Various Artists - Most Relaxing Classical Music in Universe / Various - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

As Jacob Kellermann points out in the commentary to this album, there is an unbroken tradition of performing arrangements of Franz Schubert's music on the guitar. Already in his lifetime some of his most popular songs appeared with simplified guitar accompaniment, marketed by music publishers wanting to exploit the growing market for domestic music-making. Schubert himself composed very little for the instrument, and there are doubts regarding Schubert's own skills on the instrument. Nevertheless it is well known that the guitar was in fashion with the middle-class Viennese among which Schubert and his circle of friends moved. In his notes, Kellermann argues that elements of the light, melody-driven and carefree musical style favoured in that environment and present in stylized form in much of Schubert's music is the very aspect that makes it so inviting to play on the guitar. DuoKeMi was formed by Kellermann and Daniel Migdal in 2006, and the two are constantly aiming to expand the repertoire for their combination of instruments. This has resulted in a number of commissions as well as new transcriptions, often by Kellermann himself as in the case of the much-loved Arpeggione Sonata recorded here.

Album Tracks 1. Also Sprach Zarathustra (Beginning) - '2001 A Space Odyssey' - Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra 2. Gianni Schicchi O Mio Babbino Caro - 'A Room with a View' - Miriam Gauci 3. Symphony No. 5 Adagietto - 'Death in Venice' - Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra 4. Madama Butterfly Vogliatemi Bene - 'Mona Lisa' - Miriam Gauci 5. Adagio for Strings - 'Platoon & The Elephant Man' - Capella Istropolitana 6. Piano Concerto in F minor, BWV 1056 Largo - 'Hannah and Her Sisters' - Hae-Won Chang 7. Tales from the Vienna Woods - 'Heat and Dust' - Strauss Festival Orchestra 8. Clarinet Concerto in a Major Adagio - 'Out of Africa' - Ernst Ottnsamer 9. Die Walkure Ride of the Valkryies - 'Apocalypse Now' - Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

Album Tracks 1. I. Prelude 2. II. Aragonaise 3. VI. Marche Du Toreador 4. Thais, Act II Meditation 5. The Tale of Tsar Saltan, Op. 57 Flight of the Bumble-Bee 6. Holberg Suite, Op. 40 (From Holberg's Time Suite in the Olden Style) IV. Air 7. Liebestraume, S541/R211 No. 3 Nocturne in a Flat Major 8. Orpheus in Der Unterwelt Can Can 9. The Nutcracker, Op. 71 Valse Des Fleurs 10. Slavonic Dance No. 10 in E minor, Op. 72, No. 2 11. Mazurka No. 41 in C Sharp minor, Op. 63, No. 3 12. 5 Military Marches, Op. 39, Pomp and Circumstance No. 1 in D Major 13. Bolero