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01-11-2006, 12:13 AM
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I'm looking for powerful classical music. Anyone have any reccomendations? By powerful I mean anything from dramatic to militaristic. Like Night on Bald Mountain, or something Wagnerian.
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01-11-2006, 12:16 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Ontario | | good listening rec's? modern classical: recomendations?
Two active threads in TBDB on classical reccomendations.
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01-11-2006, 03:21 AM
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Originally Posted by Vox Populi I'm looking for powerful classical music. Anyone have any reccomendations? By powerful I mean anything from dramatic to militaristic. Like Night on Bald Mountain, or something Wagnerian. | Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique - last 2 movements
Shostakovich Symphony No 11 - 3rd Movement
Shostakovich Symphony No 7 - March of the Nazis (!)
Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition - various
Walton Symphony No 1 - 1st and 4th Movements
Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 4
Prokofiev - Montagues and Capulates from Romeo and Juliet
Havergal Brian Gothic Symphony
Mahler - Symphony No 8 - Part 1
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01-11-2006, 05:01 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Cincinnati | | | Powerful orchestral music.
Here are my favs.
Mahler 5
Thus Sprake Zarathustra (gotta listen to the whole piece)
Rite of Spring
Varese-Ameriques
Ives-Sym. #4
Also powerful, but in different ways:
Barber-Adaigo for Strings
Copeland-Appalachian Spring
Elgar-Enigma Var. (check out "Nimrod" variation)
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01-11-2006, 07:09 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Queens, N.Y.(Near JFK Airport) | | Peter Ferretti already mentioned The Planets, by Gustav Holst, which would have been my recommendation. 
If you want powerful music, may I also suggest the soundtracks of certain movies.
I tend to think of many movie soundtracks as neo-classical music masquerading as a movie soundtrack.
Check out some of the soundtracks written by Bernard Herrmann. I think this guy was a genius.  www.uib.no/herrmann/m_flm_al.html
I especially recommend:
1.) North By Northwest
2.) Mysterious Island (VERY POWERFUL!)
3.) Psycho
I have a list of other soundtracks at home, so that will have to wait until tomorrow.
Mike
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01-11-2006, 07:17 AM
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Originally Posted by Michael Jewels Peter Ferretti already mentioned The Planets, by Gustav Holst, which would have been my recommendation. | Mars and Jupiter qualify maybe - but not Venus or Neptune....
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01-11-2006, 07:41 AM
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Originally Posted by Bruce Lindfield Mars and Jupiter qualify maybe - but not Venus or Neptune.... | Agreed, but Uranus, The Magician is very powerful too.
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01-11-2006, 08:04 AM
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Sorry!!
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