Nitay Arbel

Prologue

Barber, Adagio for Strings. Original orchestral version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kyl… or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aja… ; one piano arrangement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BED… String synthesizer version that would sound a little like Ian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_58…

Who is Amy?

A taste of Pat Metheny acoustic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbW… another https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo8… and another https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bnt…

The ice breaks

• Amy walks in on Ian being midway through this: Contrapunctus XIV/Fuga a 3 soggeti from Bach's The Art of The Fugue BWV 1080. Somewhat uptempo rendition. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeB… (The B-A-C-H theme enters around 5:48) 

• The Iron Maidens, “The Trooper” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xeb… “Two Minutes to Midnight” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4X…

•  Example Rush and Maiden songs featuring double-stopped/chordal bass parts: Iron Maiden, “Rainmaker” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7o… Rush, “Driven” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jP…

Roadhouse duet

• Yes, “Heart of the sunrise” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHl… The section Ian alludes to starts at 0:30

• Later that night: a somewhat less aimless piano improvisation in F minor than what Ian played: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT8… a somewhat stormier one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7s…

When the heart

GTR (Howe/Hackett): When the heart rules the mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ta… [That was the working title of the novel]

Firth of fifth 

• Led Zeppelin, “The rain song” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4v… 

• Amy’s payment Steve Hackett, “Firth of Fifth” lead comes in at 6:18 (in this version he swells in on the preceding bar). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye8… Not the world’s flashiest guitar solo, but one of the most expressive I know. 

• Maggie’s Email While Ian gets Maggie’s Email, he had something like this on as background. Tangerine Dream. “Ricochet Part 2” (After the piano intro, the electronic parts begin at 2:38) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=705…

Goldilocks

King’s X, “Goldilocks” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhY…

Lakeside Park

King’s X, “It’s Love” (live) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9s…

Crossroads

• Living room scene : Rush, “Tears” (original version) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRD…

• Amy alone : Eric Clapton, “Crossroads” (slow version) here is an acoustic cover https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZC… Cream’s uptempo live version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvo…

• Ian alone : J. S. Bach, “Ich ruf zu Dich, H-rr” BWV 639 piano arrangement by Alfred Brendel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz_… Wilhelm Kempff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elR… The organ original, used as theme music for Andrei Tarkovsky’s classic sci-fi movie “Solaris” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_v…

Different strings

• The Who, “Behind Blue Eyes” release version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3w… “Pinball Wizard” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AK… “See me, feel me” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZP… (studio version),

• Dream Theater, “Different Strings” (Rush cover) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oit… The solo section, after a brief quote from “Analog Kid”, segues into the middle part of “La Villa Strangiato” in the same key (A minor) but 7/8 meter. John Petrucci absolutely blew my mind when I first heard his solo.

Clair de lune

• Claude Debussy, “Clair de lune” (moonlight) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUB… (piano original) arrangement for solo guitar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFL… Note this is transposed a half-step up from the piano original (which is in Db major). Amy tunes down a half-step to match the original key.

• Pat Metheny, “Another chance” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQG… the main theme Amy based her improvisation on starts at 1:06

Getting tighter 

• Neal Schon and Jan Hammer, “Untold passion” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIc…

Maggie returns

• The song Ian hints at is “Blasphemous Rumours” by Depeche Mode, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDl…

Not about us

• Pat Metheny Group, “James” (finger style solo guitar arrangement) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5i… Pat Metheny Group, “(Cross) The Heartland” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FZ… 

• Joe Satriani, “A day at the beach” (cover, shows off two-handed tapping) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltO… , “Crying” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yks… “Tears in the rain”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amT…

• Beethoven, Sonata Nr. 26 in Bb, “Hammerklavier”, 3rd movement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5m… 

• Chopin nocturnes: Op. 9 nr. 1 in Bb minor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtI… Op. 9 nr. 2 in Eb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGR… Op. 32 nr. 2 in Ab https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=my5… Op. 55 nr. 1 in F minor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NON…

• Debussy, “Reflets dans l’eau” (reflections in the water) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hyi…

• Schubert, “Impromptu in Ab major” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxA… “Impromptu in Gb major” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZx…

• Fauré, “Pavane”, arranged for piano by Brian Auger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIg…

Ian alone

• Klaus Schulze, “Kagi’s Lament” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esi… As one (otherwise negative) reviewer of the album wrote: “there is no denying this piece’s sorrowful beauty”. Particularly the first seven minutes…

Transfigured Night

• Arnold Schoenberg, “Verklãrte Nacht” (Transfigured Night), Op. 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rql… (Chicago Symphony Orch, Barenboim) Another performance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djD… yet another by RNCM Orchestra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P7…

After the ordeal

• Steve Hackett, “After the ordeal” (Hackett-era Genesis song) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW_…

Resolution

• The song Ian hints at when talking to Rose is “Can’t get it wrong” by Spock’s Beard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4l…

Wedding concert:

• Santana, “Oye como va” (“that’s how it goes”) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZw… 

• Pat Metheny, “Follow me” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ua…

• Van Halen, “Feels so good” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bO…

• Sugarloaf, “Green-Eyed Lady” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZd…

• Joe Satriani, “Love Thing” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMq…

• Yes, “Love will find a way” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIv…

• Joe Satriani, “I believe” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIi…

• Led Zeppelin, “Stairway to Heaven” (studio version) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckc…