Progressive Rock adaptations of Classical music pieces....

[MIO Records]

Plus: on Jim Morrison's An American Prayer The Doors cover Albinoni's Adagio:

This one is fantastic! I remember it from many years....

[begnagrad]

Here some more for your playlist

Cozy Powell - Over the top (overture 1812)
Brian Eno - Descreet music - Pachelbel’s canon
Trace - the 3 albums, in the whites ladies a beautiful take on Beethoven’s Pathetique
Jack Lancaster & Robin Lumley: Peter And The Wolf
Klaus Schulze, X - In Ludwig II. von Bayern - Vivaldi.
John Lord with Eberhard Schoener - Windows
Andrew Lloyd Webber - Variations

[Zeuhlmate]

Jeff Beck w/ David Gilmour: Hubert Parry's Jerusalem (Orch. Elgar)

[The Gak Omek]

[Batchman]

I have an album somewhere called, I think "The New Messiah" which was a rock version. I forget who did it.

There was "Handel's Messiah: A Soulful Celebration", featuring a host of musicians and produced by Quincy Jones.

[Batchman]

Janacek "Sinfonietta" - ELP "Knife Edge"
Barber "Excursions" - It's a Beautiful Day "Time Is"
Shostakovich String Quartet No. 8 or Chamber Symphony - Shamblemaths
Brecht/Eisler "On Suicide" - Art Bears

Also, if we're going to include Kurt Weill, there are all the singers who did "Mack the Knife."
And if we include Bernstein's West Side Story score, there are all the quotes from "America" (including Yes's cover of Paul Simon's "America").

[Batchman]

For jazz, Ravel's "Pavane for a Dead Princess" by Larry Coryell on the "The Restful Mind" album. (There are tons more, but that one came to my mind right away.)

[Rarebird]

I have an album somewhere called, I think "The New Messiah" which was a rock version. I forget who did it.

Tom Parker did The young Messiah with the New London Chorale. They also did other classical pieces.

[Batchman]

Trace: "Gaillarde" (From: 3rd Part of the Italian Concerto BWV 971 in F Major by J.S. Bach)

[Batchman]

Tom Parker did The young Messiah with the New London Chorale. They also did other classical pieces.

There's also "Extract from The Messiah" (specifically, movement 23) by Slapp Happy (with Henry Cow) on the Desperate Straights album.

[Rarebird]

There's also "Extract from The Messiah" (specifically, movement 23) by Slapp Happy (with Henry Cow) on the Desperate Straights album.

I remember the Tom Parker New London Chorale one, because I've seen a lot of those albums in the thriftstore I once did voluntary work. Glad I'm no longer doing that.

[alucard]

Sky did a lot of classical adaptions (more or less prog )
I like their records

[Zeuhlmate]

PFM - on Cook (live) : Arrangement Of Rossini's William Tell Overture

[interbellum]

PFM - on Cook (live) : Arrangement Of Rossini's William Tell Overture

I believe Crack The Sky used that too live while playing Surf City.

[Rarebird]

Sky did a lot of classical adaptions (more or less prog )
I like their records

Me too, but they dropped in quality after Francis Monkman left and there last album I only have for the sake of completeness.

[progmatist]

Sky did a lot of classical adaptions (more or less prog )
I like their records

Most of what Sky did was rocked out classical. To be expected from classical guitarist (not the film composer) John Williams.

[Dan Maske]

Bartok String Quartet No. 4, Movement IV:
https://youtu.be/6TcyOKJilHI?si=P1_UjabSsLpTkuSh

[Duncan Glenday]

Look up "Sinfonity" on Youtube.

They're a (electric) guitar orchestra, with more than a dozen guitarists, and play pretty good renditions of classical pieces.

Two examples of more commonly-known orchestral pieces:

Vivaldi`s Four Seasons: Winter I - Allegro non molto, by Sinfonity



Or William Tell Overture:



You can find about 20 of their videos here :
https://www.youtube.com/@sinfonitytvguitar2383/videos

[Rarebird]

Stern Combo Meißen




The videos are new, but the original recordings were made earlier.

They also did an album with Pictures at an exhibition.

[mozo-pg]

Look up "Sinfonity" on Youtube.

They're a (electric) guitar orchestra, with more than a dozen guitarists, and play pretty good renditions of classical pieces.

Two examples of more commonly-known orchestral pieces:

Vivaldi`s Four Seasons: Winter I - Allegro non molto, by Sinfonity



Or William Tell Overture:



You can find about 20 of their videos here :
https://www.youtube.com/@sinfonitytvguitar2383/videos

That's pretty cool Duncan.

[Mr.Krautman]

Not "prog" but jazz/fusion versions:

BOB JAMES: Night on Bald Mountain



DEODATO:

Also Sprach Zarathustra:




Prelude To The Afternoon Of A Faun:

[Derk]

Steve Howe does a version of Vivaldi’s Concerto in D (Second Movement) on The Steve Howe Album. The same piece of music is also used on the Song of the Sea Goat from Pete Sinfields album Still

[yoyon]

On "Across the Waters," Triumvirat's first epic song, one can clearly identify Mozart.

[Batchman]

Robert Wyatt's "5 Black Notes and 1 White Note" (on Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard) is a unique take on Offenbach's Barcarolle.

[Mister Triscuits]

Robert Wyatt's "5 Black Notes and 1 White Note" (on Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard) is a unique take on Offenbach's Barcarolle.

“Hamlet, dear, your problem is clear…”