ALBINONI, Adagio in G Minor - by, The Doors? ------ but first:

[UTUSN]

[Alliepoo]

1. Never heard the Doors version!

I must say I love Hauser!

[UTUSN]

3. Same here. The Doors have occupied a niche in my personal museum for 50 years.

And I'm a surface, "generalist" type, so I don't go deep into much if at all, so I am barely aware of their catalog - that is, not a fan - but on my Navy leaky, rusted, 20-years-old ship leaving the Philippines from R&R, going back to Vietnam, we ran smack dab into hurricane or whatever they're called over there. Terrible rough weather/water for a couple of days, on this ship, LST that is basically a hollow tube like a warehouse made for carrying troops or supplies, and flat-bottomed, no keel, meaning that it didn't cut through the waves, but hit them head-on, the entire front half bouncing up in the air, vibrating like a tuning fork, then slamming down flat, and this type known to break in half. With the gravity pulling you down when you're trying to climb a ladder (stairs).

When it was over and the ocean was smooth as glass, the Captain (actually a lower grade, Lieutenant) gave us a reward trauma relief "Holiday Routine," meaning the day off from regular duties, and there's no place to go, so everybody was sunbathing on the deck. And somebody had a cassette player and this was the soundtrack of the mood:

[Alliepoo]

8. Wow! That sounds like a terrifying couple of days.

I’m glad your ship held strong way back then so you’re here to share your experiences and some good music!! And this is another one I haven’t ever heard! I wasn’t a huge fan of The Doors in my younger years but as I’ve gotten along in life I find myself enjoying them more. Bet this sounded like the best music you ever heard after those couple of days being thrown around in that boat!!

[UTUSN]

9. We floated along on a smooth as glass sea with The Crystal Ship suspended over us.

I have heard knell
a shipboard bell
the hours on a glass blue sea.

And I have heard yell
sailors, swabbies, and swells
with pitching 'twix fish and fowl free.

Oft' have had quelled
my sun sweat smell
by salt spray, bare, burned back to lee.

Have let alone dwell
a greeneyed belle
as I skipped to my mates with glee.

For, I have heard knell
a shipboard bell
the hours on a glass blue sea.

[Alliepoo]

10. That's beautiful.

[regnaD kciN]

2. FACT CHECK: The "Albinoni Adagio" is a twentieth-century work...

…NOT composed by Albinoni.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adagio_in_G_minor?wprov=sfti1#

[UTUSN]

5. Fine. Reminds me of my high school band teacher, who was a veteran of the Army Band.

After our warm-up tuning-ups, which were a mass of a mess, he would say, "That's close enough for jazz."

Needless to say, we weren't playing jazz.

[MuseRider]

4. Outstanding!

I love that work. I do not think it was ever transcribed for winds so I doubt I ever played it but am very familiar with it. Beautiful piece and the Doors? Love it, just love it.

Thanks, I will be hearing this in my head now for a long while.

[UTUSN]

6. Beauty is beauty, thanks, whether "ALBINONI" composed it or not.

[malthaussen]

7. Some other covers:

It made it into the computer game "Might and Magic VI.". Composed by Remo Giazotto, possibly as a "musical hoax." He claims to have based it on a fragment of a bass line by Albinoni that no one else has ever been able to find. Regardless, it has been used over and over in films, and covered by other bands, not just the Doors: Renaissance, Yngwie Malmsteen, and Sarah Brightman, inter alios.

Here's Annie Haslam and Renaissance:

And here's Yngwie with the Japanese Philharmonic Orchestra:

And Sarah Brighman:

-- Mal