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Kashif: The Queen Symphony.(Tolga Kashif, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.)(Product/Service Evaluation)
Tolga Kashif, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. EMI 7243 5 57395 2.
I have no objection to orchestrating pop tunes; it's done all the time. Nor do I have any objection to the rock group Queen. But Tolga Kashif's orchestration of Queen's songs into what he calls a "symphony" seems more than a bit exaggerated.
The composition, which is close to an hour long, contains bits and pieces of Queen's work divided into six movements. But there is little continuity among the movements, little cohesion, just fragments of this and that held together by the big Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Kashif's fancy orchestration. Most of the production is downright tedious and makes one want more than anything else to listen to an actual Queen disc and hear what the music is supposed to sound like.
You'll find a Queen tune such as "Love of My Life" coming up best because of its natural tranquility, but given tempo markings within the movements like Allegro Scherzando and Moderato Cantabile seems pretentious in the extreme. This appears especially ...
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