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Kristen's avatar

Beethoven’s 7th.

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Songletter's avatar

Such beauty

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Sean Bw Parker's avatar

Gustav Holst - Mars, the Bringer of War

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Songletter's avatar

Nice! Have this one been featured in a movie?

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Primitive Ledger's avatar

The Song Remains the Same film by Led Zeppelin. The bowing section of Dazed and Confused owes a lot to Holst's "Mars."

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KKS Handmade Guitars's avatar

This is something that I grew up watching with my father

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Sean Bw Parker's avatar

Yep Star Wars, Gladiator and Bowie's The Man Who Fell To Earth (other smaller films too) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jmk5frp6-3Q

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BlueBlueHeart's avatar

If you remember news shows from the 50s and 60s they'd use a military-like bass horns track over a teletype machine track. The music was definitely a derivative of Mars, the Bringer of War. BTW, the Huntley-Brinkley Report (NBC) used the 2nd movement of Beethoven's 9th

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Nolan Green's avatar

Stravinsky “The Rite of Spring”

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Songletter's avatar

Great pick

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Jim Brockton's avatar

Orff's Carmina Burana has always seemed to me to be heavy metal before heavy metal existed. Raw energy emerging.

No disrespect to Motorhead or Black Sabbath.

See also Paganini's 24 Caprices

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Songletter's avatar

thanks!

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Wayne Reed's avatar

That was my choice. I put it on and crank it up.

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Ricardamundo's avatar

Also Sprach Zarathustra.

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Lee's avatar

Wagner - Ride of the Valkyries

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Songletter's avatar

Thanks

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Lee's avatar

Dvorak - New World Symphony

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Scott W's avatar

My fave

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kw's avatar

Johann Sebastian Bach - 6 Brandenburgische Konzerte.

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Songletter's avatar

Love seeing this one mentioned!

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Timothy Lucien's avatar

Ralph Vaughan Williams - “Lark Ascending”

https://youtu.be/ZR2JlDnT2l8?si=x5ulXWQVz_zOGgzn

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BlueBlueHeart's avatar

Yes!

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Jonathan Ivie's avatar

Sibelius Violin Concerto

Barber’s Adagio for Strings

Rachmaninoff’s Vocalise

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Songletter's avatar

Thank you, is this basically the original "Adagio for Strings" ?

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Jonathan Ivie's avatar

yeah, composed by Samuel Barber

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Nolan Green's avatar

Stravinsky “The Rite of Spring”

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John Clarke's avatar

Tchaikovsky Sixth Symphony. Pathétique final movement is a tear jerker

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Songletter's avatar

Thank you

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Gerald Murphy's avatar

4th and final choice: a tie between two pieces by Borodin: “Polovtsian Dances” and “In the Steppes of Central Asia”

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Songletter's avatar

Thanks

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Gerald Murphy's avatar

Arvo Part (Estonia) “Fratres”

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Susan Doherty's avatar

Thank you all for these choices.

I have always liked Johann Pachelbel’s Canon in D Major.

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Elizabeth's avatar

Gustav Holst - Jupiter

Erik Satie - Gnossiene No1

Puccini - Nessun Dorma from Turandot and Un Bel Di Vedremo from Madame Butterfly.

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Songletter's avatar

Perfect

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