Hi there Berrington -
On 11/01/2011 16:49, Berington Van Campen wrote:
Beautiful work, Mike! As usual! yes, please add another fan to your list, a long one, I'm sure!I was fired up to see Tallis's name. If you're a Tallis lover, you may know a gorgeous piece by Ralph Von Williams called "Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis." An amazing, kind of melancholy feel to start, switching easily between minor and major elements. In early '80s, I was hired by Oscar-winner producer Saul Bass to reproduce the first 3 or so mins. of it on keyboards; he wanted to hear if it could be done w/out orchestra. So with M-400 #1485, a Memory-Moog synth, Mini-Moog & a small Roland M-101 synth, I recorded to 8-track tape(!). Sounded pretty decent. In 1983, he wanted "Neptune" from Holst's "The Planets" as part of my score for his film "Quest." HUGE challenge! LOTS of Mellotron; in fact, the main titles were just a MiniMoog bass pulse, with Mellotron solo flute, flanged 3-violins & a bit of 8-choir over it. Very simple... some fun pitch-bending, too, that a flute would never do.Wonderful work, Mike! Thank you for posting it!Here's a YouTube performance of the Tallis Fantasia, for you all to enjoy. Fine piece!
You must have been living under a rock. :-)
I recorded an album called 'mellotronworks' which a Mellotron-only take on some of the better-known classical works. The last track on the album 'proper' is....RVW's 'Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis'.
You can find it here. For nothing:
http://www.mikedickson.org.uk/mellotronworks/fantasia.html
The rest of the album features
- Mars, The Bringer of War (Holst)
- Adagio in G minor (Albinoni/Giazotto)
- Adagio for Strings (Barber)
- Air on The G String (JS Bach)
- Canon in D major (Pachelbel)
and bonus tracks
The whole album is here:
- Also Sprach Zarathustra (Strauss)
- Nimrod (Enigma 9) (Elgar)
- Sheep May Safely Graze (JS Bach)
- Moonlight Sonata (Beethoven)
- Hallelujah Chorus (Handel)
http://www.mikedickson.org.uk/mellotronworks
Enjoy it!
-- Mike Dickson, Edinburgh Free Music Project: http://www.mikedickson.org.uk/ Or http://www.last.fm/music/Mike+Dickson Or http://soundcloud.com/mikedickson Or http://www.planetmellotron.com/revd4.htm#mikedickson Or http://www.myspace.com/mellotronworks