Argh. Sorry about that last email -- I sent it out before
I meant to (obviously).
Anyway, I wanted to say that there are many, many covers
of classical pieces out there. Someone already mentioned that
Mastermind does a few classical covers: the "Lone Ranger" part of
the William Tell Overture by Rossini. And Wagner's "Ride of the
Valkyres".
Emerson Lake and Palmer also do quite a few covers, including
"Pictures at an Exhibition" by Mussorgsky, "Fanfare for the Common
Man" and "Hoedown" by Copland, "Introductory Fanfare" by Mancini,
"Enemy God Dances with the Black Spirits" by Prokofiev, and more...
Emerson Lake and Powell did a cool cover of "Mars the Bringer
of War" by Holst. Anekdoten also did a superb live cover of that piece.
"Cans and Brahams" by Yes (Wakeman); Renaissance has some
classical pieces mixed in with their music, but they tend not to
attribute it. Renaissance has a classical feel to them in general,
so if you like classical covers you may like all of their music.
Anglagard doesn't have any classical covers, but their music
has a lot of classical influence -- it is very complex, uses a lot of
dynamics and variation of rhythms and time signatures. Cool stuff.
There are many more, but those are all I can come up with
off the top of my head...
Steve
>
>Edvard Grieg: Hall of The Mountain King is performed at least
>by the following: Savatage, Whistle (Rap version) and Ritchie
>Blackmore's Rainbow. Savatages version was "Prelude to madness"
>
>Beethoven:Fur Elise has been covered as a guitar solo of Accept's
>Metal heart.
>
>Albinoni's Adagio has been performed by Yngwie Malmsteen on
>Trial by fire-Live in Leningrad".
>
>Sibelius' Finlandia has been partly played by Stone and Leningrad
>Cowboys.
>
>A band called "Exception" has covered LOADS of classical tunes.
>
>Tcshaikowsky's "1912" has been banged away by Cozy Powell.
>
"1812 Overture"
>Beethovens "Ode for the joy" has been covered as Rainbow's
>"Difficult to cure".
>
This would be "Ode to Joy", from the fourth movement of
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
>..these are the ones I know about. More?
>
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