5013929335936

I'd Love To Turn You On Volume 2

Various Artists

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Format: 4CD

Cat No: ACMEM359CDX

Release Date:  22 October 2021

Label:  El Records / Cherry Red

Packaging Type:  Fat Double (a 2.5cm thick jewel case, fits several CDs)

No of Units:  4

Barcode:  5013929335936

Genres:  Rock  Avant-garde  

  • Description


    • 'Buy everything that you can by Igor Stravinsky and dance to it!' Frank Zappa

    • Second volume of 'I'd Love to Turn You On', a series which explores the relationship between ‘60s pop and classical music, free jazz and the avant-garde; providing many examples of how popular music evolved, matured and became liberated under the influence of apparently deeper, more expansive genres.


    While preparing ‘Rubber Soul’, ‘Revolver’ and ‘Sgt Pepper’ - major artistic achievements that would change popular music forever - The Beatles drew on a wide range of eclectic influences; from the outer limits of jazz (John Coltrane, Ornette Colenan, Sun Ra, Albert Ayler) and from the audacious sound experiments of modernist composers including John Cage, who believed all sound to be music and Pierre Schaeffer who pioneered musique concrète. Looking to strike a balance, George Martin contributed a more formal classical understanding which proved essential in creating such productions as ‘Yesterday’ and ‘Eleanor Rigby’. Literary enthusiasms also played a part - with Lewis Carroll a less than distant echo on ‘Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds’ and ‘I Am The Walrus’ - as did a certain playful irreverence derived from the anarchic humour of The Goons.


    With psychedelia in its infancy and with everything possible, many other popular artists, brought up on blues or beat felt encouraged to embrace music from further afield. In 1965, live performances of David Bowie's group, The Lower Third, came to a screaming conclusion with a feedback-laden interpretation of ‘Mars’ from ‘The Planets’. The fantasy quality of Syd Barrett's songwriting for Pink Floyd’s debut ‘Piper At The Gates Of Dawn’, drew on the nonsense verse of Hilaire Belloc. Pete Townshend was introduced to the music of the 17th century English composer Henry Purcell by his manager Kit Lambert. The ‘Gordian Knot Untied’ uses a series of suspended chords. The sadness and sophistication of the chord suspensions made a strong impression on Townshend and he began incorporating the idea into his work, with the intro to ‘Pinball Wizard’ being the classic example. In America, Frank Zappa and the Mothers Of Invention's revolutionary debut, ‘Freak Out!’, connected modernist composition to pop citing Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Boulez and Varèse under the heading "These People Have Contributed Materially in Many Ways to Make Our Music What it is". The album was both without precedent and of great influence.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Mars, The Bringer Of War (Allegro), From The Planets, Op. 32 - Bbc Symphony Orchestra / Conductor: Malcolm Sargent
      • 2. To Begin At The Beginning, From Under Milk Wood - A Play For Voices - Richard Burton
      • 3. Greensleeves - The John Coltrane Quartet
      • 4. Time On Our Hands (Titles And City Music) - Delia Derbyshire
      • 5. Spirits - Albert Ayler Quartet
      • 6. The Picture Of Dorian Gray - Scene One - Hurd Hatfield
      • 7. Aria With Fontana Mix - Cathy Berberian
      • 8. Ensemble Introduction To Charlie Haden / Charlie Haden – Bass Solo - Ornette Coleman Double Quartet
      • 9. Ensemble Introduction To Scott Lafaro / Scott Lafaro – Bass Solo - Ornette Coleman Double Quartet
      • 10. Advice To Medics - Sun Ra
      • 11. The Raven - Basil Rathbone
      • 12. Objets étendus From Étude Aux Objets (Study Of Objects) - Pierre Schaeffer
      • 13. Tweedledum And Tweedledee From Alice Through The Looking Glass - Jane Asher
      • 14. Variations Sur Une Flûte Mexicaine (Excerpt) - Pierre Schaeffer
      • 15. I'm Walking Backwards For Christmas - The Goons

