HENDRIX | JOPLIN | BEATLES – STRING QUARTET TRANSCRIPTIONS

HENDRIX | JOPLIN | BEATLES – STRING QUARTET TRANSCRIPTIONS (LDV14101) 

JIMI HENDRIX

Fire | Fox lady | Manic depression
Are you experienced? | Red house | Wild thing

Arrangements: Steven Mackey

JANIS JOPLIN

Piece of my heart

Arrangement: Steven Mackey

JOHN LENNON & PAUL MCCARTNEY

Paperback writer | Tomorrow never knows | When I am sixty-four | A hard day’s night

Arrangements: Jack Long

Luca Santaniello, first violin
Fabio Ravasi, second violin
Adriana Tataru, viola
Gabriele Zanetti, cello

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Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Lennon–McCartney. Names that perhaps few would expect to find alongside a classical string quartet. Yet, the boundaries between so-called "classical" music and other music — pop, rock, jazz, ragtime — are not so impassable. Indeed, in the decades straddling the 20th and 21st centuries, they have become increasingly blurred.