From Yesterday to Penny Lane [Import]

Track Listings

1. Norwegian Wood

2. In My Life

3. Long & Winding Road

4. Can't Buy Me Love

5. I Will

6. Help!

7. Come Together

8. I Want To Hold Your Hand

9. 3 American Sketches

10. From Yesterday To Penny Lane

Tracks:

Eleanor Rigby
And I Love Her
Ob-La-Di, Ob-la-da
Hey Jude
With A Little Help From My Friends
Yellow Submarine
I Want To Hold Your Hand
Penny Lane
A Hard Day's Night
The Fool On The Hill
Yesterday
Michelle
I Want To Hold Your Hand
And I Love Her
A Hard Day's Night
I Want To Hold Your Hand

Customer Reviews:

Could have been better.......2006-08-22

Not the best treatment of Beatles music from the classical point of view. London Symphony was much better.

awesome music.......2006-03-10

Hearing the Beatles music arranged in classical format shows what great musicians and composers Lennon and McCartney were.

AMAZING!.......2005-01-08

I cannot help but smile when I listen to the beautiful arrangements on this album. It blends the Beatles' genius for melody with the great percussive sound and incredible energy of Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops. I've heard other orchestral versions of Beatles songs, but none has compared to this one (if anyone has found a better CD, please post a note here). Any Beatles or Pops fan should definitely own this CD. I can't stop listening!

Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops do the Beatles.......2005-01-01

As conductor of the Boston Pops for almost half a century, Arthur Fiedler brought popular classical music and pop music with a classical twist to the people. Leonard Bernstein was providing an intellectual and more glamorous musical education for Americans, but Fielder was coming into our living rooms on a weekly basis with his Boston Pops concerts. Fielder and the Boston Pops produced a lot of records, mostly with RCA in the 1950s through the 1970s, most of which offered everything from classical overtures and ballet pieces to movies themes and the hits of the Beatles.

It was inevitable that with over a hundred albums the Boston Pops would do the Fab Four. They were the first orchestra to perform the songs of the Beatles in 1964 when Fiedler returned from a trip to Liverpool ("I Want to Hold Your Hand" was the first one they ever did). These are not just these songs played by a classical orchestra but rather arrangements done for this purpose. You will notice that one of the standard ways of arranging these songs is to use the chorus as the introduction for the song (e.g., "Eleanor Rigby," "Hey Jude"). If you can guess from the drumming at the beginning of "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" or "Yellow Submarine" what those songs are then you are way ahead of me, but that is the sense of fun that Fiedler brought to these songs by giving them the John Phillip Sousa treatment.

Sometimes it is such the simple elegance of doing the guitar parts with strings, as with "And I Love Her," or even the staccato strings of "Penny Lane," that makes the songs enjoyable. Then there are the mood chances invoked by turning "A Little Help From My Friends" into a work of minor chords. My assumption is that if you pick up this album you will know the songs, but not these arrangements, so you should just forget about looking at the play list and just listen to the music.

There are a quartet of bonus tracks on the album, featuring live versions of "I Want to Hold Your Hand," "And I Love Her," and "A Hard Day's Night." These are not different versions of these songs, which is too bad because I thought it would be interesting to see if the Pops arrangers could come up with different classical ways of doing the same songs. The final track is actually Fiedler talking about how the Pops came to play the Beatles music, as a "novelty." I have not listened to this sort of music for a while, but it makes for nice background music and there are more albums out there. Remember "Saturday Night Fiedler"?

Some Moments - but doesn't live up to expectations.......2004-09-30

During the 20th century, Arthur Fiedler was one of the most celebrated conductors of orchestral music. He is most famous for being the longtime conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra. As someone who is a novice to classical music, I have found Arthur Fiedler's music very easy to get into. Namely, Fiedler made classical music easy - for the everyday fan to enjoy. One way Fiedler accomplished this is through doing popular tunes in the classical style. Fiedler's style often added a new gusto to classical music concerts by including not only popular music, but also Broadway tunes, jazz, folk, and advertising jingles - all done in the classical style (in the late 70s, he even did Saturday Night Fever tunes - 'Saturday Night Fiedler'). One might get very excited to hear that there is a collection in which Fiedler does Beatles tunes. I've always thought the Beatles' music would lend itself perfectly in the classical music arena - especially their later works. On this particular collection "Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra play The Beatles", it does have it moments where things work very well. However, overall this collection did fall short on my high expectations that I had.

There are several things that disappoint me about this collection. For starters, there is only a total of two songs from the Beatles best three albums: "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" has one song ("With a Little Help From My Friends"), The "White Album" has one song ("Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da"), while there is no songs from "Abbey Road". As mentioned above, I thought the Beatles' later material lent itself well to being played with an orchestra. These albums are really the cornerstone of this period, yet there is two songs between these three albums. I understand that Fiedler's "Play the Beatles" was put together in 1969, but I still expected much more of a presence from these albums. I think many of the tunes on these albums could have lent itself very easily to classical music. For example, songs such as "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds", "When I'm Sixty-Four", "Day in the Life", "Come Together", "Golden Slumbers", "Carry That Weight", "Birthday", and "Helter Skelter" would have sounded wonderful being played under the classics. I don't know if the Fiedler and the Boston Pops ever did these songs, but if they did - they should have been included. If they were done, it would be nice to hear them on an updated version of this collection. Some of these tunes are available on other classics collection, but Fiedler's Orchestra was the best at playing this music, so I would have liked to have heard it here.

The other thing that disappoints me are some of the selections themselves. Most of the tunes do keep to the sound you would expect from the Beatles, but some do not sound as good as I would expect. "With a Little Help From My Friends" just doesn't sound much like the original tune. The song that I consider the signature song by the Beatles - "Hey Jude" is an extreme disappointment - it just doesn't capture the magic of the original song. Songs like "Michelle" and "And I Love Her" do keep to the Beatles sound, but they somehow miss the mark. Perhaps these two songs aren't the best songs to be done with a Classical Orchestra.

However, this collection is not all bad. There are some positive points that do shine. There are several songs which surprise me on how well they sounded being played in the classical sense. "Eleanor Rigby" is one of those. You can feel a lot of power and emotion with that song. Another song that surprises me how well it sounds being played as a classical piece is "Penny Lane". Fiedler is also able to demonstrate a lot of power by playing by playing "Penny Lane' as a classical piece. In "Yellow Submarine", Fiedler puts a military and marching band spin on the song. It gives the song a whole new dimension. As for my favorite piece on the collection - it has to be "Fool on the Hill". Somehow I almost like "Fool on the Hill" played as a classical piece better than how the Beatles do it. Other songs that sound good are a couple of the Beatles' earlier tunes - "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and "A Hard Day's Night"

It is worth noting that there are some live versions of these songs included with Fiedler's studio recordings. In particular there are live versions of "And I Love Her" and "A Hard Day's Night". There are also multiple versions of the same song included. You will hear three different recordings of "I Want To Hold Your Hand" (one from 1964 and two from 1969 - you will hear a change in tempo). There are also two versions of "A Hard Day's Night" (the live 1965 version and a 1969 studio recording). Counting the live and studio versions - there are also two versions of "And I Love Her".

It is also worth noting that on the final song (the third version of "I Want To Hold Your Hand"), there is a spoken introduction by Arthur Fiedler which is about 1 minute long in which Fiedler explains why he started playing Beatles music. The liner notes contain a one panel writeup by Peter Dellheim that discuss a little more background about the success Fiedler has had playing the Beatles.

Overall, this isn't a bad collection. I had higher expectations knowing how good a conductor Arthur Fiedler is as well as knowing how good many of the Beatles' songs would have sounded. This might appeal to the Beatles fan wanting to hear songs Classical, and possibly even vice versa - but if you want to go deeper with the Beatles being played classical, you may have to go elsewhere.

Leo Brouwer: Guitar Concerto No. 5 "Helsinki"; Iberia Suite; From Yesterday to Penny Lane

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5 Stars for the concerto, but it is worth it alone.

Leo Brouwer: Guitar Concerto No. 5 "Helsinki"; Iberia Suite; From Yesterday to Penny Lane

Manufacturer: Ondine
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Brouwer: Concierto de Volos; Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez; Arnold: Serenade, Op. 50

ASIN: B000062TDB
Release Date: 2002-05-21

Tracks:

Brouwer: Guitar Concerto No. 5, "Helsinki": Spaces
Brouwer: Guitar Concerto No. 5, "Helsinki": Lightness and Heaviness
Brouwer: Guitar Concerto No. 5, "Helsinki": Luminosity
Albeniz: Iberia Suite: Evocacion
Albeniz: Iberia Suite: El Puerto
Albeniz: Iberia Suite: El Albaicin
From Yesterday To Penny Lane: She's Leaving Home
From Yesterday To Penny Lane: A Ticket To Ride
From Yesterday To Penny Lane: Here, There And Everywhere
From Yesterday To Penny Lane: Yesterday
From Yesterday To Penny Lane: Got TO Get You Into My Life
From Yesterday To Penny Lane: Eleanor Rigby
From Yesterday To Penny Lane: Penny Lane

Customer Reviews:

5 Stars for the concerto, but it is worth it alone........2006-06-13

This is a case of a totally mismatched CD. "From Yesterday to Penny Lane" a setting of Beatle's tunes for guitar and orchestra, although not by far the worst possible rendering of popular music into a classical form, is still cheesy at best. Brouwer has written tons of other music for guitar, including several other serious concertos, so why Ondine, a fabulous label for giving us under-represented music, chose to include this work on a CD instead of another concerto, is beyond me.

Albeniz's "Iberia" is a fully respectable work, but again, why on this album? Why not wait until the whole work is transcribed, and release it that way?

With those glaring idiocies out of the way, let me say that what was done right here makes this flawed album worth getting. The Concerto #5 "Helsinki" is a breathtaking concerto, delivered passionately by soloist Timo Korhonen. If there's anything you like about music for guitar and orchestra, this work has it. As a genre, guitar concertos are much under-represented, many people only hearing the famous Rodrigo works, but this is one that has all of the technical brilliance of Villa-Lobos, is melodically rich like Ponce, but still has the thematic force of Rodrigo's works. With a soloist this gifted, and Brouwer able to write concertos like this, why do we have to settle for only one complete, good piece of music on a disc? Ondine should drop the fillers, sell this concerto alone at half price, and make another album from a completed Iberia transcription, even if it takes a while for Brouwer or another to finish the work. Still, I stand by my 5 stars. The concerto is worth it, and you won't get it anywhere else. Don't be fooled by the extra junk--Brouwer isn't perfect, but he's a perfectly respectable composer when he wants to be.

From Yesterday to Penny Lane: Contemporary Works for Solo Guitar and Guitar & Orchestra

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Delightful guitar music

From Yesterday to Penny Lane: Contemporary Works for Solo Guitar and Guitar & Orchestra

Manufacturer: Concord Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000006TH
Release Date: 1996-10-08

Tracks:

Two Ladies: One Old, One New!
Cumberland Road
Clio
From Yesterday To Penny Lane: Seven Songs After The Beatles: Eleanor Rigby
From Yesterday To Penny Lane: Seven Songs After The Beatles: Yesterday
From Yesterday To Penny Lane: Seven Songs After The Beatles: She's Leaving Home
From Yesterday To Penny Lane: Seven Songs After The Beatles: A Ticket To Ride
From Yesterday To Penny Lane: Seven Songs After The Beatles: Got To Get You Into My Life
From Yesterday To Penny Lane: Seven Songs After The Beatles: Here,There & Everywhere
From Yesterday To Penny Lane: Seven Songs After The Beatles: Penny Lane
Etude In A Menuet Form
El Colibri (Hummingbird)
Confesion
Blue Clouds
Embers
Rhap In Blue

Customer Reviews:

Delightful guitar music.......2003-02-21

Are you a fan of acoustic guitar? Or maybe acoustic guitar backed by an orchestra? If you are, this cd is for you. Carlos Barbosa-Lima weds his guitar to some old standards, bring lovely new sounds out of the familiar melodies.

There are, of course, seven Beatles songs that are done with acoustic guitar and string orchestra. How they manage to breathe new life into "Yesterday" (which I believe is the _most_ recorded song_ever-) is amazing. It still has the yearning in the music but it's shaded by something a little different than the usual recordings of this song. I especially liked "Here, There & Everywhere", which might be my favorite Beatles song of all time. Here the guitar and string orchestra make the song vibrate anew with the wonderful feeling of love.

But, you're saying, what about the other music? Is it good? Yes, it is, an excellent cd for a Sunday afternoon, sort of lounging around, drinking tea and maybe looking at the papers. I was very impressed with the rendering of George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue". It's such a different sound than what you normally get from the piano work on this piece. It is a marvelous piece of work.

If you like acoustic guitar music, you will really enjoy this cd. I recommend it highly for anytime you'd like to listen to something fresh yet familiar. You'll really enjoy this cd.

From Yesterday to Penny Lane
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From Yesterday to Penny Lane
Goran Sollscher
Manufacturer: Deutsche Grammophon
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Here, There and Everywhere: Goran Sollscher Plays the Beatles

The Beatles for Classical Guitar

ASIN: B00004YMLS
Release Date: 2005-03-21

Tracks:

Norwegian Wood
In My Life
Long & Winding Road
Can't Buy Me Love
I Will
Help!
Come Together
I Want To Hold Your Hand
3 American Sketches
From Yesterday To Penny Lane

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From Yesterday to Penny Lane
Rey Guerra
Manufacturer: Egrem Music Cuba
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000549WL
Release Date: 2000-10-23

Tracks:

From Yesterday to Penny Lane: Eleanor Rigby/Yesterday/She's ... - Rey Guerra, ,
Concierto de Toronto: Modetato/Tema Con Variaciones/Tema Libero - Rey Guerra,

From Yesterday to Penny Lane: Plays the Beatles

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Great stuff

From Yesterday to Penny Lane: Plays the Beatles
Gordan Sollscher
Manufacturer: Universal/Polygram
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005HO1B

Tracks:

Japanese
Japanese
Japanese
Japanese
Japanese
Japanese
Japanese
Japanese
Japanese
Japanese
Japanese
Japanese
Japanese
Japanese
Japanese
Japanese
Japanese
Japanese

Album Details

Japanese limited version featuring special packaging

Customer Reviews:

Great stuff.......2002-01-06

Couple of things need correcting here. First, the player's name is Goran not Gordan, and none of the tracks are 'Japanese'. 'Nuf said.

I bought this album over a year ago through DG in Germany. I love it. Sollscher is my all time favorite guitarist, both in his classical work and his popular work. Virtuosity never intrudes on the music. If you like classical guitar, check out his Bach transcription album, and his 2 CD Bach lute suites. His earlied Beatles album was the best of breed for Beatles on classical guitar; this one just adds more icing to the cake. It includes 8 Beatles arangements, Brower's "Seven Songs after the Beatles", and the non-Beatles work "Three American Sketches" by Gearge Martin.

Several of the works on this album have accompanyment on bandoneon by Per Arne Glorvigen. These are in a 'South American style' according to the liner notes, and they are work surprisingly well. "I Want to Hold Your Hand" is wonderful! Had to go back and check the original to verifdy that it was in fact written in a minor key. It was.

The only problem with is album is the sticker shock; wish DG would officially release it in the US.

Brouwer: From Yesterday to Penny Lane (Brower / Rey Guerra)
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Brouwer: From Yesterday to Penny Lane (Brower / Rey Guerra)
L. Brouwer
Manufacturer: Spartacus (Mex) -- Allegro --
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000045IX
Release Date: 1995-08-18

Tracks:

Ste: Eleanor Rigby
Ste: Yesterday
Ste: She's Leaving Home
Ste: A Ticket To Ride
Ste: Got To Get You Into My Life
Ste: Here, There And Everywhere
Ste: Penny Lane
Toccata
Perla Marina
Allegro
Tango
Evocacion Y Presencia
Prld

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Seven Songs After the Beatles

Manufacturer: Arc Music
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ASIN: B000001IHJ
Release Date: 1994-06-21

Tracks:

I. From Yesterday To Penny Lane: 1. She's Leaving Home
I. From Yesterday To Penny Lane: 2. A Ticket To Ride
I. From Yesterday To Penny Lane: 3. Here, There And Everywhere
I. From Yesterday To Penny Lane: 4. Yesterday
I. From Yesterday To Penny Lane: 5. Got To Get You Into My Life
I. From Yesterday To Penny Lane: 6 Eleanor Rigby
I. From Yesterday To Penny Lane: 7. Penny Lane
II. Streicher Op.8: 'Intermezzo'
III. 'Tres Danzas Concs': 1. Allegro-Andantino-Allegro
III. 'Tres Danzas Concs': 2. Andantino
III. 'Tres Danzas Concs': 3. Toccata
IV. 'La Oracion Del Torero'

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La Obra Guitarristica, Vol. 3
Leo Brouwer
Manufacturer: Egrem
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000648FD
Release Date: 2002-02-05

Tracks:

Guajira Criolla, For Guitar
Berceuse: Cancie Cuna on a Theme of Grenet
Entertainer
Romance for Guitar (Excerpt from the Film "Jeux In
Preludio, For Guitar & Strings (After Bach's Prelu
Danza del Altiplano
Fool on the Hill
Ojos Brujos for Guitar
Muerte del gel, Tango (From gel Series)
From Yesterday to Penny Lane, Seven Beatles Transc: Eleanor Rigby
From Yesterday to Penny Lane, Seven Beatles Transc: Yesterday
From Yesterday to Penny Lane, Seven Beatles Transc: She's Leaving Home
From Yesterday to Penny Lane, Seven Beatles Transc: A Ticket to Ride
From Yesterday to Penny Lane, Seven Beatles Transc: Got to Get You ...
From Yesterday to Penny Lane, Seven Beatles Transc: Here, There ...
From Yesterday to Penny Lane, Seven Beatles Transc: Penny Lane

Blow a High Note: From Baroque to the Beatles

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I'm Listening To It Right Now!

Blow a High Note: From Baroque to the Beatles

Manufacturer: Koch Discover Int'l
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Tracks:

Concerto In E Flat: I - Allegro
Concerto In E Flat: II - Largo
Concerto In E Flat: III - Vivace
Sonata In D Major: I - Spirituoso
Sonata In D Major: II - Largo
Sonata In D Major: III - Vivace
Concerto In B: I - Allegro
Concerto In B: II - Largo
Concerto In B: III - Allegro
Concerto In D: I - Grandioso
Concerto In D: II - Andante
Concerto In D: III - Allegro Grazioso
Yesterday
Hey Jude
Penny Love
Michelle

Customer Reviews:

I'm Listening To It Right Now!.......2000-03-23

I'm lucky because I'm listening to a Beatles tune, classically interpretated, right now! It's really a must buy for everyone and it's only a few bucks! Nothing to loose, but you'll gain a lot!

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1. Norwegian Wood
2. In My Life
3. Long & Winding Road
4. Can't Buy Me Love
5. I Will
6. Help!
7. Come Together
8. I Want To Hold Your Hand
9. 3 American Sketches
10. From Yesterday To Penny Lane