Favorite classical adaptations in prog
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Topic: Favorite classical adaptations in prog
Posted By: ExittheLemming
Subject: Favorite classical adaptations in prog
Date Posted: May 16 2008 at 10:03
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Thought it might be interesting to see which prog versions of classical music rate as your favorites. For what it's worth here are mine (in no particular order but one of 'em is admittedly a little cheese nibbley): ELP - The Barbarian (Bartok - Allegro Barbaro) Peter Sinfield - Song of the Sea Goat (Vivaldi - Largo from Concerto in D) Collegium Musicum - Mikrokozmos (Bartok) The Doors - An American Prayer (Albinoni - Adagio) Panta Rhei - Quarts (Bartok) Ekseption - Sabre Dance (Khatchaturian) The Nice - Diary of an Empty Day (Lalo - Symphony Espagnole) ELP - Knife Edge (Janacek - Sinfonia) ------------- 
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Posted By: NotAProghead
Date Posted: May 16 2008 at 10:46
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Agree with "Albinoni's Adagio" by The Doors.
I also like
Jethro Tull - Bouree (Bach)
Jethro Tull - Pavane (Faure) Sky - Toccata (Bach)
Stern Combo Meissen - Spring (Vivaldi)
Rainbow - Difficult to Cure (Beethoven's Ninth) ------------- Who are you and who am I to say we know the reason why... (D. Gilmour) |
Posted By: infandous
Date Posted: May 16 2008 at 10:54
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No competition: Canarios "Cyclos" (Vivaldi's Four Seasons) though I also like ELP's Toccatta as well |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: May 16 2008 at 11:01
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not an adaptation, but used (with a slightly improved melody line even!) by Mother Gong on their "Fairy Tales" album in the track "The Three Tongues": Maurice Ravel - Introduction and Allegro for Flute, Clarinet, Harp and String Quartet (they only use the Allegro though). They also don't name the source in the sleeve notes, so one has to know the Ravel piece to recognize it. A bit cheeky, but if King Crimson can get away with it... -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: Andrew A.
Date Posted: May 16 2008 at 11:56
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Obvious choice, but for me has to be ELP, Pictures at an Exhibition |
Posted By: fuxi
Date Posted: May 16 2008 at 12:15
| I usually find all those leaden 'cover versions' totally indigestible (Sky's in particular) but 'Knife Edge' and 'The Barbarian' by ELP are quite exciting (probably because I don't know the originals), and ELP's 'Toccata' (based on a Ginastera original I've never heard either) is incredible fun! |
Posted By: Relayer09
Date Posted: May 16 2008 at 13:09
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ELP - Fanfare For The Common Man (Copeland)
Steve Howe/Yes - Lute Concerto in D Major (Vivaldi)
ELP - The Enemy God Dances With The Black Spirits (Prokofieff) ------------- If you lose your temper, you've lost the arguement. -Proverb |
Posted By: NotAProghead
Date Posted: May 16 2008 at 13:59
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How could I forget ELP's "Romeo and Juliet" (Prokofiev)! ------------- Who are you and who am I to say we know the reason why... (D. Gilmour) |
Posted By: unclemeat69
Date Posted: May 16 2008 at 16:09
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I would prefer the originals in every case, but I do kinda like KC'
Devil's Triangle off ITWOP (of course a rendition of Gustav Holst's
Mars Bringer of War from The Planets)
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: May 16 2008 at 17:00
| i like elp's hoedown. |
Posted By: popeyethecat
Date Posted: May 16 2008 at 18:11
Yes! While scrolling down this topic I was waiting for that. Funny thing is, I didn't know Holst's original that well, and didn't notice while listening to King Crimson that that was it (on vinyl in the loft, left over from my mother's youth  ). So, when Holst's Mars came on the radio, my ears pricked up. I know thiiissss. Yeah, that was silly. Great piece of music, though!------------- 
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unclemeat69 wrote:Posted By: Drachen Theaker
Date Posted: May 16 2008 at 18:40
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ELP - Knife Edge, The Barbarian, Toccata
Jethro Tull - Bouree (jazzed up Bach)
Focus - Hamburger Concerto Starter (Brahms Variations on a Theme by Haydn), Father Bach (The St Matthew Passion in less than two minutes, minus the shouty German singing!)
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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: May 16 2008 at 18:45
Certainly!!  Also Fanfare for the Common Man, it's a masterpiece with Pirates.
Jethro Tull's Bouree. ELP's Barbarian. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: May 16 2008 at 19:28
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my favorite has to be.. has always been I guess.. Canarios - Ciclos (Vivaldi's Four Seasons) fabulous.. fabulous.. fabulous.. Fans of the Barbarian and Knifes Edge should check out the original pieces by Bartok and Janacek. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: May 16 2008 at 20:17
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PFM - William Tell Overture (Rossini)
Ekseption - Air On A G String (Bach)
Therion - O Fortuna (Orff)
Prog Related:
David Gilmour - Je Crois Entendre Encore (Bizet)
Andy Mackay - Ride of The Valkyries (Wagner) and An Die Musik (Schubert) ------------- What? |
Posted By: bang!
