YOU ARE SO RIGHT NO APOLOGIZES NEEDED
This piece is of the hook man i can never imagine it could better than this man you are the best i want to be like you one day. this is offical
Mikhail Johnson
Sheer Exhilaration
What a wonderful, wonderful idea executed with immense style and true musicianship laced with delicious humour. Perfect for an audacious encore, this would definitely steal the show. What a winner. Thanks for creating such a gem.
Valda Bedford
Incredible!!!!!!!
This..... This...... I don't even know what to say. My comment is probably useless to the other 26 you have but... My MY MY GOODNESS. I never thought someone could do something like THAT to clasical music like that. Most people try to but dont succeed. I give it 26 thumbs up.. Too bad we dont have that many. This is something that should be at the headline of sibelius music. This is something that should stand out as the top (and is) :). I initially didnt know what to write but there is nothing to explain how AMAZED I was to hear this.
BEAUTIFUL
Jared J.
Brilliant!
I loved this piece - it is so much fun! I think you really embrace the samba feel but at the same time the theme is clear. It made me grin! Brilliant!
Amy Rushton
Mozart would turn in his grave...
This idea was more than fantastic. I had the exact same reaction when I heard the jazzed up Beethoven's 5th. This music wasn't only entertaining and completely out of the blue, it was well composed, interlacing the chromatic samba with the strict, powerful Alla Turka.
Cheers to this piece.
Thomas Ryan
Wow, Wow, Wow!!
Interesting piece. I have to say that this is one of my top 10 scores on this site. I like the vibrancy of the song, but I do wish some of the repeat marks were taken out and some new samba music was made for each repeat. Although I do feel that the very end is EXCELLENT!
Ethan Hayward
Too good for a Turkish March
He's done it yet again! Philip Buttall has added a vibrancy to this relatively boring Mozart piece, IMHO. I always found this particular piece and several in the same era of placating the 'turkish-bath-(inferred orgy)-fantasy' --- but 'popular-so-you-gotta-write-something-for-the-upperclass-if-you-wanna-remain-popular' kind of stuff. Beethoven also succumbed to this 'necessity', as did others of the time.
I always found the 'Turkish Bath' music severely lacking in compositional interest. Kind of like 'Rage over a Lost Penny' in sophistication.
However, here the added samba ideas add *immensely* to a flagging composition. I love Mozart and Beethoven, but always thought of the Turkish Marches as a waste of their talents, but demanded by their publishers.
With this new layer of rhythmic interest, the SAMBA..ALLA TURCA suddenly improves the previous (original version's) missing energy.
Personally, I'd like to have seen a bit more diversity in the 'samba' part. Different strokes for different folks!
Please continue...we all look forward to your next endeavour.
Cheers then, Jamie
Jamie Meighan
A excellent work
I love the new spin on a timeless classic. This piece will definitely provide a good challenge to two talented piano players out there.
Joey
PS: I don't think the French are capable of understanding the "samba" style. It's above their heads.
Joseph Munoz
Very fun to play!
This is a joy to play...it's almost become part of my daily routine with one of my colleagues...all of the 3 pieces in this "series" are wonderful pieces of music!
Noel DeLisle (ASCAP)
I always wondered why I liked Mozart
After hearing this Mozart revisited, I know why I prefer the real thing. Mozart was a genius which unfortunately isn't true of my learned colleague although I must admit many surrogate Mozarts would have no claim to fame if the maestro hadn't existed.
Chas Lesaffre
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ALL CLASSICAL AND LATIN MUSIC LOVERS CAST YOUR EYES HENCE
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful! I love the way the 2nd Piano with the Samba blends so beautifully with the classical 1st Piano. I would've never thought that these two almost opposite styles of music would have been able to be joined together to make one mouth-watering meal for my ears and my senses. You, Mr. Composer, are a genius!
David-Paul Chavannes
Ha...
I like the way that this has been worked. "With apologies to Mozart."
You really combined the samba style with this classical piece well. Good work.
Nigel Carothers
Jaw-dropper!
What an incredible piece! I've played the original Mozart piece many times, and this funky arrangement just made me appreciate it so much more. Bravo! It's a must-listen-to for anyone who hasn't already.
Philip Grace
Amazing...
You are a genius... All the chords and melodies go perfectly well with each other. You are truly a great composer/arranger/song parody maker. Make more songs! Also, the ending was spectacular!
Christian Florez
How fun!!!
Well, I loved listening to this piece. I am vaguely familiar with the original (I know the theme anyway), and I think this is an impeccable arrangement. The additions never betray the integrity of the original. In fact, they only bring out the lighter, more playful side of Mozart.
Wonderful!!!
Jonathan Lunneberg
Why Apologise
This i a very good piece. I think if Mozart was sent to our time and settled in with modern music, he'd wonder why he didn't attempt to write it as a samba. The music is good, and you've been creative as an arranger. The ending is my favourite part where k.545 sonata gets shown off, and then the final touch with a very inventive scale. I've recommended this piece to many of my friends.
