Music Album Review: 'Bach Meets the Beatles: Revisited'
On February 15, 1993, the Minnesota-based classical music record label Pro-Arte released Bach Meets the Beatles: Variations in the Style of Bach, an album of piano pieces that blend the music of John Lennon and Paul McCartney and the Baroque composition style of Johann Sebastian Bach. Conceived and performed by pianist John Bayless, Bach Meets the Beatles presented 15 hit songs by the Fab Four, including All You Need is Love, Hey Jude, Something, And I Love Her, and Nowhere Man. Official Video by Entertainment One Distribution: Imagine (John Lennon) A sequel to Bayless’ earlier Bach on Abbey Road, Bach Meets the Beatles was just one of many Beatles-classical music mashup recordings; Joshua Rifkin had done a more ambitious take on the Lennon-McCartney canon in his 1965 bestselling LP The Baroque Beatles Book, and Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra covered the “lads from Liverpool” in Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra Play the Beatles. Both records sol