An album of Steve Hackett's music performed on grand piano and pipe organ. Performed and transcribed by international organist & pianist Marco Lo Muscio
In Marcos own words
This musical project comes from my passion for Progressive music of the late 60s and early 70s. In my opinion Progressive Rock is a highly creative and important movement in contemporary music. It blends rock with classical music - notably with Stravinsky, Bartok, Debussy, Bach and Beethoven - with Blues and with Jazz.
The core of my creative idea is to make transcriptions of selected Progressive Rock compositions adapting them for pipe organ and Steinway 9 grand piano, to enhance the musical qualities of the compositions and to give them a deeper acoustic feeling, closer to Classical music, with the breathtaking beauty of these magnificent musical instruments - the D274 9 Steinway grand piano and the Ruffati pipe organ of the Canadian church in Rome.
This album is a tribute to Steve Hackett, composer and guitarist, born in 1950 in London.
Track List
From "Genesis - Foxtrot and Steve Hackett - Bay of Kings"
- Horizons (Grand Piano)
From "Steve Hackett - Bay of Kings"
- Bay of Kings (Grand Piano)
- Skye Boat Song (Grand Piano)
- Petropolis (Grand Piano)
- Kim (Pipe Organ)
- Cast Adrift (Pipe Organ)
From "Steve Hackett - Guitar Noir"
- Walking Away From Rainbows (Pipe Organ)
From "Steve Hackett - Voyage of the Acolyte"
- Hands of Priestess Part I (Pipe Organ)
- The Lovers (Grand Piano)
From "Steve Hackett - Momentum"
- The Sleeping Sea (Grand Piano)
- Variations on a Theme by Chopin (Grand Piano)
- A Bed, a Chair and a Guitar (Grand Piano)
- Cavalcanti (Grand Piano)
J.S. Bach - Bourée in E minor BWV 996 (Grand Piano)
J.S. Bach - Prelude in G major BWV 1007 (Grand Piano)
From "Genesis - Foxtrot and from Steve Hackett - Bay of Kings"
- Horizons (Pipe Organ)
BONUS TRACKS from live concerts:
From "Steve Hackett - Bay of Kings"
- Kim (Pipe Organ)
(Live in London - Westminster Cathedral, June 3 2007)
From "Genesis - Selling England By The Pound
- Firth of Fifth Solo (Grand Piano)
(Live in Chelyabinsk Organ Hall - Russia, October 3 2004)
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