Friday, October 19, 2007

Stringfever

Meet Giles, Ralph, Graham & Neal Broadbent. Together they form Stringfever, an incredible quartet that utilises modern day electronic violins, a.k.a violectra.

In the following video you can see them performing songs spaning Handel all through to the modern age, all in about 5 minutes... a true history of music




And this is the list of the songs you hear (fairly accurate and totally not made by me)

00:00 Traditional - Greensleeves
00:20 Handel - Messiah - Hallelujah chorus
00:25 Mozart - Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
00:31 Beethoven - Symphony No. 9 - "Ode to Joy"
00:42 Rossini - William Tell Overture
00:48 Puccini - Turandot - Nessun Dorma
01:05 Bach - Prelude in C Major
01:15 Beethoven - Symphony No. 5
01:23 Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra
01:35 Offenbach - Orpheus in the Underworld (Can-Can)
01:40 Bizet - Carmen - Torreador Song
01:46 Brahms - Hungarian Dance #5 (in F#m)
01:51 Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker Suite - Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies
01:59 Grieg - Peer Gynt Suite - In the Hall of the Mountain King
02:05 Rimsky-Korsakov - Flight of the Bumblebee (underneath Peer Gynt Suite)
02:10 Monty Norman - The James Bond Theme
02:15 Grieg - Peer Gynt Suite - In the Hall of the Mountain King (reprise)
02:22 Scott Joplin - The Entertainer02:28 Brown / Freed - Singin' In The Rain
02:35 Rogers & Hammerstein - Sound of Music - Do Re Mi
02:46 Irving Berlin - Annie Get Your Gun - There's No Business Like Show Business
02:58 George Gershwin - Porgy & Bess - Summertime
03:10 Glen Miller - In The Mood
03:22 Kander / Ebb - New York, New York
03:28 Elvis Presley - Hound Dog
03:41 Roy Orbison - Pretty Woman
03:58 McCartney / Lennon - Yesterday
04:08 James Brown - I Feel Good
04:10 The Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive
04:19 Oompa Loompa song from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
04:22 Abba - Money, Money, Money
04:33 Queen - Another One Bites The Dust
04:42 Eric Clapton - Layla
04:48 Michael Jackson - Billy Jean
04:55 Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water
05:02 John Williams - Theme from Jaws
05:08 Bernard Herrmann – Knife Scene from Hitchcock's Psycho
05:18 Wagner - Ride of the Valkyries
05:21 Jerrold Immel - Theme to Dallas
05:24 Thomas Augustine Arne - Rule Brittania
05:26 Traditional - Sailor's Hornpipe
05:27 Traditional - Shave And A Haircut
05:29 Wagner - Lohengrin - Wedding Chorus

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