"No, you have not landed on Slipped Disc by mistake. Respected electronic music pioneer Klaus Schulze tells the story himself. The origins of " Body Love " are quite funny. I received a call from a movie producer named Manfred Menz and I wound up becoming his principal composer for a period of time. Amongst others, I composed the "Barracuda" soundtrack for him [1978, previously unreleased on album]. This led to a friendship which lasts till today. Menz now lives in Malibu, California where I visited him a couple of years ago. Anyway, this guy calls me and asks if I would compose the score to a porn movie. I said: "Porn? Nah, I don't do that kind of thing". As it turned out, the director of the movie, Lasse Braun, had already shot it and had used my albums " Timewind " [1975] and " Moondawn " [1976] as a kind of "working soundtrack". This was obvious because the couples in the film were moving in time to my gro...
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Charming...
So Karajan, Giulini, Jochum, Furtwangler, Horenstein, Sinopoli, Chailly, Celibidache, Tintner et al wasted all their time on wonderful performances and recordings of severely flawed scores for nothing?
If anybody could get Karajan and Celibidache in the same fan club they must have been doing something interesting...
So wrote Elgar in 1905 to his publisher Jaeger about the composition of his Introduction and Allegro.
Thank you Marcus for reminding us of how great that 'devil of a fugue really is.
Isn't it interesting that so many consider this magnificent work to be his finest, yet it is also his most classical in form?
I wonder how many of today's jet-set maestros would conduct ballet? (It is interesting that Antal Dorati was another fine ballet conductor).
Follow this link for more on Elgar's music for The Sanguine Fan.