The Orchestral Music appreciation thread.

[FunnyDigestion]

[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLwqVJ-owtg"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLwqVJ-owtg[/YOUTUBE]

 

[rav3n]

I strongly dislike any forms of martial music that relies on majors:

[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOKfdRiMiu8"]Air-Bach-von Karajan (double awesomeness)[/YOUTUBE]
[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_rE1CUT8gI&feature=fvwrel"]Adagio-von Karajan (Don't care who wrote this whether Albinoni or Giazotto)[/YOUTUBE]
[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-iuSgXKUcw"]Violin Concerto-Beethoven-Menuhin (Menuhin's unmistakeable combination of technical expertise and emotional depth/sensitivity.)[/YOUTUBE]
[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWQ2F-zD7Lo"]Vesti la Guibba aria-Pagliacci-Leoncavallo-Gigli (Second only to the Great Caruso- Pavarotti eat your heart out...oops...RIP.)[/YOUTUBE]
[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLaY2VcIEqo"]Un bel di vedremo-Madam Butterfly-Puccini-Maria Callas (No words can express the beauty.)[/YOUTUBE]

 

[Octarine]

What the hell, since no one likes my orchestral music thread anymore.

[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KJTsQf22dM&feature=related"]C.P.E. Bach[/YOUTUBE]

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was a major influence on Mozart and Haydn.

 

[funkadelik]

This is an old favourite of mine. Great, bombastic 20th century Russian music!

[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4hTRd2-IQY"]Shostakovich: Symphony No.5 Mov.IV[/YOUTUBE]

 

[Beargryllz]

[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf0e_n49dcQ"]Stravinsky, Rite of Spring[/YOUTUBE]

 

[Such Irony]

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[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbPe-bnD8e0"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbPe-bnD8e0[/YOUTUBE]

 

[Ivy]

threads merged.

 

[Octarine]

The thread merge is fine, 20th century orchestral music is part of the western classical tradition, but not part of the 'classical era'.

Just a reminder, that this thread is dedicated to Orchestral music, so avoid posting solo works. Posting orchestrated game or film music is still encouraged.

 

[93JC]

Not my favourite film score, nor anywhere near my favourite film, but I've always (no pun intended) thought that the score to Always (perhaps best known for Audrey Hepburn's last big screen role) was one of John Williams' finest works. A little simple maybe, and certainly nowhere as celebrated or grandiose as some of his other work, but it suited the movie perfectly.
[YOUTUBE="uT1JccCJ6XU"]Pete & Dorinda (from Always) - John Williams[/YOUTUBE]

 

[93JC]

Speaking of other lesser-known Spielberg films with Williams scores, to this day I've never seen 1941, but the march is very catchy.

[YOUTUBE="s_hP9_-DB_8"]March from 1941 - John Williams[/YOUTUBE]

 

[93JC]

1941 got me thinking of another screwball military comedy of the time: Stripes! Unfortunately I couldn't find a clip of my favourite part of Elmer Bernstein's score, Winger's leitmotif. It's not really orchestral anyway, but it did get me thinking of Elmer Bernstein.

Bernstein collaborated with Ivan Reitman in the '80s, scoring almost all of his films (the only one he didn't was Twins, I think). Anyway, Bernstein's kooky score to Ghostbusters is often forgotten because of the popularity of the pop song by Ray Parker, Jr.
[YOUTUBE="xyLA-AdJuKc"]Main Theme from Ghostbusters - Elmer Bernstein[/YOUTUBE]

Bernstein didn't just score goofy comedies (he also wrote the scores for Airplane!, Animal House, The Blues Brothers, Trading Places, Spies Like Us and ¡Three Amigos!), he was a celebrated composer in the '60s. I think his finest work was for To Kill a Mockingbird:
[YOUTUBE="b3XLsV1JgC8"]Theme from To Kill a Mockingbird - Elmer Bernstein[/YOUTUBE]

 

[93JC]

[YOUTUBE="HGNDdLPJT9o"]End Credits from Star Fox[/YOUTUBE]

I would love to play that game again. I haven't played on an SNES in a long, long time.

 

[93JC]

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[InvisibleJim]

 

[93JC]

I used to love Star Trek, and this was my favourite piece of 'Trek' music. It's from The Motion Picture, when Kirk first sees the refit Enterprise. It's also the audience's first glimpse of the iconic ship since the TV series was cancelled in 1969, ten years before the release of the film.

Largely unaccompanied by dialogue and sound effects, the song is fittingly called "The Enterprise".

Jerry Goldsmith went on to score the fifth, eighth, ninth and tenth Star Trek films, and his theme from the first movie went on to be adapted into the theme for Star Trek: The Next Generation.

 

[INTP]

does these qualify?

and bit darker stuff

 

[93JC]

No, because four people playing string instruments is a string quartet, not an orchestra.

 

[Octarine]

I thought this thread needed some more love, so here is Brahms' Third Symphony (he only wrote four - quality not quantity I guess).

This is one of my favourite symphonies, but I haven't yet worked out exactly why.

[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvcg3fXV3rs"]Part 1[/YOUTUBE]
[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6sSzFp0qI4"]Part 2[/YOUTUBE]
[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERF45KiPOwI"]Part 3[/YOUTUBE]
[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyixZraAIG8"]Part 4[/YOUTUBE]

 

[93JC]

Deep down I'm a sappy, sentimental idiot. I love this song. If you have seen the movie, it's at the point after the town festival where Doc Brown and Clara are sitting under the stars talking about, well, the stars, and eventually their mutual love of Jules Verne's works. (The cue at 0:56 is when they start talking about Verne.)

[YOUTUBE="exBrJHHeBVI"]"The Kiss", from Back to the Future Part III[/YOUTUBE]

edit: Forgot to mention this was composed by Alan Silvestri, who got his start scoring films in the mid-'70s but didn't become prominent until he started collaborating with director Robert Zemeckis for '84's Romancing The Stone. He's done a ton of work with Zemeckis.

 

[93JC]

David Foster is probably best known as a music producer but in the '80s he composed a lot of his own music. He wrote the following song, "Water Fountain", as a love theme for the movie The Secret of My Success.

[YOUTUBE="hQbL6ZhAVsI"]"Water Fountain" by David Foster[/YOUTUBE]

Not only did he compose it, he performed as part of the orchestra. Foster got his start in the music business as a keyboardist. That's him on the piano.