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    Posted: March 15 2007 at 09:55
Alright this is a thread to discuss classical music you would like to hear recorded as a prog rock piece.  A successful example would be ELP's recording of Moussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition.

For you connoisseurs,  i am not just referring to the classical era, but from anywhere from late Medieval period (ie Hildegard von Bingen) to Post-Romantic and Modern (ie John Cage or Phillip Glass)

I personally have always wanted to hear a prog rock version of Mahler's Das Lied von Erde
and i think a version of the Polovtzian Dances from Prince Igor by Borodin would be cool... as would a large part of Carl Maria von Weber's Freischutz
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Here's a good one
Saint-saens' Rondo Capriccioso, now that would be AWESOME
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Wagners Ring Cycle!Evil%20Smile
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Berlioz' Symphonie Fantastique!
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Tchaikovsky´s Overture Festival 1812
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Oy, If Pictures or Fanfare or The Nutrocker weren't proof enough that we just shouldn't do this, I don't know what are.

Just Say No

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Mozart's Symphony No. 25
Sing hymns, make love, get high, fall dead.
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Originally posted by Trademark Trademark wrote:

Oy, If Pictures or Fanfare or The Nutrocker weren't proof enough that we just shouldn't do this, I don't know what are.

Just Say No
 
Fanfare rules!!!!!!!!!!!
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Originally posted by thellama73 thellama73 wrote:

Berlioz' Symphonie Fantastique!


Try John Eliot Gardiner's version.

The way he uses period instruments means (among other things): louder, more abrasive brass, and far more prominent percussion than is customary. In other words: Berlioz really ROCKS, as never before!

Besides, the Symphonie Fantastique must be one of the proggiest symphonies around.

But that definitely doesn't mean I'd like to hear a 'prog version' of it. And the thought of a prog band 'doing' Mahler gives me the shivers.

I do think Tomita's synthesized Debussy is really cute, though!
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Jethro tull - Bouree
 
It's the only good one I've ever heard, and it's great at that.
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Jan Akkerman does a great updated version of John Dowland`s Britanniaon his `73 album Tabernakel with a small string section along with a modern rythm section. Very cool interpretation Cool.
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Originally posted by el böthy el böthy wrote:

Tchaikovsky´s Overture Festival 1812
 
Check:
Cozy Powell: Over The Top
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Points: 6419 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 15 2007 at 13:49
Originally posted by Trademark Trademark wrote:

Oy, If Pictures or Fanfare or The Nutrocker weren't proof enough that we just shouldn't do this, I don't know what are.

Just Say No


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Love Sculpture's Khataturian's Sabre Dance (great bit of 60's guitar work by Dave Edmunds)
Of course Keith Emerson borrowed B Bumble & The Stinger's arrangement of Nut Rocker  a hit single in 1962 or 3! Who had a hit single with Offenbach's  Can Can  - Peter somebody -  a few years earlier?
Emerson borrowed from Dave Brubeck Quartet's interpretation of Mozart's Ronda Ala Turka
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^^ more compelling reasons to Just Say No.
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Originally posted by Dick Heath Dick Heath wrote:

Originally posted by el böthy el böthy wrote:

Tchaikovsky´s Overture Festival 1812
 
Check:
Cozy Powell: Over The Top
 
Good album,.... why isn't it here?
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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 15 2007 at 14:46
Originally posted by cmidkiff cmidkiff wrote:

Originally posted by Dick Heath Dick Heath wrote:

Originally posted by el böthy el böthy wrote:

Tchaikovsky´s Overture Festival 1812
 
Check:
Cozy Powell: Over The Top
 
Good album,.... why isn't it here?
 
I have been vociferous foooor the inclusion of Cozy Powell, but alas, the majority consider him even not related.
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Einstein on the Beach, 4:33, and Pierrot Lunaire
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Points: 17493 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 15 2007 at 16:05
I don't want to see any classical composition turned into prog... Let's leave classical music like it is. Let's create completely original prog pieces and songs... stop the "remake" (this is what it is in a way) culture and start CREATING.
 
Anyway, I can't think of one. I really don't like classical-made-modern... Also, if I like prog-rock is because I like that, prog-rock.
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Points: 8368 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 15 2007 at 16:05
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>
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