Classics With A Beat

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Release Date: 1973

Label: Music For Pleasure

The surprise arrival of Waldo De Los Rios onto the popular music scene, and the even more surprising success of his much acclaimed Mozart 40, which was an instant and long-lived hit throughout the continent of Europe, finally succeeded in breaking down that barrier which had long separated 'pop' music and 'classical' music into two opposing and irreconcilable forces.

Now the Conway Sinfornia [sic] have taken eight well-known and well-loved classical works by a variety of composers, including in their selection the work that started it all—Mozart's Symphony No. 40, and have injected the subtle kind of beat favoured by Waldo de Los Rios to produce an album destined to bring even closer together the popular and classical idioms, and in so doing provide eight superb illustrations of how to reinvigorate the classics with a beat.

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