The Beatles

The Beatles (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr) were the most influential popular musicians of the twentieth century. Formed in Liverpool around 1960, they reshaped popular music in barely a decade together, evolving from exuberant beat-pop to the studio-crafted sophistication of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and Abbey Road. Their final recorded album, Abbey Road (1969), is among their most admired, famous for the seamless medley of songs on its second side and for classics including ‘Come Together,’ ‘Something’ and ‘Here Comes the Sun.’ The melodic richness, harmonic ingenuity and sheer craftsmanship of the Beatles’ songs have made them a magnet for classical arrangers, including the violinist Guy Braunstein, whose Abbey Road Concerto reimagines their music for violin and orchestra.