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Working Classical

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Released
  
1 November 1999

Length
  
61:35

Producer
  
John Fraser

Release date
  
1 November 1999

Recorded
  
Mid 1999

Label
  
EMI Classics

Artist
  
Paul McCartney

Genre
  
Classical music

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Working Classical(1999)
  
Liverpool Sound Collage(2000)

Awards
  
Porin Award for Best Foreign Classical Music Album

Nominations
  
Classic Brit Award for Ensemble/Orchestral Album of the Year

Similar
  
Paul McCartney albums, Classical music albums

Working Classical is Paul McCartney's third full-length release of original classical music as a double LP and as a single CD, and was issued less than a month after Run Devil Run's release in 1999.

Contents

Paul mccartney a leaf


Background and recording

Following up on 1997's Standing Stone, the concept behind Working Classical was to place pre-existing (and in some cases, very well known) McCartney songs into an orchestral context. Specially for this project, McCartney also unveiled some new pieces, namely "Haymakers", "Midwife", "Spiral" and "Tuesday". A different performance of "A Leaf" was originally released on 21 April 1995 on a CD single, and is presented here in a new recording.

Performing the new arrangements are the London Symphony Orchestra and the Loma Mar Quartet, with special orchestrations arranged by noted musicians Richard Rodney Bennett and Jonathan Tunick.

Album title

The title of this project is a pun on the phrase "working class", in the sense that McCartney, despite his elevated stature, still cherishes his Liverpool roots and is proud of them. Mirroring this ideology is his pride in his rock and roll songs and willingness to transfer them into the "elevated" classical music genre.

Release and reception

Paul McCartney's Working Classical was another success in that genre, even though this time it failed to dent the regular US album charts, and was better received critically than his previous effort, Standing Stone. His subsequent forays into the classical realm are 2006's Ecce Cor Meum and 2011's Ocean's Kingdom.

Track listing

All pieces by Paul McCartney.

  1. "Junk" – 2:49
  2. Originally introduced on McCartney's 1970 debut solo album McCartney
  3. "A Leaf" – 11:08
  4. Originally premiered as a CD Single in an alternate performance in 1995
  5. "Haymakers" – 3:33
  6. "Midwife" – 3:33
  7. "Spiral" – 10:02
  8. "Warm and Beautiful" – 2:31
  9. Originally introduced on Wings' 1976 album Wings at the Speed of Sound
  10. "My Love" – 3:48
  11. Originally introduced on Paul McCartney & Wings' 1973 album Red Rose Speedway
  12. "Maybe I'm Amazed" – 2:04
  13. Originally introduced on McCartney's 1970 debut album McCartney
  14. "Calico Skies" – 1:52
  15. Originally introduced on McCartney's 1997 album Flaming Pie
  16. "Golden Earth Girl" – 1:57
  17. Originally introduced on McCartney's 1993 album Off the Ground
  18. "Somedays" – 3:05
  19. Originally introduced on McCartney's 1997 album Flaming Pie
  20. "Tuesday" – 12:26
  21. "She's My Baby" – 1:47
  22. Originally introduced on Wings' 1976 album Wings at the Speed of Sound
  23. "The Lovely Linda" – 0:54
  24. Originally introduced on McCartney's 1970 debut album McCartney

Songs

1Junk2:49
2A Leaf11:08
3Haymakers3:33

References

Working Classical Wikipedia
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