Classical Music Turned into Prog

Personally, I absolutely love the prog adaptations of classical works.  I think it was ELP's "The Barbarian", off their very first album that got me really hooked on the idea. 

Out of the classical pieces I'd like to see done in prog style, there's a few fairly obscure ones, namely the Sederunt principes by the 12th Century French composer Perotin.  It just absolutely rocks.  I think that there's some prime candidates in Darius Milhaud's string quartets as well, namely the second movement of Quartet No. 2 or the third movement of Quartet No. 4. 

And of course, since King Crimson and Emerson Lake and Powell covered "Mars" from Holst's The Planets, why not cover some of the other movements?  I think Uranus would work particularly well.  Bartok's stuff generally seems to be quite conducive as well--particularly the fifth movement of his Fourth String Quartet.

I could go on and on, but I'll spare you.

-Topographic

Dick Heath wrote: ...Emerson borrowed from Dave Brubeck Quartet's interpretation of Mozart's Ronda Ala Turka...

Castlevania wrote: I've always wanted to arrange sections of The Rite Of Spring for my rock band. Full sections though, not just little motifs like in Working All Day.

Dick Heath wrote: Love Sculpture's Khataturian's Sabre Dance (great bit of 60's guitar work by Dave Edmunds)

el böthy wrote: Tchaikovsky´s Overture Festival 1812

Mikeypoo wrote: i would LOVE (although id be timid about it at first) to hear a rendition of Beethoven's moonlight sonota, particularly the third movement.

Penumbra wrote: It's called Gates of Delirium: something original, not a re-do.

oh really.... granted it's not a classical lift or redo... but it is not original.  Look to a band that some people  think is overestimated...

BroSpence wrote: thellama73 wrote: Ha! 4:33, would be a great prog piece. As a side note, I'd like to voice an annoyance of mine before someone else brings it up. Just because a track is called "Bolero" does not make it a version of Ravel's Bolero. A bolero is a dance that uses a particular rhythmic figure (as on King Crimson's Lizard). I've sen this mistake made dozens of times and it always really bugs me. </rant> I agree with your entire post, completely.  Good job.

Me too. Jane uses it on Fire Water Earth & Air.

thellama73 wrote: Ha! 4:33, would be a great prog piece. As a side note, I'd like to voice an annoyance of mine before someone else brings it up. Just because a track is called "Bolero" does not make it a version of Ravel's Bolero. A bolero is a dance that uses a particular rhythmic figure (as on King Crimson's Lizard). I've sen this mistake made dozens of times and it always really bugs me. </rant>

I agree with your entire post, completely.  Good job.

Prog.Sylvie wrote: At least, ELP with their own adaptations of classical music, made us discover Classical music in the seventies, at least for those who did not know a thing about it while they were teenagers. The first time that I attended a concert with a full symphonic orchestra, it was ELP show at the Olympic Stadium with orchestra. Thirty years ago this year. ELP helped demistify classical music and made it accessible for young people.

I was listening to my father`s record collection at a very young age which had everything from Bach to John Coltrane in it and perhaps that`s one of the reasons why I got into progressive rock music starting off with bands like Focus & Genlte Giant.