Friday Night is Music Night: Classical For Plebs

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smutchin

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Anyone who saw High Rise last year will remember the Royal Philharmonic's take on Abba's SOS - although this isn't the same recording that was used in the film...


View: https://youtu.be/1Tknztyu9JI


They did a whole album of Abba covers but most of them don't work as well as this.

Also the Portishead take on the same song used later in the same film was arguably even more impressive:


View: https://youtu.be/WVe-9VWIcCo
 
Brains

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I can not blieve this thrad has got this far without a single inclusion by the King of parody pop Herr. JAMES LAST !
So here is a medley from one of his (many) top selling albums of the 1960's to the 1990's

 
srw

srw

It's a bit more complicated than that...
As far as I know James Last, like Andre Rieu, was intensely serious.

Anyway, this thread gives me an excuse to post my favourite video from this last week.



Yes, pedantically, it's jazz and not classical, but New Orleans jazz has more in common with classical than with modern pop.
 
srw

srw

It's a bit more complicated than that...
And baroque and roll....



(which, to be honest, hasn't worn all that well)
 
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