Classical music used in rock music.....

[poltr1]

In a recent LJ post, athenawindsong mentioned that Lacrymosa, one of the songs on Evanescence's new album, The Open Door, actually uses the music from Mozart's Requiem. (Unfortunately, it's not credited in the liner notes.)

Other bands have used classical music in their songs. Renaissance and Emerson Lake & Palmer come to mind. I'm far from being a classical music expert, so I can't name the music that either band used unless I read the liner notes. That is, if they're even credited.

And Spinal Tap played a version of Boccherini's "Minuet" in the movie.

What other bands/performers have used classical music as part of their compositions?

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[hawklady.livejournal.com]

One of the songs I point to as an early example of filk ... Hello Mudda, Hello Fadda ... TTTO of Dance of the Hours by Ponchielli.

Sting used classical music in a couple of recordings ... "Russians" had a haunting line from the Romance bit of Sergi Prokofiev's "Lt Kije Suite". And he used a Bach cello concerto for "All This Time".

Rachmaninoff piano concerto #2 has had different bits taken for different songs: "Full Moon and Empty Arms" and "All By Myself"

There's a whole lot more, although most isn't as obvious as the above.

[hawklady.livejournal.com]

> Hello Mudda, Hello Fadda

Forgot to give credit - Alan (Allen?) Sherman