Various Artists - I'd Love To Turn You On Volume 2 (4CD) [CD]

• '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.

Mars, The Bringer Of War (Allegro), From The Planets, Op. 32 - Bbc Symphony Orchestra / Conductor: Malcolm Sargent

Malaguena - Carlos Montoya

La Cathédrale Engloutie (The Sunken Cathedral) - Walter Gieseking: Piano

Osanna In Excelsis From Sanctus From Mass In D Minor - The Münchener Bach Orchestra And Choir / Conductor: Karl Richter

To Begin At The Beginning, From Under Milk Wood - A Play For Voices - Richard Burton

Take Five - The Dave Brubeck Quartet

My Robin Is To The Greenwood Gone - Eastman-Rochester "Pops" Orchestra / Conductor: Frederick Fennell

Symphony No.5 In E Flat, Op.82 - Philharmonia Orchestra / Conductor: Herbert Von Karajan

Greensleeves - The John Coltrane Quartet

Ragtime For Eleven Instruments - Columbia Chamber Ensemble / Conductor: Igor Stravinsky

Vetcheryai Rado (Come To Supper Tonight, Rada) - Ensemble Of The Bulgarian Republic

First Movement: Tempo Molto Moderato - Largamente - Allegro Moderato - Presto - Philharmonia Orchestra / Conductor: Herbert Von Karajan

Time On Our Hands (Titles And City Music) - Delia Derbyshire

Frühling (Spring) - Soprano: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Horn Solo: Dennis Brain

Polegnala E Todora (Theodora Is Dozing) - Ensemble Of The Bulgarian Republic

Introduction By Yehudi Menuhin - Ali Akbar Khan

Spirits - Albert Ayler Quartet

September - Soprano: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Horn Solo: Dennis Brain

Fantasia On A Theme By Thomas Tallis - The Boyd Neel String Orchestra / Conductor: Boyd Neel

Rag Sindhi Bhairavi - Ali Akbar Khan

The Picture Of Dorian Gray - Scene One - Hurd Hatfield

Beim Schlafengehen (When Falling Asleep) - Soprano: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Horn Solo: Dennis Brain

Marche Du Soldat - Airs De Marche - Columbia Chamber Ensemble / Conductor: Igor Stravinsky

Matilda, From Four Cautionary Tales - Robert Speaight

Aria With Fontana Mix - Cathy Berberian

Im Abendrot (At Sunset) - Soprano: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Horn Solo: Dennis Brain

Premier Tableau: Airs By A Stream - Columbia Chamber Ensemble / Conductor: Igor Stravinsky

Jet Song From "West Side Story" - Oscar Peterson Trio

Ensemble Introduction To Charlie Haden / Charlie Haden – Bass Solo - Ornette Coleman Double Quartet

Aubade - Edward Elgar

Deuxième Tableau: Pastorale - Columbia Chamber Ensemble / Conductor: Igor Stravinsky

Symphony No.9 In D Major : First Movement: Andante Comodo - Columbia Symphony Orchestra / Conductor: Bruno Walter

Ensemble Introduction To Scott Lafaro / Scott Lafaro – Bass Solo - Ornette Coleman Double Quartet

The Wagon Passes - Edward Elgar

Marche Royale - Columbia Chamber Ensemble / Conductor: Igor Stravinsky

You're The Top - Cole Porter

Advice To Medics - Sun Ra

Overture - Henry Purcell The Gordian Knot Untied, Z.597

Petit Concert - Columbia Chamber Ensemble / Conductor: Igor Stravinsky

The Raven - Basil Rathbone

Air (Moderato) - Henry Purcell The Gordian Knot Untied, Z.597

Trois Danses: Tango, Valse, Ragtime - Columbia Chamber Ensemble / Conductor: Igor Stravinsky

Objets étendus From Étude Aux Objets (Study Of Objects) - Pierre Schaeffer

Rondeau Minuet - Henry Purcell The Gordian Knot Untied, Z.597

Danse Du Diable - Columbia Chamber Ensemble / Conductor: Igor Stravinsky

Tweedledum And Tweedledee From Alice Through The Looking Glass - Jane Asher

Air (Allegro) - Henry Purcell The Gordian Knot Untied, Z.597

Grand Choral - Columbia Chamber Ensemble / Conductor: Igor Stravinsky

Variations Sur Une Flûte Mexicaine (Excerpt) - Pierre Schaeffer

Jig - Henry Purcell The Gordian Knot Untied, Z.597

Marche Triomphale Du Diable - Columbia Chamber Ensemble / Conductor: Igor Stravinsky

I'm Walking Backwards For Christmas - The Goons

Chaconne - Henry Purcell The Gordian Knot Untied, Z.597

Vorgefühle (Premonitions) - Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Conductor: Rafael Kubelik

Air (Allegro) - Henry Purcell The Gordian Knot Untied, Z.597

Vergangenes (The Past) - Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Conductor: Rafael Kubelik

Minuet - Henry Purcell The Gordian Knot Untied, Z.597

Sommermorgen An Einem See (Summer Morning By A Lake: Chord-Colours) - Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Conductor: Rafael Kubelik

Peripetie (Peripeteia) - Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Conductor: Rafael Kubelik

Das Obligate Rezitativ (The Obbligato Recitative) - Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Conductor: Rafael Kubelik

Turkey: Automobile On Mountain Road - Central Anatolian Dance - Deben Bhattacharya

Iran: Rhythm Of A Train - Deben Bhattacharya

India: Raga Zila From Varanasi - Deben Bhattacharya

India: Temple Bells And Drums Of A Bengali Kali Temple - Deben Bhattacharya

Allegretto Pizzicato - Végh Quartet

San Francisco Scene (The Beat Generation) - Jack Kerouac

Bronce Gitano (Solaeres) - Sabicas

Bolero - Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra / Conductor: Eduard Van Beinum

• Genre: Rock
• Product Type: AUDIO CD
• Barcode: 5013929335936
• Release Date: November 10, 2025

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