Imagine: Music Of The Beatles

Product Details

Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0090266837625
Label : RCA
Number of Discs : 1
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 1996-04-17
Running Time : 63minutes
UPC : 090266837625

ASIN : B000003G0A

Track Listings for

Disc-1
1. Free As a Bird - Ofra Harnoy, Doug Riley, Jeremy Wall
2. Eleanor Rigby
3. Here, There and Everywhere
4. In My Life
5. And I Love Her
6. When I'm Sixty-Four - Ofra Harnoy, Orford String Quartet
7. Michelle - Andrew Dawes, Ofra Harnoy
8. Nowhere Man
9. Yesterday
10. Girl - Ofra Harnoy, Orford String Quartet
11. Across the Universe
12. Here Comes the Sun
13. Norwegian Wood/For No One
14. She's Leaving Home
15. Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds
16. Octopus's Garden
17. Imagine
18. Hey Jude - Adele Armin, Ofra Harnoy
19. Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End

Customer Reviews

Interesting Cover, but Bad CD (2004-06-05)

I can not believe that Ofra is even famous. Her playing is so stiff and lacks phrasing. Her tone quality is horrible. The only reason that she makes recordings is because her father is rich and he bought her a several million dollar cello and paid symphony orchestras to let her play solos with them. But, it is interesting to hear a cellist play the Beatles. Only buy this CD if you have boughten every cd on this webstite and have a little money left over.

Beautiful and Relaxing (2004-05-21)

The Beatles and Ofra Harnoy! The best of both worlds! What more could you ask for? A friend gave me this CD, and I have enjoyed listening to this right before bedtime every night. Ms. Harnoy, I applaud you for making some of the finest renditions of my favorite Beatles tunes. If you're a semi-professional classical musician like me and you don't have this in your CD collection, you're missing out--Big Time!!! 5 + stars for a wonderful CD!!!!

Lovely and powerful (2002-01-01)

Before you write this off as another attempt to "muzak" the Beatles, listen to Harnoy's lovely playing on "She's Leaving Home," "Across The Universe" and "Girl" and see if you still feel that way once you've heard them. A great set of interpretations by a most evocative cellist.

At long last, Beatles music covered tastefully! (2000-12-30)

I always felt that if an artist is going to cover another artist's music they should either improve on the original or do it differently but tastefully. Rarely have I heard Beatle songs that accomplished that. Among the few Beatle covers I do think accomplished that are Judy Collins 'In My Life', Joe Cocker's 'With a Little Help From My Friends',Ray Charles' 'Yesterday' and a couple of the tracks on George Martin's recent release 'In My Life'. Unfortunatly most of the cuts are silly and an embarrassment to Mr Martin but I have to think that he was induldging his friends on many of the tracks letting non singers e.g,Goldie Hawn, Robin Williams, Jim Carey, sing. Outstanding are two instumentals with guitarist John Williams covering 'Here Comes the Sun' and violinist Vanessa Mae with as probably as beautiful a version of 'Because' as the original. Three or four other tracks are fair with the rest for the garbage heap. One more cover comes to mind, Linda Ronstadt's 'Goodnight', from her album of lullabies. As for Ms. Harnoy's 'Imagine', it is nearly flawless. It captures that Beatle sound of the middle part of their recording career together when they created the haunting,lonely, eerie sound most exemplified by 'Eleanor Rigby', 'In My Life', and 'Nowhere Man'. She infuses that feeling into the whole album with her instrument the cello which is perfectly suited for the task. My only complaint would be some of the song selections but that is a matter of personal taste. I'd love to hear her play 'If I Fell' and a few others but I think she covered a great portion of songs that adapt well to the cello. I'm sure in years to come other great classical virtuoso's will be following in her footsteps in covering this remarkable catalogue of music.

Awesome (2000-10-18)

We echo every word of the fantastic praise of the other reviewers. Listen to MICHELLE. Awesome.

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