Date Posted: May 16 2008 at 20:43
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my very fave has got to be a minor one-- Egg, "fugue in d minor" (bach) dave stewart rocked out less and less as his career went on so it's amazing how much swing there is to this one. ------------- glen- "funny world..." h.i. "damn funny." glen- "somebody oughtta sell tickets..." h.i. "i'd buy one..." |
Posted By: bang!
Date Posted: May 16 2008 at 20:48
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o, and robert wyatt's "5 black keys and one white key" is offenbach's barcarole, and is QUITE amusing. as are zappa's eric satie quotations. and what aabout the "bolero" that zappa did , available as an outtake from his "saturday night live" appearance?
------------- glen- "funny world..." h.i. "damn funny." glen- "somebody oughtta sell tickets..." h.i. "i'd buy one..." |
Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: May 16 2008 at 20:51
Good response folks from everyone concerned, many thanks. Now a little addendum: Those adaptations that you have named - Did they make you want to obtain the original version so you could hear it as the composer envisaged it ? If not, why not ? -------------
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Posted By: 3.1415926535897
Date Posted: May 16 2008 at 21:30
^Yes, I bought both the ELP and Mussorgsky versions of Pictures At An Exhibition at the same time, to compare them. I prefer the original  .
------------- Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened - Winston Churchill |
Posted By: ghost_of_morphy
Date Posted: May 17 2008 at 04:09
| I'll vote for ELP's The Barbarian, but let's not forget the ELO rendering of In the Hall of the Mountain King. |
Posted By: martinprog77
Date Posted: May 17 2008 at 04:55
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Posted By: martinprog77
Date Posted: May 17 2008 at 04:56
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Posted By: Kotro
Date Posted: May 17 2008 at 05:34
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Steve Hackett's Clocks/The Angel of Mons, from Carl Orff's Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi. ------------- Bigger on the inside. |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: May 17 2008 at 06:17
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I'm surprised no one mentioned Renaissance's Scheherazade, which is an adaptation of Rimskij-Korsakov's symphonic poem of the same title - incidentally, one of my favourite pieces of classical music ever. Of course, there is a lot of original input by the band as well, so we can't really speak of a 'cover'. Other favourites of mine are ELP's "The Barbarian" and "Toccata", though I've never been a fan of their Pictures of an Exhibition (while I love the original, especially in the Ravel arrangement). |
Posted By: Easy Money
Date Posted: May 17 2008 at 11:38
Ha ha, I can't believe someone else has that Mackay album, what a great blend of exotic 60s instrumentals with some progressive rock influences. His glitter-rock take on Wagner is probably the only Wagner I would listen to. ------------- Help the victims of the russian invasion: http://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=28523&PID=130446&title=various-ways-you-can-help-ukraine#130446 |
Posted By: ghost_of_morphy
Date Posted: May 17 2008 at 16:31
Great album, but it's not really a classical adaption, unless you count stealing words from Shakespeare.
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Posted By: popeyethecat
Date Posted: May 18 2008 at 05:25
I find the pronunciation of Latin on that a bit off, but yes! Good cover! -------------
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Posted By: Philip
Date Posted: May 18 2008 at 09:07
| The whole "Pictures at an Exhiibition" by ELP and "Bouree" by Jethro Tull |
Posted By: The Whistler
Date Posted: May 21 2008 at 03:51
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Ha! I was going to do a poll along these lines; with "Bouree" and "Pictures" and that Doors thing and all that. Totally forgotten about "Difficult to Cure" though, thanks.
Might I add the "Air on a G String" sendup known as "Whiter Shade of Pale?" And doesn't "Elegy" DESERVE to be classical music at this point? Well, maybe not...but if you really wanna reach, there's that King Henry bit that's been covered by Tull and Gryphon at various points.
(And, as much as a love "Hoedown," does that really count?) ------------- "There seem to be quite a large percentage of young American boys out there tonight. A long way from home, eh? Well so are we... Gotta stick together." -I. Anderson |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: May 21 2008 at 05:19
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well, "A White Shade of Pale" only resembles "Air on a G-String" because of the beginning, but it is not really an adaptation of it. the harmonic progressions of those 2 pieces are totally different. and why should "Hoedown" not count? it was composed by Aaron Copland and is a part of his "Rodeo" ballet -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Yukorin
Date Posted: May 21 2008 at 07:34
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Deodato. And what a rhythm section he had:
Billy Cobham on drums, Airto on percussion
and the not so shabby Stanley Clarke and Ron Carter on bass ------------- 
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Posted By: The Whistler
Date Posted: May 22 2008 at 03:03
Because it's got friggin' "Turkey in the Straw" in it! ------------- "There seem to be quite a large percentage of young American boys out there tonight. A long way from home, eh? Well so are we... Gotta stick together." -I. Anderson |