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Rick Wakeman keyboardest of the British group Yes recorded a guitar version of the third movement of Brahms Fourth Symphony. He also recorded The Lord's Prayer. Yes is a British bock band. They have had Top 49 hits. They are still played on the radio. They were active from around 1968-1981.
Many singers and vocal groups have recorded The Lord's Prayer which is in the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 6:9-13. Jesus uses it as the way to pray. There are many musical versions of The Lord's Prayer. Even Barbra Streisand who is Jewish has recorded it. On the local news station KMOX who is the flagship station for the Baseball Cardinals, it is played just before 6:00 am. Brahms' Fourth Symphony (Opus#98) was his last symphony it is in the E Minor Key. The third movement is the scherzo and the shortest. It is titled Allegro giocoso-Poco meno presto. it is very fast passed. Presto means fast. I have heard the Wakeman version on the electric guitar. the version that I have of it is with Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic. The first movement Allegro non troppo sounds similar to the first movement of Alexander Scriabin's (1872-1915) Piano concerto in F Sharp(Opus#20). This movement is also titled Allegro. I like the second movement of this concerto. The two composers had little in common. The First movement is written in the sonata form like many first movements of symphonies. I have only found about this version recently while listening to Vermont Public Radio and the announcer spoke of it after playing Brahms Fourth in its entirety. It lasts about 45 minutes. This shows that classical music can transcend other genres of music.
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