Amazing rendition of a classical piece..

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This should really be in the other thread re music but I think it gets overlooked at times and I know there are several here who play the guitar and they really need to see this. These fifteen Spanish electric guitarists look like, and play like, hardened rock/heavy metal players and they've played a superb rendition of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, a difficult piece played on the organ..usually. It must have taken a lot of hard work to co-ordinate it all. If you like it and want to hear other pieces by them just Google..... "Sinfonity." I think even those who don't have a great interest in guitars will be amazed.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqgQ7IYhvRg
 
Not for me either I’m afraid. I remember Sky, the classical/prog crossover band from the 80s with John Williams on guitar, playing a version of this.
 
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boogie man said:
Not for me either I’m afraid. I remember Sky, the classical/prog crossover band from the 80s with John Williams on guitar, playing a version of this.
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I had an LP of theirs ..a Blue cover..and recall that Toccata piece.

My wife wasn't keen on this guitar version either but appreciated the complexity of how it was put together/co-ordinated which is really why I posted it rather than just the piece being played on guitars. I still prefer the organ version.
 
Sorry but despite the musicianship, it sounds like guitars driving synthesisers that are set up to sound like a pipe organ, so it doesn't sound like guitar work, nor quite the great church organ original.
 
JohnC6 said:
I had an LP of theirs ..a Blue cover..and recall that Toccata piece.

My wife wasn't keen on this guitar version either but appreciated the complexity of how it was put together/co-ordinated which is really why I posted it rather than just the piece being played on guitars. I still prefer the organ version.
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Sky 2 is the album. I rebought it a couple of years ago for Toccata and Tuba Smarties.

The achievement in the posted video was keeping 15 egos in check! I wonder who had to put the chairs back...
 
Nod said:
Sky 2 is the album. I rebought it a couple of years ago for Toccata and Tuba Smarties.
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That’s the one. I had that and the first album, the blue one John mentioned. Canonball was always my favourite of theirs. I saw Sky play at the Royal Albert Hall, they were a great band, obviously all masters of their instruments, but it always seemed to me that John Williams struggled to let go and improvise. I suppose years of playing very rigid and structured pieces of classical music will do that… similar situation to when Yheudi Menuhin teamed up with Stefan Grappelli.
 
boogie man said:
That’s the one. I had that and the first album, the blue one John mentioned. Canonball was always my favourite of theirs. I saw Sky play at the Royal Albert Hall, they were a great band, obviously all masters of their instruments, but it always seemed to me that John Williams struggled to let go and improvise. I suppose years of playing very rigid and structured pieces of classical music will do that… similar situation to when Yheudi Menuhin teamed up with Stefan Grappelli.
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This one.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgbgUrp1a70
 
boogie man said:
That’s the one. I had that and the first album, the blue one John mentioned. Canonball was always my favourite of theirs. I saw Sky play at the Royal Albert Hall, they were a great band, obviously all masters of their instruments, but it always seemed to me that John Williams struggled to let go and improvise. I suppose years of playing very rigid and structured pieces of classical music will do that… similar situation to when Yheudi Menuhin teamed up with Stefan Grappelli.
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I also saw them live in a smaller theatre - very impressive. For one part of the gig the drummer got the sound waves rolling out so it was like standing in the sea with the waves hitting you !
For the encore they all swapped instruments - great musicians
 
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