Orchestrated Rock...Uriah Heep and others

for the sake of completeness, The Electric Prunes, "Mass in F Minor"

Porcupine Tree and Procol Harum wasn't mentioned here. Pure symphonic rock

Thanks SimonMoon, once you mentioned PFM I knew we had similar tastes.

Just ordered Wobbler , and Anglagard.

Appreciated

Nightwish is severely overlooked in North America?

Before Neil Young had Jack Nitzsche add orchestration to his early solo albums, Jack had done the same for Neil's Buffalo Springfield song "Expecting To Fly". Jack had written the orchestrations for Phil Spector's recordings, those recordings also known for the musicians playing on them, in a studio band known as The Wrecking Crew.

For "Expecting To Fly", rather than having all the Buffalo Springfield members participate in the recording, Jack brought in Wrecking Crew members Carole Kaye (electric bass), Jim Gordon (drums), Don Randi (piano and harpsichord), Russ Titelman (guitar), and himself on electric piano. Jack was a major component of Neil's band on his Harvest and Time Fades Away albums, The Stray Gators. A much better band imo than Crazy Horse.

In 1972 Nitzsche wrote and released a heavily orchestrated neo-Classical album entitled St. Giles Cripplegate, recorded with The London Symphony Orchestra. The album is indeed orchestrated, but is in no way "Rock" music.