Check out The Stairway Suite, which includes MP3 sound clips of Led Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven as it might sound if written by Schubert, Holzt, Glenn Miller, Mahler, Bizet, and Beethoven:
The Led Zeppelin song “Stairway to Heaven” is a rock classic for some critics. Whether or not you agree, its notoriety is assured by the thousands of would-be guitarists who can play the first dozen bars badly: it is to the guitar what “Chopsticks” is to the piano. But what if Jimmy Page & Robert Plant hadn’t written it? What if it had been written for orchestra in the 19th or 20th centuries? For a publicity stunt, “The Stairway Suite” was commissioned by the University of New South Wales Orchestra and written by Joe Wolfe.
Some of the interpretations are more, um, interesting than others…
