Favourite ELP cover version

Dragon Phoenix wrote: Blacksword wrote: ... generally I dont like rock adaptations of classical music, as they are never going to sound as good as an orchestral performance. 100% agreed, absolutely!

100% agreed, absolutely! (too)

Big Ears wrote: ELP did not cover classical pieces - they are from the modern era.

Good pont but there's something not correct, ELP covers Classical music even when their main influence was Late Romantic/ealry Modern Classical (What they didn't almost cover is Classic Music 1750 to 1830 more or less with musicians as Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven),

Classical is a term that covers select music from Medieval/Gothic (XII to XV Centuries) to Modern period (XX and  XXI Centuries).

Classical and Classic are terms that almost always are confused and misused.

The main cover version by ELP is Pictures at an Exhibition and Mussorgsky is considered late Romantic as all the Russian Nationalist Movement, something inaccurate IMO because  this musicians were closer in style to Modern Classical than to Romantic because they broke all boundaries imposed by Europe.

That's the problem with genres, because there's not an exact line that divides periods and eras, for example Wagner was doing Modern stuff in the Romantic period, including his 16 hours version of The  Ring of the Nibelungen.

Sorry if I'm a wise a$$ but I love Classical music almost as much as Prog'.

Iván