Classical Adaptations

What???  No Don Sebesky???

I like 'Horizons' but I do find others in Hackett's discography that I love pretty much over it... just an example: his 'Variation On A Theme By Chopin', is it a REAL adaptation? Well, it is even better than that - it is a real classical 'Variation' for acoustic guitar, just amazing!

 

 

presdoug wrote: From the list, ELP's Pictures At An Exhibition others not mentioned that I love Pell Mell-Toccata Triumvirat-The Abduction From The Seraglio Overture The Pink Mice-Pathetique sonata

Hoedown is so light and giddy, it's impossible for me not to vote for it. Still waiting for Horizons to choose his vote. Will I be let down? Or will everything work out.

Rick Robson wrote: presdoug wrote: From the list, ELP's Pictures At An Exhibition others not mentioned that I love Pell Mell-Toccata Triumvirat-The Abduction From The Seraglio Overture The Pink Mice-Pathetique sonata   Hey Doug, this is very interesting indeed, a classical adaptation made by Triumvirat! Never heard of it at all, very hard to find it I guess... From which composer is the adaptation?   Damn right! Pell Mell's adaptation from Bach's would be a very good contender to ELP's Toccata, no doubt at all.

The piece is from a Mozart opera. It is actually the first few minutes-and last few minutes- of the "Across The Waters" suite, Side one, of Mediterranean Tales. The band label the beginning section as "Overture" and the end part "Underture", and the sections are directly transcribed from the Mozart overture.

Edited by presdoug - May 27 2015 at 12:07

Pictures at an Exhibition for me...it's my fave ELP album 

Pictures by a wide margin for me.  I love Bouree--it was the first classical adaption I heard in Prog--but JT really just re-arranged the Bach piece for different instruments.  PAAE was audacious and ambitious--not entirely a successful adaption--but bold for the time.  I went to the original work after hearing this and discovered the music of Mussorgsky and a suite of music I love greatly, both the original piano work and the adaptation for orchestra.

Let's not forget Minuetto Allegretto by the Wombles based on Mozart Symphony 41 and Peter and the Wolf by Jack Lancaster.

presdoug wrote: Rick Robson wrote: presdoug wrote: From the list, ELP's Pictures At An Exhibition others not mentioned that I love Pell Mell-Toccata Triumvirat-The Abduction From The Seraglio Overture The Pink Mice-Pathetique sonata   Hey Doug, this is very interesting indeed, a classical adaptation made by Triumvirat! Never heard of it at all, very hard to find it I guess... From which composer is the adaptation?   Damn right! Pell Mell's adaptation from Bach's would be a very good contender to ELP's Toccata, no doubt at all.     The piece is from a Mozart opera. It is actually the first few minutes-and last few minutes- of the "Across The Waters" suite, Side one, of Mediterranean Tales. The band label the beginning section as "Overture" and the end part "Underture", and the sections are directly transcribed from the Mozart overture.               And nice to see some love for Pell Mell, thanks, Ric!

Edited by Rick Robson - May 28 2015 at 19:03

As curiously I saw absolutely no RPI band listed in this poll selection nor mentioned (exception made for Messaggio 73), Le Orme did some interesting 'adaptations' - Mozart's Blue Rondo A La Turka and Bach's Concerto n.3, both in "L'Aurora Delle Orme (1970)".
 
But the adaptation by a RPI band that I enjoyed the most so far was made by the band Buon Vecchio Charlie in the track 'Venite Giu Al Fiume' - an enjoyable 'one minute' intro quoting Edvard Grieg's 'Peer Gynt', which is repeated in the midsection and during the last minute of this exciting music, by the way the first I'm pleased to knowing from BVC, interesting band who released one album only, that I recently found posted in PA's .