Classical Prog - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Mirakaze wrote:

Renaissance has used a lot of classical quotations in its discography. Other examples include Chopin's Revolutionary Étude on Prologue, Debussy's La Cathédrale Engloutie on At The Harbour and Albinoni's Adagio In G Minor on Cold Is Being.

I've often wondered who that beautiful piece of classical piano was by at the beginning of At the Harbour. Now I know. Thumbs Up

Both original parts of Larks' Tongues In Aspic (and probably a lot of other King Crimson tunes from that era as well) are strongly inspired by this Bartók piece:

octopus-4 wrote:

Beethoven on the first Renaissance album and later Rimsky-Korsakov for Song Of Sheherazade

Renaissance has used a lot of classical quotations in its discography. Other examples include Chopin's Revolutionary Étude on Prologue, Debussy's La Cathédrale Engloutie on At The Harbour and Albinoni's Adagio In G Minor on Cold Is Being.

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The obvious Bach's 4th string on A Whiter Shade of Pale

Grieg's Hall of the Mountain King on Wakeman's Journey to the Centre of Earth

Carl Orff Carmina Burana to Zeuhl in general

Beethoven on the first Renaissance album and later Rimsky-Korsakov for Song Of Sheherazade

Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor on "Ballons" by the Oldfield brothers (Sallyangie)

Just the few that pop in mind

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Ones that spring to mind....

Mozart and Bach on the Triumvirat debut album

Beethoven and Tchaikovsky with Latte e Miele

Bach with Le Orme

Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, and others with German prog band The Pink Mice

I love this kind of thing, as I have been a big classical music listener ever since I was with progressive rock.

^ Is it ELP again with an Emerson cover from the Works album?

^ That was a lucky guess. Big smile

^ That Bartok tune sounds soooooo familiar but I can't quite place it. Is it Emerson, Lake & Palmer?

Which classical composers do you most associate with prog? It's OffenBach, but it's often other composers too, such as Modest Mussorgsky (Pictures at an Exhibition), Edvard Grieg (Hall of the Mountain Grill), Franz Liszt (Lisztomania) and Englishman Gustav Holst (The Planets) to name just four. I've been Bizet putting together a Chopin Liszt of some of my favourite tunes, starting with Ravel's Bolero, from the Claude Lelouche movie, Les Uns et les Autre (The One and the Other) starring Geraldine Chaplin (daughter of Charlie Chaplin) in the movie, but actually performed by Christiane Legrand (sister of Michel Legrand). Just listen to her magnificent soaring soprano solo which begins at the 10-minute mark. It's as tasty as a Delius Smith recipe and more entertaining than Britten's Got Talent. In the meantime, I'm Orff to hunt out some more Classical Prog favourites. Let's hope I'm not on a Haydn to nothing. I'll be Bach, as the Governator once said. Tongue

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - August 13 2024 at 03:44