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Points: 15535 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 06 2007 at 17:57
A good one (one of my personal favorites) is Fugue in D Minor by Egg. It's awesome! Tongue
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Points: 7559 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 06 2007 at 18:19
Originally posted by Castlevania 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.

 
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Points: 23 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 06 2007 at 18:45
Fireballet - Night on Bald Mountain.

Not a redo, but it does use it as the base. Very good.
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Originally posted by Dick Heath Dick Heath wrote:

...Emerson borrowed from Dave Brubeck Quartet's interpretation of Mozart's Ronda Ala Turka...
Oh, yeah!  Some of the best progressive music of all time is Brubeck's version of Ronda a la Turk!  And that was recorded in 1959!
 
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Points: 61 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 09 2007 at 03:57
Originally posted by Castlevania 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.

William Walton's Viola Concerto would be an AWESOME piece performed by a rock band, someone should get on it!


Yeah I got the idea to do that too. I started writing the arrangement (for 2 guitar, bass, drum) and I think I got the first 5 or 6 minutes of it written out and then my computer crashed and I lost it. Ouch I spent too much time on it to start over, but those 5 or 6 minutes were sweet!
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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.LOL  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.Wink

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