The Mellotron Group

Mike, you've captured all the emotion and intensity of the piece
beautifully.
Looking forward to the rest of 'em.
Paul

--- In 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/
>