Album guide
My Classical Way
- Released
- 2010
- Label
- Frazzy Frog Music
- Forces
- Guitar
- Personnel
- Marc Antoine guitar, with Philippe Saisse keyboards and Jasmine Roy and Rebeca Vega vocals
Marc Antoine built his contemporary-jazz sound around finger-picked nylon-string guitar, with samba and bossa nova never far away. My Classical Way turns that sound towards melodies more often heard from an orchestra, piano or violin.
Antoine produced and arranged all ten tracks for his own Frazzy Frog label. Rather than imitate the original scoring, he keeps the repertoire inside his familiar guitar-led world, with keyboards from Philippe Saisse and guest vocals from Jasmine Roy and Rebeca Vega.
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The classical side contains only the source pieces used on the album, in album order. The jazz side presents the complete album whenever a dependable copy can be embedded.
The listening queues above follow the same order. The classical player omits tracks that are not based on a classical original.
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Source works
The album’s complete track listing, with each classical source identified and original compositions marked plainly.
- Carmen BGeorges Bizet: Carmen, Act I: Habanera, ‘L’amour est un oiseau rebelle’
- CapriceNiccolò Paganini: 24 Caprices, Op. 1: No. 24 in A minor
- DreamerClaude Debussy: Rêverie, CD 76
- CanonJohann Pachelbel: Canon in D major
- Wolfgang 40Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550: I. Molto allegro
- Rodrigos ConciertoJoaquín Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez: II. Adagio
- Air on MadridJ.S. Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068: II. Air
- OpusFrédéric Chopin: Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23
- RebirthAntonio Vivaldi: The Four Seasons, Spring, Violin Concerto in E major, Op. 8 No. 1, RV 269: I. Allegro
- Marias SongCharles Gounod: Ave Maria, CG 89a, after J.S. Bach’s Prelude in C major, BWV 846