Epic Classical Music

[Steve Holt]

I'm trying to make a decent sized playlist of really BIG sounding, epic classical music. It can be more recent, but I want orchestral.

 

So far I have

 

Ride of the Valkyries

O Fortuna

Requiem

Night On Bald Mountain

In The Hall of the Mountain King

Also Sprach Zarathustra

William Tell Overture

Sabre Dance

 

Looking for more in that vein.

 

Any buffs that can point me in the right direction?

 

I also have The White Tree from LOTR cos it features my favourite piece of music from the trilogy, the Lighting The Beacons sequence.

[Trumo]

Try this lot.

 

Sarabande - George Frideric Handel

Dies Irae - Giuseppe Verdi

Toccata & Fugue in D Minor - Johan Sebastian Bach

Duel Of The Fates - John Williams (Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace)

Celebrare - Peter Raeburn

1812 Overture - Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Marriage of Figaro Overture - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Montegues et Capulets - Sergei Prokofiev

Skull & Crossbones - Klaus Badelt (Pirates Of The Caribbean)

Lux Aeterna - Clint Mansell (Requiem For A Dream)

Preliator - Globus

Mojave - Corner Stone Cues

Escape - Craig Armstrong

Edited May 19, 2010 by kopaloadofthis

[Guest simon]

Por ti Volare by Andrea Bocelli one of the greatest ever.

 

For those who like to sing along

 

Cuando vivo solo

sueño un horizonte

falto de palabras.

En la sombra y entre luces

todo es negro para mi mirada

Si tu no estás junto a mí . . .aquí.

 

Tú

en tu mundo

separado del mio por un abismo.

Oye

llamame

yo volaré

a tu mundo lejano.

 

Por ti volaré

espera que llegaré

mi fin de trayecto eres tú

para vivirlo los dos.

 

Por ti volaré

por cielos y mares

hasta tu amor.

Abriendo los ojos por fin

contigo viviré.

 

Cuando estás lejana

sueño un horizonte

falto de palabras.

Y yo sé que simpre estás ahí, ahí,

una luna hecha para mí,

siempre iluminada para mí,

por mí, por mí, por mí . . .

 

Por ti volaré

espera que llegaré

mi fin de trayecto eres tú

contigo yo viviré.

 

Por ti volaré

por cielos y mares

hasta tu amor.

Abriendo los ojos por fin

contigo yo viviré.

 

Por ti volaré

por cielos y mares

hasta tu amor.

Abriendo los ojos por fin

contigo yo viviré.

Por ti volaré . . .

[Steve Holt]

Repped boys. Thanks mucho.

 

Kop, you have no idea how many of them I was looking for but didn't know the names.

[piscinin]

This kind of thing?

 

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[Steve Holt]

Exactly that kind of thing. Something to really get fired up to.

[piscinin]

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[piscinin]

Got me going through my collection:

 

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[Steve Holt]

Good selection. For anyone who hasn't heard White Tree/has been living under a rock/refused to see LOTR cos they were afraid that watching elves and hobbits would make them "uncool" here it is. About 2:30 it becomes amazing. Howard Shore is a fucking genius.

 

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[piscinin]

haha the uncool thing prevented me mentioning Poledouris!

[neko]

haha the uncool thing prevented me mentioning Poledouris!

 

your japanese version of holtz's planets takes too long to get started.... that's what makes people fall asleep.

 

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excellent choices otherwise

[neko]

music for cats...

 

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[neko]

the exploding version is better...

 

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[neko]

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[razor]

Try this lot.

 

Sarabande - George Frideric Handel

Dies Irae - Giuseppe Verdi

Toccata & Fugue in D Minor - Johan Sebastian Bach

Duel Of The Fates - John Williams (Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace)

Celebrare - Peter Raeburn

1812 Overture - Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Marriage of Figaro Overture - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Montegues et Capulets - Sergei Prokofiev

Skull & Crossbones - Klaus Badelt (Pirates Of The Caribbean)

Lux Aeterna - Clint Mansell (Requiem For A Dream)

Preliator - Globus

Mojave - Corner Stone Cues

Escape - Craig Armstrong

 

Anybody else grateful to The Smiths for turning you to this?

 

Also try:

 

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[Mr T]

Anything by Rachmaninoff - Concerto 2 is my favourite. He plays BIG chords that make me go ga-ga.

