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Kashif: The Queen Symphony - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (DVD) [2002]

Conductor: Tolga Kashif | Director: Gavin Taylor | Label: EMI Music

Genre: Classical

The rock band Queen was universally known for their powerful, massive sound and lead singer Freddy Mercury's incomparable vocals likewise verged on operatic. It is is not completely illogical to hear Queen's music honored in an orchestral setting. THE QUEEN SYMPHONY, recorded from a live 2002 performance featuring hits such as "Who Wants To Live Forever." Tolga Kashif's The Queen Symphony is described as "a symphony in six movements inspired by the music of Queen". If any rock band was to spark a symphonic work it might as well be Queen, after all this is the group that released an album entitled A Night at the Opera while its lead singer, the late Freddie Mercury, penned the epic "Bohemian Rhapsody".

Kashif's writing tends to lean towards epic film music--high strings, powerful brass, heavy percussion and a rhapsodic chorus with plenty of instrumental solos. But however ambitious his scoring, The Queen Symphony cannot escape being a "spot the tune" exercise.

The mysterious opening figure is taken from "Radio Gaga" which gradually weaves its way into "The show must go on". The second movement starts out as a piano concerto which loses its way via a witty take on the "Killer Queen" verse where pointed woodwind and pizzicato strings answer a sleazy trombone. The fourth is the most abstract movement with more than a passing reference to Stravinsky. The treatment of "Bohemian Rhapsody" in the penultimate movement is pure classic rock (remember those albums?) before the heroic finale which, rather inevitably, quotes "Who wants to live forever?" and "We are the champions".

Cast:

Tolga Kashif

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Rolf Wilson

Crouch End Festival Chorus

David Temple

Finchley Children´s Music Group

Grace Rossiter

John Lenehan

Nicola Loud

Tim Gill

Special Features:

• Interview With Tolga Kashif

• Video Clip Highlights Of The Event

• Queen Photo Gallery

• Original Music Sketches For The Symphony

Performer: François Rive, Nicola Loud, John Lenehan

Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Voices, London Oratory Choir

Works on This Recording:

1. The Queen Symphony by Tolga Kashif

Performer: François Rive (Cello), Nicola Loud (Violin), John Lenehan (Piano)

Conductor: Tolga Kashif

Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Voices, London Oratory Choir

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