Robortom feat. Au Revoir Simone - ’Paganini Rocks’

In a move set to infuriate Middle England and send Classic FM’s phonelines into meltdown, Rob da Bank, Tom Middleton, and Au Revoir Simone have reworked Paganini’s ’24th Caprice’ into ’Paganini Rocks’ - a club anthem 200 years in the making. iTunes: Video directed by Graham Baclagon: In the eyes of most classical music buffs mixing classical and dance music is about the most sacrilegious thing you can do. But while Robortom’s ’Paganini Rocks’ will undoubtedly rankle the classical world, it’s the latest in a long line of reinterpretations of Paganini’s original composition. Since 1819, his ’24th Caprice’ has been reworked by a long and illustrious list of composers from Chopin, Liszt, and Schumann, to Rachmaninoff and Lloyd- Webber. It was also used as the theme tune for the South Bank Show. In 2009, it was the turn of British composer, Tom Hodge (
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