Orchestral music thread

[BABMusic]

This thread is for those of us who want to share our favorite orchestra music. I'll start with Ralph Vaughan Williams 3rd Symphony. He wrote this after he served in WW1, in which he was in his early 40s at the time. It captures a lot of feelings that he had during the war, being in England. Some of his best writing, and he wrote a lot of good music.

 

[Monkey Man]

I've always liked Gustav Holst's The Planets.

Dude was ahead-of-his-time:

 

[BABMusic]

Holst has been ripped off by just about every film composer who ever did a space movie. John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith -- they all borrowed from Holst.

This is my favorite from the Planets.

 

[Monkey Man]

Agreed 100%.

Opening track Mars = Williams / Star Wars.

Same goes for Jupiter and others of course.

 

[BABMusic]

Agreed 100%.

Opening track Mars = Williams / Star Wars.

Same goes for Jupiter and others of course.

I think whoever wrote the song I am Evil (Metallica covered it), I think they ripped off Mars too. It's got that same 1 - 5 - #4 thing going on.

 

[BABMusic]

The greatest string orchestra work of all time.

 

[Exo-metal]

https://share.google/z1iALnFN3uEtUO1pQ

 

[BABMusic]

As close as orchestral gets to heavy metal.

 

[Toneboner]

. Some of his best writing, and he wrote a lot of good music.

My favorite Vaughn Williams (1st mvmnt 6th symphony

 

[Toneboner]

Agreed 100%.

Opening track Mars = Williams / Star Wars.

Same goes for Jupiter and others of course.

Always sounded to me like John Williams drew directly from Holst, Vaughn Williams and Prokofiev.

 

[BABMusic]

John Williams also borrowed heavily from Stravinsky, although Star Wars had a lot of Holst in it.

I am familiar with Vaughan Williams' 6th, and I have it in my Itunes. I haven't listened to it in a while. A lot of his later symphonies require a little more patience. I'm not the biggest fan of his 9th symphony though. The 6th, 7th (was a film score) and 8th are more interesting to me.

 

[Toneboner]

The massive

I am familiar with Vaughan Williams' 6th, and I have it in my Itunes.

If you only listen to the first movement I think you’ll enjoy. The massive horns are metal af and harmonically so sexy. The oompah rhythm is fun too

 

[BABMusic]

The second movement is the one I remember most from the 6th, because of that repeating brass ostinato thing. Dun, dun, dun. Dun, dun, dun.

 

[Toneboner]

. Dun, dun, dun. Dun, dun, dun

Totally haunting, Cinematic vibes throughout.

I could post orchestral stuff I love all day…



You should have to work to get to the fun parts ^^
For the impatient,, start at 21:45

 

[BABMusic]

Age of Anxiety is one of the most unknown pieces that I love. It's a very eclectic kind of piece with those jazz movements. The clarinets at the beginning is one of my favorite parts though.