Adaptations (album)
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Publication |
1976 |
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| Label (s) | Amiga | |||
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LP, CD |
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Title (number) |
6th |
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running time |
37:48 |
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Luise Mirsch , Volkmar Andrä |
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Adaptionen is a music album released in 1976 by the band Electra . It was published by the GDR record label Amiga and is the only album by a GDR rock band that exclusively adapts classical music . All pieces are instrumental .
occupation
The album was recorded with the cast of Bernd Aust , Peter Ludewig , Rainer Uebel, Wolfgang Riedel and Gisbert Koreng.
content
The Borodin Suite was based on motifs from Alexander Borodin's 2nd Symphony in B minor and the Polovtsian dances from the opera Prince Igor . Bach '75 uses themes from the 2nd Brandenburg Concerto by Johann Sebastian Bach .
The saber dance by Aram Chatschaturjan forms the basis of the piece saber dance composed by Bernd Aust. The Prelude in C sharp minor by Sergei Rachmaninoff was reworked by Uebel and Ludewig, as was In the Hall of the Mountain King by Edvard Grieg . In addition to the eponymous Turkish March from the piano sonata in A major KV 331 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the Turkish March contains further elements of the sonata in three-four time, which should set the piece apart from the similar piece by the Dutch band Ekseption .
The cover shows the band making music in silhouette. The picture is black / light blue, the writing is predominantly white. The titles with references to the models are listed on the back. The five musicians and their instruments are presented below with the same silhouette as on the front. The background is white, only the album title is light blue.
history
Adaptations is Electra's second album (formerly Electra-Combo, later Electra).
In the mid-1970s Electra performed with her own pieces such as Tritt ein in den Dom and Jethro Tull songs. Ludewig was particularly interested in rock compositions with classic motifs, similar to the band Ekseption . The singer Stephan Trepte left the band in 1975, Ludewig was the only singer left.
Ludewig and Uebel composed the Borodin Suite and Bach '75 by selecting parts of the score from the originals, rewriting them for keyboard , adding drums and finally combining them with transitions and improvisations. It took them three months to compose the Borodin Suite . The two pieces were recorded in an inn in Freital on two-track tape recorder without interruption for the radio of the GDR .
The Amiga record company took over the two pieces and had them supplemented by additional pieces that were recorded in Brunnenstrasse in East Berlin . At first, the AWA did not want to pay royalties because the Electra members were not to be seen as composers. Only after an intervention with reference to secondary copyright could they receive royalties.
With over 100,000 copies sold, it is Electra's most successful album. The pieces were also played at concerts, while the GDR radio hardly played them because of their length. The band composed further classical adaptations by Richard Wagner , Sergei Prokofjew and Max Reger , which were not produced due to the band's lack of interest. In 1978, Manuel von Senden, a new singer, joined the band.
In 1992, adaptations for DSB as a CD with the bonus piece The smile, with a text by Heinz Kahlau .
Track List (LP)
page 1
- Borodin Suite (13:20)
- Bach '75 (6:25)
Page 2
- Saber Dance (6:05)
- Prelude in C sharp minor (4:40)
- In the Hall of the Mountain King (3:25)
- Turkish March (3:53)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jürgen Balitzki: Electra. Lift. Star combo Meißen: Stories from the Saxon threesome . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 978-3-89602-323-0 , p. 151.
- ↑ a b c d Jürgen Balitzki: Electra. Lift. Star combo Meißen: Stories from the Saxon threesome . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 978-3-89602-323-0 , p. 152.
- ^ Discography at deutsche-mugge.de , accessed on July 8, 2015