artist: Jethro Tull
title: The String Quartets
label: BMG Rights Management
mastered by: Nick Watson
“Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson is reimagining songs like “Aqualung,” “Living in the Past,” “Bungle in the Jungle” and “A Christmas Song” as classical music compositions in a new LP, The String Quartets, due out March 24th.
“I felt that there were some songs rather special to me which featured the string quartet such as ‘A Christmas Song,’ ‘Reasons For Waiting’ and ‘Wond’ring Aloud,” Anderson said in a statement. “These were my first experiences of working with a quartet. John [O’Hara] came up with a few suggestions of his own which presented challenges. All had an intimacy and presence which I looked forward to recapturing…” ”
From rollingstone.com
