(Pre/Post-)Baroque + Rock Band Instruments

This synth track made me enjoy the piece very much, unlike the organ rendering(s) of it I'd previously listened to.

...So I say, thank you !! And also I say church organs aren't bound to rule at playing parts from the pre-industrial era.

Now did anybody long for some clashing / roaring devices on any of those renderings ? 

Here's my try with the added layers...

 

Is it ok if I add to this?

 

When it came out, I do not think it was that great ... and even my own father who already had over 3k LP's of classical music from the earliest to the latest, made the comment that it looked like something for a fair and fun a lot more than it was designed to be "classical" music. I agreed, actually, though my dad misinterpreted Tomita later because of it!

 

As represented in the Stanley Kubrick film, it made more sense, as it was used almost as a cartoon, and not a meaningful piece of music compared to the other pieces used in that film and his film before that.

 

I've never thought that it was serious music, but it helped bring classical music out a bit more to the "masses", while also making people better acquainted with the synthesizer and its sound ... and that helped, eventually, make the "progressive" new bands sound better and the sound more acceptable. Which consequently fueled what became known as "progressive" because of so much synth work ... and specially solos.

 

But the best mix for me, is pretty much around a lot of the folk music bands in England and its northern areas, where they mix anything with everything, and you get some nice mixes, and then one day you get Steeleye Span and feedback and you wonder if the sky fell off the mountain or something!

 

And of course, there is always Gryphon, whose music was used in a National Theater production and helped it gain fame for the band and the production itself! But then, the National Theater needed no introduction and has a history of ... gads ... I have to look, but it's more than 75, and might even be 100 years!

There are quite a few more "groovy" BWV's waiting for their rock gear treatment, but not all the BWV used in the film industry, isn't it ?

"Switched on Bach" is not as expressive as hearing an orchestral Brandenburg Concerto or J Powers Biggs blasting through the Toccata and Fugue in D minor, but I think it's still cool for a couple of reasons.  First it introduced the music of JSB to many people who otherwise would never have heard it in their ordinary listening.  Second, it came at a time when the Moog had been only used for sound effects or novelty records...as such, it proved the theory that this new invention was capable of producing "serious" music.  I liken that to Frank Zappa's "Francesco Zappa" album where his synclavier is used for a similar "proof of concept".

Same cantus firmus as BWVs 663 & 664, all among my BWV favs !

Back to an old mix, where it's not  all MIDI, only MIDI dr and a bass line added on an audio track.

A similar thread was created those days. Wonders inside !!

Because the fugal style didn't really fit the pop/rock make-up despite the exciting pace and "groove", this is an entwined BWV 618.

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Lately found this on the net

...and 

And a pile of others: I just typed "Bach rock", key words I hadn't previously entered in my searches (I had typed "barque'n'roll" or "barock'n'roll" without thinking of simply typing "Bach rock" !!)