I'D Love To Turn You On Vol 2 / Various I'D Love To Turn You On Vol 2 / Various CD

Four CD set. 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 Coleman, 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 concr?te. 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 it's 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 Var?se 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. Not for nothing did Paul McCartney reportedly call 'Sgt Pepper' "our 'Freak Out!'. "

1. Mars, the Bringer of War (Allegro), from the Planets, Op. 32 2. To Begin at the Beginning, from Under Milk Wood - a Play for Voices 3. Greensleeves 4. Time on Our Hands (Titles and City Music) 5. Spirits 6. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Scene One 7. Aria with Fontana Mix 8. Ensemble Introduction to Charlie Haden / Charlie Haden - Bass Solo 9. Ensemble Introduction to Scott Lafaro / Scott Lafaro - Bass Solo 10. Advice to Medics 11. The Raven 12. Objets ?tendus from ?tude Aux Objets (Study of Objects) 13. Tweedledum and Tweedledee from Alice Through the Looking Glass 14. Variations Sur Une Fl?te Mexicaine (Excerpt) 15. I'm Walking Backwards for Christmas 16. Malaguena 17. Take Five 18. Ragtime for Eleven Instruments 19. Fr?hling (Spring) 20. September 21. Beim Schlafengehen (When Falling Asleep) 22. Im Abendrot (At Sunset) 23. Aubade 24. The Wagon Passes 25. Overture 26. Air (Moderato) 27. Rondeau Minuet 28. Air (Allegro) 29. Jig 30. Chaconne 31. Air (Allegro) 32. Minuet 33. La Cath?drale Engloutie (The Sunken Cathedral) 34. My Robin Is to the Greenwood Gone 35. Vetcheryai Rado (Come to Supper Tonight, Rada) 36. Polegnala E Todora (Theodora Is Dozing) 37. Fantasia on a Theme By Thomas Tallis 38. Marche Du Soldat - Airs de Marche 39. Premier Tableau: Airs By a Stream 40. Deuxi?me Tableau: Pastorale 41. Marche Royale 42. Petit Concert 43. Trois Danses: Tango, Valse, Ragtime 44. Danse Du Diable 45. Grand Choral 46. Marche Triomphale Du Diable 47. Vorgef?hle (Premonitions) 48. Vergangenes (The Past) 49. Sommermorgen An Einem See (Summer Morning By a Lake: Chord-Colours) 50. Peripetie (Peripeteia) 51. Das Obligate Rezitativ (The Obbligato Recitative) 52. Turkey: Automobile on Mountain Road - Central Anatolian Dance 53. Iran: Rhythm of a Train 54. India: Raga Zila from Varanasi 55. India: Temple Bells and Drums of a Bengali Kali Temple 56. Allegretto Pizzicato 57. San Francisco Scene (The Beat Generation) 58. Bronce Gitano (Solaeres) 59. Bolero 60. Osanna in Excelsis from Sanctus from Mass in D Minor 61. Symphony No.5 in E Flat, Op.82 62. First Movement: Tempo Molto Moderato - Largamente - Allegro Moderato - Presto 63. Introduction By Yehudi Menuhin 64. Rag Sindhi Bhairavi 65. Matilda, from Four Cautionary Tales 66. Jet Song from "West Side Story" 67. Symphony No.9 in D Major : First Movement: Andante Comodo 68. You're the Top