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Poll Question: Which is your favorite?
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Voted for Pictures at an Exhibition.
 
Some other ones not mentioned:
 
- Electric Light Orchestra's adaptation of In the Hall of the Mountain King (Edvard Grieg)
- A good portion of Ekseption's discography (though not all of it is really that great)
- Emerson Lake & Powell's adaptation of Mars, the Bringer of War (Gustav Holst)
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I'm an ELP fan and by coincidenca I was listening to the debut just this morning, but the version of Pictures that I prefer is that of Isao Tomita.
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ELP's adaptations are wonderful, others I can think of:

Alice Coltrane - Excerpts from the Firebird Suite (1972 - I wonder if Yes ever heard this...)
Egg - Fugue in D Minor (1970)
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The Egg's one is great. I don't know the other.

Listen to this:




Collegium Musicum has a lot of this stuff.
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Originally posted by A_Flower A_Flower wrote:

Originally posted by fudgenuts64 fudgenuts64 wrote:

Pictures at an Exhibition of course!

...Horizons was a classical piece?



Yes! I think it's by Bach. Funny story on how i found out. I loved the song and learned the beginning on guitar. Then I started playing it for my guitar teacher and she was shocked!

Actually it was written by Hackett but is based on Bach.

I'm voting for Toccata (specifically the live version from WBMFTTSTNE).
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Originally posted by progaardvark progaardvark wrote:


Voted for Pictures at an Exhibition.
 
Some other ones not mentioned:
 
- Electric Light Orchestra's adaptation of In the Hall of the Mountain King (Edvard Grieg)
- A good portion of Ekseption's discography (though not all of it is really that great)
- Emerson Lake & Powell's adaptation of Mars, the Bringer of War (Gustav Holst)


I knew ELO had one, I just couldn't think of it. I should probably look into the Ekseptions discography, and I didn't include ELP's version of Mars because I already included KC's.
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Horizons +1
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Originally posted by fudgenuts64 fudgenuts64 wrote:

Pictures at an Exhibition of course!

...Horizons was a classical piece?

Not an adaption, more a kind of rip-off of Bach Cello Suite No 1 G maior BWV 1007 Wink


About the poll: my vote goes also to 'Pictures At an Exhibition'! Thumbs Up
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I have also another recommendation: Stick men's interpretation of the Firebird Suite from Stravinsky:
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Try also this totally electronic adaptation:


 
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I haven't listened to many of these for quite awhile.
My vote went to Jethro Tull.
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Bourée. Tull took Bach on a journey to Jazz land. Most of the other songs here are simply mimicking the original. And I disqualified Hackett's "Horizons", which is a direct lift of Cello Suite No. 1 in G major BWV 1007, but they never acknowledged Bach on the album cover. And, of course, Bach's version is much better Wink:
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Points: 4707 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 26 2015 at 14:51
I could vote for almost any option

love most of these

went with Pictures

another band with interesting classical adaptations is Sky
I like their version of Toccata more than ELP's
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Pictures at an Exhibition followed by Hoedown and Toccata.
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Points: 6393 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 26 2015 at 15:56
Bouree, followed by Fanfare, Hoedown, and then Tocatta.
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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
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Barbarian is a killer
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I picked Pics at an Ex for its shear pomposity, but I actually prefer Barbarian for its shear brutality...and then all the other ELP versions.
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