Classical Music

[The_Evil_Gentleman]

Dude, try Blackmore's Night it is amazing if you like classic music. Trust me!

 

[Thidrek]

shostakovich

 

[Caelum Adustum]

Johannes Brahms - Ein Deutsches Requiem

 

[Astral_Dominion]

Every single metalhead should listen Carl Orff's Carmina Burana. That's the ultimate metal record of all times.

 

[Oceanic Motion]

Get some Mahler.

 

[snow_like_ash]

Every single metalhead should listen Carl Orff's Carmina Burana. That's the ultimate metal record of all times.

damn straight. The only thing that tops that in metalness is Wagner

 

[Oceanic Motion]

damn straight. The only thing that tops that in metalness is Wagner

Any specific pieces?

 

[Freanan]

OK, Wagner has been recommended, but be sure to get a compilation of his orchestral tracks... I especially love the "Tannhäuser Ouvertüre".
Another great and a bit similiar composer would be Richard Strauss.
The Intro to his "Also sprach Zarathustra" is very well known, i think it is played in a science fiction movie - this one is very metal.
Edvard Grieg has some nice stuff... but i there is also enough of him i do not like..
I also like Beethoven, but all this older stuff, despite being musically diversed and very good and so on.... it is a bit tame compared to the newer composers, though there are epic and blasting moments.

 

[Neurotic]

i would suggest some mahler symphonies(epic and evil sometimes), allan pettersson(his work is all about death, depression so...), bella bartok, stravinsky(you can't get more metal than the rite of spring, some stuff there could be in a meshuggah record ), shostakovich(symphony nº5 and string quartet nº5 are very good to start, evil)

 

[Tye]

fur elise

 

[Bryant]

Im looking for some classical music.

The type/mood/feeling like with the Lord of the rings sound track or Craddle of Filth's cover of fear of the dark.

Any sugestions?


Thanks!!

I prefer Russian masters.... Rimsky-Krsakov, Rachmaninoff etc. A cool contemporary "classical style" release is the soundtrack to "The Black Hole" which was a Sci-fi movie made in the late 70's.


Bryant

 

[neoclassical]

The type/mood/feeling like with the Lord of the rings sound track or Craddle of Filth's cover of fear of the dark.

Schumann: 3rd symphony and Beethoven: 3rd symphony.

 

[The Metal Major]

Beethoven's 9th is good for any recommendation.

 

[[KOTNO]Narrot]

The Intro to his "Also sprach Zarathustra" is very well known, i think it is played in a science fiction movie - this one is very metal.

>> afaik it is played in the beginning of '2001 - odyssey in space'.

i'd recommend:
alban berg - dem andenken eines engels (to the memory of an angel')
arnold schönberg - verklärte nacht
mozart - requiem in d-minor
Puccini - requiem
penderecki - metamorphoses and 'threnody for the victims of hiroshima'

 

[The Devil's Steed]

i haven't heard any of the things in the original post, but i feel like saying that i've been listening to berwald's symphonies of late, and i find him to be very underrated.

Can you give some more information on this? I'm interested.

 

[The Devil's Steed]

For mood pieces I suggest Rachmaninoff's The Isle of the Dead. Amazingly ominous and beautiful, in particular for a 20 minute tone poem.

 

[The Devil's Steed]

Dude, try Blackmore's Night it is amazing if you like classic music. Trust me!

Uh...no...

 

[Alwin]

I'm surprised noone has mentioned Arvo Part yet - his later works are spiritual/athmospheric and very beautiful

 

[TylerTheNuke]

stravinsky(you can't get more metal than the rite of spring, some stuff there could be in a meshuggah record )

I actually heard a riff from the second part in a death metal song

 

[The Devil's Steed]

I actually heard a riff from the second part in a death metal song

Was it on a Golem album by chance?