'I don't feel at all guilty about tinkering with the "classical canon" – David LePage | Focus
Timelapse Orchestra of the Swan’s new album, Timelapse, features a number of my arrangements. Some of them are simple - straightforward transfers from keyboard to ensemble in the case of Gnossienne 1 by Erik Satie and Les Barricades Mystérieuses by François Couperin - and others combine original composition with existing works. Yet more are what I call ‘reimaginings’ of well-known songs, a few of which are almost unrecognisable in comparison with the source material. There are many ideas about what constitutes a ‘good’ arrangement and there are talented practitioners who appr...
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