The Mellotron Group

Mike, you've captured all the emotion and intensity of the piece 
beautifully.
Looking forward to the rest of 'em.
Paul

--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dickson 
<mike.dickson@...> wrote:
>
> It's a fairly open secret among a few people here that I'm workng 
on a 
> fifth and (if planning is right, final) album which I hope to have 
> released some time soon.
> 
> The album will be my take on a number of well-known classical 
works, 
> recorded by me over the preceding five months or so. I don't read 
music 
> and so it has been a slow and painful process at times, with me 
> invariably surrounded by musical charts of my own creation as well 
as 
> coloured scores, annotated manuscripts and post-it notes everywhere 
in 
> sight. However, I have pressed on despite all the difficulties as I 
> think the end result is going to be extremely worthwhile and comes 
with 
> a bit of a twist.
> 
> The one major difference between this and other attempts to record 
these 
> pieces is that /everything /on the album will be played on the 
Mellotron.
> 
> The album is to be called */mellotronworks /*and I've taken the 
bold 
> step of giving the good readers of this mailing list a preview. You 
can 
> download my version of Samuel Barber's 1936 masterpiece /Adagio for 
> Strings/ from the following link: 
> http://www.mikedickson.org.uk/mellotronworks/Barbers%20Adagio.mp3
> 
> Comments welcomed.
> 
> -- 
> Mike Dickson, Edinburgh
> 
> Free Music Project: http://www.last.fm/music/Mike+Dickson
> Or http://www.mikedickson.org.uk/
>