[Trumo]

If you want something modern yet stirring like the old classics, try Will You Follow Me? by Rob Dougan. To be honest, pretty much anything off his Furious Angels album is great, and you will certainly have heard of Clubbed To Death (Kurayamino Mix) even if not by name.

[Jasmine]

Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet

Albinoni - Adagio

Pachelbel - Canon in D

Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody No.2

[AngryOfTuebrook]

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[Trumo]

Look up Corner Stone Cues, who specialise in the sort of soaring epic music you find on trailers. Not strictly classical, but taking classical styles and giving them a restrained but modern twist. I'll stop being Melvyn Bragg. Just Youtube "Frigga" by Corner Stone Cues to see what I mean.

[Trumo]

I know you wanted stirring stuff, but on the theme of modern classics, how about some Vangelis? You won't find much better than the theme from 1492: Conquest Of Paradise.

 

Sorry, Youtube is playing up on my machine so I can't embed vids.

[piscinin]

I know you wanted stirring stuff, but on the theme of modern classics, how about some Vangelis? You won't find much better than the theme from 1492: Conquest Of Paradise.

 

Sorry, Youtube is playing up on my machine so I can't embed vids.

 

1492-Conquest of Paradise

 

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Frigga

 

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[neko]

i've always liked wagner, and i also thought it was cool that the nazis did as well.

 

Why Stephen Fry loves Wagner

 

Why Stephen Fry loves Wagner | Music | The Guardian

 

I grew up in a Jewish household. My mother is certainly not religiously Jewish, but a lot of her family, and therefore my family, were destroyed by Nazism, and Wagner became associated for her with Germanic horror. So when I started playing Wagner loudly, her eyes would close and she'd say, "I know you like it and that's fine, but really you know, what's wrong with Mozart?" It was always an issue. Something to confront.

 

We all recognise that loving Wagner is not the same as loving almost any other artist. We can try to pretend it is, and would that it were so. But we also know there is something profoundly important about this artist: something that shaped the 20th century, in benign ways. Look at the influence he has had on music. Look at Korngold and Schoenberg, look at the entire secessionist movement in Austria. Mahler said: "There's only Ludwig and Richard." And it's not only music. Two of the great modernist works in our literature, Ulysses and The Wasteland, are suffused with Wagner. "Frisch weht der wind / Der Heimat zu. / Mein Irisch Kind, / Wo weilest du?" the opening lines of Tristan und Isolde are quoted by Eliot in The Wasteland. And there's a great deal of it in Ulysses, too.

 

You can't allow the perverted views of pseudo-intellectual Nazis to define how the world should look at Wagner. He's bigger than that, and we're not going to give them the credit, the joy of stealing him from us.

 

The older you get, the more you realise that the complexities and ambiguities of art will always allow one person to run a magnet over its iron filings and make them all point one way. But that's doing a disservice to art. Art isn't like that. Art is ornery and shaped by the sense of people and events, not by an overarching ideology.

 

All of us who love Wagner are familiar with another argument, where people will say: "It's too powerful, there's something wrong with music that can have that much effect." Is it earned? Is it too much? Is it manipulative? Is it unfair for music to have this unbelievable ability to make one shake in quite that way? There are those who disapprove of Wagner purely on that aesthetic ground.

 

If anyone asks me, "How do I listen to Wagner? How do I get into it?", I say: "Just go to the first act of one of them and follow it." Nobody sings on top of each other, it's all nice and straightforward. It's a drama. It's a story. It's fantastic.

 

I used to think when I was young that if I was ever asked to produce or direct a Wagner I would like to do The Mastersingers because of its comic shape and unity of action. Then I thought that I would like to do The Ring, and what I would do if I had the budget for it would be to commission the best artists and do an animated Ring. Not a cheesy cartoon, but a truly serious animated Ring. Because – let's face it – in the last five minutes you've got a Valkyrie getting on a horse, galloping into a flaming funeral pyre then being covered by the river Rhine, while the palace of the gods crumbles into dust in the background. All in five minutes. You can do it on stage – and it's wonderful to see some of the solutions that have been devised for portraying that extraordinary last five minutes of Götterdämmerung – but think what you could do with beautifully and properly presented animation. So my ambition is to one day meet a Russian oligarch billionaire who has a passion, because it would cost a huge amount of money. But wouldn't that be fantastic?

[neko]

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[Cardie]

War of the worlds has to be good for a few songs.