Comments on: On Music: 5 Rock Songs Played By Classical Musicians

By: Liz

Liz — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 05:13:34 +0000

I’ve heard sex pistols songs as classical pieces, like god save the queen, pretty cool

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:04:51 +0000

I’m in an orchestra and we want to try a rock piece. What should we play?

By: Molly W.

Molly W. — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:10:52 +0000

I’ll bet that Sting song sounds AMAZING… that’s a chilling song by itself, but I’ll have to listen to it when I get home to see how the orchestra improves on it.

On a side note, I’ve always been partial to those “Pickin’ On (insert rock band here)” albums: bluegrass covers of rock songs. Sometimes it’s great (some Grateful Dead tunes make surprisingly good bluegrass songs, and not even the obvious ones), sometimes it’s AWFUL. I think I saw a “Pickin on the Eagles” disc out there once. Ugh.

By: josh

josh — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 01:40:55 +0000

Anotomica and metamoprhica have a few albums. Its only a quartet, but absolutely hilarious.

By: Renee

Renee — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 02:17:36 +0000

I saw Apocalyptica in San Francisco a few years ago; what a great performance! I also like the album that Metallica performed with the SF Orchestra.

By: Sandy

Sandy — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 01:39:23 +0000

Reminds me of an earlier example of these… in 1982, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra recorded a selection of Queen songs done in a classical style. Not great, but okay. I remember it, though, because when I saw the film “Revenge of the Nerds” in the theater, they play the song at the climax of the movie. (Actually, it fades from the Queen version into the RPO version.) For whatever reason, they didn’t include the song on the soundtrack, though.

By: Meri

Meri — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 01:50:51 +0000

This reminds me of something I heard about recently from a friend who just had a baby: rockabyebabymusic.com – classic and modern rock as lullabies! Led Zeppelin sounded quite good!

By: john

john — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 22:03:14 +0000

i am a huge fan of classical instruments and it has been my pleasure to hear great songs of classic rock and modern played on them.
those who are interested should check out vitamin records for the string quartet tributes. nearly every great classic and modern rock group can be found in string versions of their albums.

By: Jason!

Jason! — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 16:53:07 +0000

If you like rock songs played by classical musicians, then I recommend you check out The Section Quartet.

http://www.thesection.net

By: David

David — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 14:59:41 +0000

Thanks Barb! They’ve also got a wonderful version of Foxey Lady, and that’s what was on my brain as I typed this up. Thanks for a) embarrassing me but b) saving me from further embarrassment by catching it early!