That song makes me think of battle music.
I'd love to hear some more.
Thanks. Ride of the Valkyries-Wagner
http://youtube.com/watch?v=IImhchDkHIk
1812 Overture-Tchiakovsky
http://youtube.com/watch?v=lzMGzBKRttU
http://youtube.com/watch?v=nkS9THHjp38&f...
Confutatis from Mozart's Reqieum
http://youtube.com/watch?v=CQUFQ_N0JI8
Firebird Suite (Infernal Dance, Bercuese and Finale)-Igor Stravinsky
http://youtube.com/watch?v=H4S64H4HXTw
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ceIpM_bLSTA
Quartet No. 8-Shostakovich (actually written as a suicide note/memory of the second world war.)((He didn't actually kill himself but was seriously contemplating it))
http://youtube.com/watch?v=nfzhU7m7gHA
Mars the Bringer of War from the Planets-Holst
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6NeQ1h6lzLI
Also Sprach Zarathustra-Richard Strauss
http://youtube.com/watch?v=SLuW-GBaJ8k
Hope this helps :D 1812 Overture by Tchaikovski Many Shostakovich symphonies have 'intense' movements that are just as frightening, but less tonally centred than Orff's 'O Fortuna' from 'Carmina Burana'. The last movement of Saint-Saens second piano concerto is good also. For something very tonal, try Bach's Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor for Organ, BWV 565. A few sections of Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps are good for rhythmic tension, but not so good if you favor melody and harmony. If you don't mind a loud, operatic-sounding baritone soloist, try the first Movement of Gustav Mahler's 'Das Lied von der Erde', titled Das Trinklied von Jammer der Erde. From Holst's Planets Suite, try Mars and Uranus, as well as the middle section of Saturn. A piece that may be well suited to your tastes is Dvo艡谩k's Ninth Symphony, commonly known as 'Z Noveho Sveta' or 'From the New World, often just as 'New World Symphony. The first and last movements are intense. If you're looking for something a little happier or more triumphant, try the last movement of Respighi's 'Pini di Roma' or Mily Balakirev's Islamey (for piano solo, occasionaly as an orchestral arrangement). If you can stand something a little stranger, listen to Liszt's 'Fun茅railles', the seventh movement of 'Harmonies Poetiques et Religieuses'.
Hope I have helped. Stravinski - Rite of Spring (or le Sacre Du Printemps) I'm responding after your first four responders. And don't know if I can really add any worthwhile compositions not already listed.
If you like opera, try the 1st and 2nd acts of Verdi's "Otello". Some very exciting storm music, and an aria by "Iago" the villan, that is bone chilling.
I've noticed a couple of questions from you before, and you seem particularly fond of "Carmina Burana".
There is a rarely performed opera which has a wonderously rousing choir(s) scene, I think right at the very beginning, which is overwehlming in its scope: probably just the thing you would love: Arrigo Boito's "Mefistofele" or, "Mephistopheles". It may be hard to find, but while worth the effort should you succeed: might try You Tube.
One of the most dramative pieces Verdi ever wrote, occurs in his "Requiem Mass"; not sure about its title, it begins with "Dies-----".
Another Requiem, this one by Hector Berlioz. It calls for 3 sets of kettle drums, a huge chorus, full orchestra, with I think something like 4-7 brass choirs, placed equi distant around the gallerey(in back).
It is a rarely performed work because of the number of vocalists and musicians required for its performance. The one and only performance that I ever attended, was in St.Louis years ago. I remember it, primarily because the conductor and to lean backward - and conducted that way believe it or not - when cuing in the brass choirs stationed around the gallery. Quite an experience.
Last two suggestions:(this is getting out of hand): both by Ottorino Resphigi. (1) "Roman Festival", Circus Maximus section: depitcts the horror of the slaughter of the Christians in the Collosium. (2) The last section of 4, "The Appian Way" I think its called, from his "The Pines of Rome.
With these and all of those mentioned in the other responses, you should be kept busy for quite a while.
Enjoy,
Wotan "Hymn Before Action" and "Charge!" from "The Armed Man" by Karl Jenkins, as well as "Dies Irae" from Karl Jenkins' Requiem (from Axe commercial). |
