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#LRT So, inspired by the final question at @handelandhaydn roundtable yesterday, I might ask: what's your favourite adaptation of old music in newer music? I've thought about it and so far come up with a couple. (cont'd)
>One of them: Muse "I Belong to You" (Camile Saint-Säens, "Mon Cœur s'ouvre à ta voix)," from Samson et Delila)
>Another: S Club 7 "Natural" (Gabriel Fauré, "Pavane")
No. 3 to respond @handelandhaydn's call for favourite modern adaptation of older music: Stranger in Paradise (Alexander Borodin, Polovitsian Dances from Prince Igor)
Continuing with @handelandhaydn's call for favourite modern adaptation of older music, and getting into the ensemble's repertoire (from Saint-Säins to Fauré to Borodin), Max Richter, Vivaldi's Four Seasons Recomposed:
#LT Remembering @HopeViolin performing this at @KoernerHall a few years ago. Transposed. #MaxRichter #Vivaldi #Recomposed
Continuing with the call for reinterpretations of older music by @handelandhaydn: Chopin Prélude, rendition by Serge Gainsbourg. Both original and remix excerpted here in Madison Chock/Evan Bates FD from 2011/12:
Speaking of Chopin, though this time on the side of reinterpreter, how about this? Recognize the original?
Here's the original by Mozart. Please join me to swoon.
Speaking of Chopin, yet this time, back on the side of the simulated. Here's a commentary on this Variation on a Theme of Chopin:
And here's Rachmaninoff's Variation on a Theme of Chopin in its entirety.
This is the original Chopin piece:
Though I didn't know when I started this thread, it has been pointed out that there's another, more modern rendition of Chopin's Prelude in C minor:
