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After tackling two lengthy works in the Liverpool Oratorio and Standing Stone, Paul McCartney works in much smaller form on the pieces in his third album of classical music, Working Classical. The album consists of three compositions performed by the London Symphony Orchestra that run 10-12 minutes each, plus 11 short selections performed by the Loma Mar Quartet, some of which are versions of his pop songs. Of course, McCartney is more accustomed to writing short compositions, and even the three orchestral pieces seem more tightly organized than the earlier, longer works. "A Leaf" and "Spiral" both began as works for the piano but have been opened out in orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick and Richard Rodney Bennett, respectively. "Tuesday," by contrast, was written as the score for a short, animated children's film, and it retains the sense of being program music. The quartet pieces are unfailingly melodic, and the mixture of the pop songs "Junk," "My Love," "Maybe I'm Amazed," "She's My Baby," and "The Lovely Linda" with newer pieces creates a pleasant alternation of the new and the familiar. The chosen songs mostly were written for McCartney's late wife, and the album as a whole has a wistful, delicate sense consistent with the grief associated with her death. This, McCartney's second album after being widowed (following the pop/rock oldies collection Run Devil Run by only two weeks), consists largely of music written prior to the tragedy, but anticipates it and, simultaneously, marks the composer's welcome return from his period of bereavement.
© TiVo
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Junk (Paul McCartney)
Paul Mccartney, ComposerLyricist - Lawrence Foster, Conductor, MainArtist - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1999 MPL Communications Ltd., under exclusive license to StarCon, LLC d/b/a Hear Music
A Leaf (Paul McCartney)
Paul Mccartney, ComposerLyricist - Loma Mar Quartet, String Quartet, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1999 MPL Communications Ltd., under exclusive license to StarCon, LLC d/b/a Hear Music
Haymakers (Paul McCartney)
Paul Mccartney, ComposerLyricist - Loma Mar Quartet, String Quartet, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1999 MPL Communications Ltd., under exclusive license to StarCon, LLC d/b/a Hear Music
Midwife (Paul McCartney)
Paul Mccartney, ComposerLyricist - Lawrence Foster, Conductor, MainArtist - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1999 MPL Communications Ltd., under exclusive license to StarCon, LLC d/b/a Hear Music
Spiral (Paul McCartney)
Paul Mccartney, ComposerLyricist - Loma Mar Quartet, String Quartet, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1999 MPL Communications Ltd., under exclusive license to StarCon, LLC d/b/a Hear Music
Warm And Beautiful (Paul McCartney)
Paul Mccartney, ComposerLyricist - Linda Mccartney, ComposerLyricist - Loma Mar Quartet, String Quartet, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1999 MPL Communications Ltd., under exclusive license to StarCon, LLC d/b/a Hear Music
My Love (Paul McCartney)
Paul Mccartney, ComposerLyricist - Linda Mccartney, ComposerLyricist - Loma Mar Quartet, String Quartet, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1999 MPL Communications Ltd., under exclusive license to StarCon, LLC d/b/a Hear Music
Maybe I'm Amazed (Paul McCartney)
Paul Mccartney, ComposerLyricist - Loma Mar Quartet, String Quartet, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1999 MPL Communications Ltd., under exclusive license to StarCon, LLC d/b/a Hear Music
Calico Skies (Paul McCartney)
Paul Mccartney, ComposerLyricist - Loma Mar Quartet, String Quartet, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1999 MPL Communications Ltd., under exclusive license to StarCon, LLC d/b/a Hear Music
Golden Earth Girl (Paul McCartney)
Paul Mccartney, ComposerLyricist - Loma Mar Quartet, String Quartet, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1999 MPL Communications Ltd., under exclusive license to StarCon, LLC d/b/a Hear Music
Somedays (Paul McCartney)
Paul Mccartney, ComposerLyricist - Loma Mar Quartet, String Quartet, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1999 MPL Communications Ltd., under exclusive license to StarCon, LLC d/b/a Hear Music
Tuesday (Paul McCartney)
Paul Mccartney, ComposerLyricist - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Andrea Quinn, Conductor, MainArtist
℗ 1999 MPL Communications Ltd., under exclusive license to StarCon, LLC d/b/a Hear Music
She's My Baby (Paul McCartney)
Paul Mccartney, ComposerLyricist - Linda Mccartney, ComposerLyricist - Loma Mar Quartet, String Quartet, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1999 MPL Communications Ltd., under exclusive license to StarCon, LLC d/b/a Hear Music
The Lovely Linda (Paul McCartney)
Paul Mccartney, ComposerLyricist - Loma Mar Quartet, String Quartet, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1999 MPL Communications Ltd., under exclusive license to StarCon, LLC d/b/a Hear Music
Album review
After tackling two lengthy works in the Liverpool Oratorio and Standing Stone, Paul McCartney works in much smaller form on the pieces in his third album of classical music, Working Classical. The album consists of three compositions performed by the London Symphony Orchestra that run 10-12 minutes each, plus 11 short selections performed by the Loma Mar Quartet, some of which are versions of his pop songs. Of course, McCartney is more accustomed to writing short compositions, and even the three orchestral pieces seem more tightly organized than the earlier, longer works. "A Leaf" and "Spiral" both began as works for the piano but have been opened out in orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick and Richard Rodney Bennett, respectively. "Tuesday," by contrast, was written as the score for a short, animated children's film, and it retains the sense of being program music. The quartet pieces are unfailingly melodic, and the mixture of the pop songs "Junk," "My Love," "Maybe I'm Amazed," "She's My Baby," and "The Lovely Linda" with newer pieces creates a pleasant alternation of the new and the familiar. The chosen songs mostly were written for McCartney's late wife, and the album as a whole has a wistful, delicate sense consistent with the grief associated with her death. This, McCartney's second album after being widowed (following the pop/rock oldies collection Run Devil Run by only two weeks), consists largely of music written prior to the tragedy, but anticipates it and, simultaneously, marks the composer's welcome return from his period of bereavement.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 14 track(s)
- Total length: 01:01:29
- Main artists: London Symphony Orchestra Lawrence Foster Andrea Quinn Loma Mar Quartet
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Paul McCartney Catalog
- Genre: Classical
© 1999 MPL Communications Ltd. ℗ 1999 MPL Communications Ltd., under exclusive license to StarCon, LLC d/b/a Hear Music
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