Ulytau - Tocate An Fuge
Feb. 3rd, 2010 02:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellyssianBecause it's one of my favorite tunes of all time (that would be Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor BWV 565), here's another tune by the Kazakhstan band Ulytau that can be found (in MP3 form, no CD that I could find) on the album Two Warriors
It's approaching my favorite performance of the piece (not including those on the pipe organ, although it does beat out some of them) by 80's metal band Cirith Ungol. They play the toccata pretty much as written, except using guitar and bass, and the tempo seems to tick off those who think it needs to be fast to be good:
It's approaching my favorite performance of the piece (not including those on the pipe organ, although it does beat out some of them) by 80's metal band Cirith Ungol. They play the toccata pretty much as written, except using guitar and bass, and the tempo seems to tick off those who think it needs to be fast to be good: