Progtastic #114: Dust off the tux and don’t forget the opera glasses. Inspired by the recent BBC Orchestra Prog concert as part of the Proms festival at the Royal Albert Hall, Progtastic is proud to present an orchestral special featuring tracks from some of your favourite bands with orchestral accompaniment. Please try not to cough during the quiet bits – everyone hates that.
1. Emerson Lake and Palmer – Fanfare for the Common Man
2. Jethro Tull – Only the Giving
3. Van Der Graaf Generator (BBC Concert Orchestra feat. Peter Hammill) – Refugees
4. Hawkwind – We Took the Wrong Step Years Ago
5. Frank Zappa (BBC Concert Orchestra) – Peaches En Regalia
6. Frank Zappa (London Symphony Orchestra) – Envelopes
7. King Crimson (BBC Concert Orchestra feat. Guy Garvey) – 21st Century Schizoid Man/ I Talk to the Wind/ In the Court of the Crimson King
8. Marillion – Estonia
9. Voivod – Nuclear War
10. Emerson Lake and Palmer (BBC Concert Orchestra feat. Carl Palmer) – Great Gates of Kiev