Thursday, June 4, 2009

The Snow is Dancing

Have a listen to these very different versions of Debussy's "The Snow is Dancing". I wasn't very interested in classical music back in the early seventies, but Tomita's synthesiser versions of Debussy, Holst's planets and Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition( the first classical album I bought)made me curious.

Anyway, it's interesting to compare both approaches, first the beautiful classical version, Michelangeli playing.



Tomita's synthesiser version "Snowflakes are Dancing" from the 1974 album of the same name:

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