Category: Pop Music
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Sheku’s Take on No Woman, No Cry
Sheku Kanneh-Mason‘s arrangement of Bob Marley’s “No Woman, No Cry” is a perfect example of the vision we advocate for here at Project BachWroteWhat. At just 19, he he transformed a reggae classic by the reggae legend into a Baroque self-accompanied cello piece, and breathed reggae soul back into the music.
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Bach in the Arms of an Angel
Sarah McLachlan’s “Angel”, released in 1997 on the album Surfacing, mesmerized a generation of listeners and remained on major Billboard charts for extended periods. It has now been recomposed into a self-accompanied cello piece in F major, a transposition chosen to take advantage of the cello’s open strings.