Thread: Non-classical fusions with classical music

Here's a thread for people to post some examples of fusion between classical and non-classical. It can fusion in terms of just a classical kind of sound, or non classical works that "quote" classical tunes.

Here are a few that I like:

I love this take on that famous Paganini Caprice, "Paganini Rocks" by Robortom & Au Revoir Simone:



Kanye West's song "Ham" which combines rap with a bit of choral/operatic stuff towards the end. I wonder what the diehard rap fans are making of this? I'm not hugely impressed with this, I don't think it's one of his best.



& this is an ancient one from the '70's, "Land of the make believe" by Chuck Mangione. It's basically a fusion of jazz and classical styles. Look out for Mangione's awesome trumpet solo:



& also ancient, Miles Davis' truly classic rendition of Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez:

One Winged Angel



''metal gear solid'' main theme (metal gear solid 3 vers)



Blinded by Light



Beyond the Bounds



Fighting ~ Bombing Mission medley

I am rather fond of jass compoer Uri Caine's 're-writings' of composer such as Bach, Beethoven, Mahler and Mozart. Here are some excerpts from his 'take ' on Beethoven's Diabelli Variations.

You need to scroll to 1:15 to get past the introductory nonsense.

zappa - dog breath variations/uncle meat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr3y2MUdq7U

alec wilder
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoPO0...eature=related

Don Cherry & Krzysztof Penderecki, Actions for Free Jazz Orchestra:

A perfect opportunity to champion one of my favorite piano concertos:



The full piece has some beautiful moments. In fairness I believe he had some help with the orchestration, unlike Jon Lord who composed his Concerto for Group and Orchestra entirely on his own.

Originally Posted by LordBlackudder

Fighting ~ Bombing Mission medley

This is flippin' awesome!

i actually love the interpretation done here, really sounds like metal and classical in a well knit knot.



And apparently this was taken from a score for a german cop show or something. But I for the life of me cant figure out where the original score came from. Its just beautiful and id love to hear the original.

Lots of fun stuff here.

Probably everyone already knows this, but here's Piazzolla and Kronos Quartet:

Ok, sorry, I can't figure out how to imbed it, so here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-1jMkPfH18

Haven't really had time to look through the videos but I'm not much of a fan of Kanye West but I do like Au Revoir Simone in general.

Another version of the Paganini theme.

I enjoyed the Andrew/Julian Lloyd Webber video, starry thanks for posting it (it's probably the only piece of his that I can listen to without some mild form of discomfort) ...

I have Philip Glass's 'Low' & 'Heroes' symphonies (in collaboration/consultation with both Bowie and Eno) but I'll be buggered if I can discern any connective tissue with the originals.

Mark-Anthony Turnage has written some works specifically for the involvement of jazzers John Scofield and Peter Erskine - I don't know whether these works can be categorised as classical/jazz 'crossover', 'hybrid' or whatever but the ones I've heard sound quite interesting.

I wish I could find a YouTube clip of this, but Frank Zappa did a rock version of Ionisation and titled it In Memoriam, Edgard Varese.

Hey buddy.. on you tube there are number of videos related to this,, I have watched some of them.. they all are truly awesome..

Muse has a few songs with bits of classical thrown in. Here's one with some Chopin just after 3:40