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Mussorgsky's Night On Bald Mountain

Richard Strauss' Also Sprach Zarathustra (blame Stanley Kubrick for that)

Beethoven's Ode To Joy (blame Ritchie Blackmore)

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After Moonlight Sonata, I've always been somewhat taken by this:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDBa1jgwR7k

 

I first heard it here, and was spellbound. Starts at 3:00 (anyone know what starts at :032? love that too), reaches it's climax with a shadowed Nosferatu framed by the castle door:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WccCWkIREv0

 

Also really love that triumpant part in Copeland's Appalachian Spring

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...anyone know what starts at :032? love that too...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WccCWkIREv0

It's taken out of the film Nosferatu (Werner Herzog, 1979). Original soundtrack by Popol Vuh. The track is called On The Way.

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Peer Gynt Suites- Edvard Grieg (especially In the Hall of the Mountain King and Springtime movements.

 

Tchaikovsky- The Nutcracker, The 1812 Overture

 

Dvorak- New World Symphony

 

Some others I don't know the names of! :LOL: My son was a music major and always had interesting sounds coming from his room!

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Peer Gynt Suites- Edvard Grieg (especially In the Hall of the Mountain King and Springtime movements.)

 

Tchaikovsky- The Nutcracker, The 1812 Overture

 

Dvorak- New World Symphony

 

Some others I don't know the names of! :LOL: My son was a music major and always had interesting sounds coming from his room!

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Peer Gynt Suites- Edvard Grieg (especially In the Hall of the Mountain King and Springtime movements...

You beat me to it. :cheers:

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Peer Gynt Suites- Edvard Grieg (especially In the Hall of the Mountain King and Springtime movements.

 

Tchaikovsky- The Nutcracker, The 1812 Overture

 

Dvorak- New World Symphony

 

Some others I don't know the names of! :LOL: My son was a music major and always had interesting sounds coming from his room!

 

Love Dvorak!

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...anyone know what starts at :032? love that too...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WccCWkIREv0

It's taken out of the film Nosferatu (Werner Herzog, 1979). Original soundtrack by Popol Vuh. The track is called On The Way.

How is it that I've never seen that film? Inexcusable, really.
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George Bizet Symphony 1 in C. He began writing it four days after he turned 17, and he completed it a month later. I absolutely adore this work. Bizet was considered to be the French Beethoven.

His Carmen is brilliant fun.

 

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...anyone know what starts at :032? love that too...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WccCWkIREv0

It's taken out of the film Nosferatu (Werner Herzog, 1979). Original soundtrack by Popol Vuh. The track is called On The Way.

 

I'll have to get that soundtrack. Saw the film years ago and loved it, but never returned to it despite meaning to, apart from that piece from Wagner. Time for a second look.

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...anyone know what starts at :032? love that too...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WccCWkIREv0

It's taken out of the film Nosferatu (Werner Herzog, 1979). Original soundtrack by Popol Vuh. The track is called On The Way.

How is it that I've never seen that film? Inexcusable, really.

Brilliant remake from Herzog and Kinski as Dracula is just indescribably good.

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...anyone know what starts at :032? love that too...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WccCWkIREv0

It's taken out of the film Nosferatu (Werner Herzog, 1979). Original soundtrack by Popol Vuh. The track is called On The Way.

 

I'll have to get that soundtrack. Saw the film years ago and loved it, but never returned to it despite meaning to, apart from that piece from Wagner. Time for a second look.

I have the 5 disc boxset from 2011 called The Werner Herzog Soundtracks played by Popol Vuh. Great stuff.

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"Brilliant remake from Herzog and Kinski as Dracula is just indescribably good."

 

He was just playing Dracula?!? That guy has one of those faces, like Jack Palance, that seems carved out of stone and then animated. Unreal.

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