Symphonic prog bands with orchestra?

Mirakaze wrote: Keith Emerson's Piano Concerto No. 1 comes to mind (though I don't think it's very good, personally)

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moshkito wrote: Yeah ... but the problem here is that "progressive music" fans, and/or "prog" fans, are not educated enough to go EVEN listen to Rachel Flowers do this Concerto and also Tarkus on her piano,

dwill123 wrote: Apocalypse is the Mahavishnu Orchestra's fourth album, released in 1974. It is performed by the second line-up of the Mahavishnu Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra. It was produced by George Martin, who regards it as “one of the best records [he has] ever made”.[5]

liked this one a lot. A nice blend of orchestra and standard instruments. Some of the suggestions I've tried has lacked a bit of the prog energy, but this album delivered. They also blend in some jazzier elements. I mostly listen to prog with vocals, but it's not something one typically find in classical music. If I should point out one thing this albums lacks, it's vocals.

 

Mirakaze wrote: Keith Emerson's Piano Concerto No. 1 comes to mind (though I don't think it's very good, personally)

The piano is one of my favorite instruments, so I don't mind a piano concerto. This one is also not entirely piano, but I find it integrates the orchestra quite well. It is perhaps more in the classical area than prog, but absolutely a good listen.

 

Cinema wrote: Magnification by Yes was written for an orchestra. Larry Groupé wrote the orchestration for the album. Personally speaking, Magnification is one of Yes' most underrated, under appreciated albums.

I've always liked Magnification and consider it their best work since the 70's. Not on level with their best albums, but well worth a listen. I haven't thought about it featuring an orchestra, but I will next time I hear it.

  

cstack3 wrote: One of my favorites by Mahavishu Orchestra....electric instruments plus orchestra plus choral vocals!  Heaven!   Visions of the Emerald Beyond

Lots of energy in this one! I like the choral vocals. The violins at times reminded me of Jean-Luc Ponty. Nicely wrapped up in 40 minutes with 13 shorter pieces. Being a fan of a musical genre which often takes to long, complex tracks (that I also love), I enjoy albums where every song is 2-5 minutes long. Short, but sweet. Thanks for the tip.

 

richardh wrote: Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Pirates   I never know why this is so overlooked as its one of my favourites by them.

Good song.

 

moshkito wrote: Yeah ... but the problem here is that "progressive music" fans, and/or "prog" fans, are not educated enough to go EVEN listen to Rachel Flowers do this Concerto and also Tarkus on her piano, so folks can see the relationship of Keith's music to classical music, and even possibly an orchestra

I'm not familiar with her, so thanks for the tip. I coincidentally came across this while looking for her on Youtube:

 

 

Seems like it has potential to be quite good.

How about Wakeman's Journey and King Arthur albums? Or Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother suite? And in defense of Yes Symphonic Live, yeah, I know they are playing music not originally intended for an orchestra, but the orchestrations blend together with the band so wonderfully... for me so much better than most of those kind of symphonic concerts, that it almost sounds as if it had been written to be played like that. And then, there's Magnification too, of course.

Am I allowed to mention Nightwish?😎

Labeled under RPI but still pretty symphonic, how about RDM's Contaminazione? (or Contamination if, like me, you've only got your hands on the English language version).

If you're talking about prog rock musicians writing music for symphonic orchestra you'll find very little of that. However if you mean prog rock with symphonic orchestra you'll find loads of music. The difference is when you have a 40 -60 piece symphony orchestra the orchestral parts are highly intricate. You need a trained classical musician to write all the parts. You often find trained classical musicians who compose film scores often collaborate with prog rock bands to write their music with orchestra. I'm not sure, but Keith Emerson might have composed all the music for his piano concerto. His mistake was calling it a piano concerto because then it gets compared to other piano concertos by the great classical music composers when it really shouldn't. It's actually a good piece of music I think. The other prog rock artist who has composed symphonic music is Tony Banks.