PORTSMOUTH SINFONIA Popular Classics UK LP ENO RARE OOP
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Portsmouth Sinfonia - Plays The Popular Classics LP
Cover and vinyl are excellent on this classic slice of ENO produced Angloid weirdness. As well as Eno, Gavin Bryars and Steve Beresford also appear.
The self-proclaimed "world's worst orchestra" was founded by Gavin Bryars in 1970 when he was lecturing at the Portsmouth School of Art. Bryars wanted to engage the masses with classical music, and sought a way to liberate the form from the pomposity of its audience. His idea was to form an orchestra of the people. Anyone could join, regardless of skill. The orchestra comprised of known musicians playing instruments they had no knowledge of, virtuoso players and people who had never played an instrument in their lives. Their oeuvré would encompass the popular classics and rock songs - music that could be played by ear. No sight-reading skills were therefore required. The virtuoso players kept everything vaguely within the realms of what might be called a tune, with the other players reaching for (and missing) notes nearby. The result was a fascinating atonal mess of a noise, one which was considered profound by several of Bryars classical contemporaries.
Label: Transatlantic Records
Catalog#: TRA 275
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: UK
Released: 1973
Cello - Clive Richardson , Gary Rickard , Gavin Bryars , Sue Evans
Clarinet - Brian Eno , Gwen Fereday , Suzette Worden , Tony Talbot
Conductor - John Farley (2)
Double Bass - Angus Fraser , Brian Young , Ian Southward , Peter Clutterbuck
Flute - Ann Shrosbree , Brian Watterson , Deborah Smith , John Lawrence , Utako Ikeda
Horns [Tenor] - David Saunders (2)
Mastered By - Arun Chakraverty
Percussion - Jenni Adams , John Ryder , Maggi Wooton
Producer - Brian Eno
Recorded By - Bob Woolford
Saxophone, Clarinet, Glockenspiel - James Lampart
Trombone - Jeffrey Steele , Maurice Joyce
Trumpet - Chris Turner , Steve Beresford
Viola - Linda Adams , Neil Watson , Simon Dale
Violin - Cherril Smith , Gary Gunby , Imogen Morley , Jill Adams , Martin Kenny , Mick Steele , Nigel Coombes , Peter Beresford , Robert Carter (2) , Robin Mortimer , Russell Coates , Stefan Klima , Stephen Luscombe
Tracklisting:
A1 Edvard Grieg From Peer Gynt Suite No. 1: "Morning"
A2 Edvard Grieg From Peer Gynt Suite No. 1: "In The Hall Of The Mountain King"
A3 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaïkovski* From The Nutcracker Suite: "Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy"
A4 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaïkovski* From The Nutcracker Suite: "Waltz Of The Flowers"
A5 Ludwig van Beethoven Fifth Symphony In C Minor, Op. 67
A6 Gioacchino Rossini William Tell Overture
B1 Richard Strauss Also Sprach Zarathustra Op. 31
B2 Johann Strauss* Blue Danube Waltz Op. 314
B3 Johann Sebastian Bach "Air" From Suite No. 3 In D Major
B4 Georges Bizet "Farandole" From L'Arlesienne Suite No. 2
B5 Gustav Holst "Jupiter" From The Planets, Op. 32 (Excerpt)
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