The Amadeus Brothers?
Punch Brothers are continuing to use their semi-regular Thursday show at The Living Room in New York City to try out some of their more adventurous undertakings.
We posted a video of them performing Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major a month ago, and now there is video of them tackling Mozart’s Spring Quartet with banjo, mandolin, fiddle and guitar.
Serious students of classical music can decide for themselves how successfully Punch Brothers interpret Mozart’s music, but we at The Bluegrass Blog salute them for taking risks with their music, and pushing themselves – and the instruments they play – into places where they aren’t familiar.
Hat’s off to Thile and his merry band!
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Continuing in their quest to prove that the familiar bluegrass ensemble (banjo, bass, fiddle, guitar, mandolin) is primarily a group of musical instruments - as opposed to bluegrass instruments - Punch Brothers are hard at work on a transcription of the 3rd Brandenburg Concerto from Johann Sebastian...
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We posted last week that Punch Brothers would be appearing on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on 2/29.
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They are the sole...
We posted last week about some of the press coverage from China of the current Sparrow Quartet tour. The band features Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn on picked and non-picked banjo respectively, with Casey Driessen on fiddle and Ben Sollee on cello.
There is a fascinating video up on YouTube that...
We've posted repeatedly about Punch Brothers, the most recent permutation of Chris Thile's supremely talented band of acoustic superpickers.
Their debut release on Nonesuch Records is due on 2/28/08 built around Thile's composition, The Blind Leaving The Blind - a magnum opus by the standards of the...
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