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Romantic Interpretations -Symphonies num​é​riques

by Grahame Stuart Booth

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Cavalleria Rusticana - Intermezzo 02:50
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Consolation No 3 03:34
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Ombra mai fu 04:48
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Nocturne Opus 9 No 2 03:22
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Salut d'amour 03:10
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Ständchen 05:44
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Träumerei 02:12
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Cantique de Jean Racine 05:14
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Thaïs 04:14
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In 1968, Walter Carlos (actually Wendy Carlos) released her first Studio album, Switched on Bach. This album propelled the synthesiser to fame and became the first Platinum selling classical album. I was 17 and obsessed with electronic music and this album was like an answer to all my prayers.
Later in the 70’s Isao Tomita released ‘Snowflakes are dancing’ and took synthesised classical music to even newer levels and through this period I tinkered and played with very basic synthesisers, trying to recreate the soundscapes that these artists created.
It wasn't until the early 80’s and a visit to a music shop to buy guitar strings, that I saw and heard the most unbelievable thing. There was a chap demonstrating a computer playing classical music that actually sounded real. It was the Yamaha CX5M - the first ever dedicated music computer which allowed you to program it from music notation, which it would then in turn play, using its built in Yamaha DX voices. I had to have one and eventually I did.
Over the following years, I owned various synthesisers and my love of all things digital eventually turned into a career in IT.
However the time and the money never really allowed me to to follow that dream of creating my own electronic music. Until now.
Retired and with the resources available to me that are now so accessible to almost anyone, I have finally got down to it. And this album is my first attempt.
It recreates some of my favourite classical pieces electronically by painstakingly inputting the score note by note ( I can’t play a keyboard with two hands) from the original scores and then arranging the various orchestral parts to be played by digital instruments on my computer.
I hope you like my interpretations and accept my apologies if my take on some of these classic offends you.

Grahame Stuart Booth

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released April 16, 2016

Apple, Logic Pro X, Axiom Keyboards and of course the following composers:
Pietro Mascagni, Franz Liszt,George Frideric Handel,Frederic Chopin, Edward Elgar, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Jules Massenet, Gabriel Fauré

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Grahame Stuart Booth Manchester, UK

I have been composing music off and on since being a teenager back in the sixties. Now I am retired, I have the time to experiment with VST instruments and realise some of my compositions in ways I could never have imagined.
Although not a skilled musician, I have such wonderful tools available to me that nowadays this is no longer a hindrance to producing my music. ... more

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