does anyone know a site that I can listen to like specifically violin music or something? Not just violin, but like the intense music you hear like the begining of fantasy music? Intense strings??? I love that music, and ive searched google, youtube, and yahoo music and nothing yet! If you like intense strings Henryk Gorecki's Symphony # 3 is a must listen. Lots of great violin music on youtube : just type in a composer and violin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I4zoyEwT...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AloBa9SPM...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va7ez2m_H...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJnLS4fbK...
There is also masterclass.com...check out the performance files.
http://violinmasterclass.com/mc_menu.php Not too sure what you are looking for ........
But 2 pieces that spring to mind would be
Samuel Barber - Adagio
The Firebird by Stravinsky
You should be able to find them both on Youtube somewhere.
The Barber piece was used on the soundtrack to the film Platoon if I recall correctly.
Have a listen anyway - they are great pieces of music even if they aren't the exact thing that you are looking for.
Hope this helps The Prelude to the third act of Wagner's "Parsifal" begin with strings; it's intense too.
The string sextet "Verklarte Nacht" ("Transfigured Night") by Arnold Schonberg is a beautiful, passionate and very intense strings piece. I must make the observation that this op. 4 was written in a period in which Schonberg admired Wagner (you'll see that in the moment you listen the piece).
The Ceaikovski's "Serenade for string orchestra" has intense moments too (in a splendid mixture with majestic sounds, serenity, grace, lyricism).
Some of Mozart's Quartets for strings.
Most of Beethoven's Strings Quartets.
A beautiful, lyric, intense on fragments piece is the only valuable thing (in my opinion) Gustav Mahler wrote: Adagietto, the fourth movement of his Fifth Symphony.
Aeses's Death from the Edward Grieg's "Peer Gynt" Suite is an intense piece for strings only.
Igor Stravinsky's "Concertino for String Quartet".
Dmitri Sostakovici (Shostakovitch): "Symphony for String Orchestra", op. 110
And other pieces :)
Try youtube | 