      Disc 2

      • 1. Malaguena - Carlos Montoya
      • 2. Take Five - The Dave Brubeck Quartet
      • 3. Ragtime For Eleven Instruments - Columbia Chamber Ensemble / Conductor: Igor Stravinsky
      • 4. Frühling (Spring) - Soprano: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Horn Solo: Dennis Brain
      • 5. September - Soprano: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Horn Solo: Dennis Brain
      • 6. Beim Schlafengehen (When Falling Asleep) - Soprano: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Horn Solo: Dennis Brain
      • 7. Im Abendrot (At Sunset) - Soprano: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Horn Solo: Dennis Brain
      • 8. Aubade - Edward Elgar
      • 9. The Wagon Passes - Edward Elgar
      • 10. Overture - Henry Purcell The Gordian Knot Untied, Z.597
      • 11. Air (Moderato) - Henry Purcell The Gordian Knot Untied, Z.597
      • 12. Rondeau Minuet - Henry Purcell The Gordian Knot Untied, Z.597
      • 13. Air (Allegro) - Henry Purcell The Gordian Knot Untied, Z.597
      • 14. Jig - Henry Purcell The Gordian Knot Untied, Z.597
      • 15. Chaconne - Henry Purcell The Gordian Knot Untied, Z.597
      • 16. Air (Allegro) - Henry Purcell The Gordian Knot Untied, Z.597
      • 17. Minuet - Henry Purcell The Gordian Knot Untied, Z.597

      Disc 3

      • 1. La Cathédrale Engloutie (The Sunken Cathedral) - Walter Gieseking: Piano
      • 2. My Robin Is To The Greenwood Gone - Eastman-Rochester "Pops" Orchestra / Conductor: Frederick Fennell
      • 3. Vetcheryai Rado (Come To Supper Tonight, Rada) - Ensemble Of The Bulgarian Republic
      • 4. Polegnala E Todora (Theodora Is Dozing) - Ensemble Of The Bulgarian Republic
      • 5. Fantasia On A Theme By Thomas Tallis - The Boyd Neel String Orchestra / Conductor: Boyd Neel
      • 6. Marche Du Soldat - Airs De Marche - Columbia Chamber Ensemble / Conductor: Igor Stravinsky
      • 7. Premier Tableau: Airs By A Stream - Columbia Chamber Ensemble / Conductor: Igor Stravinsky
      • 8. Deuxième Tableau: Pastorale - Columbia Chamber Ensemble / Conductor: Igor Stravinsky
      • 9. Marche Royale - Columbia Chamber Ensemble / Conductor: Igor Stravinsky
      • 10. Petit Concert - Columbia Chamber Ensemble / Conductor: Igor Stravinsky
      • 11. Trois Danses: Tango, Valse, Ragtime - Columbia Chamber Ensemble / Conductor: Igor Stravinsky
      • 12. Danse Du Diable - Columbia Chamber Ensemble / Conductor: Igor Stravinsky
      • 13. Grand Choral - Columbia Chamber Ensemble / Conductor: Igor Stravinsky
      • 14. Marche Triomphale Du Diable - Columbia Chamber Ensemble / Conductor: Igor Stravinsky
      • 15. Vorgefühle (Premonitions) - Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Conductor: Rafael Kubelik
      • 16. Vergangenes (The Past) - Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Conductor: Rafael Kubelik
      • 17. Sommermorgen An Einem See (Summer Morning By A Lake: Chord-Colours) - Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Conductor: Rafael Kubelik
      • 18. Peripetie (Peripeteia) - Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Conductor: Rafael Kubelik
      • 19. Das Obligate Rezitativ (The Obbligato Recitative) - Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Conductor: Rafael Kubelik
      • 20. Turkey: Automobile On Mountain Road - Central Anatolian Dance - Deben Bhattacharya
      • 21. Iran: Rhythm Of A Train - Deben Bhattacharya
      • 22. India: Raga Zila From Varanasi - Deben Bhattacharya
      • 23. India: Temple Bells And Drums Of A Bengali Kali Temple - Deben Bhattacharya
      • 24. Allegretto Pizzicato - Végh Quartet
      • 25. San Francisco Scene (The Beat Generation) - Jack Kerouac
      • 26. Bronce Gitano (Solaeres) - Sabicas
      • 27. Bolero - Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra / Conductor: Eduard Van Beinum

      Disc 4

      • 1. Osanna In Excelsis From Sanctus From Mass In D Minor - The Münchener Bach Orchestra And Choir / Conductor: Karl Richter
      • 2. Symphony No.5 In E Flat, Op.82 - Philharmonia Orchestra / Conductor: Herbert Von Karajan
      • 3. First Movement: Tempo Molto Moderato - Largamente - Allegro Moderato - Presto - Philharmonia Orchestra / Conductor: Herbert Von Karajan
      • 4. Introduction By Yehudi Menuhin - Ali Akbar Khan
      • 5. Rag Sindhi Bhairavi - Ali Akbar Khan
      • 6. Matilda, From Four Cautionary Tales - Robert Speaight
      • 7. Jet Song From "West Side Story" - Oscar Peterson Trio
      • 8. Symphony No.9 In D Major : First Movement: Andante Comodo - Columbia Symphony Orchestra / Conductor: Bruno Walter
      • 9. You're The Top - Cole Porter