I've been wanting to listen to some powerful, booming classical music (or orchestra)... but I cannot seem to find any. I've found a lot of opera music, but I would rather just listen to just the music. (although I do like the "Anvil Song") Please someone help me cure my musical craving!
2007-03-20 18:27:32 · 7 answers · asked by AniFanny 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
any of the tone poems of Richard Strauss:
Alpensinfonie, Don Juan, Tot und Verkärung, Also Sprach Zarathustra. Strauss loved big orchestras, and was often accused of throwing in everything but the kitchen sink.
Same goes for the symphonies of Gustav Mahler, but if you want to avoid singing, leave out numbers 2,3,4, and 8.
the 4 symphonies of Johannes Brahms are also very powerful if not as large.
Try out orchestral suites and symphonies of the Russian composers Rimsky-Korsakoff, Modest Mussorgsky, Rachmaninoff, Khatchaturian, and Shostakovitch ( who wrote 15 symphonies, each one bigger than the last).
Happy listening
2007-03-20 21:11:08 · answer #1 · answered by lynndramsop 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Listen to Richard Wagner,especially his Ride of the Valkries. Most of his music and especially that one makes me feel alive and strong.You can hear why the nazis used his music.Although,I don't condone extermination of the jews while listening to Wagner...or at any other time.
Richard Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra is another one.It was inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche's(A friend of Wagner) semi-fictional philosophy story,Thus Spoke Zarathustra(Also Sprach Zarathustra in German) that was about overcoming the human condition.With sweet trumpet sounds and a loud drum,you can't do wrong.It was the song in the beginning of 2001:A Space Odyssey.
2007-03-21 01:32:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Holst "The Planets"
Also look into film music - I'm a fan of Elmer Bernstein.
2007-03-21 01:35:30 · answer #3 · answered by wigginsray 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
How about Beethoven Symphonies, or Mozart Concertos, or Bach Bandengurg Concertos, and so many others iI just can't think of them right now.
2007-03-21 01:34:20 · answer #4 · answered by The Answer Guy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Strauss, Mozart, Beethoven, and Mendelsohn have some pretty powerful songs. Ciao!!!
2007-03-21 22:06:59 · answer #5 · answered by Opera Yogini 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You like volume???
Finlandia
Camile Saint Saens, "Organ" symphony
Handel, Water Music
And the old standy, 1812 overture,
2007-03-21 02:48:44 · answer #6 · answered by TedEx 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look up soundtracks. You'd be surprised, King Arthur by Hans Zimmer is very "booming" and melodic. I'm sure you'd enjoy it.
2007-03-21 01:35:28 · answer #7 · answered by Gun-Ryo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