the good readers of this mailing list a preview. You
can
> download my version of Samuel Barber's 1936 masterpiece /Adagio for
> Strings/ from the following link:
> http://www.mikedickson.org.uk/mellotronworks/Barbers%20Adagio.mp3
>
> Comments welcomed.
>
> --
> Mike Dickson, Edinburgh
>
> Free Music Project: http://www.last.fm/music/Mike+Dickson
> Or http://www.mikedickson.org.uk/
>