WELL DONE!!!
Thomas Marlin
Thomas Marlin
Oh no... not again! ;-)
After "21st Century Drawing Room", could your twisting of Mozart's music get any worse?! ;-D
Seriously, I really liked this arrangement. As to whether or not Mozart would, well, I don't think he ever heard the Brazilian samba, so we probably will never know. But, he DID like the Turkish Janissary music on which this piece is based, so I see no reason for Mozart's ghost to come back and haunt Mr. Buttall's computer.
Overall, I believe that the second piano provides a great rhythm section for the piece and nicely complements the first piano playing Mozart's original; it provides an intoxicating beat that plays under the first piano without clumsily interfering with it in any manner.
I think this would be an awesome piece with which to end a concert program!
Brendan Gordon
Superb!
If only we could have the Mozart orignal played on one of those old fortepianos equipped with a Turkish Band stop! Imagine the thumps and jingling bells together with samba... I could even hear the samba played nearby on a harpsichord just to give it more brassy sass. Oh, the potential for getting everyone dancing! Thank you, Mr. Buttall, for such great fun.
Brian McPherson
Stock gestures on stock gestures
The popularity of Mozart's 'rondo alla turca' has far removed it from its context as an inoffensive climax to his pianoforte sonata in A, K. 331. The music has been, to an extent, torn from its initial charm and character by excessive performance and broadcast. Buttall's skill and flair as an arranger is productive in this context in the sense that if the Turkish rondo is to be exploited at all, then why not present it in a way which refreshes what has become rather stale music. I doubt very much that, as a previous reviewer has commented, 'Mozart would love Buttall's additions'. Mozart, a man of great genius and compositional guile, would surely scorn any such devaluation and trivialisation of what was to him a 'galant' and sophisticated product. Moreover, if the performer wishes to perform a piece with inherent flare, panache, exoticism and wit I urge them to discover Padre Antonio Soler's Fandango. Soler's Fandango will fulfil any urges toward musical exuberance, vitality and colour, it will not do so at the expense of trivialising what is fast becoming a musical clich
Ciaran Jenkins
Wow!
All I can say is "WOW!" This is a great arrangement to Mozart's Turkish March. I personally think that Mozart himself would love this piece. Like Philip's other pieces, Samba..alla Turca shows us how real musicians can write a work that I'm sure will be a lot of fun to perform at a recital, or even just for the fun of playing. My little sister was even dancing to it she loved it so much. Great work and I hope to hear many more like it!
Kyle Smith
Awesome
An Awesome arrangment. It Proves that any song by any composer should be aware that thier music could be next. I personally think that if your song is victim to a parody, then that just means that the song is popular! Good Job with this arrangment!!!
Fabio DeLuca
Another great parody!
My cell phone ringer plays the Turkish March--and I don't believe I'll ever hear this piece the same way again! I absolutely had to listen to this after hearing your Solfeggiettissimo--and this is just as great! I imagine Mozart himself would have enjoyed this too :) Keep it up!
Jerome Osborne
How do you keep doing these?
I will just HAVE to buy this one, too, and print it out to play with my teacher. My, where do you get your ideas?! Lovely!
With a tribute to the ending, which, IMHO, was wonderful.
Martin Segerstråle
That's sense of humor!
Beleive me: Mozart should be glad. I'm sure he was the first to laugh at himself.
Gonzalo Saavedra
Who needs Mozart!
Catchy, that's for sure. However, I believe there is a problem from bars 31-38. The tune/melodic line in this section is based on a major scale, where as the rhythm and harmony (Piano 2) is in minor form. It creates a bit of discomfort, and perhaps a change of feel (beyond your exciting adaptation) is needed.
If you believe this piece is technically correct, don't pay attention to me, I'm just a 14 year old kid.
Don't get me wrong, you are an amzing musician, and an amazing composer.
Aron Prothero
Only thing corny was the title!
Very good.
One request would be for you to arrange the piano secundo for a big band so you could use it as a solo piano piece with swing band.
Not saying that it needs to be altered mind ...
Rob Newton
Encore written all over it
A seriously fun piece based on a clever idea. I didn't think I'd like it, but I just couldn't hit the stop button.
Doug Houck
As wacky as Wolfy!
Where Mr Buttall got this idea from I have no idea, but nevertheless it works well! I'm sure Wolfgang would have liked the idea too! Maybe they should play this in Spanish/Latin bars!
Chris Ioannou
No Fear
Never fear, Mr Buttall, your Secondo Piano Part fits perfectly with the original. Another first class contribution from Mr Buttall, and a jolly and energetic piece at that. We have come to expect little short of excellence from Mr Buttall and this latest work does not disappoint. What an interesting idea.
Richard Norman
