The definitive version is by Eva Cassidy, vocal and acoustic guitar with a piano in the background
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXBNlApwh0cThe piece is popular as a piano solo, for example
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWLm-cX26Gsor an easy version if you want to copy down the score and play it yourself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUfUk-z00g8Nahre Sol wondered what various classical composers would have made of it. She created ten classical versions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAtZawkqBG8That was 8 months ago. She has done ten more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQfTkNmdv4cThey are brilliantly clever. Perhaps there is a bit of a trick to it: rather than go full bore at "what would $composer do", pick a well known piece by $composer with a similar feel, and do a mash up. That way, listeners can catch the reference to the well know piece as the embodiment the composers style. For example, the Brahms version has a nod to Brahm's Three intermezzos opus 117 and the arpeggios of no 2.
SumerBreeze 1 points 1 year ago
It’s an interesting piece by jew Joseph Kosma that borrows heavily from Eastern European folk melodies/lullabies and arranged with a jazzy swing. Even more interesting when redone in those other styles, which might help people discover pieces that are even more incredible than this (((overplayed and overrated))) one.
Play a Brahms waltz with a jazz swing and you will see what I mean, but I don’t personally care for the jazz style.