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Topic: Prog bands that plays classical music
Posted: August 15 2014 at 12:45

Like what the title stated, i was wondering whether there are bands who re-arranged actual classical composition into a rather more proggy manner like Ekseption, Trace and The Pink Mice (Lucifer's Friend only with different monicker/side project).

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated

Ekseption:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqufpeDjDtQ

Trace:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbQ71r60kYw

The Pink Mice:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CImQuUW4m24

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Posted: August 15 2014 at 12:53

Triumvirat comes to mind. The beginning and ending of their suite Across The Waters from side one of their debut album Mediterranean Tales is a direct adaptation of the overture to the Mozart opera "Die Entfurung Aus Dem Serail".
Much of the band's early music utilises little snatches from classical music, but the overture mentioned is the most substantial quotation I can think of.
Triumvirat keys player Jurgen Fritz was classically trained, and an honours student at the Cologne Music Conservatory.

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Posted: August 15 2014 at 12:54

if covers (or at least renditions/their own take on it) of classical music counts then ELP are the basis for this stuff.

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Posted: August 15 2014 at 12:59

presdoug wrote:

Triumvirat comes to mind. The beginning and ending of their suite Across The Waters from side one of their debut album Mediterranean Tales is a direct adaptation of the overture to the Mozart opera "Die Entfurung Aus Dem Serail".
Much of the band's early music utilises little snatches from classical music, but the overture mentioned is the most substantial quotation I can think of.
Triumvirat keys player Jurgen Fritz was classically trained, and an honours student at the Cologne Music Conservatory.

My keyboard teacher told me about Triumvirat about a year ago, and i gotta say their earlier stuff has a lot of Classical influences towards it, it's a good band though

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Posted: August 15 2014 at 13:05

Michael678 wrote:

if covers (or at least renditions/their own take on it) of classical music counts then ELP are the basis for this stuff.

Well, i'm still trying to find the obscure ones though

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Posted: August 15 2014 at 13:11

First thing that comes to mind is Egg's "Fugue In D Minor", but there's nothing at all amazing about the arrangement. It's just sort of the spirit of rebelling against their classical roots in such a way to me

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Posted: August 15 2014 at 13:13

Xonty wrote:

First thing that comes to mind is Egg's "Fugue In D Minor", but there's nothing at all amazing about the arrangement. It's just sort of the spirit of rebelling against their classical roots in such a way to me

I heard that one too apparently Smile

, they did however made a good impression regarding to the compostion

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Posted: August 15 2014 at 22:15

I still think that ELP should have played Bach's "Tocatta Fugue". That piece screams to have been played in with their treatment, and I'd love hear something like that.

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Posted: August 15 2014 at 22:37

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http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=5614

and of course things like this ;
Rick Wakeman Classical Variations album cover

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Posted: August 16 2014 at 02:43

Sky did some notable classical covers. They and ELP were the greatest exponents of this sort of thing within prog. I'm not really aware of too many other bands that did it as regularly.

Par Lindh Project did an excellent cover of Night On Bare Mountain that was included on the album Gothic Impressions. (couldn't find it on you tube though)

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Posted: August 16 2014 at 02:55

Hugh Banton did a version of Gustav Holst's The Planets.

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Posted: August 16 2014 at 04:34

Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours

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Posted: August 16 2014 at 04:37

And of course there's the spanish band Los Canarios with their album Ciclos from 1974. It's one of the best examples of a classical piece being interpreted to prog rock. It's Vivaldi's Le Quattro Stagioni.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjAFSs1Lfjo

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Posted: August 16 2014 at 04:55

And then there is : Andrew Lloyd Webbers Prog Rock Classic, Variations on Paganini's Caprice No. 24 in A minor

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Posted: August 16 2014 at 05:39

Before ELP was The Nice.

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Posted: August 16 2014 at 08:02

And then there's the debut album "Act One" by Scottish rock band Beggar's Opera, complete with transcriptions of parts of Franz von Suppe's Poet and Peasant and Light Cavalry overtures, Rossini's William Tell overture, and Sibelius's Karelia Suite.

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Posted: August 16 2014 at 11:21

Renaissance, while not playing classical music directly, "borrow" quotes from classical stuff on their earlier albums. I know the first one is absolutely full of them, but in the "classic" lineup, I'm aware of the following quotes:

Can You Understand quotes Tonya and Yuri Arrive at Varykino, a theme from Maurice Jarre's score for Doctor Zhivago

At the Habour quotes La Cathédrale Engloutie by Claude Debussy

Running Hard quotes Litanies by Jehan Alain

Cold Is Being completely takes the music from Adagio in G minor by Tomaso Albinoni

Pretty sure I covered all the classical quotes, I think everything else was all original. I think you'd love this band though either way, they have a huge classical bent to them.

Edited by fudgenuts64 - August 16 2014 at 11:22

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Posted: August 16 2014 at 11:49

Oceansize........Unravel from the album Effloresce

Shining......Goretex Weather Report from their 3rd album

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Posted: August 16 2014 at 13:10

New Trolls out of Italy were highly classically influenced. I would recommend the following:

Concerto Grosso No. 1

Concerto Grosso No. 2

Concerto Grosso No. 3

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Posted: August 16 2014 at 13:27

Pretty much anything and everything Symphony X Wink

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