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Key Information
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| Artist: |
Andrew Lloyd Webber |
| Record Label: |
MCA Records (USA) |
| Genre: |
Rock and Pop |
| Subgenre: |
Stage Composers |
| Release Date: |
October 25, 1990 |
| Number of Discs: |
1 |
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Song List: Disc 1
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1. Introduction
2. Theme (Paganini Caprice in A Minor No.24) (and Variations 1-4)
3. Variations 5 and 6
4. Variation 7
5. Variation 8
6. Variation 9
7. Variation 10
8. Variations 11-15 (Including Tributes)
9. Variation 9
10. Variations 13-14 (Varied)
11. Variation 17
12. Variation 18
13. Variations 19, 20 and 5 (Varied)
14. Variations 21 and 22
15. Variations 23 |
| More Information |
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This is a genuine oddity in the career output of Andrew Lloyd Webber, growing out of a personal/familial vignette. The piece, a set of variations on Niccolo Paganini's Caprice No. 24 (which had previously inspired adaptations by Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Boris Blacher, among others), came about because Andrew Lloyd Webber lost a bet with his cellist brother Julian Lloyd Webber, and was obliged to compose a work for cello and rock band for him, which was premiered in August of 1977 at a music festival, and subsequently recorded and released by MCA.This recording, featuring what amounts to virtually an all-star contingent of players, including Rod Argent, Herbie Flowers, Jon Hiseman, and Gary Moore, is reminiscent of other rock-classical hybrids of the period. As the scoring is rather lean (cello by the Lloyd Webber sibling and a band, complete with synthesizer and other electronic keyboards), it's a bit less bombastic than most prog-rock of the period and there's also more of ... |
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